Re: RFS: libqsi

2012-01-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Jasem Mutlaq wrote: The driver that requires this library (INDI QSI driver) is released under the LGPL v2.1. However, the library itself (QSI) is proprietary and there is no open source alternative as this is a very special purpose library for controlling

Re: RFS: git2cl

2012-01-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: My apologies, I didn't mean to be rude for not replyng - I only noticed this email of yours just now. Sorry for missing it. No probs. I reckon we can always talk first, before engaging the punishment actions. :) My action was definitely

Re: RFS: tupi -- 2D Animation design and authoring tool

2012-01-21 Thread Paul Wise
2012/1/18 Dmitry Smirnov : I'm still looking for a sponsor for package tupi. #  Tupi: 2D Magic is a design and authoring tool for digital artists interested  in 2D Animation, offering an interface experience focused on 8-100 years old  kids. It's source code is based on the KTooN

Re: GREAT news: My First Debian Package ! - vpcs

2012-01-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Alexey Eromenko wrote: Standard lintian gives me no errors, but only few warnings: ... Why so huge diff ? pabs@chianamo ~ $ cat ~/.lintianrc info=yes display-info=yes display-experimental=yes pedantic=yes show-overrides=yes color=auto -- bye, pabs

Re: GREAT news: My First Debian Package ! - vpcs

2012-01-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Alexey Eromenko wrote: I have copied your file, but now I get this: user@xrig:/vm/tmp/vpcs-0.3$ lintian ../vpcs_0.3-1_amd64.deb syntax error in configuration file: info=yes I get no such error, hmmm. Also, you should run lintian on the .changes file so that

Re: RFS: libqsi

2012-01-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 1:27 AM, Jasem Mutlaq wrote: Ok, I got a confirmation from QSI that the source code for libqsi is proprietary. They grant you the right to distribute source and binary forms of the library, but not to modify the source itself. Can this be added to Debian 'non-free' ?

Re: How to handle software which needs huge modification when packaging for Debian

2012-01-16 Thread Paul Wise
2012/1/17 Björn Esser:    - huge modifactions Get those included upstream.    - scripts to be replaced by 'debianized' ones Make those scripts generic but configurable, send the required changes upstream and drop in a second configuration file overriding the defaults.    - to be extended

Re: How mature is Pkg-format 3.0 (git), yet?

2012-01-16 Thread Paul Wise
2012/1/17 Björn Esser: I just wanted to ask how mature Package-format 3.0 (git) became until now. It is not currently accepted by the Debian archive: http://bugs.debian.org/642801 -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: RFS: shaarli

2012-01-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 6:10 AM, Emilien Klein wrote: I've worked with upstream Shaarli to fix the issue with the inclusion of the minified jQuery files. Upstream has released a tarball that uses the jQuery CDN instead of the local minified files (which have been removed from the archive)

Re: RFS: oss-compat (RC bug fix)

2012-01-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 6:19 AM, Stephen Kitt wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package oss-compat. The updated package adds a Multi-Arch declaration (#651335) and handles its configuration file according to policy (#649507, which is RC). The dsc is available at

Re: How to handle software which needs huge modification when packaging for Debian

2012-01-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Alexey Eromenko wrote: Yes, you should replace inside sources, and call it ~dfsg. In general it should be +dfsg not ~dfsg. ~dfsg/+dfsg should only be added when repacking for DFSG-related reasons, so not in this case. -- bye, pabs

Re: RFS: oss-compat (RC bug fix)

2012-01-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Paul Wise wrote: I note that the package is installable on hurd-*. AFAICT Hurd doesn't support sound or Alsa so maybe it should not depend on 'hurd' or should switch to architecture linux-any (or linux-all if that existed)? The kind folks on #debian-hurd

Re: Re-review request/RFS for current packaging of Red Eclipse

2012-01-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 6:37 AM, Martin Erik Werner wrote: Hello again, upstream has now released Red Eclipse 1.2 and hence this is partly a RFS, partly a re-review request. ... [1] Is this motivation good enough for not using stand-alone Enet? Hmm, I don't have a good answer for that. [2]

Re: RFS: nbc (2.5 th try)

2012-01-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 4:46 AM, Slavko li...@slavino.sk wrote:   Upstream Author : [fill in name and email of upstream]  * URL             : [fill in URL of upstreams web site]  * License         : [fill in] Try reading your emails before you send them. -- bye, pabs

Re: RFS: nbc (2.5 th try)

2012-01-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Tony Houghton wrote: Could debexpo be updated to fill those in? The old mentors template generator used to. If there was someone willing to submit a patch for it, I guess so. The upstream URL would be easy, but I don't see how the license and upstream author

Re: RFS: git2cl

2012-01-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: However you failed to clearly articulate the requirements you imposed on me before taking action, neither were you willing to discuss the possible solutions. I suppose that was unfair of me, my apologies. How about the following

Re: Gettext and $DESTDIR$prefix

2012-01-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Andreas Rönnquist mailingli...@gusnan.se wrote: I am making a package (which I am upstream of) translatable using gettext - It is using a simple Makefile as build system, no autotools. Is there a way to come around the necessity to get LOCALEDIR (Which is

Re: New version of autoconf-archive

2012-01-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 4:17 AM, bastien ROUCARIES wrote: A new version of autoconf-archive. At the very least you should be linking to the dsc file. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: RFS: screenkey - utility to display pressed keys in screencasts

2012-01-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote: - s/remove threading, to fix these/remove threading to fix these/, - s/problems with the threading/problems with threading/. (Though I'm not sure about the last two. Can a native speaker of English confirm?) I confirm this. -- bye, pabs

Re: RFS: drwright - aka typing break in GNOME 2

2012-01-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 10:02 PM, Savvas Radevic wrote: drwright   - Known as typing break in GNOME 2 No need to mention GNOME 2 in the short description, since the package is unrelated to GNOME 2. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: RFS: xiterm+thai

2012-01-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Neutron Soutmun wrote: It's not popular as it's still used by some group of users only. The xiterm+thai provides the TIS-620 encoding which now rarely used by Thai users, mostly superseded by UTF-8 but it's good as the later is the international standard. I

Re: How to bring life into a (Tk) package?

2012-01-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Olе Streicher wrote: I want to adopt the package tktable2.9 but I found me confronted with some problems: 1. The package name contains the version, and since the upstream version is now 2.10, I would need to give a new name. I'd suggest removing the version

Re: RFS: xiterm+thai

2012-01-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Neutron Soutmun wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for new version 1.10-1 (new upstream release) of my package xiterm+thai. Uploaded, thanks for your contribution. Some things you might want to look at: The package isn't particularly popular according to

Re: RFS: nuvolaplayer -- cloud music integration for Linux desktop

2012-01-01 Thread Paul Wise
I am subscribed, no need to CC me. 2012/1/1 Jiří Janoušek: I forgot to mention I am the upstream author and all patches will be included in the next release. I see, that makes some things easier. Done. I've added also optional header Forwarded: Author of this patch is the upstream author.,

Re: RFS: Code Browser

2012-01-01 Thread Paul Wise
One more thing that I noted but completely forgot to mention: docs/code-browser.chm is a documentation file that cannot be built without proprietary, Windows-specific software. It is not acceptable to have it in the source package or upstream VCS really. Please ask upstream to create it at build

Re: RFS: Code Browser

2011-12-31 Thread Paul Wise
I don't intend to sponsor this package, but here is a review: Regarding makefile.patch: Changing prefix should not be needed, just build/install with make prefix=/usr ... The manpage related changes should be included in manpage.patch instead. The other changes should not be needed if you are

Re: RFS: owncloud 2.0.1

2011-12-30 Thread Paul Wise
Small corrections: On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Damien Raude-Morvan wrote: - there is, yet, no tool in Debian to build SWF files from source (Action Script I suppose) : Adobe Flex SDK is not yet in main. There is mtasc, but that only builds an older version of ActionScript and is unable

Re: RFS: nuvolaplayer -- cloud music integration for Linux desktop

2011-12-30 Thread Paul Wise
2011/12/31 Jiří Janoušek janousek.j...@gmail.com: To access further information about this package, please visit the following UR$ ...  dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/n/nuvolaplayer/nuvolaplaye$ Your MUA seems to be broken, it is truncating long lines instead of

Re: RFS: qimo-launcher

2011-12-30 Thread Paul Wise
I don't intend to sponsor this package, but here is a quick review: The comment and blank line are not needed in debian/watch. debian/rules get-orig-source is not needed when there is a watch file. The source package contains a generated file (docs/qimo-launcher.1), it would be much better to

Re: RFS: qimo-launcher

2011-12-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Michael Hall wrote: The qimo-launcher.1 was manually edited after it was generated, so recreating it at build time wouldn't be easy. I would suggest removing this line then :) .\ DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.40.4. I'm not sure

Re: RFS: pgtcl (QA upload)

2011-12-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Andrew Shadura wrote:   * Add homepage.   * Add watch file. The sites you gave for these just gives me connection refused, did you test them? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: RFS: tupi -- 2D Animation design and authoring tool

2011-12-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 11:20 PM, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: Well, you can tell upstream that their provided information is not very clear.  But I found this, which contains a bit more information: ... In any case, I advise you to communicate with upstream when you encounter

Re: RFS: tkgate (QA upload)

2011-12-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Andrew Shadura wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my QA upload of the package tkgate, version 1.8.7-4. Uploaded. BTW, it is a good idea to CC debian-qa when looking for a sponsor for QA uploads. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To

Re: RFS: owncloud 2.0.1

2011-12-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 5:37 AM, Damien Raude-Morvan wrote:  - I can't find any licence for JPlayer files, for instance :    apps/media/js/Jplayer.swf    apps/media/js/jquery.jplayer.min.js In addition, neither of these comes with source code, this is a violation of the GNU GPL:

Re: dbconfig-common; repacking source

2011-12-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Christian Welzel wrote: I wonder if adding a localconf.d directory and dropping a file in there is a better way of providing Debian-specific configs. Hm. What exactly could this look like? I currently have no idea. Create these dirs: /etc/typo3/conf.d/

Re: RFS: apt-spy

2011-12-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Stefano Canepa wrote: After your previous email I contacted monit authors to solve the licensing problem. One of them replyed he has no problem if I use these three methods even releasing they code with BSD license as the rest of apt-spy. Do you think I need

Re: dbconfig-common; repacking source

2011-12-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 1:30 AM, Christian Welzel wrote: currently i try to get my typo3 packages into shape, so the new version gets accepted by ftp-masters. Here is a review of the package you uploaded to mentors.d.n recently: Why does the source and one binary package name include a version

Re: RFS: liblastfm (new upstream version)

2011-12-24 Thread Paul Wise
I don't intend to sponsor this package, but here is a review: You may want to run wrap-and-sort -s You might want to switch to debhelper 7 dh rules.tiny style. demos/demo*.cpp and parts of tests/ are in the public domain, but debian/copyright does not document that. Why is there a .qmake.cache

Re: RFS: apt-spy

2011-12-24 Thread Paul Wise
I do not intend to sponsor this package, but here is a review: Do you have a VCS for apt-spy? You might want to run wrap-and-sort -s Why did you switch from a non-native package to a native one? The debian/changelog file does not explain why. The upstream Makefile says version 3.2.1 but you

Re: commands to check stuff

2011-12-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Andreas Rütten wrote: I found http://wiki.debian.org/HowToPackageForDebian which have a section for this: http://wiki.debian.org/HowToPackageForDebian#Check_points_for_any_package Added. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Review request for current packaging of Red Eclipse (upstream release imminent)

2011-12-21 Thread Paul Wise
The Cube 2 engine is also used by Sauerbraten. Both games should share the same engine. You might want to run wrap-and-sort -s. cube2font-dbg doesn't really need to give that much duplicated detail. There is an extra space in debian/watch cube2font doesn't appear to be compiled with -g, which

Re: commands to check stuff

2011-12-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Stephen M. Webb wrote: I can't offer additional suggestions, but could you slap this up on the wiki so it's kicking around for future reference? Sure, which page would you suggest I add it to? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To

commands to check stuff

2011-12-20 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, I've recently been extending my list of commands to run after a successful build to check various things, I thought I would share it with the list and invite suggestions of other things to run, any ideas? Apart from licensecheck/uscan these are mostly about auto-detecting potential

Re: RFS: v8cgi

2011-12-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Ondřej Žára wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package v8cgi, for which I'm also the upstream author. You might want to get involved with the Debian Javascript team: http://wiki.debian.org/Javascript -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise --

Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] RFS: fonts-play

2011-12-14 Thread Paul Wise
There is a precompiled Windows binary in the source package: tools/ttfautohint/ttfautohint002.exe I note a lot of the tools refer to /usr/local/bin/fontforge, that should be changed to using env or /usr/bin/fontforge I wonder if the tools should be packaged separately since future Google fonts

Re: Overwriting binary files when building a package

2011-12-11 Thread Paul Wise
Ask upstream to remove them from their tarballs and remove them in `make clean`. -- 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:

Re: I'm looking for sponsor(s) to add my SourceForge packages to Debian

2011-12-11 Thread Paul Wise
You are much more likely to find sponsors if you give some information about what your software does. More tips for attracting sponsors in the FAQ: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsFaq -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: RFS: nuitka (2nd try)

2011-12-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 11:47 PM, Kay Hayen wrote: In the meantime, there have been upstream updates, so the version is no longer the current, but I upload them silently; I assume that these don't go unnoticed due to http://mentors.debian.net/package/nuitka anyway? There is currently zero

Re: dbconfig-common; repacking source

2011-12-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 1:30 AM, Christian Welzel wrote: currently i try to get my typo3 packages into shape, so the new version gets accepted by ftp-masters. Please send a mail to this list when you have a package ready, I would like to help you audit it for embedded code copies and sourceless

Re: RFS: anox

2011-12-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Sébastien Bertrand wrote:  - It's hardcoded to use xinit -- :1 vt8. I do not understand why this is a problem, the eight terminal should just be free (it's more a limitation than a bug). You can't assume that the user has not setup X server :1 on vt8 on their

Re: RFS: git2cl

2011-12-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: Would you please explain you decision? I think my position has been adequately explained by myself and others in this thread, but in short: Debian has made various promises to our users and the wider free software community. Among them is

Re: RFS: git2cl

2011-12-05 Thread Paul Wise
I withdraw my intention to sponsor git2cl. -- 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:

Re: RFS: git2cl

2011-12-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: I would suggest to use Section: vcs instead of utils. Changed as adviced. You appear to have missed the one in the source package section of debian/control. Fix that one and delete the one from the binary package section since that causes

Re: RFS: git2cl

2011-12-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Paul Wise wrote: Please add a debian/watch file explaining that upstream does not release tarballs and that the gitweb server used does not have the ability to export tarballs. Actually this is better: version=3 opts=downloadurlmangle=s/shortlog(.*)$/snapshot

Re: The --before option is deprecated. Use override targets instead.

2011-12-02 Thread Paul Wise
2011/12/2 Björn Esser bjoern.es...@googlemail.com: How do I use/create those overrides? This is documented in the manual page for dh. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: RFS: git2cl

2011-12-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: Thanks for handy advice. It may be nice to use tags for versioning, but I'd like to keep translated-to-date version because it is human-readable and meaningful. 2.0 doesn't say much and I'm not sure what to do if minor update to upstream

Re: RFS: git2cl

2011-12-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: Please upload as is. Current version number combine upstream tag and the date of upstream commit (which I think is not too difficult to notice) so it is immediately visible when upstream was active last time. Ok. One more thing that I

Re: RFS: pysolfc (replacement for removed package: pysol)

2011-12-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Bernhard Reiter wrote: * Package name    : pysolfc * Description     : A Python solitaire game collection A comment from IRC: stevecotton ockham: I don't know, I'm not a DD. But looking at the data files, I don't believe the copyright statements. For

Re: new package build

2011-11-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Yves Jeanrenaud wrote: I built my first package, a small binary telling you what endianness your system got. Now I would kindly like to ask if anyone would be so nice to help me out on how to submit this to the debian archives. dpkg already does that, so every

Re: RFS: git2cl

2011-11-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: I'm looking for sponsor for my package git2cl Since I use this for some upstream projects, I took a look. I would upload it, but your debian/copyright is missing 2 copyright holders from the code copied from cvs2cl. Some other things you

Re: new package build

2011-11-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 4:23 AM, Yves Jeanrenaud wrote: What package would you suggest to add it? I'm not entirely sure, but perhaps coreutils, moreutils or debianutils would be the appropriate place. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: How to suppress expected lintian warnings?

2011-11-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Ole Wolf wrote: That would be a preferred solution, but regrettably not an option. The background is that the Danish government has mandated the use of a shared authorization service which creates keys for each individual in Denmark. The private keys are

Re: Seeking mentor for CellWriter 1.3.5

2011-11-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Michael Levin wrote: GNOME Unity There is no such thing as GNOME Unity, I guess you mean GNOME 3? Or maybe you mean Unity (which is not in Debian). The problem is, I've lost the email address of my previous mentor pabs@chianamo:~$ who-uploads cellwriter

Re: RFS: flvmeta (updated package)

2011-11-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Neutron Soutmun wrote:  dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/flvmeta/flvmeta_1.1~r235-2.dsc Good stuff, uploaded. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Questions on maintaining xeji

2011-11-22 Thread Paul Wise
Don't forget to look at the PTS page for your package and fix any issues listed there: http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xeji.html The version of debian-policy it complies with needs to be ugpraded. There are a number of lintian complaints. There is one bug in Ubuntu that may or may not apply to

Re: RFS: flvmeta (updated package)

2011-11-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Neutron Soutmun wrote: flvmeta    - Metadata injector for FLV video files The package is already uploaded, but here is a review anyway: http://packages.qa.debian.org/f/flvmeta.html You might want to consider using wrap-and-sort. I think your watch file should

Re: RFS: flvmeta (updated package)

2011-11-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Neutron Soutmun wrote: Considered to not change by now as upstream accepts the manpage patch already. http://code.google.com/p/flvmeta/source/detail?r=f49070b489892d7f39e84b73cc85293987977623 You could send a patch to remove the roff cruft. Maybe, in the

Re: RFS: flvmeta (updated package)

2011-11-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Neutron Soutmun wrote: I have prepared a patch and forwarded upstream (http://code.google.com/p/flvmeta/issues/detail?id=38#c10) My suggestion was for PRIX64 not PRIx64. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: RFS: ranger_1.5.2-1 (new upstream release)

2011-11-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 12:25 AM, Vern Sun wrote: Your package has an RC bug that needs to be fixed: done.  * Python tested with version 2.6, 2.7, 3.1, 3.2 (Closes: #643782) If the package already works then you should not close the bug in this way. Just send a mail:

Re: RFS: ranger_1.5.2-1 (new upstream release)

2011-11-13 Thread Paul Wise
I don't intend to sponsor this package, but here is a short review: Your package has an RC bug that needs to be fixed: http://bugs.debian.org/643782 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ranger/+bug/879149 Your package has some changes that are not documented in debian/changelog. Your

Re: RFS: mobile-broadband-provider-info (updated package)

2011-11-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 1:08 AM, Bhavani Shankar R wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package mobile-broadband-provider-info. That is not the appropriate way to close bugs in debian/changelog, please read the recommendations in devref:

Re: RFS: mobile-broadband-provider-info (updated package)

2011-11-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: You should also consider removing the watch file - it's an Info tag when it's missing, not a warning or error. Uscan exits with a nonzero return value when you run it, which I don't think is right. A DD might be able to jump in here.

Re: Additional lintian warnings in mentors upload

2011-11-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Ole Wolf wrote: Ah, my bad. I thought lintian should only be applied to the .deb files. It might be interesting to find out where you got that impression from, so that we can prevent other people from getting the same impression in the future. -- bye, pabs

Re: Additional lintian warnings in mentors upload

2011-11-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Ole Wolf wrote: I'm sure I got the impression from some web page that provided a howto on building a package. I don't recall which one, unfortunately. Ok. Nevertheless, the reason I relied on that web page was that I find it difficult to follow manuals such

Re: leechcraft (closes ITP bug, 33 days have passed)

2011-11-08 Thread Paul Wise
While I think this package is interesting, I do not intend to sponsor it. That said, here is a review of the source package: I'm not sure it is appropriate to change the ABI names used by upstream to a Debian-specific one. If you want to change the library names that should be done upstream.

Re: Session on NEW package workflow at UDS

2011-11-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 5:02 AM, Iain Lane wrote:    + An Ubuntu document “Why Debian?” that presses the compelling case      for contributing packages upstream. We have [0], but I imagine      something more You seem to have missed adding a link for [0]. I guess you mean this?

Re: psi-plus (updated package, 40 days have passed)

2011-11-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 1:04 AM, Boris Pek wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package psi-plus. Have you contacted your previous two sponsors for this package? Dmitry E. Oboukhov un...@debian.org Eugene V. Lyubimkin jac...@debian.org -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise --

Re: uhub (closes ITP bug, 40 days have passed)

2011-11-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 1:32 AM, Boris Pek wrote: uHub is a server software for Advanced Direct Connect protocol wich uses by client's software like linuxdcpp or eiskaltdcpp (these packages are present in Debian repo for a long time). I'm not interested in this protocol or this package, but in

Re: eiskaltdcpp (updated package)

2011-11-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 2:52 AM, Boris Pek wrote: Package was uploaded to m.d.n almost month ago (09 Oct 2011). And nobody interested to upload it in Debian. So I make this request. Please contact your previous sponsors: Stefano Rivera stefa...@debian.org Dmitry E. Oboukhov un...@debian.org

Re: documentation conflict --unified-reject-files

2011-11-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Paul Elliott wrote: Which is correct? Obviously both. -- 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:

Re: mentors.d.o

2011-11-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On this specific point, have you discussed the matter with DSA yet? I'd be very useful to know if they have technical objections on adopting the maintenance of the service or not. The site is currently maintained by Debian members and

Re: package errors requiring human judgment to detect?

2011-10-31 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Paul Elliott wrote: Does anyone have a list of the most common errors that can not be caught by lintian because they require human judgment to detect? http://mentors.debian.net/intro-reviewers

Re: start mysqld from debian/rules?

2011-10-31 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote: No, it will not. See bug #568897. I stand corrected. Ugh. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: RFS: yubiserver (new package in Debian)

2011-10-30 Thread Paul Wise
What does this provide that is not provided by yubikey-server-c? -- 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:

Re: start mysqld from debian/rules?

2011-10-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 6:04 AM, Cédric Boutillier wrote: I was wondering what would be the best way to start (and possibly stop) the mysql server from the debian/rules makefile. Could anyone help me on this? Run mysqld from debian/rules? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise --

Re: start mysqld from debian/rules?

2011-10-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: Also, remember to use the BUILD_OPTIONS to have the test suite be disabled in case we don't want to run them. That's a Debian policy requirement. So you'll also need something like that in your debian/rules: ifeq (,$(findstring

Re: RFS: l2tp-ipsec-vpn (updated package)

2011-10-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Kilian Krause wrote: Hi Werner, On Sat, 2011-10-22 at 22:02 +0200, Werner Jaeger wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.0.1-2 of my package l2tp-ipsec-vpn. [...]

Re: berlios closing; where should my projects escape to?

2011-10-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: I also think that Bazaar is easy enough to learn for both experienced and inexperienced developers/dvcs users.  I can't think of a single contributor to e.g. GNU Mailman or python-mode.el that has told me they won't contribute just because

Re: dh --parallel (was: Re: RFS: lebiniou)

2011-10-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 2:47 AM, Joey Hess wrote: Only after reading debhelper's bug logs where the decision was researched and made to not --parallel by default, please. I was not able to find such a bug, could you point it out please? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To

Re: Time delay between RFS messages

2011-10-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Arno Töll wrote: Which FAQ do you mean? I admit, there is room for improvement left on mentors.d.n. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsFaq Yes, my pending change on mentors.d.n will outline the role of sponsors and emphasize communication channels between

Re: dh --parallel (was: Re: RFS: lebiniou)

2011-10-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Adam Borowski wrote: I really wonder why it's not debhelper's default.  I understand, it can break old packages with buggy makefiles, but it'd be nice to have --parallel both in the examples and as compat 9 default. ... 1. let's change all dh

Re: Upstream changelog name change

2011-10-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Ole Streicher wrote: my upstream package has a file CHANGELOG which does not get installed by default. When I just include this file name into debian/docs, lintian complains about wrong-name-for-upstream-changelog. Is there a simple way to rename this file?

Re: dh --parallel (was: Re: RFS: lebiniou)

2011-10-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Tony Houghton wrote: I agree, but there's another big problem: autoconf. It runs far more tests than most projects need (especially when using glib which takes care of a large range of compatibility issues for you), and each run takes longer than the actual

Re: RFS: lebiniou (already in Debian, new upstream version 3.12)

2011-10-16 Thread Paul Wise
You might want to use dh --parallel. You might want to run wrap-and-sort on debian/control to have a more diffable control file. For debian/menu you would have to do it manually though. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Dependency on lib32foo vs libfoo on amd64

2011-10-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 4:21 AM, Igor Pashev wrote: I'm building a package with: 64-bits app (foo), 64-bits lib (libfoo) and 32-bits lib (lib32foo). Please use multiarch instead of doing that. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: dput failure to mentors.debian.net

2011-10-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Liang Guo bluestonech...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Arno Töll deb...@toell.net wrote: 01:10:08,161 ERROR [debexpo.importer.3192] Rejected: You are not uploading to one of those Debian distributions: oldstable stable unstable experimental

Re: needs a sponsor column in m.d.n

2011-10-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Arno Töll deb...@toell.net wrote: just don't display it where it is implied the package needs a sponsor (e.g. on the start page)? This. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: RFS: screenkey - utility to display pressed keys in screencasts

2011-10-07 Thread Paul Wise
This depends on python-gtk2, which has been obsoleted upstream by python-gobject and the GObject introspection therein: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.gtk%2B.python/15449 -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: RFS: hunspell-ru

2011-09-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Dmitry Kurochkin wrote: hunspell-ru - Russian dictionary for hunspell If you don't get any response here, you might want to try the Debian Russian community: http://www.debian.org/international/Russian -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To

Re: RFS: slashtime

2011-09-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 4:36 AM, Guillaume Mazoyer wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package slashtime. In future you should probably CC the debian-java list on RFS mails, since your packaging is maintained in their SVN repository. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To

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