Bug#725772: RFS: nfft -- Library for computing Non-uniform Fast Fourier Transforms

2013-10-24 Thread Scott Howard
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 2:42 AM, Andreas Tille andr...@an3as.eu wrote: d/*.install: The files are starting by a line #!/usr/bin/dh-exec I admit I have never seen this before even if I suspect this might be somewhere in the docs which you have definitely read in a way more

Bug#668505: dwarf fortress debian package

2013-09-03 Thread Scott Howard
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 5:45 AM, Beren Minor beren.minor+deb...@gmail.com wrote: BTW, I also have a GemRB package that requires sponsorship. I've recently joined the Debian Games Team to maintain it, but I have little time to chase sponsors. So, if you have some time to spend and want to have a

Bug#720114: dwarf fotress and dwarf therapist package

2013-09-01 Thread Scott Howard
Hi Andrey, Would you also be interested in packaging dwarf fortress? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=588377 I can help sponsor, but I'm not a df player -- I will have to trust your evaluation of the functionality of the package. I think dwarf fortress should be packaged before

Re: RFS: wmaker (try 2)

2012-01-01 Thread Scott Howard
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Scott Howard show...@debian.org wrote: On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Rodolfo kix Garcia k...@kix.es wrote: Hi Scott, please, see the comments to your mail below. IMO this comments are fine, but there are more important things: 1. Can you sponsor me

Re: RFS: wmaker (try 2)

2011-12-31 Thread Scott Howard
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Rodolfo kix Garcia k...@kix.es wrote: About 1: I don't know what to do. I can maintain the current code or change to new debhelper and compat. Your choice. I'd say maintain current code, no need to bump the version unless you really need some feature. I never

Re: RFS: wmaker (try 2)

2011-12-31 Thread Scott Howard
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Rodolfo kix Garcia k...@kix.es wrote: Hi Scott, please, see the comments to your mail below. IMO this comments are fine, but there are more important things: 1. Can you sponsor me to upload the package? Yes, I'll sponsor it, but I need to spend more time

Re: RFS: wmaker (try 2)

2011-12-30 Thread Scott Howard
Hello Rodolfo and Paul, Please CC me to replies. I just did a QA upload to fix an RC bug in wmaker, I didn't see that you were already working on it (otherwise I could have just worked with you!) I saw Paul's given helpful advice on the package, I wanted to add some comments about d/rules

Re: RFS: wmaker (try 2)

2011-12-30 Thread Scott Howard
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org wrote: * Scott Howard show...@debian.org, 2011-12-30, 11:36: Also, I'm not too familiar with this package, but is there any reason why you want to explicitly set DEB_BUILD and DEB_HOST types in debian/rules? Please see: /usr/share

Re: Nitpicking: you are doing it wrong

2011-07-09 Thread Scott Howard
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org wrote: Don't get me wrong, in my opinion (some of) these things are good. But making a big fuss about them is not helping anybody. It only distracts attention from things that are important, and creates false impression that they are

Re: Nitpicking: you are doing it wrong

2011-07-08 Thread Scott Howard
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org wrote: Dear reviewers, next time if you are going to complain about: - debian/compat being too low; There are cases where it should be bumped [1], support for old versions gets removed. Many sponsors take the approach What should be

Re: Nitpicking: you are doing it wrong

2011-07-08 Thread Scott Howard
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org wrote: Don't get me wrong, in my opinion (some of) these things are good. But making a big fuss about them is not helping anybody. It only distracts attention from things that are important, and creates false impression that they are

Re: Git and tarballs

2011-07-06 Thread Scott Howard
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Wolodja Wentland babi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I've recently started to work on some packages and am not sure if I follow best practices when packaging software from git repositories with git-buildpackage. My main point of confusion is that I don't really

Re: What to do after forgetting to close a bug

2011-05-27 Thread Scott Howard
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Tony Houghton h...@realh.co.uk wrote: I forgot to close #610981 when I released roxterm 1.21.4-1. I guess I should fix this by sending a message to 610981-done@b.d.o but I'm not 100% sure what to do about debian/changelog. I think I should add (Closes:

Re: New Backup Application

2011-05-20 Thread Scott Howard
Hi Pauel On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Paul Reddy p...@kereru.org wrote: Hi, [I hope this is the right group. Apologies if not] I've built a reasonably comprehensive backup and disaster recovery app, and am looking for some help on the next steps, the first of which I believe is to find

Re: override_dh_auto_configure not called

2011-05-05 Thread Scott Howard
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Anton Gladky gladky.an...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, all I have a similar question. I am using: override_dh_auto_build:  make doc  ... How to perform this section only on binary-independent packages? from the dh manpage: Finally, remember that you are not

Re: RFS: 0ad

2011-04-03 Thread Scott Howard
On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 8:10 AM, David Paleino da...@debian.org wrote: On Sat, 2 Apr 2011 21:59:59 -0700, Vincent Cheng wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package 0ad. * Package name    : 0ad [..] haven't checked the package, but given I'd like to play it, I tried to

Re: docs are generated on all build machines

2011-04-02 Thread Scott Howard
On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 9:44 AM, The Fungi fu...@yuggoth.org wrote: On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 10:21:57AM +0200, Michael Wild wrote: [...] I'd like the docs only to be built *once* on the build server, not for every architecture, since they are architecture independent and building them for every

Re: Renaming and gzipping upstream changelog

2011-03-14 Thread Scott Howard
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Michele Gastaldo michelu...@inventati.org wrote: Hi all Trying to package kpartsplugin (ITP: bug #597110), I get a warning from lintian (wrong-name-for-upstream-changelog): there's a ChangeLog file from upstream I listed in debian/docs, but according to the

Re: extra licenses

2011-03-11 Thread Scott Howard
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Kete frenzf...@yahoo.com wrote: These are actually warnings: W: icecat: extra-license-file usr/lib/icecat-3.6.15/LICENSE W: icecat: extra-license-file usr/lib/icecat-3.6.15/extensions/https-everywh...@eff.org/LICENSE.txt W: icecat: extra-license-file

Re: RFS: volumeicon

2011-02-13 Thread Scott Howard
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Paul Tagliamonte paul...@ubuntu.com wrote: Upstream doesn't have any sort of version control for this project. A quick Googling suggests that this is, however, for version control on the Debian site, which is neat. However, it looks like only DD's get accounts

Re: Seeking Sponsor for OSCAR

2011-02-08 Thread Scott Howard
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: 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

Re: RFS: fgrun

2011-02-07 Thread Scott Howard
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Chris Baines cbain...@gmail.com wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package fgrun. * Package name    : fgrun  Version         : 1.5.2-1  Upstream Author : Frederic Bouvier (Project admin) fr...@users.sourceforge.net * URL             :

Re: What to do?

2011-01-25 Thread Scott Howard
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Michael m.b3...@web.de wrote: Hi again, Hope this is a more intelligent question than the last one ;-) I want to get rid of W: libsnacc0c2: package-name-doesnt-match-sonames libasn1c++0 libasn1cCebuf0 libasn1cebuf0 libasn1cmbuf0 libasn1csbuf0 libasn1ctbl0

Re: would like review of my polipo-tor packaging

2011-01-18 Thread Scott Howard
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 3:12 PM, travis+ml-debian-ment...@subspacefield.org wrote: Standards-Version: 3.8.4 should be 3.9.1 I used the dh tools to make this, and I've seen debuild complain about this, but really didn't know what I should be doing in this case - funny thing is, both tools were

Re: would like review of my polipo-tor packaging

2011-01-18 Thread Scott Howard
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Scott Howard showard...@gmail.com wrote: TOR not having their act together - does that mean that they haven't released a stable version yet or that no stable package is in Debian? Would you be interested in packaging and maintaining TOR in Debian? Sorry, just

Re: would like review of my polipo-tor packaging

2011-01-17 Thread Scott Howard
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 6:42 PM, travis+ml-debian-ment...@subspacefield.org wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/maintainer-packages?action=details;package=polipo-tor;seeksponsor=0 Not asking for a sponsor right now since it depends on pkgs not in deb/ubu repos. But would like

Re: RFS: fmodapi4.26

2011-01-13 Thread Scott Howard
library's filename). I know your package lacks a SONAME, but you  can add one like the enet package does. their binary makes a library  with the SONAME libenet.so.0debian1, so their binary package  is libenet0debian1 and their source package name is enet. Didn't know that it was possible to

Re: RFS: fmodapi4.26

2011-01-12 Thread Scott Howard
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 6:05 AM, Johey Shmit joheysh...@yahoo.com wrote: I took zlib as a guideline and named it after the upstream name. Because version '4.26', '4.27', etc. are not binary compatible I added the '4.26' to the package name. That way different versions should be installable in

Re: Review of pev

2011-01-11 Thread Scott Howard
2011/1/11 Fernando Mercês nand...@gmail.com: Hello, Manuel. Many thanks for your support. I've fixed the problems and now I'm providing unsigned source and binary packages at http://www.mentebinaria.com.br/coding40/pev_0.22-r2.tar.gz I think it's enough to get reviews, right? Before upload,

Re: Review of pev

2011-01-11 Thread Scott Howard
2011/1/11 Fernando Mercês nand...@gmail.com: Hello, Scott. I have read in the Mentor's wiki that is a good idea ask for help here before upload the package. ;) If it's not the common way, please let me know. The mentors wiki says that you should ask people here for a review before uploading

Re: Review of pev

2011-01-11 Thread Scott Howard
2011/1/11 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo manuel.montez...@gmail.com: Hello again, On Tuesday 11 January 2011 22:50:45 Fernando Mercês wrote: Scott, thank you. It's very clear for me now. I have just uploaded my package. I don't know where you get the instructions, but I think that you got

Re: RFS: fmodapi4.26

2011-01-10 Thread Scott Howard
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 suggested something like http://sam.zoy.org/flessd. On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 8:28 AM,

Re: RFS: sonic

2010-12-17 Thread Scott Howard
Am 17.12.2010 20:59, schrieb Bill Cox: In my case, I wrote and maintain both the code and debian directory, so I see no need for me to use the quilt patch system, though I do use it in maintaining other packages for Vinux. Thanks, Bill Hi Bill, Please take a look at [1], and a little

Re: Uploading a newer version of a package that's frozen in testing

2010-12-13 Thread Scott Howard
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Tony Houghton h...@realh.co.uk wrote: I want to get roxterm 1.20.x into Debian but there's 1.18.5-3 in testing waiting for Squeeze's release. Should 1.20.x go into experimental instead of unstable? If so do I do this just by putting experimental instead of

RFS: libqtexengine1 (dependency for new versions of qtiplot)

2010-11-28 Thread Scott Howard
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Re: Adopting: maintainer change in debian/changelog

2010-11-08 Thread Scott Howard
On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Daniel Stender dan...@danielstender.com wrote: question: if I am adopting a packet, what's the procedure for altering debian/copyright (dep5)? Since I've learned that the Maintainer: field is for the upstream developer, should I just take over the copyright

Re: Using Quilt with a new package

2010-11-03 Thread Scott Howard
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org wrote: Le Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 01:02:25PM +0100, Daniel Lombraña González a écrit : After that, I kept reading about git-buildpackage and it seems that it should be more easy to maintain those differences between the upstream

Re: RFS: libclanlib2.2

2010-11-02 Thread Scott Howard
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Givors Fabien fabien.giv...@chezlefab.net wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package libclanlib2.2. I'll try to take a look at the package for non-DD review later - but I also wanted to point out the debian games team [1] who can also

Re: RFS: libclanlib2.2

2010-11-02 Thread Scott Howard
Hello, On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Givors Fabien fabien.giv...@chezlefab.net wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package libclanlib2.2. Non-DD review: 1) An earlier version of this package is already in Debian. I think you really should (probably must) talk with the

Re: Open RFS lacking (further) response

2010-10-31 Thread Scott Howard
Hello, On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 3:22 AM, Michael Tautschnig m...@debian.org wrote: Unfortunately, proposals such as the collaborative package review by Charles Plessy [2] haven't caught any attention. In particular, this is a call to people not being DD (yet): Everyone could review packages,

Re: RFS: fritzing

2010-10-31 Thread Scott Howard
Thanks for packaging fritzing, btw - it's a good tool to have in Debian. 2010/10/31 Enrique Hernández Bello ehbe...@gmail.com: 2010/10/26 Scott Howard showard...@gmail.com 2010/10/24 Enrique Hernández Bello ehbe...@gmail.com: 1) instead of CDBS and explicitly using quilt, would you consider

Re: RFS: morse (New upstream release)

2010-10-29 Thread Scott Howard
n Fri, 2010-10-29 at 18:42 +0300, Nanakos Chrysostomos wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.2-1 of my package morse. Hello, Non-DD review: looks good in general. $ lintian --pedantic -I -i /var/cache/pbuilder/sid-amd64/result/morse_2.2-1_amd64.changes P: morse:

Re: RFS: fritzing

2010-10-26 Thread Scott Howard
2010/10/24 Enrique Hernández Bello ehbe...@gmail.com: What is the next step? :) -- Enrique Hernández Bello Hi Enrique, I'm not a DD yet, but I learned a lot from sponsors being extremely picky about my packages. Here are some comments for you to consider: 1) instead of CDBS and explicitly

RFS: libcdk5 (QA upload)

2010-08-11 Thread Scott Howard
unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libcdk5/libcdk5_5.0.20060507-3.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Scott Howard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

[debian-mentors] question regarding rejected uploads

2010-02-11 Thread Scott Howard
version (5.7.0-2) targeted at unstable. can not overwrite existing copy of 'eagle_5.7.0-2.diff.gz' already in the archive. What is the proper procedure for uploading additional binaries to non-free so it can be available to users and migrate to testing? Thank you. Regards, Scott Howard

Re: [debian-mentors] question regarding rejected uploads

2010-02-11 Thread Scott Howard
Thank you all! Niels Thykier comment worked, my sponsor has uploaded it! I think your sponsor should have built it with -B (binary arch-dependent only). On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: If the license allows it, the package can be whitelisted for building on

RFS: eagle (updated package, upload amd64 and i386)

2010-01-18 Thread Scott Howard
non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/non-free/e/eagle/eagle_5.7.0-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Scott Howard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Subject: RFS: enet

2009-12-29 Thread Scott Howard
://packages.qa.debian.org/e/enet.html it seems to build different binaries than the current Debian package. Also, it seems from your ITP that you are interested in it. I suggest checking out the Debian Games Team and chat with them on IRC, they are very helpful. Regards, Scott Howard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

RFS: sandboxgamemaker

2009-10-20 Thread Scott Howard
://launchpad.net/sandboxgamemaker-debian I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Scott Howard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: RFS: sandboxgamemaker

2009-10-20 Thread Scott Howard
Ben, thank you for your comments: * License : Custom, open-source, I have written permission to package, non-free since author is concerned about it being used to make commercial games and thus puts some extra