Re: RFC/RFS: zerofree - zero free blocks from ext2/3 file-systems

2008-02-07 Thread Paul Cager
On Thu, February 7, 2008 10:15, Thibaut Paumard wrote: Le 7 févr. 08 à 02:11, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh a écrit : On Wed, 06 Feb 2008, Thibaut Paumard wrote: Zerofree finds the unallocated, non-zeroed blocks in an ext2 or ext3 file-system and fills them with zeroes. This is useful if the

Re: Using pro or perso address for contributions ?

2007-09-26 Thread Paul Cager
Olivier Berger wrote: Hello. I'm considering applying for maintainer of a couple packages, and I wondered if Debian had some policy on preferring professional or personal email addresses for maintainers. I must admin I haven't read all the documentation yet... but it was not obvious from

Re: [ITA] Turkey: looking for a sponsor

2007-08-03 Thread Paul Cager
Cesare Tirabassi wrote: Hello, I have patched turkey to solve an ftbfs in Ubuntu gutsy (thanks especially to the work of Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz) and made some general update and clean up; I attach the patch to this email. I was told by a Debian QA person that since turkey is currently

Re: Getting involved with Debian development...

2007-07-26 Thread Paul Cager
Tim Hull wrote: Hi, [...] Anyway, I am curious what exactly it entails to become a Debian developer, and what would be best to do if one wanted to involve oneself in Debian with this ultimate goal. I do know of a couple things that aren't packaged that I may want to take a stab at at some

Re: RFS: libgettext-commons-java

2007-07-22 Thread Paul Cager
Andreas Putzo wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package libgettext-commons-java. * Package name: libgettext-commons-java Version : 0.9-1 Upstream Author : Felix Berger (Gettext Commons project) * URL :

Debian Maintainers - a vote on debian-vote

2007-06-24 Thread Paul Cager
If you are not already aware of it, there is discussion on debian-vote about Debian Maintainers - letting people maintain specific packages in the archive without being full developers. I thought I would mention it here as non-DDs are not too likely to read d-vote, but might be greatly affected

Re: how pass variables from files for dh_install into rules?

2007-04-05 Thread Paul Cager
On Thu, April 5, 2007 2:36 pm, andremachado wrote: Hello, Magnus Many thanks for your answer. There are some variables defined at /debian/rules BUILDDIR := debian/php-java-bridge DESTDIR := ${CURDIR}/${BUILDDIR} PHP_EXT_DIR := $(shell /usr/bin/php-config --extension-dir)

Re: Where to mention, when several tarballs are merged into one .orig.tar.gz

2007-03-03 Thread Paul Cager
Daniel Leidert wrote: Hello, For docbook-xsl I merge two tarballs together docbook-xsl-x.y.z.tar.gz and docbook-xsl-doc-x.y.z.tar.gz. Where should I mention this? debian/README.Debian or better debian/copyright? Regards, Daniel Definitely README.Debian; probably a good idea in copyright,

Re: Must a source package's shared libraries always be spit into separate binary packages?

2007-02-19 Thread Paul Cager
On Mon, February 19, 2007 1:38 pm, Sam Morris wrote: I am packaging the nemiver debugger, which has a new version that has split some of its functionality into a libnemiver-common library. The library is probably not very useful without nemiver itself being installed. Is it ok to avoid

Re: Must a source package's shared libraries always be spit into separate binary packages?

2007-02-19 Thread Paul Cager
Sam Morris wrote: On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 18:11 +, Paul Cager wrote: On Mon, February 19, 2007 2:37 pm, Sam Morris wrote: On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:10:06 +, Paul Cager wrote: On Mon, February 19, 2007 1:38 pm, Sam Morris wrote: I am packaging the nemiver debugger, which has a new version

Re: RFS: crotch

2007-01-31 Thread Paul Cager
Neil Williams wrote: There are plenty of tools that help create manpages without having to understand the Groff/troff format. help2man can take your STDOUT usage message and convert that to a usable manpage, doclifter can then take that manpage and create XML that is easier to edit and gives

License question (OpenSSL + GPL)

2007-01-30 Thread Paul Cager
I'm packaging myserver (http://www.myserverproject.net). It uses OpenSSL to serve HTTPS requests, and contains the following in its license: MyServer is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) with the additional exception that compiling, linking, and using OpenSSL is

Unnecessary blank line at the end of a file...

2007-01-25 Thread Paul Cager
After the previous discussions on blank lines in a file, I thought I would share a lintian warning message I encountered. Took me a couple of minutes to work out what it meant. It was something like this: `conffile `' is not readable.' Due to a blank line in debian/conffiles -- To

Comments re packaging of AFNIX

2007-01-10 Thread Paul Cager
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear mentors, Could someone please check my packaging of the AFNIX compiler/interpreter? * Package name: afnix Version : 1.4.2-1 * URL : www.afnix.org * License : BSD-like The package is lintian/linda clean, and

Frozen Etch

2007-01-09 Thread Paul Cager
Can I just check that we are still allowed to upload to unstable while testing is frozen? (Or rather, in my case, to ask a sponsor to upload). Thanks, Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Recurring please do patterns in debian-mentors

2007-01-01 Thread Paul Cager
Hi, * Mikhail Gusarov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-01-01 14:13]: After watching debian-mentors@ for a some time, I've found two types of suggestions frequenly advised to the packagers: * Removing empty lines from the end of debian/copyright, debian/changelog * Using two spaces before

Re: Regarding Debian-Java Packages

2006-12-29 Thread Paul Cager
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eng. Mina Ramses wrote: The problem is when I tried to package it, I found that the license was a Sun Binary License which is not compatible with DFSG (it's not free for Debian). I asked the author and he claimed it's under BSD which is OK for

Re: Help regarding package with shared objects

2006-12-15 Thread Paul Cager
Andreas Fester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Paul, you should definitely read http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html It should answer most of your questions, including package layout and the role of -dev packages. Thanks - this is exactly the sort of thing I

Help regarding package with shared objects

2006-12-14 Thread Paul Cager
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If you are able to help me with some problems I am having packaging an application with some shared objects (.so libraries), I would be very grateful. I know very little about SOs, and even after a bit of research on the web I'm still not sure of the

Re: RFC: id3tool (updated package - adoption)

2006-12-06 Thread Paul Cager
Daniel Baumann wrote: there are a few glitches i would correct: ... ... if you fix above things, i'm happy to sponsor it. Daniel, Many thanks for the above comments, which I have now fixed. Thank you too for offering to upload, but Ricardo Mones, who has sponsored some of my previous

RFC: id3tool (updated package - adoption)

2006-12-05 Thread Paul Cager
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Mentors, Please can I have comments about my packaging of id3tools, which I intend to adopt. It is lintian clean and builds in a pbuilder environment. It fixes bugs 280180, 363953, 400360. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - -

Re: New request for checking: Java library tagsoup (ITP #359170)

2006-11-22 Thread Paul Cager
Marcus, Thanks for your comments, which I have applied to my packaging. Regarding your comment: I don't think the repackaging of the upstream zip file into a tarball warrants a README.Debian-source file, so I would remove that. I put this in because of section 6.7.8.2 in the Developers'

Re: New request for checking: Java library tagsoup (ITP #359170)

2006-11-22 Thread Paul Cager
James Westby wrote: On (22/11/06 15:31), Paul Cager wrote: I don't think the repackaging of the upstream zip file into a tarball warrants a README.Debian-source file, so I would remove that. I put this in because of section 6.7.8.2 in the Developers' Reference seemed to require

Advice regarding lintian information message: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign

2006-11-14 Thread Paul Cager
I’m intending to adopt the java2html package and I’ve produced an updated source package. When I run lintian against the source (passing the -I flag), I get an information message: I: java2html: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/java2html.1.gz:39 N: N: Manual page

RFS: java2html (intending to adopt package)

2006-11-14 Thread Paul Cager
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.9.2-4 of package java2html. I am hoping to adopt this package. This is my first attempt at package adoption, and I hope someone will be able to check the package for any silly errors. The package is lintian and linda clean. The