Re: New Maintainer Question: Upgrade to Sid?

2012-09-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Eric wrote: Now, on a related note, how would I find someone to upload my package to Debian unstable? The package already exists, but I just took over as maintainer. Bah, pressed send too early, anyway I wanted to link to these pages:

Re: vector format and freesofware

2012-09-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: Which of vector format of pic are FOSS? such as svg? The format of vector images isn't relevant, the license is what makes a vector image FOSS or not. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: vector format and freesofware

2012-09-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Ben Finney wrote: Adobe Illustrator, for example, saves its vector data in a format which cannot effectively be edited in anything else. That means that, no matter the copyright license of the resulting document, it would be disingenuous to call the document

Re: vector format and freesofware

2012-09-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Mike Dupont wrote: thanks for the tip, i did not know about that. but there is no promise that a give file will be covertable, just because it can convert existing files does not mean it will work when you need it. Indeed, just as there is no guarantee that

Re: Help needed debugging on ARM

2012-08-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Michael Wild wrote: I want to resolve a very strange build failure that is happening on all ARM architectures. The package builds some of its documentation images with asymptote, which fails [1]. This sounds like a bug in asymptote, if not then you might want

Re: Need help for watch file

2012-08-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: the watch file for the mriconvert package[1] is obviosely not working because http://lcni.uoregon.edu/~jolinda/MRIConvert/ upstream does not mind numbering its mriconvert_sources.zip sources. Best ask them to fix that and point them

Re: Handling of sponsorship requests

2012-08-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 6:06 AM, Patrick Matthäi wrote: a) How should we handle requests, where the maintainer *may* be MIA? Just for an example #658114 - a realy simple question is unanswered for about 6 months! IMO they should be pinged one more time, maybe they have overseen the response,

Re: Bug#659077: RFS for package no longer at mentors

2012-07-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Michael Gilbert wrote: So, I'm curious whether we should really think it appropriate to forcibly remove packages from mentors without any kind of warning to the package creator? The package creator does get notice of their package being removed, which

Re: modifications by sponsors

2012-07-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 5:34 AM, Bart Martens wrote: Is it OK that a sponsor adds modifications to a sponsored package ? I have done this in the past for small things. I think this is ok as long as these are small issues and they are reported to the maintainer. Is it OK that a sponsor adds

Re: uscan ends up with 500 Can't connect host:443 (certificate verify failed)

2012-07-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Andreas Tille wrote: Any idea how to successfully get the upstream source using uscan? If you are unable to get upstream to have their SSL cert signed by a CA trusted by your system, you can ignore the certificate validity by setting the

Bug#680544: RFS: muffin/1.0.3-1 [ITP]

2012-07-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Nicolas Bourdaud wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package muffin. This is the window manager of Cinnamon, the desktop environment developed by the Linux Mint team. It is a requirement for getting Cinnamon in Debian. (http://bugs.debian.org/657395)

Re: freeze policy - open requests for sponsorship

2012-07-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Bart Martens wrote: Comments on these suggestions ? Perhaps use wheezy-ignore for stuff that shouldn't be in wheezy? I guess that might be stepping on the release team's tags, so maybe setting up usercategories and usertags for the sponsorship-requests

Re: Doubt about an old ITP

2012-06-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 7:05 PM, José Luis Segura Lucas wrote: The problem is that Grive is inside the process of development and they has published a newer version than I open the ITP for (0.1.0 - 0.1.1). In addition, the 0.1.1 published version has some things that are corrected on the

Re: Queue of uploaded packages on m.d.n.

2012-06-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Boris Pek wrote: Is any problem with scripts on m.d.n.? I uploaded my package about 9 hours ago via http. And it was not processed yet. Sources are still in the directory for uploads (tested using dput). The importer was down, I've restarted it and it is

Re: How to build a source tarball that includes symbolic links?

2012-06-07 Thread Paul Wise
Thanks, I see what you are doing now. Looks like you instead should build-dep on libcpputest-dev and use #include CppUTest/Utest.h and -llibCppUTest to build against it. Weird that it only provides static libraries though :/ Tarballs should be built by the upstream build system (`make distcheck`

Re: How to build a source tarball that includes symbolic links?

2012-06-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 6:17 PM, David Lindelöf wrote: I see. So that's when the symbolic links point to something that's actually available as a debian package. However, in my case I simplified things a little bit: I actually also have symbolic links to a common, in-house library that's not

Re: How to build a source tarball that includes symbolic links?

2012-06-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 11:42 AM, David Lindelöf wrote: I'm trying to build my first cross-distribution package, but I run into the following problem. The source of my project includes symbolic links to other source trees (notably, the CppUTest framework and a library used by several of our

Re: +dfsg

2012-06-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Gerber van der Graaf wrote: As I will have to remove an entire directory, containing a module, its parent directory contains a CMakeLists.txt file containing 'add_subdirectory(subdir_containing_non_free_files)' My question is: do I have to provide a patch in

Re: Getting rid of control messages revisited

2012-06-04 Thread Paul Wise
My preference is for a plain mailing list, at least until debbugs #645974/#485697 is fixed to unbreak threading. Back to the topic, I don't mind either way since I mostly ignore debian-mentors these days. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: architechture specific depency 's

2012-05-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 5:57 AM, Bas van den Dikkenberg wrote: Is it posebol to specify  a depency voor a specific architechture ? http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-depsyntax For example I want voor hppa and powerpcspe that debhelper (= 9.20120513) is and all

Re: Can I adopt removed package?

2012-05-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 7:58 AM, KURASHIKI Satoru wrote: I want to adopt this package because I'm planning to ITP the package (rt-extension-calendar) which depends on this library. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=653301 I'm unsure that this RM means we remove this from

Re: Bug#673438: RFS: libjs-swfupload/2.2.0.1-1 [ITP]

2012-05-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:24 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: Calling it +ds doesn't express anything. +ds stands for Debian Source and is commonly used when dropping say vast quantities of embedded code copies from upstream tarballs. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To

Re: is wheezy frozen already?

2012-05-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: Is wheezy now frozen already?  Are people just wasting their time preparing packages that are going to be passed over? FYI the release team just narrowed the freeze date to the second half of June:

Bug#672430: RFS: logisim/2.7.1-1 [ITP] -- graphical tool for designing and simulating logic circuits

2012-05-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Vincent Cheng wrote: I'm looking for a sponsor for my package logisim. I don't intend to sponsor this but here is a review: src/com/cburch/logisim/file/ReaderInputStream.java is Apache 2.0 licensed, not GPL. That isn't compatible with GPLv2 but since the rest

Re: is wheezy frozen already?

2012-05-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: I notice that packages have not been taken from the queue for 3 weeks:   http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html Freezes and NEW are mostly unrelated. Is wheezy now frozen already? No  Are people just wasting their time preparing

Re: is wheezy frozen already?

2012-05-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: Can you elaborate on that a little?  The link you provided below doesn't explain the status of NEW - but Google found various things suggesting that Debian stopped accepting new packages before squeeze was released. NEW is not managed by

Re: Changing SONAME in library version

2012-05-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Olе Streicher wrote: I am the maintainer of the package cpl. Upstream just released a new version 6.0 and changed the SONAME for the built libraries from 12 to 20. So, the source now builds a package libcplcore20 instead of libcplcore12. There are a few

Re: RFS: openbox-menu package

2012-05-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:34 AM, Mélodie wrote: The link to a tarball containing the package inside a copy of the builddir: http://meets.free.fr/debian/openbox-menu-deb-package.tar.bz2 Please link to the source package instead. You might also want to use mentors.debian.net for uploading it,

Re: removing untracked files created by previous version

2012-04-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Ryan Tandy wrote: To sum up: any system that has had version 3.4-1 of micro-evtd installed is likely to contain a status file in /usr/sbin that dpkg doesn't know about, and I'm not sure what the best way to resolve this is. Sounds like a serious bug. The

Re: how to adopt a non-orphaned package?

2012-04-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: What would be the best practice to adopt the package in such case? http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/beyond-pkging.html#mia-qa -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#670195: RFS: lierolibre/0.1-1

2012-04-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Martin Erik Werner wrote: Via autoreconf you mean? I'll look into that. Yep Well the zlib is unused, (and now deleted). I was not aware of libpcl and libtut, I'll have a look at ripping those out as well. ... Hmm, I though I removed that since I found it

Bug#670195: RFS: lierolibre/0.1-1

2012-04-24 Thread Paul Wise
One more thing, the WM close button doesn't close the game (at least in GNOME 3). -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Bug#670195: RFS: lierolibre/0.1-1

2012-04-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 5:26 AM, Martin Erik Werner wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my new package lierolibre A review, since you are upstream too, I'm including some advice related to that too. I would suggest using git2cl or 'git log' upstream to create the ChangeLog file. I note many

Re: Some questions related to signing

2012-04-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Christopher Howard wrote: * I make binary deb packages available for my projects from my Web site, but I also wanted to make the deb source files available, so that people can wrap their own binary debs for other architectures. I know that they need the

Re: Help writing a watch file for rnahybrid

2012-04-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: The first question is: Why does it not find a new version at all: uscan relies solely on links and since there are no links to the tarballs, it cannot find any tarballs. you don't know a reasonable solution I might need to negotiate with

Re: RFC: Clonewise - Detecting code reuse and embedded code copies

2012-04-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Silvio Cesare wrote: The Debian Package clonewise-core (currently in the mentors archive) http://mentors.debian.net/package/clonewise-core http://www.foocodechu.com/downloads/clonewise Here is a review of the package: You should file an ITP bug:

Re: RFC: Clonewise - Detecting code reuse and embedded code copies

2012-04-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Mike Dupont wrote: This is interesting. is this related to http://www.fossology.org/projects/fossology fosology in any way? Unrelated. IIRC Fossology is mainly about looking at copyright and license information. Clonewise is for automatically detecting

Re: Upload to mentors.debina.net disappeared without a trace.

2012-04-15 Thread Paul Wise
The FTP importer was stuck for some reason, I've restarted it, it is back now and your package was imported: http://mentors.debian.net/package/libreoffice-converter Please consider using HTTP to upload since it results in immediate feedback. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise --

Re: Install a patched BLT version?

2012-04-14 Thread Paul Wise
I would suggest working with BLT upstream to get version 3.0 released so that you can depend on it. Please don't do embedded code copies or static linking (which is almost as bad). http://wiki.debian.org/EmbeddedCodeCopies -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: installing desktop file and icon

2012-04-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Christopher Howard wrote: Hi. I have source code that comes with a freedesktop-style .desktop file and svg icon. I know they need to go in /usr/share/applications and /usr/share/pixmaps (respectively). In the deb package which I am making, what should I put in

Bug#667566: RFS: expat/2.1.0-1 [NMU]

2012-04-04 Thread Paul Wise
The SGML/XML team are looking for a new maintainer for expat, if you were willing to join the team you would probably find sponsors there: http://bugs.debian.org/660681 -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: installing to the games directory

2012-04-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Christopher Howard wrote: Thank you everyone for the help. Hopefully I can get away with asking two questions in one day: I was able to successfully package a game inside a .deb; however, lintian is giving me the error:

Re: How to handle embedded javascript/php libraries in WebApps

2012-04-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Vasudev Kamath wrote: Friendica modifies the php library it is depending on heavily so it ships the embedded php library source along with it. Also it uses tinymce which is also highly modified version so If I symlink debian's version of tinymce it will render

Re: How to note the license in copyright

2012-03-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Vsevolod Velichko wrote: This header makes me think about public domain or WTFPL. However it's not strictly expressed, and neither me nor the upstream author (he's not the author of that code) is sure, how to express the copyright information in COPYING and

Re: Debian-friendly upstream best practices?

2012-03-28 Thread Paul Wise
In general, we like it if upstreams follow our guide: http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: I am involved in several projects where I am either the founder of the project (e.g. dynalogin) or a contributor with full access to the repository

Re: How to provide a helper script to be sourced by maintainer scripts

2012-03-25 Thread Paul Wise
Please refer to the diagrams on this wiki page and the relevant sections of Debian policy: http://wiki.debian.org/MaintainerScripts http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#s-maintscripts http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscripts.html -- bye, pabs

Bug#665728: RFS: peg-solitaire-1.2-1 (Package already in Debian)

2012-03-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Innocent De Marchi wrote:     - Add en_US locale (closes a Ubuntu bug     #873958). To close a Launchpad bug when the package reaches Ubuntu, you want this instead: - Add en_US locale (LP: #873958). -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To

Bug#665728: RFS: peg-solitaire-1.2-1 (Package already in Debian)

2012-03-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Innocent De Marchi wrote:     - Add en_US locale (closes a Ubuntu bug     #873958). To close a Launchpad bug when the package reaches Ubuntu, you want this instead: - Add en_US locale (LP: #873958). -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To

Bug#665354: RFS: viennacl/1.2.1-1

2012-03-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 8:38 PM, Michael Wild wrote: Oops, that's my mistake. No idea how that crept in, I'm pretty certain I don't have DMUA rights... Must have misunderstood the description of that field when I first created the control file. I will update the package at m.d.n ASAP. Both

Bug#665658: RFS: org-mode/7.8.06-1.0 [put in ITP, ITA, RC, NMU if applicable]

2012-03-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Yury Bulka wrote: * Non-maintainer upload. * New upstream release * Fix lack of odt export styles (Closes: #655652) These are not appropriate changes for an NMU: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#nmu -- bye, pabs

Bug#664847: RFS: z80dasm/1.1.3-1 -- disassembler for the Zilog Z80 microprocessor

2012-03-23 Thread Paul Wise
The package FTBFS in a clean chroot: make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/buildd/z80dasm-1.1.3/test' ../src/z80dasm -at ./test.bin -o test.asm Warning: Code might not be 8080 compatible! z80asm test.asm -o test.bin-generated make[2]: z80asm: Command not found make[2]: *** [test.asm] Error 127 --

Bug#665354: RFS: viennacl/1.2.1-1

2012-03-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Michael Wild wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package viennacl The package has DMUA on it, you should not need a sponsor. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: A Review Mentor team

2012-03-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Nathan Owens wrote: If I could vote, I would vote yes for this idea. It would probably make adding new software to Debian faster/easier. You can vote on that just like everyone else; with code: http://alioth.debian.org/projects/debexpo/

Re: Package does not migrate to testing

2012-03-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Johannes Ring wrote: One of my packages, syfi, has not migrated to testing, but I fail to see why. According to the excuses page [1], it won't migrate because Updating syfi introduces new bugs: #628243, but that bug was closed a long time ago. The excuses page

Bug#660519: Re[2]: Bug#660519: RFS: manaplus/1.2.2.19

2012-03-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 8:43 AM, andrei karas wrote: Now i not sure. For me now task add manaplus to debian, after we will see. Ok, I would encourage you to join the team and help out with other games too. For now no, but in future yes. Now server not in state for packaging, need many work

Re: Google Code and debian/watch

2012-03-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Patrick Matthäi wrote: What happened to this service? I changed all my googlecode watch files to it and now it is broken: $ dig A googlecode.debian.net +short googlecode.debianit.it. $ dig googlecode.debianit.it +short $ There is no reason to use the

Re: Google Code and debian/watch

2012-03-05 Thread Paul Wise
Here is an example: version=3 http://code.google.com/p/bullet/downloads/list?can=1 \ .*/bullet-(\d[\d\.]+)\.(?:tgz|tbz|txz|(?:tar\.(?:gz|bz2|xz))|zip) -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#662124: [Pkg-fonts-devel] RFS: fonts-lato/1.104-1 [ITP] -- sans-serif typeface family font

2012-03-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Vasudev Kamath wrote: Just forwarding the RFS to here. I've kept the source of the package in collab-maint as I'm more comfortable with git than svn. Please review and let me know if any changes are required. Please use X-Debbugs-CC next time. -- bye, pabs

Re: Proper way to depend on an icon theme

2012-03-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 1:46 AM, Fernando Lemos wrote: That would be perfect. Any tips on how to get this started? Should this be discussed in debian-devel, or perhaps debian-desktop? The procedure is listed here: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/virtual-package-names-list.txt Your

Re: Proper way to depend on an icon theme

2012-03-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 4:15 AM, Fernando Lemos wrote: [1]: http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html I think you want this spec instead since it specifies icon names: http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html If your

Bug#662031: RFS: trophy/2.0.2-1 (updated package)

2012-03-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 2:29 AM, Andreas Moog wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package trophy Uploaded. I note that clanlib FTBFS on Hurd due to PATH_MAX missing there. It shouldn't be too hard to fix that. BTW: the games team usually uses the wiki page instead:

Re: What happens when an architecture independent package won't build on all architectures?

2012-03-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 3:36 AM, Paul Elliott wrote: When that plan goes into place, will the Architecture: all be built under all the different architectures? I have a package that fails to build under some archetectures, because of the heavy duty dependancies necessary to build an

Re: Disappearing

2012-03-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 5:22 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote: I have just unsubscribed from debian-mentors. In the unlikely event that I started reviewing your package AND you feel I should be obliged to continue the review, please Cc me. I for one am sad to see you go :( Good luck in whatever you are

Re: What happens when an architecture independent package won't build on all architectures?

2012-03-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Paul Elliott wrote: The fact that a package is  architecture independent is no guarantee that the package will build under all architectures. The package can build depend on packages that don't exist for some architectures. But if the package once built under

Re: documentation for Convenience copies of code redundant regeneration?

2012-02-29 Thread Paul Wise
In your situation I would ask upstream to remove those convenience copies. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Bug#661634: RFS: fonts-play/1.002+20111215.1+ds1-1

2012-02-28 Thread Paul Wise
Uploaded. There are some warnings from fontlint, run: apt-get install fontforge-nox find -iname *.ttf -o -iname *.otf -o -iname *.sfd -o -iname *.pfa -o -iname *.pfb -o -iname *.bdf -o -iname *.pk -o -iname *.ttc -o -iname *.pcf | xargs --no-run-if-empty fontlint The one lintian complaint

Re: optional package in Build-Depends (how?)

2012-02-26 Thread Paul Wise
See section 7.1 of debian-policy for examples on how to do that (you probably want linux-any for the arch): http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Explain to me any all

2012-02-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Paul Elliott wrote: The new standard allows any all in the Architecture field. Please explain this new feature. What does it do and under what circumstances should it be used? Please read the policy section that was changed (5.6.8):

Bug#660519: RFS: manaplus/1.2.2.19

2012-02-21 Thread Paul Wise
Here is another review of manaplus: If you contact upstream as a result of this review, please point them at these two pages: http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Games/Upstream Did you intend for this to be maintained as part of the Debian games team? Do you

Re: versioning trouble

2012-02-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Three days ago I uploaded for sponsoring my package with version 2.54+cvs20120219 which obviously cvs version. You should have used 2.54~cvs20120219 instead, since that sorts before 2.54 (note the special ~ character). Meanwhile, more

Re: fastest hack-build-run iteration

2012-02-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 8:40 AM, David Roguin wrote: I'm making some changes to the evolution package and every time I want to test a tiny change I build a deb, install and run it. As you can imagine that takes a lot of time. That's why I'm asking if there's a faster way to iterate over

Re: fastest hack-build-run iteration

2012-02-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:57 AM, David Roguin wrote: Ok, but ./debian/rules binary takes a lot of time. Generating .deb files for evolution takes a couple of minutes. It'd be great if I could ./debian/rules build and run the whole thing from ./debian/tmp (libs included) Do you know any way

Re: Fwd: RFS: gcc-4.5-doc-non-dfsg

2012-02-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 1:45 AM, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: I should probably resign from Debian... but I don't feel ready for this. Once it was not easy to become a DD. And I still hope for some changes that will allow me to give more time to Debian. As for now, I hope my @debian.org

Re: upload to debian.mentors disappears without a trace.

2012-02-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Paul Elliott wrote: I have successfully uploaded to debian mentors, it has been more than 30 min. package has not appeared on list, no email message about it of any kind. From the logs it seems to have been rejected because it wasn't directed at one of the

Re: compressing .debian.tar in xz format automatically

2012-02-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: I would like to compress my .debian.tar tarballs with xz : is there a way to set up that for debuild and pbuilder ? There usually isn't any reason to do that since debian/ is usually very small anyway. If you really want to do that, the

Re: Mentors upload authentication

2012-02-15 Thread Paul Wise
I don't think that will work, since you need to be in a project to get SSH access to alioth: http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/SSH#I.27m_unable_to_Connect_via_SSH.2C_... -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: RFS: burp -- A cross platform network backup and restore program.

2012-02-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Bartosz Feński wrote: Reviewed and uploaded. Thanks for fixing all problems! Here is my post-upload review for packages uploaded without any comment: The patches seem to include copies of parts of debian/changelog, I would suggest dropping those. In the

Re: How to convince maintainer to use --as-needed?

2012-02-10 Thread Paul Wise
The --as-needed flag is a workaround for buggy upstream build systems, IMO it should not be used unless the relevant build systems will not be fixed any time soon. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Providing a non-free alternative to a free package

2012-02-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Gergely Nagy wrote: Aha, I see. In this case... well, I don't think there's a solution that's entirely satisfactory. The closest thing I can think of, is that one is called libfooN, while the other libfooN-nonfree, they conflict replace each other, and both

Re: Packaging source from a git repository

2012-02-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 8:30 PM, Olе Streicher wrote: I need create a package from a git repository (specifically libraries/sla from http://starlink.jach.hawaii.edu/starlink.git). What are the best options to do this? One of the following in decreasing preference: Ask upstream to perform

Re: questions about database installations

2012-02-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 1:13 AM, Nikolai Lusan wrote: Last year I packaged cluebringer (version 2.0 of policyd for doing greylisting and other anti spam controls) as postfix-cluebringer. In my initial packaging I used dbconfig-common to handle the database installation and configuration,

Re: questions about database installations

2012-02-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Toni Mueller wrote: Of course I can. I have just forwarded you (Paul) the mail exchange pertaining to that case that should shed some light on the initial problems, but the gist of it is that I could not get the dbconfig-common stuff to run reliably, while the

Re: sponsorship-requests and orphaned status

2012-02-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: I understand that it can take some time to get a package sponsored. To say the least. Nevertheless, when the involved package is orphaned, it would be a good idea to change its status to reflect the fact it is indeed orphaned, but also

Bug#658834: RFS: jabber-querybot [QA] -- Modular xmpp/jabber bot

2012-02-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Marco Balmer ma...@balmer.name wrote:  RFS: jabber-querybot [QA] -- Modular xmpp/jabber bot This isn't a QA upload since the package is not orphaned. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: RFS: git2cl

2012-02-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/git2cl/git2cl_2.0+git200808271242-1.dsc Apologies for not getting to this sooner. The source package you uploaded does not have a ChangeLog file in it, IIRC you were going to add that. I took

Re: RFS: rhinote (new upstream version)

2012-02-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Andrea Bolognani wrote: I’ve patched the source quite a bit, and I believe I’ve addressed all of your concerns. I’ve also improved integration with window managers by setting the WM_CLASS, so that pagers and the like show “Rhinote” instead of “Tk” now. ...

Re: RFS: libapr-memcache0

2012-02-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 4:35 AM, Bas van den Dikkenberg wrote: libapr-memcache0-dev - apr_memcache developer package is a client for memcache The dev package should be named libapr-memcache-dev instead. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: dh-buildinfo: is it useful?

2012-01-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:02 PM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: Does anyone know if using dh-buildinfo is still recommended practice or is it obsolete? When dh-buildinfo is useful and what could be a typical use case? For packages destined for the Debian archive it doesn't have much use since we have

Re: RFS: libicns

2012-01-29 Thread Paul Wise
[Not sure if you are subscribed, so I am CCing you. I'm subscribed, no need for a CC] On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Mathew Eis wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/libi/libicns/libicns_0.8.0-1.dsc You are missing the debian/changelog entry (and probably the other changes) from

Re: RFS: acsccid (New Upstream Release)

2012-01-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:33 PM, Godfrey Chung wrote: I sent the e-mail to Secure Testing Team at home tonight. Hope that they can receive my e-mail. Thanks! I've added your changes to SVN. If yourself or anyone else wants to get involved in tracking security issues in Debian, please take a

Re: Flash in debian

2012-01-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 8:38 PM, Christian Welzel wrote: what are the chances to get packages into debian main that contain (mainly) Flash code? Its mostly ActionScript 3 code which cannot compiled with tools from debian main (mtasc is only capable of AS2), flex-sdk is not in debian at all.

Re: Flash in debian

2012-01-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: By the way, do you think SVG worth attention? Definitely, historically it wasn't well supported in web browsers, that seems to be improving though. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: RFS: ipset

2012-01-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 7:24 AM, Joseph R. Justice wrote: wouldn't it be more reasonable to use 3.0.y as the next Debian stable release's kernel? I mean, sure, if many of the other major Linux distributions, the ones which can be considered as peers to Debian in terms of importance,

Re: RFS: acsccid (New Upstream Release)

2012-01-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Godfrey Chung wrote: Why do you duplicate src/92_pcscd_acsccid.rules as debian/libacsccid1.udev? I would suggest deleting debian/libacsccid1.udev and just using the upstream file. Done. I created a symbolic link to upstream file. Why? Isn't the existing file

Re: RFS: acsccid (New Upstream Release)

2012-01-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Godfrey Chung wrote: I think the upstream will use it if openct exports this useful internal function from the library and the upstream author did not want to reinvent the wheel. Please contact the openct upstream about that. acsccid is a fork of ccid but it

Re: RFS: rhinote (new upstream version)

2012-01-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Andrea Bolognani wrote: Yeah, I should probably have mentioned it, but mostly due to the fact that I’ve added Vcs-* fields — or is collab-maint considered special in this regard? Right, collab-maint isn't special here. Do you suggest mentioning the addition

Re: RFS: rhinote (new upstream version)

2012-01-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 5:12 AM, Andrea Bolognani wrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 08:54:57PM +0100, David Paleino wrote: Uploaded, thanks for your contribution to Debian! Whoa, looks like I was right: it really was a quick job for a Debian Member ;) Thank you for the upload! I always get

Re: RFS: acsccid (New Upstream Release)

2012-01-23 Thread Paul Wise
Here is a review of your package: I filed #657110 on lintian to check for commented out Vcs-* fields pointing at collab-maint (which is created by dh_make). Please consider implementing a patch for it so that others don't make the same mistake. You might want to run wrap-and-sort -s so diffs on

Re: Subject: RFS: qjoypad

2012-01-23 Thread Paul Wise
I don't intend to sponsor this, but here is a review: Patch stuff is fugly. The package FTBFS in pbuilder, I think you want dh --buildsystem=qmake and a build-dep on libxtst-dev. debian/README.source doesn't appear to be true. Please ask upstream to remove the bogus configure file or fix it so

Re: repository for packaging project.

2012-01-23 Thread Paul Wise
There was a mail about this on debian-devel-announce (which all Debian folk should be subscribed to) just today: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/01/msg6.html Then just create a new directory in the existing collab-maint svn repository (probably under ext-maint). -- bye,

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