Re: cryptoloop-source, anyone taking over?

2004-02-12 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 09:19:16AM +0100, Juergen Strobel wrote: The PTS shows cryptoloop-source to be orphaned, with a note that someone is intending to take over. The note is quite old now and references a bugreport which gives no further clues. Have you attempted to contact Vincent Bernat

Re: Looking for sponsor : xmail

2004-02-11 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 12:21:31AM +, Radu Spineanu wrote: Did anyone have any problems with this package ? Settle down. It does take some time to go over a package, especially one as large as an MTA. I'm sure you'll receive comments in due course. - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Looking for sponsor : xmail

2004-02-11 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 12:21:31AM +, Radu Spineanu wrote: Did anyone have any problems with this package ? Settle down. It does take some time to go over a package, especially one as large as an MTA. I'm sure you'll receive comments in due course. - Matt

Sponsorship guidelines

2004-02-10 Thread Matthew Palmer
This is a (very small) part of the reason I haven't been doing sponsorships with the appropriate amount of vigour lately - I've been working on a more automated and standardised approach to my sponsor work. I've got a bit of a pseudo upload queue happening, and I've got some behind-the-scenes

Sponsorship guidelines - addendum

2004-02-10 Thread Matthew Palmer
Of course, it would be useful if I gave the URL to the guidelines: http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/sponsorship.html (sigh) it's been a long day. - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sponsorship guidelines

2004-02-10 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 11:21:49AM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: You must be intending to join the Debian project at some point in the future. I see sponsorship as a step to becoming a DD, not an end in and of itself. You may not have a specific timeline for applying, but if you truly

Re: Sponsorship guidelines

2004-02-10 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 12:35:19PM +, Thomas Viehmann wrote: Matthew Palmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Two quick things on the checklist: - Maybe do add a quirk that the prospective packager should (or even say must) have read the canonical docs (policy, d.'s r., newmaint

Re: Help with my program

2004-02-10 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 11:07:25PM +0100, Nico Golde wrote: How can this program placed in the debian distribution? I read the documentation (maint-guide, developer-guide), but i am not really shure how it works. Can someone (a Maintainer) help me? FAQ-man to the rescue!

Sponsorship guidelines

2004-02-10 Thread Matthew Palmer
This is a (very small) part of the reason I haven't been doing sponsorships with the appropriate amount of vigour lately - I've been working on a more automated and standardised approach to my sponsor work. I've got a bit of a pseudo upload queue happening, and I've got some behind-the-scenes

Sponsorship guidelines - addendum

2004-02-10 Thread Matthew Palmer
Of course, it would be useful if I gave the URL to the guidelines: http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/sponsorship.html (sigh) it's been a long day. - Matt

Re: Sponsorship guidelines

2004-02-10 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 11:21:49AM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: You must be intending to join the Debian project at some point in the future. I see sponsorship as a step to becoming a DD, not an end in and of itself. You may not have a specific timeline for applying, but if you truly

Re: Help with my program

2004-02-10 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 11:07:25PM +0100, Nico Golde wrote: How can this program placed in the debian distribution? I read the documentation (maint-guide, developer-guide), but i am not really shure how it works. Can someone (a Maintainer) help me? FAQ-man to the rescue!

Re: Is this sufficient for an application?

2004-02-09 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 08:37:22PM +0100, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: IANADD myself. But from reading mailing lists, I think the sentiment of many is that getting an account on the Debian machines should be a question of 'is it necessary for your work'? This is something I've

Re: Is this sufficient for an application?

2004-02-09 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 09:11:25PM +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: However, I hope this helps - some suggestions and bug reports: Bug reports don't make a good application. They are things which can be quite reasonably carried out by users. Now, marketing on behalf of Debian, where being a

Re: Is this sufficient for an application?

2004-02-09 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 08:37:22PM +0100, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: IANADD myself. But from reading mailing lists, I think the sentiment of many is that getting an account on the Debian machines should be a question of 'is it necessary for your work'? This is something I've

Re: Is this sufficient for an application?

2004-02-09 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 09:11:25PM +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: However, I hope this helps - some suggestions and bug reports: Bug reports don't make a good application. They are things which can be quite reasonably carried out by users. Now, marketing on behalf of Debian, where being a

Re: Sponsor not responding

2004-02-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 02:34:43PM +0100, Roland Gruber wrote: I am maintainer of the ldap-account-manager package. It came into Debian in November 2003 and is sponsored by Matthew Palmer. The problem is that since the end of December Matthew did not reply to my mails. There were two new

Re: Sponsor not responding

2004-02-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 02:34:43PM +0100, Roland Gruber wrote: I am maintainer of the ldap-account-manager package. It came into Debian in November 2003 and is sponsored by Matthew Palmer. The problem is that since the end of December Matthew did not reply to my mails. There were two new

Re: RFS: apt-best

2004-01-28 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 02:32:54PM +0100, chatiman wrote: apt-best is a utility which helps the user in finding the most populars debian packages. For that it uses the scores found on freshmeat (more sources to come) for exemple and link them to the debian package archive. It is licensed

Re: RFS: hatari

2004-01-27 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 03:08:14AM +, Colin Watson wrote: components to be specified, in this example 2.3.0. All four components may still be used if someone wishes to do so. Or if your package only complies with a spelling mistake. grin - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: RFS: hatari

2004-01-27 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 03:08:14AM +, Colin Watson wrote: components to be specified, in this example 2.3.0. All four components may still be used if someone wishes to do so. Or if your package only complies with a spelling mistake. grin - Matt

Re: Need an advocate

2004-01-21 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 07:28:49PM -0600, Matthew A. Nicholson wrote: I am in search of someone who will agree to advocate me to become a debian http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html Specifically There is no point asking for an advocate on debian-mentors and the question So

Re: Need an advocate

2004-01-21 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 09:24:33PM -0600, Matthew A. Nicholson wrote: If bootsplash is what I think it is, however, you may have a potential sponsor and advocate in yours truly. What do you think it is? (bootsplash.org) Considering that you gave no useful information in your original

Re: Debian and Oracle

2004-01-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 11:21:50PM +0100, Patrick Geschinski wrote: So my question is why doesnt't Oracle certify his product for Debian ? What's the obstacle ? Oracle want the OS vendor to supply people, at the OS vendors' cost, to staff the Oracle support center. There are also lots of other

Re: Debian and Oracle

2004-01-18 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 11:21:50PM +0100, Patrick Geschinski wrote: So my question is why doesnt't Oracle certify his product for Debian ? What's the obstacle ? Oracle want the OS vendor to supply people, at the OS vendors' cost, to staff the Oracle support center. There are also lots of other

Re: RFS: proxycheck

2004-01-09 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 12:02:41PM +0300, Al Nikolov wrote: Hi, all Looking for sponsor for a new package: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/proxycheck/ I'll help you out with this one, but it'll have to wait until after the 18th when I get back from

Re: RFS: proxycheck

2004-01-09 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 12:02:41PM +0300, Al Nikolov wrote: Hi, all Looking for sponsor for a new package: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/proxycheck/ I'll help you out with this one, but it'll have to wait until after the 18th when I get back from

Re: Need a sponsor for my konversation package

2003-12-21 Thread Matthew Palmer
Nathaniel W. Turner said: Wow, Konversation sure is a great IRC client! It would sure be great if it were in Debian What? You think so too? You're a DD? Splendid! Consider sponsoring my package: [...] P.S. I was going to put Single IRC client package seeks caring DD for

Re: Need a sponsor for my konversation package

2003-12-21 Thread Matthew Palmer
Nathaniel W. Turner said: Wow, Konversation sure is a great IRC client! It would sure be great if it were in Debian What? You think so too? You're a DD? Splendid! Consider sponsoring my package: [...] P.S. I was going to put Single IRC client package seeks caring DD for

Re: How to deal with sql-database structures on upgrade

2003-12-21 Thread Matthew Palmer
Marc Haber said: On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 23:05:12 +0100, Thorsten Sauter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cacti use a mysql database to store the configuration values (including users/password, graphic options, layouts, ...). The new upstream version (0.8.x) use a completly new designed database structure

Re: RFS: fai-bootcd

2003-11-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:22:10PM +0800, Niall Young wrote: The emphasis here is on using FAI's class mechanism as a complete *description* of any host. I'm more interested in using class definitions to create a host, than in extracting a class or filesystem from an existing host. The

Re: RFS: fai-bootcd

2003-11-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:22:10PM +0800, Niall Young wrote: The emphasis here is on using FAI's class mechanism as a complete *description* of any host. I'm more interested in using class definitions to create a host, than in extracting a class or filesystem from an existing host. The

Re: sponsors?

2003-11-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 12:09:12PM +0100, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote: I thought that a page like the ITP, RFP overviews would be enough http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/being_packaged http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/requested OK, that works for me. I like that a lot. But then again a tag

Re: sponsors?

2003-11-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 01:59:54PM +0100, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:24:34PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: No it wouldn't. Once a regular sponsor was found, the bug would be closed and the sponsor and sponsee would go their merry ways. I have a sponsor for more

Re: Sponsor for new applicant - packaging Balance

2003-11-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 07:45:14PM +, James Jeffrey wrote: I'm looking for a sponsor to look over a package I have created of the http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html. What is it, where can we get it, etc etc. - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sponsors?

2003-11-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 11:20:21AM +0100, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:57:01AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: Quick hand check. Of all people willing to sponsor others, who actually checks that page regularly to find people to sponsor? In addition

Re: sponsors?

2003-11-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 12:09:12PM +0100, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote: I thought that a page like the ITP, RFP overviews would be enough http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/being_packaged http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/requested OK, that works for me. I like that a lot. But then again a tag

Re: sponsors?

2003-11-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 01:59:54PM +0100, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:24:34PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: No it wouldn't. Once a regular sponsor was found, the bug would be closed and the sponsor and sponsee would go their merry ways. I have a sponsor for more

Re: Sponsor for new applicant - packaging Balance

2003-11-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 07:45:14PM +, James Jeffrey wrote: I'm looking for a sponsor to look over a package I have created of the http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html. What is it, where can we get it, etc etc. - Matt

Re: sponsors?

2003-11-18 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:02:47AM +0100, Marco Massari Calderone wrote: i requested a sponsor in the correct pagenow, to know if someone What correct page? There are plenty of places where potential sponsors hang out, but I'm not aware of any truly official place to request sponsorship -

Re: sponsors?

2003-11-18 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:23:32AM +1100, An?bal Monsalve Salazar wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 07:11:03PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:02:47AM +0100, Marco Massari Calderone wrote: i requested a sponsor in the correct pagenow, to know if someone What correct

Re: sponsors?

2003-11-18 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:02:47AM +0100, Marco Massari Calderone wrote: i requested a sponsor in the correct pagenow, to know if someone What correct page? There are plenty of places where potential sponsors hang out, but I'm not aware of any truly official place to request sponsorship -

Re: sponsors?

2003-11-18 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:23:32AM +1100, An?bal Monsalve Salazar wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 07:11:03PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:02:47AM +0100, Marco Massari Calderone wrote: i requested a sponsor in the correct pagenow, to know if someone What correct

Re: Packaging phpLDAPadmin. Newbie's questions.

2003-11-14 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 09:51:22PM -0600, David Segonds wrote: On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 10:46:35AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: What's to heavily modify? I presume the config file is a fairly reasonable format, in which case a search 'n replace for 'config_option\s=.*$' to 'config_option

Re: Packaging phpLDAPadmin. Newbie's questions.

2003-11-14 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 01:23:24PM -0600, David Segonds wrote: On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 05:37:02PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: If you mean producing a template file with tags which you macro-replace at configuration time, that's also done, and works well enough if combined with something

Re: Packaging phpLDAPadmin. Newbie's questions.

2003-11-14 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 09:32:48AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:46:35 +1100, Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: the user hasn't used debconf to make the change. To cover that circumstance, I've started to make a file containing an md5sum of the config file

Re: Packaging phpLDAPadmin. Newbie's questions.

2003-11-14 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 09:51:22PM -0600, David Segonds wrote: On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 10:46:35AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: What's to heavily modify? I presume the config file is a fairly reasonable format, in which case a search 'n replace for 'config_option\s=.*$' to 'config_option

Re: Packaging phpLDAPadmin. Newbie's questions.

2003-11-14 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 01:23:24PM -0600, David Segonds wrote: On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 05:37:02PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: If you mean producing a template file with tags which you macro-replace at configuration time, that's also done, and works well enough if combined with something

Re: Packaging phpLDAPadmin. Newbie's questions.

2003-11-14 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 09:32:48AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:46:35 +1100, Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: the user hasn't used debconf to make the change. To cover that circumstance, I've started to make a file containing an md5sum of the config file

Re: Packaging phpLDAPadmin. Newbie's questions.

2003-11-13 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 04:48:51PM -0600, David Segonds wrote: I am sure they will. The question is how I can achieve that simply. I need to research how other packages are dealing with this. Especially when packages are upgraded. Typically you ask the appropriate questions, and then in the

Re: Packaging phpLDAPadmin. Newbie's questions.

2003-11-13 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 05:06:59PM -0600, David Segonds wrote: As a newbie, ignoring lintian advices does not seem the right thing to do for some reasons. :) Indeed. However, they're programatic warnings, which can't handle every eventuality. Think of them like unless you can think of a

Re: Packaging phpLDAPadmin. Newbie's questions.

2003-11-13 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 04:48:51PM -0600, David Segonds wrote: I am sure they will. The question is how I can achieve that simply. I need to research how other packages are dealing with this. Especially when packages are upgraded. Typically you ask the appropriate questions, and then in the

Re: Packaging phpLDAPadmin. Newbie's questions.

2003-11-13 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 05:06:59PM -0600, David Segonds wrote: As a newbie, ignoring lintian advices does not seem the right thing to do for some reasons. :) Indeed. However, they're programatic warnings, which can't handle every eventuality. Think of them like unless you can think of a

Re: Packaging phpLDAPadmin. Newbie's questions.

2003-11-12 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 02:07:46PM -0600, David Segonds wrote: 1. Even though, Architecture was set to 'all' in debian/packages, the 'changes' file I obtain is tagged with 'i386'. Is this normal? The same thing happen when I repackage phpmyadmin. Yes. The changes file will always be tagged

Re: Packaging phpLDAPadmin. Newbie's questions.

2003-11-12 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 02:07:46PM -0600, David Segonds wrote: 1. Even though, Architecture was set to 'all' in debian/packages, the 'changes' file I obtain is tagged with 'i386'. Is this normal? The same thing happen when I repackage phpmyadmin. Yes. The changes file will always be tagged

Re: config.sub and config.guess | .diff.gz bloat

2003-11-06 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 02:42:59PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Zenaan Harkness wrote: Should I email this to the debhelper script maintainer? Only if you want me to bounce it to the maintainer of the package that actually put those lines there. Be careful - he may think that's a valid way to

Re: config.sub and config.guess | .diff.gz bloat

2003-11-06 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 11:37:25AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 09:41, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 02:42:59PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Zenaan Harkness wrote: Should I email this to the debhelper script maintainer? Only if you want me

Re: config.sub and config.guess | .diff.gz bloat

2003-11-06 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 11:37:25AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 09:41, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 02:42:59PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Zenaan Harkness wrote: Should I email this to the debhelper script maintainer? Only if you want me

Re: RFS: ldap-account-manager

2003-10-31 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 06:51:31PM +0100, Roland Gruber wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for LDAP Account Manager. The ITP bug number is 208406. Homepage: http://www.sf.net/projects/lam Source package (0.4-2):

Re: RFS: ldap-account-manager

2003-10-31 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 06:51:31PM +0100, Roland Gruber wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for LDAP Account Manager. The ITP bug number is 208406. Homepage: http://www.sf.net/projects/lam Source package (0.4-2):

Re: ITP Timeframe

2003-10-29 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 12:40:12AM +0100, Martin List-Petersen wrote: What would be an appropriate timeframe from the point, where you file an ITP until the first package arrives in sid ? What is custom ? As soon as practicable. It's hard to put any hard limits on it - you should file the ITP

Re: ITP Timeframe

2003-10-28 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 12:40:12AM +0100, Martin List-Petersen wrote: What would be an appropriate timeframe from the point, where you file an ITP until the first package arrives in sid ? What is custom ? As soon as practicable. It's hard to put any hard limits on it - you should file the ITP

Re: Orphaned Packages With Wrong Maintainer

2003-10-24 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 04:02:12PM -0400, Alexander Winston wrote: Hi, I came across URI:http://qa.debian.org/orphaned.html yesterday and am interested in helping in any way that I can, but I am not a Debian developer and could not find any directions to follow in the documentation related to

Re: Orphaned Packages With Wrong Maintainer

2003-10-24 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 04:02:12PM -0400, Alexander Winston wrote: Hi, I came across URI:http://qa.debian.org/orphaned.html yesterday and am interested in helping in any way that I can, but I am not a Debian developer and could not find any directions to follow in the documentation related to

Re: Trying to reactivate myself

2003-10-12 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 09:26:07PM +0200, Magos?nyi ?rp?d wrote: The current problem is that I do not have a pgp key in the database, so I cannot reactivate my account. I guess I have to send my key -which is signed by other debian developer(s)- to someone. But whom? I think it's [EMAIL

Re: RFS: kbtin (try #2)

2003-10-12 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 02:04:26AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: Windows users typically use zMud and Mushclient, and among Unix people the most popular one is ancient tinyfugue -- dead upstream for 4 years I'm sorry, but you've just tripped my FUD-o-meter. TF is not dead upstream, there was a

Re: Trying to reactivate myself

2003-10-12 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 09:26:07PM +0200, Magos?nyi ?rp?d wrote: The current problem is that I do not have a pgp key in the database, so I cannot reactivate my account. I guess I have to send my key -which is signed by other debian developer(s)- to someone. But whom? I think it's [EMAIL

Re: RFS: kbtin (try #2)

2003-10-12 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 02:04:26AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: Windows users typically use zMud and Mushclient, and among Unix people the most popular one is ancient tinyfugue -- dead upstream for 4 years I'm sorry, but you've just tripped my FUD-o-meter. TF is not dead upstream, there was a

Re: RFS (again): Perl Oak Component Tree and Forest Web Application Builder

2003-10-09 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 04:18:45PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: Ok, sorry about the misinformation... here goes a description: And now my interest is well and truly peaked - and probably a few other people's, as well. My time for sponsorship is limited at the moment, though (and apologies to my

Re: RFS (again): Perl Oak Component Tree and Forest Web Application Builder

2003-10-08 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 09:10:51PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: packaged the entire library and the application, now I need a sponsor http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html Specifically, WHAT EXACTLY DOES YOUR PACKAGE DO? Think of this e-mail as your TV ad. It's all you

Re: RFS (again): Perl Oak Component Tree and Forest Web Application Builder

2003-10-08 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 09:10:51PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: packaged the entire library and the application, now I need a sponsor http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html Specifically, WHAT EXACTLY DOES YOUR PACKAGE DO? Think of this e-mail as your TV ad. It's all you

Re: copyright guidance

2003-09-10 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 01:20:26PM -0500, John Lightsey wrote: A while back I ITA'd the rocks-n-diamonds package. After talking with the upstream maintainer I realized this package can't be included in Debian without heavy modification of the upstream version. I'm not going to say exactly

Re: copyright guidance

2003-09-09 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 01:20:26PM -0500, John Lightsey wrote: A while back I ITA'd the rocks-n-diamonds package. After talking with the upstream maintainer I realized this package can't be included in Debian without heavy modification of the upstream version. I'm not going to say exactly

Re: FAQ for debian-mentors

2003-09-08 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 05:48:28PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: I then went to the Mentors FAQ, searched for source and found nothing. Upon close inspection, your statement is clear, but I'd change it: # Provide a publically accessible place where all of the files (.orig.tar.gz, diff,

Re: fvwm-themes gets better

2003-09-08 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 12:27:53AM +0200, Andrei Mitrofanow wrote: nobody interestet to fvwm-themes? It would appear not, if you haven't gotten any private responses. If that's the case, try asking in other places where developers hang out who might be interested in your package - FVWM-related

Re: FAQ for debian-mentors

2003-09-08 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 04:44:10PM -0500, Michael Schultheiss wrote: Matthew Palmer wrote: To facilitate that, I've put an explicit licence notice at the bottom of the page if someone wants to incorporate it into another Debian document (alternate licencing can be arranged if needed

Re: FAQ for debian-mentors

2003-09-08 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 01:03:46PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: Re: Re: FAQ for debian-mentors [Joe Nahmias [EMAIL PROTECTED], Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 10:49:09AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED]] 4) Same section, there should be a step 3.5 which says something like: Upload the source package to

Re: In need of a mentor

2003-09-08 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 03:45:04AM -0500, Cam Desautels wrote: but I haven't yet developed anything worth contributing. Anyway, I'm not yet familiar with the exact duties of a maintainer but I understand generally and I am willing to contribute the time to learn and to conduct a package

Re: FAQ for debian-mentors

2003-09-08 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 05:48:28PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: I then went to the Mentors FAQ, searched for source and found nothing. Upon close inspection, your statement is clear, but I'd change it: # Provide a publically accessible place where all of the files (.orig.tar.gz, diff,

Re: fvwm-themes gets better

2003-09-08 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 12:27:53AM +0200, Andrei Mitrofanow wrote: nobody interestet to fvwm-themes? It would appear not, if you haven't gotten any private responses. If that's the case, try asking in other places where developers hang out who might be interested in your package - FVWM-related

Re: FAQ for debian-mentors

2003-09-07 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 04:44:10PM -0500, Michael Schultheiss wrote: Matthew Palmer wrote: To facilitate that, I've put an explicit licence notice at the bottom of the page if someone wants to incorporate it into another Debian document (alternate licencing can be arranged if needed

Re: FAQ for debian-mentors

2003-09-07 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 01:03:46PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: Re: Re: FAQ for debian-mentors [Joe Nahmias [EMAIL PROTECTED], Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 10:49:09AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED]] 4) Same section, there should be a step 3.5 which says something like: Upload the source package to

Re: In need of a mentor

2003-09-07 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 03:45:04AM -0500, Cam Desautels wrote: but I haven't yet developed anything worth contributing. Anyway, I'm not yet familiar with the exact duties of a maintainer but I understand generally and I am willing to contribute the time to learn and to conduct a package

Re: mentors FAQ [was: RFS: picprog: Microchip PIC serial programmer software]

2003-09-05 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 11:45:09AM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: It is RFS what I want to tell about: Ask at places where the audience for you package hang around. I would like to see these hints in the mentors FAQ. Last question in the FAQ at present: Where else can I get a sponsor? It

Re: mentors FAQ [was: RFS: picprog: Microchip PIC serial programmer software]

2003-09-05 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 11:45:09AM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: It is RFS what I want to tell about: Ask at places where the audience for you package hang around. I would like to see these hints in the mentors FAQ. Last question in the FAQ at present: Where else can I get a sponsor? It

Re: FAQ for debian-mentors

2003-09-05 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 07:24:15PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 05:54:49PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: OK, having watched the same questions come past regularly, I've finally bitten the bullet and put a bit of a FAQ together for this list. I'd appreciate comments

Re: Looking for package sponsor: Wakkabox

2003-09-04 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:15:37AM +0200, Stefan Voelkel wrote: I'd like to participate in the debian project. There is a small puzzle game called wakkabox: http://frap.net/kenn/wakkabox/ I'd like to package. You don't need our approval to package something. Once you've got it to

FAQ for debian-mentors

2003-09-04 Thread Matthew Palmer
OK, having watched the same questions come past regularly, I've finally bitten the bullet and put a bit of a FAQ together for this list. I'd appreciate comments and more questions and answers. http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: FAQ for debian-mentors

2003-09-04 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 10:52:39AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 05:54:49PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: OK, having watched the same questions come past regularly, I've finally bitten the bullet and put a bit of a FAQ together for this list. I'd appreciate comments

Re: FAQ for debian-mentors

2003-09-04 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 10:49:09AM -0400, Joe Nahmias wrote: 0) In the General questions section, you should mention the #debian-mentors IRC channel. I know there aren't alot of ppl there, but at times I have found it to be quite handy. Which IRC network is that on? 5) In the Where else can

Re: Looking for package sponsor: Wakkabox

2003-09-04 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:15:37AM +0200, Stefan Voelkel wrote: I'd like to participate in the debian project. There is a small puzzle game called wakkabox: http://frap.net/kenn/wakkabox/ I'd like to package. You don't need our approval to package something. Once you've got it to

Re: FAQ for debian-mentors

2003-09-04 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 10:49:09AM -0400, Joe Nahmias wrote: 0) In the General questions section, you should mention the #debian-mentors IRC channel. I know there aren't alot of ppl there, but at times I have found it to be quite handy. Which IRC network is that on? 5) In the Where else can

Re: Re-request for sponsor: python-albatross

2003-08-14 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 05:20:46PM +0300, Fabian Fagerholm wrote: This is my third or fourth attempt to find a sponsor for the python-albatross package. So far, I've been contacted by one developer who was interested in sponsoring the package; he never replied to my reply, however, so I assume

Re: newbie packaging question

2003-08-14 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 04:16:31PM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: thx to all for the responses. I'm slowly making progress here. Could someone distinguish the configuration section and how that applies to debian packages for me (the eternal newbie). There are several configuration sections you

Re: newbie packaging question

2003-08-14 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 12:54:08PM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: I hope that I've selected the correct debian mailing list for this question. But if not, I would appreciate if you could redirect properly. Nope, this is the right spot. My first steps are proving to be quite haltingly slow. I'm

Re: Re-request for sponsor: python-albatross

2003-08-13 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 05:20:46PM +0300, Fabian Fagerholm wrote: This is my third or fourth attempt to find a sponsor for the python-albatross package. So far, I've been contacted by one developer who was interested in sponsoring the package; he never replied to my reply, however, so I assume

Re: newbie packaging question

2003-08-11 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 04:16:31PM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: thx to all for the responses. I'm slowly making progress here. Could someone distinguish the configuration section and how that applies to debian packages for me (the eternal newbie). There are several configuration sections you

Re: newbie packaging question

2003-08-08 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 12:54:08PM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: I hope that I've selected the correct debian mailing list for this question. But if not, I would appreciate if you could redirect properly. Nope, this is the right spot. My first steps are proving to be quite haltingly slow. I'm

Re: newbie packaging question

2003-08-08 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 11:24:13AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 07:38:11PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: The things which absolutely have to be in a package in order to be built are debian/rules and debian/control. debian/rules gives the commands required to make

Re: RFS: pose - Palm OS Emulator (5th -and last- try)

2003-07-28 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 05:56:07PM -0600, Larry Gilbert wrote: On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Matthew Palmer wrote: In the case of software for Palmpilots and whatnot, unless a DD has compatible hardware, they can't test it. (Incidentally, if someone really wants to get pose in, they can donate

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