Re: Bug#696291: RFS: nexus/4.3-svn1863-1

2012-12-18 Thread Carlo Segre
Hi Tobias: I'll sponsor it. Carlo On Wed, 19 Dec 2012, Tobias Stefan Richter wrote: Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "nexus" * Package name: nexus Version : 4.3-svn1863-1 Upstream Author : ne...@nexusforma

Checking package version numbers

2011-07-12 Thread Carlo Segre
Hello All: I recall that there was a script which permits one to compare package version names to determine which one is greater. I just can't remember the name of the script. Any clues? Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Graduate Admissions, Graduate Colle

Re: ITH: xournal

2009-04-01 Thread Carlo Segre
Hi Charles: On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Charles Plessy wrote: Thanks a lot for your action. Any chance to hijack into an existing packaging team ? I have no objection to comaintaining this, or even handing it off to a team. I am not sure I want to join another team though as I am a bit overcomm

ITH: xournal

2009-04-01 Thread Carlo Segre
Hi All: I am intending to hijack xournal. The current version has been NMUed for almost 1 year and the maintainer's (Mathieu Bouchard) email bounces. There is some urgency to this because the newest version of GTK in sid breaks the ability of xournal to read PDF files for annotation. This c

Re: Need to debianize again?

2009-03-16 Thread Carlo Segre
On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Craig Small wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 06:13:40PM +0100, tombs wrote: I'm trying to work with a package that was already debianized before. But nothing more than that. The first question to ask is, is the packaging done by the previous maintainer ok? If it is more or

Re: Still the rejected package

2008-12-20 Thread Carlo Segre
Hi Pietro On Sat, 20 Dec 2008, Pietro Battiston wrote: Anyway, I'm starting to think that the effort of this "autopsy" is bigger than it's worth: I have nearly finished a new package for it, license and documentation seem to be ok, I hope I've avoided the problem the former maintainer had, wha

Re: Non free license?

2008-12-19 Thread Carlo Segre
hi Pietro: On Sat, 20 Dec 2008, Pietro Battiston wrote: Since I started to repackage it, I maybe found a possible solution to the dilemma: do you think that the license [2] (in particular the third condition) is not enough free? Notice that if this is the problem, I could try to contact upst

Re: Building a build environment

2008-07-29 Thread Carlo Segre
Hi Richard: On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Richard Hurt wrote: I am just getting started in Debian package building and I need to know if this idea is valid or if there is a better way. It's my understanding that building Debian packages is best done in a Sid environment. Since I'm not running Sid o

Re: buildd is not building my package.

2008-04-19 Thread Carlo Segre
On Sat, 19 Apr 2008, Neil McGovern wrote: http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.devel.mentors/browse_thread/thread/b0fc0de21553819f Actually that thread is a bit different since it is about building contrib packages when they require non-free dependencies. The post that relates to g

Re: buildd is not building my package.

2008-04-19 Thread Carlo Segre
On Sat, 19 Apr 2008, Carlo Wood wrote: I mailed about this before here. I was pointed to an old archived post that seemed to be the only data on how to do to get non-free to autobuild anyway (because there is no legal issue). I did what it said - and it's still not autobuilding. Why not? Sorry,

Re: problems autobuilding contrib packages

2008-04-17 Thread Carlo Segre
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Talk to aba (Andreas barth) who manages the non-free buildds. Actually, I suggested to the non-free buildd admins that they allow selected contrib packages to be built on the non-free network but I have not gotten a response back yet. That

problems autobuilding contrib packages

2008-04-17 Thread Carlo Segre
Hello All: I am continually running into a problem with one of my contrib packages (ifeffit). Unfortunately it depends on two non-free packages to build (pgplot5, latex2html). Some of the buildd machines build this package without problems if they have the non-free sources in sources.list.

Re: watchfiles for sourceforge packages

2008-03-24 Thread Carlo Segre
Hi Anibal: On Sat, 22 Mar 2008, Anibal Avelar wrote: SF.net has a special domain for this. In your case should be (I think I didn't test): http://sf.net/fityk/fityk-([\d\.]+).tar.bz2 Thanks. Cyril pointed out that the uscan manual has this and I should have looked there first. Unfortun

watchfiles for sourceforge packages

2008-03-22 Thread Carlo Segre
Hi All: Up to recently, I have been using the following watch file URL in the fityk package which is hosted on sourceforge. ftp://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/f/fi/fityk/fityk-(.*)\.tar\.bz2 As of a short time ago, this no longer works and results in a broken watch file. Does anyone know if t

Re: desktop file main category for a scientific data viewer?

2008-03-03 Thread Carlo Segre
Hi Thibaud: On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Thibaut Paumard wrote: So, should all science software really go under Education??? Or should I use both Graphics;3DGraphics;Viewers *and* Science;Astronomy;DataVisualization? The consensus on the debian-science list is no. Education is simply not the ri

Adding a second binary architecture to an upload

2008-02-29 Thread Carlo Segre
Hi All: I know that it is possible to add a second binary architecture .deb to an upload. I just can't seem to find it documented anywhere. I need this because the package I am building is non-free and usually does not get autobuilt (yes, I have set the control line and informed the proper

Re: using boost headers

2007-08-18 Thread Carlo Segre
I appreciate your comments On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Neil Williams wrote: On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 14:10:39 -0500 (CDT) Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One of my packages uses the boost headers and distributes them in the original tarball. I have been modifying the configuration scri

Re: using boost headers

2007-08-18 Thread Carlo Segre
On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Felipe Sateler wrote: Carlo Segre wrote: Upstream prefers to continue distribution in the tarball and it would avoid having to continually patch the configuration scripts. Maybe you could convince upstream of providing a --with-system-boost option to use either the

using boost headers

2007-08-18 Thread Carlo Segre
Hi All: One of my packages uses the boost headers and distributes them in the original tarball. I have been modifying the configuration scripts to ignore the local copy and use the libboost-dev dependency instead. Since these are headers and not real libraries, would it violate policy for m

Re: Version names if Stable = Testing = Unstable but compiled different

2007-01-12 Thread Carlo Segre
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Margarita Manterola wrote: On 1/12/07, Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I will use -1+b1 sarge -1~sarge1 etch-1 This can perfectly (and more clearly, from my point of view) be achieved by: sarge: -1 etch: -1+b1 sid: -1+b2 So

Re: Version names if Stable = Testing = Unstable but compiled different

2007-01-12 Thread Carlo Segre
Hi Michelle: On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Michelle Konzack wrote: Salut Margarite, Thanks for this explanation... The problem is that I have some Apps for customers which should work on all three releases but if the will be pushed into Debian, I have trouble... I will use -1+b1 You want to make

Re: dropping dependencies for a package

2006-12-30 Thread Carlo Segre
On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, Linas virblis wrote: Why do you care about this anyway? Packages constantly change (add/drop) their dependencies. The information that package foo dropped dependency on package bar does not tell you much. So what if it did? You cannot simply remove it, because other package

Re: dropping dependencies for a package

2006-12-30 Thread Carlo Segre
Sounds like a good idea. Thanks, Carlo On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: Hi Carlo! On 12/30/06, Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If a new version of a package drops a dependency on a previously required package, should an install-time reminder be given to th

dropping dependencies for a package

2006-12-30 Thread Carlo Segre
Hello All: If a new version of a package drops a dependency on a previously required package, should an install-time reminder be given to the user? I don't really want to add debconf clutter for such a trivial matter but it is probably not good to leave a potentially orphaned package around.

Re: RFS: anaconda

2006-09-12 Thread Carlo Segre
Hi Ryan: On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Ryan Finnie wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "anaconda". * Package name: anaconda Version : 11.1.0.50-1 Upstream Author : Jeremy Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/anaconda-ins

Re: [RFS] several Perl packages, plus more

2006-08-27 Thread Carlo Segre
Hi Zak: Given the significant number of perl packages that you are adopting, would you consider putting them in the Debian Perl repository and joining the group. Generally once the packages are in there it is easy to get them uploaded by DD members of the group. All it takes is getting an

Re: specific question about non-compiled files

2006-08-05 Thread Carlo Segre
Hi! On Sat, 5 Aug 2006, Kit Peters wrote: New Release will be 20060805-1. Symlinking to pristine source from mss-library_20060805.orig.tar.bz2... -- Untarring the new sourcecode archive mss-library-20060805.tar.bz2 uupdate: could not find diffs from version 20060804-2 to apply! This is happ

Re: contribution in Debian,

2006-07-21 Thread Carlo Segre
Look at: http://www.debian.org/devel/ http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ There is lots of information there to help you get started. The first thing you could do is read the New maintainer's guide and then find a package which needs help... Carlo On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Deepak Kumar Tripath

Re: Automatic installation of packages

2006-07-19 Thread Carlo Segre
Hi Steven: On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Steven Hill wrote: I have been reading the literature on debian packages, and I am trying to figure out how to tell the package installer to automatically use "apt-get install" to satisfy a dependency at installation time - is there any way to do that? As far a

Re: use of xvfb-run in pbuilder builds

2006-07-19 Thread Carlo Segre
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Rene Engelhard wrote: Am Montag, 3. Juli 2006 23:33 schrieb Justin Pryzby: On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 02:43:50PM -0500, Carlo Segre wrote: I am trying to use xvfb-run to permit pbuilder to build some packages which need to connect to X. If you're aiming to get the pa

Re: pgplot5 binary package

2006-07-18 Thread Carlo Segre
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Adeodato Simó wrote: Since nowadays non-free is supposed to be autobuilt, I think the reasonable thing to do befor #1 or #2 would be to contact the maintainers of this buildd network to see if pgplot5 needs some manual pushing so that is "seen" by these autobuildders. See

pgplot5 binary package

2006-07-17 Thread Carlo Segre
Hello All: I have started to help maintain pgplot5. It is in non-free but is, unfortunately, the only option for many Fortran programs which need to plot to and interact with X. The upstream source is very stable and does not change often at all but because of the X.org transition and other

Re: use of xvfb-run in pbuilder builds

2006-07-04 Thread Carlo Segre
On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Junichi Uekawa wrote: Are there any suggestions or can anyone point me to a package that successfully uses xvfb under pbuilder? In theory, it should work, though I have not really tried recently. Does your chroot have /tmp/.X11-unix ? That is it, I guess. I have a mini

Re: use of xvfb-run in pbuilder builds

2006-07-03 Thread Carlo Segre
On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Justin Pryzby wrote: On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 02:43:50PM -0500, Carlo Segre wrote: I am trying to use xvfb-run to permit pbuilder to build some packages which need to connect to X. If you're aiming to get the package uploaded, this isn't allowed. You can'

use of xvfb-run in pbuilder builds

2006-07-03 Thread Carlo Segre
Hello All: I am trying to use xvfb-run to permit pbuilder to build some packages which need to connect to X. In both cases, if I do a local build with dpkg-buildpackages, the connection to the xvfb server works fine, however it fails in pbuilder. In one case, it is a perl-tk module which tr

Re: new package with an epoch

2006-06-27 Thread Carlo Segre
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, martin f krafft wrote: You've just answered your own question, no? If you really think you have other users, use an epoch. It's ugly, but it works. If you don't have other users, go through the changelog and prepend 0.0. to all existing versions. :) Had to do some thin

new package with an epoch

2006-06-26 Thread Carlo Segre
hello All; I am planning ot upload a package which I have been maintaining for a local archive for several years already. I intended to keep the old changelogs as a record of the work that has been done on the package, however there is one problem. During the time I have been packaging thi

Re: Package does not build on ia64 and sparc

2006-06-14 Thread Carlo Segre
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Benjamin Mesing wrote: Hello, my package does not build on ia64 due to what seems to be dependency problems: /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/apt-get --purge $CHROOT_OPTIONS -q -y install debhelper libapt-front-dev libqt4-dev qt4-dev-tools docbook-to-man pkg-config libmysql

Re: Debian 3.1 packaging documentation

2006-06-13 Thread Carlo Segre
Dear Robert: On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, robert jennings wrote: Hello! Okay, so I read the fine manuals and examples from many many places and maybe I'm just alittle tired after I successfully created my first .deb package (binary) but when I went to install it, the dpkg -i xxx.deb installed all th

Re: executable name collision

2006-06-08 Thread Carlo Segre
On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 08:42:39PM -0500, Carlo Segre wrote: Is motor generally useful, or is it just used as an internal component of mx? (not a good name itself, BTW) If the latter, consider putting motor into /usr/lib/mx. It is a generally used

Re: executable name collision

2006-06-08 Thread Carlo Segre
On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Matthew Palmer wrote: Is motor generally useful, or is it just used as an internal component of mx? (not a good name itself, BTW) If the latter, consider putting motor into /usr/lib/mx. It is a generally used program for data acquisition and control. The name motor is

Re: executable name collision

2006-06-08 Thread Carlo Segre
On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Adeodato Simó wrote: procedure is described in the first paragraph of Policy §10.1. Ah, that's where it was. I was looking for it but not thoroughly enough, I suppose. Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College

executable name collision

2006-06-08 Thread Carlo Segre
Hello All: We are working on package of a data acquisition & control system (called "mx") which has an executable called "motor" which has a completely different function (it is a java editor). This executable conflicts with an executable of the same name in the package "motor" [0]. Since t

Re: RFC: Yorick (scientific interpreted language) & plug-ins

2006-05-06 Thread Carlo Segre
On Fri, 5 May 2006, Thibaut Paumard wrote: Actually, if I stay with the one-package-per-plugin approach, I was thinking of providing a virtual package that would pull out yorick and all the plugins (except perhaps the most specialised). Would that make sense? In that case, I also need to think

Re: How to build packages from tarballs without makefiles

2006-04-09 Thread Carlo Segre
On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Justin Pryzby wrote: On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 09:45:02AM -0500, Carlo Segre wrote: On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, David Liontooth wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: I would just put those into the debian/rules. There is not enough there to justify a full-blown makefile in my mind

Re: How to build packages from tarballs without makefiles

2006-04-09 Thread Carlo Segre
On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, David Liontooth wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: I would just put those into the debian/rules. There is not enough there to justify a full-blown makefile in my mind. OK, that's good news, but I need a bit more help -- where do I add them to rules? CFLAGS = -Wall -g

Re: Suggestion: Time limit for NM process

2006-04-03 Thread Carlo Segre
I think that one of the issues is that there are a limited number of people willing to be AMs. I was fortunate enough to get someone who had just started as AM and was quite responsive. Even so, it took about 10 months from application to completion of the AM report. In looking at the list

Re: license question

2006-01-25 Thread Carlo Segre
This seems to be sort of a modified BSD. Looks DFSG compliant. Carlo On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Daniel Knabl wrote: Hi, please have a look at the following license. In my eyes it is not a true BSD license, but also no Artistic license. But, I may be wrong. This would not be the first time :-/ Wou

Re: RFS: sysinfo -- simple GNU/Linux program that displays computer/system information

2005-12-07 Thread Carlo Segre
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote: On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 09:18 -0600, Carlo Segre wrote: This raises a question. If I have been packaging some software for some time and finally decide to get it into Debian, should I wipe out the entire changelog, remove any epochs that might have

Re: RFS: sysinfo -- simple GNU/Linux program that displays computer/system information

2005-12-07 Thread Carlo Segre
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Frank Küster wrote: Mario Iseli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: debian/changelog: * Initial Debian Release (Closes: 333680) This makes no sense, it is a debian package so the "debian" can be ommited, the rest is ok. If Adriaan previously published deb packages in his local

Re: lintian warning native-package-with-dash-version

2005-09-29 Thread Carlo Segre
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Justin Pryzby wrote: On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 11:00:47PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: You might consider using the -v 0.2.2.1 option in dh_make to convert this to a compliant version number. The second -1 will still be there in the final

Re: lintian warning native-package-with-dash-version

2005-09-28 Thread Carlo Segre
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Hi I am new to packaging and I am trying to package gnuplotfortran whose upstream is located at http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplotfortran . The upstream source is called gnuplotfortran-0.2.2-1.tar.bz2 . I downloaded this to /tmp . Then I

Re: duplicate library code in a package

2005-09-28 Thread Carlo Segre
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, François-Denis Gonthier wrote: On 28 September 2005 14:07, Justin Pryzby wrote: When I make a new upstream package for Erlang, I need to extract the upstream tar.gz file, which is named otp_src_[version].tar.gz, rename the created directory to a Debian friendly name and the

Re: duplicate library code in a package

2005-09-28 Thread Carlo Segre
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: An excellent point. I imagine that it would also be permissible to repackage the .orig.tar.gz file so that it is gone from there as well. -Roberto True, but then there is an additional step to taking a new tarball release and making a packag

Re: duplicate library code in a package

2005-09-28 Thread Carlo Segre
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 06:15:12PM +0200, Tommaso Moroni wrote: Hi! I'm packaging kchmviewer, which uses a version of chmlib bundled in the upstream tarball. Is it a Bad Thing to use that library instead of depending on the official packaged one?

Re: Debian package of InsightToolkit - A free and powerful image segmentation and registration tool

2005-09-07 Thread Carlo Segre
How do you invoke dpkg-buildpackage? Do you use the -k option? Carlo On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Guanglei Xiong wrote: As the uploading packages need to be signed by my private key. I have trouble to sign with dpkg-buildpackage. That is the story. My private key use the address Guanglei Xi

Re: pbuilder -- chroot and build-dependencies.

2005-09-01 Thread Carlo Segre
Alexander: You don't show the initial commands that you use to start the build. I usually sit in a directory where there are the *.dsc, the *.orig.tar.gz and the *.diff.gz files. Then I invoke: pbuilder build fityk_0.5.1-1.dsc That starts by unpacking the chroot, then moving the source to

Re: howto get rid of native-package-with-dash-version?

2005-08-04 Thread Carlo Segre
Yes, you need to keep the *.orig directory until you have built the package once. THis is what it uses to make the diff file. Carlo On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Bastian Venthur wrote: Bas Wijnen wrote: On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 11:32:01PM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: Ok but one question remains

Re: howto get rid of native-package-with-dash-version?

2005-08-04 Thread Carlo Segre
I believe that this happens when dpkg-buildpackage cannot find an appropriately names original tarball. It then assumes that the package is a native Debian package which should not have a revision number by policy. This is usually dealt with by specifing the source tarball when running dh_ma

Re: Best way to maintain a package for multiple Debian releases?

2005-07-05 Thread Carlo Segre
Dear Jarle: I suggest you look into apt-move, apt-ftparchive or dpkg-scanpackages. The former will help maintain a tree sucha as in the main Debian archive. The other two will work on whatever tree organization you might want to set up for yourself. I also suggest that you build using pbuil

Re: debian directory included in upstream

2005-04-12 Thread Carlo Segre
It then becomes a native debian package with no -# revisions. C.S. On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Miriam Ruiz wrote: Hi, The author of one of the packages I was packaging for my own use has asked me to be the maintainer of the debian's package. The problem that I found is that in latest versions he includes