RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-15 Thread Yann Rouillard
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package php-numbers-roman. * Package name: php-numbers-roman Version : 1.0.1-1 Upstream Author : David Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED], Klaus Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://pear.php.net/package/Numbers_Roman *

Re: RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-15 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi Yann, On Saturday 15 September 2007 13:22, Yann Rouillard wrote: It builds these binary packages: php-numbers-roman - Provides methods for converting to and from Roman Numerals Are there actual use cases for this package? From the discription it seems to be a bit of a toy, if you know

RFS: mirmon

2007-09-15 Thread Hideki Yamane
Dear mentors, I'm looking for a sponsor for my package mirmon. It is useful for minitoring mirror servers. For example, I'm using this for monitoring Japanese Debian mirrors. see http://test.mithril-linux.org/debian-mirror-check.html * Package name: mirmon ITP : 442381

Re: daemon stop and start during upgrade

2007-09-15 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hallo Florian, Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz: So in the end I agree that would be sensible to exit with 0, if the process is not running, cause their might be different errors to occur when stopping (even though I never met one), but that it would make

Re: RFS: pyxplot

2007-09-15 Thread Ondrej Certik
Hi Sam, pyxplot - Command-line plotting package producing publication-quality output Chances in this version: * Repack upstream tarball to remove contained PyX tarball and HTML documentation. + 200_build-docs-verbose.patch: don't try to unpack PyX's tarball and install it

Re: RFS: pyxplot

2007-09-15 Thread Sam Morris
On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 19:08 +0200, Ondrej Certik wrote: The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/pyxplot - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget

Re: RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-15 Thread Yann Rouillard
Hi Thijs, It's one of the packages suggested by the php-image-graph package which is already in Debian. Graphes can optionally have their axes graduated using roman numbers by using the Image_Graph_DataPreprocessor_RomanNumerals preprocessor. But in fact, I packaged it because it's a dependancy

Re: RFS: pyxplot

2007-09-15 Thread Ondrej Certik
* the package looks good, it is lintian/linda clean and builds in cowbuilder * Why not to join the PAPT team and let it maintain as part of it? http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/PythonAppsPackagingTeam Sounds nice, but I want to keep using git rather than subversion. :( Right. I think it

Packaging question

2007-09-15 Thread Peter
If I post this question in the wrong list please tell me where to ask the question :) I created an update package and it install perfectly but for one thing. If I install an earlier version, my package won't show up as an update. It's the first time this has happened. I believe I know why it

Re: Packaging question

2007-09-15 Thread Raphael Geissert
On 15/09/2007, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I post this question in the wrong list please tell me where to ask the question :) So what do I need to do to make my package be seen as an update? First of all, I would ask you why you have 1: in the package version. Usually that's added

Re: Packaging question

2007-09-15 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 07:20:29PM -0400, Peter wrote: If I post this question in the wrong list please tell me where to ask the question :) I created an update package and it install perfectly but for one thing. If I install an earlier version, my package won't show up as an update. It's

Re: RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-15 Thread Raphael Geissert
On 15/09/2007, Yann Rouillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package php-numbers-roman. * Package name: php-numbers-roman Version : 1.0.1-1 Upstream Author : David Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED], Klaus Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL

Re: RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-15 Thread Raphael Geissert
On 15/09/2007, Yann Rouillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, if php-numbers-roman is in main, php-image-graph should rather recommend php-number-roman, shouldn' it ? You should take a look at section 7.2[1] of the Debian Policy and 'reconsider' that statement. [1]

Re: Packaging question

2007-09-15 Thread Peter
Matthew Palmer wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 07:20:29PM -0400, Peter wrote: If I post this question in the wrong list please tell me where to ask the question :) I created an update package and it install perfectly but for one thing. If I install an earlier version, my package won't show

Re: Packaging question

2007-09-15 Thread Francois-Denis Gonthier
On September 15, 2007 07:20:29 pm Peter wrote: If I post this question in the wrong list please tell me where to ask the question :) I created an update package and it install perfectly but for one thing. If I install an earlier version, my package won't show up as an update. It's the first

Re: RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-15 Thread Yann Rouillard
I think you should talk to upstream and get them to use some other license like LGPL or BSD. The ftp-master's take a particularly hard line on this license and it may require justifying later on if they decide to get picky. Thanks for your advice. Indeed it seems this licence is not

speed of COW directory copying: XFS 20x slower than ext3

2007-09-15 Thread Ondrej Certik
Hi, I am using cowbuilder for building my packages, because the initialization takes like 10s, compared to several minutes with pbuilder on my system. A few days ago, I realized that on one of my systems, it takes 0.5s only to copy the COW directory. I became curious and wanted to know why, so I

Re: speed of COW directory copying: XFS 20x slower than ext3

2007-09-15 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Ondrej Certik wrote: I am using cowbuilder for building my packages, because the initialization takes like 10s, compared to several minutes with pbuilder on my system. A few days ago, I realized that on one of my systems, it takes 0.5s only to copy the COW directory. I

RFS: qstardict

2007-09-15 Thread Alexander Rodin
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package qstardict. * Package name: qstardict Version : 0.07-1 Upstream Author : Alexander Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://qstardict.ylsoftware.com * License : GPL Section : x11 It builds these