Re: RFS: usepackage (updated package),,Dear mentors,

2009-01-31 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Miguelangel Jose Freitas Loreto miguelangel.frei...@gmail.com wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/u/usepackage/usepackage_1.8-2.dsc Switching to cdbs is not appropriate during the testing release freeze and the other change isn't something the

Re: RFS: qrupdate

2009-02-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso jord...@gmail.com wrote: I think you missed my debhelper 7 comment? I'm actually using version 7, since dh_prep needs it. Ok. There are no header files in the -dev package, does fortran not need external headers to be able to link to

Re: RFS: qrupdate

2009-02-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Rafael Laboissiere raf...@debian.org wrote: Otherwise, the package builds and installs fine here. I would just follow the suggestion from Paul Wise and put README and function-reference only in the -dev package. Well, this is a fortran library, you don't

Re: RFS: jigzo (updated package)

2009-02-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Elías A. M. eal...@gmail.com wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.6.1-1 of my package jigzo. Too late, Bart Martens already uploaded his version: http://packages.qa.debian.org/j/jigzo/news/20090207T205024Z.html The upload would fix these

Re: libv8: library without SONAME

2009-02-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:04 AM, Antonio Radici anto...@dyne.org wrote: as part of ITP #497701 I'm packaging libv8, a high-performance java script library written by Google and used in Chrominum, the open source version of the Chrome browser. If you are also packaging Chromium, please note

Re: RFS: lbzip2

2009-02-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 4:11 AM, ERSEK Laszlo la...@elte.hu wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package lbzip2. How is this different to or better than pbzip2? Perhaps you could get the two upstreams to collaborate and merge the two implementations of the same thing? -- bye, pabs

Re: RFS: zinnia (Online hand recognition system with machine learning)

2009-02-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Martin Meredith m...@debian.org wrote: Hi there, I think that you should get the description proof read. Please link to debian-l10n-english when giving such (good) advice: http://lists.debian.org/debian-l10n-english/ Not everyone knows about every single one

Re: RFS: lbzip2

2009-02-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Érsek László la...@chello.hu wrote: How is this different to or better than pbzip2? As I've written in the hot spice paragraph of my RFS, lbzip2 can decompress - with multiple threads pbzip2 too. - a bz2 file consisting of a single bzip2 stream (eg.

Re: RFS: lbzip2

2009-02-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 9:59 PM, ERSEK Laszlo la...@elte.hu wrote: I believe I wasn't exact enough. If your compressed input has *any* of the following characterists, pbzip2 won't use multiple worker threads to decompress it, while lbzip2 will: (1) The compressed input is read from a pipe.

Re: RFS: lbzip2

2009-02-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:01 AM, ERSEK Laszlo la...@elte.hu wrote: One such thing would be the set of paths I'd to put under an install: rule. This has clearly no place in Makefile.dev which is my personal playground, or Makefile.portable, which is what it is called. (The default Makefile,

Re: RFS: lbzip2

2009-02-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:12 AM, ERSEK Laszlo la...@elte.hu wrote: I uploaded a new build of the package: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/lbzip2 Apologies for the delay, uploaded, should end up in NEW soon. Please contact this list for future versions and I will upload if I am

Re: RFS: lbzip2

2009-02-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 1:00 AM, ERSEK Laszlo la...@elte.hu wrote: 1. Can you please enlighten me how the amd64 package was built (maybe you built it?) I built it in a clean chroot using cowbuilder (there is also sbuild, pdbuilder, lvmbuilder, qemubuilder). Is it usual that amd64 packages

Re: RFS: spacehero

2009-02-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Arne Wichmann ar...@rasentrimmer.org wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package spacehero. ... It builds these binary packages: spacehero - Space game to let you simulate Galaxies. Do you plan to join the Debian Games Team and maintain this there? We

Re: RFS: osm-gps-map

2009-02-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 2:46 AM, Andrew Gee and...@andrewgee.org wrote: * Package name: osm-gps-map Version : 0.2-1 Upstream Author : John Stowers john.stow...@gmail.com * URL : http://nzjrs.github.com/osm-gps-map/ You might want to get upstream to join

Re: RFS: osm-gps-map

2009-02-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Andrew Gee and...@webspot.co.uk wrote: I understand that libchamplain doesn't have python bindings, and has a dependency on clutter. OK. Would it still be able to package this for Debian? I wasn't suggesting that you can't package it for Debian, just that

Re: Creating a debian package for a port, from a modified existing Debian package

2009-02-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 2:11 AM, Sjors Gielen mailingl...@dazjorz.com wrote: I'm working on a Debian port to Cygwin called Debian GNU/kCygwin. Have you considered basing it on ReactOS (GPLed, binary-compatible Windows clone) so that proprietary software isn't needed to run your port? -- bye,

Re: 3.0 Quilt packages

2009-02-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Noel David Torres Taño env...@rolamasao.org wrote: Does somebody know if 3.0 (Quilt) format packages are actually accepted in the archive? My mentor tried before Lenny frozen and the package get rejected then. They will be rejected until the ftp-masters have

Re: Creating a debian package for a port, from a modified existing Debian package

2009-03-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Sjors Gielen mailingl...@dazjorz.com wrote: If the binary compatibility is complete, Cygwin should run fine on ReactOS and so will the port, right? :-) Probably, will you include the ReactOS kernel then? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To

Re: Creating a debian package for a port, from a modified existing Debian package

2009-03-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Sjors Gielen mailingl...@dazjorz.com wrote: As I understand it, ReactOS is an operating system you can run Cygwin on. Why would I include the kernel? I'd say users of ReactOS can fetch Cygwin or Debian-kCygwin in the same way as Win32 users would. Right?

Re: RFS: yui (updated package)

2009-03-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Jonathan Wiltshire deb...@jwiltshire.org.uk wrote: On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 11:41:04AM +0100, Thomas Koch wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.7.0b-1+nmu of my package yui. Why the +nmu? If this is an NMU upload, it should be -1.1. Also, you

Re: RFS: lynis (updated package)

2009-03-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Francisco M. García Claramonte fgclaramo...@yahoo.es wrote: - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/lynis/lynis_1.2.3-1.dsc Upstream changed their copyright info (+2009), debian/copyright needs to change too. There is one pedantic lintian complaint:

Re: RFS: lynis (updated package)

2009-03-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Francisco M. García Claramonte fgclaramo...@yahoo.es wrote: First of all Thanks for your revision. I have fixed the points you tell me. Uploaded to Debian, thanks for your contribution. Please mail this list for future uploads and I'll sponsor it if I am able.

Re: RFS: greyfix

2009-03-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 6:31 AM, mezgani ali hand...@gmail.com wrote: greyfix    - Greylisting policy daemon for Postfix. We have several similar packages in Debian, could you explain why this one should be added? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: RFS: reiserfsprogs

2009-03-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Felix Zielcke fziel...@z-51.de wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package reiserfsprogs. I'm now a DM so only a one time upload is needed. You shouldn't add DM-Upload-Allowed to your packages, that is for sponsors to do when they are comfortable with your

Re: scons /rules

2009-03-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Daniel Moerner dmoer...@gmail.com wrote: In general, it's pretty similar to a normal make setup. Instead of calling $(MAKE), just define SCONS (e.g., SCONS = scons, at the top of the file) and then call $(SCONS). The upstream SConstruct file should support

Re: scons /rules

2009-03-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Grammostola Rosea rosea.grammost...@gmail.com wrote: sudo apt-get install devscripts ; build-rdeps scons Sorry, but how can I check it? Where can I find the rules files? E. something like this should do it: apt-get source foo cd foo*/ less debian/rules

Re: finding *.dsc files

2009-03-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Chow Loong Jin hyper...@gmail.com wrote: You'll have to ask the maintainer of the debs on that server. Or the server admin. While you are at it, please suggest to them that they should join Debian and upload their packages here instead. -- bye, pabs

Re: RFS: tmux (updated package)

2009-03-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 4:35 AM, Karl Ferdinand Ebert kfeb...@gmail.com wrote: tmux       - terminal multiplexer This sounds very much like 'screen', what advantages does it have over 'screen'? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: RFS: crrcsim

2009-03-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 5:56 AM, Loïc Fejoz l...@fejoz.net wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package crrcsim. * Package name    : crrcsim ...  Section         : contrib/games It builds these binary packages: crrcsim    - Model-Airplane Flight Simulator You might want to join the

Re: RFS: crrcsim

2009-03-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 5:56 AM, Loïc Fejoz l...@fejoz.net wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package crrcsim. * Package name    : crrcsim ...  Section         : contrib/games ... http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/contrib/c/crrcsim/crrcsim_0.9.10-1.dsc According to debian-policy,

Re: RFS: owfs

2009-03-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 3:16 AM, M G Berberich berbe...@fmi.uni-passau.de wrote:  Upstream Author : [fill in name and email of upstream] * URL             : [fill in URL of upstreams web site] * License         : [fill in]  Section         : libs Surely you could fill these in before sending

Re: Fixing old-fsf-address-in-copyright-file

2009-03-14 Thread Paul Wise
n Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: The description for Lintian warning old-fsf-address-in-copyright-file says:    The /usr/share/doc/pkg/copyright file refers to the old postal    address of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). The new address is:

Re: itp-bug

2009-03-15 Thread Paul Wise
2009/3/16 Jaromír Mikeš mira.mi...@seznam.cz: I am running ubuntu based distro reportbug wnpp not working on it can I use ubuntu-bug? Or some other way? You need a Debian sid install to build and test your packages in before uploading them to Debian, so you could use that to report the bug.

Re: RFS: lbzip2

2009-03-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 8:12 AM, ERSEK Laszlo la...@elte.hu wrote: I released a new upstream version (0.14, changes should become shortly visible under http://freshmeat.net/projects/lbzip2) and made available a new build of the corresponding Debian package; the URL is the same as above. ...

Re: RFS: lbzip2

2009-03-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 5:55 AM, ERSEK Laszlo la...@elte.hu wrote: Oops. The nocheck build option needed a change. I apologize for rushing it. I uploaded the package to http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/lbzip2 Uploaded. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To

Re: Need advices library packaging.

2009-03-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Anthony Gasperin anthony.gaspe...@gmail.com wrote: My problem is that I do not know how to process with library packaging, I am wondering if somebody would know where I could find relative documentation. http://packages.debian.org/libpkg-guide

Re: RFS: flvtool++

2009-03-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 7:26 AM, Vincent MAUGE vma...@gmail.com wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package flvtool++. It is my first package so any comment will be really appreciate. We already have flvtool2 in the archive, please compare and contrast the two. It might be a good idea

Re: RFS: flvtool++

2009-03-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Vincent MAUGE vma...@gmail.com wrote: As it's write on the official website of flvtool++, it's write with performance in mind. Seems like a useful characteristic, would you say that flvtool2 should be removed in favour of flvtool++? flvtool2 doesn't have a

Re: RFS: ceph

2009-03-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 7:14 AM, Sage Weil s...@newdream.net wrote:  Upstream Author : Sage Weil s...@newdream.net        ceph-kclient-source - source for kernel client module Do you plan to get the kernel module merged into Linux at some point? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on.... (they use none of its symbols)

2009-03-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Muammar El Khatib muammarelkha...@gmail.com wrote: Could somebody help me with this? I'll appreciate any argument and thoughts from all of you. This is usually due to GTK+ and friends using Requires instead of Requires.private in /usr/lib/pkgconfig/*.pc:

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on.... (they use none of its symbols)

2009-03-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Miguel Landaeta mig...@miguel.cc wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: A workaround is to add -Wl,--as-needed to LDFLAGS, Gentoo has a document about that here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/asneeded.xml Please note

Re: Build reproducibility

2009-03-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Ryan Niebur ryanrya...@gmail.com wrote: remove it in your clean target. since you're regenerating it, it'll be fine if it's not there already. and removed files don't show up in the .diff.gz. you should use dh_clean t(1)o remove it. (just add it to

Re: dh_installdirs?

2009-03-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: Thanks for any advice I didn't see any problem/question in your message. If any problem exists, I suggest reading the dh_install and dh_installdirs manual pages to solve it. This is good general advice for all people asking questions here,

Re: dh_installdirs?

2009-03-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Jaromír Mikeš mira.mi...@seznam.cz wrote: Is it allowed to solve this by editing-patching makefile? As the maintainer of the package, you can do as you please. As a sponsor of packages, I would consider your solution to be appropriate. I suggest you convince

Re: RFS: fsprotect

2009-03-23 Thread Paul Wise
2009/3/24 Stefanos Harhalakis v...@v13.gr: The package consists of an init script, two initramfs scripts and two helper scripts, so I consider it to be 100% tied to debian and debian-based distributions. I cannot provide a set of scripts for other OSes and this is not an program that one can

Re: Outdated link

2009-03-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Jaromír Mikeš mira.mi...@seznam.cz wrote: There is outdated link in maintainers guide for menu.ex. http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ch-dother.en.html /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/menu-policy.html/ apt-file search menu-policy.html Can I ask where I can

Re: Build reproducibility

2009-03-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Luca Niccoli wrote: Actually I'm not running automake, do I need to? Not unless you are patching Makefile.am -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: RFS: CLAM, C++ library for audio and music

2009-03-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:25 AM, David García Garzón dgar...@iua.upf.edu wrote: * Should I split this RFS thread into several as i did for the ITP bugs? No need to. * The only lintian warning i get is: W: libclam13: package-name-doesnt-match-sonames libclam-audioio13 libclam- core13

more ideas for (semi-)automatable package metrics?

2009-03-25 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, At [1] we have a fairly comprehensive list of possible metrics (quality and otherwise) sponsors may want to prioritise packages to be reviewed/uploaded on. I'm wondering if there is anything obvious missing from the list. Also, if you have documented your criteria for sponsorship, please

Re: RFS: CLAM, C++ library for audio and music

2009-03-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 4:41 AM, David García Garzón dgar...@iua.upf.edu wrote: So, by discarding joining the libs, what are remaining the options? splitting packages? ignoring warnings? Either, I would split them. IIRC the lintian warning may be disabled when the number in the SONAME is the

Re: Build reproducibility

2009-03-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Luca Niccoli lultimou...@gmail.com wrote: After I'm done with packaging this version I'll take some time to understand well how the whole localization stuff is dealt with in the build infrastructure and I'll write upstream. Do you have pointers? Nothing other

Re: Point to semi-official backported packages?

2009-03-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net wrote: Now...  I know about - and use, and love - the Vcs-Svn and Vcs-Browser control fields.  However, I would like to have the unstable package contain some kind of pointers to my own Lenny and Etch ports to avoid duplication

Re: RFS: libchamplain and libchamplain-gtk

2009-03-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Sebastian Reichel wrote: I would be glad if someone uploaded these packages for me. This fixes #498369 and will allow eog-plugins to be packaged. You seem to have done the WNPP stuff wrong: Why are you hijacking this ITP without notifying the bug? Why does

Re: RFS: libchamplain and libchamplain-gtk

2009-03-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Paul Wise wrote: Why are you hijacking this ITP without notifying the bug? Sorry, I missed that #498369 is an RFP. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: RFS: lynis (updated package)

2009-03-29 Thread Paul Wise
2009/3/30 Francisco García wrote: - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/lynis/lynis_1.2.5-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Uploaded, thanks for your contribution to Debian. Please mail this list as usual for the next upload. -- bye, pabs

Re: Re: RFS: mpview

2009-03-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 3:43 AM, Adam Ziaja azi...@gmail.com wrote: Do you have any signs that upstream is still alive? It looks like a bit dead project from quick look. No, I just made this package, because of http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=469088 where this program is

Re: switched from autotools to waf

2009-03-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Jaromír Mikeš mira.mi...@seznam.cz wrote: dpkg-source: cannot represent change to autowaf.pyc: binary file contents changed ... dpkg-source: unrepresentable changes to source ... Can somebody check this file and advise me please? I am not familiar with

Re: Use *.dsc files from opensuse to package?

2009-03-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Daniel Moerner dmoer...@gmail.com wrote: It can be worthwhile to look at openSUSE, Gentoo, Fedora, etc. packaging to see if there are patches upstream hasn't applied, etc. apt-get install whohas whohas mixer click click click wish for #516572 to be fixed --

Re: switched from autotools to waf

2009-03-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Jaromír Mikeš mira.mi...@seznam.cz wrote: I tried change ./configure to $(WAF) configure on line 34 in my debian/rules, but I got same result. debian/rules is a makefile, I suggest reading the make documentation to figure this one out. -- bye, pabs

Re: Building outside of build directory (build error on power pc etc)

2009-03-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Tristan Greaves tris...@extricate.org wrote: I'm wondering if there is a simple way when running pbuilder to 'see' if it has put any files in $HOME ? If it completes successfully, it clears its staging area, so I can't go in afterwards to see what it did.  

Re: pbuilder problem

2009-03-31 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Jaromír Mikeš mira.mi...@seznam.cz wrote: xargs: xargs.c:443: main: Assertion `bc_ctl.arg_max = (131072-2048)' failed. ... Can somebody advise me please what does it mean? Seems fairly obvious from Google:

Re: working on package

2009-03-31 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Alex Hermosilla wrote: Yes. You can do it by reportbug Specifically 'reportbug wnpp' and follow the prompts. You may also want to read these: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html

Re: How to get an sponsor (need a bit more info)

2009-03-31 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:00 AM, Grammostola Rosea wrote: O, I've uploaded an packages and requested for an sponsor, also mailed it to the list. What is next? Wait and see? But what if potential sponsors are not satisfied with my package? Can I get some comments, or does this mean I sit and

Re: RFS: libchamplain and libchamplain-gtk

2009-03-31 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Sebastian Reichel wrote: Please have a look again. I'm not sponsoring new packages at the moment, but here is a review: If you haven't read libpkg-guide (and its two bugs), please do so. Please add symbols files. sed -i -e 's/documentary of/documentation

Re: RFS: libchamplain and libchamplain-gtk

2009-04-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Sjoerd Simons sjo...@luon.net wrote: On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 11:19:53PM +0200, Sebastian Reichel wrote: I didn't know about them / their plan of packaging libchamplain so far. There was no ITP, but just an RFP. But perhaps you guys want to sponsor my package? :)

Re: RFS: rakarrack

2009-04-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Tiago Bortoletto Vaz ti...@debian-ba.org wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package rakarrack. ... - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/r/rakarrack/rakarrack_0.3.0-1.dsc I'm not sponsoring new packages at the moment, but here is a review of

Re: RFS: rakarrack

2009-04-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: s/maintained/debianized/ debian/control Can this neologism “debianized” be replaced instead with “packaged”? Please file bugs on dh-make, dh-make-perl, dh-make-php and dh-make

Re: RFS: rakarrack

2009-04-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Ben Finney wrote: Perhaps. In the meantime, can we agree that it should not be exacerbated in the case of this package? That is up to the maintainer, I am happy to recommend the wording change for this package. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: RFS: hexer (adopted updated package)

2009-04-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net wrote: - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/h/hexer/hexer_0.1.4c-3.dsc I'm unable to sponsor at the moment, but I took a look at the diff.gz. Please remove the lintian overrides, you should only override lintian

Re: RFS: lbzip2

2009-04-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 5:13 AM, ERSEK Laszlo wrote: I kindly request you to put the package in NEW for me. Packages only go through NEW when they are introduced to Debian or when they add new binary packages. I'll have another look later today. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: problem sign .changes

2009-04-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: how-to sign .dsc and .changes files? Just running debsign is usually enough. I tried $ debsing -sgpg file.changes and have error: secret key not available Perhaps debsign is unable to find out which key you want to use, please use -k or

Re: RFS: lv2core

2009-04-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Jaromír Mikeš mira.mi...@seznam.cz wrote: I have lintian 1.23.46  installed here, I am working on 8.04 Ubuntu based distro. You should be building, installing and testing on a Debian sid system. Please install a chroot or VM with Debian sid on it for the

Re: no-symbols-control-file

2009-04-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: X: slv2: spelling-error-in-binary ./usr/bin/lv2_jack_host succesfully successfully X: slv2: spelling-error-in-binary ./usr/bin/lv2_simple_jack_host succesfully successfully These two you need to tell upstream about their spelling error.

Re: How to get COMMIT rights for already exiting project ( MSEide-MSEgui in the Sid branch ) ?

2009-04-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Bobyr Raisa Efimovna wrote: Me'm the maintainer of this project but don't have access right to put updates. Torsten Werner mail.twer...@googlemail.com and Mazen Neifer ma...@freepascal.org helped me to join then with the COMMIT stuff but currently don't

Re: [Fwd: Re: [jack-mixer]bin/sh: no: command not found]]

2009-04-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 3:32 AM, Grammostola Rosea wrote: pkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol sqrt used by debian/jack-mixer/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_jack_mixer_c.so found in none of the libraries. According to the sqrt manual page you need to link with -lm dpkg-shlibdeps: warning:

Re: no-symbols-control-file

2009-04-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: I put this line to my debian/rules: dpkg-gensymbols -plibslv2-9 -Olibslv2-9.symbols You should only run that manually to create the initial symbols file, dh_makeshlibs should take care of running the right dpkg-gensymbols call during the

Re: [Fwd: Re: [jack-mixer]bin/sh: no: command not found]]

2009-04-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Grammostola Rosea rosea.grammost...@gmail.com wrote: How do I link with -lm? Add it to the link command. How that is done depends on the upstream build system. you mean in jack_mixer.c? Can't find it in that file. No, in the upstream build system. Another

Re: RFS: parcellite (updated package)

2009-04-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 5:10 AM, Andrew a.star...@gmail.com wrote: This is the one suggestion I didn't follow. As the VSC is bzr and it is hosted on Launchpad, the two fields become a bit redundant. The same url can be used to both bring you to the Vcs-Browser web-page as well as checkout the

Re: RFS: cppcheck, new upstream version 1.31

2009-04-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 5:09 AM, Reijo Tomperi aggr...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Thanks again, but the question is more about whether we should use git logs, or ticket list (of closed tickets), or just the short summary we put in sourceforge news page. Not really sure what people would

Re: RFS: mongodb

2009-04-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:45 AM, Kristina Chodorow krist...@10gen.com wrote: .deb available at http://downloads.mongodb.org/linux/mongodb_0.9.1-1_i386.deb Binary packages are useless for sponsors, please link to the .dsc instead. The RFS template on mentors.d.n is useful even for packages not

Re: How to get buildd logs automatically?

2009-04-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Iustin Pop iu...@k1024.org wrote: So I stumbled upon a maybe-failed buildd log after a new upload, and I was wondering if I could get automatically the logs by email. The best you can do is run getbuildlog from devscripts or visit here:

Re: Template for RFS messages (was: RFS: mongodb)

2009-04-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Ben Finney wrote: While that template is useful for prompting some of the information needed in an RFS, it is still sadly deficient in some ways. How should we report bugs and patches against it? Send a patch for debexpo to debexpo-devel:

Re: working on package

2009-04-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Grammostola Rosea wrote: Stephan Peijnik wrote: An RFP is not an ITP. Change that to an ITP if you Intend To Package (actually you already did that). How do you change this? http://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control#retitle -- bye, pabs

Re: RFS: kio-ftps (updated package)

2009-04-15 Thread Paul Wise
2009/4/15 Laurent Léonard laur...@open-minds.org: * Shouldn't the package has a versioning indicating that it was modified   from upstream, with a dfsg suffix? I'm not sure about that, if a DD could give an opinion on this... I can't find any reference for this but yes, add +dfsg1 to the

Re: RFS: kio-ftps (updated package)

2009-04-15 Thread Paul Wise
2009/4/15 Laurent Léonard laur...@open-minds.org: So the final version number for the package should be 0.2+dfsg-2 (0.2-1 already exists in Sid) ? Yep. What is the difference between .dfsg, -dfsg and +dfsg suffixes ? With or without the - character after dfsg ? Sorting. 1.2.dfsg sorts

Re: RFS: kio-ftps (updated package)

2009-04-15 Thread Paul Wise
2009/4/16 Laurent Léonard laur...@open-minds.org: So .dfsg is a bad suffix ? And +dfsg should be used in priority ? If 1.2+dfsg/1.2-dfsg/1.2dfsg sort before 1.2.1 why are there different suffixes ? I don't find clear informations about that on the Debian policy... Yes (but not very), yes (or

Re: libgtk2.0-dev

2009-04-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Jaromír Mikeš mira.mi...@seznam.cz wrote: The following packages have unmet dependencies:  libpango1.0-0: Depends: libdatrie0 (= 0.1.2) but it is not installable The following actions will resolve these dependencies: This looks like a question for debian-user.

Re: RFS: kio-ftps (updated package)

2009-04-17 Thread Paul Wise
2009/4/18 Laurent Léonard laur...@open-minds.org: Correct me if I'm wrong, but the licensing problem only concerns 1 documentation file in the package, other ones are under GPL-2+, so I think dfsg versioning isn't needed... The upstream tarball isn't fully DFSG-free so we remove the bad bits,

Re: Questions about the changelog file

2009-04-17 Thread Paul Wise
2009/4/18 Laurent Léonard laur...@open-minds.org: Is there a standard or a recommendation for the content of the changelog file ? You'll find all of Debian's policies and best practices WRT debian/changelog in debian-policy and developers-reference. http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/

Re: RFS: easytag (updated package)

2009-04-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:49 AM, Benjamin Drung benjamin.dr...@gmail.com wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.1.6-0.1 of my package easytag. It isn't appropriate to NMU new upstream versions. The other changes certainly aren't appropriate in an NMU, please read the

Re: Request for someone to package i2p

2009-04-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Brent Clark brentgclarkl...@gmail.com wrote: Would anyone be interested in packaging I2P. The right way to request packages is to file an RFP bug against the wnpp pseudo-package, not mail this list. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To

Re: RFS: mpg321 (updated package)

2009-04-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Elías A. M. eal...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, I will take it into account. But first I would like first, the upstream author's  opinion or some mentor. I think may be: popular command-line mp3 player (according to: http://mpg321.sourceforge.net/) Since upstream

Re: RFS: slv2

2009-04-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Jaromír Mikeš mira.mi...@seznam.cz wrote: Problem creating account: ... Having error: global name 'name' is not defined Woops, my fault (typo). Should be fixed now. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: RFS: fsprotect (try #2)

2009-04-21 Thread Paul Wise
2009/4/21 Stefanos Harhalakis v...@v13.gr: fsprotect needs a directory under the root filesystem to preexist. Most probably it won't be used by normal users, so this won't be common. In IRC it was mentioned that it could should use /lib/fsprotect, but this directory is already used to store a

Re: Naming recommendation for quilt-managed patches

2009-04-21 Thread Paul Wise
2009/4/22 Laurent Léonard laur...@open-minds.org: Is there a naming recommendation for patches when using quilt in a Debian package ? patch-name.diff ? I don't use this because of the extension. patch-name.patch ? I personally prefer this. 0X-patch-name.diff ? 0X-patch-name.patch ?

Re: questions regarding libmimelib1 as seperate source package

2009-04-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 3:02 AM, Jonas Meurer jo...@freesources.org wrote: I intend to maintain libmimelib1 as a seperate source package now that kdepim 3.5.9 has been removed from debian/unstable. What does lurker link against on other distros that have moved to KDE4? -- bye, pabs

Re: RFS: smplayer-themes (updated package)

2009-04-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 6:10 AM, Sandro Tosi mo...@debian.org wrote: A part from some minor things on debian/changelog (not worthing a new upload or be fixed in the next one), there is a lintian tag you want to address: I: smplayer-themes source: dfsg-version-with-period 0.1.19.dfsg-1 (run

Re: RFS: ripit (updated package)

2009-04-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 1:05 AM, Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org wrote: Well, maybe. OTOH sometimes it is better to explain why RFS emails get ignored, otherwise the ping requests get more and more pointless. I'm hoping the debexpo codebase for mentors.d.n will help here. One of the proposed

Re: Question about README.source

2009-04-27 Thread Paul Wise
2009/4/27 Laurent Léonard laur...@open-minds.org: I didn't found any standard template for DFSG and various files removing for README.source, so can I use the following generic sentence ? I personally prefer to write a get-orig-source target that shows exactly how the orig.tar.gz was

Re: Writing debian/watch for project located at ohloh

2009-04-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Resul Cetin resul-ce...@gmx.net wrote: Will (as you can read above) only create a file called 'download'. Inside is a html file with the link hidden somewhere. Does anyone has experience or an idea how to write a working debian/watch file for such a project?

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