Re: Four days

2010-10-06 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 11:11:49AM -0400, Asheesh Laroia wrote: On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Matthew Palmer wrote: To clarify: the intended point of this proposal is to solve the perceived problem that DDs don't sponsor packages because they're concerned that they'll end up taking responsibility

Re: Four days

2010-10-04 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 11:42:59AM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: On Mon, 04 Oct 2010 11:35:04 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: Michael Gilbert michael.s.gilb...@gmail.com writes: As someone who has attempted to go through the mentoring process, I agree very much that it is rather depressing.

Re: RFS: pgfouine (updated package)

2010-10-04 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 11:35:55AM -0500, Luis Uribe wrote: [Forgot to send the reply to the list, just read about Four Days thread] On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 03:38:42PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 10:59:51PM -0500, Luis Uribe wrote: I am looking for a sponsor

Re: Four days

2010-10-04 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 09:17:24PM +0200, Joachim Wiedorn wrote: Hello, Michal ??iha?? ni...@debian.org wrote on 2010-10-04 18:14: Lack of interested mentors is indeed an issue. Nobody has unlimited time and chooses what attracts him. For me it usually means things I know and test or

Re: RFS: pgfouine (updated package)

2010-10-04 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 10:59:51PM -0500, Luis Uribe wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.2-2 of my package pgfouine. The package is really, *really* not Lintian clean, and claiming otherwise in the RFS was bad form. All those CVS dirs in the resulting package definitely

Re: Four days

2010-10-04 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 10:32:24PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 17:37:19 -0700 PJ Weisberg wrote: On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote: On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 06:30:22 +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: Yeah, that's a great idea!  We should setup a mailing

Re: Four days

2010-10-04 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 12:14:36AM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 13:52:09 +1100 Matthew Palmer wrote: On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 10:32:24PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 17:37:19 -0700 PJ Weisberg wrote: On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Michael

Re: RFS: pgfouine (updated package)

2010-10-03 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 10:59:51PM -0500, Luis Uribe wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.2-2 of my package pgfouine. Are you looking for a single sponsorship, or an on-going sponsoring relationship? Are you currently, or are you planning on becoming, a DM or DD? - Matt

Re: Doubts in Sigar packaging

2010-09-17 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:44:47PM +0100, Tony Houghton wrote: On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:00:27 +1000 Matthew Palmer mpal...@debian.org wrote: On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 03:18:20PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: Why won't you just use `git --describe`? It produces nice version numbers

Re: Doubts in Sigar packaging

2010-09-16 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 09:59:43AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 03:22:31PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 03:18:20PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: Why won't you just use `git --describe`? It produces nice version numbers of the format last tag

Re: Doubts in Sigar packaging

2010-09-15 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 03:18:20PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 01:31:39PM +0100, Tony Houghton wrote: Matthew Palmer mpal...@debian.org wrote: sigar-1.7.0~git833ca18ecfc1f3f45eaf8544d8cdafef6603772d Yeah, that isn't going to work -- what if the next SHA you want

Re: Doubts in Sigar packaging

2010-09-14 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 01:51:22PM -0300, Thiago Franco de Moraes wrote: I'm trying again to package a library called SIGAR [1] because it's a requirement in a free software help to develop called InVesalius [2]. During this trying some doubts occurred: * The Source is in git [3]. I'm not

Re: [Fwd: VICE]

2010-09-11 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 07:24:02PM +0200, N.L.M. de Jonge wrote: I tried e-mailing the vice deb package maintainer, but his maildir is over quota; what to do now... is there an overseer that I can e-mail about the maintainer not checking his e-mail? It appears that you were attempting to

Re: packaging help

2010-08-31 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 03:45:28PM +, alma...@comcast.net wrote: I am working with this tutorial to understand better the debian packaging process: http://www.debian-administration.org/article/337/Rolling_your_own_Debian_packages_part_2 it all goes well until I try to build the

Re: conffiles

2010-08-31 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 06:47:09AM +0300, Zvi Dubitzky wrote: Is there a way to put something in DEBIAN directory that will trigger the poped up question when overwriting config files (during package installation) before running dpkg-deb --build to generate the packge OR is there a

Re: conffiles

2010-08-30 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:01:46PM +0300, Zvi Dubitzky wrote: I am having conffiles file placed in debian directory and holding the configuration files ( full path) that should avoid being overwritten when installing a package , Yet when I install the built package the package config

Re: How to Deal with files created dynamically

2010-07-27 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:03:42AM -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Chris Baines cbain...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Mentors, I am looking at creating packages that involve programs that create caches while running of images or other files. But I am a bit stumped

Re: How to Deal with files created dynamically

2010-07-27 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 03:47:48PM -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Chris Baines cbain...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 05:52 +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:03:42AM -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:53 AM

Re: FGRun Lintian Error

2010-07-26 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 09:31:10AM +0100, Chris Baines wrote: Hello mentors, I am getting a package-section-games-but-contains-no-game lintian error on my package fgrun. FGRun is a FLightGear graphical launcher, FlightGear is a flight simulator game. FGRun puts its binary in the /usr/bin

Re: RFS: twms -- tiny web map service

2010-06-30 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:25:53AM +0200, David Paleino wrote: On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:50:20 +0100, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 09:55:30AM +0300, Andrew O. Shadoura wrote: It builds these binary packages: twms - tiny WMS service What is a web map service?

Re: Different package sizes on amd64 and (cross)i386

2010-05-16 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 04:12:20PM +0200, Nicolas Joseph wrote: Maybe but debarchiver reject my upload because the file is already added and has a different md5 sum. how do you do for real repositories? You don't upload the same package version twice. If you need to update, bump the

Re: New packager

2010-03-09 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:53:46AM +0100, Fabrizio Furnari wrote: Now, the great of the software we need in ArcheOS are in Java, some are web applications (some webGIS, and so on). Licensing is not a problem but packaging is a little more difficult than usual, so the conclusion to write in

Re: Joining Debian

2010-02-08 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 01:40:29PM -0800, Chris Taylor wrote: You should take a look at the documents located at http://www.debian.org/devel/ Namely you should read the New Maintainers Guide: http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ The Debian Developers' Reference:

Re: how to compare versions

2010-02-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 01:43:49PM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: I'm thinking about tomoyo-ccstools package update but it has a problem. It has no compatibility with current version (1.6.8) and newer version (1.7.1). So, I want users would be able to choice continue upgrading or not with

Re: Looking for a sponsor

2009-12-30 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 07:57:18AM +, Tadeusz Struk wrote: I've created one amd64.deb package. Unfortunately I don't have access to other architectures. The pkg can be found here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/spg/files/spg.0.5.0/spg_0.5.0-1_amd64.deb/download You need to provide the

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

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

Re: Embedding one .deb inside another

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

Re: Buildd failed: C compiler cannot create executables

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

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

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

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

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

Re: About software from other distribution

2009-11-10 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:39:58AM +0800, Liang Guo wrote: Currently I'm using qspice, a Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (SPICE) client as my console to connect to KVM. qspice is a utility from RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.4, and It is licensed under GNU GPLv2. qspice

Re: script-with-language-extension

2009-10-04 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 03:43:22AM +0200, Jarom?r Mike? wrote: Od: Jarom?r Mike? mira.mi...@seznam.cz JM I did it, but it breaks functionality ... there exist also symlinks with JM same name and in same location. JM usr/bin/lv2rack JM usr/bin/zynjacku JM usr/bin/zynspect JM --

Re: script-with-language-extension

2009-10-04 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 01:44:11PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: Matthew Palmer mpal...@debian.org writes: So someone's using a single file as both a library and a stand-alone program. Damned silly idea. Not so silly; a Python module can be useful both as a main program and as a re-useable

Re: presumable last policy change before releasing Squeeze?

2009-10-03 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 01:34:12AM +0200, ERSEK Laszlo wrote: - I like a fresh Standards-Version, This is not a valid reason to make an upload to Debian. It is perfectly permissible to have a package with an outdated standards version, especially if the updates to policy do not apply to your

Re: Skipping the upload of *.deb and *.changes files to m.d.n

2009-09-22 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 02:50:46PM +0200, Jos? Manuel Santamar?a Lema wrote: I'm a novice and I uploaded some times packages to m.d.n. According to the home page, binary packages are discarded keeping only the source package. However every time that I upload a package, _all_ files are

Re: Appropriate warning when removing important package

2009-09-16 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:06:56PM -0700, Jeremy Leibs wrote: We have kind of a unique environment in that many of the (somewhat naive) system users have root-access for installing new packages on an as-needed basis, but the development environment itself has some specific requirements. For

Re: Requests to sponsor new library packages (was: why?)

2009-08-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:11:12AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Sune Vuorela nos...@vuorela.dk writes: For example, I would be very reluctant to sponsor a first package of a person that was a new library without any application using it, whereas a interesting kde application might easier catch

Re: Requests to sponsor new library packages

2009-08-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
into Debian, but that package requires one or more separately-packaged libraries that *also* need to be sponsored into Debian before the ???interesting??? package can go in? Request sponsorship together. And read up on library packaging. Matthew Palmer mpal...@debian.org writes

Re: why?

2009-08-18 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 01:46:04AM +, Leinier Cruz Salfran wrote: why is so hard to find a sponsor? I have a package online since 2 weeks ago, I sent 3 RFS and I have found no sponsor yet. why The debian-mentors FAQ (http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html) has

Re: Nomeclator of plugins

2009-07-22 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 03:02:19PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 200907221847.44193@alaxarxa.net, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote: I think I have not seen it in the Debian policies. I have a dual role in one application: developer and co-maintainer. I would like to ask one

Re: non-native package versions

2009-06-30 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 07:23:38PM +0100, Juan Jesús Ojeda Croissier wrote: On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Chow Loong Jinhyper...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 01,July,2009 12:27 AM, Juan Jesús Ojeda Croissier wrote: [...] And also a kind of retorical one (I guess I know already the

Re: FYI: QA uploads primer

2009-06-15 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:53:32AM +0200, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:01:30AM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 23:00, Serafeim Zanikolasser...@hellug.gr wrote: Thanks for the feedback Sandro. I've written the primer for technical-minded debian

Re: RFS: subnetcalc

2009-06-06 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 03:59:18PM +0200, Thomas Dreibholz wrote: - The new upstream version is now 2.0.2, therefore the new Debian package is 2.0.2-1debian1. Uhm... no. 'debian' is effectively the default source, so you don't tag packages as such. - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: RFC: Proposal for template for uploads

2009-05-17 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 10:33:07AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: On Sat, 16 May 2009 21:50:10 -0300 Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package foo. [Include one of:] This package is NEW to Debian. The ITP number is: #bugnumber This

Re: RFS: debsigs (adopted, fixed bugs, updated)

2009-05-16 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 06:44:54PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/debsigs/debsigs_0.1.15.dsc curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 dget: curl debsigs_0.1.15.dsc

Re: On upstream source tarballs and dpkg-source

2009-05-16 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 12:07:31AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: Hi, LI. On May 17 2009, LI Daobing wrote: 1. download foo-1.2.3.tar.gz 2. run ln -s foo-1.2.3.tar.gz foo_1.2.3.orig.tar.gz, so debuild can recognize that you already have a orig tarball Yes, I understood that. I just

Re: dch multi-maintainer mode

2009-04-21 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 09:22:49PM +0200, Stéphane Glondu wrote: Neil Williams a écrit : Is it still allowed as per 3.8.1 policy to use multi maintainer style changelogs? Yes. And what was the prevous style of changelog allowed, by the way? Originally, the debian changelog format was

Re: RFS: magicfilter (QA update of the package) (fwd) (fwd)

2009-04-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
Hi Rogério, On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 07:32:46PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: Probably this was missed the past few times that I posted to the list. Please, could anybody sponsor it? I've started looking at this package, but got caught up with other things. At the very least, you'll need to

Re: RFS: google-gflags

2009-04-10 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 08:06:54AM -0700, Ehren Kret wrote: It builds these binary packages: libgoogle-gflags-dev - a commandline flags processing library libgoogle-gflags0 - a commandline flags processing library Considering the plethora of other libraries to process command line flags, I

Re: RFS: magicfilter (QA update of the package)

2009-04-03 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 10:23:37PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: Dear mentors, The package magicfilter, a print filter for spoolers like lpr/lprng/etc, in Debian had some issues (dependencies on nonexistent packages) since it had not been updated in the last 3 years (according to the

Re: New Developer Request

2009-04-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 11:57:43PM +0800, Cheng Renquan wrote: On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Ramesh rrame...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I wish to contribute to debian as a developer. I got my keys signed by one of the existing developers. Please read

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

2009-03-30 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:08:41PM +0200, Davide Puricelli wrote: I'm asking you help about bug #509367. Summarizing, new mono packages introduced a /usr/bin/csc file that conflicts with /usr/bin/csc I used to ship into chicken-bin, so now there's a conflict between these two packages. I

Re: Packaging cluedome - copyright problems?

2009-03-26 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 08:02:44AM +, Tristan Greaves wrote: I'm taking a look at packaging the game Cluedome: http://www.cluedome.com/ I'm wondering if there are any copyright concerns. The game advertises itself as a clone, and the source ships with an example game rules rule

Re: Packaging cluedome - copyright problems?

2009-03-26 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 08:40:50AM +, Tristan Greaves wrote: Matthew Palmer wrote: [clue data files with copyrighted info] One option would be to NOT include those two data files in the package, but then it would not be a particularly user friendly installation. Producing unencumbered

Re: RFS: fsprotect

2009-03-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:41:48PM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Stefanos Harhalakis wrote: I'll add it when it is available. Since this is a debian native package, I'm waiting for it to enter debian (if it ever happens) before creating a page. Whis is this native? From what I

Re: Building localy

2009-03-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:38:16PM +0100, Jaromír Mike? wrote: Od: Chow Loong Jin hyper...@gmail.com I don't get it. debhelper should already pull in the appropriate perl. I cannot even begin to imagine how you borked up your perl installation to that extent. Neither me ... installation

Re: RFS: fsprotect

2009-03-22 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 07:21:22PM +0200, Stefanos Harhalakis wrote: * Package name: fsprotect Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Stefanos Harhalakis v...@v13.gr (me) * URL : http://www.v13.gr/ (not available yet) Based on your e-mail address, I'm guessing that

Re: RFS: subnetcalc

2009-02-21 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 04:59:33PM +0100, Thomas Dreibholz wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package subnetcalc. subnetcalc is a simple IPv4 subnet address calculator. For given IP address and netmask, it calculates network address, broadcast address, maximum number of hosts and

Re: make user's home automatically

2009-02-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 08:09:28AM +0100, Anthony wrote: Le lundi 2 février 2009 22:46, Jack T Mudge III a écrit : | On Monday 02 February 2009 09:43:07 am Anthony wrote: | I have a problème about auto home creation. | | All my users are on a ldap server with is home parameter. (ofr

Re: RFS: fspy - filesystem activity monitoring tool

2009-01-31 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 09:54:30AM +0100, Giuseppe Iuculano wrote: Matthew Palmer ha scritto: Looks good, except that the manpage mentions info pages which don't appear to exist in the package or upstream tarball. Fixed. Looks good. Uploaded. Ping me directly for future uploads if you

Re: RFS: fspy - filesystem activity monitoring tool

2009-01-30 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 05:45:44PM +0100, Giuseppe Iuculano wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package fspy. * Package name: fspy Version : 0.1.0-1 Upstream Author : Richard Sammet richard.sam...@gmail.com * URL : http://mytty.org/fspy/ * License :

Re: debian OID / dicom3tools packaging

2009-01-28 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 07:44:27PM -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote: Hi, To begin, I think there's some confusion about UID and OID. They are actually the same thing, according to Clunie: What DICOM calls UIDs are referred to in the ISO OSI world as Object Identifiers (OIDs). May I

Re: debian OID / dicom3tools packaging

2009-01-27 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 01:05:25PM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: http://www.dclunie.com/medical-image-faq/html/part8.html#UIDRegistration ... To use SNMP one needs an Enterpise UID assigned by IANA, which is free and may also be used for any other purpose that requires a UID root. *

Re: debian OID / dicom3tools packaging

2009-01-27 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 01:32:34PM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: So IMHO only large institution would need to change that to their own OID, unfortunately this is a compile time variable... Fix that. Making something that has to be unique to each installation a compile-time flag is

Re: Listing dependencies with specific versions

2008-12-09 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 04:06:46PM +, Neil Williams wrote: On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 22:18:01 +0900 Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: RFS: dhcp-probe, another try to request with a lot of update

2008-12-03 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 04:14:06PM -0800, Michael Tautschnig wrote: [...] A new version of the package is available which integrates all updates you noticed. I controlled all files twice but an error or anything else could be hidden in. You will find all links need to reach the

Re: Question about bug hunting

2008-12-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 09:11:36PM +0100, Laurent Guignard wrote: Is there any means to know if someone work on a bug from RC bug ? rc-alert or popbugs show all RC bugs of our packages but if someone is already on, it isn't necessary to work to solve the bug. Are all works in progress

Re: RFS: hexec

2008-12-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 03:04:33PM +0100, Alexander Block wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package hexec. Package name: hexec Version : 0.2.0-1 Upstream Author : Alexander Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/hexec/

Re: RFS: dhcp-probe, another try to request with a lot of update

2008-11-29 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 01:37:48PM +0100, Laurent Guignard wrote: I have another question about architecture : How is it possible to check if a package could be built on architecture without the appropriate hardware ? I can say that dhcp-probe could be build on i386 and any compatible

Re: RFS: dhcp-probe, another try to request with a lot of update

2008-11-27 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:14:56PM +0100, Laurent Guignard wrote: Michal ??iha?? a écrit : Hi [...] Quick look at the package: - any reason why it is Architecture: i386? In reason of the libraries dependency. libnet1 package is for i386 architecture and dhcp_probe use it

Re: howto create debian package with conf files

2008-10-25 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 11:21:19PM +0200, lucas kenter wrote: I would like to create a debian package for a simple project that I've created. The project contains only scripts, so there is no makefile or anything like that. For the script to work I would like to prompt for some simple

Re: howto create debian package with conf files

2008-10-25 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 12:10:26AM +0200, lucas kenter wrote: Wow, Thanks for the quick and helpfull response Matthew and ehm... I suppose this is what they mean by Debians helpfull community! I'm possitively amazed! :-D one more question though, So you could do something like this

Re: Packaging with CMake

2008-10-05 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 01:45:10AM +0200, Laurent Léonard wrote: I try to build the package kio-ftps, but the 0.2 version (for KDE 4) uses CMake. What is the procedure to build a Debian package with CMake ? It's no different to any other package. You put cmake in the build-deps, run it to

Re: 'cdarch' has a dash version

2008-10-04 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 10:43:00PM +0200, Jann Horn wrote: Er... I haven't got a file named *.orig.tar.gz. I think it's because I myself made the program I want to put in a package. So my question is: How can I remove this dash? You don't want to remove the dash, you want to fix your package

Re: Setup Clean Etch Build Environment

2008-07-22 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 02:08:34PM +0200, Marko Randjelovic wrote: How to set clean Etch build environment, so I can backport a package from testing to etch? pbuilder, just like you would setup a lenny or sid build environment. - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Modifying existing packages

2008-06-16 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 11:20:40PM -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: I'm new to this end - and don't know if what I want is possible or not. But here goes. What you want is quite possible, and something a lot of people do a lot. I need to modify some of the stock Debian packages for different

Re: RFS: obm

2008-05-06 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 11:56:44AM +0200, Sylvain Garcia wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package obm. * Package name: obm Version : 2.1.9-1 Upstream Author : [fill in name and email of upstream]

Re: Config files which are writable by www-data

2008-02-10 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 12:02:02PM +0100, Roland Gruber wrote: Matthew Palmer schrieb: Well, don't do that, then. Ship the template files somewhere else, and then copy them into /var if they're not already there. that is probably the best solution. I think I will put them in /usr/share

Re: Config files which are writable by www-data

2008-02-09 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 10:09:13AM +0100, Roland Gruber wrote: The problem is that my application provides a set of default templates for user creation. These files must be editable via the application itself and therefore reside in /var/ldap-account-manager. I most sincerely hope they do not.

Re: RFS: gnomecatalog

2008-01-08 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 08:02:02PM +0100, José Sánchez Moreno wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package gnomecatalog. * Package name: gnomecatalog Version : 0.3.1-1.0 That '.0' at the end isn't necessary. Upstream Author : [fill in name and email of

Re: How a package will determine the dependencies

2007-11-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 08:57:19AM -0700, varun_shrivastava wrote: i have a library and want to package it But it has a configuration option as --enable-debug=yes/no So i need to make 2 packages as 1) libinput0 2) libinput0-debug So now if an application uses libinput, how the

Re: Removing transition stuff in debhelper scripts after which time?

2007-09-24 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 04:46:43AM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: Today I stumbled over the question: After which time should transition stuff be removed from the debhelper scripts. In this special case I'm talking about install-sgmlcatalog calls in (e.g.) postinst scripts. Adam Di Carlo

Re: RFS: dosbox (updated package)

2007-09-18 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 04:39:05PM +0200, Markus Schölzel wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package dosbox. * Package name: dosbox Version : 0.72-0.1 Upstream Author : The DOSBox-Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL :

Re: RFS: nagvis

2007-09-17 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 10:18:48PM +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: i know it is a problem on my side, but please give me a bit time. Sorry for communicating this a bit bad, but i was quite overworked the last weeks, esp. as i am currently moving to a new home. For the others: i allready had

Re: Packaging question

2007-09-15 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 07:20:29PM -0400, Peter wrote: If I post this question in the wrong list please tell me where to ask the question :) I created an update package and it install perfectly but for one thing. If I install an earlier version, my package won't show up as an update. It's

Re: how to patch a patch

2007-09-10 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 12:25:52AM +0200, Mihamina (R12y) Rakotomandimby wrote: There is a list of softwares already debian packaged. The packager has applied a patch on them. I need to modify again the patched part. So, I need to patch the patch. I guess in real world I wont patch the patch,

Re: RFS: eprints

2007-08-30 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 03:17:18PM +0100, David C Tarrant wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package eprints. I don't see an ITP for this package. Making Research Freely Available - For many years we have been helping researchers and their institutions to provide free

Re: RFS: eprints

2007-08-30 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 06:27:09PM +0100, David C Tarrant wrote: It builds these binary packages: eprints- Content Management System for Information Archiving EPrints is a web-based content management system. It allows a large number of contributors to share their digital

Re: Package requiring a customised version of libc6

2007-08-24 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 12:23:39PM +0100, David Given wrote: (Incidentally, the more I look at fakechroot the more I'm coming to believe that it's no use for anything whatsoever. The security aspects of it are... erm... nil; it's trivial for the client app to break out of its jail. Is this a

Re: homebank (license issue)

2007-08-16 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 02:42:19PM +0200, Francesco Namuri wrote: Hi mentors, I've received from the author of homebank a pre-release version 3.4 of homebank with new SVG icons released under GPL, I have a doubt regarding one of these icons, it is released with this license metadata:

Re: php4 in lenny and Depends

2007-08-12 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 03:33:20PM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: I have a package that I maintain that has a dependency on php4-cgi or php5-cgi. If I remember correctly php4 will not be in lenny. Correct me if I was dreaming and misunderstood this. Nope, I think you're right. Last I heard,

Re: Creating Source Packages

2007-07-28 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:13:06AM +1000, Brendon Costa wrote: I have been looking on the web, but have found little in the way of tutorials on how to create a debian source package. I have created a binary package for my project (EDoc++: http://edoc.sourceforge.net/), but want to create a

Re: Creating Source Packages

2007-07-28 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 02:59:53PM +1000, Brendon Costa wrote: Actually, there is no one-file source package form of a deb like there is for rpms. When you create your binary package, a signed .dsc file is created with which you can create the deb in conjunction with the original upstream

Re: Getting involved with Debian development...

2007-07-26 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 04:13:06PM -0400, Tim Hull wrote: Anyway, I am curious what exactly it entails to become a Debian developer, and what would be best to do if one wanted to involve oneself in Debian with this ultimate goal. The FQ... the FAQ... grin

Re: RFS: fuse (updated package)

2007-07-24 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 11:21:09AM +0200, Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.7.0-1 of my package fuse. I'm taking a look at this now. - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Sponsored: fuse 2.7.0-1

2007-07-24 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 11:21:09AM +0200, Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.7.0-1 of my package fuse. Looks solid. Uploaded. - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: RFS: ftpsync -- fast ftp directory synchronization

2007-07-15 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 05:13:58PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package ftpsync. Any major feature improvements over sitecopy? - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Broken uploads to mentors.debian.net

2007-07-15 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 10:41:57PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: I have no good explanation for the situation Neil mentioned though. The package maintainer must have uploaded a package with an orig tarball. But then the orig tarball was changed and an upload without an orig tarball was done

Re: dpkg-buildpackage and fakeroot

2007-07-14 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 12:50:32AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:46:13 -0700, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: 'fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage' runs the build target under fakeroot, which is undesirable primarily because Debian 'build' targets are required to

Another revision of the d-m FAQ

2007-07-12 Thread Matthew Palmer
In my last update of the FAQ, I forgot to include a substantial rework of the difference between native and non-native packages from Thijs Kinkhorst. The rework also split the discussion on why debian dirs in upstream tarballs is bad, which should help in the future when people ask about it --

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