RFS: parcellite (updated package)

2009-03-19 Thread Andrew
Dearest mentors, Hope you all aren't to busy with the flood gates now open. I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.9.1-1 of my package parcellite. It builds these binary packages: parcellite - lightweight GTK+ clipboard manager The package appears to be lintian clean and successfully

Re: pbuilder and building a package twice in a row with hook-skript?

2009-03-19 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Hi Ben On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:05:07AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: Salvatore Bonaccorso salvatore.bonacco...@gmail.com writes: cd /tmp/buildd PKGNAMES=$(ls -d */) for PKG in $PKGNAMES; do if [ -d $PKG ]; then cd $PKG dpkg-buildpackage -tc fi done

Re: RFS: centerim (updated package)

2009-03-19 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
AA Hi Dmitry AA I hope you are fine. AA I sent you a email with several RFS two days ago, but I don't know if AA you received it, because I can't found the email in my sent mail, may AA be I lost it :( AA Well, AA I send this email trying to found a sponsor for the package centerim. AA

Re: Missing licenses in upstream source files

2009-03-19 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11693 March 1977, Dominik Smatana wrote: Or should I edit these files and add missing licenses (copy paste from main file)? Talk to upstream. Unless you have written the files it is *NOT* yours to declare them being licensed in whatever way. -- bye, Joerg vorlon hmm, I should fill in the

Re: Missing licenses in upstream source files

2009-03-19 Thread Dominik Smatana
Hello, thank you for answers.. I'll contact upstream author. One more license-newbie question: In some upstream source files there is just one single line comment at beginning: // Please see included LICENSE.TXT licensecheck says UNKNOWN of course... Is such reference to external file

RFS: a big bunch of infiniband packages

2009-03-19 Thread Guy Coates
Hi all, I am looking for a sponsor for my set of OFED infiniband packages. OFED provides a validated stack of kernel drivers and userspace libraries and utilities for use with Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) capable fabrics, including Infiniband and ethernet. http://www.openfabrics.org/

Re: pbuilder and building a package twice in a row with hook-skript?

2009-03-19 Thread Ben Finney
Laurent Guignard lguignard.deb...@gmail.com writes: On jeu, 19 mar 2009 12:28:02 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: Hmm. When I try this on some of my packages it fails, because apparently ‘dpkg-buildpackage -tc’ isn't how ‘pbuilder’ is running the program. How, within a pbuilder hook program,

Re: pbuilder and building a package twice in a row with hook-skript?

2009-03-19 Thread Laurent Guignard
On jeu, 19 mar 2009 12:28:02 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes: $ cat $HOME/.pbuilder/hooks/B10_build-again #! /bin/sh This program uses Bashisms, so I've changed the shebang accordingly. # Build the package again to test for error on double build

Re: Building library from source[solved]

2009-03-19 Thread Jaromír Mikeš
Thank you all for help. Finally dh_install --sourcedir=debian/tmp and mylib.install files tweaking did the job. :) Kind regards mira -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

RFS: simhash

2009-03-19 Thread Thomas Koch
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package simhash. * Package name: simhash Version : 0.0.20090101-1 Upstream Author : Bart Massey b...@cs.pdx.edu * URL : http://wiki.cs.pdx.edu/forge/simhash.html * License : BSD Section : utils It

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on.... (they use none of its symbols)

2009-03-19 Thread Miguel Landaeta
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: A workaround is to add -Wl,--as-needed to LDFLAGS, Gentoo has a document about that here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/asneeded.xml Please note that using --as-needed can cause other (worse) problems. Just curiosity,

Re: RFS: nautilus-share (updated package + bugfixes)

2009-03-19 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 01:17 +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.7.2-1 of my package nautilus-share. It builds these binary packages: nautilus-share - Nautilus extension to share folder using Samba The package appears to be lintian

Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-19 Thread Sune Vuorela
Hi! After a discussion on #debian-mentors and other places, I will not sponsor packages using the copyright file format described on http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat It is a too complex, overengineered solution to a very minor issue. It is not easy readables for humans It is

Re: RFS: nautilus-share (updated package + bugfixes)

2009-03-19 Thread Chow Loong Jin
0.7.2-3 now. Fixed icon names in 04_use_correct_icon.patch. -- Chow Loong Jin signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: RFS: ceph

2009-03-19 Thread Sage Weil
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Ben Finney wrote: Sage Weil s...@newdream.net writes: Three binary packages are built: ceph - server daemons, utilities ceph-fuse - FUSE-based client ceph-kclient-source - source for kernel client module The package description should conform to the

Re: RFS: ceph

2009-03-19 Thread Sage Weil
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Paul Wise wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 7:14 AM, Sage Weil s...@newdream.net wrote:  Upstream Author : Sage Weil s...@newdream.net        ceph-kclient-source - source for kernel client module Do you plan to get the kernel module merged into Linux at some point?

Re: pbuilder and building a package twice in a row with hook-skript?

2009-03-19 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Hi alltogether On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:47:24PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: On jeu, 19 mar 2009 12:28:02 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: Hmm. When I try this on some of my packages it fails, because apparently ‘dpkg-buildpackage -tc’ isn't how ‘pbuilder’ is running the program. How,

Re: RFS: confget -- read variables from INI-style configuration files

2009-03-19 Thread George Danchev
On Wednesday 18 March 2009 11:43:40 Peter Pentchev wrote: Dear mentors, Hello Peter, I am looking for a sponsor for my package confget. * Package name: confget Version : 1.01-1 Upstream Author : Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net (myself) * URL :

Re: Missing licenses in upstream source files

2009-03-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 09:51:25AM +0100, Dominik Smatana wrote: Hello, thank you for answers.. I'll contact upstream author. One more license-newbie question: In some upstream source files there is just one single line comment at beginning: // Please see included LICENSE.TXT

Re: RFS: commons-math

2009-03-19 Thread Damien Raude-Morvan
Hi Matt, On Thursday 19 March 2009 00:32:55 Matthew Johnson wrote: On Sun Mar 15 23:58, Damien Raude-Morvan wrote: On Sunday 15 March 2009 21:09:33 Matthew Johnson wrote: Hi Damien, I'm looking at it now, I've got a couple of points, Hi, sorry for the delay. Sounds reasonable: I've

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-19 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 04:40:33PM +, Sune Vuorela wrote: After a discussion on #debian-mentors and other places, I will not sponsor packages using the copyright file format described on http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat I like the format, and I will only sponsor NEW

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-19 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:40:33 + (UTC) Sune Vuorela nos...@vuorela.dk wrote: After a discussion on #debian-mentors and other places, I will not sponsor packages using the copyright file format described on http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat As I said during one of those

Re: Missing licenses in upstream source files

2009-03-19 Thread Ben Finney
(We're now in ‘debian-legal’ territory; please follow up there.) Dominik Smatana dominik.smat...@gmail.com writes: One more license-newbie question: In some upstream source files there is just one single line comment at beginning: // Please see included LICENSE.TXT licensecheck says

Re: RFS: confget -- read variables from INI-style configuration files

2009-03-19 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 09:58:34PM +0200, George Danchev wrote: On Wednesday 18 March 2009 11:43:40 Peter Pentchev wrote: Dear mentors, Hello Peter, I am looking for a sponsor for my package confget. * Package name: confget Version : 1.01-1 Upstream Author : Peter

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-19 Thread Ben Finney
Sune Vuorela nos...@vuorela.dk writes: After a discussion on #debian-mentors and other places, I will not sponsor packages using the copyright file format described on http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat For those who weren't present when you were having that IRC discussion, can

Re: RFS: ceph

2009-03-19 Thread Ben Finney
Sage Weil s...@newdream.net writes: On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Ben Finney wrote: In particular, it should tell the administrator, who should be assumed to know *nothing* about the package, a brief answer to the question ÿÿwhat is this and why should I install it?ÿÿ I don't think the above

Re: RFS: centerim (updated package)

2009-03-19 Thread Anibal Avelar
Hi. Sorry Dmitry, I lost the email. May be it goes to the spam folder, I don't know. Ok, I will update the debian/copyright file with your comments. Thank you. I received and answered your mail. Check your mail-server :) DEO Hi, Anibal! DEO DEO I think You must to add a few copiryght

Re: RFS: confget -- read variables from INI-style configuration files

2009-03-19 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 19 March 2009 23:12:22 Peter Pentchev wrote: --cut-- It took me some time to assimilate the hardening notes at wiki.d.o [1], I'm remotely familiar with, though this document is informative enough about potential build and run-time failures on different architectures wrt

Re: RFS: commons-math

2009-03-19 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Thu Mar 19 21:01, Damien Raude-Morvan wrote: Ok, can I suggest a compromise. Build-depend on default-jdk and then at build time compile with default-jdk and, if openjdk is installed, use it to run the test suite. It would make the build nondeterministic between different host with

Re: Fixing old-fsf-address-in-copyright-file

2009-03-19 Thread Ben Finney
(Now including debian-policy; this bears on how to interpret §12.5 w.r.t. changing the FSF's address in an upstream license grant.) Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: Le Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 05:37:08PM +1100, Ben Finney a écrit : If we distribute a package with ‘debian/copyright’ so

Re: Fixing old-fsf-address-in-copyright-file

2009-03-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes: Do you agree with Eduardo's argument below: Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br writes: IANAL, but I don't think the address is part of the license. I believe the address can be changed to reflect the correct information, if the rest

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on.... (they use none of its symbols)

2009-03-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Miguel Landaeta mig...@miguel.cc wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: A workaround is to add -Wl,--as-needed to LDFLAGS, Gentoo has a document about that here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/asneeded.xml Please note