Re: RFS: presage

2010-07-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 2:32 AM, Matteo Vescovi matteo.vesc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I don't think every package needs to install THANKS, NEWS.gz, README.gz, TODO.gz, AUTHORS since some of them will be automatically installed. Ok, I removed those files from all packages except for libpresage1

Re: Help for watch file

2010-07-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Andreas Tille andr...@an3as.eu wrote: I wonder how I might get a watch file for code.google.com working. Sounds like Google changed their HTML again, which broke the redirector too: http://googlecode.debian.net/p/freemedform/ -- bye, pabs

Re: Help for watch file

2010-07-09 Thread Paul Wise
2010/7/9 Aníbal Monsalve Salazar ani...@debian.org: I just did it for irqbalance. cat debian/watch version=3 http://code.google.com/p/irqbalance/downloads/list \ .*irqbalance-([\d\.]+).tbz2.* You'll need a downloadurlmangle too: version=3

Re: RFS: pstotext

2010-07-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Jan Jeroným Zvánovec j...@zvano.net wrote: I do not believe that the small reenable/re-enable typo (in comment!) is worth patching and I cannot make up non-existent upstream changelog, so I did not utilize the last two hints. Please forward those two requests

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

2010-07-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 1:31 AM, Bhavani Shankar R bh...@ubuntu.com wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 20100702-1 of my package mobile-broadband-provider-info. Uploaded. Please mail this list for future uploads. Some things you might want to look at (some mentioned

Re: On the Bazaar version at Alioth.

2010-07-02 Thread Paul Wise
I assume you meant bzr as bazaar was removed from Debian after etch. Sounds like NEWS.Debian is missing an entry about the incompatible network changes, presumably those came in 2.0. You might want to file a bug about that. backports.org has bzr 2.0.3. I'd suggest asking the alioth admins about

Re: RFS: presage

2010-07-02 Thread Paul Wise
Wouldn't it be better to merge your patches upstream and release a new version? I'm not sure if debian/patches/fix-shlib-calls-exit.patch is correct, shouldn't you replace exit(1) with return 1? debian/patches/version-shared-library-symbols.patch only seems to patch generated files. Is it a

Re: RFS: marave - 3rd Attempt

2010-07-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Chris rac...@makeworld.com wrote: Please review at your leisure. A new version of debian-policy has been recently released, please read upgrading.txt from it and make any changes required. Please send the manual page upstream if you haven't already. There are

Re: RFS: sunpinyin - Simplified Chinese Input Method from SUN

2010-06-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:44 AM, kefu chai tchai...@gmail.com wrote: Liang, since sunpinyin as a whole is dual licensed under CDDL/LGPL2.1 . We can choose LGPL2.1 when packaging sunpinyin, since CDDL is not compatible with DFSG, IIRC. CDDL is DFSG-compatible, but was designed to be

Re: RFS: presage

2010-06-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 5:07 AM, Matteo Vescovi matteo.vesc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Yes, exactly. That's why the upstream distribution embeds a convenience copy of libtinyxml and statically links against it. You don't need to embed a copy of it to link it statically: Another approach that

Re: RFS: mpg321 (updated package with AudioScrobbler and FFT analysis support)

2010-06-26 Thread Paul Wise
CCing you since it seems you missed my reply to your earlier RFS as well as the response to my reply: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktimazijfljvuzzq-zcxz0vfgvmk2d5zpfug3u...@mail.gmail.com http://lists.debian.org/4c26bb53.5770e70a.1d64.4...@mx.google.com -- bye, pabs

Re: RFS: fritzing

2010-06-26 Thread Paul Wise
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Re: RFS: cortina

2010-06-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 2:34 AM, Eric Baudach eric.baud...@web.de wrote: I don't think that this creates a slideshow. It doesn't create them, but it appears to be able to display them. With GNOME 2.30 I got some new wallpapers and one of them is a collection of space images that GNOME cycles

Re: RFS: tivion (updated package)

2010-06-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Angel Guzman Maeso shaka...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry for delay, I have exams that days. 2010/5/29 Paul Wise p...@debian.org On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Angel Guzman Maeso shaka...@gmail.com wrote: ... I'm unable to unpack it: ... After fixing the .dsc

Re: RFS: tivion (updated package)

2010-06-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: The desktop file should not use an absolute path to the icon, instead install the icon into the icons/pixmaps directories as per the relevant freedesktop standards and refer to it by its name without the extension. Changed

Re: RFS: halevt (updated package)

2010-06-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Marcos Talau ta...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: halevt     - Generic handler for HAL events HAL is supposed to be obsoleted and deprecated upstream: http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/hal I would suggest hal and halevt should probably be removed after the

Re: RFS: mpg321 (updated package with AudioScrobbler support)

2010-06-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Nanakos Chrysostomos nana...@wired-net.gr wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.2.11-4 of my package mpg321. According to the PTS the package has DMUA set on it, so you should be able to build and upload it yourself. To upload to Debian you

Re: Re: RFS: cortina

2010-06-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:32 PM, Eric Baudach eric.baud...@gmx.de wrote: What default wallpaper do you mean? There is no easy to use standard wallpaper changer. You can create a cron job but that's not for everybody, so I don't know what do you mean. In the GNOME panel, System - Preferences

Re: Re: RFS: synergy-plus (a fork of synergy which is maintained)

2010-06-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 3:17 AM, Nick Bolton nick.bolton...@gmail.com wrote: Indeed, we would like to merge back into original synergy, and I agree that the best way to get bug fixes to users would be to upload the package as synergy... However, our APT was denied:

Re: RFS: cortina

2010-06-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Eric Baudach eric.baud...@web.de wrote: cortina    - Wallpaper changer for gnome. What deficiencies in the default wallpaper changer? Would it not be best to fix those deficiencies upstream rather than creating a new project? -- bye, pabs

Re: RFS: flashplugin-nonfree-jack

2010-06-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Robrecht Noens noe...@gmail.com wrote: My motivation for maintaining this package is: created new package from flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound for not letting the dependencies get out of hand What do you mean by this? Does this package replace

Re: RFS: synergy-plus (a fork of synergy which is maintained)

2010-06-22 Thread Paul Wise
2010/6/23 Clément Lorteau c...@lorteau.fr: Synergy's a great tool but has not been maintained for years and bugs are stacking up. Fortunately, the good people of the Synergy+ project forked and maintain it well. Having this package into Debian (and Ubuntu) would be a relief to all those who

Re: Problem with mentors.debian.net

2010-06-21 Thread Paul Wise
Please contact the maintainers of the site, I don't think they are subscribed to this list: http://mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/contact -- 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: flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound (updated package)

2010-06-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 12:28 AM, Robrecht Noens noe...@gmail.com wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.0.svn2431-3.1 of my package flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound. The package maintainer, petter.reinholdt...@usit.uio.no, told me I could take over the package. That looks

Re: RFS: moonpy

2010-06-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 3:05 PM, teresa naturechild1...@cableone.net wrote:  Section         : games moonpy     - An open source remake of Moonbase Commander You might be interested in joining the Debian games team: http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Team -- bye, pabs

Re: RFS: presage

2010-06-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 6:06 AM, Matteo Vescovi matteo.vesc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I haven't completely removed tinyxml from upstream presage because upstream tinyxml doesn't ship with a build system capable of building a shared libtinyxml library. In order for upstream presage to support those

Re: RFS: libharu (updated)

2010-06-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Johan Van de Wauw johan.vandew...@gmail.com wrote: 1) the source package contains bindings for python, pascal, freebasic, ruby and C#. Since my knowledge of those languages is too small to support these bindings, I chose not to package them (yet). Fair

Re: RFS: marave - 2nd Attempt (Question: Royalty Free License)

2010-06-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Chris rac...@makeworld.com wrote: Per the inspection from Paul, I mailed the folks at Partners In Rhyme about the use of the audio files from the email titled: Re: RFS: marave - 2nd Attempt There was some questioning about the copyrights that they have on

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

2010-06-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Kartik Mistry kar...@debian.org wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Bhavani Shankar R bh...@ubuntu.com wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 20100616-1 of my package mobile-broadband-provider-info. ...

Re: RFS: notorious-women

2010-06-16 Thread Paul Wise
2010/6/17 benoît tuduri benoit.tud...@gmail.com: * License         : Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0  Section         : games ... - dget

Re: Asking for DMUA: Yes while seeking first sponsor

2010-06-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: The field should go away and be replaced with an out-of-band setting that only a sponsor can change. Looks like there is the possibility of changing this: Ganneff feel free to give us dak patches making DM saner.

Re: RFS: qhimdtransfer - transfer software for MiniDisc

2010-06-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 5:09 AM, Adrian Glaubitz glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de wrote: qhimdtransfer is part of the software developed by a couple of people around me within the linux-minidisc project [1]. You might want to join the multimedia team: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia --

Re: Asking for DMUA: Yes while seeking first sponsor

2010-06-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl toli...@debian.org wrote: I noticed that recently some people seem to seek first time sponsors while asking for setting the DM-Upload-Allowed: yes flag at the very same time. This isn't the only misuse of DMUA that exists, some

Re: RFS: googlecl (now uploaded to mentors repo)

2010-06-14 Thread Paul Wise
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Re: RFC: Using git/collab-maint/PET for debian-mentors.

2010-06-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Felipe Sateler fsate...@gmail.com wrote: The only problem I see is that PET does not really scale well to lots of packages, the page gets quite cluttered. So I don't know if pulling the whole collab-maint area will be of any use. I suppose that depends on how

Re: RFS: presage

2010-06-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Matteo Vescovi matteo.vesc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Paul Wise wrote: On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 5:51 AM, Matteo Vescovi matteo.vesc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: ... Right, I modified presage build system to use the system libtinyxml rather than the embedded copy. It would

Re: RFC: Using git/collab-maint/PET for debian-mentors.

2010-06-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Tim Retout dioc...@debian.org wrote:      * Maintaining packages in git in collab-maint. (I don't think we        want a separate pkg-mentors repository, because once people        graduate from mentors they would feel compelled to move away.) As said on IRC,

Re: RFS: femmes-celebres

2010-06-12 Thread Paul Wise
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Re: A lot of pending packages

2010-06-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Johan Van de Wauw johan.vandew...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps maintainers should stand up and review some packages of their peers? Absolutely. This already happens a little bit. It would be excellent if more people could do it. -- bye, pabs

Re: RFS: liboauth (Updated Package)

2010-06-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Bilal Akhtar bilalakhta...@yahoo.com wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package liboauth. Have you read libpkg-guide? You hard-code dependencies on libcurl3, libnss3-1d. Please let the shlibs mechanism deal with that. In debian/rules, I'd recommend

Re: RFS: 'snap2' rsync-based backup program with GUI

2010-06-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Norbert Preining prein...@logic.at wrote: Of course upstream can ship all necessary debian files as is, where is the problem? Then the diff would be empty, or the debian.tar.gz would be empty, and that is fine. One of the ways dpkg-source v3 differs from

Re: RFS: 'snap2' rsync-based backup program with GUI

2010-06-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Norbert Preining prein...@logic.at wrote: That is not compliant with what it *SHOULD* do. If there is a debian dir in upstream (again, anyone showing me the policy point forbidding that) then files in their should be replaced or whatever, but it is not

Re: RFS: marave - 2nd Attempt

2010-06-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 6:25 AM, Chris rac...@makeworld.com wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package marave. Here is a review: Since this is an editor and we have tons of those in Debian, your RFS and package description should detail what marave does that others do not. According to

Re: A lot of pending packages

2010-06-09 Thread Paul Wise
Firstly, 7 days is a very short period of time to be waiting for sponsorship, some have been waiting since 2006. About your two packages: autotrash: sounds like the functionality should be part of GNOME/KDE, please talk to upstream about moving it there. ardentryst: seems like a good fit for

Re: RFS: presage

2010-06-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 5:51 AM, Matteo Vescovi matteo.vesc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I am looking for a sponsor/reviewer for my package presage. Here is a review: Since you are packaging a library, I presume you have read libpkg-guide and its two bugs? You should never install *.pyc files in the

Re: RFS: xburst-tools

2010-06-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl wrote: Is there any reason qemu-mipsel isn't good enough? There was a concern (flamewar) a few years ago that doing that would result in broken binaries. I don't know how true that would be today or if it is now consider

Re: RFS: libgnupdf (updated package)

2010-06-04 Thread Paul Wise
Please do not use HTML email: http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Bhavani Shankar R bh...@ubuntu.com wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.1~20100604-1 of my package libgnupdf. Some comments: Please read libpkg-guide and its

Re: RFS: xburst-tools

2010-06-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: This part was my doing, sorry.  It should be possible to build these on mipsel (and they should probably be split out to an arch-all package anyway), but that makes it difficult for people without access to a

Re: RFS: xburst-tools

2010-06-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: Ah, so dak is the place to fix this[1]?  Very good, will take a look... Yes. I'm sure the ftpmasters would be very grateful for a helping hand there. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: RFS: xburst-tools

2010-06-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Xiangfu Liu xiangf...@gmail.com wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package xburst-tools. Here is a review: Please get the 2 patches upstream. Please add DEP-3 headers top the patches and remove the default headers. One of the patches adds a patch to the

Re: RFS: xburst-tools

2010-06-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Xiangfu Liu xiangf...@gmail.com wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package xburst-tools. Here is a review: Bah, hit send too early, sorry for the double mail. Please remove

Re: RFS: xburst-tools

2010-06-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Xiangfu Liu xiangf...@gmail.com wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package xburst-tools. Here is a review: I stopped

Re: RFS: trimage

2010-05-31 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 2:46 AM, Kilian Valkhof kil...@kilianvalkhof.com wrote: trimage    - A cross-platform tool for optimizing PNG and JPG files. What does this offer over optipng, pngcrush, advpng (in advancecomp) and jpegoptim? If it gives better compression or is faster, why did you not

Re: RFS: trimage

2010-05-31 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 2:46 AM, Kilian Valkhof kil...@kilianvalkhof.com wrote: trimage    - A cross-platform tool for optimizing PNG and JPG files. What does this offer over optipng, pngcrush, advpng (in advancecomp

Re: RFS: zd1211-firmware (updated package)

2010-05-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 3:19 AM, David Kalnischkies kalnischkies+deb...@gmail.com wrote: Most prefer no revision bump as long as it was not uploaded to the real archive, but your mileage may vary… Please say official Debian archive instead of real archive, all archives are real to the extent

Re: RFS: brewtarget

2010-05-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 1:38 AM, Philip Lee rocketman...@gmail.com wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package brewtarget. If you check the package and cannot sponsor it, please tell me how I can fix it. I'm

Re: RFS: tivion (updated package)

2010-05-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Angel Guzman Maeso shaka...@gmail.com wrote: I upload again the package http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/t/tivion/ I'm unable to unpack it: $ dpkg-source -x tivion_0.0.4-3.dsc gpgv: Signature made Tue 25 May 2010 14:14:27 WST using DSA key ID

Re: RFS: tivion (updated package)

2010-05-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Angel Guzman Maeso shaka...@gmail.com wrote: Could you check it again? I didn't check it the first time, but the version number looks fine now. Next time I do a review run I'll see if I can include it. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To

Re: Please review internal package using a lot of new tools

2010-05-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 2:21 AM, Marc Haber mh+debian-ment...@zugschlus.de wrote: On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 11:12:40AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: In dh_auto_install, does upstream's Makefile not support DESTDIR? Sadly, incorrectly. make install DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/${PACKAGENAME} places

Re: RFS: liboauth (Updated package, License issue solved)

2010-05-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Bilal Akhtar bilalakhta...@yahoo.com wrote: The upstream dev has solved the licensing issue with OpenSSL. Now, the GPL licensed files are not linked. Not quite, details in my other mail. Remaining stuff: On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 20:34 +0800, Paul Wise wrote

Re: RFS: liboauth (Updated package)

2010-05-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Robin Gareus ro...@gareus.org wrote: Well, in practice it does not make much of a difference if the program exit(1) or segfaults if it encounters an out-of-memory error, does it :) Well, a program could print an error instead of just crashing. Making the lib

Re: Please review internal package using a lot of new tools

2010-05-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 6:14 AM, Marc Haber mh+debian-ment...@zugschlus.de wrote: I would appreciate if you could comment. dh --with-quilt isn't needed if you're using dpkg-source v3 If you call dh_auto_configure -- ... instead of ./configure ... it will add --prefix for you. The test parts

Re: RFS: liboauth (Updated package)

2010-05-21 Thread Paul Wise
[CCing you since I presume you aren't subscribed, apologies if you are] On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 1:17 AM, Robin Gareus ro...@gareus.org wrote: xmalloc is GPL not LGPL so I'm wondering why upstream and debian/copyright refer to the LGPL. xmalloc is 'generated' by autotools (autotools replaces

Re: RFS: libharu

2010-05-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Johan Van de Wauw johan.vandew...@gmail.com wrote: Makes sense. So is it ok to move the (updated) long description to the -dev package and use only a short description for libhpdf? Probably yes. Obviously not everything will apply. I was randomly searching

Re: RFS: liboauth (Updated package)

2010-05-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Bilal Akhtar bilalakhta...@yahoo.com wrote: in Debian was the reasons why many app developers copied the source code into their programs. Way to get my attention! If any of these apps are already in Debian, please notify the security team about the embedded

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

2010-05-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Nigel Jones d...@nigelj.com wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.2.5-1 of my package libapache2-mod-geoip. Here is a review: ftpmaster have overriden the section to httpd, you might want to adopt that:

Re: RFS: pyrit

2010-05-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Christian Kastner deb...@kvr.at wrote: Pyrit is an excellent example of a GPGPU-driven application. It consists of a main program and optional extensions for various GPGPU technologies, such as NVIDIA CUDA and OpenCL. Do we have OpenCL support in Debian main?

Re: RFS: pyrit

2010-05-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:32 PM, Christian Kastner deb...@kvr.at wrote: On 05/20/2010 03:58 PM, Paul Wise wrote: Do we have OpenCL support in Debian main? Not yet, but it's being worked on. I've been in contact with the NVIDIA Team, they expect the NVIDIA toolkit (with CUDA and OpenCL

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

2010-05-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 7:41 AM, Nigel Jones d...@nigelj.com wrote: Once it reaches Ubuntu, you might want to get them to sync so they drop their gratuitous changes. They don't have any changes, just rebuilds. Their patch changes the maintainer and changelog:

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

2010-05-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: http://lintian.debian.org/tags/source-contains-cvs-conflict-copy.html Disappointingly, one package in Debian overrides this warning. I'm occasionally tempted to have Lintian output

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

2010-05-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: Anyway, you are the maintainer, that is your decision. Hmm, your new changelog says you enabled it but the configuration file still comments it out, did you mean to do that? Clarified on IRC, changelog entry removed. Package

Re: RFS: ctpl

2010-05-18 Thread Paul Wise
It is much more likely that no-one had time to look at it. That is certainly the case for myself. For some tips on how to improve your package, read through the archives of the debian-mentors list. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Packaging Help

2010-05-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 5:39 AM, James Stuckey jhstuc...@gmail.com wrote: I'm interested in learning more about development/packaging on Debian. I've downloaded some  source to package, ran dh_make on it, and now I'm trying to use pbuilder to create a package from it. ... I: Checking

Re: RFS: tivion (updated package)

2010-05-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 5:31 AM, Angel Guzman Maeso shaka...@gmail.com wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.0.4-0debian5~unstable+nmu1 of my package tivion. That is not the right version number. You probably want something like 0.0.4-1 instead. -- bye, pabs

Re: RFS: libharu

2010-05-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Johan Van de Wauw johan.vandew...@gmail.com wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package libharu. Here is a review: I assume you have read libpkg-guide and its bug reports? The libhpdf-dev package description should have more detail than the libhpdf-2.1.0

Re: RFS: gordon

2010-05-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 6:37 AM, Michael Gilbert michael.s.gilb...@gmail.com wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package gordon. ... libjs-gordon - An open source flash runtime written in pure javascript Your RFS mail is missing some things from the standard template. Specifically, I'm

Re: RFS: protoaculous

2010-05-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Michael Gilbert michael.s.gilb...@gmail.com wrote: Since this package is perhaps a bit weird, see the following links for more info: Weird indeed! /me hugs the web The logic for building from existing prototype/scriptaculous packages is to avoid introducing

Re: RFS: liboauth

2010-05-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Olivier Berger olivier.ber...@it-sudparis.eu wrote: Why not OAuth, as usually written in the oauth.net site instead of oAuth ? It might be a good idea to add that to lintian's spelling checks, please file a bug. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: RFS: protoaculous

2010-05-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Michael Gilbert michael.s.gilb...@gmail.com wrote: New version using triggers uploaded: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/protoaculous Nice. Various debian packages already embed this, so its better to provide a system-wide version.  Users should

Re: [attn pabs] Callflow packages RFS

2010-05-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Arnaud MORIN arnaud.mo...@gmail.com wrote: I am currently taking  your consideration into account, I need a little more time to get the package done. Great! Fair enough, take your time :) In callflow, we totally removed batik, so now only inkscape is used.

Re: Request a Sponsor for Typus Pocus

2010-05-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Facundo Batista facundobati...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 6:02 AM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: I'd suggest joining the Debian Games Team, you will find sponsors and testers there. In exchange, we would hope you could help maintain other

Re: Taking over maintaining a package

2010-05-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:38 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: snip excellent response Anything I missed, -mentors? Check the PTS page and click all the links there, looking for issues. If appropriate, check for a screenshot on screenshots.d.n and upload one if there

Re: mentors error?

2010-05-11 Thread Paul Wise
2010/5/11 Tang Ke ta...@lemote.com: when I upload the packages to mentors, I can't get reply messages. why? maybe mentors is crashed? Looks like the daemon processing packages is down, everyone's packages are still in the upload queue: ftp://mentors.debian.net BTW: this list is not for

Re: RFS: hivex

2010-05-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:29 PM, TJ deb...@tjworld.net wrote: As a matter of interest, would you mind sharing the lintian commands you use since it is still something of a mystery to me. I use one command against the source package but I'm guessing now you're running it against each binary

Re: RFS: drraw (updated package)

2010-05-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 1:57 AM, Mohammad Ebrahim Mohammadi Panah ebra...@mohammadi.ir wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.2b2-2 of my package drraw. I can't commit to sponsoring, but here is a review: You can drop the patch/unpatch dependencies from debian/rules. You can

Re: RFS: hivex

2010-05-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 5:50 PM, TJ deb...@tjworld.net wrote: I've uploaded 1.2.2-1 to mentors. This version is based on the new upstream release that incorporates various changes to fix issues discovered during Debian packaging. Looks like some symbols dissappeared from libhivex0, which now

Re: Update projectM packages

2010-05-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 11:27 PM, Matthias Klumpp matth...@nlinux.org wrote: I recently repackaged the projectM music visualization libraries. Debian has version 1.2 at time, current upstream is 2.0.1. Now I have the following problem: My source package projectm would replace the libprojectm

Re: RFS: NMU goocanvas (updated package)

2010-05-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 3:58 AM, Jeffrey Ratcliffe jeffrey.ratcli...@gmail.com wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.15-0.1 of my package goocanvas. It generally isn't appropriate to NMU a new upstream version. You might want ping the maintainer directly and to report them as

Re: RFS: nsis-2.46-2 [attn: pabs]

2010-05-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 5:11 AM, Thomas Gaugler tho...@dadie.net wrote: I'd like to update the NSIS Debian package to version 2.46-2. Uploaded. Nice work on the upstream improvements. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: RFS: xserver-xorg-video-qxl

2010-05-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Liang Guo bluestonech...@gmail.com wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package xserver-xorg-video-qxl. I'm not doing any additional sponsoring, but here is a quick review: sed -i -e s/SPICE-compitable/SPICE-compatible/ debian/control Should XSF packages

Re: RFS: gdisk (updated package)

2010-05-02 Thread Paul Wise
2010/5/3 Guillaume Delacour g...@iroqwa.org: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.6.7-1 of my package gdisk. I'm not sponsoring extra packages at the moment, nor do I have GPT hardware, but here is a review: You should never ever manually add dependencies on a library, always

Re: RFS: gflags

2010-04-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Ehren Kret ehren.k...@gmail.com wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package gflags. I'm not sponsoring, but here is a review: You can remove the boilerplate from debian/rules. The upstream README doesn't add any useful information, no need to ship it.

Re: perl cgi location

2010-04-28 Thread Paul Wise
Using /var/www/ is an FHS violation, so no you cannot use it in a Debian package. Please work with upstream to make it work no matter where it is installed. Much software in Debian has a build-time configured prefix, not sure if that is possible with perl cgis? You should also not assume anything

Re: RFS: nglogc

2010-04-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Dennis Krzyzaniak ebros...@netgarage.org wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the version 1.0.0-1 of my package nglogc. I'm not sponsoring at the moment, but here is a review. I can't find the source code ( build scripts) for doc/nglogc_manual.pdf, you might

Re: RFS: ne (updated package)

2010-04-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Julián Moreno Patiño darkju...@gmail.com wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.1-1 of my package ne. I'm not sponsoring at the moment, but here is a review: You adjusted the conflicts/replaces but didn't mention why in debian/changelog. The

Re: RFS: dia2code (updated package)

2010-04-26 Thread Paul Wise
2010/4/24 francescoaloe4gnuli...@gmail.com francescoaloe4gnuli...@gmail.com: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.8.3-5 of my package dia2code. Looks like Bart Martens already sponsored this. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: RFS: mygui

2010-04-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Ihor Kaharlichenko ce...@mifprojects.com wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package mygui. I'm not sponsoring additional packages right now, but here is a review: You might want to join the Debian Games team to help maintain games and related packages:

Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in post inst?

2010-04-24 Thread Paul Wise
Why do you want to do this? -- 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: [attn pabs] Callflow packages RFS

2010-04-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Arnaud MORIN arnaud.mo...@gmail.com wrote: I just uploaded Callflow package on mentors.debian.net I am now looking for a sponsor (Paul Wise?) to check the package. A review: mentors.d.n has a template that people usually use when sending RFS mails

Re: Subject: RFS: conquest

2010-04-23 Thread Paul Wise
You don't seem to have joined the Debian Games Team and updated the SVN repository. I'd suggest joining the Debian Games Team, you will find sponsors and testers there. In exchange, we would hope you could help maintain other games in Debian. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise --

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