Re: ITR: febootstrap

2009-06-03 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 01:16:26AM +0530, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote: I uploaded the package, with a couple of changes: changed the FSF address in debian/copyright to the latest, and removed dh_link from debian/rules (it was not necessary). Please do include these changes in future revisions

Re: ITR: febootstrap

2009-06-02 Thread Y Giridhar Appaji Nag
On 09/06/01 16:47 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones said ... On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 01:26:32AM +0530, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote: [snip...] Suggestions: - It is usually a good idea to maintain the debian packaging also in a VCS. I'm of course maintaining this package in my own VCS. Is the

Re: ITR: febootstrap

2009-06-02 Thread Y Giridhar Appaji Nag
On 09/06/03 01:16 +0530, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag said ... On 09/06/01 16:47 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones said ... The new package is in the same place: http://www.annexia.org/tmp/debian/ I uploaded the package, with a couple of changes: changed the FSF address in debian/copyright to the

Re: ITR: febootstrap

2009-06-01 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 01:26:32AM +0530, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote: [...] Sorry for the late reply, hardware troubles. Comments: - in debian/control, Section should be admin (not devel) and priority should be optional (not extra). Done. - debian/control: Remove ${shlibs:Depends}

Re: ITR: febootstrap

2009-06-01 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
2009/6/1 Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com: On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 01:26:32AM +0530, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote: [...] Suggestions: - It is usually a good idea to maintain the debian packaging also in a VCS.   Even though this package is simple, since you are also the upstream, I was  

Re: ITR: febootstrap

2009-06-01 Thread Daniel Moerner
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs dmitrij.led...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/6/1 Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com: On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 01:26:32AM +0530, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote: [...] Suggestions: - It is usually a good idea to maintain the debian packaging also in a

Re: ITR: febootstrap

2009-05-29 Thread Y Giridhar Appaji Nag
On 09/05/28 17:17 -0700, Russ Allbery said ... Y Giridhar Appaji Nag app...@debian.org writes: I am not sure if enforcing extra in cases other than conflicts, Depends: on lower priority and very clear specialised requirements (elinks-lite, debug symbols etc.) gains us much. Oh, yes, I

Re: ITR: febootstrap

2009-05-28 Thread Y Giridhar Appaji Nag
On 09/05/27 13:41 -0700, Russ Allbery said ... Y Giridhar Appaji Nag app...@debian.org writes: I read that part of policy (only likely to be useful if you already know what they are) as there is an optional package that has been built out of the same source package, but this one is built

Re: ITR: febootstrap

2009-05-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Y Giridhar Appaji Nag app...@debian.org writes: I agree with this particular example. But I could argue if would reasonbly want to install Kerberos if I Didn't know what it was. I've not seen ftp-master enforce the distinction between optional and extra, not even in the cases where it is

ITR: febootstrap [Was: Re: RFS: febootstrap]

2009-05-27 Thread Y Giridhar Appaji Nag
On 09/05/27 19:11 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones said ... On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 06:20:27PM +0530, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote: On 09/05/27 11:03 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones said ... Dear mentors, I'm looking for a sponsor for my package 'febootstrap'. Are there compelling reasons why one

Re: ITR: febootstrap

2009-05-27 Thread Y Giridhar Appaji Nag
On 09/05/27 23:57 +0530, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag said ... On 09/05/27 11:03 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones said ... Dear mentors, I'm looking for a sponsor for my package 'febootstrap'. I will review the package and will send in comments (if any) / do an upload. Comments: - in

Re: ITR: febootstrap

2009-05-27 Thread Y Giridhar Appaji Nag
On 09/05/28 01:26 +0530, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag said ... On 09/05/27 23:57 +0530, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag said ... On 09/05/27 11:03 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones said ... Dear mentors, I'm looking for a sponsor for my package 'febootstrap'. I will review the package and will send in

Re: ITR: febootstrap

2009-05-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Y Giridhar Appaji Nag app...@debian.org writes: Comments: - in debian/control, Section should be admin (not devel) and priority should be optional (not extra). Hm, why would you increase the priority to optional? This seems like an extra thing to me -- only people with specific needs who

Re: ITR: febootstrap

2009-05-27 Thread Y Giridhar Appaji Nag
On 09/05/27 13:02 -0700, Russ Allbery said ... Y Giridhar Appaji Nag app...@debian.org writes: Comments: - in debian/control, Section should be admin (not devel) and priority should be optional (not extra). Hm, why would you increase the priority to optional? This seems like an

Re: ITR: febootstrap

2009-05-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Y Giridhar Appaji Nag app...@debian.org writes: I read that part of policy (only likely to be useful if you already know what they are) as there is an optional package that has been built out of the same source package, but this one is built for special needs of that package. My