Re: Problem with dpkg-buildpackage

2008-10-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you paste the binary-indep/binary-arch targets of your debian/rules file? Perhaps you are missing a call to dpkg-gencontrol/dh_gencontrol? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Problem with dpkg-buildpackage

2008-10-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 1:35 AM, Jann Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dpkg-genchanges: failure: cannot read files list file: No such file or directory H. Can you paste the binary-indep/binary-arch targets of your debian/rules file? -- bye, pabs

Re: 'cdarch' has a dash version

2008-10-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 4:28 AM, Jann Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I uploaded a package, but it causes the following message: ... N: dpkg-source searches for this in N: ../package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz. N: As the warning suggests, the tarball needs to be named

Re: Library Packaging

2008-10-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Kapil Hari Paranjape [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a guide covering some of the basic issues at http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html Unfortunately it doesn't yet cover using symbols files, for more info on that see these:

Re: help, error with debian/tmp

2008-10-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 2:35 PM, ivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I try build debian package, but see error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/data/soft/pkg/astral/libastral-0.4% dpkg-buildpackage ... install -s libastral.so /data/soft/pkg/astral/libastral-0.4/debian/tmp/usr/lib/ install: указанная цель

evolution-remove-attachments package review

2008-10-07 Thread Paul Wise
Hi Rex, Just now I was looking for a way to remove attachments in evolution. While searching I found your plugin on mentors.debian.net. Since I'd like to use it (and therefore upload it to Debian), here is a review: Firstly it didn't actually work as expected. I attached your .dsc file to this

Re: RFS: recoverjpeg (updated package)

2008-10-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just for curiosity, how does recoverjpeg compare to photorec? A year ago I tried to get recoverjpeg, recoverPhotos and PhotoRec to merge into PhotoRec, at the time it appeared there was no difference between recoverjpeg

Re: Help wanted

2008-10-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 9:10 PM, Shankaranarayanan Rajakkannan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need some help in creating Linux debian packages. I am interested in knowing how to create deb files using my source code. i saw checkinstall, but it is specific to my computer, which i do not want to

Re: evolution-remove-attachments package review

2008-10-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Rex Tsai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, the behavior is designed for purpose. I have many business emails with large attachments, and I like to keep the emails for record without the attachments. So, the plugin would not actually delete it but replace a

Re: RFS: cuneiform

2008-10-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Michal Čihař [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/cuneiform/cuneiform_0.4.dfsg.1-1.dsc Not Found. It appears a new version was uploaded: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/cuneiform/

Re: A little question of a license

2008-10-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:01 PM, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: could be in main? (so is dfsg) Yes. I think that yes, but I must admit that the legal stuff is something unclear to me. Something as the classical licenses are clear, but this custom makes me crazy. It is

Re: RFS: fig2sxd

2008-10-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 8:18 AM, Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might want to investigate the 'pbuilder' package for maintaining a chroot specifically to build your packages inside. You should also test your packages in unstable too. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: check my package

2008-10-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Elías A. M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/j/jigzo/ First issue: the package is a native package, instead of a normal package (.dsc, .diff.gz and .orig.tar.gz). Likely you just need to rename jigzo_0.6.1-1.tar.gz to

Re: executable scripts in debian/

2008-10-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 6:14 AM, Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need to run a script as part of debian/rules. I can't rely on it being executable when unpacked, since dpkg-source doesn't preserve the mode. Specifically, files that are created by

Re: executable scripts in debian/

2008-10-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Robert Wohlrab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a site/README were I can read more about that upcoming changes? Search for Format: 3.0 (quilt) in the dpkg-source manual page: http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dpkg-source As for when this format

Re: A bunch of questions: buildd, chm, build dependencies, software patent issue

2008-10-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Jose Luis Blanco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) chm (MS' compressed html format) help files: Is it preferred to include only HTML help files in foo-doc packages? I find CHM files quite useful for example, for searching, but I don't know if there's any policy

Re: Getting Started

2008-10-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 3:10 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, I decided to stop talking about contributing to Debian and start *actually* contributing to Debian. Excellent! acpi-support, so I looked it up on PTS and got started. Maybe this isn't the right way to

Re: Getting Started

2008-10-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anything I can do here to move the fixes from sid to lenny? I know this is normally automated, but I seem to remember that lenny is in deep freeze so packages don't get auto-migrated anymore. (?) Check

Re: Question about Qmail

2008-10-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 1:12 AM, GouNiNi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know if I'm on the good place... The maintainer's email would have been better. Someone know why qmail is not packaged to provide binary? I guess the maintainer didn't find the time to update it and move it to main

Re: Symbols

2008-10-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Pau Garcia i Quiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the latest version (2.2.0-1), I added a symbols file I generated on my i386 machine. Turns out witty requires a different symbols file for each platform (i. e. the amd64 symbols file is not the same as the i386

Re: RFS: libalberta2 -- adaptive finite element library

2008-10-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 7:21 AM, André Gaul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://web-yard.de/user/public/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/debian/libalberta2_2.0.1-1.dsc Since this is a library, it should probably use the new symbols files feature, to make shlibs as minimal as possible and also to detect ABI

Re: RFS: neotool

2008-10-31 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 5:43 AM, Heikki Mäntysaari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/n/neotool/neotool_1.2-1.dsc A review of your package: Please send the manual page, .desktop file and menu icon upstream if you have not already. Please ask upstream to split

Re: RFS: neotool

2008-10-31 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The contents of README.debian should be merged into debian/copyright. One thing I forgot, not shipping the SVG used to generate the XPM file is both a GPL violation and a DFSG violation (#2). I think it would also be a good idea

Re: Please clarify: to bugreport or not bugreport

2008-11-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 6:37 AM, Eric Pozharski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hence the problem; Sometimes I FTBFS some package -- because Build-Depends either misses some package or lacks explicitly set relation. FTBFS itself doesn't make problem for me (each time I'd managed to figure out a

Re: RFS: plotmm

2008-11-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 7:45 AM, M G Berberich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/plotmm/plotmm_0.1.2-1.dsc A review of your source package: Package descriptions need work, please ask for a review on the debian-l10n-english email list. Since the

Re: RFS: postfixadmin

2008-11-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 6:41 AM, Norman Messtorff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/postfixadmin/postfixadmin_2.2.1.1-1.dsc A review of your source package: Please send your changes upstream if you haven't already. The cp calls can be moved into

Re: RFS: mod-spamhaus

2008-11-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 5:54 AM, Giuseppe Iuculano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/mod-spamhaus/mod-spamhaus_0.6-1.dsc A review of your source package: debian/watch should use the standard sf qa redirector, please read the uscan manual page. The upstream

Re: Bug#503395: RFS: mod-spamhaus

2008-11-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Giuseppe Iuculano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a LICENSE file, isn't it enough? License and copyright holder are two different things. Licenses specify what you are allowed to do with the work, the copyright holder information tells you who is giving you a

Re: RFS: mod-spamhaus

2008-11-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 2:15 AM, Giuseppe Iuculano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/mod-spamhaus/mod-spamhaus_0.7-1.dsc Some more things: Your package description needs some grammar fixes, please ask for a review on debian-l10n-english. You don't specify

Re: RFS: mod-spamhaus

2008-11-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Upstream's license grant is unclear about the GPL version; either version 3 of the License. doesn't make sense. In addition, the Makefile and the source code say it is GPL v2 or later. I think upstream should make up

Re: RFS: mod-spamhaus

2008-11-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:43 PM, Giuseppe Iuculano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fixed and uploaded again on mentors. Sorry about this, but I just noticed that there is already a DNSBL module for apache2 in Debian (libapache2-mod-defensible). Please investigate if mod-spamhaus is useful to add

Re: RFS: mod-spamhaus

2008-11-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:29 PM, Giuseppe Iuculano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I know, but I prefer (and I'm using) mod-spamhaus because: Fair enough, I've uploaded the package. Thanks for your work, please mail debian-mentors for future uploads and I'll upload if I am able. -- bye, pabs

Re: how to use an intrepid package in hardy? whit out move to intrepid?

2008-11-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:22 PM, David Faerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i need use asterisk 1.4.21 which is in intrepid but my system is hardy... there is 1.4.17 for hardy but it is a bit old... i tried to change the control file (debian/control) in the 1.4.21 whit the control file from 1.4.17

Re: Using pbuilder to test packages with gcc-snapshot

2008-11-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Kumar Appaiah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Is there a way to set an arbitrary environment variable while running pbuilder (in my case, LD_LIBRARY_PATH). grep export ~/.pbuilderrc export CCACHE_DIR=/var/cache/pbuilder/ccache export PATH=/usr/lib/ccache:${PATH}

Re: RFS: esmtp (updated package)

2008-11-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 2:23 PM, José Fonseca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm planning to request lintian override. If anybody has a better suggestion please let me know. Never mind -- I've just learned about --as-needed ld flag that solves both issues. Please also contact upstream about

Re: Getting -m64 at the right time and place.

2008-11-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am working on a package that, when unmodified, fails on 32bits arches because -m64 is in the CFLAGS. We solved the problem by patching the configure file, but of course this breaks when new upstream releases refresh

Re: RFS: copher (2nd try)

2008-11-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 3:01 AM, Jonathan Wiltshire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/copher/copher_0.1.2-3.dsc A review of your source package: Standards-Version doesn't need the final .0, 3.8.0.X versions are compatible. Depends should have

Re: RFS: copher (2nd try)

2008-11-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Jonathan Wiltshire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, this fixes a query I had from long ago: I had ${misc:Depends} in the build dependencies and it broke things, now that it's in Depends everything is as expected. build-deps What does this substitution get

Re: RFS: copher (2nd try)

2008-11-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Jonathan Wiltshire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, this fixes a query I had from long ago: I had ${misc:Depends} in the build dependencies and it broke things, now that it's in Depends

Re: Please ignore the tslib upload

2008-11-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 8:39 AM, Neil Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This seems to bring up the issue if m.d.n should reject packages with ubuntu in their version strings. I agree - it would seem a fairly simple and painless step. I cannot see a valid reason for retaining a ubuntu version

Re: bug severity of 64bit-unsafeness

2008-11-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Thibaut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have noticed that one of my packages, yorick-ml4, is completely broken on amd64 and presumably all other 64-bit archs. Because the package is unusable on all amd64 machines (and more), I believe this is a release critical bug

Re: RFS: copher (2nd try)

2008-11-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 1:30 AM, Jonathan Wiltshire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/copher/copher_0.1.2-4.dsc More comments: It is best not to speculate about future features in the package description, please remove the last line. Uhhh, Depends: is a

Re: RFS: monkey (updated package)

2008-11-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Thorsten Schmale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/monkey/monkey_0.9.2-4.dsc Firstly, please do not send HTML mail: http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct You should not modify the changelog entries of versions

Re: Bug reports in Ubuntu

2008-11-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Jonathan Wiltshire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My adopted package gxemul has a bug in Ubuntu[1] (seg fault on command line parameters) which reproduces in the current Debian package. It has been fixed recently in upstream's CVS so I plan to add a patch for the

Re: Homepages and debtags (was Re: RFS: monkey)

2008-11-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Neil Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe both of these should be default criteria for sponsoring? The first upload of any non-native package should either include the Homepage field or an explanation of why there might be no homepage. I don't think this

Re: Homepages and debtags (was Re: RFS: monkey)

2008-11-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Neil Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right now, I'm looking for as many filters as possible until I can make more time available for sponsoring, whilst also trying to help maintainers make it easy for me to spot the packages that I *will* sponsor (RC bugs).

Re: Bug reports in Ubuntu

2008-11-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Jonathan Wiltshire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you advise further or point me to somewhere to find out more? I've never used testing-proposed-updates, but it would be a good thing to learn about. http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/pkgs.html#t-p-u

Re: Bug reports in Ubuntu

2008-11-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 7:18 AM, Jonathan Wiltshire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you think it is severe enough to be put forward for lenny? I'm not sure. The patch looks straight-forward enough, so perhaps the release team would approve it. PS: it is a good idea to document in your patches why

Re: RFS: kde-style-skulpture

2008-11-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Richard Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/k/kde-style-skulpture/kde-style-skulpture_0.2.0-1.dsc I'm not a KDE persion, but why do you embed parts of CDBS/debhelper in the source package? Please also add

Re: RFS: scim-waitzar, libwaitzar (re-submission) Attn: Paul Wise

2008-11-29 Thread Paul Wise
[ Please reply to -mentors at least ] On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 5:37 PM, S'orlok Reaves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have split libwaitzar off from scim-waitzar and built a separate package: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/scim-waitzar/

Re: RFS: hexec

2008-12-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 4:26 AM, Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It builds these binary packages: hexec - The hexec tool itself That's a really crap short description. Quite. Please read the developers reference:

Re: RFS: copher (2nd try)

2008-12-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Jonathan Wiltshire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/copher/copher_0.1.2+20081201.dsc, if there are other points to fix just let me know. A few comments: Your package version does not include a Debian revision number. I

Re: RFS: copher (2nd try)

2008-12-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Jonathan Wiltshire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uploaded to http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/copher/copher_0.1.2+20081201-1.dsc if you have a chance to look. I just noticed that releaseforge already exists in Debian. From the description it sounds like

Re: RFS: copher (2nd try)

2008-12-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 9:07 PM, Jonathan Wiltshire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Copher is command line base rather than a GUI, is platform independent, and works with other -forge-like sites (ex. Rubyforge) and protocols. So I think it's not a replacement, but complimentary to releaseforge. Fair

Re: Processing (#433270), no upstream tarball, other questions

2008-12-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 11:42 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One, there is no upstream tarball. There is a tagged svn release, but it includes a lot of superfluous software, such as Sun's non-free JRE (OpenJDK seems to work fine now), and build environments for Windows

Re: RFS: whohas

2008-12-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 7:02 AM, Jonathan Wiltshire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/w/whohas/whohas_0.21-1.dsc Even if you are unable to sponsor I would appreciate a review. Here is a review: Why do you have Vcs-Browser, but not Vcs-Git? ${shlibs:Depends}

Re: Listing dependencies with specific versions

2008-12-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 10:18 PM, Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please file a bug about this. I forgot to ask you to ask the release team for binNMUs for the packages using those symbols once the shlibs is fixed. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: RFS: whohas

2008-12-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Jonathan Wiltshire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uploaded to http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/w/whohas/whohas_0.21-2.dsc Uploaded. In the next upload, please remove the duplicate space in the last paragraph of the description. Why was your orig.tar.gz not

Re: Listing dependencies with specific versions

2008-12-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Andy Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: New symbols. It specifically has support for embedding images into the FLAC file. This was introduced in 1.2. Looks like you just found an RC bug in libflac++6 - includes new symbols in version 1.2.1-1 according to mole but

Re: Listing dependencies with specific versions

2008-12-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Andy Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to force the version of one particular component. Why is that? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Listing dependencies with specific versions

2008-12-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 1:03 AM, Neil Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cyril, we've had this discussion before - merely adding symbols does NOT require a SONAME bump. We are not talking about SONAME bumps, but shlib bumps. Take a look at glib2.0, libgtk+2.0 and libqof1 - symbols are added

Re: Listing dependencies with specific versions

2008-12-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 1:15 AM, Neil Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cyril, we need to sort this out for that RC bug that doesn't exist but which you raised the severity - adding a new symbol is NOT a bug, as long as it is done properly (as above). It is up to the package using the library

Re: Listing dependencies with specific versions

2008-12-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 1:38 AM, Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure, if the package that is building needs those symbols. But what about other packages that *don't* necessarily need those symbols, but get built against the newer version of the library anyway? Those symbols can end

Re: Regarding the debian package.

2008-12-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:36 AM, karthik ramalingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone please let me know how should i do it. I already did the procedure, but i am not getting anythin. Please upload the debian/ directory somewhere so we can tell you what you did wrong. -- bye, pabs

Re: copyrights of some files in source for tuxcmd-modules (handling non-free source parts).

2008-12-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 10:18 PM, Salvatore Bonaccorso salvatore.bonacco...@gmail.com wrote: I would simply proceed by removing the non-free parts from source tarball and repackage the sources. And maybe ask upstream to distribute the non-free bits separately. Also ask them if it would be

Re: Problem with code duplication in my package tuxcmd-modules

2008-12-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Salvatore Bonaccorso salvatore.bonacco...@gmail.com wrote: After some rechearch since ZipArchive uses a slightly modified zlib to fit it's need it seams not easy to use system zlib. Perhaps you could convice upstream to push those changes into zlib upstream?

Re: ITS: xf86-input-tslib (updated package)

2008-12-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 9:37 PM, Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org wrote: Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org (19/12/2008): - Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, ${xserver:Depends} + Depends: libts-0.0-0 (= 1.0-5), ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, ${xserver:Depends} That's ugly. Use

Re: RFS: ming (updated package)

2008-12-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Balázs Hámorszky bal...@gmail.com wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1:0.4.2-1.1 of my package ming. Did you try to contact the maintainer before preparing this NMU? You didn't document any of the debian/ changes in the debian/changelog

Re: Re: RFS: ming (updated package)

2008-12-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Balázs Hámorszky bal...@gmail.com wrote: I've made a bugreport: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=509401 That isn't much notice for an NMU (especially for a package in experimental) and also it isn't recommended to upload new upstreams in an NMU.

Re: RFS: ming (updated package)

2008-12-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:17 PM, Stuart Anderson ander...@netsweng.com wrote: Did you try to contact the maintainer before preparing this NMU? Unless it got mistakenly overlooked, or mistaken for spam, I was not contacted. I'm not dead yet, and an inquiry is usually sufficient to get

Re: Re: RFS: furl

2008-12-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 6:18 AM, Daniel Aleksandersen wrote: I requested furl because I think it is much easier to use than the alternates. I know other programs does simular tasks, but furl formates the outbut better. Also, it does not require any deeper knowledge to get it working. furl

Re: advise needed for library packaging

2008-12-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Martin Godisch mar...@godisch.de wrote: I'm not doing library packaging all day and I'm a bit unsure about the new sleuthkit upstream release. It would be nice if some of you could have a look at sleuthkit 3.0.0 here [1] and 2.0.5 in unstable and tell me what

Re: RFS: whohas (bug fixes)

2008-12-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Jonathan Wiltshire deb...@jwiltshire.org.uk wrote: I've uploaded whohas/0.21-3 to m.d.n which has patches to close bugs 5099975, 510019 and 509981. They have gone upstream for his next release. Uploaded. Next time, please depend on ${DPATCH_STAMPFN} instead

Re: advise needed for library packaging

2008-12-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 5:12 AM, George Danchev danc...@spnet.net wrote: Why is libfoo-X-dev better than libfooX-dev, where 'X' is being some sort of API version discriminator ? Both of those are the same, my comment was about libfooABI-API-dev vs libfoo-API-dev. -- bye, pabs

Re: RFS: krypt

2008-12-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Stefanos Harhalakis v...@v13.gr wrote: The upload would fix these bugs: 507655, 510275 Firstly, there was no need to file 510275, instead you should have just retitled the RFP 507655 to ITP and marked yourself as the owner. Please read these:

Re: RFS: whohas (bug fixes)

2008-12-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Jonathan Wiltshire deb...@jwiltshire.org.uk wrote: Ok, sorry for the noise. I wasn't sure how closely you were watching -mentors. NP. I watch it quite closely, reading all the mails at least daily. I've uploaded 0.21-4 to m.d.n which closes bugs 510189,

Re: RFC: clojure (and a request to join pkg-java)

2009-01-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 6:50 AM, Peter Collingbourne pe...@pcc.me.uk wrote: I am seeking comments on my package clojure; Some comments on the diff.gz: Please send the manual pages and patches upstream if appropriate and you have not already. Since the copyright/licensing is slightly complex,

Re: RFS: indonesian-fonts

2009-01-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 5:41 AM, Mahyuddin Susanto udi...@gmail.com wrote: Upstream Author : Mohammad DAMT md...@gnome.org URL: http://code.google.com/p/aksara-nusantara/ Licence: GNU General Public License v2 Uhh, if they haven't already, please ask upstream to add the GPL Font Exception to

Re: RFS: whohas (bug fixes)

2009-01-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Jonathan Wiltshire deb...@jwiltshire.org.uk On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 11:51:26AM +0900, Paul Wise wrote: It might be a good idea to allow some kind of config file to override the URLs/regexes, this would be useful for when the external websites change

Re: Provide version to virtual package.

2009-01-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Robert David robert.david.pub...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I need to pack evolution and evolution-data-server with some extras patched. But didnt find a way how to do that best to be user friendly. I would suggest to get those patches included in evolution upstream

Re: RFS: scim-waitzar, libwaitzar (re-submission) Attn: Paul Wise

2009-01-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 4:02 PM, S'orlok Reaves sorlok_rea...@yahoo.com wrote: Packages uploaded to mentors: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libwaitzar/ http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/scim-waitzar/ Review, replies below. It might be a good idea to produce a kanaung

Re: RFS: whohas (new upstream)

2009-01-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Jonathan Wiltshire deb...@jwiltshire.org.uk wrote: I have uploaded whohas 0.22-1 to m.d.n, which is a new upstream integrating a lot of the bugs, and some tweaks to the packaging because of his changes. ... I've also included a NEWS file detailing the patches

Re: RFS: whohas (new upstream)

2009-01-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Jonathan Wiltshire deb...@jwiltshire.org.uk wrote: On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 03:26:45PM +0900, Paul Wise wrote: I've also included a NEWS file detailing the patches that are still active. I don't think that is an appropriate use of NEWS.Debian, documenting

Re: RFS: whohas (new upstream)

2009-01-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Jonathan Wiltshire deb...@jwiltshire.org.uk wrote: On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 07:37:52PM +0900, Paul Wise wrote: I interpret that as being the changes since earlier versions of the package, rather than changes to the upstream source code. Ok, if you think

Re: RFS: whohas (new upstream)

2009-01-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Jonathan Wiltshire deb...@jwiltshire.org.uk wrote: On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 07:52:37PM +0900, Paul Wise wrote: Either is fine, slight leaning towards no need for a bump (so I don't have to remember to use debuild -v...). NP, uploaded to the same location. I'd

Re: RFS: scim-waitzar, libwaitzar (re-submission) Attn: Paul Wise

2009-01-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 4:27 PM, S'orlok Reaves sorlok_rea...@yahoo.com wrote: Are you able to ship the spec in the source package and generate Myanmar.model from the spec at build time? Or ship a myanmar-spec source package that builds and installs the the Model file? Unfortunately, no. The

Re: cimg-dev

2009-01-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso jord...@gmail.com wrote: However, the library comes with many example programs, which currently are compiled, *but not shipped in the binary*. What's the best way to solve this? The GSL created a gsl-bin package where the examples go,

Re: cimg-dev

2009-01-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso jord...@gmail.com wrote: Compiling them during package build is also fine; it can be viewed as a kind of test suite, which is always good. But it takes a long-ass time to compile them, especially since all of CImg has to be compiled

Re: RFS: autoconf-archive

2009-01-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Deng Xiyue manphiz-gu...@users.alioth.debian.org wrote: I'm now CCing debian...@lists.debian.org to query the MIA status of Qingning Huo q...@mayhq.co.uk, and asking for suggestions for the current situation: whether to continue this NMU or to co-maintain the

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

2009-01-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Okay. So is there a normal way to have the '-v' option during a run set to include all entries newer than what's currently in Debian? Or do I have to remember to set it manually each time I add a new release and

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

2009-01-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: usually you would remember because you'd debdiff and interdiff against the .deb and .diff.gz in the archive. How will those help me to get information about the package I'm about to build *before* issuing the

Re: RFS: scim-waitzar, libwaitzar (re-submission) Attn: Paul Wise

2009-01-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 7:03 PM, S'orlok Reaves sorlok_rea...@yahoo.com wrote: Which fonts are these? I'm wary of adding fonts to source packages; usually either the font is a copyright violation or should be packaged separately. It was just the Myanmar 3 font, which (according to a page on

Re: RFS: scim-waitzar, libwaitzar (re-submission) Attn: Paul Wise

2009-01-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 1:12 AM, S'orlok Reaves sorlok_rea...@yahoo.com wrote: If a third-party developer wants to create their own Myanmar.model, then they will need their own language model software. (For example, they might use weighted-difference pruning). Again, MyanmarList_v2.txt gives

Re: RFS: scim-waitzar, libwaitzar (re-submission) Attn: Paul Wise

2009-01-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:26 PM, S'orlok Reaves sorlok_rea...@yahoo.com wrote: Quick question between talks; is any of this language model software FOSS-licensed? There's From my understanding, these are both free and provide source, but their licenses restrict them from being FOSS.

Re: RFS: Sabacc

2009-01-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 3:02 PM, ukch j...@kazbak.co.uk wrote: Thanks for the reply. Since posting my original RFS I fixed a lot of the problems listed by Lintian. However, my Lintian did not list quite as many problems as yours did (namely, 'build-depends-without-arch-dep python-lxml' and

Re: RFS: blimp

2009-01-26 Thread Paul Wise
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Re: What to do if the original tarball contains a debian subdirectory

2009-01-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Luca Niccoli lultimou...@gmail.com wrote: The original tarball already contains a debian subdirectory (which needs some corrections anyway), how should I deal with that? Once lenny is released (hint hint) you will be able to just use the dpkg-source v3 format,

Re: RFS: qrupdate

2009-01-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso jord...@gmail.com wrote: - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/q/qrupdate/qrupdate_1.0-1.dsc Some comments on just the diff.gz: You should use a Debian-specific SONAME if upstream doesn't have one. Please teach upstream

Re: RFS: qrupdate

2009-01-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:24 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso jord...@gmail.com wrote: patches/add-soname seems to change the whitespace in the definition of SRC, why? Why not? It fits into 80 columns that way. :-) Just a gratuitous change, also unrelated to the purpose of the patch.

Re: RFS: qrupdate

2009-01-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso jord...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/1/29 Paul Wise p...@debian.org: tab character before the Source: package name in debian/control Hm, I don't see this... Look at the diff.gz with less. I don't see it there either. Heisenbug. hexedit

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