Bug#1016386: RFS: scid/1:4.7.4+dfsg1-2 -- chess database with play and training functionality

2022-07-30 Thread Jose G. López
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "scid": * Package name: scid Version : 1:4.7.4+dfsg1-2 Upstream Author : Fulvio Benini * URL : http://scid.sf.net * License : Tklib, GPL-2.0 * Vcs

Bug#1015248: RFS: scid/1:4.7.4+dfsg1-1 -- chess database with play and training functionality

2022-07-18 Thread Jose G. López
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "scid": * Package name: scid Version : 1:4.7.4+dfsg1-1 Upstream Author : Fulvio Benini * URL : http://scid.sf.net * License : GPL-2.0, Tklib * Vcs

Bug#1015247: RFS: phalanx/25-1 -- Chess playing program

2022-07-18 Thread Jose G. López
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "phalanx": * Package name: phalanx Version : 25-1 Upstream Author : Dusan Dobes * URL : https://sourceforge.net/projects/phalanx * License : GPL-2.0+, p

Re: Error when building using iconv to convert problematic encondings to UTF-8

2022-07-12 Thread Jose G. López
On Mon, 11 Jul 2022 23:57:21 +0500 Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > Are you sure converting that file is useful and won't break the software for > the > use cases when this file is used? You're right it breaks program menus[0]. Once I handle to use iconv properly I see it ... On Mon, 11 Jul 2022 2

Error when building using iconv to convert problematic encondings to UTF-8

2022-07-11 Thread Jose G. López
Dear mentors, I'm working on importing a new upstream version for scid package and I want to get rid of "national-encoding" lintian warning. I'm trying to use iconv to convert problematic encondings to UTF-8 but I always get an error, no matter where I put instructions (override_dh_auto_install,

Bug#982263: RFS: gringotts/1.2.10-4 [RC] -- secure password and data storage manager

2021-02-07 Thread Jose G. López
debian.net/package/gringotts/ Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command: dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gringotts/gringotts_1.2.10-4.dsc Changes since the last upload: gringotts (1.2.10-4) unstable; urgency=medium . * debi

Bug#977145: RFS: scid/1:4.7.0+dfsg1-2 [RC] -- chess database with play and training functionality

2020-12-11 Thread Jose G. López
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "scid": * Package name: scid Version : 1:4.7.0+dfsg1-2 Upstream Author : Fulvio Benini * URL : http://scid.sf.net * License : GPL-2.0, Tklib * Vcs

Re: Help with python2 removal in scid package

2020-12-11 Thread Jose G. López
On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 00:25:26 +0500 Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Sun, Dec 06, 2020 at 07:32:13PM +0100, Jose G. López wrote: > > D: dh_python3 fs:260: package scid details = {'requires.txt': set(), > > 'egg-info': set(), 'nsp.txt': set(), 'sheb

Help with python2 removal in scid package

2020-12-06 Thread Jose G. López
Hello, I 'm triyng to port it to python3 (bug #938443) but I'm no sure if I'm doing it well. There's only one utility, pgnfix, that uses python at all and I've imported a patch to make it work with python3. I've build the package in a clean environment (cowbuilder) and seems to be using pytho

Bug#955311: RFS: fathom/1.0+git.20190811.97fb5c-1 -- Command-line for probing Syzygy tablebases

2020-03-30 Thread Jose G. López
On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 00:43:23 +0200 Adam Borowski wrote: > Hi! > There's a bunch of symbols you did not include: > > --- debian/libfathom1.symbols (libfathom1_1.0_amd64) > +++ dpkg-gensymbolsmywmu5 2020-03-29 22:41:26.263845000 + > @@ -1,9 +1,20 @@ > libfathom.so.1 libfathom1 #MINVER# >

Bug#955312: RFS: ethereal-chess/12.00+ds1-1 -- UCI-compliant chess engine

2020-03-29 Thread Jose G. López
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "ethereal-chess" * Package name: ethereal-chess Version : 12.00+ds1-1 Upstream Author : Andrew Grant * URL : https://github.com/AndyGrant/Ethereal * License

Bug#955311: RFS: fathom/1.0+git.20190811.97fb5c-1 -- Command-line for probing Syzygy tablebases

2020-03-29 Thread Jose G. López
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "fathom" * Package name: fathom Version : 1.0+git.20190811.97fb5c-1 Upstream Author : Jon Dart * URL : https://github.com/jdart1/Fathom * License : MIT

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

2020-01-11 Thread Jose G. López
Hi!, I'm interested in packaging Julius [0], an open source re-implementation of Caesar III. As it requires the original assets (graphics, sounds, etc) from Caesar 3 to run I want to ask if it should go in contrib archive. Another thing is it seems there's a RFP using the same name [1], what sh

Bug#942462: RFS: pgn2web/0.4-3

2019-10-16 Thread Jose G. López
o Helmut Grohne. -- Jose G. López Wed, 16 Oct 2019 21:13:27 +0200 Thanks and regards, pgpKq_CeJ7lzf.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#933363: RFS: scid/1:4.7.0+dfsg1-1

2019-07-29 Thread Jose G. López
: - Use git mode to get new upstream versions. -- Jose G. López Sun, 28 Jul 2019 20:57:33 +0200 Regards, pgpQJPn64aoeU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#917876: RFS: ethereal-chess/11.25+ds1-1 [ITP]

2019-01-29 Thread Jose G. López
On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 08:31:47 +0100 Adam Borowski wrote: > Hi! I'm afraid it fails to build for me: > > gcc -flto -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/<>=. > -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time > -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wl,-z,relro src/*.c

Bug#917876: RFS: ethereal-chess/11.25+ds1-1 [ITP]

2019-01-28 Thread Jose G. López
Hi, Now, as fathom is building correctly [0], this package is looking for a sponsor ;-) Thanks and regards, [0] https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=fathom

Bug#920471: RFS: fathom/1.0+git.20190120.0439ca-1

2019-01-25 Thread Jose G. López
date url source, copyright notices and my e-mail. * debian/rules: - Add -I option to find headers. * debian/watch: - Change upstream git repo. Use Jon Dart's fork. It has some bug fixes and enhancements. -- Jose G. López Fri, 25 Jan 2019 20:39:28 +0100 Using Jon Dart's fork

Re: RFS: ethereal-chess/11.00+ds1-1 [ITP]

2019-01-20 Thread Jose G. López
On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 10:42:10 +0100 "Jose G. López" wrote: > Package: sponsorship-requests > Severity: wishlist > > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "ethereal-chess": > > ethereal-chess (11.00+ds1-1) unstable; urgency=medi

Bug#919701: RFS: scid/1:4.6.4+dfsg1-3

2019-01-18 Thread Jose G. López
an/control: - Upgrade to debhelper compat 12. - Use priority 'optional'. - Bump to Standards-Version 4.3.0 and set Vcs* fields to Salsa. * debian/changelog: - Remove trailing whitespaces. * Remove menu as menu system is deprecated (Policy >= 3.9.8) -- Jose G. López Thu, 17

Bug#917875: closing RFS: fathom/1.0-1 [ITP]

2019-01-02 Thread Jose G. López
On Tue, 01 Jan 2019 22:31:24 + Bart Martens wrote: > Package fathom version 1.0-1 is in NEW now, > and the package at mentors is not newer (2018-12-31) than the package in NEW > (2018-12-31), > so there is currently no package to sponsor. > > https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/fathom_1.0-1.h

Bug#917875: RFS: fathom/1.0-1 [ITP]

2019-01-01 Thread Jose G. López
On Tue, 1 Jan 2019 20:06:11 +0100 Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > > Uploaded. > > Please, tag the release on your repo. Tagged. > > Also, for next time, as a nitpicking comment, think about updating the > d/changelog release date when you change files in debian/ directory. > > Cheers! > I'll

Bug#917875: RFS: fathom/1.0-1 [ITP]

2019-01-01 Thread Jose G. López
On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 23:50:46 +0100 Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > Hi, > > I suggest you rename your branch "master" to "upstream". Hi Pierre, Done it. Following DEP-14 layout. > > Regardless: > > * d/patches: why changing the .c file instead of adding -I to gcc calls? > Yea, my fault. Fix

Bug#917875: RFS: fathom/1.0-1 [ITP]

2018-12-31 Thread Jose G. López
On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 10:35:55 +0100 "Jose G. López" wrote: > P.D: It's a requirement for ethereal-chess (ITP #914595) and surely for other > chess engines that are embedding this probe tool. > Sorry ITP actually is 914598. Regards,

Bug#917876: RFS: ethereal-chess/11.00+ds1-1 [ITP]

2018-12-31 Thread Jose G. López
1.00+ds1-1) unstable; urgency=medium * Initial release (Closes: #914598) -- Jose G. López Sat, 29 Dec 2018 18:43:59 +0100 P.D: It has a build dependency on libfathom1 (ITP #914595). Thanks and regards, pgpQ72vNRQ0ms.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#917875: RFS: fathom/1.0-1 [ITP]

2018-12-31 Thread Jose G. López
est/fathom Changes since the last upload: fathom (1.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium * Initial release (Closes: #914595) -- Jose G. López Mon, 31 Dec 2018 10:02:17 +0100 P.D: It's a requirement for ethereal-chess (ITP #914595) and surely for other chess engines that are embedding this prob

Re: Question about a file inside debian directory

2018-12-09 Thread Jose G. López
On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 16:37:27 +0500 Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 11:59:16AM +0100, Jose G. López wrote: > > Well my problem is that upstream's software is intended to build just > > an executable and I'm building a shared library. > This is even

Re: Question about a file inside debian directory

2018-12-07 Thread Jose G. López
On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 10:43:26 + Mo Zhou wrote: > Hi Jose, > > If you think writting a new makefile is better than patching the > upstream build system, please go ahead. However, having to write a > makefiles by oneself often signifies problematic upstream. > > On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 15:40:17 +05

Question about a file inside debian directory

2018-12-07 Thread Jose G. López
Dear mentors, Is it permitted by the Debian Policy to have a personalized makefile inside debian directory and call it from rules file? Or I should patch the upstream's makefile completly? I'm packaging fathom[0][1] and can't find an answer. Thanks and sorry if the answer is obvious. Regards,

Bug#894307: RFS: pgn2web/0.4-2 [ITA]

2018-04-01 Thread Jose G. López
On Sat, 31 Mar 2018 09:29:02 -0300 Herbert Fortes wrote: > Hi Jose G. López, > > I ran 'blhc --all' and there are some CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS and LDFLAGS > missing '-fPIE' '-fPIE -pie'. > > Can you please fix them? > Hi Herbert, Fix it. Reupl

Bug#894307: RFS: pgn2web/0.4-2 [ITA]

2018-03-28 Thread Jose G. López
install a desktop file. -- Jose G. López Wed, 28 Mar 2018 19:08:10 +0200 Thanks and regards, pgpUuz1GFybCv.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#890203: RFS: gigalomania/1.0-1 [ITP]

2018-03-11 Thread Jose G. López
On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 15:08:58 +0800 Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 3:34 AM, Jose G. López wrote: > > > The package got rejected because I forgot to reference a copy of TinyXML. > > Please ask upstream to remove the copy from their VCS and tarballs and > depend o

Re: Bug#890203: RFS: gigalomania/1.0-1 [ITP]

2018-02-15 Thread Jose G. López
On Sun, 11 Feb 2018 21:51:01 +0100 "Jose G. López" wrote: > Package: sponsorship-requests > Severity: wishlist > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel-ga...@lists.debian.org > > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gigalomania": > &

Re: Lintian warnings converting copyright to machine-readable

2018-02-11 Thread Jose G. López
Hi, On Sat, 10 Feb 2018 21:16:47 +1100 Ben Finney wrote: > That specification would mean the recipient can choose to redistribute > the work under *any* of those license conditions. I think that is not > what you mean to specify. Absolutely right, it's a combining work and should be used "and".

Bug#890203: RFS: gigalomania/1.0-1 [ITP]

2018-02-11 Thread Jose G. López
nformation about this package, please visit the following URL: https://mentors.debian.net/package/gigalomania Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command: dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gigalomania/gigalomania_1.0-1.dsc Package development

Lintian warnings converting copyright to machine-readable

2018-02-09 Thread Jose G. López
Hello!, I'm packaging gigalomania and want to convert copyright to machine-readable format but I'm having lintian warnings I don't know how to fix. The original copyright is here: http://gigalomania.sourceforge.net/#licences There are a lot of images with different authors embedded into single f

Bug#883947: RFS: gringotts/1.2.10-3

2017-12-09 Thread Jose G. López
ckage with dget using this command: dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gringotts/gringotts_1.2.10-3.dsc Package development is on the following repo: https://gitlab.com/deb-pkg/gringotts Changes since the last upload: * debian/copyright: - Update Source url and copy

Bug#883945: RFS: libgringotts/1:1.2.1-16

2017-12-09 Thread Jose G. López
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "libgringotts" * Package name: libgringotts Version : 1:1.2.1-16 Upstream Author : Shlomi Fish * URL : http://gringotts.shlomifish.org * License : GP

Bug#883942: RFS: medit/1.2.0-3

2017-12-09 Thread Jose G. López
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "medit" * Package name: medit Version : 1.2.0-3 Upstream Author : Yevgen Muntyan * URL : http://mooedit.sourceforge.net * License : GPL-2.0, LGPL-2.1 Se

Bug#859778: [supp...@mentors.debian.net: xtrs uploaded to mentors.debian.net]

2017-08-04 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2017-07-27T13:50:53-0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello Branden, > > On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 04:35:23PM +0100, Sean Whitton wrote: > > Please accept my apologies for letting this RFS sit for so long. Thank > > you for all your work. Looking forward to uploading it soon. > > > > Here's a full r

Bug#866783: RFS: gigalomania/0.28+git.20170219.g08f4811-1 [ITP]

2017-07-01 Thread Jose G. López
ss further information about this package, please visit the following URL: https://mentors.debian.net/package/gigalomania Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command: dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gigalomania/gigalomania_0.28+git.20170219.g08f

Bug#859778: [supp...@mentors.debian.net: xtrs uploaded to mentors.debian.net]

2017-06-01 Thread G. Branden Robinson
package sponsorship-requests tag 859778 - moreinfo thanks $ dput mentors xtrs_4.9d-1_amd64.changes Checking signature on .changes gpg: /home/branden/src/GIT/debian/xtrs_4.9d-1_amd64.changes: Valid signature from D19E9C7D71266DCE Checking signature on .dsc gpg: /home/branden/src/GIT/debian/xtrs_4

Bug#859778: RFS: xtrs/4.9d-3

2017-04-24 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2017-04-22T16:04:25-0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > > Can you explain your reasoning here? > > Currently, almost all Debian packagers/maintainers use one changelog > entry and version number per upload. So if there are rounds of review > in an RFS, new changes are folded into the previous changelo

Bug#859778: RFS: xtrs/4.9d-3

2017-04-22 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2017-04-22T15:41:48-0400, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > Given this problem I haven't done a full review, but I'd like to make > > two preliminary suggestions: > > > > 1) How about merging the -1, -2 and -3~~unreleased changelog entries > > into a

Bug#859778: RFS: xtrs/4.9d-3

2017-04-22 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2017-04-22T07:13:38-0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > control: tag -1 +moreinfo > > Hello Branden, > > I can't get 79e8ccf40499ace8cf36210a7ad9fb157209bbe4 to build. Log > attached. Urp. This is due to the unavailabilty of gropdf on the build host, it looks like. I'll investigate. > Given this

Bug#859778: RFS: xtrs/4.9d-2

2017-04-20 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2017-04-20T15:58:04-0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Please remove the moreinfo tag from the bug when it's ready to be > uploaded. Will do! Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#859778: RFS: xtrs/4.9d-2

2017-04-20 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2017-04-20T09:45:13-0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello Branden, Hi Sean! > On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 11:09:45PM -0400, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > Yeah, I didn't understand that at the time. Subsequently I changed all > > the 4.9d changelog entries to target experi

Bug#859778: RFS: xtrs/4.9d-2

2017-04-12 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2017-04-12T22:49:51+0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 12:28:11PM -0400, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > I think I got it fixed. > > > > The URL of my package is: > > https://mentors.debian.net/package/xtrs > > > > The respect

Bug#859778: RFS: xtrs/4.9d-2

2017-04-12 Thread G. Branden Robinson
On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 10:20:55AM -0400, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > Hrm #1: GMail helpfully categorized your mail as spam. > > Not nice, let's try again; if you don't respond in a day I'll send > from some other place. It's fixed. I told GMail you&#x

Bug#859778: RFS: xtrs/4.9d-2

2017-04-12 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2017-04-07T15:23:19+0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Fri, Apr 07, 2017 at 07:41:51AM -0400, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > * Package name: xtrs > > Version : 4.9d-2 > > > https://mentors.debian.net/package/xtrs > > dget -x > > ht

Bug#859778: RFS: xtrs/4.9d-2

2017-04-07 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I seek a sponsor for my package "xtrs". * Package name: xtrs Version : 4.9d-2 Upstream Author : Tim Mann * URL : http://www.tim-mann.org/xtrs.html * License : 2 different custom permissive licenses

Bug#858800: RFS: xtrs/4.9d-1 [ITA]

2017-03-31 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2017-03-31T18:39:23-0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > control: owner -1 ! > > Hello Branden, > > On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 07:40:51PM -0400, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > I've reuploaded 4.9c-4. > > I can't find this on mentors... As I said, an e-mailed debd

Bug#858800: RFS: xtrs/4.9d-1 [ITA]

2017-03-30 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2017-03-29T12:59:12-0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello Branden, > > On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 08:29:38PM -0400, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 05:28:25PM -0400, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > > > So my goals were, in this order: > >

Bug#858800: RFS: xtrs/4.9d-1 [ITA]

2017-03-28 Thread G. Branden Robinson
On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 05:16:21PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello Branden, > > On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 05:28:25PM -0400, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > > You are very unlikely to get release team approval for this upload as it > > > stands. Given what you wrote in

Bug#858800: RFS: xtrs/4.9d-1 [ITA]

2017-03-28 Thread G. Branden Robinson
On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 07:11:10PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > control: tag -1 +moreinfo Dummy response to -quiet to test Mutt/GPG configuration. -- Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#858800: RFS: xtrs/4.9d-1 [ITA]

2017-03-28 Thread G. Branden Robinson
On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 07:11:10PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > control: tag -1 +moreinfo > > Dear Branden, > > On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 06:45:34PM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Changes since the last upload: > > > > * Merge new upstream release. > > + "Deleted all SIGIO code. The cod

Bug#836215: RFS: phalanx/25-1 [ITA]

2016-09-17 Thread Jose G. López
On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 09:55:36 + (UTC) Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > you might even consider fixing the actual RC bug without a new upstream > release, > let the package migrate, and upload the new version (crippled) in experimental > or later in unstable. Hi Gianfranco, All right, I prefer

Bug#836215: RFS: phalanx/25-1 [ITA]

2016-09-13 Thread Jose G. López
Hi Gianfranco, Thanks for reviwing! I must say I've addressed most of your points but testing the new version (25), I've found that it doesn't work as expected in Scid. Scid has a feature to play versus Phalanx (tactical game) but it needs a special version. The package in sid works well while new

Bug#836215: RFS: phalanx/25-1 [ITA]

2016-08-31 Thread Jose G. Lopez
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "phalanx": * Package name: phalanx Version : 25-1 Upstream Author : Dusan Dobes < dusa...@users.sf.net> * URL : https://sourceforge.net/projects/phalanx/ * License

Bug#831792: RFS: scid/1:4.6.4+dfsg1-1

2016-08-29 Thread Jose G. López
> Hi, can you please have a look at the build failures? > > thanks > > > g++ -MMD -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/«BUILDDIR»/scid-4.6.4+dfsg1=. -fPIE > -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time > -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -O3 -march=native -fno-rtt

Bug#831792: RFS: scid/1:4.6.4+dfsg1-1

2016-08-26 Thread Jose G. López
sources. I've seen other examples using this versioning nomenclature. > > 2) missing newline between last entry and your signature > to make it DFSG compliant. > -- Jose G. López Mon, 08 Aug 2016 11:23:07 +0200 Fixed. > > 3) copyrights missing > grep -i copyrigh

Bug#831792: RFS: scid/1:4.6.2-0.1 [NMU]

2016-08-08 Thread Jose G. López
ed s/x86_64-linux-gnu/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)/ configure > configure.sed > chmod 755 configure.sed > ./configure.sed BINDIR="$(CURDIR)/debian/tmp/scid/usr/games" \ Deleted too. > > please fix the above and I'll give another review/upload. > > thanks, > > G. Hi

Bug#831792: RFS: scid/1:4.6.2-0.1 [NMU]

2016-07-19 Thread Jose G. López
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "scid": * Package name: scid Version : 4.6.2-0.1 Upstream Author : Fulvio Benini * URL : http://scid.sf.net * License : GPL v2 Section : games I

Re: Packaging new upstream version of scid

2016-07-15 Thread Jose G. López
On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 14:56:03 + (UTC) Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > > I did *two* NMU of stockfish for this maintainer, both were new upstream > release, and upstream was making pressure > about updating it. > > So, even if the maintainer is not officially MIA, I guess you can already > o

Packaging new upstream version of scid

2016-07-13 Thread Jose G. López
Hello! I have been working on packaging a new version of scid (4.6.2); the version in Debian is outdated (from 2014). I tried to contact Oliver, the actual mantainer, a month ago and haven't received response yet. I tried it twice. I did a NMU and the work can be reviewed on [0]. What should

Fixing "dep5-copyright-license-name-not-unique" and "missing-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright"

2015-11-20 Thread T o n g
ne that. Ref, my copyright file at https://github.com/suntong/dbab/blob/master/debian/copyright I've also tried to: sed -i 's/BSD-3-Clause/BSD-3-clause/g' debian/copyright but that doesn't fix the problem.  What's wrong? Please help. Thanks

From mentors to Debian repo

2015-01-11 Thread T o n g
Hi, What happens when I have *more than one* version uploaded to mentors, then ftp master upload the package to the official Debian repo? It happened to me twice, and twice had the older package appear in official Debian repo, instead of my newly uploaded latest version. Is it possible to del

Re: Bug#773611: Fwd: RFS: histring/1.1.1-1 [ITP] - general purpose highlighting tool

2014-12-28 Thread T o n g
Hi mentors, All fixes are done and a new package is uploaded. Please sponsor it. The respective dsc file can be found at: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/h/histring/histring_1.1.1-1.dsc Once again, here is the package information: >> Dear mentors, >> >> Please sponsor for my newly

Re: Bug#773611: Fwd: RFS: histring/1.1.1-1 [ITP] - general purpose highlighting tool

2014-12-21 Thread T o n g
On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 18:30:04 +1100, Riley Baird wrote: > Hi! I'm not a DD, so I can't sponsor your package, but here are some > things that I've noticed... Thanks for the review, I'll fix them all. >>> * It may be a good idea to make releases as tarballs still, instead of >>> just making Debian

overriding lintian tags

2014-12-20 Thread T o n g
Hi, I have the following lintian tags that I want to override: ~~~ W: zh-autoconvert: binary-without-manpage usr/bin/autob5 W: zh-autoconvert: binary-without-manpage usr/bin/autogb ~~~ So in my debian/override file, I tried all of: ~~~ zh-autoconvert binary: binary-without-manpage usr/bin/aut

Re: Sample Debian package to show-case all

2014-12-14 Thread T o n g
On Mon, 15 Dec 2014 10:53:59 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >> - the most simplified Makefile > > This is upstream stuff not Debian stuff... > Ultimately you should have no patches because ... If we can influence upstream, why don't we get their structure right at the first place? If Debian can't in

Sample Debian package to show-case all

2014-12-14 Thread T o n g
Hi, Is there a *simple* sample Debian package somewhere out there that show- case most of the important Debian packaging aspects? E.g., with a small C/C++ file, the sample package shows - the latest standard of debian/rules file - the most simplified Makefile - how to build from ./configure -

Re: Sample systemd service init file please

2014-12-14 Thread T o n g
On Mon, 15 Dec 2014 08:09:30 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: >> +if HAVE_SYSTEMD > > Shouldn't that be > ifdef HAVE_SYSTEMD Thank you Norbert & Russ, with both of your helps, everything builds fine now. Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: Sample systemd service init file please

2014-12-14 Thread T o n g
On Sat, 13 Dec 2014 21:00:56 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Can you provide me a sample systemd service init file, that correspond >> to init.d script please? I.e., the corresponding file for systemd to >> replace /etc/init.d/service. > > Take a look at the lbcd package in Debian. It has an init

Re: How to let different programs use same man page

2014-12-14 Thread T o n g
Thanks Riley, you've been extremely helpful. On Sun, 14 Dec 2014 15:34:05 +1100, Riley Baird wrote: > Looking at the gzip source, it seems that ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.or

How to let different programs use same man page

2014-12-13 Thread T o n g
Hi, What's the trick to have different programs use same man page when packaging a Debian package? E.g., say I'm packaging gzip, and I want both `man gzip` and `man gunzip` goes to the same man file. How can I make it happen? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@list

Re: Please sponsor dbab, the dnsmasq-based ad-blocker

2014-12-13 Thread T o n g
On Sat, 13 Dec 2014 07:14:18 +1100, Riley Baird wrote: > here are some things that I've noticed: > > [...] All fixed. > * d/docs is empty. You should include dbab.html. You meant this? echo 'dbab.html' > debian/docs Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian

Sample systemd service init file please

2014-12-13 Thread T o n g
Hi, Can you provide me a sample systemd service init file, that correspond to init.d script please? I.e., the corresponding file for systemd to replace /etc/init.d/service. My package have that /etc/init.d/service file, but I want to create one for systemd as well. I am asking because I don'

Please sponsor dbab, the dnsmasq-based ad-blocker

2014-12-05 Thread T o n g
Dear mentors, I'd like to bring your attention again to dbab, the innovative dnsmasq- based ad-blocker that will benefit most people. Here is my sales-pitch again: Ever want to remove Ads and speed up your (iphone/ipad) mobile device browsing without installing any apps to them? Sounds too good

Re: Self-maintained Debian packages best practice

2014-11-30 Thread T o n g
On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 18:12:06 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: >> > In the past, having a `debian/` directory upstream was a pain because >> > we didn't have a proper way to remove a file if needed. Nowadays, it >> > is perfectly fine if you use a 3.0 format. >> >> Fine in which way ? > > It's fine be

Self-maintained Debian packages best practice

2014-11-30 Thread T o n g
Hi, I'm currently hosting my self-maintained Debian packages on GitHub. Here is my dilemma: - It is commonly recommended not to put the `debian` folder within the source tree so as to make it easier for other distros. - So I did. I did not put my `debian` folder within the source tree on my

Re: Fixing the warning of Depends field unknown substitution variable ${perl:Depends}

2014-11-29 Thread T o n g
Thanks a lot Russ. I found my problem happens to be more than that, I.e., I should deal with "empty-binary-package" first. Once I got it properly build I see perl shows up on the Depends line. Depends: perl, dnsmasq, curl Sorry about the noise. Thanks again. On Sat, 29 Nov 2014 18:29:52

Re: Fixing the warning of Depends field unknown substitution variable ${perl:Depends}

2014-11-29 Thread T o n g
On Sat, 29 Nov 2014 21:26:10 +0100, Stephen Kitt wrote: >> My packages gives this warning: >> >> dpkg-gencontrol: warning: Depends field of package dbab: unknown >> substitution variable ${perl:Depends} >> >> I am packaging Perl stuff, and I do use IO::Socket::INET in my code. > If you > thin

Fixing the warning of Depends field unknown substitution variable ${perl:Depends}

2014-11-29 Thread T o n g
Hi, My packages gives this warning: dpkg-gencontrol: warning: Depends field of package dbab: unknown substitution variable ${perl:Depends} I am packaging Perl stuff, and I do use IO::Socket::INET in my code: https://github.com/suntong001/dbab/blob/master/src/bin/dbab-svr In https://lists.d

Re: To fix error: binary file contents changed

2014-09-14 Thread T o n g
On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 12:14:13 +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: >> The source is at https://github.com/suntong001/histring/ >> it is *very* small. > This package can't be built. You need to make sure you provide working > examples when you ask for help, otherwise people will stop helping you > quick

Re: To fix error: binary file contents changed

2014-09-13 Thread T o n g
On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 09:10:10 +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 02:28:34AM +, T o n g wrote: >> Hi, >> >> My histring has this "binary file contents changed" error, how to fix >> it? >> >> Here is the build log: >&g

Re: Please help fix lintian hardening-no-relro problem

2014-09-13 Thread T o n g
On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 08:11:42 +0100, Azazel wrote: >> Just out of curiosity, the source package I uploaded, >> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/h/histring/ histring_1.1.0-2.dsc >> should be working according to your above principle, but why it is >> failing? > > Because you weren't using

To fix error: binary file contents changed

2014-09-11 Thread T o n g
Hi, My histring has this "binary file contents changed" error, how to fix it? Here is the build log: dpkg-source: info: using options from histring-1.1.0/debian/source/ options: --extend-diff-ignore=^Makefile$ fakeroot debian/rules clean dh clean dh_testdir dh_auto_clean

Re: Please help fix lintian hardening-no-relro problem

2014-09-11 Thread T o n g
On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 09:07:27 +0100, Azazel wrote: > Now that you've raised the debhelper compat level from 5 to 9, dh should > do the right thing. Just revert the changes in which you ripped out the > auto-tooling, e.g.: OMG, you are my hero Azazel! histring is the package that I want to take u

Re: Please help fix lintian hardening-no-relro problem

2014-09-10 Thread T o n g
Thanks for your response. On Sun, 07 Sep 2014 16:55:14 +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Sat, Sep 06, 2014 at 08:56:50PM +, T o n g wrote: >> Yes, that's the first thing I tried, but still get the "hardening-no- >> relro" problem: >> https://github

Re: Please help fix lintian hardening-no-relro problem

2014-09-06 Thread T o n g
On Sat, 06 Sep 2014 14:03:10 +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: >> Please help me fix the lintian "hardening-no-relro" problem. As >> mentioned before, I've tried several ways myself but none worked. I've >> uploaded the source package to >> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/h/histring/ his

Please help fix lintian hardening-no-relro problem

2014-09-05 Thread T o n g
[Re-try again as my previous question ended up as "Message not available" in the mail archive] Please help me fix the lintian "hardening-no-relro" problem. As mentioned before, I've tried several ways myself but none worked. I've uploaded the source package to http://mentors.debian.net/debian/p

Re: Please help fix lintian hardening-no-relro problem

2014-08-28 Thread T o n g
On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 14:32:32 +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:50:23AM +, T o n g wrote: >> >> Please help me fix the lintian "hardening-no-relro" problem. My code >> >> is at https://github.com/suntong001/histring (it is *very

Re: Please help fix lintian hardening-no-relro problem

2014-08-27 Thread T o n g
On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 13:56:29 +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: >> Please help me fix the lintian "hardening-no-relro" problem. My code is >> at https://github.com/suntong001/histring (it is *very* small). > The proper way is just to bump debian/compat to 9. > >> I tried to ... >> +DPKG_EXPORT_BU

Please help fix lintian hardening-no-relro problem

2014-08-24 Thread T o n g
hi, Please help me fix the lintian "hardening-no-relro" problem. My code is at https://github.com/suntong001/histring (it is *very* small). I tried to fix it myself, using the method from https://wiki.debian.org/Hardening and https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/debian-bollin/ Ixk9usNsbKw/0eaJ

Re: Please help translate old rules file on the installation rules

2014-07-13 Thread T o n g
On Mon, 14 Jul 2014 04:06:16 +, T o n g wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jul 2014 00:26:22 +0200, Ross Gammon wrote: > >>> On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 22:29:37 +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: >>> >>>> dh_install(1) is a program, not a target. >>>> >>>

Re: Please help translate old rules file on the installation rules

2014-07-13 Thread T o n g
On Mon, 14 Jul 2014 00:26:22 +0200, Ross Gammon wrote: >> On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 22:29:37 +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: >> >>> dh_install(1) is a program, not a target. >>> install -m 755 ddclient \ $(DESTDIR)/usr/sbin/ddclient install -D -m 755 debian/ddclient.NetworkManager \ >

Separate gpg signing from package building

2014-07-13 Thread T o n g
Hi, Is it possible to separate gpg signing from package building? As I'm still trying to learn Debian package building, I've found myself fallen into this silly loop many times -- Thinking that the package would be fine, I build it with gpg signing, but only to find out minutes later that I

Re: Please help translate old rules file on the installation rules

2014-07-13 Thread T o n g
On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 22:29:37 +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > dh_install(1) is a program, not a target. > >> install -m 755 ddclient \ >>$(DESTDIR)/usr/sbin/ddclient >> >> install -D -m 755 debian/ddclient.NetworkManager \ >>$(DESTDIR)/etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/

Re: Please help translate old rules file on the installation rules

2014-07-13 Thread T o n g
On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 18:18:21 +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: >> I saw in the log, >> >>... >>dh_installdirs >> debian/rules override_dh_auto_install >> make[1]: Entering directory '/export/build/pkg/ddclient/bld/ >> ddclient-3.8.2' >> install -m 755 ddclient \ >> /usr/sbin/ddclient >

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