Hi Asheesh, On Thursday 11 February 2010 17:22:13 Asheesh Laroia wrote: > On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Kel Modderman wrote: > > > Hi mentors, > > > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.6.10-1 of the package > > "wpasupplicant". It has been a long time since its last update due to > > myself travelling and the rest of pkg-wpa-devel maintenance group being > > inactive. The inactive members have since removed themselves from the > > group which leaves us/me in need of a good mentor/sponsor. > > Well, golly. Since you've worked with them for a while, can you ask them > to sponsor you for DebianMaintainer status? See > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMaintainer - it's a quick way to make sure > you have permission to upload these packages so that you don't have to go > through the hurdles of sponsorship.
It is planned to take that step, but I haven't got that far yet since returning from overseas. Additionally, I need to seek a long term co-maintainer for the packages maintained by pkg-wpa-devel group anyway, as I believe them to be sufficiently difficult to maintain and support. > > For now, I've taken a look at your package. It seems to not build properly > in a sid pbuilder; can you try that? I'm happy to help you set up a > pbuilder of your own so you can find these issues quickly. There was a mistake fixed by this diff: --- debian/control (revision 1465) +++ debian/control (working copy) @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian/Ubuntu wpasupplicant Maintainers <[email protected]> Uploaders: Kel Modderman <[email protected]> -Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50~), +Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.4.12~), quilt (>= 0.46-7~), libdbus-glib-1-dev, libssl-dev, --- > > Here's the error messages I get toward the end of the build. > > make[4]: Entering directory `/tmp/buildd/wpasupplicant-0.6.10/src/wps' > for d in ; do make -C $d clean; done > rm -f *~ *.o *.d > make[4]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/wpasupplicant-0.6.10/src/wps' > rm -f *~ > make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/wpasupplicant-0.6.10/src' > rm -f core *~ *.o *.d eap_*.so wpa_supplicant wpa_passphrase wpa_cli > wpa_supplicant.exe wpa_cli.exe wpa_passphrase.exe win_if_list.exe > eapol_test preauth_test > rm -f wpa_priv > make[2]: Leaving directory > `/tmp/buildd/wpasupplicant-0.6.10/wpa_supplicant' > dh_auto_clean --sourcedirectory=wpa_supplicant/wpa_gui-qt4 \ > --buildsystem=qmake > dh_auto_clean: unable to load build system class 'qmake': Can't locate > Debian/Debhelper/Buildsystem/qmake.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl > /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1 /usr/lib/perl5 > /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10 > /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at (eval 10) line 2. > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 10) line 2. > > make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_clean] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/wpasupplicant-0.6.10' > make: *** [clean] Error 2 > dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules clean gave error exit > status 2 Thanks for spotting it. debian-mentors should now host a source package at the same location/uri which fixes it. Thanks, Kel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
