ITP: libsynaptics -- library to access the synaptics touch pad driver

2006-06-19 Thread fboudra
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Fathi Boudra [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name : libsynaptics Version : 0.14.4d Upstream Author : Stefan Kombrink [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://qsynaptics.sourceforge.net * License : GPL Description: library to access the synaptics touch pad driver

mentors.debian.net relaunched

2006-06-19 Thread Christoph Haas
Good morning, we - the mentors.debian.net team - have been running the mentors service for 3 years now. During that period ~500 package maintainers have uploaded many revisions of ~1200 different packages. Still the service was not very user-friendly and we could have done better to help

Re: mentors.debian.net relaunched

2006-06-19 Thread Kevin Bube
Hi Christoph, the mail address [EMAIL PROTECTED] bounces. I sent a private mail to your debian address with the log of the bounce message. Another problem that occured to me is that the sign-up web interface refuses my publickey. It complains that the mail address I entered does not match an

RFS: update libhtml-fromtext-perl

2006-06-19 Thread Francesco Cecconi
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.05-5 of my package libhtml-fromtext-perl. I'm a current maintainer. It builds these binary packages: libhtml-fromtext-perl - Mark up text as HTML With the new release, I've updated a new Debian Policy, Standard-Version 3.6.2 to

Re: mentors.debian.net relaunched

2006-06-19 Thread Christoph Haas
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 10:30:37AM +0200, Kevin Bube wrote: the mail address [EMAIL PROTECTED] bounces. I sent a private mail to your debian address with the log of the bounce message. Yes, I received it. Thanks. I still blame it on outdated DNS data because I can reach the support address from

Re: RFS: update libhtml-fromtext-perl

2006-06-19 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 10:36:03AM +0200, Francesco Cecconi wrote: I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Done. Best Regards, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar -- http://v7w.com/anibal signature.asc Description: Digital signature

How to correctly patch without cdbs?

2006-06-19 Thread Joseph Smidt
I have a package that needs four pactches. I put the four patches into debian/patches and cdbs patches just fine. I want not use cdbs if possible for I am confused at how exactly it is working, but what debhelper command do you use to patch? I see none listed under man debhelper, no dh_patch or

Re: How to correctly patch without cdbs?

2006-06-19 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 07:50:11AM -0600, Joseph Smidt a écrit : I tried using dpatch but it complained it couldn't understand the .patch files syntax even when I changed them to have .dpatch endings. Hi, Here is something I wrote in an unreleased text: -

Re: mentors.debian.net relaunched

2006-06-19 Thread Christoph Haas
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 11:05:32AM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 10:30:37AM +0200, Kevin Bube wrote: Another problem that occured to me is that the sign-up web interface refuses my publickey. It complains that the mail address I entered does not match an address

Re: How to correctly patch without cdbs?

2006-06-19 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 07:50:11AM -0600, Joseph Smidt wrote: I have a package that needs four pactches. I put the four patches into debian/patches and cdbs patches just fine. I want not use cdbs if possible for I am confused at how exactly it is working, It is a very good idea not to use

Re: mentors.debian.net relaunched

2006-06-19 Thread Kevin Bube
Christoph Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have reworked the PGP key handling. Please try again. I'm confident that your key will now work better. Now I get this: Traceback (most recent call last): File /home/www/mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/maintainer-signup, line 99, in ? addError =

Re: mentors.debian.net relaunched

2006-06-19 Thread Christoph Haas
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 04:06:40PM +0200, Kevin Bube wrote: Now I get this: Traceback (most recent call last): File [...] Fixed, too. :) I hope that this concludes the debugging on this mailing list. Please send further bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or if that address fails: [EMAIL

Re: How to correctly patch without cdbs?

2006-06-19 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 07:50:11AM -0600, Joseph Smidt wrote: I have a package that needs four pactches. I put the four patches into debian/patches and cdbs patches just fine. I want not use cdbs if possible for I am confused at how exactly it is working, but what debhelper command do you

Re: How to correctly patch without cdbs?

2006-06-19 Thread Frank Küster
Bas Wijnen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 07:50:11AM -0600, Joseph Smidt wrote: I have a package that needs four pactches. I put the four patches into debian/patches and cdbs patches just fine. I want not use cdbs if possible for I am confused at how exactly it is working,

Re: mentors.debian.net relaunched

2006-06-19 Thread Christoph Haas
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 07:28:45AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 10:13:33AM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: Since switching to the new site means changing DNS entries the server may temporarily be unavailable. There are also rumors that our [EMAIL PROTECTED] address is not

Re: How to correctly patch without cdbs?

2006-06-19 Thread Zak B. Elep
Hi Joseph! =) On 6/19/06, Joseph Smidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you correctly apply .patch files without cdbs? Do you just have to hardcode all the patch commands into debian/rules? That's one way: you can obviously have some shell snippet in debian/rules that would scan a directory

Re: mentors.debian.net relaunched

2006-06-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 10:13:33AM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: Since switching to the new site means changing DNS entries the server may temporarily be unavailable. There are also rumors that our [EMAIL PROTECTED] address is not working. We blame that on DNS, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:osamu$ dig

Re: How to correctly patch without cdbs?

2006-06-19 Thread Eddy Petrişor
On 6/19/06, Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure I'm not doing it correctly. How do you correctly apply .patch files without cdbs? At this point you should probably learn to use dpkg v2 source archives, which allow patches without third party patch applying code (and build deps).

Re: How to correctly patch without cdbs?

2006-06-19 Thread Eddy Petrişor
On 6/19/06, Eddy Petrişor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/19/06, Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure I'm not doing it correctly. How do you correctly apply .patch files without cdbs? At this point you should probably learn to use dpkg v2 source archives, which allow patches

Re: RFS: urw-garamond-no8

2006-06-19 Thread Kevin Bube
Kevin Bube [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I will put the files temporaily on my own homepage this evening. It is now on http://www.icbm.de/~bube/debian/ Regards, Kevin -- publickey 2048R/0AFDFB19: http://www.icbm.de/~bube/publickey.asc fingerprint: 542B 1378 04AA AF1F 572E 78BF 1BF5 5C71 0AFD

Re: How to correctly patch without cdbs?

2006-06-19 Thread Hubert Chan
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 09:59:40 -0400, Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: dpatch uses a patch patch format, where the first column is all pluses; they're really ugly. I don't know what version of dpatch you're using, but that's not the case here. For example, from the alsaplayer Debian

Re: [RFS] pngnq - tool for optimizing PNG (Portable Network Graphics) images

2006-06-19 Thread Paul Cupis
Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: Can someone, please, do an upload of pngnq for me? It's fixing a FTBFS. Files are here: http://biolinux.df.ibilce.unesp.br/naoliv/pngnq/ Thank you very much! Uploaded. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

RFS: python-py{ode,epl}

2006-06-19 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Dear DDs, Not so long ago me and Michael Hanke created an alioth project http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-exppsy/ aimed provide Debian-aware psychologists with the means of carrying out their experiments, such as stimuli delivery and response registration tools. Also I took over

Any other way to sign a package

2006-06-19 Thread Prasad Ramamurthy Kadambi
Hi All,How to sign a package ? Is it mandatiory that I use -s or -k option of dpkg-buildpackage like;$dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -sgpg -k [EMAIL PROTECTED] Let me know if there is any other way because I hope this signs the package while building the package itself.RegardsPrasad kadambi-- My

Re: Any other way to sign a package

2006-06-19 Thread Sander Marechal
Prasad Ramamurthy Kadambi wrote: Hi All, How to sign a package ? Is it mandatiory that I use -s or -k option of dpkg-buildpackage like; $dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -sgpg -k [EMAIL PROTECTED] Let me know if there is any other way because I hope this signs the package while building the

Re: Any other way to sign a package

2006-06-19 Thread Michael Koch
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 01:45:43AM +0530, Prasad Ramamurthy Kadambi wrote: Hi All, How to sign a package ? Is it mandatiory that I use -s or -k option of dpkg-buildpackage like; $dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -sgpg -k [EMAIL PROTECTED] Let me know if there is any other way because I hope

Re: How to correctly patch without cdbs?

2006-06-19 Thread Jari Aalto+mail.linux
* Mon 2006-06-19 Justin Pryzby justinpryzby AT users.sourceforge.net * Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] At this point you should probably learn to use dpkg v2 source archives, which allow patches without third party patch applying code (and build deps).

Signing the package

2006-06-19 Thread Prasad Ramamurthy Kadambi
Hi All,Is it OK if I sign package.deb leaving out .dsc and .changes file ?Also Should I sign .orig.tar.gz ?TIAPrasad Kadambi-- My Fingerprint:1024D/A526A4A5 :6D7A E790 B4A1 5554 54E2ECF3 1AA8 6EEE A526 A4A5

Re: How to correctly patch without cdbs?

2006-06-19 Thread Jari Aalto+mail.linux
* Mon 2006-06-19 Joseph Smidt jsmidt AT byu.edu * Message-Id: 142682e10606190650y3662b7eex89accc2d6c9ecbae AT mail.gmail.com I have a package that needs four pactches. I put the four patches into debian/patches and cdbs patches just fine. I want not use cdbs if possible for I am confused at

Re: Signing the package

2006-06-19 Thread Simon Richter
Hello, Prasad Ramamurthy Kadambi schrieb: Is it OK if I sign package.deb leaving out .dsc and .changes file ? There is a provision to do that, however that is optional and currently pretty much unsupported (in fact IIRC there is a hook that auto-rejects signed packages these days). Take

Re: Any other way to sign a package

2006-06-19 Thread Sander Marechal
Prasad Ramamurthy Kadambi wrote: Hi Sander, On 6/20/06, Sander Marechal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use: $ debuild -S But the man page does not speak about this, how do we come to use. Any pointers to debuild help ? I took it from the new maintainers guide and the Ubuntu documentation.

RFS: hashalot (adopting)

2006-06-19 Thread Adam Borowski
Whee!? I'm adopting hashalot, one of the packages Matthias Urlichs recently gave away. He doesn't have the time nowadays, so it would be nice if someone could sponsor this package. It's a simple package with straightforward packaging. My changes: * a cleanup of debian/rules *

RFS: tcng (adopting)

2006-06-19 Thread Adam Borowski
Whee!? I'm looking for a sponsor for tcng, another package of Matthias Urlichs that I'm adopting. This upload fixes two unreported RC issues, introduces a new major upstream release and fixes 5 of 6 bugs in the BTS. RC bugs: * FTBFS outside pbuilder * conflict for the binary name tcc, also

Re: How to correctly patch without cdbs?

2006-06-19 Thread Joe Smith
Jari Aalto+mail.linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] That's pretty much it to activate dpatch support. You have to generate the individual patches (with any means confortable to you) and convert them into dpatch format. Dpatch really needs better instuctions.

Re: Debian package without released upstream source

2006-06-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: Hi! On 6/4/06, Jörg Sommer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, my question is: Can I release a package that bases on not-released sources? If so, I request for an sponsor. Otherwise, what should I do? Wait? snip You just need to take care if the program is really

Re: How to correctly patch without cdbs?

2006-06-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 07:19:44PM -0400, Joe Smith wrote: That's pretty much it to activate dpatch support. You have to generate the individual patches (with any means confortable to you) and convert them into dpatch format. Dpatch really needs better instuctions. No, you just need to not

Re: Debian package without released upstream source

2006-06-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
Jörg Sommer wrote: Hallo Goswin, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just make sure to use a version that sorts lower than a future actual 2.2 release. Optimaly 2.2~beta2 would be used but I think the DAK still doesn't accept those. 2.1.99+2.2-beta might be a good choice.

RFS: kbtin (new)

2006-06-19 Thread Adam Borowski
Whee!? I'm looking for a sponsor for my pet package kbtin, an extended beyond recognition fork of tintin++. And, unlike any other MUD client in Debian, kbtin can be used to play a popular game named dpkg-buildpackage when piping the output through less and friends doesn't cut it. At least, less

RFS: dnscruft (new)

2006-06-19 Thread Adam Borowski
Whee!? In an attempt to infringe on commercial free speech, I'm looking for a sponsor for a new package, dnscruft. It feeds bind9 a list of domains like: * doubleclick.net * googlesyndication.com and a plethora of other advertisers, spammers, win32 spyware spewers, phishers and other miscreants

[RFS] pngcrush - optimizes PNG (Portable Network Graphics) files

2006-06-19 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! Kapil and I are searching for a sponsor for pngcrush. It's a new upstream release, fixing one bug and some typos on pngcrush manpage. Files are here: http://biolinux.df.ibilce.unesp.br/naoliv/pngcrush/ And just one thing, please. Build with -v1.6.2-1 so the changes from version 1.6.3-1

Who should be listed in Uploaders ?

2006-06-19 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 04:01:39PM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko a écrit : * Maintainer address set to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and since none of us is DD yet we saw no point to include us in Uploaders. This fact makes lintian unhappy and complaining about changelog-should-mention-nmu,

Re: Who should be listed in Uploaders ?

2006-06-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Le Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 04:01:39PM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko a écrit : * Maintainer address set to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and since none of us is DD yet we saw no point to include us in Uploaders. This fact makes lintian unhappy and complaining