Re: RFS: alure (updated package)

2011-04-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Tobias Hansen tobias.han...@physik.uni-hamburg.de wrote: Here's what you said: (08:04:51) pabs: BigMc: since alure is a library, I suggest that you read libpkg-guide to get familiar with packaging libraries (08:05:23) pabs: libpkg-guide does recommend

Re: RFS: alure (updated package)

2011-04-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Tobias Hansen tobias.han...@physik.uni-hamburg.de wrote: Paul Wise suggested it, referencing the Debian Library Packaging guide. He also said it's no problem because no program in Debian is using alure yet. I thought I said that libpkg-guide was wrong about

Re: RFS: 0ad

2011-04-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Vincent Cheng vincentc1...@gmail.com wrote: Hmmm, I've never thought of porting 0 A.D. to an entirely different JS engine as an option. Is V8's API relatively stable compared to Spidermonkey? V8's ABI looks very unstable, not sure about the API. I am not

Re: introduction

2011-04-11 Thread Paul Wise
Nothing appears to be depending on those libraries so there is nothing blocking their removal. -- 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: env[HOME] issues

2011-04-11 Thread Paul Wise
The issue seems to be in your upstream's setup.py, not in debhelper as you suggest. You cannot rely on a home directory being present on the buildds and should not write anything to it if it exists. The correct fix in this case would to be send upstream a patch so that it building does not touch

Re: RFS: 0ad

2011-04-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Vincent Cheng vincentc1...@gmail.com wrote: Oops, don't know why I broke off mid-sentence like that. My point was that porting 0 A.D. to work with newer versions of Spidermonkey seems to be a lot of work for very little gain and lots of opportunities for

Re: RFC/RFS: hg-fast-export

2011-04-10 Thread Paul Wise
The git-remote-hg project seems like a much more natural way to interact with remote hg repositories. I saw some evidence on the git list and wiki that git-remote-foo is the way forward for foreign VCS support in git. There was even a GSoC project to get git-remote-svn into git. No idea about when

Re: RFC/RFS: hg-fast-export

2011-04-09 Thread Paul Wise
I have a few hg (and bzr etc) repos that I'd prefer to interact with through git so I might be a candidate for sponsoring this. Is there no git-svn style way to interact with hg repos through git? Having a separate hg repo that I have to deal with is a bit sub-optimal, I'd prefer a hypothetical

Re: RFS: 0ad

2011-04-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Vincent Cheng vincentc1...@gmail.com wrote: Similar to why 0 A.D. needs libenet 1.2; Philip explained earlier that 0 A.D. needs a specific version of Spidermonkey (1.8.5) in order to maintain compatibility, since it uses advanced Spidermonkey features and users

Re: RFS: 0ad

2011-04-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Vincent Cheng vincentc1...@gmail.com wrote: - package libenet1.2, and replace 0ad's build dependency on libenet-dev with this new package I'd prefer to have only one version of enet in Debian, but I understand the reasoning here (protocol incompatibility). -

Re: Upstream ChangeLog in PDF documentation

2011-04-07 Thread Paul Wise
Personally I would do one of the following, in decreasing order of preference. You might find that whatever the PDF is built from is easier to convert to plain text than the PDF itself. Check in the Title/Producer/Creator fields of the PDF for some hints on what might be the source code for the

Re: RFS: ardesia

2011-04-07 Thread Paul Wise
ardesia is already in Debian and is maintained by TANIGUCHI Takaki tak...@debian.org, I would suggest that you contact him if you want to help maintain it. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: RFS: ardesia

2011-04-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Andrea Gelmini andrea.gelm...@gmail.com wrote:   Shame on my I didn't check Debian repo before packaging (anyway,   it has been a good learning way). Always a good idea to check the archive first, as well as checking and filing WNPP bugs:

Re: data has a longer lifetime than libraries that read the data;What package should own the data directory?

2011-04-07 Thread Paul Wise
I would suggest you should simply create a package called swe-data (or similar) that contains the requisite data in /usr/share/swe (or similar). If the swe upstream source is the place where that data is maintained, then the swe-data package should be built out of the swe source package. If the

Re: RFS: 0ad

2011-04-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Philip Taylor exc...@gmail.com wrote: My main concern is that that wouldn't provide sufficient consistency - different versions of Freetype, or the same version with different configuration (bytecode interpreter, autohinter, etc), might render the same font

Re: RFS: 0ad

2011-04-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Vincent Cheng vincentc1...@gmail.com wrote: Just for clarification: mentors, if there are files in the source package that are unused during a build of that package (in this case, fonts), and not installed by the package, do I still need to document them in

Re: RFS: ipt-netflow

2011-04-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Alexey Osipov si...@lerlan.ru wrote: As I know, upstream never tried to merge it into mainline. Thats a shame, please suggest it to them. Will this deny inclusion of my packet into Debian? No. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To

Re: RFS: wmmixer

2011-04-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Michelle Konzack wrote: Create an account on m.d.o and then create a config file of [ '~/.dupload.conf' ]--- package config; $default_host = mentors; $cfg{'mentors'} = { No need to have this bit, the default

Re: RFS: 0ad

2011-04-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Philip Taylor exc...@gmail.com wrote: For old ones, we don't have the modifiable form (except as 3ds Max files scattered around various people's disks and FTP sites - the art process wasn't well organised). Hmm, OK. For old static meshes, we could use that

Re: RFS: ipt-netflow

2011-04-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:21 AM, Alexey Osipov wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package ipt-netflow. ... ipt-netflow - netfilter target which sends traffic statistics via NetFlow ipt-netflow-dkms - netfilter target which sends traffic statistics via NetFlow (dkms source) This seems

Re: Bizzar error with dpkg-buildpackages

2011-04-04 Thread Paul Wise
Please re-post your message with English in the warning/error messages: http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct -- 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: 0ad

2011-04-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Philip Taylor exc...@gmail.com wrote: It can be created and parsed and rendered (but not modified) by the game engine. It used to be exported by a custom 3ds Max plugin but we no longer use that (we export to Collada since ~4 years ago). It's not designed to

Re: RFS: 0ad

2011-04-03 Thread Paul Wise
Hi Vincent, (CCing you since I'm not sure which lists you are on if any, sorry for any duplicate mail) Looks like you are taking over the ITPs owned by Bertrand Marc, with his permission. Bertrand was maintaining the packaging in the games team's SVN repository, but you don't seem to have

Re: RFS: blockade upgrade

2011-04-03 Thread Paul Wise
I would suggest joining the Debian games team, committing the package to our SVN repository and maintaining it there. If you are willing to join the team, please check out our wiki pages, jump on our IRC channel, introduce yourself and we will give you a run-down of how the team works:

Re: What naming scheme should be used for the Swiss Ephemeris?

2011-04-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Paul Elliott pelli...@blackpatchpanel.com wrote: 1) How should my source packages be named?  Is swe_unix_src_1.77.00 OK? The source package name should be swe and the version number 1.77.00. 2) How should by library package be named? I am sure it should start

Re: What naming scheme should be used for the Swiss Ephemeris?

2011-04-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Paul Elliott pelli...@blackpatchpanel.com wrote: If I change the name how will people know the original name of the pristine tarball? Or be able to verify that it has not been changed? If you are using the upstream tarball without repacking it then by looking

Re: RFS: x-tile

2011-04-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 3:08 AM, Rahul Bedarkar rahulbedarka...@gmail.com wrote: x-tile - GNOME applet to select number of windows and tile them Aren't applets in GNOME going away? I would suggest not including this. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Packaging Arbitrary Files

2011-03-29 Thread Paul Wise
When asking questions it is a good idea to state what you are trying to do up front rather than asking about a specific roadblock. Packages that aren't in Debian can do whatever they want, including rm -rf /usr/share/doc, deleting or modifying configuration files, installing in /opt or whatever.

Re: upstream source also includes a .pdf without source

2011-03-25 Thread Paul Wise
Unless the PDF itself is source code then yeah Debian requires the .tex/.doc/etc file that the PDF is built from: Source missing: Your packages contains files that need source but do not have it. These include PDF and PS files in the documentation. http://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html

Re: Depends: apache | httpd

2011-03-25 Thread Paul Wise
If your package works only with apache2: Depends: apache2 If your package works best with apache2 but also works with other httpds: Depends: apache2 | httpd I don't think the other option is a good idea. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Non standard tar-ball.

2011-03-24 Thread Paul Wise
dpkg-source doesn't care what is inside the upstream tarball, it will always unpack to foo-1.2.3/ and the Debian tarball/diff will be unpacked/applied so that foo-1.2.3/debian/ exists. For info about library packaging, check out libpkg-guide but note its two deficiencies:

Re: Non standard tar-ball.

2011-03-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:00 PM, David Paleino da...@debian.org wrote: FWIW, there is a NM applicant which is working on updating libpkg-guide, helped by his AM, me and another DD. So libpkg-guide should soon be up-to-date again :) Great to hear! I wonder if it should move to the website

Re: Non standard tar-ball.

2011-03-24 Thread Paul Wise
binary, multiple binary, library, kernel module, kernel patch? [s/i/m/l/k/n] s Maintainer name : Paul Wise Email-Address : p...@debian.org Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 07:02:49 +0800 Package Name : foo Version : 1.2.3 License : blank

Re: upstream source contains .gif files

2011-03-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Paul Elliott pelli...@blackpatchpanel.com wrote: My upstream source contains .gif files that are not essential. If I delete these file and never use them, can I use this tarball as my pristine source, or must I resource? Unless they are non-free or you are

Re: upstream source contains .gif files

2011-03-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Paul Elliott pelli...@blackpatchpanel.com wrote: Never mind, I found out that patent expired Ah, the patent expired so long ago that I completely forgot it existed and didn't put two and two together, sorry! -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: On diverting an ITP to non-free

2011-03-23 Thread Paul Wise
If it is just the documentation that is non-free and upstream refuses to drop the invariant sections, I would suggest to either drop it or split it out into a non-free source package. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: FAIL: Package purging left files on system:

2011-03-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Mathieu Malaterre mathieu.malate...@gmail.com wrote: Indeed this is user data. This is a DICOM server listing for any incoming dataset. The user is created in the postinst file, with: It is hard to know without knowing more about DICOM, but it sounds like the

Re: ubuntu keyring?

2011-03-17 Thread Paul Wise
We have emdebian and DebianEdu keyrings in Debian, there is no reason someone couldn't upload the Ubuntu keyring to Debian. Seems no-one has cared about doing that yet though. This could be a good task for the Ubuntu portion of the DEX group, you might want to bring it up on the debian-derivatives

Re: RFS: peak-linux-driver

2011-03-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Markus Becker m...@comnets.uni-bremen.de wrote: I did not get the email on the mailing list. Luckily I was looking at the web archive of the mailing list. CCing you since you aren't subscribed. The lists code of conduct requests people not to CC unless

Re: FAIL: Package purging left files on system:

2011-03-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 1:40 AM, Michael Hanke m...@debian.org wrote: And since it might be precious data, you could also check whether the directory is empty and not remove it in this case, but issue a warning saying why it was left on the system. I tend to think that the data Mathieu is

Re: RFS: peak-linux-driver

2011-03-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 4:36 AM, Markus Becker m...@comnets.uni-bremen.de wrote: peak-linux-driver-source - Source for the peak-linux-driver kernel modules peak-linux-driver-utils - PEAK-System CAN utils Whats the status of merging this driver into Linux mainline? -- bye, pabs

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps error

2011-03-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 5:38 AM, fre...@free.fr wrote: I got this message while building a package : dpkg-shlibdeps: error: no dependency information found for /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0 (used by foo). Sounds like the code is using gio but not linking against it. Please fix the upstream build

Re: RFS: libapache2-mod-qos (updated package)

2011-03-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Sergey B Kirpichev skirpic...@gmail.com wrote: Note: this version set DM-Upload-Allowed debian/control field. Only your previous sponsors can judge if this should be added. Also I would think that 3 uploads would not be enough to judge anyones work. -- bye,

Re: Looking for sponsor or mentor for package crtmpserver

2011-03-11 Thread Paul Wise
2011/3/12 Andriy Beregovenko j...@jet.kiev.ua: I'm looking for sponsor or mentor to my package crtmpserver. .. In two words: crmpserver is high performance streaming server. It support several protocols family like: RTMP, RTSP/RTCP/RTP, MPEG-TS, plain flv publishing. You might be interested

Re: I'm the new developer on parcellite, but the debian maintainer for it hasn't responded

2011-03-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 3:53 AM, Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net wrote: I remember parcellite from a while back; as I recall I managed to reach the maintainer via his other email: andrewsometh...@ubuntu.com  That being said; the last I heard was that parcellite was being replaced by a fork,

Re: RFS: pius (updated package)

2011-03-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 7:17 AM, Luke Cycon lcy...@gmail.com wrote: pius       - Quick and easy signing of each UID on a PGP keyring What is the use-case for this? i.e. why would one ever want to sign every key in a keyring instead of signing specific keys that you have verified belong to actual

Re: upstream source with debian directory

2011-02-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Harald Jenny har...@a-little-linux-box.at wrote: You don't have some Howto lying around making going into the detail in here? I've never done it myself, searching the web for git pull pristine-tar found some things though. -- bye, pabs

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

2011-02-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 10:15 PM, Bhavani Shankar R bh...@ubuntu.com wrote: Reuploaded with the correct version number The respective dsc file can be found at: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/mobile-broadband-provider-info/mobile-broadband-provider-info_20110218-1.dsc Built,

Re: upstream source with debian directory

2011-02-22 Thread Paul Wise
If you weren't using git I would say use dpkg-source v3 which removes any upstream debian/ dir during the unpack process. With git I'm not sure but I'd be inclined to just resolve conflicts, continue the merge and maybe send upstream some patches. Now that upstream is also using git you can

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

2011-02-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Bhavani Shankar R bh...@ubuntu.com wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 20110220-1 of my package mobile-broadband-provider-info. Your version number is wrong, it should be 20110218-1 instead. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: RFS: dropbox

2011-02-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Vincent Cheng vincentc1...@gmail.com wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package dropbox. This package was previously in Debian's repositories (its former maintainer was Ivan Borzenkov ivan1...@list.ru), but it was removed due to unresolved issues with

Re: Challange for watch file creators

2011-02-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Andreas Tille andr...@an3as.eu wrote: Any hint is welcome Ask upstream to create a more machine-readable download page, probably just allowing the directory indexes on /download/ would do it. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Challange for watch file creators

2011-02-16 Thread Paul Wise
Actually, you can make one using this page: http://elastix.isi.uu.nl/about.php No guarantees they will update this page though. This seems to work for now: version=3 opts=downloadurlmangle=s/example/sources/ http://elastix.isi.uu.nl/about.php .*/elastix_example_v([\d\.]+)\.tar\.bz2 -- bye,

Re: Which files will be recorded within DEBIAN/conffiles?

2011-02-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Regid Ichira regi...@yahoo.com wrote: I have a Debian source package. By inspecting its content, how can I tell in advance which files will be recorded within DEBIAN/conffiles?  Are there documents or URLs  that discuss that question? It depends on your

Re: RFS: blockade upgrade

2011-02-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Harald Dunkel ha...@afaics.de wrote: Both options would imply to host a new source tree somewhere. Which hoster would you suggest? This is a topic I would like to bring up at the upcoming Debian games team meeting in March:

Re: RFS: blockade upgrade

2011-02-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 6:38 AM, Harald Dunkel ha...@afaics.de wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for blockade. Its a sokoban-like XWindow game. The game itself is public domain, but most of the the levels included are not. Have you considered splitting the source package in two to create

Re: RFS: blast (updated package)

2011-02-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 6:04 PM, randall rand...@songshu.org wrote: will make an update, noticed that all changelog dates are up to the second, figured that would indicate an automated way of setting the date or is it just a matter of precise manual timing? sudo apt-get install devscripts ;

Re: Seeking Sponsor for OSCAR

2011-02-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 11:34 PM, R Alemi alemi.r...@gmail.com wrote: I am seeking a sponsor to package OSCAR (Open Source Clinical Application Resources) on Debian and Ubuntu. OSCAR is an Electronic Medical Records suite I would suggest that you might be interested to join the Debian Med team

Re: Adding a symlink to a library in postinst

2011-02-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 3:52 AM, Tomasz Muras nexor1...@gmail.com wrote: This seems to be the best way to handle this but I'm wondering why is it done in postinst script. Removing bundled libraries is done while building the package (in debian/rules), I think I could simply create a symlink at

Re: RFR: lebiniou

2011-02-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Olivier Girondel oliv...@biniou.info wrote: I am looking for a sponsor to review my package lebiniou, before I send a RFS. Here is a quick review of lebiniou: lintian: I: lebiniou source: debian-watch-file-is-missing Please document your reasons for using

Re: warning: patches have not been applied, applying them now (use --no-preparation to override)

2011-02-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Mathieu Malaterre mathieu.malate...@gmail.com wrote: ifneq $(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.sub)        cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.sub config/config.sub endif ifneq $(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.guess)        cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.guess

Re: warning: patches have not been applied, applying them now (use --no-preparation to override)

2011-01-31 Thread Paul Wise
Sounds like you want to remove the patch: quilt pop -a quilt delete debian-changes-3.6.0-1 Then add autotools-dev to the build-deps and use it. If you are using dh, then just add --with autotools_dev to the dh arguments -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: RFS: piwik

2011-01-23 Thread Paul Wise
O: piwik: embedded-php-library usr/share/piwik/libs/Smarty/Smarty.class.php O: piwik: embedded-php-library usr/share/piwik/libs/Smarty/Smarty_Compiler.class.php Even if your package relies on a modified version of these libraries, it is definitely *wrong* to override the lintian warning.

Re: RFS: piwik

2011-01-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: ...overrides are about quieting lintian... gah, I meant overrides are *not* about quieting lintian -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org

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

2011-01-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Bhavani Shankar R bh...@ubuntu.com wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 20110118-1 of my package mobile-broadband-provider-info. Uploaded. Please forward http://bugs.debian.org/608966 upstream and mark it as forwarded. Please also ask

Re: Examples directory

2011-01-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Angel Abad angela...@gmail.com wrote: I would to split package in python-django-dajaxice and python-django-dajaxice-doc for html documentation. But Im not sure what is the best package to include example files, python module package or documentation package?

Re: RFS: fmodapi4.26

2011-01-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 3:58 AM, Scott Howard showard...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for looking at these - I've seen this library mentioned on Debian Games mailing lists/wiki every once and a while. Do you know of a free alternative? I see on Ubuntu RFP [1] for this library that someone

Re: RFS: gridwars2

2011-01-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Ansgar Burchardt ans...@debian.org wrote: debian/copyright says License: None, but to be included in the non-free section at least redistribution has to be allowed. While contacting upstream about redistribution, please also ask if they would be willing to

Re: RFS: biomaj

2011-01-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Olivier Sallou olivier.sal...@irisa.fr wrote: biomaj - Biological banks updater You might want to join the debian-science email list and CC your RFS there. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: RFS: Several packages waiting sponsor

2010-12-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 4:59 AM, Sven Hoexter s...@timegate.de wrote: On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 06:51:39PM +0100, Innocent De Marchi wrote: Hi, - peg-solitarie (http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/peg-solitaire) a small game with pegs. I am the upstream autor and mantainer. Looks

Re: Controlling use of 'ccache' via dpkg-buildpackage?

2010-12-22 Thread Paul Wise
dpkg-buildpackage and debian/rules should stay away from enabling or disabling ccache/distcc. It is your responsibility, not that of the packaging to enable the use of ccache/distcc. I personally enable ccache permanently like so: $ grep ccache ~/.* /home/pabs/.bashrc:export

Re: Time of a package to be processed by FTP-masters

2010-12-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 2:31 AM, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo manuel.montez...@gmail.com wrote: I won't poke them to review my package, as if it was the most important thing in the universe, before anything else.  I just wanted to ask about its status and possible review because my package is

Re: RFS: teapot

2010-12-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Yuri D'Elia wav...@users.sf.net wrote: debian/copyright mentions: and is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 3, see `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3'. can I simply write: and is licensed under the same license? Or should I write

Re: A question about svn-buildpackage

2010-12-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Qijiang Fan fqj1...@gmail.com wrote: mergeWithUpstream mode detected, looking for ../tarballs/hg-git_0.2.5.orig.tar.gz I: mergeWithUpstream property set, looking for upstream source tarball... E: Could not find the origDir directory, please check the settings!

Re: RFS: teapot

2010-12-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Yuri D'Elia wav...@users.sf.net wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package teapot. Here is a review: debian/patches/debian-changes-2.2.0-1 makes me think your debian/rules is not cleaning up properly. Please send your patches upstream if appropriate or

Re: RFS: jarifa

2010-12-12 Thread Paul Wise
2010/12/9 Daniel Lombraña González teleyi...@gmail.com: I am looking for a sponsor for my package jarifa. A review of the source package: Your upstream version should be 1.0~rc8 since that sorts before 1.0 and rc usually means release candidate. debian/patches/debian-changes-1.0-rc8-1 looks

Re: RFS: teapot

2010-12-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 12:20 AM, Yuri D'Elia wav...@users.sf.net wrote: 10-shared-fltk is a hack to force cmake use the shared libraries for debian (upstream prefers static linking for distribution). I guess upstream primarily uses Windows/etc. Would it be possible to get a cmake configure

Re: RFS: webhoneypot (next try)

2010-12-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Christian Pohl w...@pohlcity.de wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package webhoneypot. You seem to have forgotten to include the URL to the .dsc file. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: RFS: facturlinex2

2010-12-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Nicolas Lopez de Lerma Aymerich nico...@esdebian.org wrote: facturlinex2 - Gestion LinEx FacturLinEx v.2.0.0 What is the reason to put the version number in the short description? This short description tells me precisely zero about what the package is for. --

Re: Re: RFS: grub-customizer

2010-12-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Daniel Richter danielrichter2...@web.de wrote:  Also, what is BURG? BURG is an grub2 alternative which provides a similar configuration backend Hmmm, I wonder why they felt the need to fork grub. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To

Re: RFS: grub-customizer

2010-12-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Daniel Richter danielrichter2...@web.de wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package grub-customizer. ... grub-customizer - Grub Customizer - A graphical Grub2/BURG configuration application How does it handle the situation where a user customises their

Re: RFS: muon

2010-12-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 4:17 AM, Paul Rufos paulruf...@gmail.com wrote: muon - package manager for KDE muon-dbg - Muon debugging symbols muon-installer - Utility for browsing, installing, and removing applications muon-notifier - update notifier for KDE muon-updater - update manager

Re: Depositing source archive at Alioth.

2010-12-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 2:24 AM, Mats Erik Andersson mats.anders...@gisladisker.se wrote: It is exactly here that I get insecure. For the time being, i.e., as long the ITP is going on, there is no rgbpaint_0.8.7.orig.tar.bz2 available anywhere in a Debian repository, so I would like to find a

Re: RFS: qmagneto

2010-12-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Michael Tautschnig m...@debian.org wrote: (pabs, please excuse the verbatim quote of your text previously used for another RFS.) Feel free to use it verbatim or modified as many times as you want :) -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To

Re: .changes files without source packages

2010-12-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 5:03 AM, Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org wrote: Using dpkg -b directly is still not the right way to build a package. If you don't want to distribute a source package, that's fine don't distribute it. But a debian binary package should always be built from source

Re: RFS: fdclone (updated package)

2010-12-04 Thread Paul Wise
2010/12/4 Elías Alejandro eal...@gmail.com: Ok, that still doesn't tell me why an empty file needs to exist. Since it is empty, surely it has no effect on the package. Exactly, no bad effect on the package. It allows to the user make its own configuration  to avoid edit /etc/fdclone/fd2rc

Re: RFS: Dolphin Emu: Nintendo Gamecube and Wii emulator

2010-12-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Karl Goetz k...@kgoetz.id.au wrote: Don't sections 7 and 10 of [L]GPL3 invalidate the non-commercial licence additions? Depends on the sanity of the upstream. Some don't read the licenses they are applying to their works. Others interpret them completely

Re: RFS: pd-hidio

2010-12-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 7:28 AM, Yury Bulka yurk...@gmail.com wrote: pd-hidio   - New HID external for PureData Seems like this would be a good fit for the Debian multimedia team. You might like to join them to help maintain other consumer/producer multimedia software within Debian. -- bye,

Re: RFS: Doomsday Engine (or deng for short)

2010-12-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Kees Meijs p...@keesmeijs.nl wrote: I'll contact the games team and upstream developers on things mentioned above. Any tips or pointers on contacting the games team? http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Team Since this is a Doom-related package, Jon Dowland will be

Re: RFS: fdclone (updated package)

2010-12-01 Thread Paul Wise
I don't think that is the appropriate way to deal with this puiparts-detected problem. Firstly, why does the package need an empty file at /etc/fdclone/fd2rc.siteconfig? Secondly, the postrm should only remove that file, not all of /etc/fdclone/. Thirdly, your changelog entries are not

Re: RFS: fdclone (updated package)

2010-12-01 Thread Paul Wise
2010/12/2 Elías Alejandro eal...@gmail.com: Firstly, why does the package need an empty file at /etc/fdclone/fd2rc.siteconfig? This version is a fdclone customization for Debian come since 2002 and it was made by a DD. Ok, that still doesn't tell me why an empty file needs to exist. Since

Re: RFS: advene

2010-11-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 5:52 AM, Olivier Aubert olivier.aub...@liris.cnrs.fr wrote: advene     - Annotate DVDs, Exchange on the Net Seems like this would be a good fit for the Debian multimedia team. You might like to join them to help maintain other consumer/producer multimedia software within

Re: RFS: gts (updated package) - 2nd try

2010-11-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Ruben Molina rmol...@udea.edu.co wrote: libgts-0.7-5 - library to deal with 3D computational surface meshes That sounds like a good fit for the Debian science team. I would suggest that you join the team, get libgts sponsored and help out with other related

Re: RFS: alsaequal

2010-11-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Alessandro Ghedini al3x...@gmail.com wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package alsaequal. ... libasound2-plugin-equal - Real-time adjustable equalizer plugin for ALSA. Seems like this would be a good fit for the Debian multimedia team. You might like to

Re: RFS: remotepad-server

2010-11-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 6:09 AM, Alexandre Rossi alexandre.ro...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm, if the client were ported to Debian/X11 then I might like to sponsor this, since I run Debian on my OpenMoko FreeRunner and played with this air-mouse project that does something similar. You might want to

Re: RFS: remotepad-server

2010-11-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 2:27 AM, Alexandre Rossi alexandre.ro...@gmail.com wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package remotepad-server. * Package name    : remotepad-server  Version         : 1.10+dfsg.1-1  Upstream Author : Kawamoto Yosihisa remotepad-requ...@tenjin.org * URL        

Re: RFS: i2p

2010-11-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 5:20 AM, hungryh...@i2pmail.org hungryh...@i2pmail.org wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package i2p. Please retitle this bug to ITP, set yourself to the owner and close the bug in your changelog. http://bugs.debian.org/448638 IIRC I2P uses Java so I'd suggest

Re: RFS: icoutils (updated package)

2010-11-15 Thread Paul Wise
2010/11/16 Markus Schölzel m-schoel...@web.de: I sent: - Colin Watson an email with the changelog and links to the package - Frank Richter (upstream author) an email with the latest manpage-patch both without any reaction, yet. Good, shame they didn't reply yet. Although Debian is in

Re: RFS: icoutils (updated package)

2010-11-13 Thread Paul Wise
2010/11/11 Markus Schölzel m-schoel...@web.de: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.29.1-0.1 of my package icoutils. I pinged the maintainer, Colin Watson, about your upload on IRC. I would suggest that you get in touch with him via mail. New upstream versions are not appropriate

Re: RFS: sima (autoqueue MPD client, find similar artists to queue)

2010-11-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 6:12 PM, chrysn chr...@fsfe.org wrote: PYTHONPATH=/usr/share/sima/:$PYTHONPATH exec /usr/share/sima/mpd_sima.py $@ Please use this instead to avoid security issues caused by allowing python to load modules from the working directory (which may have untrusted files in

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