Re: How to troubleshoot conffile files problems

2021-12-05 Thread Stuart Prescott
f" prior to the admin installing or upgrading the package, or running that script. * maintainer scripts should try very very hard to avoid failing (non-zero exit code) as that failure can be quite awkward to recover from. Failing the postinst because there's a blank line in the config

Bug#979245: RFS: xylib/1.6-0.1 [RC] [NMU] -- Library for reading x-y data from several file formats

2021-01-14 Thread Stuart Prescott
Hi Fabian, On Thursday, 14 January 2021 07:29:55 AEDT Fabian Wolff wrote: > On 1/11/21 3:45 AM, Stuart Prescott wrote: > >> In any case, I've changed my upload to a QA upload now and reuploaded > >> it to Salsa and Mentors. > > > > I see bartm beat me to upl

Bug#979245: RFS: xylib/1.6-0.1 [RC] [NMU] -- Library for reading x-y data from several file formats

2021-01-10 Thread Stuart Prescott
es best within the Science Team and so I'll adopt the package into the Debian Science Team. Thanks for setting up a VCS for it! > In any case, I've changed my upload to a QA upload now and reuploaded > it to Salsa and Mentors. I see bartm beat me to uploading it. Thank you for your

Bug#979245: RFS: xylib/1.6-0.1 [RC] [NMU] -- Library for reading x-y data from several file formats

2021-01-09 Thread Stuart Prescott
close #979256 in the changelog and update the version to 1.6-1, then I can sponsor the maintainer upload to adopt the package :) regards Stuart -- Stuart Prescotthttp://www.nanonanonano.net/ stu...@nanonanonano.net Debian Developer http://www.debian.org/ stu...@debian.or

Bug#974846: RFS: robot-testing-framework/2.0.1-1 [ITP] -- Robot Testing Framework

2020-11-15 Thread Stuart Prescott
ely removed from the next release of Debian. Can this package support Python 3 instead? If not, can the Python 2 bindings be omitted? (Perhaps upstream would like some help in porting the code to Python 3?) cheers Stuart -- Stuart Prescotthttp://www.nanonanonano.net/ stu...@nanonanonano

Re: How to build scala source

2017-02-23 Thread Stuart Prescott
u don't want to go anywhere near maven and will need to do that step yourself too. (or alternatively, package sbt?! ;) hope that helps! cheers Stuart -- Stuart Prescotthttp://www.nanonanonano.net/ stu...@nanonanonano.net Debian Developer http://www.debian.org/ stu...@de

Re: [Help] Testsuite of abinit fails on mips

2014-09-03 Thread Stuart Prescott
it on mips vs i386, I wonder which platform will be picked to do the simulations with abinit?) cheers Stuart -- Stuart Prescotthttp://www.nanonanonano.net/ stu...@nanonanonano.net Debian Developer http://www.debian.org/ stu...@debian.org GPG fingerprint90E2 D2C1 AD14 6A1B

Bug#760198: Sponsorship-request

2014-09-01 Thread Stuart Prescott
on't understand the comments that have been made, please ask for further explanation. Don't just ignore the comments. Stuart -- Stuart Prescotthttp://www.nanonanonano.net/ stu...@nanonanonano.net Debian Developer http://www.debian.org/ stu...@debian.org GPG fingerprint

Re: git-buildpackage python3, python3.4: not found

2014-04-30 Thread Stuart Prescott
r --git-pbuilder indicates it would ignore this option. There should be some way of preventing cleaning before entering the chroot but, as usual with our build tools, there are too many levels of indirection involved to make this easy to work out (iirc, here it's git-buildpackage → git-pbui

Bug#717577: RFS: engauge-digitizer/5.1-1

2013-07-22 Thread Stuart Prescott
er version 7 or later, which is much more widely understood. regards Stuart -- Stuart Prescotthttp://www.nanonanonano.net/ stu...@nanonanonano.net Debian Developer http://www.debian.org/ stu...@debian.org GPG fingerprintBE65 FD1E F4EA 08F3 23D4 3C6D 9FE8 B8CD 71C5 D1A8 GPG fingerpr

Re: dpkg-deb: error: control directory has bad permissions

2013-06-10 Thread Stuart Prescott
Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 12:30:58PM +1000, Stuart Prescott wrote: >> >> How can I fix the "dpkg-deb: error: control directory has bad >> >> permissions" error? >> >> >> >> I was simply trying to us

Re: dpkg-deb: error: control directory has bad permissions

2013-06-09 Thread Stuart Prescott
t; package. > Don't do that? Why not? What should the poster do instead? (using pbuilder-satisfydepends is a perfectly good route to installing all build-deps for a package although I wouldn't do it on a real system, only in a disposable chroot) -- Stuart Prescotthttp://www.nano

Bug#706043: RFS: re-name/1.99.2-1 [ITP] -- mass rename tool using regular expression

2013-04-23 Thread Stuart Prescott
perl package hence widely installed. It's important for potential sponsors and reviewers to understand what each new package brings to Debian compared to the ones that are already available. cheers Stuart (I do not intend to sponsor this package) -- Stuart Prescotthttp://www.nanon

Bug#699150: RFS: begin/0.1.1-1 (ITP #699113)

2013-01-28 Thread Stuart Prescott
s can give you a list of packages and bugs that pertain to what is installed on your system. cheers Stuart - -- Stuart Prescotthttp://www.nanonanonano.net/ stu...@nanonanonano.net Debian Developer http://www.debian.org/ stu...@debian.org GPG fingerprintBE65 FD1E F4EA 08F3