On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 5:26 AM, Thomas Thurman wrote:
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "plover".
As promised, here is a review...
There are some that I require to be fixed before I would upload this to Debian:
There is a security issue (DoS attack); on multi-user systems, any
user ca
On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 10:49 AM, T o n g wrote:
> Does it happen to you as well?
I'm using a desktop (GNOME) that starts a gpg agent before everything
else. I suggest you modify your login setup to do this and or check if
they already do that.
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On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 9:35 AM, linux at iocellnetworks wrote:
> I guess I had my hopes a little bit high when I wrote to the list. I was
> hoping for something more along the lines of a mentor as described on
> Wikipedia: "... the personal name Mentor has been adopted in English as a
> term meani
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 8:20 PM, Anton Balashov wrote:
> Like most of webapps, it expects all its dirs in /var/www :) But I should
> put some dirs in /usr/share/pkg and some in /var/lib/pkg
> It doesn't have its apache config.
So you will need to change the webapp to be more flexible about wher
Please include some details about the app.
Where does it normally place code?
Where does it normally place files modified by the web app?
How does it generate an apache config?
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On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 7:01 AM, T o n g wrote:
> Is it the package maintainer's job to watch for upstream releases?
Yes. There are some automated mechanisms but they aren't perfect and
can't help in the case where an upstream moved to a different website,
changed its tarball naming scheme or got
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 7:12 AM, T o n g wrote:
> Is it OK for me to take over the ownership for all of them?
Definitely!
> What should I do?
http://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#adopting
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/#l
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> close 707300
> thanks
>
> I will be sponsoring this package for Eriberto.
Aren't you supposed to do that after the package was uploaded?
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DH_VERBOSE=1 set.
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On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Is there a bug example or two you could point me to so that I can
> follow the standard template of reporting these problems? It appears
> I have some bug reports to file against packages in Wheezy.
Here is a recent example of one I filed:
htt
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Adrian Alves wrote:
> Hey guys am about to start with the debian developer process I need an
> sponsor to start with my pkg grokmirror, I already submitted an ITP didnt
> get the number of ITP yet but am looking for a mentor and sponsor to guide
> me in all this pro
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> I have many obsolete conffiles on my system.
Please file bugs about obsolete conffiles when you find new ones. The
packages themselves should clean up their obsolete conffiles. To help
with this task, you can install the package called 'adequate
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 11:41 AM, adrelanos wrote:
> The Tor Debian package [2] owns Tor's configuration file /etc/tor/torrc.
> This is fine from Debian user perspective, but as a Debian derivative,
> I'd like to use the Tor Debian package and just ship a configuration
> file adjusted for the deriv
On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 2:17 AM, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> There is a huge need for people willing to look at issues in packages
> other than their own more regularly in order to keep testing in good
> shape, and this is my attempt to make that better. Anyway, the goal
> is to try to keep the rc co
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 6:13 AM, Nathan Owens wrote:
> If the source build-depends depend on the arch how will I tell it to use
> certain libraries
> I tried doing like
>
> if [ "$ARCH" == "i386"];
> then
> Build-Depends:
> fi
>
> but cowbuilder says dpkg-source+(not+field-colon-value) error
Plea
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Игорь Пашев wrote:
> Could anybody point me to the way how package migration from unstable to
> testing
> is implemented in Debian. I need very simple scheme:
>
> 1. Upload to "unstable" (not Debian, of course)
> 2. Iff a package if XXX days old on unstable, add t
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Alex Mestiashvili wrote:
> the one which I decided to place in /etc/default defines loglevel and
> location of authptogs.conf
> and I think that /etc/defaults is a good place for it.
> and second which can be in /etc/authprogs.conf or
> /etc/authprogs/authprogs.con
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 3:38 AM, Anton Gladky wrote:
> The only doubts I have, whether the package will be useful for Debian at
> all, if it is targeted only on Raspberry PI (CC-ing debian-arm to get
> more opinions).
Debian armel can run on the Raspberry Pi, so it will be useful. Most
folks will
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Paul Wise wrote:
> I am willing to sponsor it when it is ready.
How is the update going Alexander? Do you have a new package ready?
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On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Boris Pek wrote:
> I saw a lot of your messages related to fonts in Debian, also there was one
> or few posts in your blog (I do not remember precisely). So it looks that
> your well versed in this matter.
>
> Could you comment our discussion about astromenace-data
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Marwan Tanager wrote:
> Thanks very much, Paul for the elaboration and the references. Much
> appreciated.
No probs. No need to CC me, I'm subscribed to the list:
http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct
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ITP requests go to the wnpp package (and reportbug automatically adds
the header X-Debbugs-CC: debian-de...@lists.debian.org). Any
additional destinations are a result of the submitter adding more
locations to X-Debbugs-CC.
http://wiki.debian.org/WNPP
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/
RFS request
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 12:52 AM, Richard Ulrich wrote:
> That's not really what I want. The packages I'm building (richbool and
> modassert) are mainly concerned with providing information about failed
> asserts in debug code. So the debug builds are actually more important
> than the release ones
On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 5:15 AM, Richard Ulrich wrote:
> The problem I'm facin is that I don't know how to handle the fact
> that I want to build debug and release with cmake.
I think you should instead drop the debug build, those aren't shipped
in Debian usually.
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On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 6:28 AM, Arno Töll wrote:
> yes, the first one is enough though. This is not covered by docs,
> because that's a generic OpenGPG problem not specifically related to
> Debian (Mentors). You need to create a key satisfying the Debian keyring
> maintainers [1]. See any tutoria
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Which is why all shared libraries should use at least trivial symbol
> versioning that assigns all symbols a version that changes with the
> SONAME.
Perhaps a pedantic/info lintian complaint is in order?
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On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 2:52 AM, Raphael Champeimont wrote:
> In fact I have already tried to upload one, but I get "There is no Debian
> package with that name." when I enter my package name... Maybe it's
> available only when the package enters testing?
It tracks unstable and Ubuntu:
http://sc
On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 17:44 +0100, Arno Onken wrote:
> I improved the watch file so that more extensions are found:
> http://sf.net/rrep/rrep-(.+)\.(?:zip|tgz|tbz|txz|(?:tar\.(?:gz|bz2|xz)))
> Were you referring to that?
I was also referring to the version regex, see the fourth item:
http://wiki
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 12:05 AM, Alfonso Sabato Siciliano wrote:
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "fonts-sil-averia"
Due to the strange way in which this font was created, it is probably
a derivative work of many different fonts, some proprietary, some
libre, some copyleft and some
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 9:10 PM, Paul Wise wrote:
> Uploaded, some comments:
More comments based on the PTS page:
http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/miceamaze.html
Please upload some screenshots:
http://screenshots.debian.net/package/miceamaze
Please update the debtags:
h
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 8:24 PM, benjamin kent wrote:
>> Do you have any ideas on how to obtain more feedback on this program?
>> In addition, I somehow got a DEB that works. As this is my first DEB
>> experience, and honestly, I am not much of a "package-maker",
>> I would appreciate feedback on
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Raphael Champeimont wrote:
> Oups sorry. I have now added it.
Uploaded, some comments:
How did you get incorrect days of the week in debian/changelog before?
Would be great if you could file a bug on lintian about detecting that
and a patch if you know perl :)
S
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 2:30 AM, Raphael Champeimont wrote:
> The new files are available here:
> http://www.miceamaze.org/source-packages/debian/
>
> Would you (or someone else) please sponsor this new version?
The orig.tar.gz is missing, please upload it.
PS: please don't top-post.
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On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Jeroen Massar wrote:
I note your email address puts you in Switzerland, if that is true I
hope you plan to join us at DebConf13:
http://debconf13.debconf.org/
> That was done because there is an existing bug[1] and I wanted to avoid
> creating a new bug, which t
Here is a review:
You seem to have sent this RFS bug to debian-mentors instead of
submit@bugs.d.o, please read this:
http://wiki.debian.org/Mentors/BTS
I would suggest that a non-native package would be more appropriate
here, please change debian/source/format to 3.0 (quilt) and change the
versi
Here is a review:
In future, you might want to X-Debbugs-CC your earlier sponsors on the
RFS bug submission.
Since you appear to be upstream for this, please read our upstream
guide and some of the links in it:
http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide
I would encourage you to improve the watch file
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 5:40 AM, Adam Borowski wrote:
> This might be the case only if that information has any semblance of
> validity. That's possible pretty much only for tiny projects with one or at
> most few contributors. In anything worth looking at, a single file will be
> typically edite
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 6:11 AM, Bas van den Dikkenberg wrote:
> Is it allowed to remove old changelog entry’s ?
There is usually no reason to do that, could you explain why you want to?
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On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Alfonso Sabato Siciliano wrote:
> I am making my first package (game: beret), the source of software is
> on gitorious: https://gitorious.org/beret .
> What must I write in debian/watch? I don't find docs about.
This particular project has no releases and no git t
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Prach Pongpanich wrote:
> I already done.
Great, perhaps they can sponsor this.
> I see in debian-ocaml-maint [1] but I can't find a bug against lintian. [2]
Please file one.
> lintian overrides, upstream changelog is not available (#513544).
It is not correct
I talked to the maintainer about this on IRC, he will take care of it.
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Sounds like you should work with upstream to merge compton fixes back
into xcompmgr, which is already in Debian.
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I don't intend to sponsor this package, but here is a review:
You might want to get involved in the ocaml team:
http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/OCamlTaskForce
Please drop the unnessecary information from the patch header,
including the partial changelog and the stuff about patch tagging
guidelines.
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Scott Leggett wrote:
> I think the best course of action at this stage would be to work on
> sending some patches upstream prior to the new release. Hopefully that
> way I can avoid carrying patches for 0.7.0 when it is done, and
> produce a better package.
Yep, al
I don't intend to sponsor these packages, but here is a review:
mentors.d.n cut off my downloads early so I wasn't able to review all
the packages.
General:
Please run wrap-and-sort -sa to wrap various files.
The package descriptions are too short.
The Homepage redirects to its https version.
You might want to join #debian-au :)
Have you considered joining the multimedia team?
https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Multimedia
I don't intend to sponsor this package, but here is a review:
Please get the patches include upstream and or change them to be
acceptable upstream.
Please use this wat
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Marco Balmer wrote:
> A long time ago, that I've sent a RFS request to debian-mentors [1].
> Accidentally the package was removed by mentors [2] and I didn't
> notice that. So I've uploaded it again. ITP bug for this package is
> available at [3].
Looks like it wa
On Sun, 2013-03-03 at 20:25 +0800, Ho Wan Chan wrote:
> That's because I don't know how to fix
> http://lintian.debian.org/tags/no-upstream-changelog.html
Ask upstream to produce a NEWS file or a ChangeLog file in their
tarballs. If upstream use bzr, they can produce a ChangeLog file using
the
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Ho Wan Chan wrote:
> More information about hello can be obtained from http://www.example.com.
That doesn't make sense, your package is vmodsynth and that is not its website.
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "vmodsynth"
I don't intend to sponsor this p
On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 5:47 AM, Alex Mestiashvili wrote:
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "authprogs"
I don't intend to sponsor this but here is a review:
The patch combines multiple logical changes into one, please split it up.
The patch removes upstream copyright statements, licens
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Paul Wise wrote:
> I'm not planning to sponsor this but here is a review:
More review:
You might want to try merging and or forwarding the Ubuntu patch and
the patches in Ubuntu bugs:
http://patches.ubuntu.com/t/tpb/tpb_0.6.4-2.3ubuntu3.pa
I'm not planning to sponsor this but here is a review:
I wonder if the low-level nvram reading code should be replaced with a
Linux driver?
Please run tagpending from devscripts before uploading to mentors.
Please mention why debian/tpb.devfs is being dropped in the changelog.
fix-spelling-erro
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Brian Bosak wrote:
> More information about hello can be obtained from http://www.example.com.
That is obviously not true.
Here is my review of the package (I don't intend to sponsor it):
You are supposed to file an Intent To Package (ITP) bug before
starting p
On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Arno Töll wrote:
> At least for Debian proper that's highly unlikely, because you'd need to
> build the image from source and make sure its DFSG compliant, which is
> pretty hard to show for full disk images.
Building from source is not strictly required in Debian.
Debian doesn't yet have the ability to create non-hacky pre-installed
images. All our pre-installed images (currently only live images) are
produced by configuring as per normal and then removing host-specific
files (like OpenSSH keys), which is a bit hacky. Ideally
dpkg/apt/packages would have a "
On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 6:05 AM, Tony Houghton wrote:
> The thing is there isn't a separate patch in the debian packaging or
> elsewhere in the pending release tarball because I've applied the patch
> to the code upstream. The bug is upstream too, not in Debian. So
> including the URL for the upstr
I'm reminded of the metrics stuff that was discussed ages ago:
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsNet#Metrics
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On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Paul Wise wrote:
> Specialization:
...
> Unfortunately can mean
Unfortunately this can mean there are no sponsors for particular areas.
> Preferences:
>
> Different folks have different packaging preferences,
Here is a hopefully comprehensive, general answer to this question,
not specific to your situation:
Freeze:
During the release freeze, most Debian folks are focussed on getting
the release out. Fixing RC bugs, fixing important bugs, doing upgrade
testing, writing release notes, finalising the ins
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:42 AM, Aditya Vaidya wrote:
> I've removed the update checker, but the MOTD retriever is still
> implemented, as I see no harm in that. However, if you (or someone else)
> feel that there's a problem with this, I'll remove it.
Any network access is potentially a privacy
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Florian Rothmaier wrote:
> Is it possible to tell svn-buildpackage not to create the Debian source
> package for the second (third, ...) architecture?
svn-buildpackage just calls dpkg-buildpackage to create the source, so
try passing -B to it for the second one.
Could you link to your source package so we can see what you are talking about?
I would expect a network service to use proper authentication methods
like RSA keys of some form (SSH/OpenPGP/X.509), is this cluster thing
really having no authentication and using file permissions to protect
the serv
Here is a review:
You might want to join the games team, however we don't have many Java
folks in the team so you may also want to ask the Debian Java team for
sponsorship.
http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Team
http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/JavaPackaging
There is one game I always wanted in
Since yo
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Also, I don't think "+repack" is very nice. Probably you could
> use "+dfsg" instead, which is more the habit in Debian.
Not when the reason for repacking is not the DFSG, for those we use
"+ds", "+repack" is also fine.
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On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Steven Hamilton wrote:
> 1) How are XDG .desktop files handled. What is Debian policy regarding
> these?
XDG is not a Debian thing. Just ship the upstream one or send upstream
one if you want to target systems without menu-xdg. Run
desktop-file-validate over it fir
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 12:18 AM, Thomas Mertes wrote:
> Maybe you can sponsor it?
As I'm not a user of the package, I'm probably not the best person to
sponsor it.
If you want to do some automated checks on the package to improve its
potential to get sponsored:
http://wiki.debian.org/HowToPacka
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 7:14 AM, Thomas Mertes wrote:
> Where is my missunderstanding and what is necessary to upload my
> source package to mentors.debian.net?
Read the dpkg-buildpackage documentation and you will find an argument
(-S) for creating only the source package plus a source .changes
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 1:28 AM, Maykel Moya wrote:
> 1. ulogd vs ulogd2 package name.
> I'm not sure why the ITP was filled changing the package name. It's true
> the file format has changed but it has changed before too between
> versions 1.02-2 and 1.23-1.
> I've decided to use the existing pack
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 4:23 AM, Andreas B. Mundt wrote:
> First, I dropped the config space to /usr/share/debian-lan-config/ .
> However, lintian complained about an unknown interpreter
> (#!/usr/sbin/cfagent) used in some files. I can overwrite that
> warning, but I thought perhaps it's better t
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 9:02 PM, Thomas Mertes wrote:
> I am the developer of the Seed7 programming language and I need help
> to create a Debian package for Seed7.
Please read these web pages:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/
http://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers
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On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 5:39 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> (I don't intend to sponsor this package, sorry.)
I am willing to sponsor it when it is ready.
Since you are upstream, please read our upstream guide if you didn't already:
http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide
Please fix the issues Jakub Wilk
I would suggest that you take a look at the existing Linux patch
packages in Debian:
pabs@chianamo ~ $ aptitude search '(kernel|linux)-patch'
p kernel-patch-atopacct -
save additional statistical counters for atop in the record
p kernel-patch-atopcnt
This list is about getting help with packaging and with getting
packages into Debian (Ubuntu automatically copies packages from
Debian). If you are interested in that, I would suggest that you read
our introduction and the links there:
http://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers
After that you co
Please point upstream at these pages if you didn't already:
http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Games/Upstream
You might want to join the games team:
http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Team
meandmyshadow.desktop has executable permissions, which it doesn't need.
Plea
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 7:36 AM, Cameron Hart wrote:
> This is probably more for the benefit of Windows and Mac, The current
> Premake Debian package links against the installed version of Lua
> rather than building the embedded version.
Ick. Its a bit sad that folks have to reinvent packages and
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Vincent Cheng wrote:
> First of all, thanks for volunteering to package and maintain
> premake4! One of my packages (0ad) actually uses an embedded copy of
> premake, which I would like to switch to using a system version if
> possible, but of course premake4 isn't
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Cameron Hart wrote:
> I have been reading through the intro-maintainers page and linked
> documentation. One thing I haven't explicitly come across is renaming
> executables.
>
> The upstream Premake package renamed their executable from 'premake'
> in Premake 3.7
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Steffen Vogel wrote:
> There still the problem that the package name (sun) might be too generic
> to be included in the archive. What do you think about this concern?
I think sun is the perfect name for this tool and there is no need to change it.
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On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Raphael Champeimont wrote:
> By the way, which video driver do you use? Maybe I can test on a machine
> using the same.
intel drivers. GNOME says the GPU is Intel Ironlake Mobile.
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On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Cameron Hart wrote:
> I have contacted the current maintainer and they're OK with me adopting the
> package.
Great :)
For the rest of the tasks, see this page:
http://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers
> Does the current maintainer need to Orphan/RTA the pack
New review:
Since there were no blocking issues, I have uploaded this. It will
soon be in NEW, where it will be re-checked for legal issues before
reaching Debian itself.
http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html
Some things you might want to fix for the next version
You may want to run wrap-and-so
No response to any of the bugs and only one upload by the maintainer ever.
I would suggest sending a mail to the maintainer and CC the sponsor
(run who-uploads premake), wait for a some time (perhaps a month) and
then file an ITA bug. After that do the usual stuff; update the
package, find a spons
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Alexander Busorguin wrote:
> dualword is a foreign language vocabulary trainer. There is original
> index with words in
> /usr/share/dualword/index and user can create a copy in
> .dualword/index where user
> statistics is stored.
Sounds reasonable (and an interes
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 2:44 AM, Alexander Busorguin wrote:
> I'm working on this ITP:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=695255
>
> Is it ok to distribute xapian index with Upstream Source file?
Please include some more information about your situation.
Why is the xapian index n
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 5:22 AM, Tomasz Muras wrote:
> I'd like to package a small PHP utility that embeds a library. Should I
> package the library separately straight away? I know this is the way to go
> but on the other hand it seems like unnecessary overhead to package a
> library when it's us
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 1:17 AM, Martin Eberhard Schauer wrote:
> If I understand things right, there are at least two problems:
> - the suggests section should be changed,
> - the description should be changed.
Please report these as bugs against the package:
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Report
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 3:25 AM, Raphael Champeimont wrote:
> Well, for the moment I'm just trying to package my own program. In
> fact my reasoning was that it would be useful to users to have a
> package to install (which I put on the project website), then I
> thought it would be even better to
On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 6:05 AM, Tomasz Muras wrote:
> Is this already in place?
> I have "old" DM flag and tried to upload to testing-proposed-updates, here
> is the message I've go:
> moodle_2.2.3.dfsg-2.6~wheezy1_i386.changes REJECTED
> ACL dm: not allowed to upload source package 'moodle'
>
> I
On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Raphael Champeimont wrote:
> By the way, should I leave the previous upload entry in the changelog file,
> since it was never uploaded in Debian?
> (In the file I provide there is just a single entry for this new upload)
> If so, should the previous version be mark
I don't intend to sponsor this package but here is a review.
If you are contacting upstream as a result of this review, please
point them at our upstream guide:
http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide
This package is not suitable for Debian main yet, here are the blockers:
tpd_common/glf.* have a
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 2:29 AM, Bart Martens wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> As I wrote earlier on debian-devel [1] I have a few reports [2] about DM
>> upload
>> permissions. According to the announcement [3] the permissions "only via
>> DMUA=yes
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Chris Wilson wrote:
> I have uploaded a package to mentors.debian.net, but I have had no response
> from the system and the package has not appeared in my list of packages yet.
Chris, this is not a valid email adress:
chris@lap-x201
Please fix your mail setup a
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 8:30 PM, Chris Wilson wrote:
> I packaged the Dhrystone benchmark for Debian, as I coulnd't find a package
> for it:
>
> https://github.com/qris/dhrystone-deb
>
> And I'd like to find a sponsor to check and maybe upload it for me. Thanks
> in advance.
Chris, this is not a
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:59 AM, AllowOverride wrote:
> a. create a .deb from a directory of 3rd party paid software.
Which software do you want to package?
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On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 2:40 AM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> https://csb.codeplex.com/downloads/get/466454
> as direct link and it delivers the tarball in question after some
> seconds of delay. The line of html code that contains this link also
> contains the version number as link content so fin
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Erik Sjölund wrote:
> How should I handle this?
I would ignore it if you don't call the yy_fatal_error function.
Perhaps flex could be modified to handle this stuff better but I don't
know enough to say how.
> Maybe with an lintian override?
Overrides are discour
I guess your answers can be found by reading the XML policy:
http://debian-xml-sgml.alioth.debian.org/xml-policy/
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On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 3:46 AM, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> I am certainly well aware of the freeze policy. My remains: why do we
> have two categorization systems? What does the intended for wheezy
> stuff actually get us that is more important than the original rc,
> itp, etc. categorization? W
It is possible to target a package for testing during the freeze even
though it does not fix any RC bugs, see everthing other than item one
here:
http://release.debian.org/testing/freeze_policy.html
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On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 12:38 PM, David Smith wrote:
> With Wheezy coming out, I'm trying to help any way I can but I'm
> having some problems.
It is probably too late to fix anything for wheezy unless it meets the
release team's freeze criteria:
http://release.debian.org/testing/freeze_policy.h
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