Re: BSD licenses

2008-11-27 Thread Ben Finney
Gudjon I. Gudjonsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyway, even if the licenses aren't long it would be easier if they were standardised with well documented relations to the other licenses. A single word may change the meaning of the license and it is difficult to know the consequenses.

QtOctave new upstream release

2008-11-27 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
I just tried to package a new upstream release of QtOctave. It seems that I made a Lintian mistake, and I'm not sure how to fix it. I think the problem is that somehow icons.tar ended up in the toplevel dir, but I don't know how they got there. I might have a mistake in one of the CMakeLists.txt

RFS: grub-choose-default (updated package)

2008-11-27 Thread Kjell Braden
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.3-1 of my package grub-choose-default. It builds these binary packages: grub-choose-default - Control Grub Default through a GUI The package appears to be lintian clean. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL:

RFS: parcellite (0.9-1) (new upstream release)

2008-11-27 Thread Andrew
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.9-1 of my package parcellite. It's a new upstream release with only trivial changes in the debian/ It builds these binary packages: parcellite - A lightweight GTK+ clipboard manager The package appears to be lintian clean. The

Re: RFS: webcpp (adoption, bugfix and standards/dh7)

2008-11-27 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hello Jonathan, On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 21:22, Jonathan Wiltshire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Sandro On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 05:33:57PM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote: ehm, I personally like to have all the changes in the revision = current revision in debian+1, so -6, and you have the opportunity

Re: RFS: parcellite (0.9-1) (new upstream release)

2008-11-27 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hello Andrew, On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 15:27, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.9-1 of my package parcellite. - you can remove 'A ' from short description, since it has to be a noun phrase. - you should add a debian/README.source to

Re: RFS: webcpp (adoption, bugfix and standards/dh7)

2008-11-27 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 04:59:56PM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote: When you upload a package to ftp-master, there are 2 possibilities, it's ACCEPTED (hence included in the debian archive) or it's REJECTED. In the latter case, you can reupload the same revision, since from archice POV that revision

Re: RFS: parcellite (0.9-1) (new upstream release)

2008-11-27 Thread Andrew
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Sandro Tosi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - you can remove 'A ' from short description, since it has to be a noun phrase. - you should add a debian/README.source to inform that this package uses quilt as patch system. Apart from those simple points (you can fix

Re: QtOctave new upstream release

2008-11-27 Thread Andreas Wenning
Hi Jordi Your lintian error points out that the file src/.pc/.version is modified (actually created) in the diff.gz . The .pc/.version dir is most likely created by an editor on another program while changing the package; you should simply get rid of that file and re-pack. Cheers, Andreas --

Re: QtOctave new upstream release

2008-11-27 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2008/11/27 Andreas Wenning [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Your lintian error points out that the file src/.pc/.version is modified (actually created) in the diff.gz . The .pc/.version dir is most likely created by an editor on another program while changing the package; you should simply get rid of that

Re: QtOctave new upstream release

2008-11-27 Thread Andreas Wenning
Hi Jordi Not a DD myself, so probably a good idea to count on Rafael for sponsoring. I originally made the changes to the package including the icons.tar.uu, so just thought I might help out if it was a problem regarding that. Cheers, Andreas -- ,-¤. Kubuntu Linux ¤;

RFS : jigzo

2008-11-27 Thread Elías A. M.
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package jigzo. * Package name: jigzo Version : 0.6.1-1 Upstream Author : Elías Alejandro Año Mendoza * URL : http://www.resorama.com/jigzo * License : GPL-v2 Section : games It builds these binary packages:

Re: RFS: webcpp (adoption, bugfix and standards/dh7)

2008-11-27 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 17:53, Jonathan Wiltshire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 04:59:56PM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote: mh, distclean is not a target of debian/rules; what I suggest is using something like clean: clean-patched unpatch clean-patched: patch-stamp do the real

Re: RFS: webcpp (adoption, bugfix and standards/dh7)

2008-11-27 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
there is a config.log file left in diff.gz, please remove it in the next upload (probably before the 'rm' in config), but apart from that the package looks fine so I uploaded it. I spotted that in lintian, but as far as I could find out it's normal if the file gets removed in the clean target

Re: RFS: webcpp (adoption, bugfix and standards/dh7)

2008-11-27 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 20:07, Jonathan Wiltshire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there is a config.log file left in diff.gz, please remove it in the next upload (probably before the 'rm' in config), but apart from that the package looks fine so I uploaded it. I spotted that in lintian, but as far

Re: RFS: webcpp (adoption, bugfix and standards/dh7)

2008-11-27 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
No, it's not normal: if that files was removed in clean target, then it would never have come out in .diff.gz; moreover, config.log is not removed in clean, but in build-stamp target. My bad; I'll fix it in next package. Thanks for the upload! -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, Morpheus,

Re: Bug reports in Ubuntu

2008-11-27 Thread George Danchev
On Tuesday 25 November 2008 19:21:46 Paul Wise wrote: On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 7:18 AM, Jonathan Wiltshire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you think it is severe enough to be put forward for lenny? I'm not sure. The patch looks straight-forward enough, so perhaps the release team would approve

Re: RFS: dhcp-probe, another try to request with a lot of update

2008-11-27 Thread Laurent Guignard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I just upload on mentors.debian.net a new version of the package with several update according to previous comments. You could find below my answers/explanation for each comment. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - - URL:

Re: RFS: dhcp-probe, another try to request with a lot of update

2008-11-27 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:14:56PM +0100, Laurent Guignard wrote: Michal ??iha?? a écrit : Hi [...] Quick look at the package: - any reason why it is Architecture: i386? In reason of the libraries dependency. libnet1 package is for i386 architecture and dhcp_probe use it

RFS: l7-filter-userspace

2008-11-27 Thread Jakub Wilk
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package l7-filter-userspace. * Package name: l7-filter-userspace Version : 0.10-1 Upstream Author : Ethan Sommer, Matthew Strait * URL : http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPLv2+ Section : net

RFS: l7-protocols

2008-11-27 Thread Piotr Lewandowski
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package l7-protocols. * Package name: l7-protocols Version : 20081123-1 Upstream Author : M. Strait [EMAIL PROTECTED], E. Sommer [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPLv2 and

RFS: kde-style-skulpture

2008-11-27 Thread Richard Johnson
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package kde-style-skulpture. * Package name: kde-style-skulpture Version : 0.2.0-1 Upstream Author : [fill in name and email of upstream] * URL : [fill in URL of upstreams web site] * License : [fill in]

Re: RFS: kde-style-skulpture

2008-11-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Richard Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/k/kde-style-skulpture/kde-style-skulpture_0.2.0-1.dsc I'm not a KDE persion, but why do you embed parts of CDBS/debhelper in the source package? Please also add

Re: RFS: kde-style-skulpture

2008-11-27 Thread Richard Johnson
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/k/kde-style-skulpture/kde-style-skulpture_0.2.0-1.dsc I'm not a KDE persion, but why do you embed parts of CDBS/debhelper in the source package? The reason for this is so KDE 3

RFS: xli (RC bug fix)

2008-11-27 Thread Ryan Niebur
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.17.0+20061110-3 of my package xli. It builds these binary packages: xli- command line tool for viewing images in X11 The upload would fix these bugs: 431760, 471121 I'm intending on getting it into Lenny, so only minimal

Re: RFS: dhcp-probe, another try to request with a lot of update

2008-11-27 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi Most of things were already answered in Matthews reply, I only react on missing things. Dne Thu, 27 Nov 2008 22:14:56 +0100 Laurent Guignard [EMAIL PROTECTED] napsal(a): - debian/rules: - rm -f can not fail, so you can strip some useless test commands - test ! -f Makefile ||

Re: RFS: xli (RC bug fix)

2008-11-27 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi Dne Thu, 27 Nov 2008 23:22:51 -0800 Ryan Niebur [EMAIL PROTECTED] napsal(a): I'm intending on getting it into Lenny, so only minimal changes. It fixes an RC bug (#471121) and I am adopting the package. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: