Re: RFS: new powertop version

2013-07-20 Thread Julian Wollrath
Hi, I update the package to version 2.4. A build of the package can be found under [0], the git repo of the package is under [1]. Best regards, Julian [0] http://rbw.goe.net/jw/debian/pool/powertop/ [1] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/jw-guest/powertop.git -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: RFS: new powertop version

2013-07-08 Thread Julian Wollrath
> On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 06:08:24PM +0200, Julian Wollrath wrote: > > nearly a month passed, since I asked for sponsorship for the new > > powertop package [0] and addressed the concerns which Paul Wise had > > with it. Sadly Patrick Winnertz, the maintainer, did not react and I > > When you clai

Re: RFS: new powertop version

2013-07-07 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 06:08:24PM +0200, Julian Wollrath wrote: > nearly a month passed, since I asked for sponsorship for the new > powertop package [0] and addressed the concerns which Paul Wise had > with it. Sadly Patrick Winnertz, the maintainer, did not react and I When you claim the someon

Re: RFS: new powertop version

2013-07-02 Thread Julian Wollrath
Dear mentors, nearly a month passed, since I asked for sponsorship for the new powertop package [0] and addressed the concerns which Paul Wise had with it. Sadly Patrick Winnertz, the maintainer, did not react and I would like to see the new powertop version in Debian, since it addresses 13 bugs,

Re: RFS: new powertop version

2013-06-08 Thread Julian Wollrath
> I also recommend dh-autoreconf so you know that the build system can > still be created and users won't find issues if they modify it. Ok, I added dh-autoreconf and also added a fix for bug #695890. An updated package can be found under [0]. Best regards, Julian [0] http://rbw.goe.net/jw/debia

Re: RFS: new powertop version

2013-06-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2013-06-08 at 13:09 +0200, Julian Wollrath wrote: > Since for this powertop release it is too late to ask upstream to update > autotools, I added autotools-dev to the build-deps. But I will ask > them, to consider updating autotools for their next release, so that > the build-dep can be dr

Re: RFS: new powertop version

2013-06-08 Thread Julian Wollrath
> You should read the full info for the tag: > > lintian-info -t outdated-autotools-helper-file > http://lintian.debian.org/tags/outdated-autotools-helper-file.html I really should have thought of that myself, thanks for pointing it out. > Two things: > > Ask upstream to use the latest upstream au

Re: RFS: new powertop version

2013-06-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 1:50 AM, Julian Wollrath wrote: > W: powertop source: outdated-autotools-helper-file config.guess > 2012-02-10 > W: powertop source: outdated-autotools-helper-file config.sub 2012-02-10 > But I do not know, what the best way, with cdbs as build system, would > be to get rid

RFS: new powertop version

2013-06-06 Thread Julian Wollrath
Dear Patrick Winnertz, dear mentors, since over 100 days there is a wishlist bug (#695892) for packaging a new powertop version open and in this bug, there is an nmudiff for version 2.2. Since the most recent powertop version is now 2.3, I packaged the new version, which closes several bug, and am

Re: RFS: new powertop version

2012-06-27 Thread Julian Wollrath
Hello Gregor. > Uploaded now (to DELAYED/2); closing an RC bug and having a recent > powertop in Debian seem like two good reasons :) Thank you very much. With best regards, Julian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: RFS: new powertop version

2012-06-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:29:09 +0200, Julian Wollrath wrote: > thank you for your comments. I uploaded a new version of my packaging to > http://rbw.goe.net/jw/ which addresses all of your comments. Thanks! > > - some other changes in d/control are also not mentioned > If you mean the dependency

Re: RFS: new powertop version

2012-06-25 Thread Julian Wollrath
Hi Vincent, thank you for the clarification. I uploaded a new version to http://rbw.goe.net/jw in which I removed the "Multi-Arch: foreign" field. With best regards, Julian P.S.: I just saw, that bug 656421 ("Please update to libnl3") was promoted to the severity serious, hence this new packa

Re: RFS: new powertop version

2012-06-25 Thread Vincent Cheng
Hi Julian, On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Julian Wollrath wrote: >> - no idea if "Multi-Arch: foreign" has any benefits? > I too do not really know if there are big benefits from it but since I had > debian/control open in my editor and Debian is on the way to become aware of > multi-arch, I t

Re: RFS: new powertop version

2012-06-25 Thread Julian Wollrath
Hi Gregor, thank you for your comments. I uploaded a new version of my packaging to http://rbw.goe.net/jw/ which addresses all of your comments. > - some other changes in d/control are also not mentioned If you mean the dependency change from libnl2 to libnl3, then this is mentioned know. > -

Re: RFS: new powertop version

2012-06-25 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:58:45 +0200, Julian Wollrath wrote: > since I offered Patrick Winnertz, the maintainer, to co-maintain about two > weeks ago and he was also CC'ed in parts of this thread but got no response > from him, I am hoping someone could sponsor my updates to the powertop > packag

Re: RFS: new powertop version

2012-06-12 Thread Julian Wollrath
Hello, since I offered Patrick Winnertz, the maintainer, to co-maintain about two weeks ago and he was also CC'ed in parts of this thread but got no response from him, I am hoping someone could sponsor my updates to the powertop package, which can be found under http://rbw.goe.net/jw/. I tried

Re: RFS: new powertop version

2012-05-29 Thread Bart Martens
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 10:15:01AM -0300, David Bremner wrote: > Julian Wollrath writes: > > > I prepared a new version, which keeps the changes in the rules minimal but > > since upstream changed the building process a little bit, minimal changes > > were > > needed to get it build. The massi

Re: RFS: new powertop version

2012-05-29 Thread Julian Wollrath
Gergely Nagy wrote: > The above is correct. Without DEP-5, the format is entirely up to > you. As long as it contains the necessary information, it's good enough. Ok, thank you. So, I prepared a new version, which can be found under http://rbw.goe.net/jw, which in difference to the former versio

Re: RFS: new powertop version

2012-05-29 Thread Gergely Nagy
Julian Wollrath writes: > David Bremner wrote: >> This kind of change (changing the copyright file format) is not usually >> acceptable in an NMU, unless cleared with the maintainer. > But how else should I address the missing license information for 'pevent/*', > 'src/perf/perf_event.h', 'src/

Re: RFS: new powertop version

2012-05-29 Thread Julian Wollrath
David Bremner wrote: > This kind of change (changing the copyright file format) is not usually > acceptable in an NMU, unless cleared with the maintainer. But how else should I address the missing license information for 'pevent/*', 'src/perf/perf_event.h', 'src/tuning/iw.*' and 'src/tuning/nl802

Re: RFS: new powertop version

2012-05-29 Thread David Bremner
Julian Wollrath writes: > I prepared a new version, which keeps the changes in the rules minimal but > since upstream changed the building process a little bit, minimal changes > were > needed to get it build. The massive changes of the copyright file were also > needed so that it would be ma

Re: RFS: new powertop version

2012-05-28 Thread Julian Wollrath
Hello, I prepared a new version, which keeps the changes in the rules minimal but since upstream changed the building process a little bit, minimal changes were needed to get it build. The massive changes of the copyright file were also needed so that it would be machine readable according to t

Re: RFS: new powertop version

2012-05-27 Thread Arno Töll
Hi, On 26.05.2012 20:11, Julian Wollrath wrote: >> Also, I'm not sure about new upstream releases via NMU. Have you offered to >> co-maintain ? > No I have not, because I was under the impression, that it is not possible > for > a non Debian developer to co-maintain a package. But if this impre

Re: RFS: new powertop version

2012-05-26 Thread Julian Wollrath
Thank you both for your kind and quick reponses. >> Did you know about >> >> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/beyond- pkging.html#mia-qa >> >> It outlines the best practices for dealing with an unresponsive maintainer. No I did not know about this document. Thank you for poi

Re: RFS: new powertop version

2012-05-26 Thread Bart Martens
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 06:00:26PM +0200, Julian Wollrath wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for a new version of the package powertop, which > closes several bugs (e.g. bug #672555). I do this since there was no reaction > from the maintainer regarding my patches which fix bu

Re: RFS: new powertop version

2012-05-26 Thread David Bremner
Julian Wollrath writes: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for a new version of the package powertop, which > closes several bugs (e.g. bug #672555). I do this since there was no reaction > from the maintainer regarding my patches which fix bug #672555 and would like > to see the n

RFS: new powertop version

2012-05-26 Thread Julian Wollrath
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for a new version of the package powertop, which closes several bugs (e.g. bug #672555). I do this since there was no reaction from the maintainer regarding my patches which fix bug #672555 and would like to see the new version of powertop in Debian. *