Bug#1073456: Sponsoring colorize into Debian

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Re: Salsa repository request

if it shouldn't be there for some reason feel free to ping me off-list and I see to creating an empty repo debian/c-evo-dh (I can't sponsor the RFS through). Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1061048: RFS: RPGMod/1.3 ITP -- heyo!

osely at the package, but even so I think you will need to invest a lot more work into making it fit for the Debian archive… or in other words: lots of documentation to read, policies to follow and friends to make on and off list(s). Good luck & Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1061111: RFS: dpkg-buildenv/1.0.0 [ITP] -- Builds debian packages in a docker container.

ention of it on the list) and given that this is something that "just" works with Docker. As explained in the other bug, there is no veto and as you can see its easy to completely ignore me (and anyone else) but I wanted to say it anyhow, so that nobody is surprised later on. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Question about non-responsive key-signing mate

t off and off and …]. TRIGGER WARNING Imagine for a moment we weren't talking about key signing, but you two had meet for a date. Terms like ghosting and stalking come to mind and so this thread reads like a very dark and scary place to be in. Lets get the hell out of here… ~~~

Re: Packaging a header-only library with frequent breaking changes

isn't commonly used/available in an obvious way so far), so it is somewhat in your responsibility to ensure your reverse dependencies are updated rather than e.g. just waiting for FTBFS to come in from archive-wide rebuild efforts. I would suggest talking to maintainers of similar packages

Re: Salsa repository requested

;t mess up too badly) > I'd like to get Salsa CI running before uploading any new versions. You can enable CI on any repository, e.g. also in your personal namespace. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1016875: RFS: freefilesync/11.23-1 [ITP] -- cross-platform file sync utility, gpl release

say. It is equivalent to setting M-A:no explicitly from a technical standpoint, but the later implies for other contributors that there is a hard/complicated reason that this package can not be marked with another M-A value currently. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1016875: RFS: freefilesync/11.23-1 [ITP] -- cross-platform file sync utility, gpl release

t thing to do OR some other Debian contributor tells you they need you to set it. Best regards David Kalnischkies ¹ sed for example is M-A:foreign even though it is arch:any as the output it produces does not change regardless of you running it on amd64 or armhf. A compiler like gcc on the

Bug#1012196: buglist

g how to deal with these and many other 'buggy situations' (SCNR). It also explains and points to further documentation about our BTS so that you will know what I mean above with pseudo-headers and -done without me repeating it here. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Looking for a new maintainer for the "rush" package

the thread), non-maintainer uploads and so on. > I did try my best during a period in time, but now I leave! Thanks for your work & best of luck in your future endeavours, whatever they may be – and who knows, perhaps they lead you back to contributing to Debian again some day! Until then: Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#990508: RFS: apt-listchanges/3.24.1 [ITA] -- Show new changelog entries from Debian package archives

fix #42" as commit message and are happy and successful. So if that works for you fine, I am just trying to nudge you to try an alternative which works better for me, many others and perhaps also you) Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Packaging project with existing debian/ folder

OURCE PACKAGE FORMATS → Format: 3.0 (quilt): […] The debian tarball is extracted on top of the source directory after prior removal of any pre-existing debian directory. […] Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#960940: RFS: runit/2.1.2-37 [RC] -- system-wide service supervision

able (also: run-it-run, init!). | debian/runit-run.postinst I see that the same code was used before, but: a) make that a function instead of two code copies b) consider that a file might not have an ending newline: $ echo -n 'foo' > foo $ cat foo - < bar heredoc> EOF foobar $ B

Re: Not all files in my package installed

n/* path-exclude /usr/share/doc/* in there. If that is the case, it has nothing to do with your package and works as intended™. (Disclaimer: If excludes by default are a good or bad idea can highly depend on the usecase and is out of scope for my reply) Best regards David Kalnischkies signa

Re: Questing about packaging Julius, an open source re-implementation of Caesar III

are on the other hand not so nice usually, but the team can help you with that as well probably. For games it tends to not be that important how the package/binary is named anyhow (compared to command line tools like awk for example). Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Please help, review my package, and tell me if it could be put in unstable [ITP]

han it usually is. (And no, even if that package would be in tip-top shape, I am not available for sponsoring it or in all likelihood for further reviews. Supercow of 'apt moo' fame would be furious with me… 😉) Best regards & Happy new year David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Salsa repository request (dbab)

Hi, On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 08:34:55PM -0500, Tong Sun wrote: > So, could somebody please create it for me and give me, suntong-guest, > maintenance access? Done – shout if I messed up ☺ Happy package management days David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#931372: RFS: dunst/1.4.1-1 [ITA] -- dmenu-ish notification-daemon

here I think you just mean that you added yourself – not that e.g. upstream flipped from MIT to AGPL3+. Thanks again for adopting a package and good luck finding a sponsor now that unstable is open again! Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#912736: apt-listbugs and APT team (was: Bug#912736: RFS: apt-listbugs/0.1.25)

APT umbrella? We can do all sorts of things, no need to do everything at once or at all… aptitude e.g. is in the apt-team namespace on salsa, but they don't have deity@ as maintainer. Well, lets at least move that discussion over to deity@ so others get a chance to say something (which might also avoid my long delays) as this isn't really about the RFS. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#912736: RFS: apt-listbugs/0.1.25

operations I would say, something more like a (beware: buzzword) community building thing (much like README and LICENSE as they don't change the day to day life much either). > > Oh and btw: You seem to maintain apt-listbugs for quite a while without > > issues, have you cons

Re: [RFC] How to review RFS package

r sources] (Those features require up to apt >= 1.3). In other words: Feel free to help Debian by testing (aka reviewing) the jessie->stretch upgrade path now and gain all those and many more nifty features as compensation for your expenses. ;) Best regards David Kalnischkies ¹ security reas

Bug#832808: RFS: cdist/4.2.2-1

d for a source-only upload failed, so beside the need to fix this build-failure the package (which I see you claim to have done already in your newest version) will also have to pass binary-NEW now. So, you should be preparing and asking for sponsorship of 4.2.2-2 (just answering the questi

Re: pbuilder error

7;t apply to a new Release file). It probably was a bad idea to use such a catchy option name for such a limited purpose code… or perhaps it a very clever april fouls joke – who could tell the difference… Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: pbuilder error

s the responses it gets while the second shows the interprocess communication between apt and its methods (beware, lots of output). And third causes apt to tell us the error it ignored, just for completeness. [aka: No need for wireshark or other "hard" debug stuff just yet, There te

Re: Making a package multiarch (for real)

e same version == same package assumption. In other words: Go and change the version number already. ;) Best regards David Kalnischkies P.S.: I say 'apt' here, but I mean 'any tool based on libapt', so you have the same problem regardless of if you use apt-get or a software- center. All bets are off if we talk about non-apt-based tools… signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: How to forbid apt to use sources.list.d

ramework in the apt sources for another example of how apt and dpkg can be instructed to work inside a temporary directory (Note that e.g. dpkg does some checks based on the installed version it can find for itself in the status file, which in turn will influence the behavior of apt. Mult

Re: How to use libgtest-dev in packaging projects (Was: ABySS version is out of date)

s requiring your contributors to have gtest already build isn't going to work longterm (and it ignores the reason why this dance is done at all). Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Maintainer scripts: execute command as another user: use sudo or su?

ould probably be that you should use su… su on the other hand is 'free' to use as it is provided by the essential login package, so no dependency is needed at all. Best regards David Kalnischkies signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#708340: RFS: module-assistant/0.11.4+nmu1 [NMU] – tool to make module package creation easier

dn't really find a consensus in this or the other direction here. Disclaimer (just in case): My perl knowledge is nearly non-existent, which in turn means that I am not able to help with maintaining m-a in the long-term. Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ment

Re: Transitional packages: unmark auto, dealing with conffiles

ity… Way to complex for such a small usecase in my eyes. Properly better to invest the time to make "disappearing packages" policy-compatible and usable instead. In the easy cases libapt users even transfer the auto-bit to the replacer… Best regards David Kalnischkies -- T

Re: RFS: dwm (Orphaned package)(17days old)

a shame to let these patches show up in a "untagged patches which might need to be send upstream" report somebody hopefully works on. :) Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: RFS: dwm (Adapted package)

ted in #493819. (I uses this for a while for my local dwm package) Fixing this would allow me to use the pristine dwm package again (plus a few configs for my various target system). Thanks for reviving the dwm packaging and good luck finding a sponsor! Best regards David Kalnischkies [0] ht

Re: Dependency on lib32foo vs libfoo on amd64

md64 or libfoo:armel or libfoo:whatever-arch, so don't claim that it would be. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiarchSpec for the fullblown details if you are interested - your usage of M-A suggests that you have misunderstood it. Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Seeking for advice: Circular Build Dependencies.

itself I have no knowledge, so just two questions: Aren't compilers in the same "chicken or egg" dilemma? And how will new abi/api versions handled? I assume foo2 will not build against bar1 and vice versa so you need to bootstrap again… Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To

Re: Solving lintian warnings for multi-package roxterm

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 00:58, Russ Allbery wrote: > David Kalnischkies writes: > >> Sidenote: I am not sure why the usage of 'disappearing packages' was >> removed from the wiki as dpkg and APT support them in squeeze - at least >> in my eyes it looked like the

Re: Solving lintian warnings for multi-package roxterm

or do they want to support it for… lets say 2 years at least? Best regards David Kalnischkies [0] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-replaces [1] http://wiki.debian.org/Renaming_a_Package -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: What is needed to upload a package as DM?

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 13:30, Satoru KURASHIKI wrote: > $ egrep '(Allowed|KURA)' yaskkserv_0.4.0-5.dsc > Maintainer: KURASHIKI Satoru > Dm-Upload-Allowed: yes Aren't fields in "Deb 822" format case-sensitive? (They are at least if it comes to Packages fi

Re: RFS: sxiv

lot more used so the first looks like it would be special in some way (the emphasis on 2.0 instead of 'just' 2 i mean). * you don't need to move the license text to a new 'License:' block All in all i can't find something really serious, so i hope you will find

Re: RFS: kst (updated package)

bols with different compiler versions). btw: Without looking at the source: Architecture dependent symbols are e.g. all methods with size_t (or its sibling ssize_t) or va_list as parameter. Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: How to make a meta package unremovable?

2011/6/13 Ansgar Burchardt : > David Kalnischkies writes: >> What could be done is tweaking resolver scoring points, but honestly: >> that is black-magic even for me -- and as you can only change this for >> priorities it has side-effects for other packages with this priori

Re: How to make a meta package unremovable?

t if it's implemented similar to APT::NeverAutoRemove we will need aggressive caching or some operations will get "horrible" slow - e.g. aptitude would "love" it) Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: RFS: micro-inetd (updated package)

a non-d{d,m} unable to help you in the sponsor-business, but isn't a "hostile upstream" not a good reason for removal instead of adopting? Or do you intend to become effectively upstream yourself? Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ

Re: Override paths for the very latest lintian.

ecks now report files without any "./" or "/" prefix. This may break existing overrides. (Closes: #534940) Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Transition from oldpackagename to newpackagename

ring' of packages which dpkg seems to support for a while and APT does it now in squeeze, but i am not sure what the best practice is regarding this. Especially as most (if not all) frontends doesn't show the disappeared packages which could again confuse a user… Best regards David Ka

Re: RFS: apt-show-versions (NMU, perl)

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 12:34, David Kalnischkies wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my non-maintainer upload of > package "apt-show-versions" to DELAYED/. You can wait X days for a reaction by the maintainer and exactly 2 hours after you made the extra effort to prepare

RFS: apt-show-versions (NMU, perl)

non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/apt-show-versions/apt-show-versions_0.16+nmu1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards David Kalnischkies [0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=612765 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: RFS: muon

; W: qapt-batch: binary-without-manpage usr/bin/qapt-batch Not documented means it doesn't exist… ;) (I haven't looked at muon at all) With your contact to upstream, you might want to suggest them to push some of the more general features from qapt to libapt to benefit from it in all fro

Re: 32 bit versus 64 apt-get/reprepro dependency switchover?

While building packages, you have the change to vary depending on for which architecture your (binary) package is built, BUT: why you need/want that in the first place? Best regards David Kalnischkies P.S.: I have cc'ed you in violation of the Code of Conduct, other follow-ups may avoid

Re: RFS: Doomsday Engine (or deng for short)

iting for a 'make' to finish… another indication that you should upload your packages somewhere to enable short drive-by reviews…) Best regards David Kalnischkies P.S.: You can't follow "most of the policy"… No gray shades available, only black (violate) or white (obey

Re: Build-Depends-Indep, please review

; binary-indep http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/09/msg00590.html Message-id: <20100924204433.ga4...@apache.rbscorp.ru> Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: How to add dependencies that exist in another repository

s - and after all I can do a lot more in maintainer scripts than adding a sources.list entry, so "mysteriously" added sources.list entries are not a disease (or a misfeature of APT to allow it) but a symptom of the widespread disease of trusting random packages from an unknown sources… Bes

Re: packaging qt apps for debian

2010/10/2 Rustom Mody : > On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 12:16 PM, David Kalnischkies > wrote: >> 2010/10/2 Rustom Mody : >>> Are there any pointers/policy/howtos for using qmake (rather than >>> configure) for deb-packaging? >> >> Do you know debhelper? debhel

Re: packaging qt apps for debian

s file (i am guessing here). More general as you are working on tartini it would be a good idea to take the RFP for it, its bug #515003 [0]. Best regards, David Kalnischkies [0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=515003 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.d

Re: reprepro signing.

) So if all your clients are >= squeeze everything will be fine, otherwise (e.g. lenny) you will need to use apt-key magic… For a bit more background, see #558784. Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subjec

Re: RFS: cortina

e length of the long description this can't be true… Bonushint: As you are not a native english speaker (but also if you would be) you can ask for help in the debian-l10n-english list to find the best wording. Best regards, David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ

Re: RFS: zd1211-firmware (updated package)

on. (See e.g. "man dpkg-genchanges" option -v.) Good luck with your request & best regards, David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://l

Re: Installing a local binary package, with the packages it recommends.

Hi Charles Plessy, hello mentors, > to apt. Does anybody know a better way than the mk-build-deps trick? IANADD, untested and everything else, but you could try to build a"real" package (yes, equivs should be enough), generate a mini-archive with apt-ftparchive (included in apt-utils which should