Re: RFS: fdclone (updated package, QA upload)

2008-08-28 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hi all, On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:35, Sandro Tosi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Ralf kindly checked and uploaded this package: thanks! :) Cheers, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, Morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/

sid chroot

2008-08-28 Thread Dionysis Kalofonos
Hello, i am trying to create a chroot environment for sid using the command cdebootstrap -v --flavour=minimal sid /sid http://ftp.debian.org/deb under etch. however i get the following error message: O: The following NEW packages will be installed: O: apt-utils lzma O: 0 upgraded, 2

Re: sid chroot

2008-08-28 Thread Ricardo Ichizo
Hello Dionysis, On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:18:30AM +0200, Dionysis Kalofonos wrote: Hello, i am trying to create a chroot environment for sid using the command cdebootstrap -v --flavour=minimal sid /sid http://ftp.debian.org/deb under etch. Try it with debootstrap. debootstrap

Re: sid chroot

2008-08-28 Thread Sebastian Harl
Hi, On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:18:30AM +0200, Dionysis Kalofonos wrote: i am trying to create a chroot environment for sid using the command cdebootstrap -v --flavour=minimal sid /sid http://ftp.debian.org/deb under etch. In general, *debootstraping Sid under Etch is not supported -

RFS: get-you

2008-08-28 Thread Radostan Riedel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package get-you. * Package name: get-you Version : 0.8.5-1 Upstream Author : [Dominik Burgdörfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : [http://get-you.calyrium.org] * License :

Re: RFS: phpmyid

2008-08-28 Thread Andreas Schildbach
Hi Vincent, hello Michal, thanks for helping me with the package. I have uploaded a fixed package to mentors.debian.net. On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 19:02 +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: In debian/changelog, remove the mention about this package being your first. Most users are not interested in

Re: RFS: disc-cover

2008-08-28 Thread Stefan Ott
Thanks! Also, I'll have a look at the things you mentioned. cheers Stefan On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 20:20, Vincent Bernat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OoO En ce début d'après-midi nuageux du lundi 28 juillet 2008, vers 14:08, Stefan Ott [EMAIL PROTECTED] disait : I am looking for a sponsor

RFS: netmon-applet (updated package)

2008-08-28 Thread Stephan Peijnik
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.4-12 of my package netmon-applet. It builds these binary packages: netmon-applet - GNOME2 Network Load Applet The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 270036, 335916, 449867 The package can be

Re: sid chroot

2008-08-28 Thread Dionysis Kalofonos
Thank you Ricardo, That did the trick. However, now i wander whether would be appropriate to bring up this inconsistency between the two tools. For instance the Debian Reference document section 8.6.35.1 states: A chroot Debian environment can easily be created by the debootstrap command

Re: sid chroot

2008-08-28 Thread Dionysis Kalofonos
Hi Sebastian, thank you for your reply. I was also advised to use debootstrap instead, and that tool worked fine. However, having read your message now i get the impression that something fishy has happened. regards -- Dionysis Kalofonos Sebastian Harl wrote: Hi, On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at

Bug#496930: ITP: dvc -- Emacs front-end to distributed version control systems

2008-08-28 Thread Daniel Dehennin
Package: wnpp Owner: Daniel Dehennin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Severity: wishlist Tags: patch * Package name: dvc Version : 0r20080828 Upstream Author : Stephan Reichoer [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL or Web page : http://download.gna.org/dvc * License : GPL Description : Emacs

Re: Becoming a new contributor

2008-08-28 Thread The Fungi
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 03:26:57PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] The program is a slideshow-type photo viewer. More specifically, it is meant give this functionality on older systems not running Gnome or KDE (like mine). It is quite simple, has no extra features such as zooming, and so

Re: RFS: netmon-applet (updated package)

2008-08-28 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 28 August 2008 17:17:20 Stephan Peijnik wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.4-12 of my package netmon-applet. Hello, here are some comments, you might want to address: 1) debian/copyright lacks important information - linux-data.c is

Re: RFS: phpmyid

2008-08-28 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi Dne Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:04:15 +0200 Andreas Schildbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] napsal(a): I have uploaded a fixed package to mentors.debian.net. - why have you kept configure-stamp target? also remove configure from .PHONY - what is reason for commented out dh_* command in debian/rules - also

Re: RFS: atmailopen (2nd attempt - updated description)

2008-08-28 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Hi Vincent, Vincent Bernat wrote: Somefiles haveadifferent license.Forexample, libs/Atmail/spellChecker.php. The license given as URL is non-free. You will need to work with upstream to sort this out. Check all files individually. The license which is in

Re: RFS: plasma-netgraph

2008-08-28 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-08-28, Salvatore Ansani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package plasma-netgraph. * Package name: plasma-netgraph Version : 0.3-1 Upstream Author : John Varouhakis * URL : http://code.google.com/p/ivplasma/ *

Re: RFS: phpmyid

2008-08-28 Thread Andreas Schildbach
Hello Michal, On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 22:07 +0200, Michal Čihař wrote: - also license information in debian/copyright does not seem to be sufficient, you should be more detailed (or use new machine readable format, see http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat) Thanks a lot

Re: RFS: phpmyid

2008-08-28 Thread Noel David Torres Taño
El Thursday 28 August 2008 22:07:55 Michal Čihař escribió: Hi Dne Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:04:15 +0200 Andreas Schildbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] napsal(a): I have uploaded a fixed package to mentors.debian.net. - why have you kept configure-stamp target? also remove configure from .PHONY -

Re: RFS: phpmyid

2008-08-28 Thread Andreas Schildbach
On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 00:03 +0200, Noel David Torres Taño wrote: Unless you have explicit permission to use GPL version 1 _or any later version_ which menas you can use GPL-2. If you can do that, please do. He is including a LICENSE file that says GPL v2 and includes a complete copy of the

RFS: wordpress-openid [was: Re: No sponsor found for weeks, what to do now?]

2008-08-28 Thread Andreas Schildbach
Hi Raphael, On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 19:23 -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: Andreas, please don't take these wrong but your packages really need a lot of changes and reading the documentation and looking at different packages and even reading the reviews posted for other packages could help you

Re: No sponsor found for weeks, what to do now?

2008-08-28 Thread Raphael Geissert
[Please don't send me a copy of the message, thanks.] Kartik Mistry wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 5:53 AM, Raphael Geissert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (xlintian is an alias to the dev copy of lintian on my machine, which also happens to have a couple or more checks that should/will be added to

Re: RFS: get-you

2008-08-28 Thread Ben Finney
Radostan Riedel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It builds these binary packages: get-you- Download videos from various videosites like YouTube... Please write the synopsis to conform with the Best Packaging Practices

Re: Bug#496930: ITP: dvc -- Emacs front-end to distributed version control systems

2008-08-28 Thread Ben Finney
Daniel Dehennin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Description : Emacs front-end to distributed version control systems DVC is an attempt to build a common infrastructure for various distributed revision control systems. Actually supported are tla, bazaar, bzr, git, mercurial, darcs and

Re: RFS: wordpress-openid [was: Re: No sponsor found for weeks, what to do now?]

2008-08-28 Thread Mauro Lizaur
Andreas Schildbach wrote: By the way, is there any PHP-related policy or best practice for PHP packaging, like there is for Java? Hi Andreas, There's a draft of the PHP Policy [0] which is kinda empty, also you may ask on the debian-webapps list [1]. Or read the PHP page on the Wiki [2]

Re: RFS: wordpress-openid

2008-08-28 Thread Ben Finney
Andreas Schildbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 19:23 -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: I: wordpress-openid source: debian-watch-file-is-missing What if there is no site to watch on? If 'uscan' can't work for the package, create a 'debian/watch' file that consists of

Re: RFS: get-you

2008-08-28 Thread The Fungi
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 09:18:29AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: We already have the package 'clive' for the same purpose. And also the youtube-dl package as well. -- { IRL(Jeremy_Stanley); PGP(9E8DFF2E4F5995F8FEADDC5829ABF7441FB84657); SMTP([EMAIL PROTECTED]); IRC([EMAIL PROTECTED]);

Re: RFS: wordpress-openid

2008-08-28 Thread Mauro Lizaur
Ben Finney wrote: Andreas Schildbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 19:23 -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: I: wordpress-openid source: debian-watch-file-is-missing What if there is no site to watch on? If 'uscan' can't work for the package, create a 'debian/watch' file

Re: RFS: get-you

2008-08-28 Thread David Baird
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please write the synopsis to conform with the Best Packaging Practices URL:http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices#s-bpp-pkg-synopsis. In general, the synopsis it should fit in a sentence

Re: RFS: wordpress-openid [was: Re: No sponsor found for weeks, what to do now?]

2008-08-28 Thread Raphael Geissert
Andreas Schildbach wrote: Hi Raphael, On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 19:23 -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: Andreas, please don't take these wrong but your packages really need a lot of changes and reading the documentation and looking at different packages and even reading the reviews posted for