issues with packaging Clozure Common Lisp (ccl.clozure.com) for Debian

2012-07-17 Thread Faheem Mitha
Hi, I've run into a technical issue with packaging CCL, which I describe below. I don't know whether debian-mentors or debian-devel is a more appropriate forum to post this - please advise if mentors is inappropriate. CCL was once in Debian, but under a different name, namely openmcl. I

upstream changelog at website only

2012-07-17 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: I am package a library from scratch. The upstream source package contains no changelog file, but the library website provides matter to extract one for it. I guess that I may have to extract the changelog file from the website: may I forget it ? is there any tool to do so ? Any

Re: upstream changelog at website only

2012-07-17 Thread Simon Chopin
Quoting Jerome BENOIT (2012-07-17 10:11:16) Hello List: Hi, I am package a library from scratch. The upstream source package contains no changelog file, but the library website provides matter to extract one for it. I guess that I may have to extract the changelog file from the website:

Re: upstream changelog at website only

2012-07-17 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi ! On 17/07/12 10:24, Simon Chopin wrote: Quoting Jerome BENOIT (2012-07-17 10:11:16) Hello List: Hi, I am package a library from scratch. The upstream source package contains no changelog file, but the library website provides matter to extract one for it. I guess that I may have to

Re: upstream changelog at website only

2012-07-17 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 10:24:07AM +0200, Simon Chopin wrote: Quoting Jerome BENOIT (2012-07-17 10:11:16) The upstream source package contains no changelog file, but the library website provides matter to extract one for it. I guess that I may have to extract the changelog file from the

Default RFS update behavior

2012-07-17 Thread José Luis Segura Lucas
Hi all! I have made a few days ago a RFS. I'm wondering would will be the right behavior to refresh my RFS petition looking for an sponsor. I think that the better way is to reply to the same RFS, updating the state of the package (if it has changed) and mentioning that I don't have still an

Re: issues with packaging Clozure Common Lisp (ccl.clozure.com) for Debian

2012-07-17 Thread The Fungi
On 2012-07-17 11:38:32 +0530 (+0530), Faheem Mitha wrote: [...] CCL requires itself to build. Since it is not currently in the Debian archive, that raises the question of how this should happen. [...] Having not done this myself, I've seen it discussed ad nauseum on debian-devel over the

Re: issues with packaging Clozure Common Lisp (ccl.clozure.com) for Debian

2012-07-17 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 17/07/12 13:28, The Fungi wrote: On 2012-07-17 11:38:32 +0530 (+0530), Faheem Mitha wrote: [...] CCL requires itself to build. Since it is not currently in the Debian archive, that raises the question of how this should happen. [...] I'm not sure how much closer that's gotten to being

Re: Default RFS update behavior

2012-07-17 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:44:52AM +0200, José Luis Segura Lucas wrote: Hi all! I have made a few days ago a RFS. I'm wondering would will be the right behavior to refresh my RFS petition looking for an sponsor. I think that the better way is to reply to the same RFS, updating the state

Re: Bug#681230: RFS: gtkdataboxmm/0.9.1-1 [ITP]

2012-07-17 Thread Daniele E. Domenichelli
Hello Andreas, On 16/07/12 16:15, Andreas Tille wrote: Could you try to implement this to enable me building with git-buildpackage easily? git-buildpackage should be fixed now, but I didn't import the pristine tar, since it is exactly the same as tag v0.9.1 in master. Is the branch

Re: Bug#681230: RFS: gtkdataboxmm/0.9.1-1 [ITP]

2012-07-17 Thread Gergely Nagy
Daniele E. Domenichelli daniele.domeniche...@gmail.com writes: Hello Andreas, On 16/07/12 16:15, Andreas Tille wrote: Could you try to implement this to enable me building with git-buildpackage easily? git-buildpackage should be fixed now, but I didn't import the pristine tar, since it is

Re: Bug#681230: RFS: gtkdataboxmm/0.9.1-1 [ITP]

2012-07-17 Thread Daniele E. Domenichelli
On 17/07/12 16:20, Gergely Nagy wrote: The difference between pristine-tar and a tag is that pristine-tar is the tarball, gzipped and all that. If you want to recreate the *exact* same thing from a tag, that is considerably harder, as you need to have just the right timestamps and various other

Re: Bug#681230: RFS: gtkdataboxmm/0.9.1-1 [ITP]

2012-07-17 Thread Daniele E. Domenichelli
On 17/07/12 16:50, Daniele E. Domenichelli wrote: Anyway I just realized that I made some mess, with the original tarball and the tarball created by git-buildpackage... I'll try to fix it... Ok, it should be fixed now. But I left the debian branch so now there are 4 branches: - master

Sponsor requested for translation and copyright updated package

2012-07-17 Thread Noel David Torres Taño
Hi all Yesterday Bart Martens filed a 'serious' bug against the package kstars-data- extra-tycho2 that I maintain. The seriousness of the bug was related to the possibility of copyright infringement. I've cleared the doubt with a change to the Copyright file that now explicites the terms under

Re: Bug#681167: RFS: cellml-api/20120711-1

2012-07-17 Thread Andrew Miller
On 11/07/12 14:45, Andrew Miller wrote: Package: sponsorship-requests CC: debian-scie...@lists.debian.org CC: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org The CellML API (upstream website: http://cellml-api.sf.net/) is an application programming interface, along with a complete reference implementation,

Bug#681933: RFS: boogiewoogie/0.9-1 [ITP] -- Reads and stores graphics from iMPROV's Boogie Board

2012-07-17 Thread Joerg
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package boogiewoogie * Package name: boogiewoogie Version : 0.9-1 Upstream Author : Joerg Richter deb...@fuyosoft.com * URL :

RFS: New upstream version of jampal

2012-07-17 Thread Peter Bennett
I am looking for a sponsor for a new version of Jampal. The previous sponsor of Jampal was Kilian Krause * Package name: jampal Version : 02.01.06+dfsg1-1 Upstream Author : Peter Bennett pgbenn...@comcast.net * URL : http://jampal.sf.net * License :

Bug#661533: RFS: postfix-cluebringer

2012-07-17 Thread Bart Martens
Hello Nikolai, The package at mentors is no longer there. What happened ? Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Processed: boogiewoogie: block ITP 681728 by RFS 681933

2012-07-17 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: block 681728 by 681933 Bug #681728 [wnpp] ITP: boogiewoogie -- Reads and stores graphics from iMPROV's Boogie Board 681728 was not blocked by any bugs. 681728 was not blocking any bugs. Added blocking bug(s) of 681728: 681933 stop Stopping

Bug#680141: marked as done (RFS: liblastfm/0.4.0~git20090710-2 [RC])

2012-07-17 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 18 Jul 2012 04:29:21 + with message-id e1srlt3-0003da...@quantz.debian.org and subject line closing RFS: liblastfm/0.4.0~git20090710-2 [RC] has caused the Debian Bug report #680141, regarding RFS: liblastfm/0.4.0~git20090710-2 [RC] to be marked as done. This means that