Re: shc -- #335278 broken packaging -- non-DD NMU prepared

2006-07-14 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 14 July 2006 03:52, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 08:22:25AM +1200, Nigel Jones wrote: From memory, aren't NMU's (even more so, non-DD NMU's) only meant to fix RC bugs? Not new upstream releases? On 7/14/06, George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yet

Re: shc -- #335278 broken packaging -- non-DD NMU prepared

2006-07-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 09:34:20AM +0300, George Danchev wrote: Agreed. Fixed. There is no any chance for a comaintenance either, since the maintainer has been MIA for almost 1 year now and these RC-bugs are left unaddressed. Also seems he will not file a RFH, FRA, or O or ask for

Re: shc -- #335278 broken packaging -- non-DD NMU prepared

2006-07-14 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 09:34:20AM +0300, George Danchev wrote: shc (3.8.6-1) unstable; urgency=low ^^^ This is the wrong version number for an NMU anyway. True. Fixed as -0.1. Hm, it would be nice if lintian and linda warn if changelog claims Non-maintainer upload

Re: shc -- #335278 broken packaging -- non-DD NMU prepared

2006-07-14 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 14 July 2006 10:08, Bas Wijnen wrote: On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 09:34:20AM +0300, George Danchev wrote: shc (3.8.6-1) unstable; urgency=low ^^^ This is the wrong version number for an NMU anyway. True. Fixed as -0.1. Hm, it would be nice if lintian and

Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath documentation

2006-07-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Bas Wijnen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 05:32:12PM -0400, Charles Fry wrote: Depends. Does it actually fix the warning? Yes, but it also broke my binary, which can no longer find the needed library. Any suggestions? Is rpath okay in this case? The needed

RFS: byzanz -- very small screencast utility

2006-07-14 Thread Bastian Venthur
Hi Mentors, I'm looking for a sponsor for this tiny screen cast utility named byzanz: * Package name: byzanz Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Author : Benjamin Otte [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://people.freedesktop.org/~company/byzanz * License : GPL Description

Re: shc -- #335278 broken packaging -- non-DD NMU prepared

2006-07-14 Thread Ricardo Mones
El Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:56:00 +0300 George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Friday 14 July 2006 10:08, Bas Wijnen wrote: On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 09:34:20AM +0300, George Danchev wrote: shc (3.8.6-1) unstable; urgency=low ^^^ This is the wrong version

Re: shc -- #335278 broken packaging -- non-DD NMU prepared

2006-07-14 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 01:31:22PM +0200, Ricardo Mones wrote: That also should be catched and warned, since an NMU done by a maintaner makes no sense. It's not very common, but it does: the NMU is prepared by another non-DD and the package maintainer sponsors it. I remember a thread

Re: shc -- #335278 broken packaging -- non-DD NMU prepared

2006-07-14 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 14 July 2006 14:49, Bas Wijnen wrote: On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 01:31:22PM +0200, Ricardo Mones wrote: That also should be catched and warned, since an NMU done by a maintaner makes no sense. It's not very common, but it does: the NMU is prepared by another non-DD and the

two different packages with the same source tarball/name

2006-07-14 Thread Thomas Weber
Hi, is it possible to have two different binary packages with the same source package name (but different upstream versions of the source)? Reason: I'm about to package octave-forge for both Octave 2.1 and 2.9 (you can consider octave-forge as plugin, that needs to be compiled for the

Re: two different packages with the same source tarball/name

2006-07-14 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 02:34:41PM +0200, Thomas Weber wrote: is it possible to have two different binary packages with the same source package name (but different upstream versions of the source)? No. The package with the later version will overwrite the earlier one, and this will cause the

Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath documentation

2006-07-14 Thread Charles Fry
So please, please, please do fix (remove) the rpath in the package. I would appreciate any tips on how to go about fixing this. My package is courierpassd, currently only available in unstable. It depends on courier-authlib which currently uses /usr/lib/courier-authlib. I can't figure out how to

Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath documentation

2006-07-14 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 09:57:26AM -0400, Charles Fry wrote: So please, please, please do fix (remove) the rpath in the package. I would appreciate any tips on how to go about fixing this. My package is courierpassd, currently only available in unstable. It depends on courier-authlib which

Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath documentation

2006-07-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Charles Fry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So please, please, please do fix (remove) the rpath in the package. I would appreciate any tips on how to go about fixing this. My package is courierpassd, currently only available in unstable. It depends on courier-authlib which currently uses

Re: ITP : Xsudoku - a sudoku solver, looking for sponsor

2006-07-14 Thread Frank B. Brokken
Dear Justin Pryzby, you wrote: On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 09:21:01PM +0200, Maxime ROBACHE wrote: I wrote a little sudoku solver in C with Xlib, and I debianized it. So, I'm looking for a sponsor to upload it on official repository. I'm not your sponsor, but you might find it interesting to

RFS: jzip -- Text mode interpreter for Z-Code adventures

2006-07-14 Thread Niko Tyni
Hi debian-mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 210r20001005-1 of the package jzip, a text mode interpreter for Z-Code adventures. It was recently orphaned (see #377871), and I'm adopting it and updating to a new upstream version from the year 2000. Although upstream development

Re: RFS: giac - computer algebra system with nice GUI

2006-07-14 Thread Erik Schanze
Hi Carlos, I had a look at your package. I found some issues before I try to build it: Carlos Enrique Carleos Artime [EMAIL PROTECTED]: * Package name : giac * License : GPL (separate package for non-free documents) It builds these binary packages: giac - computer algebra

RFS: zimpl -- mathematical modeling language for optimization problems

2006-07-14 Thread Joachim Reichel
Hi, I'm looking for a sponsor for zimpl, a mathematical modeling language for optimization problems. RFP/ITP: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=365073 * Package name: zimpl Version : 2.04 Upstream Author : Thorsten Koch koch(at)zib.de * URL :

Re: how to fix shlib-with-non-pic-code ?

2006-07-14 Thread Christian Aichinger
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 08:47:01AM +0200, Fathi Boudra wrote: hi, i've got a lintian error: E: libstrigihtmlgui0: shlib-with-non-pic-code usr/lib/libstrigihtmlgui.so.0.3.2 [...] It seems to use -fPIC and shared as mentionned by lintian and i didn't find any assembly code. [...] Any

RFS: bashish -- Theme environment for text terminals

2006-07-14 Thread Thomas Eriksson
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package bashish. * Package name: bashish Version : 2.0.5-1 Upstream Author : Thomas Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://bashish.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Section : shells It builds these

Re: shc -- #335278 broken packaging -- non-DD NMU prepared

2006-07-14 Thread Russ Allbery
George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Friday 14 July 2006 10:08, Bas Wijnen wrote: They could check that non-NMU uploads must not say Non maintainer upload in the changelog. Appearantly they don't do that. I think a wishlist bug is in order there. Well, it makes no difference which

RFS (again): pngnq - tool for optimizing PNG (Portable Network Graphics) images

2006-07-14 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! One week ago I have sent a message (http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/07/msg00148.html) requesting a sponsor for one package (pngnq), but I got no answers :-( The package is very simple and it's already on Debian. It's OK with pbuilder, linda and lintian. If someone could verify