RFS: dylandotnet
From: Dylan Borg borgdy...@hotmail.com To: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org Subject: RFS: dylandotnet Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package dylandotnet. * Package name: dylandotnet Version : 11.2.6-2 Upstream Author : Dylan Borg borgdy...@hotmail.com * URL : http://launchpad.net/dylandotnet * License : GNU GPL v2 Section : devel Programming Language: dylan.NET itself(i.e. a self-hosting compiler) It builds these binary packages: dylandotnet - This is the dylan.NET compiler The package appears to be lintian clean. My motivation for maintaining this package is: to give a new Mono language to the communities of Debian and Ubuntu. I intend to maintain and package the software myself since I am its author. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/dylandotnet - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/dylandotnet/dylandotnet_11.2.6-2.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Dylan Borg
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: RFS: retext
Done! override_dh_auto_clean: dh_auto_clean rm -rf debian/icons rm -f retext rm -f wpgen/wpgen Dmitry Shachnev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/BANLkTin7XRD9j2DkL7rPNHsnme=pb4u...@mail.gmail.com
Re: RFS: nzbget (2nd try)
On 05/13/2011 10:36 PM, Sven Hoexter wrote: Thanks for the review! * debian/copyright is incomplete. An easy grep -i copyright diggs out some more names. Use something like head *|less to screen all file headers by hand. Ok, I updated the copyright information to include all copyright holders involved. * This copyright format stuff makes me cry. I'm not sure what should be used but so far I think a majority uses a svn revision for the format definition. Ok, I have changed that to http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/dep/web/deps/dep5.mdwn?op=filerev=174 I thought that the State: CANDIDATE (frozen, about to be ACCEPTED) meant that I could use the static url now because there won't be any major changes to the proposal. * Is there really a texinfo manual somewhere? Ups, no, there isn't. I forgot to remove that info from the generated man-page. The rest seems to be ok, though I can't build it currently. Yes, that is my fault. libpar2 has been removed from debian a few weeks ago. I changed my packaging to not use the par2-features in nzbget anymore. GPL (v2 or later) (with incorrect FSF address) for all files and I don't know if this will be a problem preventing the package from inclusion in the archive. I for one don't care, though I've no idea about the ftp-master position. A few days ago some people here agreed that patching it is ok. You should fill a bug upstream anyway. Ok, I read the discussion now and will keep it that way for now and let upstream handle it. Updated package has been uploaded to mentors and pushed to http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/nzbget.git;a=summary Thanks again. Andreas signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
RFS: doctrine (updated package, ping)
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.2.4-1 of my package doctrine. It builds these binary packages: doctrine - Tool for object-relational mapping in PHP The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 590006, 594410. It will also prevent CVE 2011-1522 in sid, already fixed in stable-security, see [1]. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=622674 The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/doctrine - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/doctrine/doctrine_1.2.4-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Federico Gimenez Nieto signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: RFS: dylandotnet
On Sat, 14 May 2011 11:32:19 +0200, Dylan Borg borgdy...@hotmail.com wrote: It builds these binary packages: dylandotnet - This is the dylan.NET compiler Hi Dylan; It seems like your package ships several .dll files that are not rebuilt during the package build process. By policy 2.2.1, your package must be buildable from source using tools in main; the easiest way to demonstrate this is to do it. I'm not a .NET expert, but I was also not sure that the the .DLL files are really architecture independant. Your package has some lintian warnings and errors: W: dylandotnet: extended-description-line-too-long E: dylandotnet: depends-on-metapackage depends: mono-complete W: dylandotnet: debian-changelog-line-too-long line 1 W: dylandotnet: binary-without-manpage usr/bin/dylandotnet E: dylandotnet: helper-templates-in-copyright E: dylandotnet: helper-templates-in-copyright E: dylandotnet: copyright-contains-dh_make-todo-boilerplate Note that debian/copyright is crucial for a package to be accepted into the archive. Aside from lintians complaints, your description also didn't really help me understand what the package is. Please see http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#bpp-pkg-synopsis http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#bpp-pkg-desc For some hints about writing a short and long description. Remember your audience is likely not expert in .NET I found the phrase This compiler when ready a bit discouraging; is the compiler useful for something now? It would be good to clarify if your package has anything to do with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_(programming_language) I'm guessing not, but this is the default when I hear dylan and programming language. You may also want to look for feedback/sponsorship from the debian mono team. pkg-mono-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87hb8xfqsk.fsf@zancas.localnet
Re: RFS: kildclient (updated packages, fixes FTBS)
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 05:56:23PM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Anyway, if some DD is thinking about uploading this package, please wait. I've submitted a quick fix for the FTBS bug 555000 to Dominic Hargreaves as per his offer in that bug report, so I'll prepare a new version soon. I'm a DD and work on a competitor to kildclient (mudlet) but we're all one big happy FOSS family here so when you get it sorted out let me know. Also, have you read the email regarding the perl transistion as kildclient uses perl? It might be worthwhile waiting for that to settle down first. pkg-config files for gtk+ will not list so many libraries as dependencies (that aren't really dependencies)? There doesn't seem to be a simple fix for gtk's dependency bloat. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZhttp://www.enc.com.au/ csmall at : enc.com.au Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org/ csmall at : debian.org GPG fingerprint: 1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110514122242.ga29...@enc.com.au
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From: Dylan Borg borgdy...@hotmail.com To: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org Subject: RFS: dylandotnet (updated package) Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 11.2.7.1-1 of my package dylandotnet. It builds these binary packages: dylandotnet - This is the dylan.NET compiler The package appears to be lintian clean. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/dylandotnet - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/dylandotnet/dylandotnet_11.2.7.1-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Dylan Borg Dylan
RFS: dylandotnet (updated package)
From: Dylan Borg borgdy...@hotmail.com To: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org Subject: RFS: dylandotnet (updated package) Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 11.2.7.1-1 of my package dylandotnet. It builds these binary packages: dylandotnet - This is the dylan.NET compiler The package appears to be lintian clean. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/dylandotnet - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/dylandotnet/dylandotnet_11.2.7.1-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Dylan Borg Dylan
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The nest time, do remember to spend a second checking things rather than just copy-paste-send from mentors.debian.net :) Just my 2 cents, Bilal Akhtar. On Saturday 14 May 2011 06:25 PM, Dylan Borg wrote: From: Dylan Borg borgdy...@hotmail.com To: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org Subject: RFS: dylandotnet (updated package) Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 11.2.7.1-1 of my package dylandotnet. It builds these binary packages: dylandotnet - This is the dylan.NET compiler The package appears to be lintian clean. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/dylandotnet - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/dylandotnet/dylandotnet_11.2.7.1-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Dylan Borg _/Dylan/_ -- Bilal Akhtar - Ubuntu Developer bilalakh...@ubuntu.com IRC Nick: cdbs signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
RE: RFS: dylandotnet
I took the liberty of redirecting this reply back to the list. You may want to bounce your original message to the list as well. In general, please direct the discussion to the list. I'm not sure why lintian does not catch this, but your changelog needs work. - target should be debian unstable, not ubuntu. - Your closes line is wrong, it should not be part of the line with urgency=low. - Your changelog should also close a Debian ITP bug, since that is the right place to have a discussion about whether a proposed package is suitable for Debian. On Sat, 14 May 2011 14:25:52 +0200, Dylan Borg borgdy...@hotmail.com wrote: My target audience is a .NET aware audience, this package contains a compiler after all. You still need to provide a description that is useful for debian users in general. The .dlls are binary and platform independent(it is in the ECMA 335 spec). OK. Right now the current dylan.NET compiler is only runnable on windows. [...] Because the build cannot happen on Linux currently I ship the dlls ready made. Then I think you will have to target contrib rather than Debian main until you can build in Debian. See policy 2.2.2 for an explanation. http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-contrib MS-Windows certainly counts as a non-free package ;). The method inners are being worked on but I wish the packaging and the already completed parts to be tried on and bugs filed to me. Do you think there is enough audience to justify uploading to Debian at this time? What would this audience be? It does not have to do with the Dylan programming language. Right, so please add that to your long description. All the best, David pgpINqaECUemM.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: RFS: dylandotnet
I have updated the package(the debian dir only). The packagge is opens ource. Open source software can run on Windows!...remove the misconception that Windows software always must cost money. Dylan From: brem...@debian.org To: borgdy...@hotmail.com CC: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: RFS: dylandotnet Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 11:08:48 -0300 I took the liberty of redirecting this reply back to the list. You may want to bounce your original message to the list as well. In general, please direct the discussion to the list. I'm not sure why lintian does not catch this, but your changelog needs work. - target should be debian unstable, not ubuntu. - Your closes line is wrong, it should not be part of the line with urgency=low. - Your changelog should also close a Debian ITP bug, since that is the right place to have a discussion about whether a proposed package is suitable for Debian. On Sat, 14 May 2011 14:25:52 +0200, Dylan Borg borgdy...@hotmail.com wrote: My target audience is a .NET aware audience, this package contains a compiler after all. You still need to provide a description that is useful for debian users in general. The .dlls are binary and platform independent(it is in the ECMA 335 spec). OK. Right now the current dylan.NET compiler is only runnable on windows. [...] Because the build cannot happen on Linux currently I ship the dlls ready made. Then I think you will have to target contrib rather than Debian main until you can build in Debian. See policy 2.2.2 for an explanation. http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-contrib MS-Windows certainly counts as a non-free package ;). The method inners are being worked on but I wish the packaging and the already completed parts to be tried on and bugs filed to me. Do you think there is enough audience to justify uploading to Debian at this time? What would this audience be? It does not have to do with the Dylan programming language. Right, so please add that to your long description. All the best, David
RFS: dylandotnet (updated package 11.2.7.1-2)
From: Dylan Borg borgdy...@hotmail.com To: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org Subject: RFS: dylandotnet (updated package) Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 11.2.7.1-2 of my package dylandotnet. It builds these binary packages: dylandotnet - This is the dylan.NET compiler to be run on the Mono framework. The package appears to be lintian clean. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/dylandotnet - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/dylandotnet/dylandotnet_11.2.7.1-2.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Dylan Borg Dylan
RFS: jampal
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package jampal. * Package name: jampal Version : 02.01.02 Upstream Author : I am the upstream author. Peter Bennett pgbenn...@comcast.net. * URL : http://jampal.sourceforge.net * License : GPLv3 or higher Section : sound It builds these binary packages: jampal - Cross platform mp3 song library management system The package appears to be lintian clean. (There are a few Warning and Info messages). My motivation for maintaining this package is: I believe this can be a very useful system for people with large collections of mp3 music files (e.g. 40,000 songs). It has many features not available with any other program. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/j/jampal - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/j/jampal/jampal_02.01.02.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Please copy pgbenn...@comcast.net on any emails. Kind regards Peter Bennett
RE: RFS: dylandotnet
On Sat, 14 May 2011 16:34:14 +0200, Dylan Borg borgdy...@hotmail.com wrote: I have updated the package(the debian dir only). The packagge is opens ource. Open source software can run on Windows!...remove the misconception that Windows software always must cost money. Hi Dylan; non-free is used in Debian in a technical sense to refer to software that does not mee the Debian Free Software Guidelines. In order to be included in Debian main, not only must your software be DFSG free, but it must be buildable using only DFSG free tools. Since your software only builds on Windows so far, it can't be built only with DFSG free tools. This is why I referred you to specific sections of Debian policy. In my opinion, you should also address the question of what-kind/how large of an audience your package would have. You have to remember that you are in the position of selling your package to a potential sponsor, and there are many packages and people clamouring for attention. David pgpMeW3PcBM1V.pgp Description: PGP signature
RFS: creepy (Second Try)
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package creepy. * Package name: creepy Version : 0.1.93-1 Upstream Author : Yiannis Kakavas jkaka...@gmail.com * URL : http://ilektrojohn.github.com/creepy * License : GPL3 Section : python It builds these binary packages: creepy - geolocation information aggregator The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 620173 My motivation for maintaining this package is: Some time ago, I knew this software and I started to use it, it's very useful and interesting. Creepy permit locate to sereval users from your id in social networks like twitter and flickr. It would be amazing do: aptitude install creepy. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/creepy - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/creepy/creepy_0.1.93-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Daniel Echeverry -- Epsilon http://www.rinconinformatico.net http://www.fitnessdeportes.com http://www.dragonjar.org Linux user: #477840 Debian user
RE: RFS: dylandotnet
As my audience I would like people wanting to work in .NET/CLI and wanting a new language to programwith that is not under the power of large companies(i.e. C#). I plan to make program templates for using component such as gtk and other commonly used linux libraries. As self-hosting is achieved dylan.NET shall be only developed under Linux. Dylan From: brem...@debian.org To: borgdy...@hotmail.com; debian-mentors@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: RFS: dylandotnet Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 15:35:33 -0300 On Sat, 14 May 2011 16:34:14 +0200, Dylan Borg borgdy...@hotmail.com wrote: I have updated the package(the debian dir only). The packagge is opens ource. Open source software can run on Windows!...remove the misconception that Windows software always must cost money. Hi Dylan; non-free is used in Debian in a technical sense to refer to software that does not mee the Debian Free Software Guidelines. In order to be included in Debian main, not only must your software be DFSG free, but it must be buildable using only DFSG free tools. Since your software only builds on Windows so far, it can't be built only with DFSG free tools. This is why I referred you to specific sections of Debian policy. In my opinion, you should also address the question of what-kind/how large of an audience your package would have. You have to remember that you are in the position of selling your package to a potential sponsor, and there are many packages and people clamouring for attention. David
RFS: bubblemon (updated package)
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.0.16-1 of my package bubblemon (new upstream version). It builds this binary package: bubblemon - Bubbling Load Monitoring GNOME Applet The package appears to be lintian clean (there is a single warning about the sh locale translation). The upload would fix these bugs: 567423, 625314 The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/b/bubblemon - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/b/bubblemon/bubblemon_2.0.16-1.dsc I would be thrilled if someone uploaded this package for me. Best regards, Adam -- On the quiet side. Somewhat peculiar. A goodAdam Sjøgren companion, in a weird sort of way.a...@koldfront.dk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87aaep2cqy@topper.koldfront.dk
Re: Library Question
I declared victory too early. Am Freitag, 13. Mai 2011 schrieb Rainer Dorsch: rd@blackbox:/scratchbox/users/rd/home/rd/20110506/navit-0.2.0+dfsg.1$ grep freetype debian/rules DEB_MAKE_ENVVARS = LDFLAGS=-rpath=/opt/freetype-navit rd@blackbox:/scratchbox/users/rd/home/rd/20110506/navit-0.2.0+dfsg.1$ Seems to be not sufficient to get a rpath into navit. Does anybody know how to find out where I need to add the rpath? Are the any suspects under the enviroment varialbes in an autotools build process? Thanks, Rainer -- Rainer Dorsch Lärchenstr. 6 D-72135 Dettenhausen 07157-734133 email: rdor...@web.de jabber: rdor...@jabber.org GPG Fingerprint: 5966 C54C 2B3C 42CC 1F4F 8F59 E3A8 C538 7519 141E Full GPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: RFS: dylandotnet
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Dylan, On 14.05.2011 23:20, Dylan Borg wrote: As my audience I would like people wanting to work in .NET/CLI and wanting a new language to programwith that is not under the power of large companies(i.e. C#). I plan to make program templates for using component such as gtk and other commonly used linux libraries. As self-hosting is achieved dylan.NET shall be only developed under Linux. please note Debian is not intended as a possible platform to promote and advocate your own project. You should have a notable user base before you are actually trying to introduce a package to Debian. Don't get me wrong, it is perfectly fine to have upstream authors interested to maintain their own projects in Debian - no one else would know them better than they do. What David wanted to advise you is, you should - perhaps - think whether your program really already has enough users, which would justify inclusion to Debian targeted to a large audience in contrast to some enthusiastic contributors. You seem not to have really much downloads [1]. Moreover, all we can do, is to suggest you what you could or should do. It is still fine if you keep trying to find a sponsor for your package once you passed through at least the things David mentioned - but the tenor of our comments seem to suggest you should perhaps wait a bit more until you really want to push Debian inclusion. Since your build dependencies are non free (as of our DFSG, as David explained you already) things are even more complicated (for you). [1] https://launchpad.net/dylandotnet/+download - -- with kind regards, Arno Töll GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJNzvrjAAoJEMcrUe6dgPNtW7YP/jnW3ITTioQb/J1Mz0JQr9ie eo1bj8Y5xY7J8Pca/YoyMTfVlilH8LM+isdbKKh+sloYG7Ybo+Z5wyEXG5VRMFUh BsS+tBKA6WY0YsRzQx/aIzIFKET2fGRhx+WvACkJOGIy5KRedGPdPYNiirmPwolo MsCeY3jsDjany5mbYOWVVIh/YzGnyRCvZHOTYn4y7/QeQTaAYcBMlYmOYXOTXEhG PYuUxIEFMM/gG9FhGYhsPyz6QvH2K2a/Q4b55Vh9AKhCqYGkzyzpjttagR17YXOx 1H9Y4Ms/GIaTyrXMd5sASXJQUJ4OtJqfKTzF6uwmYb5yY6kihZLhMiI2n/+FCsNR hPxuZTtRjakyBPg8Lxams5hkloguqKzErtr91ugbrxk2yj+V5d8dNno37VyGi30N pfHib7/LaWgUmrQfWVIUxOaoR8EJjcg5Z9IWfP8NY/bpNWqOYfTmiTdYhZ3yeN4Y Zb7FrqU2//eZexN7ov3rllFePsXdqNDUKghfF7pMaFJBugOG1myniWZ+HtVdhOXl WvAYMcFBOrknVKDQZX0+zp2QYuSUc2R7DHaB9HHdMS6pf/yWxY2oTXAZ6kCYTqau Wz0aW3JkZuh2FY3WOvexOwwKuqCqLIPcEH7sapjRjhsjuGMa0TLg074Uu8scbKEc LNGhdeAgrw3AfpfFmvRz =WhRo -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4dcefae3.2030...@toell.net
Re: RFS: jampal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Peter, some comments about your package. Note I'm no DD, so I can't sponsor you, therefore my suggestions may not be effectual for you. Note your package is not distributable in Debian as is (see below). * You built a native package, that's wrong (if you would have native package you would know :)). Learn more on [1] * You seem to use a merged changelog for your upstream changes and Debian related changes. Note this is not the intention of debian/changelog. The Debian changelog should highlight changes when compared to the upstream (source) distribution [2]. * You seem not to have filed an ITP for your package. Please do that if you want to introduce your application to Debian. This is to tell other people someone is working on a given package to avoid waste of resources. Learn more about ITPs on WNPP [3] * You Standards version is outdated, please bump to 3.9.2(.0) * Your binary dependencies are redundant (you have put openjdk-6-jre twice) and you depend on lame. Lame is not in Debian and since you have this as dependency, your package is not suitable at all to Debian. I'd suggest you to use another (available) alternative. Moreover I'm not entirely sure why you recommend Open-Office.org (maybe you could elaborate?). There is no OpenOffice in Debian anymore - please depend on Libre Office instead * Your synopsis line needs some improvements. Notably it should start with a lower case character [4]. Your long description reads fine, but I'm unsure why it would make sense to point out you/one can manage exactly 40k songs with it. * Your maintainer script miss the DEBHELPER hook, please leave that untouched from the template or add it again. Someone being familiar with desktop applications might also be able to tell, whether a postinst script is really supposed to call update-menu. afaict there is a hook for it (but I'm unsure) * You should rework your rules file. While it does not look terribly wrong you are really suggested to use debhelper scripts, for instance to install changelog (dh_installchangelogs), docs and so on. While doing you could also think about switching to dh 8 (debhelper(7)/dh(1)). This also includes to give the dpkg build tools a hint about your compatibility mode (debian/compat file). * You don't include a watch file [5]. This is not strictly required though. * Your debian/copyright file looks good, but it seems to be a scary mix between DEP-5 and traditional copyright files. It does not look entirely wrong, but there are some files without copyright statement. You should fix this for files you are authoritative (i.e. the author), e.g. tagbkup/build.sh. How are files like ptts/pgbennett_speech_Speaker.h generated? * What is tagbkup/? That looks like a bundled library. It is a policy violation to build a binary packages with bundled libraries. Moreover this is C code and therefore not platform independent (you specified architecture: any). Same may hold for other libraries/utilities you bundle (§ 4,13 [6]). * Your package is not Lintian clean: W: jampal: menu-item-creates-new-section Applications/Sound Video /usr/share/menu/jampal:3 W: jampal: extra-license-file usr/share/jampal/COPYING W: jampal source: out-of-date-standards-version 3.8.4.0 [1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsFaq#What_is_the_difference_between_a_native_Debian_package_and_a_non-native_package.3F [2] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-dpkgchangelog [3] http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ [4] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#s-descriptions [5] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-debianwatch / uscan(1) [6] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-embeddedfiles - -- with kind regards, Arno Töll GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJNzxgkAAoJEMcrUe6dgPNtS8AQAM8axE7xcSsyrkkl6U1WqRz6 4Hn4sTtvnbSSRwMc9FIL8MCVaCcBb8MS6eduT281hBU0SUp7nmBLQZTebukTJfV0 7wD/B1P6Nd0VhKWgApkz4iWNMPyPBreaCU8svTA7LqptQtOeVQBde7RcREJ2aoI6 5+IUBCVjMjzzuHJ/tlhX/V9DhMiqx3HeCrcZA7pvUXoLXfb/UxTwpvDxHsoo2lJY LNzpS+73atK2HSA5KsP7TscqwmNgPkSdV8JvX1z5CTlRzxjmfNa7tzdudv3XxWFk +HazCFZOTt8/MJrJk9RbOOumGRUe88GBynHrdGLYwieNOnU6njQyhtPJxMHuRDeZ MeYmcD3pkxhlIId0Ga8qAU06A5AvVEPrH3uyspMfrzWf0c6kW1YE0qRRlMiDzs/S mZMKuGAevFqWBGgmngX43AEQhm+ylSGJyUas1rgkVAxHrghqLQsslKwQYkEpBnCa H1xWyroU9RAgF0ef7DW6DBsOY1ZWqgzPUm1x6u2DP5Es24r4gaqqBWIdzlv3OEGM +xZIy0Zcz+N18eOzmSwQlP69b3L8hqF8+QdMFnU/CCtPp+1w+UukJRUtL27Udr5q OM42W4DJc1E7WBE6MI5y2zBzPnblFIdPIMWW9Vfj8OHHKrFOcbGEIqB8fOJZbVKe u26/gdnygBT/2A12VoV7 =OVUr -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4dcf1825.4020...@toell.net
Re: RFS: bubblemon (updated package)
Hi Adam, I won't sponsor your package, as I'm not a GNOME user, so I'm not really qualified (BTW, did you try to contact your previous sponsor?), but here's my quick review: * Adam Sjøgren a...@koldfront.dk, 2011-05-14, 23:28: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.0.16-1 of my package bubblemon (new upstream version). It builds this binary package: bubblemon - Bubbling Load Monitoring GNOME Applet The package appears to be lintian clean (there is a single warning about the sh locale translation). If you enable displaying experimental tags, there is one more: X: bubblemon: duplicate-files usr/share/doc/bubblemon/NEWS.gz usr/share/doc/bubblemon/changelog.gz ...which should be trivial to fix. The one you mentioned is: W: bubblemon: unknown-locale-code sh This one is tad harder. If I understand it correctly, sh is a deprecated language code for Serbo-Croatian. You could install this language file as sr@latin, hr, or both. (I hope there's at least one -mentors@ reader from Serbia or Croatia who'll correct me if I'm talking nonsense.) Looking at your changelog: - Changes to debian/control and debian/copyright are not documented. - The item about new upstream release could be improved a bit. New upstream release. (Closes: #567423, #625314) could make people think that there were two bugs requesting a new upstream release... which is obviously not the case here. How about being more explicit? E.g. you could use something like this: | * New upstream release. | + Update Portugese translation (closes: #567423). Thanks to Américo | Monteiro for the patch. | + Fix FTBFS with GCC 4.6 (closes: #625314). Thanks to Matthias Klose | for the bug report. -- Jakub Wilk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110515011512.ga7...@jwilk.net
RE: RFS: dylandotnet
Therefore I will try pushing the package again in July since that is my target for getting rid of all non-dfsg build tools. But from now I wanted to fix the debian directory so when the code is completely includable in Debian I could include it without much much fuss at that point. Dylan Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 23:57:55 +0200 From: deb...@toell.net To: borgdy...@hotmail.com CC: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: RFS: dylandotnet -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Dylan, On 14.05.2011 23:20, Dylan Borg wrote: As my audience I would like people wanting to work in .NET/CLI and wanting a new language to programwith that is not under the power of large companies(i.e. C#). I plan to make program templates for using component such as gtk and other commonly used linux libraries. As self-hosting is achieved dylan.NET shall be only developed under Linux. please note Debian is not intended as a possible platform to promote and advocate your own project. You should have a notable user base before you are actually trying to introduce a package to Debian. Don't get me wrong, it is perfectly fine to have upstream authors interested to maintain their own projects in Debian - no one else would know them better than they do. What David wanted to advise you is, you should - perhaps - think whether your program really already has enough users, which would justify inclusion to Debian targeted to a large audience in contrast to some enthusiastic contributors. You seem not to have really much downloads [1]. Moreover, all we can do, is to suggest you what you could or should do. It is still fine if you keep trying to find a sponsor for your package once you passed through at least the things David mentioned - but the tenor of our comments seem to suggest you should perhaps wait a bit more until you really want to push Debian inclusion. Since your build dependencies are non free (as of our DFSG, as David explained you already) things are even more complicated (for you). [1] https://launchpad.net/dylandotnet/+download - -- with kind regards, Arno Töll GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJNzvrjAAoJEMcrUe6dgPNtW7YP/jnW3ITTioQb/J1Mz0JQr9ie eo1bj8Y5xY7J8Pca/YoyMTfVlilH8LM+isdbKKh+sloYG7Ybo+Z5wyEXG5VRMFUh BsS+tBKA6WY0YsRzQx/aIzIFKET2fGRhx+WvACkJOGIy5KRedGPdPYNiirmPwolo MsCeY3jsDjany5mbYOWVVIh/YzGnyRCvZHOTYn4y7/QeQTaAYcBMlYmOYXOTXEhG PYuUxIEFMM/gG9FhGYhsPyz6QvH2K2a/Q4b55Vh9AKhCqYGkzyzpjttagR17YXOx 1H9Y4Ms/GIaTyrXMd5sASXJQUJ4OtJqfKTzF6uwmYb5yY6kihZLhMiI2n/+FCsNR hPxuZTtRjakyBPg8Lxams5hkloguqKzErtr91ugbrxk2yj+V5d8dNno37VyGi30N pfHib7/LaWgUmrQfWVIUxOaoR8EJjcg5Z9IWfP8NY/bpNWqOYfTmiTdYhZ3yeN4Y Zb7FrqU2//eZexN7ov3rllFePsXdqNDUKghfF7pMaFJBugOG1myniWZ+HtVdhOXl WvAYMcFBOrknVKDQZX0+zp2QYuSUc2R7DHaB9HHdMS6pf/yWxY2oTXAZ6kCYTqau Wz0aW3JkZuh2FY3WOvexOwwKuqCqLIPcEH7sapjRjhsjuGMa0TLg074Uu8scbKEc LNGhdeAgrw3AfpfFmvRz =WhRo -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4dcefae3.2030...@toell.net
