RFS: rkward (updated package)

2009-08-18 Thread Thomas Friedrichsmeier
Dear mentors, I have already posted an RFS for this package two weeks ago, but did not receive any reply. Is there a recommended ping interval in such cases? --- I'm looking for a new sponsor for package rkward. My current sponsor, Roland Marcus Rutschmann in CC, would like to pass sponsoring

Re: RFS: rkward (updated package)

2009-08-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:05:34AM +0200, Thomas Friedrichsmeier a écrit : I'm looking for a new sponsor for package rkward. My current sponsor, Roland Marcus Rutschmann in CC, would like to pass sponsoring for rkward to somebody who is actively using rkward, R or related packages on a

Re: RFS: congruity

2009-08-18 Thread Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package congruity. * Package name: congruity Version : 13-1 Upstream Author : Stephen Warren s-t-concorda...@wwwdotorg.org * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/congruity * License : GPL-3+ Section :

RFS: pdfchain (2nd try)

2009-08-18 Thread Johann Felix Soden
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package pdfchain. * Package name: pdfchain Version : 0.123-1 Upstream Author : Martin Singer (m_pow...@users.sourceforge.net) * URL : http://pdfchain.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: C++

Re: RFS: jabberd14 (updated package) (fix a FTBFS)

2009-08-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Miguel Landaeta mig...@miguel.cc (18/08/2009): I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.6.1.1-3 of package jabberd14. The upload would fix this bug: 542131. Hi, please keep the submitter Cc'd when replying to some bug, or you're not going to receive any feedback, except in rare cases.

RFS: nautilus-scripts-manager (2nd try)

2009-08-18 Thread Pietro Battiston
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package nautilus-scripts-manager. * Package name: nautilus-scripts-manager Version : 1.2-1 Upstream Author : Pietro Battiston (me) * URL : http://www.pietrobattiston.it/nautilus-scripts-manager * License : GPL-3

writing watch file for libproj4

2009-08-18 Thread mathieu . malaterre
Hi there, I am working on the libproj4 package: http://dl.maptools.org/dl/libproj4/ How would one write the watch file for it ? I tried: $ cat debian/watch version=3 http://dl.maptools.org/dl/libproj4/ lbp4_(.*)S\.tar\.gz It gives $ uscan --verbose --force-download -- Scanning for

Re: writing watch file for libproj4

2009-08-18 Thread Paul Wise
Talk to upstream and get them to fix their website. Alternatively, write a redirector website that downloads the page, parses it and regurgitates some sane HTML. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: writing watch file for libproj4

2009-08-18 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Paul Wisep...@debian.org wrote: Talk to upstream and get them to fix their website. Alternatively, write a redirector website that downloads the page, parses it and regurgitates some sane HTML. :( I thought I would be able to use the php script directly from

Re: writing watch file for libproj4

2009-08-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Mathieu Malaterre mathieu.malate...@gmail.com wrote: I thought I would be able to use the php script directly from uscan: http://dl.maptools.org/dl/libproj4/index.php Does anyone knows how to use links to download that from a simple shell script ? Please

Re: writing watch file for libproj4

2009-08-18 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Paul Wisep...@debian.org wrote: On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Mathieu Malaterre mathieu.malate...@gmail.com wrote: I thought I would be able to use the php script directly from uscan: http://dl.maptools.org/dl/libproj4/index.php Does anyone knows how to

RFS: libsockets++

2009-08-18 Thread Leinier Cruz Salfran
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package libsockets++. * Package name: libsockets++ Version : 2.3.5-2 Upstream Author : Anders Hedstrom gry...@alhem.net * URL : http://www.alhem.net/Sockets/ * License : GPL2 + OpenSSL Exemption Section

why?

2009-08-18 Thread Leinier Cruz Salfran
why is so hard to find a sponsor? I have a package online since 2 weeks ago, I sent 3 RFS and I have found no sponsor yet. why signature.asc Description: Esta parte del mensaje está firmada digitalmente

Re: why?

2009-08-18 Thread George Danchev
Hi, why is so hard to find a sponsor? I have a package online since 2 weeks ago, I sent 3 RFS and I have found no sponsor yet. why It is most a lack of sponsor's time. Reviewing and testing packages (especially libraries) is not that easy and tend to consume significant amount of

icon/icon-generic in mime options

2009-08-18 Thread Paul Gevers
Hello all, Probably a stupid question, but anyway, I have a question regarding mime support. In my package I use the icon-generic field, but this field has only be included in shared-mime-info version 0.40. Should I ask debian-devel if it is ok to pre-depend on shared-mime-info (= 0.40) or is

RFS: nsis-2.45-1 [attn: pabs]

2009-08-18 Thread Thomas Gaugler
Hi, Paul Wise (also known as pabs) offered me to take over the maintenance of the Nullsoft Scriptable Install System (NSIS). NSIS is an open source system to create Windows installers and it is licensed under the zlib/libpng license. The maintenance of the NSIS Debian package is handled via the

Re: why?

2009-08-18 Thread Colin Tuckley
Leinier Cruz Salfran wrote: I have a package online since 2 weeks ago, I sent 3 RFS and I have found no sponsor yet. why That was about when DebConf was ending. People were busy travelling home and catching up on their other lives I expect. Colin -- Colin Tuckley | +44(0)1223

Re: why?

2009-08-18 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi Dne Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:46:04 + Leinier Cruz Salfran salfra...@ipigto.rimed.cu napsal(a): why is so hard to find a sponsor? I have a package online since 2 weeks ago, I sent 3 RFS and I have found no sponsor yet. why People are busy :-). Lot of DD's have been on DebConf,

Re: RFS: libsockets++

2009-08-18 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi Dne Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:44:08 + Leinier Cruz Salfran salfra...@ipigto.rimed.cu napsal(a): The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libsockets++ - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main

Re: why?

2009-08-18 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 01:46:04AM +, Leinier Cruz Salfran wrote: why is so hard to find a sponsor? I have a package online since 2 weeks ago, I sent 3 RFS and I have found no sponsor yet. why The debian-mentors FAQ (http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html) has

Re: why?

2009-08-18 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-08-18, Leinier Cruz Salfran salfra...@ipigto.rimed.cu wrote: --=-+HFkoxaqb4DFPsQ5uB2y Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable why is so hard to find a sponsor? I have a package online since 2 weeks ago, I sent 3 RFS and I have found no sponsor yet.

Requests to sponsor new library packages (was: why?)

2009-08-18 Thread Ben Finney
Sune Vuorela nos...@vuorela.dk writes: For example, I would be very reluctant to sponsor a first package of a person that was a new library without any application using it, whereas a interesting kde application might easier catch my eye. That's interesting, thank you for that perspective.

Re: Requests to sponsor new library packages (was: why?)

2009-08-18 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:11:12AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Sune Vuorela nos...@vuorela.dk writes: For example, I would be very reluctant to sponsor a first package of a person that was a new library without any application using it, whereas a interesting kde application might easier

Re: Requests to sponsor new library packages (was: why?)

2009-08-18 Thread Paul Wise
2009/8/19 Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net: I've had to do this with Perl modules once - I wanted to package a particular module, but it had a chain of dependencies that were not packaged yet.  What I did was file a series of ITP bugs, stating my intentions clearly - first for the target