Re: pre-sponsored-package checklist (was: Re: RFS: FileZilla3 - GUI ftp client of wxwidgets2.6)

2005-09-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 12:16 +0200, Joost van Baal wrote: > On http://www.debian.org/ there is a link called "Help Debian", to > http://www.debian.org/devel/join/ ("How You Can Help". > > Perhaps that page should incorporate your (very nice!) checklist. > And/or maybe it should link to > http://pe

Re: RFS: FileZilla3 - GUI ftp client of wxwidgets2.6

2005-09-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 18:23 +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Hi, > > Paul Wise wrote: > > * Delete all the Makefile.in, config.h.in during debian/rules > > clean, or make otherwise make it so that they are not in the > > diff.gz > Why's th

Re: RFS: FileZilla3 - GUI ftp client of wxwidgets2.6

2005-09-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 12:08 +0800, Emfox Zhou wrote: > in fact, the upstream has not officially released a tarball, i just > used the CVS checkouted ones. you know, thing like Makefile.in > couldn't be in CVS... Ooops, I see. > so, what should i do, is it ok to package the orig.tar.gz after > ru

RFS: fonttools -- Converts OpenType and TrueType fonts to and from XML

2005-09-30 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, According to [0], the fonttools maintainer offers his packages for adoption. I would like to adopt fonttools as I use it for when creating fonts packages (2 so far). I have not received a reply to my wishlist bug (#329171) requesting that the maintainer upload the new upstream version that

Re: RFS: fonttools -- Converts OpenType and TrueType fonts to and from XML

2005-09-30 Thread Paul Wise
Ooops, forgot this url: http://sponsors.debian.net/viewpkg.php?id=90 -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: RFS: fonttools -- Converts OpenType and TrueType fonts to and from XML

2005-10-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 15:51 +0300, Eugeniy Meshcheryakov wrote: > > According to [0], the fonttools maintainer offers his packages for > > adoption. I would like to adopt fonttools as I use it for when creating > > fonts packages (2 so far). I have not received a reply to my wishlist > > bug (#329

Re: first steps (pcfitsio, pyraf and iraf)

2005-10-10 Thread Paul Wise
Cedric BRINER wrote: > I'm working as a sysadmin at the Geneva Observatory and we do need > some softwares which are not provided by the debian distribution. So I > thought that it will be a good idea to do this job well once and to > give this back to the debian community. Really, you will need

Re: Re: [RFC/RFS] adm8211-source - driver for ADMtek wifi card

2005-10-11 Thread Paul Wise
Jean-Marc Ranger wrote: > > There are no signs of an ITP ( Intented To Package ) > > Please file an "ITP bugreport" > > I thought it was optional. Why would it be optional? Why would you want to prevent duplication of effort and track your packaging progress? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian

Re: [RFC/RFS] adm8211-source - driver for ADMtek wifi card

2005-10-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 18:26 -0400, Jean-Marc Ranger wrote: > You're well-placed to know since you're the credited author :) So > agreed, my mistake. Well, I just made a couple of minimal patches, Matthew Palmer is the main author. > Other comments ? debian/changelog - add (Closes: #333237) - w

Re: [RFC/RFS] adm8211-source - driver for ADMtek wifi card

2005-10-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 20:42 -0400, Jean-Marc Ranger wrote: > I plan to keep a single changelog entry until package is "officially" > issued. Is this ok ? As a side effect, using -v wouldn't be required. This is ok, but, I don't think mentors.debian.net allows you to re-upload the same version.

Re: KChmViewer debian package

2005-11-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 15:05 +0100, José Luis Tallón wrote: > PLASE!!! Look for ITPs in WNPP before *duplicating and wasting* effort. Indeed! That is what it is there for! > The problem with KChmViewer is that it used a modified, statically > linked version of chmlib... and that is not admiss

Re: Package that depends on ming

2005-11-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 21:08 +0100, Joost van Baal wrote: > > Since ming is not in Debian anymore, > > You're talking about libming, which is still supported in woody > (oldstable). Do you know why it didn't make it to sarge? It might be > possible to get it re-enter Debian. (Just saw upstream

Re: How to have a package signed while seahorse agent is running?

2005-11-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 11:26 +, Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) wrote: > > http://bugs.debian.org/322208 > > But this doesnt explain why it works with debsign entered as a command > in the console. In this case, it uses the cached passphrase or ask for > it if never used before. As far as I can t

Re: How to have a package signed while seahorse agent is running?

2005-11-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 10:55 +, Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) wrote: > I've seahorse-agent running in my gnome environnement . Me too. > While building a package, at the moement to sign it, I've the following > messages: > What Im missing? You forgot to read the seahorse bug report (as I did :)

RFS: etl -- Voria Extended Class and Template Library

2005-11-29 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, I need a sponsor for the following package, which is a build dependency for another package I want to get in - synfig, a 2D vector animation studio - http://synfig.com. I'll need a sponsor for that too, once it's dependencies have gone through the C++ transition. Package name: etl Ver

Re: RFS: etl -- Voria Extended Class and Template Library

2005-11-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 01:07 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > complement and supplement the C++ STL. > ^^ ^^ > > What do they mean? I'm halfway serious .. I know in math class > complement is 90deg and supplement is 180deg. > > Is there a nonmath interpretation to those word

Re: RFS: etl -- Voria Extended Class and Template Library

2005-11-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 10:54 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > In the case of ETL, the intent of 'supplement' is > > simply 'adding new datatypes and functions'. The intent > > of 'compliment' is 'which combine well with the existing > > types and functions'. > > I would suggest to use this phrase i

Re: pbuilder and scons

2005-12-13 Thread Paul Wise
Claudio Moratti wrote: > I'm working on a package that uses scons... > > everything goes fine but I find one problem: in order to clean the sources, > debian/rules calls > /usr/bin/scons -c > but pbuilder don't try to install the Unmet build dependencies before the > "clean"... As other peopl

Re: How to ensure whether an ITP has been raised for ICE

2005-12-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 18:09 +0530, Prasad Kadambi wrote: > I searched for the ITP in http://debian.org/devel/wnpp/ and could not > find. Please help. http://bugs.debian.org/wnpp doesn't show any indication either. I did find this page via google: http://ice.jgaa.com/ The source package is a nati

Re: RFS: swftools - a collection of tools for SWF file manipulation

2005-12-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 18:11 +0200, Simo Kauppi wrote: > I'm looking for a sponsor for swftools, a collection of utilities for > manipulating and creating SWF (Flash) files. I'm not a DD, but I have some comments on the package and other things: * The ITP needs to be retitled from an RFP, a

Re: RFS: swftools - a collection of tools for SWF file manipulation

2005-12-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 19:08 +0200, Simo Kauppi wrote: > The changes to the man pages came from accidentaly running lintian -I > instead of lintian -i. I use these lines in my ~/.devscripts so I always get the correct lintian/linda stuff. export DEBUILD_LINDA=yes export DEBUILD_LINTIAN_OPTS=-i ex

Re: RFS: statist - Small and fast terminal-based statistics program

2005-12-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2005-12-26 at 21:36 -0200, Jakson A. Aquino wrote: > This package was discussed here before, but I didn't find a sponsor yet. > Below, some information about it: > > Package: statist The package looks good. I have a couple of comments: * In the diff.gz, the changes to the .po file

RFS: libwww-topica-perl (and dependencies)

2006-01-03 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, Is anyone interested in sponsoring WWW::Topica now that the upstream bugs are resolved? It is a perl script (and some modules) for converting the list archives at lists.topica.com into mbox files. I also need either a sponsor for the dependencies, or for the pkg-perl group to take ownershi

RFS: xmms-midi -- MIDI plugin for XMMS

2006-01-09 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, I need a sponsor for xmms-midi, an xmms plugin for playing midi files. Package name: xmms-midi Version : 0.03-1 Original Author : Chris Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> License : GPL Sponsor request : http://sponsors.debian.net/viewpkg.php?id=182 Package : deb-src http

RFC: synfig packaging (a 2D vector animation studio)

2006-01-10 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, I've packaged synfig[1] (a 2D vector animation studio), and found a sponsor for it. Since neither of us have much experience with shared libraries, I would like some comments on the packaging, particularly if the libraries are ok, the package split is ok and any problems you can find. You

Re: RFS: GOPchop

2006-01-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 10:57 -0800, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: > Hi, I'm looking for a sponsor for the GOPchop MPEG2 editor. I debianized > and added man pages for it some time back, but never got the ball > rolling for inclusion in the repository. Paul Wise recently took some

Re: RFS: GOPchop

2006-01-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 16:24 -0800, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: > At present the packaging stuff is merged with the upstream source. Use > the usual cvs commands to download the current code (I merged in the > changes you contributed). Sample commands to download the code are at: > > http://sourcefor

Re: RFC: Packaging converters from ${format} to ISO

2006-01-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 18:02 -0500, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > I want to package mdf2iso and b5i2iso, two small utilities that convert > proprietary programs' CD image formats into the normal ISO format that > cdrecord and Linux's iso9660 filesystem accept. There are at least half a > dozen such u

Re: RFS: GOPchop

2006-01-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 19:29 +0100, Erik Schanze wrote: > > Firstly, the changelog in indicates that the package is for the > > development version of gopchop, however, you should only upload > > stable releases to debian unstable (development/cvs/svn/etc releases > > generally go to experimental),

Re: How to add a localization *.po file to a package?

2006-01-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 00:43 -0800, Stan Vasilyev wrote: > I'm the new maintainer for xdialog package. A user has submitted a new > localization file ca.po via the BTS. I'm trying to include this file in the > package. Are you aware of the new upstream? http://thgodef.nerim.net/xdialog/ I was

Re: How to add a localization *.po file to a package?

2006-01-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 22:57 -0800, Stan Vasilyev wrote: > I merged your work with my changes and fixed almost all bugs in BTS. Some comments/questions: * Why did you remove the space in front of Homepage: in debian/control I intentionally placed that there. Please read the

Re: Lintian Warnings and Modifying Upstream Source

2006-01-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 13:15 -0800, Cameron Dale wrote: > W: torrentflux: extra-license-file var/www/torrentflux/adodb/license.txt Other people have pointed out the solution to this, however, it indicates to me that torrentflux includes a copy of adodb. Please don't install that copy, unless the t

debug packages?

2006-01-30 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, I'm packaging a C++ app that has packages like this: foo - binary using the library libfoo0 - the library itself libfoo0-dev - headers and so on libfoo0-doc - docs for the library I'd like to add a package for debug information, since the app crashes occasionally. Should I ad

non-PIC problem

2006-02-03 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, I'm trying to get synfig (http://www.synfig.com) into debian, and there is one last issue before I start harassing my sponsors/co-maintainers to upload it. Lintian complains about shlib-with-non-pic-code on one of the plugins, and the main lib. I think the problem with the plugin is that

Re: RFS: python-harvestman

2006-02-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 07:33 +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > HarvestMan is the only public-domain, multithreaded web-crawler > program written in the Python language. HarvestMan is released under > the GNU General Public License. Public domain and the GPL are mutually exclusive. Please don't write t

debian/rules build/build-indep/build-arch

2006-02-19 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, According to my reading of debian-policy 4.8 and 7.6, this should be correct: debian/rules: build: build-indep build-arch build-indep: build arch-indep stuff (like docs) build-arch: configure build some binaries However the autobuilders use debian/rules build instead of

RFS: mtasc -- ActionScript 2 to Flash (SWF) compiler

2006-02-23 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, I've packaged mtasc, a free compiler for creating SWF files from ActionScript source code. This is part of a general effort to package osflash stuff for Debian: http://osflash.org/debian_packaging One issue with the packaging at the moment, is that I'm not sure where to put the classpath

Re: Naming conventions for mingw32 packages?

2006-03-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 12:37 +0100, Volker Grabsch wrote: > They saved a lot of work for me, so I decided to help to improve it. > Since I'm relatively new to Debian packaging, I need some advice. Have you asked the mingw32 maintainer about this? They are more likely to be able to answer your ques

Re: MinGW cross compiled library packages for Debian

2006-03-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 13:36 +0100, Volker Grabsch wrote: > 1) The debian-devel list is too much traffic for me. Do I really >have to advertise my plans there? Not really, however it is courteous to do it, and there are archives. If you don't like mhonarc archives, there are lurker ones availa

Re: Naming conventions for mingw32 packages?

2006-03-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 21:19 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Also you might want to get the Debian GNU/Win32 project restarted. Now > that there is a free Win32 kernel/implementation (atheos - not sure how > well it works), this might become more feasible/useful. Correction: not ath

Re: RFC: swftools - a collection of utilities for SWF file manipulation

2006-03-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 11:40 +0200, Simo Kauppi wrote: > I would like to get some comments for packaging the next upstream > release of swftools. * debian/watch: best remove the comments, and probably unsplit the line. * debian/changelog: might want to use NMU-style numbers un

Re: Take over an ITP in absence of an answer from the bug owner

2006-03-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 07:09 +0100, Julien Valroff wrote: > > I am very interested in taking over fast-user-switch-applet package > > (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=304763) > > I will be there in a few days with an RFS ;-) IIRC, fusa is part of the upcoming GNOME 2.14, so the gn

Re: RFS: fast-user-switch-applet: applet for the GNOME panel providing a menu to switch between users

2006-03-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 00:35 +0100, Julien Valroff wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for fast-user-switch-applet, an applet for > the GNOME panel providing a menu to switch between users. > This package is now part of GNOME 2.14, and should thus be sponsored by > a member of the GNOME team. Shou

Re: RFS: fast-user-switch-applet: applet for the GNOME panel providing a menu to switch between users

2006-03-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 10:10 +0100, Julien Valroff wrote: > I contacted them before, and somebody told me I could keep my ITP and > ask here for a sponsor, provided that I state clearly this is a GNOME > package. I put them in copy just in case... Ah cool. Will they put it in their SVN repo? > >

Re: RFS: byzanz - Small screencast creator

2006-03-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 16:57 +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote: > I'm looking for a sponsor for this tiny screen cast utility named byzanz: If you have no luck here, try the debian-gtk-gnome list. > Package status: > - lintian-clean, but linda gives a warning: > W: byzanz; A binary links against a l

Re: RFS: tnef -- Tool to unpack MIME application/ms-tnef attachments

2006-04-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 12:12 -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for the package 'tnef'. Thanks for adopting this. > Thank you in advance for reviewing this package Some comments: * debian/control: need an extra space before Homepage (see the devref 6.2.4), may

Re: RFS: gaupol -- Subtitle editor for text-based subtitle files

2006-04-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 21:55 +0200, Piotr Ozarowski wrote: > I think gaupol is popular enough to be included in Debian. Thanks for packaging this. BTW, once it is uploaded, check out the popcon results for the package: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?popcon=gaupol > I'm confused because I can

Re: RFS: gaupol -- Subtitle editor for text-based subtitle files

2006-04-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 10:53 +0200, Piotr Ozarowski wrote: > I registered a weeks ago but... I didn't receive confirmation mail yet (sic!) > I have even send a bug report to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but no reply till today :( Hopefully he will fix this soon. > Believe me, I was searching for it in repo

Re: RFC: swfmill

2006-04-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 03:34 +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > swfmill is an xml2swf and swf2xml processor with import functionalities Some comments: * debian/watch: only needs 2 lines - version and url. may want to allow uscan to auto-run uupdate - add " debian uupdate" to the en

Re: RFC: swfmill

2006-04-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 15:19 +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > > W: libswfmill0: package-name-doesnt-match-sonames libswfmillxslt0 libswft0 > > What's the standard way of solving this? It was suggested to me that the lintian warning should be overridden. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: RFC/RFS: rhinote -- virtual sticky-notes for your desktop

2006-04-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 23:43 +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > * Package: rhinote Some comments: * debian/control: add a Homepage as per devref 6.2.4 * debian/copyright: misses the years in which the copyright applies http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/0

Re: RFC: gnash (FSF Free Flash Player)

2006-04-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 13:02 +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > Gnash is not ready for uploading to SID yet, I'm considering putting > it into experimental. Please do! Thanks for taking on this package. > The last packages I've made are available at > http://baby.yi.org/packages/gnash/ Some comments:

Re: RFC: gnash (FSF Free Flash Player)

2006-04-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 02:31 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Some comments: > * debian/copyright: I forgot to point out this mail: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/03/msg00023.html -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a dig

Re: RFC: gnash (FSF Free Flash Player)

2006-04-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 00:49 +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > > * debian/control: gnash is not binNMUable due to libgnash-dev > > strictly depending on libgnash0 (= ${Source-Version}). > > What should I do in this case? just depend on libgnash0 without the version? > wasn't they going to

Re: RFS: python-urwid - Console UI Library for Python

2006-04-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 15:59 -0400, Ian Ward wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for the python-urwid debian packages I have > created. > WNPP submitted on November 30, 2005: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=341344 You will notice that I retitled that RFP bug to ITP. I've create

Re: RFS: python-urwid - Console UI Library for Python

2006-04-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 15:58 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > I have packaged versions for python2.1, 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4, and I've > > > made them available in an apt repository on excess.org. > > > > I think a better option would be to use python-support to make a single > > deb that supports al

Re: RFS: python-urwid - Console UI Library for Python

2006-04-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 12:03 -0400, Ian Ward wrote: > The tutorial.html file has been restored to urwid-0.9.3.tar.gz > > I know this might not be good form (I imagine I could have made a new > release), but it was just a build problem that caused it to appear as a > zero length file, and the fil

Re: RFS: python-urwid - Console UI Library for Python

2006-04-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 11:28 -0400, Ian Ward wrote: > I've never tried using setup.py to generate documentation. Could you > point me to an example of a module that does this? I don't really know enough about distutils or of any modules that do this. I think it would be fine to distribute both t

Re: spcaview : package review needed

2006-04-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 23:48 +0200, Le_Vert wrote: > spcaview : package review needed The convention is RFC: package -- package description > http://www.le-vert.net/divers/debian-package/spcaview/spcaview_20051212-1.dsc Best to just specify the dsc/diff so we can go dget -x for a more thorough

Re: spcaview : package review needed

2006-04-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 16:14 -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > I'm using dpatch right now, pretty nice, thanks :-) > FYI many people are now starting to use quilt. For good reason, it rocks! > > > * debian/watch: please add one (read uscan(1) for more info) > > > > Added. Looks great but is i

Re: RFS: Templayer - HTML Templating Library for Python

2006-05-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 20:42 -0400, Ian Ward wrote: > When Paul Wise was kind enough to repackage my Urwid libraries I learned > that I was not creating packages the way I should be. They were mostly fine for the current python policy (although a bit overkill). I'm looking forward to

Re: optional building of a package

2006-06-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 09:29 -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: > Just use > Depends: probcons (= ${Source-Version}) Please don't use Source-Version - from the dpkg-gencontrol manual: "The source package version (from the changelog file). This variable is now deprecated as its meaning is differe

Re: Homepage-field in description

2006-06-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 08:27 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Thus proving that the real solution is to get rid of the Homepage bit > completely and instead add a real field to dpkg, since people won't even > agree on and follow the syntax for the hack of putting it in the long > description so that pe

Re: Who should be listed in Uploaders ?

2006-06-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 02:36 -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > only linda is unhappy about non-free font in the upstream > tarball If linda is correct about there being a non-free font in the upstream tarball, then you will need to repack the upstream tarball and document that you have done so. S

Re: Who should be listed in Uploaders ?

2006-06-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 13:31 -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > I kept the same version. You should instead change the upstream version to 1.0.14.dfsg.1, the other option is to rename the source package to pyepl-dfsg, but that is generally not preferred, since renaming source packages can be annoy

RFS: templayer -- layered template library for Python

2006-06-27 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, Would anyone be able to sponsor templayer? It is a python module that I need for urwid in order to be able to generate the tutorial. It uses cdbs and python-support for building at the moment. dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/t/templayer/templayer_1.2-2-1.dsc http://mento

Re: Packaging non-compiled files

2006-08-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 11:13 -0400, Kit Peters wrote: > At my job, we would like to use apt to distribute certain packages, > such as WWW applications written in PHP, to certain other of our > machines. Your question has been answered by others, but I would like to suggest that you join the debian

Re: Where to host a native package as a non-DD

2006-08-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 22:57 +0300, George Danchev wrote: > An URL to *.dsc file will suffice and is actually more suitable to grab (i.e. > dget) debian source packages from sites, then dpkg-source -x .dsc. Agreed. Extra tip for dget users: dget -x http://foo.bar.com/foo_1.0-1.dsc -- bye, pabs

Re: RFS: queuegraph

2006-08-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 12:27 +0100, Conall O'Brien wrote: > - dget > > > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/q/queuegraph/queuegraph_1.1.0-1.dsc There is a strange error in your diff.gz: $ dget -x http://mentors

Re: RFS: advanced PNG (Portable Network Graphics) optimizer

2006-08-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 04:57 -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: > I am searching for a sponsor for OptiPNG. Hmm, I thought you would have a permanent sponsor by now. > It's an updated package (new upstream release). > Linda and lintian clean and builds OK on pbuilder. > http://mentors.debian.net

Re: RFS: bottlerocket

2006-08-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 13:49 -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.05b3-7 of my > package "bottlerocket". It was recently orphaned and since I use > the package in my home to control lights, I filed an ITA in order to > keep it in Debian. Excellent, always

Re: RFS: queuegraph

2006-08-06 Thread Paul Wise
No need to CC me, I'm subscribed. You should assume that people don't want a CC unless they indicate that they do in some way. On Sun, 2006-08-06 at 22:00 +0100, Conall O'Brien wrote: > > dpkg-source: failure: patch gave error exit status 1 > > Hmmm, I'm not sure how to investigate this. All I d

Re: RFS: queuegraph

2006-08-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 02:58 +0100, Conall O'Brien wrote: > > I've rebuild my package now (and it seems to be 3.7.2 complient). I've > > uploaded it to mentors.debian.net again. Hopefully the updated packages > > will be moved from incoming/ to the pool soon. > > I tried to do your dget -x test an

Re: Huge private Debian repository...

2006-08-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 14:08 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Curently I have over 480 packages to custom applications to maintain... If any of them are free software, please consider uploading them to Debian or filing bugs in the BTS for customised versions of existing packages. Not sure if you h

Re: A problem with dh_strip

2007-02-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 22:33 +0100, Matej Kosik wrote: > > Major part of the orignal binary is compiled from OCAML sources so maybe > there is some specific error behavior of dh_strip related to these kind > of binaries. > Read the ocaml policy, but you are correct, dh_strip needs -X so it doesn

Re: RFS: php-ffmpeg

2007-05-02 Thread Paul Wise
On 5/3/07, Raphael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: php4-ffmpeg - ffmpeg support for php4 php4 will be removed from sid soon, please remove this package: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/04/msg00816.html -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: need review for new split of libcomplearn package

2007-05-21 Thread Paul Wise
On 5/18/07, Rudi Cilibrasi, Ph.D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am looking for somebody willing to have a look for problems in a new version of my biggest package that I split up recently. Please post a URL to your split package. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: LBAdmin package

2007-05-28 Thread Paul Wise
On 5/26/07, John Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: All problems solved, except the following when running lintian: E: lbadmin: package-contains-xvpics-dir var/www/lbadmin-1.0/images/.xvpics/ Get upstream to make sure it won't be put into future tarballs they release and change debian/rules to re

Re: Advice on packaging SAGE

2007-05-29 Thread Paul Wise
On 5/29/07, Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Unfortunately, packaging it for Debian looks like a momentuous task. SAGE, as it stands right now, distributes its own versions of a number of other free software packages that are already in Debian I'd suggest finding out what tho

Re: RFS: prolog-el

2007-06-13 Thread Paul Wise
On 6/13/07, Philipp Benner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Package: prolog-el http://www-lehre.inf.uos.de/~pbenner/debian/prolog-el_1.14-1.dsc Some comments: * You might want consider configuring your server (if you are the sysadmin) to allow people to view the diff.gz in their browser (or switch

Re: RFS: kopete-otr

2007-06-13 Thread Paul Wise
On 6/13/07, Francesco Cecconi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Package name : kopete-otr Some comments: - yr upstream probably shouldn't be including a debian/ dir, if only for the reason that it results in incomplete reviews by drive-by reviewers such as myself. - why is the library installe

Re: RFS: Xnee (updated) Thrid try

2007-06-13 Thread Paul Wise
On 6/13/07, Jeremiah Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: xnee - an X evironment emulator and recorder Some comments: - xnee is already in Debian and has a maintainer. There are no RFA or O bugs either. - you didn't preserve the debian/changelog history from the existing xnee package - deb

Re: RFS: wackamole (updated package)

2007-06-13 Thread Paul Wise
On 6/11/07, Michael Mende <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: wackamole - Daemon to make a cluster highly available Some comments: - Why do you need to add /usr/lib and /usr/include to the configure arguments? Those are standard dirs. - May want to use debhelper compat level 5 - May want to contribut

Re: RFS: Xnee (updated) Third try

2007-06-14 Thread Paul Wise
On 6/14/07, Jeremiah Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have been requested to maintain this package by the developer - the DD he was working with has stopped all work on the package and is not answering emails. Furthermore the version in debian is 1.8x and the new version is 2.06 with lots of

Re: RFS: kicad (updated package)

2007-06-14 Thread Paul Wise
On 6/14/07, Richard A Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: kicad - Electronic schematic and PCB design software A drive-by diff review: Perhaps add descriptions and your name to the dpatches. Have you sent the patches and the .desktop file upstream? is 02_debpaths.dpatch really needed? Migh

Re: RFS: kicad (updated package)

2007-06-15 Thread Paul Wise
On 6/15/07, Richard A Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As of last week I now have write access to the kicad dev svn repository (in fact it's only as of about 2 weeks ago that there was an upstream dev repo at all). So patches have gone upstream, except the debpatchs one (see below). Excellent

Re: RFS: kicad (updated package)

2007-06-15 Thread Paul Wise
On 6/15/07, Richard Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: No problem, thanks for your time. If you know anyone that would be able to help please point them in my direction. There are some tips for this sort of thing in the mentors FAQ. Perhaps someone on debian-science might be interested. -- bye

Re: RFS: kde-icons-crystalproject

2007-07-01 Thread Paul Wise
On 6/28/07, Raphael Geissert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm using a datestamp because that seems to be the best way to handle the 'version' of the icons pack. To prevent the need for an epoch if upstream decides to use versions, you might want to go with something like 0.0.20070625-1 or 0.0.20

Re: RFS: kde-icons-crystalproject

2007-07-02 Thread Paul Wise
On 7/3/07, Raphael Geissert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks, I'll use the latter (uploading to mentors right now). By the way, are you interested in sponsoring the package? =) I'm not a KDE user and I don't have time for sponsoring, sorry. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise --

Re: ampache sponsor

2007-07-03 Thread Paul Wise
On 7/1/07, Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ampache- A web based audio file management system written in PHP I attended the debian-security talk at debconf. Lets just say that PHP isn't popular with them :) Have you audited the code so that the security team don't have to do it when you

Re: RFS: inferno

2007-07-07 Thread Paul Wise
On 7/7/07, Nicholas Jefferson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/i/inferno/inferno_0.0.20070510-2.diff.gz No time to sponsor, but some comments: * consider putting the patches into quilt (or maybe dpatch) * that is a lot of patches to the font stuff, what ar

Re: RFS: unalz

2007-07-07 Thread Paul Wise
On 7/6/07, LIU Qi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/u/unalz/unalz_0.61-1.diff.gz No time for sponsoring, some comments: Send manpages, patches upstream if you haven't already. Might want to convert the patches to quilt (or dpatch/cdbs-simple-patchsys) In

Re: RFS: thwab-lib

2007-07-07 Thread Paul Wise
On 7/7/07, Ahmed El-Mahmoudy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/t/thwab-lib/thwab-lib_1.1.2-1.diff.gz No time for sponsoring, some comments: New upstream release for a package not yet in debian? Please file an ITP and close it in the changelog What happens

Re: RFS: ninja

2007-07-07 Thread Paul Wise
On 7/5/07, William Vera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/n/ninja/ninja_0.1.2-1.diff.gz No time for sponsoring, some comments: I see the security issues mentioned in the ITP have been fixed, am I correct? debian/rules contains unused configure target, comm

Re: RFS: secpanel (updated package)

2007-07-07 Thread Paul Wise
On 7/4/07, Bruno Costacurta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/secpanel/secpanel_0.5.2-1.diff.gz No time for sponsoring, some comments: Why the changes from /bin/sh to /usr/bin/wish? The wish manpage says using what upstream has is better. Might want to s

Re: RFS: secpanel (updated package)

2007-07-08 Thread Paul Wise
On 7/8/07, Bruno Costacurta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any reason for using debhelper 4 instead of 5? I used dpkg-buildpackage to build package secpanel 0.5.2-1 Should I avoid dpkg-xxx and prefer debhelper tools ? By debhelper 5, I mean debian/compat 5 and debian/control Build-Depends: debhe

Re: RFS: secpanel (updated package)

2007-07-09 Thread Paul Wise
On 7/10/07, Bruno Costacurta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm a newbie as maintainer : I suppose I can close this bug #305135 once this package is uploaded to Debian repos by a mentor ? Usually one would put something like this in the changelog: * New upstream release (Closes: #305135) If it

Re: RFS: hfsprogs - mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems

2007-07-17 Thread Paul Wise
On 7/18/07, Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I made a package for creating and checking HFS(+) filesystems. The basic information about this package is here What is the relationship between hfsprogs and the existing hfsplus and hfsutils packages? Perhaps all three could be consolidated

Re: RFS: hfsprogs - mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems

2007-07-20 Thread Paul Wise
On 7/20/07, Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It is quite nice that you have shown some interest in hfsprogs. I will explain what you have asked. I don't really have any interest in them (don't interact with Macs at the moment), my motivation for the question was to perhaps get those th

Re: Sponsorship guidelines for codehelp - now online.

2007-07-24 Thread Paul Wise
On 7/25/07, Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://people.debian.org/~codehelp/#sponsor > > Content seems to be missing? ? I see alot of content. In galeon I am unable to scroll down and see the sponsoring guidelines, which are clearly there when looking at the source code. Probably

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