Re: repack upstream sources or overrides ?

2005-11-15 Thread Frank Küster
Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 02:08:59AM +, Sune Vuorela wrote: Hi! I am working on #338554 - and I am almost there. I have one big problem, though. Upstream did not run make distclean before releasing the tarball. Of course, linda and lintian

Re: repack upstream sources or overrides ?

2005-11-15 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2005-11-15, Michael Biebl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe a bit offtopic but I looked at #338554 and noticed that there are now several different naming schemes for kwin window decorations: I am working on this too. /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: repack upstream sources or overrides ?

2005-11-15 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2005-11-15, Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Obviously you didn't read file:///usr/share/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices.en.html#s-bpp-origtargz I have read that - and yes - I think repacking is not in normal best practice. But I sure don't override linda _errors_

Re: repack upstream sources or overrides ?

2005-11-15 Thread Frank Küster
Sune Vuorela [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is easy to remove it, yes. The package is just not linda/lintian clean. Making lintian overrides is quite easy, but I can't make linda override work. Any advice ? Its an upstream bug, and it should be fixed upstream. Since they already promised to

Re: repack upstream sources or overrides ?

2005-11-15 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2005-11-15, Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fakeroot debian/rules binary directly won't get bitten. Other than that, I would do nothing - it is a bug, therefore a lintian override is inappropriate, but it is not serious enough to justify messing with the tarball. So you suggest

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

2005-11-15 Thread Jakson A. Aquino
Hi, I've had many problems building the package for some reasons. One of them was that I was using Debian stable. So, I usually thought that the package was lintian and linda clean when in, fact, it wasn't. Although I can't have a pure unstable system here, I upgraded some packages (dpkg,

Re: Problem in Debian Quality Assurance ?

2005-11-15 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Jose Carlos do Nascimento in [EMAIL PROTECTED] version=2 opts=dversionmangle=s/\./-/ \ http://www.phpconcept.net/pclzip/ \.\./download.php.file=pclzip-([\d\-]+)\.tgz.* but in Debian Quality Assurance, versions are wrong showed.

Re: repack upstream sources or overrides ?

2005-11-15 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 12:59:49PM +0100, Frank K?ster wrote: So you suggest that I do not repack source and do not add overrides ? http://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html about lintian in the serious violations-part Sometimes there are valid reasons, but then you should either file

RFS: giac -- computer algebra system with nice GUI

2005-11-15 Thread Carlos Enrique Carleos Artime
Hello! This is an attempt to find a sponsor for GIAC: Description: Advanced computer algebra system with nice GUI by Bernard Parisse. Bernard Parisse is the main author of the CAS (computer algebra system) of calculators HP49G and HP40G. GIAC stands for Giac Is A Cas; it is a C++ library

Re: repack upstream sources or overrides ?

2005-11-15 Thread Frank Küster
Bas Wijnen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 12:59:49PM +0100, Frank K?ster wrote: I don't know how communication with the ftp-masters works these days; ideally they would read through files in the debian dir (what about README.ftp-masters :-)...) and find your note about the

Re: Problem in Debian Quality Assurance ?

2005-11-15 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Jose Carlos do Nascimento wrote: I am mantainer of one package and I created debian/watch file using these lines: version=2 opts=dversionmangle=s/\./-/ \ http://www.phpconcept.net/pclzip/ \.\./download.php.file=pclzip-([\d\-]+)\.tgz.* but in Debian Quality Assurance, versions

Re: RFS: irmp3 -- mp3 Jukebox (LIRC support)

2005-11-15 Thread Mario Iseli
Hello! i have now overworked the package again, fixed the outstanding mistakes in the manpages, debian/rules and debian/control. The package should now really be okey. Here again the informations for the package: Description: A Multimedia Audio Jukebox application. With irmp3 you can control

RFS: ngircd -- Next generation IRC Server

2005-11-15 Thread Mario Iseli
Package:ngircd Version:0.9.2-1 Author: Alexander Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] License:GPL ITP:295970 Description: Next generation IRC Server ngircd is a IRC Daemon for small or private networks. It does not contain all the functions like the professional