Re: RFS: spcaview

2006-09-21 Thread Luca bedogni
Il giorno Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:31:41 +0200 Sandro Tosi [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Sending the message to the right ml I see :) In addiction, you have modified upstream code (Makefile) without using a patch-system. That's bad :) As James point out, you should use wnpp before start

Re: RFS: swish++: A Simple Web Indexing System for Humans --- C++ version

2006-09-21 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, James Westby wrote: On (20/09/06 15:00), Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: Hello, Could someone please sponsor a New Maintainer upload of swish++? http://www.imsc.res.in/~kapil/debian/swish++/swish++_6.1.4-0pre3.dsc or

Re: RFS: swish++: A Simple Web Indexing System for Humans --- C++ version

2006-09-21 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, James Westby wrote detailed comments on my packaging of swish++. Consequently, I have newer versions at: http://www.imsc.res.in/~kapil/debian/swish++/swish++_6.1.4-0pre4.dsc or

Re: RFS: swish++: A Simple Web Indexing System for Humans --- C++ version

2006-09-21 Thread James Westby
On (21/09/06 12:00), Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: Hello, On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, James Westby wrote: On (20/09/06 15:00), Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: Hello, Could someone please sponsor a New Maintainer upload of swish++? Note: Must bump version to 6.1.4-1 before upload. Why

Re: RFS: swish++: A Simple Web Indexing System for Humans --- C++ version

2006-09-21 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 21 September 2006 10:27, James Westby wrote: On (21/09/06 12:00), Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: Hello, On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, James Westby wrote: On (20/09/06 15:00), Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: Hello, Could someone please sponsor a New Maintainer upload of swish++?

RFS: zinc-compiler (updated package)

2006-09-21 Thread Nacho Barrientos Arias
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.0.2-6 of my package zinc-compiler. It builds these binary packages: zinc-compiler - Compiler of Zinc, a functional logic programming language The package is lintian clean and builds OK in a clean sid chroot. The upload would fix

Re: RFS: spcaview

2006-09-21 Thread Sandro Tosi
Thanks for your hints Sandro. So what's the best thing for my package? Remove it from mentors? Fix it? What? I think the best is to get in touch with Adam, and maybe comaintain the package with him, if it's ok for both of you. Regards, Sandro -- Sandro Tosi (aka Morpheus, matrixhasu) My

Re: RFS: zinc-compiler (updated package)

2006-09-21 Thread Nacho Barrientos Arias
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:28:38 +0200 Nacho Barrientos Arias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to who uploaded the package but the upload was rejected due to the explained below. If you sponsor this upload, note that it needs a full source upload due to orig file in Debian archive differs a bit

Re: RFS: zinc-compiler (updated package)

2006-09-21 Thread James Westby
On (21/09/06 13:24), Nacho Barrientos Arias wrote: Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:28:38 +0200 Nacho Barrientos Arias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to who uploaded the package but the upload was rejected due to the explained below. If you sponsor this upload, note that it needs a full source

Re: RFS: zinc-compiler (updated package)

2006-09-21 Thread Nacho Barrientos Arias
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 13:10:34 +0100 James Westby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think that will cut it. I think you need to fake a new upstream version greater than that which is currently there. mentors.d.n allows you to overwrite files in the archive, while the official archive does

Re: RFS to fix RC bug: rssreader.app

2006-09-21 Thread George Danchev
On Wednesday 20 September 2006 23:17, Yavor Doganov wrote: Neil Williams wrote: Yavor Doganov wrote: the files clearly indicate that they're under GPL, but contain the confusing See the GNU Library General Public License for more details. Just a note: This could be down to the IDE

Changing version numbers for upload to m.d.n [ was: Re: RFS: swish++: A Simple Web Indexing System for Humans --- C++ version ]

2006-09-21 Thread James Westby
On (21/09/06 10:41), George Danchev wrote: On Thursday 21 September 2006 10:27, James Westby wrote: So that I can keep the ordering before the final upload. For example the version after I incorporate the changes you suggest will be 6.1.4-0pre4. Isn't `pre' meant to be replaced by the

Re: Changing version numbers for upload to m.d.n [ was: Re: RFS: swish++: A Simple Web Indexing System for Humans --- C++ version ]

2006-09-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach James Westby [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.09.21.1419 +0200]: The convention is, I believe, that an upload to mentors.debian.net does not count as a release, as anyone who downloads a package from there should realise it is a work in flux and handle that appropriately. What speaks

Re: RFS to fix RC bug: rssreader.app

2006-09-21 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 9/20/06, Yavor Doganov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.6.2.dfsg-1 of my package rssreader.app. Ok. Some comments after having downloaded and built the -3 version (which I manually converted into -2 again, since the -2 was never in

Re: debconf: how write sections and comments at php.ini?

2006-09-21 Thread andremachado
Hello, Many thanks for the suggestions. Unfortunately, the debian php5 package is compiled without the --with-config-file-scan-dir=/etc/ option, that could make things easier. I guess it is something about security. I already downloaded the source package of imagemagick php extension and read

Re: Changing version numbers for upload to m.d.n [ was: Re: RFS: swish++: A Simple Web Indexing System for Humans --- C++ version ]

2006-09-21 Thread James Westby
On (21/09/06 14:29), martin f krafft wrote: also sprach James Westby [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.09.21.1419 +0200]: The convention is, I believe, that an upload to mentors.debian.net does not count as a release, as anyone who downloads a package from there should realise it is a work in flux

Re: aspell-uz: new upstream release (0.6.0)

2006-09-21 Thread Mashrab Kuvatov
On Monday 18 September 2006 18:13, Mashrab Kuvatov wrote: Hi all, I updated aspell-uz to a new upstream release. It is available from http://www.uni-bremen.de/~kmashrab/uzbek-word-list/aspell-uz-0.6.0-1.tar.bz2 Brian, could you please have a look at it? Thanks, Mashrab. -- Mashrab

Re: Changing version numbers for upload to m.d.n [ was: Re: RFS: swish++: A Simple Web Indexing System for Humans --- C++ version ]

2006-09-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach James Westby [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.09.21.1526 +0200]: I think the reasoning is that it is the extra step for sponsors to build with -v. ... and sometimes -sa. Perhaps we could have a convention that the version number is incremented as you like, but if the sponsor requests it

Re: Sponsor request for hunspell-uz

2006-09-21 Thread Mashrab Kuvatov
On Tuesday 19 September 2006 14:01, James Westby wrote: Not the tarball that I downloaded. It only contained a .tar.gz. I see it is fixed in this version though. Thanks for that. Anybody to sponsor it? Please. :-) Mashrab. -- Mashrab Kuvatov PGP key: www.uni-bremen.de/~kmashrab/kmashrab.asc

Re: Changing version numbers for upload to m.d.n [ was: Re: RFS: swish++: A Simple Web Indexing System for Humans --- C++ version ]

2006-09-21 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 21 September 2006 16:51, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach James Westby [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.09.21.1526 +0200]: I think the reasoning is that it is the extra step for sponsors to build with -v. ... and sometimes -sa. That is a sponsoree job to mention to... as a maintainer

Re: Changing version numbers for upload to m.d.n [ was: Re: RFS: swish++: A Simple Web Indexing System for Humans --- C++ version ]

2006-09-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.09.21.1608 +0200]: That is a sponsoree job to mention to... as a maintainer note. Agreed. Ideally, the dpkg-dev tools should be more cautious too. 1.2-3~mentors.1 1.2-3~mentors.2 1.2-3~mentors.3 [...] That would cause sponsoree

Re: Changing version numbers for upload to m.d.n [ was: Re: RFS: swish++: A Simple Web Indexing System for Humans --- C++ version ]

2006-09-21 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 21 September 2006 17:21, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.09.21.1608 +0200]: That is a sponsoree job to mention to... as a maintainer note. Agreed. Ideally, the dpkg-dev tools should be more cautious too. 1.2-3~mentors.1

Re: RFS: swish++: A Simple Web Indexing System for Humans --- C++ version

2006-09-21 Thread James Westby
On (21/09/06 12:47), Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: Hello, On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, James Westby wrote detailed comments on my packaging of swish++. Consequently, I have newer versions at: http://www.imsc.res.in/~kapil/debian/swish++/swish++_6.1.4-0pre4.dsc Hi, Your debian/copyright

RFS: (malaga), suomi-malaga, libvoikko, tmispell-voikko, oo2-voikko

2006-09-21 Thread Timo Jyrinki
Lovely mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my packages suomi-malaga, libvoikko, tmispell-voikko and oo2-voikko. They also require the updated version of malaga to be uploaded, for which I already made an RFS here and received feedback (thanks for that). The 7.6-2 is at

Re: RFS: spcaview

2006-09-21 Thread Kel Modderman
On Thursday 21 September 2006 03:00, Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) wrote: Luca bedogni wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package spcaview. * Package name: spcaview Version : 1.1.5-1 Upstream Author : Michel Xhaard * URL

Re: RFS to fix RC bug: rssreader.app

2006-09-21 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:35:15 -0300, Margarita Manterola написа: Running linda over the package gives this: E: rssreader.app; The character '¼' is forbidden by RFC822. E: rssreader.app; The character 'Ã' is forbidden by RFC822. I really don't know how to fix these, debian/control contains

RFS: qpopper (updated package)

2006-09-21 Thread hi wkby
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 4.0.9-1 of my package qpopper. I found his package was adopted 5month ago and I took it. http://bugs.debian.org/364615 It builds these binary packages: qpopper- Enhanced Post Office Protocol server (POP3) qpopper-drac - Qpopper

Re: RFS: qpopper (updated package)

2006-09-21 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 21 September 2006 18:49, hi wkby wrote: Dear mentors, Hello Hiro, Looks fine, and here are some minor points you might want to address first: * debhelper compat 5 (and make changes if needed) * you might want to use your real name rather than a nick ? ;-) * debian/copyright

Watch files and QA page

2006-09-21 Thread Patrick Ruckstuhl
Hi, a package I'm maintaining (aria2) has a working watch file in it, but on the debian QA page, there is no entry in the watch column. What could be the reason for this? Do I have to do anything special or does it take more time? (the package was uploaded around 11 days ago and entered testing).

Re: RFS: haskell-edison

2006-09-21 Thread James Westby
On (15/09/06 23:32), Arjan Oosting wrote: Hi potential sponsors, As I am still in the NM queue I am searching for a sponsor for haskell-edison. * Package name: haskell-edison * License : MIT/X Hi, Apologies that it took me a while to get to this package, it is more complex

Re: RFS: rpl -- intelligent recursive search/replace utility

2006-09-21 Thread tony mancill
Sponsored (but not yet uploaded). Kevin Coyner wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.5.4 of my package rpl. The package was recently orphaned. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: ITA and RFS: euler -- an interactive mathematical program

2006-09-21 Thread James Westby
On (20/09/06 14:08), James Westby wrote: I'll have another look on my next checking run, if they haven't been sponsored by then. They look good to me, though upstream could do with sorting out the copyright and licenses. I have tested the package and a short example seems to work well. The

Re: RFS: malaga

2006-09-21 Thread James Westby
[I'm splitting this up to make it clearer what is going on] On (21/09/06 18:12), Timo Jyrinki wrote: Lovely mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my packages suomi-malaga, libvoikko, tmispell-voikko and oo2-voikko. They also require the updated version of malaga to be uploaded, for which

Re: RFS: malaga

2006-09-21 Thread James Westby
On (21/09/06 18:57), James Westby wrote: [I'm splitting this up to make it clearer what is going on] On (21/09/06 18:12), Timo Jyrinki wrote: Lovely mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my packages suomi-malaga, libvoikko, tmispell-voikko and oo2-voikko. They also require the

Re: RFS: suomi-malaga

2006-09-21 Thread James Westby
On (21/09/06 18:12), Timo Jyrinki wrote: * Package name: suomi-malaga Hi, * Have you filed an ITP? If so you should close it in the changelog. * Why does the source package go in section misc if it's only binary package goes in to text? * By convention the homepage is indented by

Re: RFS to fix RC bug: rssreader.app

2006-09-21 Thread Yavor Doganov
Георги Данчев wrote: Well, that might not be the case with you, but I find Neil's note quite reasonable to keep in mind. I agree completely. I know about Anjuta's nefarious features in this respect, so I always keep it in mind. But rather than trying to guess upstream's intentions, I

Re: Watch files and QA page

2006-09-21 Thread Arjan Oosting
Op do, 21-09-2006 te 09:23 -0700, schreef Patrick Ruckstuhl: Hi, a package I'm maintaining (aria2) has a working watch file in it, but on the debian QA page, there is no entry in the watch column. What could be the reason for this? Do I have to do anything special or does it take more time?

Re: debconf: how write sections and comments at php.ini?

2006-09-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 11:39:16AM -0200, andremachado wrote: Hello, Many thanks for the suggestions. Unfortunately, the debian php5 package is compiled without the --with-config-file-scan-dir=/etc/ option, that could make things easier. I guess it is something about security. I already

Re: question about reporting bugs on my own package

2006-09-21 Thread Satoru Takeuchi
Hi Craig and all, At Wed, 20 Sep 2006 08:42:48 +1000, Craig Small wrote: On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 07:48:08AM -0700, tony mancill wrote: This is up to you; I've done it both ways in the past. If the bug is affects the usability of the package, and it could take a while to fix it, go ahead

Re: RFS to fix RC bug: rssreader.app

2006-09-21 Thread Hubert Chan
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:14:55 -0300, Margarita Manterola [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On 9/20/06, Yavor Doganov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.6.2.dfsg-1 of my package rssreader.app. I have the maintainer's blessing for the changes. I wonder how it can

Re: Launch the most relevant terminal emulator.

2006-09-21 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 02:41:36PM +0200, Nikolaus Schulz a écrit : But alternatives have a bad tendency to represent the latest program installed in the category, instead of the most wanted. The alternatives system would have failed if this held true. Nonetheless, if the local admins