RFS: preview.app (updated package)

2009-11-29 Thread Federico Gimenez Nieto
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.8.5-6 of the package preview.app, which i intend to adopt. It builds these binary packages: preview.app - General purpose image viewer for GNUstep The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix this bug: 454450 The

RFS: qtsmbstatus

2009-11-29 Thread Alessio Treglia
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package qtsmbstatus. * Package name: qtsmbstatus Version : 2.1.2-1 Upstream Author : Daniel Rocher daniel.roc...@adella.org * URL : http://qtsmbstatus.free.fr/ * License : GPL-2 Section : net It builds

Re: RFS: qtsmbstatus

2009-11-29 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Hi, Alessio Treglia ha scritto: I am looking for a sponsor for my package qtsmbstatus. I'll take a look at it. Will send you a message later. Cheers, Giuseppe signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: RFS: qtsmbstatus

2009-11-29 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Giuseppe Iuculano ha scritto: I'll take a look at it. Will send you a message later. Uploaded, thanks. Feel free to contact me directly for future uploads of this package. Cheers, Giuseppe. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: RFS: avifile (QA upload)

2009-11-29 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Yavor, On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 09:45:58PM +0200, Yavor Doganov wrote: At Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:26:39 -0500, Barry deFreese wrote: | avifile-utils: setuid-binary usr/bin/kv4lsetup 4755 root/root but this override was added by the original maintainer (also upstream), which of course doesn't

Request for a Mentor

2009-11-29 Thread Heath Matlock
Hi, I'm packaging PythonOCC, and could use a mentor during the process. I've just now sent in a WNPP/ITP bug report as well: Bug#558647: ITP: pythonocc -- pythonocc is a computer program whose purpose is to provide a complete set of python bindings for the OpenCascade library as well as the GEOM

Re: Request for a Mentor

2009-11-29 Thread Norbert Preining
On So, 29 Nov 2009, Heath Matlock wrote: Hi, I'm packaging PythonOCC, and could use a mentor during the process. I've just now sent in a WNPP/ITP bug report as well: Bug#558647: ITP: pythonocc -- pythonocc is a computer program whose purpose is to provide a complete set of python bindings

Re: Can /usr/share/doc/pkg be deleted on upgrade ?

2009-11-29 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Manoj: On Sunday 29 November 2009 04:53:05 Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Sat, Nov 28 2009, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: Hi, Ben: On Saturday 28 November 2009 08:59:13 Ben Finney wrote: Jesús M. Navarro jesus.nava...@undominio.net writes: Not personal but sysadmin related. When I want to

Re: Request for a Mentor

2009-11-29 Thread Heath Matlock
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Norbert Preining prein...@logic.at wrote: Well put the ready package somewhere one can get it and ask again here, that is the way. Okay, will do, thank you. -- Heath Matlock +1 256 274 4225 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Can /usr/share/doc/pkg be deleted on upgrade ?

2009-11-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, Nov 29 2009, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: Hi, Manoj: On Sunday 29 November 2009 04:53:05 Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Sat, Nov 28 2009, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: Strongly questionable: notes about package emacs, installed via package manager might go under /usr/share/doc/emacs, why not.

Re: Can /usr/share/doc/pkg be deleted on upgrade ?

2009-11-29 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi again, Manoj: On Sunday 29 November 2009 21:00:14 Manoj Srivastava wrote: [...] Well, then don't put the notes there. Select whatever place is logical to you and your fellow users. Like... /usr/share/doc/emacs? (again on square one). But Debian also does not tell you

Re: Can /usr/share/doc/pkg be deleted on upgrade ?

2009-11-29 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 01:38:32PM +0100, Lucas B. Cohen wrote: Is it considered acceptable for a package to blindly delete, then recreate its entire directory under /usr/share/doc upon installation or upgrade ? I would consider it extremely unacceptable. Your package can fiddle with files it

Re: Embedding one .deb inside another

2009-11-29 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 12:59:54PM -0800, Joe Smith wrote: I'm having an issue with distributing a .deb package that has a dependency on another .deb package that might not be in an available repository (or the target may not have a network connection at the time of installation). What I'd

Re: Buildd failed: C compiler cannot create executables

2009-11-29 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 08:08:36AM +0100, Joachim Wiedorn wrote: thanks for this informations! What informations? - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Can /usr/share/doc/pkg be deleted on upgrade ?

2009-11-29 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 03:41:39PM +0100, Lucas B. Cohen wrote: Roger Leigh wrote: Users don't have write access to anything under /usr in general (and /usr/share/doc in particular). If they did place files there, they must have done it after gaining root privs. I.e. they took

Re: Request for a Mentor

2009-11-29 Thread Ben Finney
Heath Matlock heathmatl...@gmail.com writes: Hi, I'm packaging PythonOCC, and could use a mentor during the process. I've just now sent in a WNPP/ITP bug report as well: You won't get “a mentor”. Rather, ask questions here in public, and get public answers (from mentors) here in this forum;

RFS: ocropus (updated package, 2nd try)

2009-11-29 Thread Jakub Wilk
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.3.1-1 of package ocropus, which I intend to co-maintain with Jeffrey Ratcliffe. It builds these binary packages: ocropus - document analysis and OCR system ocropus-data - document analysis and OCR system --- data files The

Re: Buildd failed: C compiler cannot create executables (solved)

2009-11-29 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Hello Matt, Am Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:25:05 +1100 schrieb Matthew Palmer mpal...@debian.org: What informations? This informations: Am Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:34:04 +0800 schrieb Paul Wise p...@debian.org: Packages should definitely not enforce building with ccache. The right way to

RFS: yorick-spydr (new upstream)

2009-11-29 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.8.0-1 of my package yorick-spydr: FITS image display and simple analysis. The package appears to be lintian clean. It can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/y/yorick-spydr - Source

RFR: lbzip2-0.18-1

2009-11-29 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
Dear Mentors, I kindly request you to review my package lbzip2-0.18-1. The package is located at http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/lbzip2/ Changes: * New upstream release: - Add sanity checks to both decompressors. - Remove input FILE operands. - Implement options --keep

RFS: ITA of giflib

2009-11-29 Thread Thibaut GRIDEL
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 4.1.6-9 of orphaned package giflib. It closes ITA #543841 which I updated earlier this week-end. It builds these binary packages: giflib-dbg - library for GIF images (debug) giflib-tools - library for GIF images (utilities) libgif-dev

RFS: wixi

2009-11-29 Thread Elías Alejandro
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package wixi. * Package name: wixi Version : 1.10-1 Upstream Author : Kess Remmelzwaal k.remmelzw...@planet.nl * URL : http://wixi.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL-2 Section : utils It builds these

Re: Can /usr/share/doc/pkg be deleted on upgrade ?

2009-11-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, Nov 26 2009, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 01:38:32PM +0100, Lucas B. Cohen wrote: Is it considered acceptable for a package to blindly delete, then recreate its entire directory under /usr/share/doc upon installation or upgrade ? I would consider it extremely

Re: Can /usr/share/doc/pkg be deleted on upgrade ?

2009-11-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, Nov 29 2009, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: here are a lot of things upstream can do that's undone at packaging in order to comply with Debian policy. If it *were* (a big if, of course) the policy that local-* files are sacred then something should be done. On the other hand that finding a

Re: Can /usr/share/doc/pkg be deleted on upgrade ?

2009-11-29 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 03:13:35AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 01:38:32PM +0100, Lucas B. Cohen wrote: Is it considered acceptable for a package to blindly delete, then recreate its entire directory under /usr/share/doc upon installation or upgrade ? I would

Re: Can /usr/share/doc/pkg be deleted on upgrade ?

2009-11-29 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 05:13:51PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Thu, Nov 26 2009, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 01:38:32PM +0100, Lucas B. Cohen wrote: Is it considered acceptable for a package to blindly delete, then recreate its entire directory under /usr/share/doc

Re: Request for a Mentor

2009-11-29 Thread Heath Matlock
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: You won't get “a mentor”. Rather, ask questions here in public, and get public answers (from mentors) here in this forum; that way everyone else has the discussion available. With that in mind, what is the proper

Re: Request for a Mentor

2009-11-29 Thread Ben Finney
Heath Matlock heathmatl...@gmail.com writes: With that in mind, what is the proper way to note that the .deb doesn't contain the Salome GEOM package? I am building this package for another package that doesn't require this feature. I don't really understand the question; the facile answer

Re: RFR: lbzip2-0.18-1

2009-11-29 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 11:55:48PM +0100, ERSEK Laszlo wrote: Dear Mentors, I kindly request you to review my package lbzip2-0.18-1. The package is located at http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/lbzip2/ Changes: * New upstream release: - Add sanity checks to both decompressors. -