Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-30 Thread Frank Küster
skaller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right now, however, when I release an upstream tarball, there is a whole bunch of work for the maintainer/DD to do .. the set of files in the package may have changed, the dependencies may have changed, the documentation set may have changed. This is true for

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-30 Thread skaller
On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 07:45 +, Neil Williams wrote: On Friday 30 December 2005 7:11 am, skaller wrote: Until the NM backlog is cleared, I'd recommend applying now if you see any prospect of this changing in the next year. It could be at least 8 months before you get assigned an

RFS: plotfoil, a utility for plotting airfoils

2005-12-30 Thread Anders Lennartsson
I'm looking for a sponsor for a deb-package of plotfoil. This application is a tool for generating postscript-files of wing sections, in a natural size specified by the user. (It cannot do base64 encodings however :) Large profiles are spread over several sheets which can be taped or glued

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

2005-12-30 Thread Jakson A. Aquino
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 11:53:15PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Mario Iseli wrote: -Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} +Depends: ${shlibs:Depends} (You don't need the second variable, it isn't defined anywhere...) Automatic generation of miscellaneous dependencies.

Re: RFS: libhtml-wikiconverter-perl -- An HTML to wiki markup converter

2005-12-30 Thread Jonas Genannt
Christoph Haas wrote: On Tuesday 27 December 2005 13:39, Jonas Genannt wrote: I am searching for an sponsor for my libhtml-wikiconverter-perl package. You've just found one. :) Thank you :) The package is uploaded. In the next version you may want to fix the minor typo at the end of the

Version to use in package for a program with non standard versioning

2005-12-30 Thread Sebastiaan Couwenberg
As of November 2005, I've picked up maintainance of qd, the [EMAIL PROTECTED] queue dumper, after it's author passed away in August 2005. I'm trying to create native Debian packages for qd, it's data file (qdinfo.dat) and another program to print the content of the data file (qdiprint). qd and

Re: Version to use in package for a program with non standard versioning

2005-12-30 Thread Neil Williams
On Friday 30 December 2005 1:40 pm, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: As of November 2005, I've picked up maintainance of qd, the [EMAIL PROTECTED] queue dumper, after it's author passed away in August 2005. So it's a new source package; much as if it had been spun out of kfolding:

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-30 Thread Guilherme de S. Pastore
Em Sex, 2005-12-30 às 14:12 +1100, skaller escreveu: On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 19:12 -0200, Guilherme de S. Pastore wrote: Even then, do you think you are ready to upload a package to the Debian archive? Mine, yes. I know more about it than anyone else You may know about the software itself

Re: Version to use in package for a program with non standard versioning

2005-12-30 Thread Sebastiaan Couwenberg
You have sorted out the licence problems with qd? It's currently in contrib. What license problem whould that be? Dick Howell, the original author, explicitly says on his website: This is free software; you can distribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Public License. There is

Re: [RFS] altermime: utility used to alter mime-encoded mailpacks

2005-12-30 Thread Christoph Haas
On Thursday 29 December 2005 11:11, Julien Valroff wrote: I'm looking for a sponsor for altermime: alterMIME is a small program which is used to alter your mime-encoded mailpacks as typically received by Inflex, Xamime and AMaViS. alterMIME can: * Insert disclaimers * Insert

Re: Version to use in package for a program with non standard versioning

2005-12-30 Thread Neil Williams
On Friday 30 December 2005 2:40 pm, you wrote: You have sorted out the licence problems with qd? It's currently in contrib. What license problem whould that be? I'm not claiming to have an authoritative answer for all this, I'm not a DD yet. Dick Howell, the original author, explicitly

Re: [RFS] altermime: utility used to alter mime-encoded mailpacks

2005-12-30 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 03:39:43PM +0100, Christoph Haas wrote: On Thursday 29 December 2005 11:11, Julien Valroff wrote: I'm looking for a sponsor for altermime: alterMIME is a small program which is used to alter your mime-encoded mailpacks as typically received by Inflex, Xamime and

RFS: libmemcache_1.4.0.b9-1

2005-12-30 Thread Zak B. Elep
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Andreas and debian-mentors! Happy New Year! :-) I've packaged libmemcache, a C client library for Danga Interactive's memcached. Originally it was meant to be injected into Ubuntu universe, but I changed goals and I now want it in Debian[1] so

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-30 Thread skaller
On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 09:46 +0100, Frank Küster wrote: skaller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If your upstream software has a good installation procedure - something like the autotools [Lol .. you really don't want to hear my opinion of autotools :] type with the possibility to change directory

Re: [RFS] altermime: utility used to alter mime-encoded mailpacks

2005-12-30 Thread Julien Valroff
Hi, Thanks for your comments. Le vendredi 30 décembre 2005 à 15:39 +0100, Christoph Haas a écrit : On Thursday 29 December 2005 11:11, Julien Valroff wrote: I'm looking for a sponsor for altermime: [...] According to the WNPP there is currently an ITP by David Moreno Garza [EMAIL

Re: [RFS] altermime: utility used to alter mime-encoded mailpacks

2005-12-30 Thread Christoph Haas
On Friday 30 December 2005 18:39, Julien Valroff wrote: Thanks for your comments. As stated by Justin, I have already been advised to let dh_link, even if no links have to be set. Should I remove this call anyway? I believe Justin is right. So just leave it there. I will build a new package

Re: [RFS] altermime: utility used to alter mime-encoded mailpacks

2005-12-30 Thread Julien Valroff
Le vendredi 30 décembre 2005 à 18:54 +0100, Christoph Haas a écrit : On Friday 30 December 2005 18:39, Julien Valroff wrote: Thanks for your comments. As stated by Justin, I have already been advised to let dh_link, even if no links have to be set. Should I remove this call anyway? I

Re: [RFS] altermime: utility used to alter mime-encoded mailpacks (uploaded)

2005-12-30 Thread Christoph Haas
On Friday 30 December 2005 19:23, Julien Valroff wrote: I removed LICENCE as Policy states that all licence information[1] should be in debian/copyright. I thus changed the man page to point to /usr/share/doc/altermime/copyright. Good. Package appears to be clean now. Thanks for your

Re: [RFS] altermime: utility used to alter mime-encoded mailpacks (uploaded)

2005-12-30 Thread Julien Valroff
Le vendredi 30 décembre 2005 à 19:55 +0100, Christoph Haas a écrit : On Friday 30 December 2005 19:23, Julien Valroff wrote: I removed LICENCE as Policy states that all licence information[1] should be in debian/copyright. I thus changed the man page to point to

Re: Version to use in package for a program with non standard versioning

2005-12-30 Thread Sebastiaan Couwenberg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Williams wrote: I'm not claiming to have an authoritative answer for all this, I'm not a DD yet. Don't worry, I appreciate all feedback. But I would like to know what a DD has to say about this. Why is it in contrib then? Just curious

Re: RFS: libmemcache_1.4.0.b9-1

2005-12-30 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi Zakame, Hence, I'm needing a sponsor for this package. I hope for your positive reply, and contructive comments are very much welcome!!! Unfortunately I can't upload your package, but a quick review showed me that the copyright file talks about Ubuntu everywhere, like in This is the Ubuntu

Re: Version to use in package for a program with non standard versioning

2005-12-30 Thread Nick Lewycky
Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: Stanfords [EMAIL PROTECTED] client is not DFSG-free. Stanford won't release the source, and you need permission if you wish to write for a 3th party installer and no one is allowed to distribute the software. AFAIK, thats the reason why there's no [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Move config-files from /etc into /etc/foobar during package upgrade

2005-12-30 Thread Daniel Leidert
Hello, I'm currently preparing an update for a package. Until now, the configuration file(s) was/were located in /etc. Now there are changes, which make it more useful to have the configuration files inside /etc/foobar. The configuration files look like foobar.conf*. Are there special things I

Re: RFS: libmemcache_1.4.0.b9-1

2005-12-30 Thread Zak B. Elep
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey Thijs! Thanks for the heads-up! :-) On 12/31/05, Thijs Kinkhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately I can't upload your package, but a quick review showed me that the copyright file talks about Ubuntu everywhere, like in This is the