Re: Free component in a non-free tarball

2022-08-31 Thread Jeremy Stanley
le not ideal, that would be far from the first time distros used the source code supplied by other distros as a basis for their own packages. -- Jeremy Stanley signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Advice needed for a strange request about getmail vs. getmail6

2021-10-18 Thread Jeremy Stanley
sion 8 of bash, and so it's name was switched to bashate in order to avoid confusion. -- Jeremy Stanley signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Interested in status of libgrokj2k package

2021-01-27 Thread Jeremy Stanley
ease series, and Debian makes a new stable release something like every 2-2.5 years. [*] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2021/01/msg2.html -- Jeremy Stanley signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: How specific must Copyright be?

2019-06-12 Thread Jeremy Stanley
if you're packaging it, make sure to generate/include that AUTHORS file) -- Jeremy Stanley signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Configure your PC to contribute to Debian community

2019-05-09 Thread Jeremy Stanley
ferred to as a "container") for workload isolation. That said, if you're looking to have a Linux VM on a Linux host, UML probably still works. -- Jeremy Stanley signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#898773: RFS: python-fibra/0.0.17-1 [ITP 898736]

2018-05-15 Thread Jeremy Stanley
stream for this and planning to update it to support Python 3.x in preparation for 2.7 reaching end of life? -- Jeremy Stanley

Bug#898773: RFS: python-fibra/0.0.17-1 [ITP 898736]

2018-05-15 Thread Jeremy Stanley
eam for this and planning to update it to support Python 3.x in preparation for 2.7 reaching end of life? -- Jeremy Stanley

Re: Packaging from upstream's Git repository.

2014-07-12 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2014-07-12 13:45:52 +0900 (+0900), Charles Plessy wrote: [...] I am blocking on the fact that he uses gnulib in a way that the version number of his program is expressed only via a Git tag. Thus, given that Debian source package are based on tar archives, the version number is lost unless I

Re: RFS: tilda package

2013-02-17 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2013-02-17 21:50:38 +0100 (+0100), Lanoxx wrote: [...] Unfortunately I do not have any packaging experience and currently hardly the time to learn it. I tried it a few times before and it does not seem to be an easy process. I am therefore looking for a sponsore to package and upload tilda

Re: I'm so frustrated trying to adopt a package, I could scream.

2013-02-12 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2013-02-12 13:07:57 -0600 (-0600), Paul Johnson wrote: [...] This needs to be vivisected: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/index.html#howto-o If none of you use reportbug to adopt packages, there's a lot we could cut and clean in there. The references to reportbug up at the top of the

Re: I'm so frustrated trying to adopt a package, I could scream.

2013-02-11 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2013-02-11 14:45:42 -0600 (-0600), Paul Johnson wrote: [...] If I ever do succeed with this, I'm going to come back and start a big argument with you all. This process is badly designed. If Debian wants people to maintain packages, why not make adoption simpler? The package itself is the

Re: Source format 3.0 (quilt) and new debhelper dh syntax (maint-guide)

2010-03-22 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 05:16:48PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: If by new dh rules you mean the use of dh(1) to do everything, only overriding what is necessary, then those do indeed support completely arch-independent packages like e.g. http://packages.debian.org/sid/s5 :) [...] I updated my

Re: vanity packages (was: mentors.debian.net reloading)

2007-10-29 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 07:44:28AM +, Neil Williams wrote: [...] I think you have misinterpreted my position. Sponsoring is an introduction to NM and whether or not the maintainer is looking to join NM has no effect on the quality of packages at the start of sponsoring. [...] The problem

Re: mentors.debian.net reloading

2007-10-28 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 06:04:36PM +, Neil Williams wrote: [...] I certainly think that sponsoring is a step towards joining Debian. [...] Perhaps not entirely true, though I will accept that I may not be a typical non-DD maintainer. I have one (very simple) app sponsored into main for which

Re: mini-dinstall, repository signing and apt-get authentication

2006-07-25 Thread Jeremy Stanley
. Contents bzip2 -k Contents gzip -9 Contents apt-ftparchive packages . Packages bzip2 -k Packages gzip -9c Packages Packages.gz apt-ftparchive sources . Sources bzip2 -k Sources gzip -9c Sources Sources.gz apt-ftparchive release . Release rm Packages Sources gpg --armor --default-key =Jeremy Stanley

Re: How to include information about a source package ?

2006-04-30 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 10:06:59PM +0300, George Danchev wrote: Nobody says that get-orig-source must be only used for repackaging purposes. I think it is fine to have such target just getting the upstream source (ok a hash checking against a previously checked and trusted version is required)

Re: How to include information about a source package ?

2006-04-30 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 01:01:43AM +0300, George Danchev wrote: [...] Right. These are all good reasons to start hacking around ;-) but now I can think of some troubles for autobuilder in case of upstream sites not accesible at the package build time or incomplete/changes downloads being

Re: how to create a Release file

2006-04-25 Thread Jeremy Stanley
gzip -9 Contents apt-ftparchive packages . Packages bzip2 -k Packages gzip -9c Packages Packages.gz apt-ftparchive sources . Sources bzip2 -k Sources gzip -9c Sources Sources.gz apt-ftparchive release . Release rm Packages Sources gpg --armor --default-key =Jeremy

Re: RFS: weather-util - command-line tool to obtain weather conditions and forecasts

2006-04-23 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 07:35:29PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: The reference to /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD is not really correct since your software is not Copyright The Regents of the University of California. I'd remove that and just put the full text of the license into

RFS: weather-util - command-line tool to obtain weather conditions and forecasts

2006-04-22 Thread Jeremy Stanley
Version: 1.1-1 Maintainer: Jeremy Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Build-Depends-Indep: debhelper (= 4.1.67), python Architecture: all Standards-Version: 3.6.2 Format: 1.0 Priority: extra Section: utils Installed-Size: 64 Architecture: all Depends: python (= 2.3), python