Re: RFS: libjlha-java -- LHA compress/decompress library for Java

2006-06-14 Thread Michael Koch
On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 11:51:47PM +0800, Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) wrote: Dear all, I'm writing some programs to decompress LHA files and need to use this library. Thus, I'm looking for a sponsor for the following package: ITP:: #367375 Package name: libjlha-java

Re: Debian 3.1 packaging documentation

2006-06-14 Thread robert jennings
Thank you Carlo, Actually, I was cutting a few corners and did a quick read through the Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Bible as well as a few other sites (I like IBM's site for quick answers for lots of little tid bits!) and I created the DEBIAN directory with associated files and skipped the dh_install

[HS?] contact apache team ?

2006-06-14 Thread Marc Chantreux
Hi all, Sorry if it is off topic but y don't know where to post. 137 days ago, I provided a patch to fix and improve the apache2 init.d script. The patch wasn't applied, the bug is still here, i see it every time i install a new webserver. I guess it bugs others users so i proposed my help (

Re: I can translate

2006-06-14 Thread Eddy Petrişor
On 6/13/06, DusteD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, i would like to help the debian project if there is any need for a english danish translator. Where do i go from here ? You should subscribe to the debian-l10n-danish list[1] and present yourself/ask for more info there. [1]

Re: RFS: flamerobin

2006-06-14 Thread Damyan Ivanov
Kari Pahula wrote: On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 06:50:19PM +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote: Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: * debian/control: Architecture is set to i386 amd64. What prevents the package from being usable on other architectures? Are you sure you don't mean any? flamerobin depends on

Re: [RFS] museek+: file-sharing application for the SoulSeek peer-to-peer network

2006-06-14 Thread Adam Cécile (Le_Vert)
I updated my package to the latest upstream release : http://www.le-vert.net/divers/debian-packages/museek+/museek+-0.1.10/ http://www.le-vert.net/divers/debian-packages/museek+/museek+_0.1.10-1.dsc I'm still looking for a sponsor ;-) Thx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

RFS: xboard (also fixes #163093)

2006-06-14 Thread Alexander L. Belikoff
OK, here's another attempt. I've fixed the only outstanding bug and built in pbuilder sid. The package is lintian and linda clean. I'm looking for a sponsor for (previously orphaned) xboard package. :-) - Package:xboard - Version: 4.2.7-5 - License: GPL - Description:

Homepage-field in description

2006-06-14 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 14:25 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 13:09 +0100, Adam James wrote: A minor quibble with your post, the following is from the Debian Developer's Reference [0]: Note the spaces prepending the line, which serves to break the lines correctly. To

Re: RFS: xboard (also fixes #163093)

2006-06-14 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello *, On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 07:27:27AM -0400, Alexander L. Belikoff wrote: OK, here's another attempt. I've fixed the only outstanding bug and built in pbuilder sid. The package is lintian and linda clean. I'm looking for a sponsor for (previously orphaned) xboard package. :-) Looking

Re: Homepage-field in description

2006-06-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Thijs Kinkhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 14:25 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: Hmm indeed, but to be honest I don't understand dit. I can't tell how this extra space will aid in the breaking of lines? The only space in that line will be right after Homepage: and I dare

Re: Homepage-field in description

2006-06-14 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 01:35:57PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 14:25 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 13:09 +0100, Adam James wrote: A minor quibble with your post, the following is from the Debian Developer's Reference [0]: Note the

Re: Homepage-field in description

2006-06-14 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 6/14/06, Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The space is necessary; it tells package front-ends to not wrap the line. See Policy 5.6.13. I guess you are referring to: Those starting with two or more spaces. These will be displayed verbatim. If the display cannot be panned horizontally,

Re: Homepage-field in description

2006-06-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Margarita Manterola [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When the URL is something like http://www.myniceproject.org, I don't see that would be the difference in having the extra space or not. Well, it matters to people with 20-character-wide windows, if there are any such people (there could potentially

Re: Homepage-field in description

2006-06-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 08:27 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Thus proving that the real solution is to get rid of the Homepage bit completely and instead add a real field to dpkg, since people won't even agree on and follow the syntax for the hack of putting it in the long description so that

Package does not build on ia64 and sparc

2006-06-14 Thread Benjamin Mesing
Hello, my package does not build on ia64 due to what seems to be dependency problems: /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/apt-get --purge $CHROOT_OPTIONS -q -y install debhelper libapt-front-dev libqt4-dev qt4-dev-tools docbook-to-man pkg-config libmysqlclient15-dev Reading Package Lists...

RE: Package does not build on ia64 and sparc

2006-06-14 Thread Kevin Fullerton
Hi Ben, What package is it? I've got a sparc64 (sun4u) machine that I can try the build on if you like? Cheers Kevin -Original Message- From: Benjamin Mesing [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 June 2006 20:02 To: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org Cc: Enrico Zini Subject: Package does

RE: Package does not build on ia64 and sparc

2006-06-14 Thread Benjamin Mesing
Hello, What package is it? It's packagesearch I've got a sparc64 (sun4u) machine that I can try the build on if you like? That would be helpful, please do so. Best regards Ben -- Please do not send any email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- all email not originating from the mailing list will be

Re: Package does not build on ia64 and sparc

2006-06-14 Thread Carlo Segre
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Benjamin Mesing wrote: Hello, my package does not build on ia64 due to what seems to be dependency problems: /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/apt-get --purge $CHROOT_OPTIONS -q -y install debhelper libapt-front-dev libqt4-dev qt4-dev-tools docbook-to-man pkg-config

Re: Package does not build on ia64 and sparc

2006-06-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 09:01:30PM +0200, Benjamin Mesing wrote: my package does not build on ia64 due to what seems to be dependency problems: /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/apt-get --purge $CHROOT_OPTIONS -q -y install debhelper libapt-front-dev libqt4-dev qt4-dev-tools docbook-to-man

Re: Homepage-field in description

2006-06-14 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 12:11:32AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: I don't think any part of packages (description or separate field) are the correct place for the Homepage field. Yes, that's because it's an unneeded duplication of what's already present in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright. The description

Re: Homepage-field in description

2006-06-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Margarita Manterola [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 6/14/06, Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The space is necessary; it tells package front-ends to not wrap the line. See Policy 5.6.13. I guess you are referring to: Those starting with two or more spaces. These will be displayed

Re: Package does not build on ia64 and sparc

2006-06-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Benjamin Mesing [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libapt-front-dev: Depends: libtagcoll-dev ( 1.6) but 1.6.3-1 is to be installed This is your actual problem and libapt-front-dev seems to be too old. Now you have to find out if

Re: Homepage-field in description

2006-06-14 Thread Eddy Petrişor
On 6/15/06, Adam Borowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 12:11:32AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: I don't think any part of packages (description or separate field) are the correct place for the Homepage field. Yes, that's because it's an unneeded duplication of what's already

Re: Homepage-field in description

2006-06-14 Thread Eddy Petrişor
On 6/15/06, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Policy does not talk about URLs, it just explains what the extra space is for. It matters if you have http://www.my.real.long.and.cool.domain.name.that.i.so.love.net/all/my/projects/package/html/ C'mon, how often does that happen? 1 in

Re: Homepage-field in description

2006-06-14 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 01:41:06AM +0300, Eddy Petri??or wrote: I don't think any part of packages (description or separate field) are the correct place for the Homepage field. Yes, that's because it's an unneeded duplication of what's already present in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright. The

Re: Homepage-field in description

2006-06-14 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Eddy Petrişor wrote: Think about somebody wanting to NMU because a bug has a fix in upstream and the current mainatiner is too busy or MIA. How difficult is it to get to the upstream? Is REALLY hard, belive me! I hate to point this out this pointedly, but if someone

Re: Homepage-field in description

2006-06-14 Thread Eddy Petrişor
On 6/15/06, Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Eddy Petrişor wrote: Think about somebody wanting to NMU because a bug has a fix in upstream and the current mainatiner is too busy or MIA. How difficult is it to get to the upstream? Is REALLY hard, belive me! I hate to

Re: RFC/RFS: bfilter, aspell-hr, myspell-hr

2006-06-14 Thread Rene Engelhard
Rene Engelhard wrote: Rene Engelhard wrote: - Please make everything -1 since the whole thing is your * Initial release - Close the ITP (see above) - up-to-date standards-version is 3.7.2 - You don't really need the dh_listpackages and find infrastructure which just was done by me

Re: Homepage-field in description

2006-06-14 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Eddy Petrişor wrote: On 6/15/06, Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if someone wanting to NMU is incapable of examining the copyright file to find the location of upstream, they shouldn't be making an NMU. That is a point, but still the users might find the link

Re: Homepage-field in description

2006-06-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Adam Borowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, that's because it's an unneeded duplication of what's already present in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright. The description is meant to convey information about where you can find useful things about the package, not about where you can download a new

Re: Package does not build on ia64 and sparc

2006-06-14 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: A wedged buildd config: apt was probably put on hold because the new version was SIGBUSing on sparc, and packagesearch naturally needs the current version of apt for building, so someone will need to un-hold apt on mrpurply. I'll talk to the admins.