RFS: figtoipe (updated package)

2010-06-22 Thread Alexander Bürger
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 20091205-1 of my package "figtoipe" and the new version 0.21-2 of my package "fig2sxd". Both updates fix important upstream problems reported by users of the previous versions: * for fig2sxd, OpenOffice.org 3.2 claimed that the files we

Re: RFS: figtoipe

2008-05-21 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En cette nuit nuageuse du mercredi 21 mai 2008, vers 01:02, Alexander Bürger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: >> Did you release a new package with the fix? > Yes, Otfried has uploaded a new version and I just uploaded the new > package to mentors.debian.net. The diff now only modifies de

Re: RFS: figtoipe

2008-05-20 Thread Alexander Bürger
Salut Vincent, > >> > ... using dpkg-divert ... > >> > >> You should divert the manpage too. > > > Oh yes, sorry. > > Did you release a new package with the fix? Yes, Otfried has uploaded a new version and I just uploaded the new package to mentors.debian.net. The diff now only modifies debia

Re: RFS: figtoipe

2008-05-17 Thread Armin Berres
On Sat, 17 May 08 20:40, Vincent Bernat wrote: > OoO Lors de la soirée naissante du samedi 17 mai 2008, vers 17:57, Armin > Berres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > > > Replaces must not come with Conflicts. > > Consider a package foo which contains a lot of architecture independent > > files. One day

Re: RFS: figtoipe

2008-05-17 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO La nuit ayant déjà recouvert d'encre ce jour du samedi 17 mai 2008, vers 23:10, Alexander Bürger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: >> You should divert the manpage too. > Oh yes, sorry. >> ... modifying upstream ... > Well, as I am also the upstream maintainer it would be strange to add a > pat

Re: RFS: figtoipe

2008-05-17 Thread Alexander Bürger
Hi Vincent, > > ... using dpkg-divert ... > > You should divert the manpage too. Oh yes, sorry. > ... modifying upstream ... Well, as I am also the upstream maintainer it would be strange to add a patch. As I cannot upload to the luaforge website, I just did not want to bother Otfried because

Re: RFS: figtoipe

2008-05-17 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En cette soirée bien amorcée du samedi 17 mai 2008, vers 22:02, Alexander Bürger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: >> ... diversion for the file is probably the right way to go. > A new package using dpkg-divert instead of "Replaces:" has been uploaded > to mentors.debian.net, and I would be h

Re: RFS: figtoipe

2008-05-17 Thread Alexander Bürger
Hi, > ... diversion for the file is probably the right way to go. A new package using dpkg-divert instead of "Replaces:" has been uploaded to mentors.debian.net, and I would be happy if it could be sponsored. Kind regards, Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: RFS: figtoipe

2008-05-17 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO Lors de la soirée naissante du samedi 17 mai 2008, vers 17:57, Armin Berres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > Replaces must not come with Conflicts. > Consider a package foo which contains a lot of architecture independent > files. One day you decide to split the arch independent files into a new

Re: RFS: figtoipe

2008-05-17 Thread Steve Greenland
On 17-May-08, 04:30 (CDT), Vincent Bernat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [This message is about using Replaces without Conflicts] > > I am not sure either. As you noted, the policy does not say to not use > it alone, but this just seems odd to me. Let's hope that someone else > will enlighten

Re: RFS: figtoipe

2008-05-17 Thread Armin Berres
On Sat, 17 May 08 11:30, Vincent Bernat wrote: > OoO En cette fin de matinée radieuse du samedi 17 mai 2008, vers 11:17, > Alexander Bürger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > > >> When using Conflicts and having files in common with the other package, > >> you need Replaces as well. Otherwise, durin

Re: RFS: figtoipe

2008-05-17 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO Vers la fin de l'après-midi du samedi 17 mai 2008, vers 16:02, Vincent Fourmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > Vincent Bernat wrote: >> The valid way to replace a file without conflicting with a package is to >> use diversion. This is not a solution in your case because you would >> h

Re: RFS: figtoipe / difficulties with Replaces:

2008-05-17 Thread Alexander Bürger
Hi, 0==0 Info for debian-devel: we try to figure out how to package figtoipe. Before version 6.0pre30-1, a version of figtoipe was included in the ipe package. Since then, figtoipe is a separate upstream package and also gone from

Re: RFS: figtoipe

2008-05-17 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En cette fin de matinée radieuse du samedi 17 mai 2008, vers 11:17, Alexander Bürger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: >> When using Conflicts and having files in common with the other package, >> you need Replaces as well. Otherwise, during upgrade, the user may see >> error messages about you

Re: RFS: figtoipe

2008-05-17 Thread Alexander Bürger
Salut Vincent, > Is your package useful for someone that has ipe (<< 6.0pre30-1)? As I > understand, those versions already have figtoipe. Therefore, your > package is useless. This is why you Conflict with this package. No, the old packages had a version of figtoipe that was unable to

Re: RFS: figtoipe

2008-05-17 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO Vers la fin de l'après-midi du vendredi 16 mai 2008, vers 16:45, Alexander Bürger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: >> > I do not understand Replaces/Conflicts very well. >> >> You should. ;-) >> >> Conflicts avoids that your package is installed along with another >> package. Replaces a

Re: RFS: figtoipe

2008-05-16 Thread Alexander Bürger
Hei, > > I do not understand Replaces/Conflicts very well. > > You should. ;-) > > Conflicts avoids that your package is installed along with another > package. Replaces allows your package to replace files from some other > packages during upgrades. > > > Replaces: ipe (<< 6.0pre30-1)

Re: RFS: figtoipe

2008-05-14 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En cette matinée pluvieuse du mardi 13 mai 2008, vers 10:14, Alexander Bürger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: >> Fill an ITP when working on a package and close it in your changelog. > I submitted one, so I can close #481022 in the changelog. >> ... figtoipe was provided by ipe in the pa

Re: RFS: figtoipe

2008-05-13 Thread Alexander Bürger
Hi, > Fill an ITP when working on a package and close it in your changelog. I submitted one, so I can close #481022 in the changelog. > ... figtoipe was provided by ipe in the past, ... Replaces ... Conflicts ... I do not understand Replaces/Conflicts very well. I believe that all ipe packages

Re: RFS figtoipe

2008-05-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
On 11/05/2008, Alexander Bürger wrote: > Sorry, I was not on the debian-mentors list. In which case, you might want to add an In-Reply-To header, pointing to the message you're answering to, so that the thread won't break. Mraw, KiBi. pgpav5I4oXVgC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS: figtoipe

2008-05-11 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 11 May 2008, Vincent Bernat wrote: > OoO En ce début d'après-midi ensoleillé du dimanche 11 mai 2008, vers > > 15:39, Alexander Bürger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "figtoipe". > > Hi Alexander! Hello, > Fill an ITP when w

Re: RFS: figtoipe

2008-05-11 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En ce début d'après-midi ensoleillé du dimanche 11 mai 2008, vers 15:39, Alexander Bürger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > Dear mentors, > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "figtoipe". Hi Alexander! Fill an ITP when working on a package and close it in your changelog. If figtoipe wa

Re: RFS figtoipe

2008-05-11 Thread Alexander Bürger
Salut Vincent, Sorry, I was not on the debian-mentors list. figtoipe has also been removed from the upstream ipe package. The reason is that the code of ipe and figtoipe has no overlap. When I sent patches to Otfried Cheong (the author of ipe and figtoipe) to add some features to figtoipe, he dec

Re: RFS: figtoipe

2008-05-11 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En ce début d'après-midi ensoleillé du dimanche 11 mai 2008, vers 15:39, Alexander Bürger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > The figtoipe program had previously been included in the ipe package, > but after ipe version 6.0pre28, this is no longer true. Any reason why? -- panic("CPU too expensi

RFS: figtoipe

2008-05-11 Thread Alexander Bürger
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "figtoipe". * Package name: figtoipe Version : 20080505-1 Upstream Author : Otfried Cheong, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alexander Bürger, [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://tclab.kaist.ac.kr/ipe * Licens