Re: lintian W: sharedobject-in-library-directory-not-actually-a-shlib

2003-07-29 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 14:42:48 +0900, Junichi Uekawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lintian, however, can't know that this particular library usually is preloaded, not linked to. Hence the override. If its use is going to be something like that, please don't put it in /usr/lib. That's what the lintian

Re: RFS: pose - Palm OS Emulator (5th -and last- try)

2003-07-29 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi Matt. Matthew Palmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: In the case of software for Palmpilots and whatnot, unless a DD has compatible hardware, they can't test it. (Incidentally, if someone really wants to get pose in, they can donate a Palm to me and I'll happily test and sponsor). POSE is an

Re: Sponsor vs. Developer Process?

2003-07-29 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Rene Engelhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-07-29 01:31]: You won't be approved with no package in the archive. coughbullshitcough It _is_ so. Definitely. If you want to join Debian as a package maintainer, there is clearly no good reason for not having a package in the archive. Only

Re: ITA: yadex -- WAD file editor for doom-style WADs

2003-07-29 Thread Frederic Wagner
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 08:28:32AM +, Thomas Viehmann wrote: hi, Try lintian -i. You've probably left Author(s): in there. As it is decidable whether there's one or many copyright holders, you should either erase the (s) or just remove parantheses, depending on what follows. fixed, so

tagging bugs woody?

2003-07-29 Thread Frank Kster
Hi, users working with Debian woody often do not look at archived bugs when reporting bugs on a package. Therefore it is likely that bugs that have long been fixed in unstable, but will never be in woody will be reported multiple times again. Therefore on [EMAIL PROTECTED] it was suggested to

Re: RFS: vimoutliner

2003-07-29 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2003-07-29, 01:35 GMT, Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 11:20:29PM +0200, Matej Cepl wrote: I have created a package for vimoutliner. Is there anybody who would like to sponsor me? [...] All relevant files are on ftp://ftp.ceplovi.cz/data/www/ceplovi/matej/progs/debian/ I'd

Re: tagging bugs woody?

2003-07-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 29.07.03 15:20 Frank Küster wrote: users working with Debian woody often do not look at archived bugs when reporting bugs on a package. Therefore it is likely that bugs that have long been fixed in unstable, but will never be in woody will be reported multiple times again. Therefore on [EMAIL

Sponsor for popfile

2003-07-29 Thread Lucas Wall
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I'm looking for a sponsor. I have the following package ready for examination: POPFile is an email classification tool with a Naive Bayes classifier, a POP3 proxy and a web interface. It runs on most platforms and with most email

Control fields for libraries and programs depending on them

2003-07-29 Thread Neil Roeth
Suppose there is a package foobar that depends on a library libfoo. AIUI, whenever the SONAME changes, the library name should change, so I expect this to evolve as libfoo1, libfoo2, etc. What are the proper control fields (Depends, Conflicts, Replaces, Provides) for these packages? If I

Re: Control fields for libraries and programs depending on them

2003-07-29 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 08:06:38PM -0400, Neil Roeth wrote: Suppose there is a package foobar that depends on a library libfoo. AIUI, whenever the SONAME changes, the library name should change, so I expect this to evolve as libfoo1, libfoo2, etc. What are the proper control fields

Re: tagging bugs woody?

2003-07-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Andreas Metzler wrote: Frank Kuster wrote: users working with Debian woody often do not look at archived bugs when reporting bugs on a package. Therefore it is likely that bugs that have long been fixed in unstable, but will never be in woody will be reported multiple times again. I have

Re: ITA wmakerconf, wmakerconf-data (will need a sponsor)

2003-07-29 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Kevin B. McCarty wrote: I am adopting wmakerconf and wmakerconf-data packages -- I've already debianized the newest upstream versions (2.9 and 0.80.0 respectively) and fixed a few outstanding bugs. Being a non-maintainer, I'll need a sponsor -- would anyone like to volunteer? i have

Re: lintian W: sharedobject-in-library-directory-not-actually-a-shlib

2003-07-29 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 14:42:48 +0900, Junichi Uekawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lintian, however, can't know that this particular library usually is preloaded, not linked to. Hence the override. If its use is going to be something like that, please don't put it in /usr/lib. That's what the lintian

Re: RFS: pose - Palm OS Emulator (5th -and last- try)

2003-07-29 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi Matt. Matthew Palmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: In the case of software for Palmpilots and whatnot, unless a DD has compatible hardware, they can't test it. (Incidentally, if someone really wants to get pose in, they can donate a Palm to me and I'll happily test and sponsor). POSE is an

Re: RFS: vimoutliner

2003-07-29 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2003-07-29, 01:35 GMT, Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 11:20:29PM +0200, Matej Cepl wrote: I have created a package for vimoutliner. Is there anybody who would like to sponsor me? [...] All relevant files are on ftp://ftp.ceplovi.cz/data/www/ceplovi/matej/progs/debian/ I'd

Re: tagging bugs woody?

2003-07-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 29.07.03 15:20 Frank Küster wrote: users working with Debian woody often do not look at archived bugs when reporting bugs on a package. Therefore it is likely that bugs that have long been fixed in unstable, but will never be in woody will be reported multiple times again. Therefore on

Sponsor for popfile

2003-07-29 Thread Lucas Wall
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I'm looking for a sponsor. I have the following package ready for examination: POPFile is an email classification tool with a Naive Bayes classifier, a POP3 proxy and a web interface. It runs on most platforms and with most email

Control fields for libraries and programs depending on them

2003-07-29 Thread Neil Roeth
Suppose there is a package foobar that depends on a library libfoo. AIUI, whenever the SONAME changes, the library name should change, so I expect this to evolve as libfoo1, libfoo2, etc. What are the proper control fields (Depends, Conflicts, Replaces, Provides) for these packages? If I

Re: Control fields for libraries and programs depending on them

2003-07-29 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 08:06:38PM -0400, Neil Roeth wrote: Suppose there is a package foobar that depends on a library libfoo. AIUI, whenever the SONAME changes, the library name should change, so I expect this to evolve as libfoo1, libfoo2, etc. What are the proper control fields

Re: tagging bugs woody?

2003-07-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Andreas Metzler wrote: Frank Kuster wrote: users working with Debian woody often do not look at archived bugs when reporting bugs on a package. Therefore it is likely that bugs that have long been fixed in unstable, but will never be in woody will be reported multiple times again. I have

Re: ITA wmakerconf, wmakerconf-data (will need a sponsor)

2003-07-29 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Kevin B. McCarty wrote: I am adopting wmakerconf and wmakerconf-data packages -- I've already debianized the newest upstream versions (2.9 and 0.80.0 respectively) and fixed a few outstanding bugs. Being a non-maintainer, I'll need a sponsor -- would anyone like to volunteer? i have