On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 6:21 AM, Josue Abarca jmasli...@debian.org.gt wrote:
It seems that the symbols where supposed to be internal originally
but they are documented[0] and used by denemo[1][2] (my another ITA)[2].
Which could be the right way to proceed in this case?.
1. Keep it as is
I personally skipped over your packages due to of lack of time and
because they are related to PHP.
Also, the debian-mentors FAQ has some good advice for attracting sponsors:
http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html
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On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Jonathan Niehof jtnie...@gmail.com wrote:
Suggestions on the best approach (or a 5?) Upstream seems dormant, so
convincing them to switch to automake is probably not on the agenda.
If it is a sf.net project there is a procedure to take over the
project. If it is
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.
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A review:
The first 3 symbols in the symbols file look like they might be
internal symbols that should not be exported, is that the case?
http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Visibility
The SONAME should not be added to the -dev or utils packages. I'd
recommend naming the utils package smf-utils
Why does
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 5:02 AM, Josue Abarca jmasli...@debian.org.gt wrote:
Why does the -dev package depend on libc-dev?
...
Is this wrong (or deprecated)?
No, I was just trying to clarify it, since I wasn't aware of that suggestion.
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I dislike the duplication and the iceweasel/mozilla style license[1].
That said it is not my role to decide about uploading ttf-takao or
removing otf-ipafont.
It is a shame IPA doesn't use standard FLOSS practices like releasing
early and often.
1. I also dislike DFSG #4 a lot. At least it
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Jun Kobayashi jk...@ubuntu.com wrote:
If there are any changes, the name must be changed. So no patches are
permitted with the name IPA Font.
This is stated in Article 3 of IPA Font License:
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ipafont.html
Josselin Mouette
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 11:03 PM, jmroth+...@iip.lu wrote:
Also, performing repackaging INSIDE debian/rules should be avoided, I
guess.
Actually a debian/rules get-orig-source target is one of the more
common ways to repack the upstream source to create an orig.tar.gz
where nessecary. There
Do we really need two versions of the same font in Debian? Would it
not be better for you to work with otf-ipafont upstream and get your
changes added there?
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The patches do not get applied when unpacking the source package, you
are missing a debian/patches/series file.
Since you are patching Makefile.am files, you need to run automake and
clean up afterwards.
In addition, if you can, please be more specific with the forwarded
field in patches. I
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Jun Kobayashi jk...@ubuntu.com wrote:
If we are permitted to patch the IPA Fonts itself or the upstream is
open and release fixed version quickly considering our request, it's
better to work with the upstream and make IPA Fonts better.
Since the package is in
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Mats Erik Andersson
mats.anders...@gisladisker.se wrote:
That leaves __one_single__ file (oftpd-0.3.7/COPYING) expressing a
claim of copyright. The text is below reproduced verbatim. As far
as I can understand the text there seems to yield no possiblility to
Without having more details, I'm thinking you need to work with
upstream to make their source code more useful out of the box.
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A review of your package:
copyright-questions.txt and ubuntu-bug-report-needs-packaging.txt
probably aren't needed in the source package
Why do you override the maintainer-not-full-name lintian complaint?
Please send the patches upstream. If you've already done that, please
document that using
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Andreas Ronnquist gus...@gusnan.se wrote:
I am looking for a sponsor for my SciteProj package:
...
The upload would fix these bugs: 513231.
Your subject indicates this is an updated package, but it isn't yet in
the archive, please don't do the same in future
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:54 PM, jon j...@foretruss.com wrote:
As noted in the previous email, I would like to become a maintainer for this
package, but am painfully unaware of the steps/protocols to do so.
Can I please have some help?
Check out these links:
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:01 AM, Jan Hauke Rahm j...@debian.org wrote:
*Any* package installing files into /var/www violates FHS/policy as
that's the web root for the system admin, not the maintainer. Thus the
changes in the package here and the moving around of old files in
postinst.
2010/3/28 Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br:
Dear Joachim,
On Mar 28 2010, Wuttke, Joachim wrote:
$ cat rules
#!/usr/bin/make -f
# -*- makefile -*-
%:
dh $@
If these arcane lines must be modified, I would be most
grateful for help -
You are correct that these lines may be
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Adam Cécile (Le_Vert)
gand...@le-vert.net wrote:
I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 3.3.1-1
of my package ophcrack.
I'm not doing any additional sponsoring, but here is a review:
Please forward the .desktop file and manual pages upstream if you
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Adam Cécile (Le_Vert)
gand...@le-vert.net wrote:
I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.12.1-1
of my package picard.
I'm not doing any additional sponsoring at the moment, but here is a review:
Please send the manual page upstream if you haven't
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote:
I'm not doing any additional sponsoring at the moment, but here is a review:
In addition, the package FTBFS for me, looks like you are missing some
build-dependencies:
dh_installdirs
# Let's create some icons
mkdir -p /tmp
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.
I looked at your tarball and have the following comments:
A normal tarball would contain a typuspocus-1.2.3 directory, but yours
contains
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org wrote:
I hope my recent updats on maint-guide (in subversion) should help it.
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/index.en.html
Your feed back is most welcomed.
Looks like some part of the HTML generation is broken:
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 6:43 AM, Michael Lustfield
mtecknol...@ubuntu.com wrote:
I am looking for a sponsor for my package lal.
As promised on IRC, here is a review:
Please forward the Makefile patch upstream if you haven't yet done so.
In the upstream Makefile you should remove the / from
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Paul Tagliamonte paul...@ubuntu.com wrote:
I added myself as requesting a GPG signature in the Cleveland area
from a DD ( the only thing holding me back from starting the new
maintainer process ) and really felt that I gave it due discourse (
the wiki, front
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 2:03 AM, Joachim Wiedorn ad_deb...@joonet.de wrote:
How is the actual status of using the DM-Upload-Allowed field/bit?
Initially the plan was for DMUA to be set on package X only by sponsor
Y after they are satisfied with the quality of uploads of package X by
maintainer
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Bernardo Damele A. G.
bernardo.dam...@gmail.com wrote:
I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.8-1 of my package sqlmap.
Here is a review:
Please read upgrading-checklist.txt from debian-policy and do the
steps needed to comply with the changes policy
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 7:05 AM, Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net wrote:
You may want to join or/and ask Debian's Java team[1] about the java
packages - they will (also) be far better equipped for java specific
questions than the general mentors list (and can provide sponsors for
java
Here is a review:
Please remove the defoma stuff and clean up the resulting obsolete
conffiles. Please note that the x-ttcidfont-conf instructions in
README.Debian will then be incorrect and should be removed. You can
find examples of how to do this in the pkg-fonts team SVN repository.
We're
Same comments as for ttf-isabella, some extras:
Please replace PfaEdit with FontForge, the renaming was a long time ago.
Typo in debian/changelog: s/Standarts-Version/Standards-Version/
debian/patches/debian-changes-0.04-4 looks like you forgot to clean up
a file produced by the build process?
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net wrote:
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:23:25AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
Dominik George d...@naturalnik.de (26/02/2010):
OK, as it is done in postinst, there does not seem to be a
difference to my current chown setup.
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 10:47 -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
FWIW, I don't create the tarballs. Perhaps we could ask Johannes to
do something in his scripts that create them? Beyond that I don't
see much point in checking-in a ChangeLog.
It definitely shouldn't be checked into git, but rather
On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 04:44 +0200, Faidon Liambotis wrote:
Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
Can you guys upstream a package into Debian with a gitweb URL reference?
If I'm understanding the question correctly, yes. We have Vcs-$VCS (i.e.
Vcs-Git) and Vcs-Browser pseudo-headers. Both are optional.
2010/3/1 Hideki Yamane henr...@debian.or.jp:
It could be renamed but, in spec, OpenType font has its extension either .otf
or .ttf, both of Okay.
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/otff.htm
Fonts containing TrueType outlines may have either .OTF or .TTF, depending on
the desire for
On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 23:59 +0200, Faidon Liambotis wrote:
I'm a member of pkg-wpa-devel and I've been sponsoring Kel for almost 4
years. I have absolute trust in him and I've even offered to advocate
him to the NM process multiple times.
I'd definitely agree with your assessment here and
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Dominik George d...@naturalnik.de wrote:
The preinst script creates a system user, and this is the user the scripts
should be owned by (they will be called from a somewhat more complicated
environment, for now, it's easier if you trust me that this is the way
2010/2/17 Elías Alejandro eal...@gmail.com:
Hi Christoph,
At least I don't consider this package as long as the preinstal
does a find over all home directories. Messing in user's home
directories isn't nice and find can take *really* *long*.
I'm agree with the isn't nice, but how can I keep
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Nicolas Alvarez
nicolas.alva...@gmail.com wrote:
Paul Wise wrote:
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 4:23 AM, Leo costela Antunes
cost...@debian.org wrote:
Putting my money where my mouth is: done.
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsFaq
I just realised that what you
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 4:23 AM, Leo costela Antunes
cost...@debian.org wrote:
Putting my money where my mouth is: done.
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsFaq
Changing the URL for that FAQ needs:
Matthew to be willing to edit and maintain the new URL. Some people do
not like using Debian's
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 4:23 AM, Leo costela Antunes
cost...@debian.org wrote:
Putting my money where my mouth is: done.
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsFaq
I just realised that what you have just done violates the license of
Matthew's document. Please read the copyright / license section
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Scott Howard showard...@gmail.com wrote:
I recently adopted the eagle package, and with the help of the
previous maintainer was able to upload a new version (I've received
multiple requests through BTS and direct contact asking for this
version from users). My
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Anton Martchukov an...@martchukov.com wrote:
I am looking for a sponsor for my package opencpn.
Some comments on the debian.tar.gz part of the source package:
Standards-Version is out of date, please read the upgrading document
and make any changes appropriate.
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Anton Martchukov an...@martchukov.com wrote:
Btw, I noted that most of the packages supply icons to
/usr/share/pixmaps, but some less amount to /usr/share/icons
like in case with OpenCPN. Is there any difference between
those folders, maybe it's better to fix
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote:
I'll take a closer look at the package when I'm on a Debian system.
I took a much closer look at the package and in summary; I'd really
like to sponsor this package but it needs a lot of work upstream,
especially in the copyright
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 4:38 AM, Asheesh Laroia ashe...@asheesh.org wrote:
First of all, you've made it a native package.
http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html covers that.
Debian etiquette prefers that you separate your packaging metadata
(debian/*) from the rest of the
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Thomas Weber
thomas.weber.m...@gmail.com wrote:
In order to not screw up too badly, I'm looking for documentation on
developing/packaging libraries (both from a developer's view and a
maintainer's view).
libpkg-guide is the only public one I know of. dato was
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 3:02 AM, Justin Azoff jaz...@uamail.albany.edu wrote:
If you build the package twice in a row the following extra files end
up in the diff.gz:
capstats-0.12/config.h.in
capstats-0.12/aclocal.m4
capstats-0.12/configure
capstats-0.12/Makefile.in
ah.. I've been using
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Mats Erik Andersson
mats.anders...@gisladisker.se wrote:
It is Webfs, for its purpose a useful web server, but the present
versions of Gcc emit warnings due to inconsistent string types.
Ah, looks like upstream doesn't use a hosting service like sf.net. If
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 5:25 AM, Eric Lavarde d...@zorglub.s.bawue.de wrote:
I fear I know the (negative) answer, but perhaps I missed something: I have
one source package which creates a library and an application, where each
has its own (different) version.
The logical approach would be to
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Leandro Doctors ldoct...@gmail.com wrote:
Info about the proper procedure in order to get your package included
in Debian can be found at:
Also see the debian-mentors FAQ:
http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html
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On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Mats Erik Andersson
mats.anders...@gisladisker.se wrote:
I am in the process of fulfilling an ITA filed on an orphaned package.
However, I now experience a desire to begin patching the upstream
source for compiling errors and spelling errors in the manual page.
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Mats Erik Andersson
mats.anders...@gisladisker.se wrote:
The upstream author is a long time Debian Developer that has not touched
the code since 2004.
Ah, I guess you could/should take over this project too. Which
package is it BTW?
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Some comments on your package:
You can basically strip all the comment and blank lines from the watch file.
You shouldn't need debian/manpages since upstream already installs the
manual page.
If you build the package twice in a row the following extra files end
up in the diff.gz:
Sounds like an RC bug, either in gnuradio or libsdl.2-dev, depending
on where the -lartsc flag is coming from. sdl-config --libs doesn't
give me -lartsc, so it is probably a gnuradio issue. Please
investigate and file a bug as appropriate.
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On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Peter Krefting pe...@softwolves.pp.se wrote:
Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/users/peterk/lyskom-server.git
Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=users/peterk/lyskom-server.git
Vcs-Git: git://git.lysator.liu.se/lyskom-server/lyskom-server.git
Vcs-Browser:
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 2:55 AM, Justin Azoff jaz...@uamail.albany.edu wrote:
I am looking for a sponsor for my package bro.
...
That said, I would like some feedback on how I am building the package now,
specifically if the debian/rules and debian/control files look sane.
Usually one uses
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On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Justin Azoff jaz...@uamail.albany.edu wrote:
I had tried that, but it wasn't working. I realize now that is because I
am using the older debhelper in lenny. I will install the debhelper
backport or setup a squeeze VM and
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Jonathan Thomas
jonathan.oo...@gmail.com wrote:
openshot - Non Linear Video Editor using Python and MLT
I'm not sponsoring new packages at the moment, but here are some
comments on your source package:
You should use the shlibs mechanism to resolve
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 5:18 AM, Don Raikes don.rai...@oracle.com wrote:
I have an application which is just a set of bash scripts and documentation.
I want to create a debian package for them, but am not sure how the rules
file should look since there is no build step necessary.
Same as
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Karl Goetz k...@kgoetz.id.au wrote:
I was thinking of a case where the package is built in a sid pbuilder
(I should probably have clarified that).
Ah, ok.
Sadly testing it only has one option - run sid :/
Strictly speaking you should test on whatever
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Michal Čihař ni...@debian.org wrote:
Also please don't write your surname in capitals, I see no reason for
that.
There was a short conversation about this practice on pkg-fonts-devel
and planet.d.o recently:
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote:
The basic problem is that while there's potentially some use to the idea
of separating out architecture-independent build requirements, Lintian
wasn't really checking that. In order to support this, you have to very
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote:
Doesn't that break regular builds? Or does calling the binary target then
clean it up by going back to run build-indep?
The in mapserver back then binary-indep/install-indep targets depended
on build-indep and the buildds
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote:
Hm, isn't the obvious and simple way of implementing this change to just
create a second class of buildds that do exactly what the current ones do
but then throw out all the arch-dependent packages and only keep the
I assume you are talking about the upstream ChangeLog rather than
debian/changelog.
The only standard I am aware of for that is the one described in the
GNU coding standards document[1]. Many upstreams completely ignore it
and the recommended file naming (ChangeLog not CHANGES.TXT or one of
the
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:02 AM, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote:
There's an open Policy bug about this, which is where it should probably
be discussed. When packaging other people's software, I install the
upstream ChangeLog as changelog.gz and NEWS as NEWS.gz.
For some packages where
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Karl Goetz k...@kgoetz.id.au wrote:
I assume when you say 'unstable environment' you don't exclude the
possibility of using a backported lintian on (say) stable.
I'd specifically exclude that. You need to build under sid to ensure
the package will build and
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Bernd Schubert
bernd.schub...@fastmail.fm wrote:
Lintian -pendantic complains with:
I: collectl source: build-depends-without-arch-dep bash
...
I'm not sure what to do about the new build-depends-without-arch-dep. If I
set in the control file
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 5:37 AM, Joachim Wiedorn ad_deb...@joonet.de wrote:
Please look here:
http://piuparts.debian.org/sid/fail/backup2l_1.5-2.log
Can anyone understand the problem with this package?
The puiparts host was broken when it tried your package, it couldn't
find sid.tar.gz
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 3:59 AM, Michael Gilbert
michael.s.gilb...@gmail.com wrote:
libjs-protoaculous - A compressed library containing both prototype and
scriptaculous
...
My motivation for maintaining this package is: many packages embed
protoaculous, which is poor practice from a
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 2:11 AM, Gabriele Giacone 1o5g4...@gmail.com wrote:
No and yes. There are no 0.3 binary releases but I found this [1]: 7
weeks ago, 0.3.0.3 became 0.3.0.7. We could change 0.3 in 0.3.0.7 or we
could follow a svnrevision-based versioning; I packaged the latest
revision
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 5:03 AM, Gabriele Giacone 1o5g4...@gmail.com wrote:
They have been forcemerged almost 2 months ago [1]. To close both, in
d/changelog, should I refer to both or referring to master bug (496586)
is enough or being merged closing one of them, the other one is
2009/12/31 Leo 'costela' Antunes cost...@debian.org:
- [subjective] You don't seem to be shipping a menu entry.
I personally think Debian should remove menu and replace it with
upstreamed patches for FreeDesktop menu support.
- [subjective] I don't believe the debian/clean files are really
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 6:04 AM, sils s...@powered-by-linux.com wrote:
Please, consider that remaining bugs (#555264,#555265), not afecting
mantis, will be closed manually after this package reach the archive and
i'll be grabbed as new maintainer.
These look like valid bugs to me, why would
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 6:41 AM, sils s...@powered-by-linux.com wrote:
#555264 was reported from a mass-filing advice, it was about
prototypejs vulnerabilities, but it didn't affects to mantis, because
prototype.js file is not longer distributed in mantis debian package
since version
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 6:57 AM, Leo costela Antunes
cost...@debian.org wrote:
Paul Wise wrote:
I personally think Debian should remove menu and replace it with
upstreamed patches for FreeDesktop menu support.
Agreed in the long run, but since there are AFAIK (haven't checked in a
while
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Michael Gilbert
michael.s.gilb...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for pointing this out. I had not realized that the enet package
already exists. I have now updated the existing package to version
1.2.1. The only change I needed to make was to fix up the freebsd
Looks fine, uploaded.
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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 not sponsoring additional packages at the moment, but below is
some feedback.
Please explain the situation in more detail. Why is the source code
required at build time? Why does the resulting binary not need
glscene? It sounds like the right thing to do would be to change your
project so that it builds against glscene in the normal way and
depends on it at runtime.
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Hideki Yamane henr...@debian.or.jp wrote:
I think eliminate duplication is good, too. But I hope to make cmap-
adobe-* as meta-package because poppler's upstream is very active.
Kenshi, as cmap-adobe-* packages maintainer, how do you think that?
Sounds
The package FTBFS in a cowbuilder chroot on amd64, it appears makensis
isn't built with -lz because you need lib32z1-dev instead of
zlib1g-dev on amd64.
I've fixed debian/control in the collab-maint SVN repo and uploaded. I
had to do things a bit manually because I used the tar.bz2 from
upstream
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Hideki Yamane henr...@debian.or.jp wrote:
Could someone upload new poppler-data package to NEW queue?
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/poppler-data/poppler-data_0.4.0-1.dsc
From 0.3.0, poppler-data was released under new license that suit to
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 9:03 PM, sathya sai sathyasai.esh...@gmail.com wrote:
Could you please help me out by directing this query to the appropriate
forum.
debian-user would be the appropriate forum.
Please note that Debian etch is very old and will soon lose security
support. You should
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Andres Mejia mcita...@gmail.com wrote:
XBMC is licensed under the GPL-2+. There are various third party code and
libraries used as well, documented in the copyright file. There are also
various
files and third party code used with licenses that have non-DFSG
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Andres Mejia mcita...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wednesday 16 December 2009 21:15:40 Paul Wise wrote:
Sounds undistributable to me (not even non-free), unless the XBMC
license is changed to the LGPL or there is a GPL exception for linking
against non-free code
Try adding 'set -x' to the init script so you can see what the
execution flow was and track down where the script returned failure.
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On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 7:02 PM, pierrot idf.dres...@gmx.net wrote:
my etch runs perfectly and i´d like to contribute a tiny piece to this well
done debian project.
etch is fairly old and security support will soon be ending (Feb
2010), it would be a good idea to switch to lenny. In any case
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Thomas Gaugler tho...@dadie.net wrote:
I'd like to update the NSIS Debian package to version 2.46-1.
Some things you may want to do before I do the upload:
Drop quilt from the Build-Depends since you don't use it any more. You
can remove debian/README.source
2009/12/10 Marek Simon marek.si...@trustica.cz:
I am developing a package for my private use (against the policy)?
Debian Policy only applies to packages available from or to be
uploaded to the Debian archive. Do whatever you want with private
packages.
--
bye,
pabs
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Mats Erik Andersson
mats.anders...@gisladisker.se wrote:
For leasure readers seeking edification, this is now the rules
file in extenso:
#!/usr/bin/make -f
%:
dh --with quilt $@
If you switch to dpkg-source v3, you don't even need --with
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 7:15 AM, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote:
It seems like the best first step would be for you to offer to join the
pkg-games team for the purposes of maintaining those packages, thus
potentially providing you with direct commit access to their repository
and letting
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 2:25 AM, أحمد المحمودي
aelmahmo...@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
I am working on geda-gaf package [1]. It is almost ready except for a
single issue: to upgrade the several geda-* packages, they can only
upgrade using apt-get dist-upgrade, ie. an apt-get upgrade won't
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 6:44 PM, rosea grammostola
rosea.grammost...@gmail.com wrote:
In this case I'm guessing the upstream package has an embedded code
copy of gettext, I'd suggest asking upstream to remove it and switch
to the standard system gettext.
Is this something I can do myself to?
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Thibaut Paumard mlotpot.n...@free.fr wrote:
Out of curiosity and also to help a library's new upstream reach the
archive, I am learning about SONAME handling in Debian packages. I have read
[1] but still could use direct advice.
[1]
Not sure what [1] is, but I
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Thibaut Paumard mlotpot.n...@free.fr wrote:
Would the files then be: libfooN.so.debian1.0.0 with links
libfooN.so.debian1 and libfooN.so?
Right.
Here, N is not the API number (it's just part of the library name). And the
API did change with the new upstream
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 6:05 AM, rosea grammostola
rosea.grammost...@gmail.com wrote:
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on libXext.so.6 could be avoided if
debian/openoctave/usr/bin/openoctavesequencer
debian/openoctave/usr/bin/openoctave were not uselessly linked against it
(they use none
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Jonathan Wiltshire
deb...@jwiltshire.org.uk wrote:
Where the changelog is already part of the source package and has a
sensible name, and the package calls dh_installchangelogs, it's already
installed as /usr/share/doc/*/changelog and the Debian changelog as
2009/11/27 Thibaut GIRKA t...@sitedethib.com:
Your package drops this symlink with out any mention of that in the
changelog:
lrwxrwxrwx root/root /usr/share/bluemindo/COPYING -
../common-licenses/GPL-3
Did you mean to do that?
Let me check... Yeah, the program does not use it anymore.
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