sponsor quake3 quake3-data packages

2005-11-09 Thread Marc Leeman
Hi, I've been maintaining a number of packages for about 5 years. For these packages, I've been working with a number of DDs and since the cooperation was so satisfactory, I never had the need (and for a couple of years, the time) to apply for DD myself. Last week, I made packages for Quake III.

Re: How to add applications to IceWM menu

2005-11-09 Thread Jan Wagemakers
Stan Vasilyev [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: How do I add an application to IceWM menu without manually editing /etc/X11/icewm/menu file? Maybe http://linux-cd.com.ar/manuales/debian-menu/ch3.html and http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/menu is what you are looking for? -- Met vriendelijke

RFS: rkward

2005-11-09 Thread Thomas Friedrichsmeier
Dear debian mentors, I have made another attempt at creating a debian package for rkward, a scientific KDE application I develop. Naturally, I would like to get this app into the main debian archive. Could somebody please sponsor me an upload, and/or help me fix up the package to meet the

Re: RFS: rkward

2005-11-09 Thread Steffen Joeris
Hi I am not yet a DD so I can't sponsor your package sorry. But maybe I can give you some advice for improving the packaging. OK there are some issues: 1. Well you provide a native debian package as I can see. I don't think that your package should be a native one, although you are the

Re: RFS: irmp3 -- mp3 Jukebox (LIRC support)

2005-11-09 Thread Erik Schanze
Hi Mario, please send your answers on my list mails back to the list, so others can also help or could correct me, if I'm wrong. Mario Iseli Mario Iseli [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 16:42 +0100, Erik Schanze wrote: Perhaps you should mention, that irmp3 was recently removed from

Re: RFS: statist - Small and fast terminal-based statistics program

2005-11-09 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Jakson A. Aquino [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-11-09 17:43]: I'm sorry for still using the wrong FSF address. Now it's really fixed. The new links are: http://wald.intevation.org/frs/download.php/43/statist_1.3.1-1.diff.gz http://wald.intevation.org/frs/download.php/44/statist_1.3.1-1.dsc

Re: RFS: rkward

2005-11-09 Thread Thomas Friedrichsmeier
Hi, I am not yet a DD so I can't sponsor your package sorry. But maybe I can give you some advice for improving the packaging. Thanks very much for your advice. I'll work on those areas. A few questions: 1. Well you provide a native debian package as I can see. I don't think that your

Re: RFS: irmp3 -- mp3 Jukebox (LIRC support)

2005-11-09 Thread Daniel Baumann
Erik Schanze wrote: Your way will not fail, but could be improved. The advantage of Build-Depends on autotools-dev is to have the newest config.* stuff available. There is no need to include the new config.* files into diff. If you do so, you don't need to Build-Depend on autotools-dev,

Re: Package that depends on ming

2005-11-09 Thread Joost van Baal
Op di 8 nov 2005 om 09:28:37 -0500 schreef Alejandro Ríos P.: Hello. I'm trying to package a program [1] that has a Perl server and a SWF client made with ming. What's the name of the program? What does it do? Since ming is not in Debian anymore, You're talking about libming, which is

Re: RFS: rkward - rpath-problem

2005-11-09 Thread Thomas Friedrichsmeier
Hi again, on more thing: 8. There is a rpath (as lintian told me). See the lintian warning: W: rkward: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath ./usr/bin/rkward /usr/lib:/usr/share/qt3/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib:/usr/lib/R/lib/ I think you can directly fix it (upstream) ;) Yeah, but I'll have to

Re: sponsor quake3 quake3-data packages

2005-11-09 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 09:09:03AM +0100, Marc Leeman wrote: Anyone intersted in answering the call? A link to actual packages files would be good... Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

essential vs. required vs. base

2005-11-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
Packages marked Essential: yes have to be operational before they are configured, and packages need not (and should not) depend on them, in the same was as they needn't and shouldn't to build-depend on build-essential packages such as gcc and make. Essential packages are also the only ones which

Re: essential vs. required vs. base

2005-11-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Packages marked Essential: yes have to be operational before they are configured, and packages need not (and should not) depend on them, in the same was as they needn't and shouldn't to build-depend on build-essential packages such as gcc and make.

Re: essential vs. required vs. base

2005-11-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 01:13:44PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Packages marked Essential: yes have to be operational before they are configured, and packages need not (and should not) depend on them, in the same was as they needn't and shouldn't to

Re: essential vs. required vs. base

2005-11-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 01:13:44PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Essential means that it's very difficult to remove the package and you have to jump through extreme hoops to do so, and that removing it may break the system. Yes, but how is that different

Re: How to add applications to IceWM menu

2005-11-09 Thread Stan Vasilyev
Unfortunately the Debian menu doesn't solve my problem because IceWM doesn't support it. Basically the issue is that the software I'm packaging, IceWM Control Center is strictly for IceWM and it doesn't make sense to use it in other window managers. However, in KDE, BlackBox, Fluxbox and Gnome I

Re: RFS: irmp3 -- mp3 Jukebox (LIRC support)

2005-11-09 Thread Erik Schanze
Hi Daniel, Daniel Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Erik Schanze wrote: Your way will not fail, but could be improved. The advantage of Build-Depends on autotools-dev is to have the newest config.* stuff available. There is no need to include the new config.* files into diff. If you do so, you

Re: RFS: bubbbros

2005-11-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 09:46:38PM -0500, Daniel Milstein wrote: I was wondering if anyone would be interested in sponsoring bubnbros, a 2d platform game that is a clone of Bubble Bobble. Parts of it are released under the MIT License and the rest is under the Artistic LIcense. Its ITP bug

Re: RFS: irmp3 -- mp3 Jukebox (LIRC support)

2005-11-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 11:30:23PM +0100, Erik Schanze wrote: Hi Daniel, Daniel Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Erik Schanze wrote: Your way will not fail, but could be improved. The advantage of Build-Depends on autotools-dev is to have the newest config.* stuff available. There is no

RFS: ccbuild - C++ source scanning build utility (ITP 338341)

2005-11-09 Thread Bram Neijt
ccbuild is a C++ source scanning build utility. This request is for the new 1.5.0 version that is just out. I have posted all my debian package work at: http://www.ai.rug.nl/~bneijt/debian/ The sponsors record can be found at: http://sponsors.debian.net/viewpkg.php?id=134 The ITP can be found

Conflict with kernel versions?

2005-11-09 Thread David Given
I'm interested in doing a package for spey, my greylisting SMTP proxy (http://spey.sf.net). This isn't going to happen immediately, but I'm due to make another upstream release soon, and if that goes well I want to start work on the package. Unfortunately, the application has its own coroutine

Re: Conflict with kernel versions?

2005-11-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 12:38:26AM +, David Given wrote: I'm interested in doing a package for spey, my greylisting SMTP proxy (http://spey.sf.net). This isn't going to happen immediately, but I'm due to make another upstream release soon, and if that goes well I want to start work on

Depends: awk -- Is that required?

2005-11-09 Thread Bob Proulx
I need a clarification because I am confused. If I have a script that uses awk do I need the package to Depends: awk? Or is awk like basename where we are able to assume it is on the system without any explicit dependencies? I see that many packages do Depends: awk. But awk is an alternative

Re: Depends: awk -- Is that required?

2005-11-09 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 06:43:51PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: I need a clarification because I am confused. If I have a script that uses awk do I need the package to Depends: awk? Or is awk like basename where we are able to assume it is on the system without any explicit dependencies? I

Re: Depends: awk -- Is that required?

2005-11-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 06:43:51PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: I need a clarification because I am confused. If I have a script that uses awk do I need the package to Depends: awk? Or is awk like basename where we are able to assume it is on the system without any explicit dependencies? I see

Re: Depends: awk -- Is that required?

2005-11-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 09:57:37PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 06:43:51PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: I need a clarification because I am confused. If I have a script that uses awk do I need the package to Depends: awk? Or is awk like basename where we are able

Re: Package that depends on ming

2005-11-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 21:08 +0100, Joost van Baal wrote: Since ming is not in Debian anymore, You're talking about libming, which is still supported in woody (oldstable). Do you know why it didn't make it to sarge? It might be possible to get it re-enter Debian. (Just saw upstream

Re: Package that depends on ming

2005-11-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 12:29:27PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: If it _depends_ upon libming, your program can't be shipped with Debian as long as libming is not in Debian. It can be shipped in contrib though. contrib is for free packages with dependencies (free or otherwise) that are not in

Re: Package that depends on ming

2005-11-09 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 12:29:27PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 21:08 +0100, Joost van Baal wrote: Since ming is not in Debian anymore, You're talking about libming, which is still supported in woody (oldstable). Do you know why it didn't make it to sarge? It might be possible

NOOB: Do I seek a sponsor before applying as a new maintainer?

2005-11-09 Thread DoyenGuy
After looking into the whole new maintainer process and application and documentation and tomes of webpages on the Debian website, I encountered a question. I sent an email three days ago to what I thought was the most logical address, the Debian Front Desk, and even though I'm not involved right

Re: NOOB: Do I seek a sponsor before applying as a new maintainer?

2005-11-09 Thread Joost van Baal
Op do 10 nov 2005 om 12:20:55 -0500 schreef DoyenGuy: snip I have written a program (and continue to improve) called ProShield (proshield.sf.net) that I would like to get put into the official debian apt repositories. This involves a new maintainer application process, as well as a lot of

Re: NOOB: Do I seek a sponsor before applying as a new maintainer?

2005-11-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 12:20:55AM -0500, DoyenGuy wrote: After looking into the whole new maintainer process and application and documentation and tomes of webpages on the Debian website, I encountered a question. I sent an email three days ago to what I thought was the most logical address,

Re: RFS: statist - Small and fast terminal-based statistics program

2005-11-09 Thread Jakson A. Aquino
Hi, On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 10:46:32PM -0200, Jakson A. Aquino wrote: I added (Closes: #155073), but this bug was already automatically closed on 22 Sep 2005 because there was no activity around it in 365 days. Is there any problem in trying to close an already closed bug? This is