Re: Introducing the cruft-busters

2008-08-08 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
2008/8/8 Michael Casadevall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > not useful. The general idea is if you know a package (such as > firefox2) that should be removed from the archive, create an inital They'll be a lot of OpenStreetMap users unhappy about removing Firefox-2, as currently it is impossible to load Ya

Re: multiple pbuilders

2008-06-08 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
2008/6/8 Martijn van Iersel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm trying to create multiple pbuilders, as described in > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PbuilderHowto. I'm using the exact pbuilderrc > mentioned in the howto, but with intrepid added to the list of possible > values for DIST. It's not working. For some

Re: Patches

2008-02-07 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
On 07/02/2008, Luca Falavigna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can file a new bug in Launchpad [1] or attach diff.gz/debdiff to > existing bug reports [2], if your patch fixes some of them. > > [1] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/packagename/+filebug > [2] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/

Re: Patches

2008-02-07 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
On 07/02/2008, Stefan Potyra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just for clarification: If the package you touch comes from debian, and there > is no patch system present in the debian version, please don't start to > introduce one. This will make future merges more easy (valid in both > directions). So

Re: Patches

2008-02-07 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
On 07/02/2008, Luca Falavigna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is your package a new upstream revision? If so, you should publish new > .diff.gz file for review, otherwise a debdiff between current Ubuntu > version and yours is fine. For my information - for both cases: 1. in case of a new upstream ve

Patches

2008-02-07 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
Assuming I have patched a package in universe to fix a bug, and have also created a package for the bugfix, where is the best place to put it to get someone to check and upload it? REVU? sponsors-queue? Assuming you just want the .diff.gz, would you want to see the source directly patched, or wou

Re: podbrowser missing dependencies on

2007-12-21 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
I have now packaged libgtk2-ex-printdialog for Debian. Alternatively, I have also packaged the latest version of podbrowser (also for Debian), which removes the libgtk2-ex-printdialog dependency. Regards Jeff -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list Ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscri

Re: Guidelines for reviewing new packages.

2007-11-12 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/11/2007, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > 4b. Contents of diff.gz should be in debian/. i.e. no inline patching. Absolutely. Especially if there are patches on patches, anything else makes things really hard for anybody to follow. Regards

tesseract

2007-11-12 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
tesseract 2.01 has now been uploaded to Debian and is sitting in the NEW queue (http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html). Therefore, would some kind soul please remove it from REVU? As soon as it has hit unstable, I will file a request to sync. Regards Jeff -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list Ubuntu-motu

Re: googleearth-package

2007-11-03 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
On 03/11/2007, David Clayton wrote: > The download URL in version 0.2.0 is incorrect, it should be: > > http://dl.google.com/earth/client/current/GoogleEarthLinux.bin And the options are non-standard i.e. they offer --file rather than --file= Regards Jeff -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list Ubunt

Re: Frustration

2007-11-03 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/11/2007, Scott Kitterman wrote: > New packages require an understanding of pretty well all aspects of Debian > packaging. With bug fixing, it's only a little bit at a time usually. As a > result, bug fixing is genuinely a better place to start

Re: Frustration

2007-11-02 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/11/2007, William wrote: > You should upload to REVU I did. > Please ask MOTUs in #ubuntu-motu (irc.freenode.net) to review you package I am almost never in a position to be on IRC. I had rather assumed that the email generated by the upload t

Re: Frustration

2007-11-02 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/11/2007, Emmet Hikory wrote: > Apologies for the lack of response. REVU has been receiving > little to no reviews since the Gutsy Feature Freeze. The first > scheduled REVU day for the Hardy cycle is the 5th of November, at > which point y

Frustration

2007-11-02 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
I've been trying to do some packaging and am a little frustrated by the process. When I decided to package v2 of tesseract (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tesseract/+bug/130848), REVU was down, so on the premise that a Debian developer is an Ubuntu developer, I uploaded to mentors.debia

Re: non-MOTU Hopeful contributions

2007-10-19 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
On 19/10/2007, Neil Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For example is there any reason why MOTU wannabes couldn't do the > package reviews and +1 them when they are happy? Then MOTUs only have > to look at packages that have already passed through an acolyte. That > helps train the acolytes and re

Re: tesseract-ocr-2.0

2007-08-11 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
On 11/08/07, Michael Bienia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-08-11 11:54:13 +0200, Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote: > You tried uploading to the Ubuntu archive and not REVU which is > currently down. Right. I hadn't spotted that I had to edit /etc/dput.cf Does anyone why REVU

tesseract-ocr-2.0

2007-08-11 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
ecture: source Version: 2.00-1 Distribution: gutsy Urgency: low Maintainer: Jeffrey Ratcliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Changed-By: Jeffrey Ratcliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: tesseract-ocr - Command line OCR tool Changes: tesseract (2.00-1) gutsy; urgency=low . * Init