Re: How to do a survey on lbzip2 as a bzip2 alternative?

2009-11-20 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sat, 21 Nov 2009, ERSEK Laszlo wrote: I *really* feel my work between lbzip2-0.15 and lbzip2-0.17, both upstream and packaging, is down the drain. At the very least this work was of use to _you_ --- so it is not down the drain. I was pestering the bzip2 and tar package maintainers

Re: RFS: obexpushd (updated package)

2009-06-06 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Tue, 02 Jun 2009, Dominik Bruhn wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.8-1 of the package obexpushd. On Sat, 06 Jun 2009, Dominik Bruhn wrote: I'm looking for someone to sponsor a new version (0.8) for obexpushd. The changes are small, so it should be reasy to

Re: Combining changelog entries with dpkg-genchanges

2009-06-05 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, 05 Jun 2009, Romain Beauxis wrote: Can't you just create a version number that fits ? For instance, if your version schema is x.y.z-t, and you want all versions, you can use for instance 0.0.0 I think this means also that the version passed in -v does not have to be

Combining changelog entries with dpkg-genchanges

2009-06-03 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, In the context of the RFS for febootstrap, On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 01:16:26AM +0530, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote: Another note: I built with -v2.1-1 in debbuildopts but that doesn't include the changelog entry for 2.1-1 in the changes file. I have wondered why dpkg-genchanges takes the

Re: Combining changelog entries with dpkg-genchanges

2009-06-03 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Thu, 04 Jun 2009, Ben Finney wrote: Kapil Hari Paranjape ka...@debian.org writes: One suggestion I found (I think in Neil William's sponsoring requirements write-up) was to use an empty argument for -v but I couldn't get that to work. It works fine for me. Perhaps show a VCS

Re: RFS: agedu

2009-05-29 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, 29 May 2009, Alexander Prinsier wrote: Anything else that keeps my package from getting sponsored?;) Uploading! I'm uploading the package. However, you should find a different way to handle the manpage patches in the long run. - send those patches upstream so they can be

Re: RFS: agedu

2009-05-29 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, 29 May 2009, Alexander Prinsier wrote: PS: can I bother you when I have an update available for agedu or should I mail to debian-mentors again? You could email to me with a cc to debian-mentors. It may just happen that I am unavailable at the time and someone else will sponsor

Re: RFS: agedu

2009-05-28 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Wed, 27 May 2009, Alexander Prinsier wrote: * Package name: agedu Version : 8442-2 Upstream Author : Simon Tatham ana...@pobox.com * URL : http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/agedu/ * License : MIT Section : utils It builds

Re: pbuilder --build --binary-arch invokes 'build' target

2009-05-05 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Tue, 05 May 2009, Petr Pudlak wrote: The problem is that if pbuilder is invoked with --binary-arch, it still tries to build the whole project, including the documentation (indep). It looks to me as if the problem is with pbuilder (or with the tools it's invoking), but of course the

Re: Best way to solve a file conflict between packages?

2009-03-30 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Davide Puricelli wrote: I'm asking you help about bug #509367. As you can imagine similar problems have come-up in the past. 2) just putting a Conflicts between mono-devel and chicken-bin, but I think it's not a good solution for users. This is not correct since

Re: man pages question

2009-03-25 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hellom On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: I got these warnings in lintian for my package, having no idea how to solve this issue. I probably have to manage to same man pages opening like this: man jack-jconv will be opened on these too: man jconv man fconv man mkwavex This

Re: RFS: tmux (updated package)

2009-03-12 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Karl Ferdinand Ebert wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.7-1 of my package tmux. Here are some comments: - add FAQ to docs - add CHANGES file as upstream changelog - ITP bug will be closed by the first upload not the first packaging attempt So

Re: RFS: tmux (updated package)

2009-03-11 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Paul Wise wrote: This sounds very much like 'screen', what advantages does it have over 'screen'? Just quoting from the FAQ: * How is tmux different from GNU screen? What else does it offer? tmux offers several advantages over screen: - a

Re: RFS [2]: math input formatter for pidgin (pidgintex), general math formatter tool (mathtex)

2009-03-04 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sat, 24 Jan 2009, Johan Henriksson wrote: Johan Henriksson wrote: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=509601 http://mahogny.areta.org/temp/debs/ Source: pidgintex Section: net Priority: optional Maintainer: Johan Henriksson maho...@areta.org Build-Depends:

Re: RFS [2]: general math formatter tool (mathtex)

2009-03-04 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sat, 24 Jan 2009, Johan Henriksson wrote: Johan Henriksson wrote: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=509626 http://mahogny.areta.org/temp/debs/ Source: mathtex Section: graphics Priority: optional Maintainer: Johan Henriksson maho...@areta.org

Re: RFS: libpam-paperauth

2009-03-04 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Luke Faraone wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package libpam-paperauth. Generally looks good. However, it fails to build from source. The pbuilder build returned the following error: /usr/bin/ld: pam_ppp_so-pam_ppp.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local

Re: generating html documentation from LaTeX?

2009-02-27 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Petr Pudlak (Debian) wrote: generating documentation also in HTML. I found a nice program, tex4ht, which seems to work quite well. Great to hear that! I have a few question though: 2) The HTML page is quite large, ~300k, about the same size as the PDF. Should

Re: Closing bugs, incrementing release number, and uploads to mentors.debian.net

2009-01-18 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, Ben Finney wrote: * When packages are created by ‘dpkg-buildpackage’, the ‘*_changes’ files by default contain only changes from the latest entry in the changelog. By default, yes. However, there is the -vmmm.nnn-qqq option which makes the changelog of all

Re: Library Packaging

2008-10-03 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, 03 Oct 2008, Neil Williams wrote: On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 16:16 -0400, Jonathan Steel wrote: I'm trying to create a package of a shared library and I can't figure out how to do it. I can do it for a normal binary using dh_make and debuild. Ive read through all the debian

Re: [OT] Re: how to install package using apt-get in folder other than /usr

2008-09-30 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:19:27 +0900 Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: whereas one of the goals of letting the user installing packages in his home directory is to not bother the admins. In that case, use fakechroot, it may be enough for you. Alternatively use qemu or

Re: how to install package using apt-get in folder other than /usr

2008-09-29 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Mon, 29 Sep 2008, Kruti wrote: Can someone help me regarding how to install a package in any user defined folder other than /usr using apt-get? If you just want to examine the contents of the .deb package then you can download the package (e.g. aptitude download pkgname) and unpack

Re: No response from MIA

2008-09-26 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, W. van den Akker wrote: I am trying to get the maintainership for a package (SCID, et al). Does this mean that you are: 1. Working on bugs in the package --- in which case please file patches to the relevant bug report. 2. Working on a newer upstream version ---

Re: apt-proxy, apt-cacher approx

2008-09-22 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Thomas Goirand wrote: P.S: I also had hard time doing a backport of the Lenny version of apt-cacher that depends on so many packages to be backported. You can use schroot or chroot to run the lenny version of software under etch (for example

Re: Need advice about my first package

2008-09-20 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sat, 20 Sep 2008, Laurent Guignard wrote: I think that the RFS procedure is too strict or legal for me (at this moment according to my knowledge about Debian) and i would like to have a mam to man discuss about... Is it possible ? Don't ask whether you can ask! Just ask. In other

[DONE] Re: RFS: remind (updated package)

2008-07-11 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Kurt B. Kaiser wrote: I've uploaded -2, thanks! (Will need tarball upload) http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/r/remind/remind_03.01.05-2.dsc Please note that the following changelog line was missing from your package and was added: * Update Standards

License help needed (nvi 1.81.6-3)

2008-07-06 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Dear Jan, (I am cc-ing this to debian-mentors some of whom might be able to help.) I looked at your packaging at: http://www-pool.math.tu-berlin.de/~hesso/deb/nvi_1.81.6-3.dsc I agree that the copyright situation is a bit complex. Basically, Joerg has raised the question because the

Re: License help needed (nvi 1.81.6-3)

2008-07-06 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Dear Jan, On Sun, 06 Jul 2008, Jan Christoph Nordholz wrote: I've uploaded an updated package to the above URL and also uploaded the new copyright file separately to http://www-pool.math.tu-berlin.de/~hesso/deb/nvi.copyright Short explanation: * All files that refer to LICENSE

Re: RFS: remind (updated package)

2008-07-05 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Thu, 03 Jul 2008, Kurt B. Kaiser wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 03.01.05-1 of my package remind. Since the previous version (03.01.04) of the package has been accepted with DM-Upload-Allowed: yes and you as the maintainer, it seems to me that you should be able

Re: RFS: remind (updated package)

2008-07-05 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sat, 05 Jul 2008, Kurt B. Kaiser wrote: I am not yet in the DM keyring. Once I get my package gambc uploaded, I will apply. Oops. I should have checked with gpg --list-options show-keyring! Sorry about that. Also, remind has never been uploaded with the DM-Upload-Allowed field

[DONE] Re: RFS: bindfs

2008-06-27 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: New package on mentors: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/b/bindfs/bindfs_1.6.2-1.dsc Uploaded. Thanks for your contribution to Debian. Regards, Kapil. -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Some license issues (Was Re: RFS: unionfs-fuse)

2008-06-26 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Dear Bernd, On Thu, 26 Jun 2008, Bernd Schubert wrote: Thanks at lot! I modified a bit following the wiki page Richard posted (http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat#head-133d3ff18d9a3119d48e96f0c8aca4a37391769f). In detail I changed License to other. From the wiki page it not clear

Re: Some license issues (Was Re: RFS: unionfs-fuse)

2008-06-26 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Thu, 26 Jun 2008, Bernd Schubert wrote: Thanks for spotting that. Fixed now. I just uploaded another version. dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/u/unionfs-fuse/unionfs-fuse_0.20-4.dsc Uploaded. Thanks for your contribution to Debian. Please check

Re: Some license issues (Was Re: RFS: unionfs-fuse)

2008-06-26 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Thu, 26 Jun 2008, Bernd Schubert wrote: PS: I didn't try to upload the package for several months, since I was all the time afraid of the formalisms like these. I hope that this response has been encouraging rather than otherwise. Well, yes and no ;) For this package all of

Re: RFS: bindfs

2008-06-26 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Thu, 26 Jun 2008, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: Dear mentors, I'm looking for sponsor :) - - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/b/bindfs/bindfs_1.6.1-3.dsc Here are some issues with this package. - many source files have *no* copyright or author identification. - there

Some license issues (Was Re: RFS: unionfs-fuse)

2008-06-25 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, Mentors with some experience ith license issues may want to chip in here! On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Bernd Schubert wrote: - Please comply with section 4.2 of the Maintainer's guide I tried my best to fulfill these reqirements dget

Re: RFS: nvi [DONE] (Was Re: Multi-RFS: nvi, autofs5, mt-st)

2008-06-22 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Jan Christoph Nordholz wrote: * nvi (1.79-26 = 1.81.6+debian-1) Switch from the stable branch (which has been dead for ages) to the development branch - it doesn't feel developmental though. Package has been thoroughly revised (the 1.79 series didn't even employ a

Re: RFS: nvi (Was Re: Multi-RFS: nvi, autofs5, mt-st)

2008-06-20 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Jan Christoph Nordholz wrote: * nvi (1.79-26 = 1.81.6+debian-1) Switch from the stable branch (which has been dead for ages) to the development branch - it doesn't feel developmental though. Package has been thoroughly revised (the 1.79 series didn't even employ a

Re: Multi-RFS: nvi, autofs5, mt-st

2008-06-20 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Jan Christoph Nordholz wrote: * nvi (1.79-26 = 1.81.6+debian-1) Switch from the stable branch (which has been dead for ages) to the development branch - it doesn't feel developmental though. Package has been thoroughly revised (the 1.79 series didn't even employ a

Re: RFS: unionfs-fuse

2008-06-20 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Bernd Schubert wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package unionfs-fuse. http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/u/unionfs-fuse/unionfs-fuse_0.9.20-2.dsc This should have been: -

Re: Sponsor for link-grammar

2008-06-20 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Ken Bloom wrote: Could someone please sponsor an upload of link-grammar for me? The packages are at http://lingcog.iit.edu/~bloom/link-grammar/ Is there some reason to use this package rather than the more actively developed one (current version 4.3.5) at the URL

Re: Need some tips on building Debian packages

2008-05-30 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, 30 May 2008, Paul Johnson wrote: I've been asking around for help on building debian packages. changes, and all of those fiddles were getting wrapped up into the one big diff file, making it impossible to figure out who did what. One possible reason to do this is that the

Re: Finding the origin of a binary package.

2008-03-11 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Alexander Schmehl wrote: Am 11.3.2008 schrieb Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am wondering how to find the origin of a binary package: if it was built on a buildd or the machine of a developper, and in this case, who uploaded it. Well... If it was build

Re: Requests for sponsors to upload NMUs

2008-03-04 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
On Tue, 04 Mar 2008, Neil Williams wrote: Note: only fix bugs that are already filed to the BTS The rest of the normal NMU rules still apply: The following quote invites other fixes as well! On Sun, 02 Mar 2008, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:

Re: RFS: monkey

2008-02-27 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Thorsten Schmale wrote: i'm not on testing - i'm using etch currently. Is that a problem? Even if you run etch you should probably have a testing/unstable copy of lintian and the various documents like policy, developer's ref and maint-guide. Of course, you should do

[Uploaded] RFS: syslog-summary (updated and adopted package)

2008-02-21 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Thu, 07 Feb 2008, David Paleino wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.13 of the package syslog-summary, which I'm also adopting (ITA: #455005). On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, David Paleino wrote: I've fixed everything, you can find the new package at the same url as before.

Re: RFS: syslog-summary (updated and adopted package)

2008-02-20 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, David Paleino wrote: The package is now available on sourceforge.net: http://sourceforge.net/projects/syslog-summary The .dsc can be found on mentors: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/syslog-summary/syslog-summary_1.13-1.dsc Could you please

Re: GPG key change

2008-02-20 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, David Paleino wrote: is there any procedure to follow in case one needs to revoke his GPG key (thus creating a new one)? I mean, I have some packages in Debian, which are signed by my current key (0x1392B174). Is it sufficient to start signing new packages with

Re: GPG key change

2008-02-20 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello David, On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, David Paleino wrote: I've somehow lost my private key for encryption. That is, I can sign anything, also encrypt, but not decrypt anything encrypted with my key. I've already added a new encryption sub-key (and works), but having lost the private part for

Re: Bug#466550: Please clarify the get-orig-source target stated in Policy 4.9

2008-02-19 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, Perhaps the following elaborate statement can be condensed (once sufficient cooling has occurred :-)) 1. Once pkg_ver.orig.tar.gz enters the Debian archive this is considered the authoritative Debian version from which all the binary Debian packages will be built (for that version of the

Re: RFS: ee (updated package)

2008-02-19 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Paul Wise wrote: On Feb 20, 2008 6:27 AM, Mauro Lizaur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It builds these binary packages: ee - An easy editor for novices and compuphobics What are compuphobics? Sounds like a word that should not be in a short description.

Re: In which section should go this kernel patch package (tuxonice)?

2008-02-18 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Mattia Oss wrote: I'm trying to make a deb of kernel patch tuxonice[1], an alternative way to suspend-to-disk and suspend-to-ram. In which section should this package go? admin? devel? At first glance this is likely to be more than one package. There is the

Re: In which section should go this kernel patch package (tuxonice)?

2008-02-18 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Mattia Oss wrote: On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:42:32 +0530 Kapil Hari Paranjape [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At first glance this is likely to be more than one package. There is the kernel-patch which would be in devel, the hibernate script which would be in admin

Re: In which section should go this kernel patch package (tuxonice)?

2008-02-18 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Mattia Oss wrote: This is what I thought! But when I searched in the debian archive I found: linux-patch-aufs: Section: misc linux-patch-bootsplash: Section: graphics linux-patch-debian-2.6.24:Section: devel linux-patch-debianlogo:

Re: removal of unneeded packages installed by pbuilder

2008-02-16 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, One way to use pbuilder and avoid using aptcache is to use a local mirroring tool as the MIRRORSITE. I use approx but YMMV. Another way to avoid the massive file copying is to use a BINDMOUNTS and set APTCACHE to . The tricky part is that pbuilder's BINDMOUNTS allows you to specify the

Re: removal of unneeded packages installed by pbuilder

2008-02-16 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: Then you configure apt in the chroot to use this directory as its cache directory. I had this setup until I hit upon the first option. I forgot to say that you can use the APTCONFDIR option to give a specialised configuration for APT

Re: Writing get-orig-source targets to conform with policy

2008-02-16 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Andres Mejia wrote: Second question is regarding a get-orig-source target I have for the package mediatomb. It goes like: # Common variables used to ease maintenance of the get-orig-source target. MEDIATOMB_TARBALL = mediatomb-0.10.0.tar.gz MEDIATOMB_VERSION =

Re: RFS: syslog-summary (updated and adopted package)

2008-02-15 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, David Paleino wrote: Il giorno Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:58:34 +0530 Kapil Hari Paranjape [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Could you please clarify the following issues: 1. The package does not seem to be Debian specific. Yet it is packaged as such. FYI

Re: How uploaded zerofree?

2008-02-14 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Thibaut Paumard wrote: someone was so kind as to upload one of my packages, zerofree (now in NEW). I'd like to be sure who that was, so I can contact them later for the next upload for instance. How can I find out? Usually, who-uploads from devscripts should

Re: RFS: syslog-summary (updated and adopted package)

2008-02-14 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Thu, 07 Feb 2008, David Paleino wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.13 of the package syslog-summary, which I'm also adopting (ITA: #455005). Looks like a worthwhile package to keep going. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - dget

Re: Help with watch file -- versions based on different libraries

2008-02-12 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, I wrote: I've been trying to write a watch file for flpsed. First of all sorry for hijacking the thread. Secondly, it is amazing how writing down one's problem makes it clear how to solve it! As far as I can see the author's logic for this somewhat bizarre

Help with watch file -- versions based on different libraries

2008-02-12 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, I've been trying to write a watch file for flpsed. The upstream home page is at http://www.ecademix.com/JohannesHofmann/flpsed.html This lists two versions of flpsed based on which version of the library fltk is being used. Since Debian only has fltk1.1.x at the moment, I can

Re: Lintian: outdated-autotools-helper-file

2008-02-11 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Bas Wijnen wrote: I suggest to mandate remove all generated files in the clean target (formulated in a way which includes generated by upstream, not only generated by the build target), which implies rebuild everything in the build target. With the current wording it is

Re: Lintian: outdated-autotools-helper-file

2008-02-11 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Bas Wijnen wrote: Secondly, when the clean target removes all generated files, they are ignored when generating the diff.gz, so it doesn't actually clutter it. It does produce some warnings during make clean, but those are not a problem IMO. Oops. I'd forgotten

Re: RFS: libx86 (adopted package)

2008-02-09 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sat, 09 Feb 2008, David Paleino wrote: You're right. Thanks for noticing this :) http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libx86/libx86_0.99+ds1-1.dsc Looks like there is convergence! I'm currently away from my build machine. I'll upload as soon as I get there. Regards,

[uploaded] RFS: libx86 (adopted package)

2008-02-09 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Wed, 06 Feb 2008, David Paleino wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.99-2+ds1 of the package libx86, which I want to adopt. On Sat, 09 Feb 2008, David Paleino wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libx86/libx86_0.99+ds1-1.dsc Uploaded. Thanks for

Re: RFS: libx86 (adopted package)

2008-02-08 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, Sorry for the delay in responding. I had less free time than I thought. gregor herrmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: So I suggest you use e.g. 0.99+ds-1 for your package. On Fri, 08 Feb 2008, David Paleino wrote: Now, after some reasoning, I believe that I should use something like

Re: RFS: libx86 (adopted package)

2008-02-08 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sat, 09 Feb 2008, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: I have not yet done the rest of my review so you may want to wait a while before uploading a new version to mentors. Since you are adding quilt, it is probably a good idea to modify/add the Makefile in a quilt patch. Once you take

Re: RFS: libx86 (adopted package)

2008-02-07 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Thu, 07 Feb 2008, David Paleino wrote: I've merged the Ubuntu patch, and mentioned it in debian/changelog: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libx86/libx86_0.99-2+ds1.dsc 2. You should perhaps request upstream author to maintain a clean tarball. I've

Re: RFS: QA Upload - imlib - Two bug fixes, including RC bug

2008-02-06 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Mon, 04 Feb 2008, Barry deFreese wrote: I've uploaded a version of imlib that fixes an important and RC bug. If someone has time to review/sponsor. Sune Vuorela wrote: On 2008-02-05, Moritz Muehlenhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've uploaded a version of imlib that fixes an

Re: RFS: libx86 (adopted package)

2008-02-06 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Wed, 06 Feb 2008, David Paleino wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.99-2+ds1 of the package libx86, which I want to adopt. Thanks for this work. This package is quite important for people with laptops! Some remarks: 1. The Ubuntu package seems to have

Re: List of out-of-date packages on a given architecture.

2008-02-04 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Tue, 05 Feb 2008, Charles Plessy wrote: So in conclusion, we have nothing else to do than hoping that the buildds will restart keeping up some day, or is it time to ask on debian-release that packages not up to date on these arches are allowed to migrate in testing anyway ? Or you

Re: RFS: hashalot (updated)

2008-01-25 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Adam Borowski wrote: Ok, I did this, then overwrote 0.3-5 on mentors. There's a watch file for uscan now as well. Good work. One last correction... Under the new policy apt-get installs all recommended packages by default. Moreover, Recommends: means that the

Re: RFS: hashalot (updated)

2008-01-24 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Adam Borowski wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 09:10:11AM +0530, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: Has this patch been submitted upstream? Yes, albeit only a week ago. Is upstream still working on this package? The last upload seems to have been in 2004! On Thu, 24 Jan

Re: RFS: hashalot (updated)

2008-01-24 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, Sorry about the delay in responding. Different time zones! On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Adam Borowski wrote: Actually, it seems that reverting to upstream autotooling doesn't break anything (except obviously being unfriendly to those who want to update autotoolage themselves). I would need to

Re: RFS: hashalot (updated)

2008-01-23 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, Some quick comments. On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Adam Borowski wrote: * Buffer overflow on RMD160: It will cause only a crash instead of executing arbitrary code, and considering the typical usage this is nearly always harmless. Yet, in non-typical uses even wrong output can be pretty

Re: RFS: dblatex: long term / current release 0.2.8-3

2008-01-20 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Andreas Hoenen wrote: as my default sponsor recently has not found the time for sponsoring, and as he agrees I should better search another sponsor - well, here I am :-) and: To finalize my advertisement: the dblatex package is not very complicated (architecture

Re: RFS: daloradius (updated package)

2007-12-30 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sun, 30 Dec 2007, liran tal wrote: Hey Richard, By the way you have sent HTML mail to the list which you should avoid. but it does bother me on some level that someone whose suppose to be a Mentor has taken such a lot of effort to discourage me from building a package (whatever it

Re: Finding out why a Build-Dependency is fetched.

2007-12-20 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Kumar Appaiah wrote: In other words, if you specifically do not want atlas3-base-dev to be present during the build then you should put it in Build-Conflicts. I am aware, but want to avoid it. It may not be avoidable. See

Re: Finding out why a Build-Dependency is fetched.

2007-12-19 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Kumar Appaiah wrote: Also, when I try to build the package on my machine outside a pbuilder, with the B-Deps installed, it works fine without atlas, and generates packages which don't depend explicitly on libatlas. However, the moment I try to use pbuilder on it,

Re: Packages getting created without signature

2007-12-14 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, iluvlinux wrote: Storing your passphrase in a file or ENV variable is never safe as told in documents and by mentors. True enough. Yet ... than here's what i found: gpg's default home dir is ~/.gunpg (you can change it using --homedir option, using this option

Re: Packages getting created without signature

2007-12-14 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, iluvlinux wrote: but dpkg-buildpackage command asks for passphrase just before building the package (at dh_builddeb ). so how can i check it with lintian etc. Do you want that first i should build a package, check it and than use gpg separately for signing the

Re: mentors.debian.net reloading

2007-10-26 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Christoph Haas wrote: That would mean getting the package in Debian (with the dependencies), installing it, testing upgrading to the new deb etc., right? I just worry what happens if I try that with a package that pulls in 1 GB of dependencies. How would that work?

Re: RFS: polipo (updated package)

2007-10-11 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, DS wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.0.3-1 of my package polipo. It builds these binary packages: polipo - a small, caching web proxy $ who-uploads polipo Uploads for polipo: 1.0.2-1 to unstable: Guus Sliepen [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is

Re: RFS: kopete-otr 0.6-1

2007-09-11 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Francesco Cecconi wrote: this is my last attempt :) You need to be more persistent than that :D All the best with your effort for which we are all grateful. Kapil. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: RFS: normalize-audio (updated package)

2007-09-03 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Mon, 03 Sep 2007, Joachim Reichel wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.7.7-2 of my package normalize-audio. I haven't checked this in detail but a quick look shows additional build-dependencies: Build-Depends: debhelper (= 5), dpatch, autotools-dev,

Re: [RFS] stunnel4 (updated package, adoption, RFS repost)

2007-08-28 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote: Ready. The new package at http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/stunnel4/stunnel4_4.20-4~2.dsc Uploading to master (via ftp to ftp-master.debian.org): stunnel4_4.20-4.dsc: done. stunnel4_4.20-4.diff.gz: done.

debian .orig.tar.gz vs. upstream tar.gz

2007-08-27 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, I got hit by this so I wanted to note it down where it might be of use to others. It *is* elementary but then ... Suppose pkg_123.45.orig.tar.gz is already in the Debian archive. To build a new version pkg_123.45-xxx of the Debian package. *Always* use the Debian version of the

Re: debian .orig.tar.gz vs. upstream tar.gz

2007-08-27 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Neil Williams wrote: I'm confused. Is this related to the other messages in this thread or did you mean to start a new thread? I'm sorry that I posted to your thread and confused the issue. Many apologies for the hijack. On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Neil Williams wrote:

Re: debian .orig.tar.gz vs. upstream tar.gz

2007-08-27 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Jörg Sommer wrote: Do *not* get the upstream .tar.gz which may have changed for some mysterious reason. I don't think the upstream tar.gz have changed, but your orig.tar.gz is not the same as the upstream tar.gz. This happens if the orig.tar.gz was repacked to

Re: debian .orig.tar.gz vs. upstream tar.gz

2007-08-27 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: In any case if this is done then it *must* be documented in debian/changelog and/or README.Debian-source. The *must* in the above line is not supported by Debian policy. So I'll change that to a *should* :-) Regards, Kapil

Re: [RFS] stunnel4 (updated package, adoption, RFS repost)

2007-08-26 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sun, 26 Aug 2007, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote: Should I upload with just the change from (1)? Yes. I agree with your reasoning. Regards, Kapil. -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [RFS] stunnel4 (updated package, adoption, RFS repost)

2007-08-24 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: Package looks fine. I'm currently updating my local pbuilder base and will upload when that is done. Unfortunately, I just realised that there are a few more changes that I think you should make! While looking through your debian/rules I

Re: [RFS] stunnel4 (updated package, adoption, RFS repost)

2007-08-23 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote: I have uploaded a new version with the suggested fixes. Following your sugestion I used 3:4.20-4~1 as version. If you consider it worthy of upload, please change it to -4. And please build with -v3:4.20-2 Thanks for pointing this

Re: advice on maintainting packages on alioth ?

2007-08-17 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Thomas Jollans wrote: In future, I would like to maintain my packages in Mercurial (or git) repositories. It seams the best place for these to be would be alioth, but I'm not sure where is the best place -- should I rather request a private sub-directory or

Re: [RFS] stunnel4 (updated package, adoption, RFS repost)

2007-08-16 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 3:4.20-3 of my package stunnel4. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/stunnel4 - Source repository: deb-src

Re: stripping by upstream

2007-08-13 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Kevin Coyner wrote: Such is the case with my packages. Upstream does strip in the Makefile. Aside from editing the Makefile using dpatch, is there anything else that is easily done to correct this? Different strokes for different folks. I got away with redefining

Help with wrong upload

2007-08-08 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, Could some mentors help me here?! I uploaded tex4ht version 20070717-1 to ftp-master.debian.org. Unfortunately, a couple of typos slipped in which make this package un-installable. I have now prepared a fixed version 20070717-2 which has been checked really properly (this time!) and

Re: notifying the user about an incompatible upgrade

2007-06-04 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Mon, 04 Jun 2007, Eric Cooper wrote: What is the best way to notify the user or administrator when a new version of a package changes the format of a configuration file in a backwards-incompatible way? These options occurred to me: Try to upgrade the user's old configuration

Re: staying in stable but compiling for sid

2007-04-13 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Steve Kemp wrote: Sure, I primarily thinking of pbuilder when I wrote that. Sorry! You can use unionfs wth a (pbuilder) chroot to test most things without damaging the pristine nature of the build environment. Secondly you need not run a full-fledged X server

Re: RFS: libsbml

2007-02-05 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Tue, 06 Feb 2007, Charles Plessy wrote: $ apt-cache show latex2html Package: latex2html Priority: optional Section: non-free/tex There are alternatives like hevea and tex4ht. Both of them work on generic LaTeX documents. Unusual uses of latex may require fine tuning to get the

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