Re: general question about quilt patch handling

2015-12-01 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Werner Detter writes: >> Have you got any reason not to simply refresh your patches? >> Something like: quilt pop -a; while quilt push; do quilt refresh; done > > well, there is no reason. I'm asking because this is the first time > I have this topic. Sure, refreshing all patches would be probabl

Re: general question about quilt patch handling

2015-12-01 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Werner Detter writes: >> For example, if 3.patch has not been forwarded upstream yet, then I >> would definitely modify it (instead of creating a new patch). > > I've modified 3.patch - in the course of the modification one line has > been deleted (perl "use" statement) as it's not needed anymore

Re: Copyright of composite Makefile.in files

2015-11-30 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Vincent Bernat writes: > ❦ 30 novembre 2015 10:41 +0100, Ferenc Wagner  : > >> Makefile.in files distributed in an upstream tarball often have several >> copyright notices: the FSF copyleft at the top added by Automake and >> later those carried over from other macr

Re: Copyright of composite Makefile.in files

2015-11-30 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Alex Vong writes: > I am not a mentor, the following is just my opinions: I'm afraid that if you answer a question on debian-mentors, you're a mentor by definition. :) > I don't know how Makefile.in is being handled in particular, but I > think in general, if one file has more than one copyrigh

Copyright of composite Makefile.in files

2015-11-30 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Dear mentors, Makefile.in files distributed in an upstream tarball often have several copyright notices: the FSF copyleft at the top added by Automake and later those carried over from other macro packages included into Makefile.am (for example: include doxygen.am). The result is like this: # M

Re: GCC5 library transition for xml-security-c -- needed or not?

2015-11-29 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Jakub Wilk writes: > * Ferenc Wagner , 2015-11-26, 19:28: > >> I'm packaging a new upstream version of xml-security-c. The previous >> sid version was 1.7.2-3, which had a transition bug filed for it: >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=791323 &

GCC5 library transition for xml-security-c -- needed or not?

2015-11-26 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Dear mentors, I'm packaging a new upstream version of xml-security-c. The previous sid version was 1.7.2-3, which had a transition bug filed for it: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=791323 Simon McVittie tagged it "unreproducible", because he suspected that the exported cxx11 sy

Re: How to track header dependencies amongst -dev packages?

2015-08-28 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Ferenc Wagner writes: > I'm packaging software which consists of multiple libraries. I put > those libraries into various lib* binary packages with corresponding > lib*-dev packages. Some header files contained in the lib*-dev packages > include others in other lib*-dev packa

How to track header dependencies amongst -dev packages?

2015-08-03 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Hi, I'm packaging software which consists of multiple libraries. I put those libraries into various lib* binary packages with corresponding lib*-dev packages. Some header files contained in the lib*-dev packages include others in other lib*-dev packages, thus package dependencies must be declare

Re: Are the build-arch and build-indep targets required?

2015-07-29 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Jakub Wilk writes: > * Ferenc Wagner , 2015-07-29, 12:04: > >> https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-debianrules >> first says yes, by starting a paragraph as: >> >>build-arch (required), build-indep (required) > > Yes, they were made

Are the build-arch and build-indep targets required?

2015-07-29 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Hi, https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-debianrules first says yes, by starting a paragraph as: build-arch (required), build-indep (required) but a couple of paragraphs later is also says: Both binary-* targets should depend on the build target, or on the appro

Bug#788824: RFS: sblim-wbemcli/1.6.3-1 (new upstream patchlevel release + minor touch-ups)

2015-06-15 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "sblim-wbemcli" * Package name: sblim-wbemcli Version : 1.6.3-1 Upstream Author : Tyrel Datwyler * URL : http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/sblim/index.php?

Re: Avoiding linking with /home/packaging/X/libxx.so

2015-06-12 Thread Ferenc Wagner
lumin writes: > Is there any problem with "-rpath" that needs a fix ? https://wiki.debian.org/RpathIssue -- Feri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.or

Re: init script cannot stop pid process

2015-02-12 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Mateusz Łukasik writes: > On 12.02.2015 07:57, Chow Loong Jin wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 10:25:38PM +0100, Mateusz Łukasik wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I make darkhttpd package and have a small issue. >>> >>> I prepare init script: >>> https://github.com/mati75/darkhttpd/blob/master/debian/in

Re: Looking for guidance on multi-binary package with private DSOs

2015-01-22 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Tristan Schmelcher writes: > 2) Like (1), but install to a private directory and have everything in > roccat-tools declare an rpath to it, thus avoiding ld.so collisions. This > triggers binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath, but IIUC this would be an accepted > use. However, the private DSO package name

Bug#772004: [Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#614569: RFS: Bug#614569: slapd fails to dump/reload partial replica -- NMU sponsor needed

2014-12-04 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Luca Bruno writes: > On Wednesday 03 December 2014 18:21:08 Ryan Tandy wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 11:40:24PM +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote: >> >>> I got pre-approval on #771962: the upload will be unblocked, provided >>> it's in unstable by Monday

Bug#765747: RFS: openldap/2.4.40-1 [RC]

2014-10-18 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Ryan Tandy writes: > On 18/10/14 02:26 AM, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> Ryan Tandy writes: >> >>>* debian/slapd.init.ldif: >> >> Btw: why do you give rigths to the RootDN explicitly? Doesn't it skip >> all ACL processing anyway? >

Bug#765747: RFS: openldap/2.4.40-1 [RC]

2014-10-18 Thread Ferenc Wagner
I backported your package to wheezy and upgraded a machine carrying a partial replica. The upgrade failed, so I added the -s option to the slapadd call in the postinst. Please consider using it. Btw. is the dump/restore necessary with MDB? I found no information about the format incompatibiliti

Bug#765747: RFS: openldap/2.4.40-1 [RC]

2014-10-18 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Ryan Tandy writes: > - Invoke find, chmod, and chown with -H in case /var/lib/ldap is a >symlink. (Closes: #742862) You mean chgrp, not chmod. >* debian/slapd.README.Debian: Add a note about database format > upgrades and the consequences of missing one. (Closes: #594711)

Bug#765648: RFS: fbxkb/0.6-1.2 [NMU]

2014-10-17 Thread Ferenc Wagner
"Dmitry Borisyuk" writes: > The package fbxkb has long-standing bugs (#412254, #436824 and others), > and seems unmaintained (the maintainer does not respond for years). > As I happen to install this package, I patched it for my local use, > and now upload it to mentors; it would be nice if someo

Bug#763758: RFS: sblim-wbemcli/1.6.2-8

2014-10-04 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Hi Russ, In the past you sponsored the initial upload of my sblim-wbemcli package into Debian. I prepared a new revision of it with very few changes, could you please sponsor it again? https://mentors.debian.net/package/sblim-wbemcli -- Thanks, Feri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentor

Bug#763758: RFS: sblim-wbemcli/1.6.2-8

2014-10-02 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "sblim-wbemcli" * Package name: sblim-wbemcli Version : 1.6.2-8 Upstream Author : Tyrel Datwyler * URL : http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/sblim/index.php?

Re: How to do a test sbuild with additional package, not in the repositories?

2014-06-30 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Paul Elliott writes: > I must prepare a new version of my package because of a transition. > > however they are holding one package that my package depends on, out > of unstable because "that would start the transition". The package is > libwxsqlite3-3.0-dev > > I want to be one jump ahead of the

Re: Is there a way to preserve pbuilder chroot environment?

2014-03-01 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Paul Wise writes: > On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Wookey wrote: > >> I must admit I'm surprised so many people still use pbuilder, although I >> do agree that the syntax is a bit simpler for a 'standard upload' build. > > I still use cowbuilder because schroot doesn't support cowdancer for > co

Re: bash script in /usr/games

2013-08-08 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Steven Hamilton writes: > I've just done some more testing though and dh is definitely > interperating my bash file as an init script and creating a > /etc/init.d/mrrescue entry in the build tree. Any ideas how to override > this behaviour? Didn't you name your script debian/init or debian/mrres

Bug#677013: Debian time package sponsor?

2012-06-18 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Bob Proulx writes: > Sandro Tosi wrote: > >> I also see that there are several changes performed directly in the >> upstream code, such as autotools/configure/make and friends, > > Yes. But note that those had been made before too. I only updated > the autotools files (again) because the curren

Re: RFS: sblim-wbemcli - Web-Based Enterprise Management command line client

2012-06-08 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Dear mentors, Please disregard this thread, I filled in a proper RFS bug report (#676646) with largerly identical content. The new location of the package is mentors.debian.net, though. -- Regards, Feri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

RFS: sblim-wbemcli - Web-Based Enterprise Management command line client

2012-06-07 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Hi, I'm looking for a sponsor for my freshly created sblim-wbemcli package. Let me quote its long description from the homepage of the sblim SourceForge project (http://sblim.wiki.sourceforge.net): The WBEM Command Line Interface is a standalone, convenient systems management utility for CIMOM