[RFS] ncpfs

2009-06-10 Thread James Westby
Hi, Last year I did a QA upload of ncpfs, however there was an Ubuntu bug reported when it landed in Ubuntu that gcc changes caused it to break: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328020 Steven Harms proposed a patch for the package, so I am submitting it here for inclusion in Debian. I must

Re: [RFS] QA upload of ncpfs merging all Ubuntu changes

2009-01-27 Thread James Westby
On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 17:14 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, James Westby wrote: Some fixes had built up in Ubuntu's ncpfs package, and as the package is QA maintained I rolled a proposed update for Debian. Would someone kindly review and sponsor my package at http

[RFS] QA upload of ncpfs merging all Ubuntu changes

2009-01-15 Thread James Westby
Hi, Some fixes had built up in Ubuntu's ncpfs package, and as the package is QA maintained I rolled a proposed update for Debian. Would someone kindly review and sponsor my package at http://people.ubuntu.com/~jamesw/packages/ncpfs_2.2.6-6/ncpfs_2.2.6-6.dsc I haven't been able to test it in

Bug#507282: xmcd: Missing mode to open() calls with O_CREAT

2008-11-29 Thread James Westby
Package: xmcd Version: 2.6-21 Severity: normal Tags: patch User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usertags: origin-ubuntu jaunty ubuntu-patch Hi, open(2) states that a mode must be specified when the O_CREAT flag is specified, there are a few cases where you package does not do that. Attached is a patch to

Bug#506500: gnuift: Missing --install argument to libtoolize call

2008-11-21 Thread James Westby
Package: gnuift Version: 0.1.14-9 Severity: normal User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usertags: origin-ubuntu jaunty Hi, As shown at http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19643691/buildlog_ubuntu-jaunty-i386.gnuift_0.1.14-9_FAILEDTOBUILD.txt.gz this package can fail to build as the libtoolize call will remove

Bug#468825: bfr: Please remove hardlinks from package

2008-04-30 Thread James Westby
severity 468825 serious thanks Hi, It was pointed out to me that this actually violates Debian Policy, section 4.8. I think this warrants a serious severity, but I'm not absolutely sure that may not as used in that section is equivalent to a must. Thanks, James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: dag2html: a package in need of some love

2008-04-02 Thread James Westby
On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 18:38 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting James Westby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): For the geneweb part I am Ccing Christian. Christian, do you know of anybody that would be interested in the dag2html package? Would it be worth contacting your upstream? I don't

Re: dag2html: a package in need of some love

2008-04-01 Thread James Westby
On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 11:14 +0900, Paul Wise wrote: On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 9:48 PM, James Westby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it even worth it? It's buggy, has a popcon of 12, and hasn't seen an upstream update since 2001?? My vote would be for removal. I agree, and I haven't

Re: dag2html: a package in need of some love

2008-03-29 Thread James Westby
On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 10:15 -0400, Barry deFreese wrote: Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:00:16PM +, James Westby wrote: Would the pkg-ocaml team be willing to take it over and make it build again? If not is it a valid candidate for removal

dag2html: a package in need of some love

2008-03-25 Thread James Westby
Hi all, The dag2html package is badly in need of some love http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/dag2html.html Would the pkg-ocaml team be willing to take it over and make it build again? If not is it a valid candidate for removal? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=443029 The first

Bug#468825: bfr: Please remove hardlinks from package

2008-03-01 Thread James Westby
Package: bfr Version: 1.6-1 Hi, The bfr package contains hardlinks. In fact it links together the upstream changelog and the Debian changelog. This is causing some issues trying to represent the package in a VCS, and it would be great if an upload could be done that removed the links. Thanks,

Removal candidate: bfr

2008-01-25 Thread James Westby
Hi, The bfr package is QA maintained, but has no bugs and 77 installs, 20 votes. However the main reason for removing it would seem to be that the functionality is provided by our trusty friend | Anyone object to me filling a removal request? Thanks, James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#452000: apt-spy: Build-Depends on obsolete libcurl3-openssl-dev

2007-11-19 Thread James Westby
Package: apt-spy Version: 3.1-16 Hi, apt-spy Build-Depends on libcurl3-openssl-dev, which is no longer a package and is provided by libcurl4-openssl-dev. Rebuild tests of the archive have presumably ensured that it builds with this, so it should be safe to just move to the new package. Thanks,

Bug#451631: adonthell: Fix to work with python2.5

2007-11-17 Thread James Westby
Package: adonthell Severity: normal Tags: patch User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usertags: origin-ubuntu hardy The attached patch from Matthias Klose fixes the package to work with python2.5. The latest version can also be grabbed from http://patches.ubuntu.com/a/adonthell/extracted/04_python2.5.diff It

Re: [RFH] rebuilding the archive with cowbuilder

2007-02-17 Thread James Westby
to cope with of this sort. Thanks, James -- James Westby --GPG Key ID: B577FE13-- http://jameswestby.net/ seccure key - (3+)k7|M*edCX/.A:n*N!|7U.L#9E)Tu)T0AM - secp256r1/nistp256 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: dvipng: Version 1.8 package (NMU / New Maintainer)

2006-10-05 Thread James Westby
. It has just been orphaned by the QA team, so you can go ahead and adopt it now. James -- James Westby --GPG Key ID: B577FE13-- http://jameswestby.net/ seccure key - (3+)k7|M*edCX/.A:n*N!|7U.L#9E)Tu)T0AM - secp256r1/nistp256 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: QA packages with really high popcon numbers :-)

2006-09-17 Thread James Westby
for a QA upload before I realised how tough I was going to find these bugs. I have stalled work on the packages, as without these bugs fixed it will not, nor should not, be included in etch. James -- James Westby --GPG Key ID: B577FE13-- http://jameswestby.net/ seccure key - (3+)k7|M

Re: dvipng: Version 1.8 package (NMU / New Maintainer)

2006-09-16 Thread James Westby
/dirs is redundant here. I cannot sponsor the package for you though. James -- James Westby --GPG Key ID: B577FE13-- http://jameswestby.net/ seccure key - (3+)k7|M*edCX/.A:n*N!|7U.L#9E)Tu)T0AM - secp256r1/nistp256 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: dvipng: Version 1.8 package (NMU / New Maintainer)

2006-09-16 Thread James Westby
On (16/09/06 21:34), Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, James Westby wrote: * The debian/copyright file is lacking. There is no copyright information, what is referred to as Copyright is in fact a License, and not a copy of a license header from the package. I

Re: somaplayer-doc is uninstallable in testing

2006-09-16 Thread James Westby
wont be installed with the binaries in many cases. I think this is more important for the locales though. Apologies for the extra stuff in the interdiff. James -- James Westby --GPG Key ID: B577FE13-- http://jameswestby.net/ seccure key - (3+)k7|M*edCX/.A:n*N!|7U.L#9E)Tu)T0AM

Re: Help transition to gettext 0.15

2006-09-10 Thread James Westby
cycles it should be fairly easy for you to rebuild some packages. James -- James Westby --GPG Key ID: B577FE13-- http://jameswestby.net/ seccure key - (3+)k7|M*edCX/.A:n*N!|7U.L#9E)Tu)T0AM - secp256r1/nistp256 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#376718: Please stop Build-Depending on automake

2006-07-04 Thread James Westby
on automake + + -- James Westby [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun, 2 Jul 2006 23:24:55 +0100 + kdoc (2.0a54-3) unstable; urgency=low * QA upload. diff -u kdoc-2.0a54/debian/control kdoc-2.0a54/debian/control --- kdoc-2.0a54/debian/control +++ kdoc-2.0a54/debian/control @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ Source: kdoc -Build

Bug#376626: Please stop Build-Depending on automake

2006-07-03 Thread James Westby
(charmap=UTF-8) diff -u kdoc-2.0a54/debian/changelog kdoc-2.0a54/debian/changelog --- kdoc-2.0a54/debian/changelog +++ kdoc-2.0a54/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +kdoc (2.0a54-3.1) unstable; urgency=low + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Remove the unneccesary Build-Depends on automake + + -- James