RFS: fsprotect (try #2)

2009-04-21 Thread Stefanos Harhalakis
Dear mentors, A month ago I sent the following RFS without anyone offering to sponsor it. I'm resending it as a reminder. I am looking for guidance and a sponsor for my package fsprotect. * Package name: fsprotect Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Stefanos Harhalakis

Re: RFS: fsprotect (try #2)

2009-04-21 Thread LI Daobing
Hello, 2009/4/21 Stefanos Harhalakis v...@v13.gr: Dear mentors, A month ago I sent the following RFS without anyone offering to sponsor it. I'm resending it as a reminder. I am looking for guidance and a sponsor for my package fsprotect. * Package name    : fsprotect  Version         :

Re: RFS: slv2

2009-04-21 Thread Jaromír Mikeš
Od: Free Ekanayaka fr...@debian.org JM I would like to do it, but having problem to log in. JM Should I create new account or try pkg-ml email + passwd? I think you have to create a new account: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/DevelopPackaging?action=newaccount Hi there,

Re: RFS: slv2

2009-04-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Jaromír Mikeš mira.mi...@seznam.cz wrote: Problem creating account: ... Having error: global name 'name' is not defined Woops, my fault (typo). Should be fixed now. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: RFS: kcometen4

2009-04-21 Thread LI Daobing
Hello, On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 07:18, John Stamp jst...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package kcometen4. * Package name    : kcometen4  Version         : 1.0.4-1  Upstream Author : John Stamp jst...@users.sourceforge.net * URL             :

Re: RFS: fsprotect (try #2)

2009-04-21 Thread Stefanos Harhalakis
Hello, On Tuesday 21 April 2009, LI Daobing wrote: 2009/4/21 Stefanos Harhalakis v...@v13.gr: I am looking for guidance and a sponsor for my package fsprotect. 1. why this package is a native package? i think a normal package should be better It was also mentioned on the last thread so I

Re: RFS: fsprotect (try #2)

2009-04-21 Thread Paul Wise
2009/4/21 Stefanos Harhalakis v...@v13.gr: fsprotect needs a directory under the root filesystem to preexist. Most probably it won't be used by normal users, so this won't be common. In IRC it was mentioned that it could should use /lib/fsprotect, but this directory is already used to store a

About symbol versioning, soname bumps and symbols files.

2009-04-21 Thread Michael Biebl
[not sure if debian-mentors is the right list, but I try anyway] Hi, I maintain the lksctp-tools package, which builds the libsctp1 binary package. The package so fare has been fairly straight forward and for version 1.0.9 I used a symbols file for libsctp1 which looks like this: libsctp.so.1

Re: RFS: fsprotect (try #2)

2009-04-21 Thread Stefanos Harhalakis
On Tuesday 21 April 2009, Paul Wise wrote: 2009/4/21 Stefanos Harhalakis v...@v13.gr: fsprotect needs a directory under the root filesystem to preexist. Most probably it won't be used by normal users, so this won't be common. In IRC it was mentioned that it could should use /lib/fsprotect,

Re: RFS: fsprotect (try #2)

2009-04-21 Thread Maximiliano Curia
Excerpts from Stefanos Harhalakis's message of mar abr 21 12:12:02 -0300 2009: I am looking for guidance and a sponsor for my package fsprotect. 1. why this package is a native package? i think a normal package should be better It was also mentioned on the last thread so I omit that:

Templates for README.source

2009-04-21 Thread Laurent Léonard
Hi, I'm searching for some standard templates for README.source about: - DFSG changes - Quilt usage (reference to /usr/share/doc/quilt/README.source ?) - Other files removed from the original tarball for various reasons Were can I find those informations (wiki...) ? Thank you, -- Laurent

Naming recommendation for quilt-managed patches

2009-04-21 Thread Laurent Léonard
Hi, Is there a naming recommendation for patches when using quilt in a Debian package ? patch-name.diff ? patch-name.patch ? 0X-patch-name.diff ? 0X-patch-name.patch ? 000X-patch-name.diff ? 000X-patch-name.patch ? an other ? The quilt man page uses patch-name.diff in the examples, but I see

Re: Templates for README.source

2009-04-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:45:39 +0200, Laurent Léonard wrote: I'm searching for some standard templates for README.source about: - DFSG changes - Quilt usage (reference to /usr/share/doc/quilt/README.source ?) - Other files removed from the original tarball for various reasons For packages

Re: Naming recommendation for quilt-managed patches

2009-04-21 Thread Paul Wise
2009/4/22 Laurent Léonard laur...@open-minds.org: Is there a naming recommendation for patches when using quilt in a Debian package ? patch-name.diff ? I don't use this because of the extension. patch-name.patch ? I personally prefer this. 0X-patch-name.diff ? 0X-patch-name.patch ?

Re: RFS: fsprotect (try #2)

2009-04-21 Thread Stefanos Harhalakis
Hello, On Tuesday 21 April 2009, Maximiliano Curia wrote: Excerpts from Stefanos Harhalakis's message of mar abr 21 12:12:02 -0300 2009: fsprotect is 100% tied to a distribution. It cannot be an independent Anyway, it shouldn't be a native package, native packages need a new release to fix

Re: RFS: fsprotect (try #2)

2009-04-21 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:21:18 -0300 Maximiliano Curia m...@gnuservers.com.ar wrote: It was also mentioned on the last thread so I omit that: fsprotect is 100% tied to a distribution. It cannot be an independent program that is packaged for debian or other distributions. The core

dch multi-maintainer mode

2009-04-21 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
Dear all Is it still allowed as per 3.8.1 policy to use multi maintainer style changelogs? (Asking because of the explicit statement of one type of changlelog and new upgrade to must) Eg. foobar (1.5.11-1) unstable; urgency=low [ Joe Plow Mber ] * New upstream release [ Vasja Pupkin

Re: About symbol versioning, soname bumps and symbols files.

2009-04-21 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org wrote: [not sure if debian-mentors is the right list, but I try anyway] Hi, I maintain the lksctp-tools package, which builds the libsctp1 binary package. The package so fare has been fairly straight forward and for version

Re: dch multi-maintainer mode

2009-04-21 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:06:23 +0100 Dmitrijs Ledkovs dmitrij.led...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all Is it still allowed as per 3.8.1 policy to use multi maintainer style changelogs? Yes. (Asking because of the explicit statement of one type of changlelog and new upgrade to must) The important

Re: dch multi-maintainer mode

2009-04-21 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Neil Williams a écrit : Is it still allowed as per 3.8.1 policy to use multi maintainer style changelogs? Yes. And what was the prevous style of changelog allowed, by the way? -- Stéphane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: RFS: rhino: New debian package prepared (2nd try)

2009-04-21 Thread Matthew Johnson
I'm uploading rhino and tomcat-native now Matt -- Matthew Johnson signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Lintian question

2009-04-21 Thread Charlie Smotherman
Dear Mentors, While looking at http://lintian.debian.org/tags/gz-file-not-gzip.html I noticed this lintian warning about my package ampache. W gz-file-not-gzip The given file ends with .gz, which normally indicates it is compressed with gzip. However, it doesn't seem to be a gzip-compressed

Re: Lintian question

2009-04-21 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 04:54:12PM -0500, Charlie Smotherman wrote: W gz-file-not-gzip The file that lintian is complaining about is usr/share/ampache/www/modules/getid3/module.archive.gzip.php As you can see the file clearly does not end with .gz but instead it ends in php. This file

Re: Naming recommendation for quilt-managed patches

2009-04-21 Thread Ben Finney
Laurent Léonard laur...@open-minds.org writes: Hi, Is there a naming recommendation for patches when using quilt in a Debian package ? […] 0X-patch-name.patch ? 000X-patch-name.patch ? I use names similar to these. 01.foo-bar-baz.patch 02.spim-spam-spom.patch The full-stop ‘.’

Re: dch multi-maintainer mode

2009-04-21 Thread Ben Finney
Dmitrijs Ledkovs dmitrij.led...@gmail.com writes: Is it still allowed as per 3.8.1 policy to use multi maintainer style changelogs? (Asking because of the explicit statement of one type of changlelog and new upgrade to must) That type of changelog allows anything at all following the two

Re: dch multi-maintainer mode

2009-04-21 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 09:22:49PM +0200, Stéphane Glondu wrote: Neil Williams a écrit : Is it still allowed as per 3.8.1 policy to use multi maintainer style changelogs? Yes. And what was the prevous style of changelog allowed, by the way? Originally, the debian changelog format was

Re: Lintian question

2009-04-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Charlie Smotherman cj...@cableone.net writes: The file that lintian is complaining about is usr/share/ampache/www/modules/getid3/module.archive.gzip.php As you can see the file clearly does not end with .gz but instead it ends in php. This file is not compressed with gzip but instead adds

Re: Lintian question

2009-04-21 Thread Charlie Smotherman
On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 17:02 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Charlie Smotherman cj...@cableone.net writes: The file that lintian is complaining about is usr/share/ampache/www/modules/getid3/module.archive.gzip.php As you can see the file clearly does not end with .gz but instead it ends

Re: RFS: fsprotect (try #2)

2009-04-21 Thread Maximiliano Curia
Excerpts from Neil Williams's message of mar abr 21 14:53:13 -0300 2009: On what basis? apt and dpkg are definitely native packages, as are most other packages that use apt and dpkg directly (like emdebian-*). Packages that use .deb files in explicit manners are often native too - unless they

Re: New Developer Request

2009-04-21 Thread Ramesh
Hi Deepak, I went over the currently open buglist to see if I could contribute by fixing some of them to start with. One of the questions I had is some bugs are platform specific / hardware specific. For eg: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 61s! (AMD Phenom 9600 Quad-Core) To reproduce the

Re: RFS: magicfilter (QA update of the package) (fwd) (fwd)

2009-04-21 Thread LI Daobing
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:22, Matthew Palmer mpal...@debian.org wrote: Hi Rogério, On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 07:32:46PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: Probably this was missed the past few times that I posted to the list. Please, could anybody sponsor it? I've started looking at this package,