Re: Request For Sponsor: Bug 731282
On Mi, 04 dec 13, 09:25:25, ChrisofBristol (gmail) wrote: I'm told that I need to file a separate RFS bug against the sponsorship-requests pseudo-package. JFTR, that was me, while triaging bugs filed against unknown packages. I have spent hours reading the documentation and I thought that I had done this, I am totally mystified about what else I need to do and how. Has anyone got any helpful suggestions please? Let me try to explain in more detail how software gets packaged for Debian. Let's assume there is some interesting software that you want to see in Debian, in this case DIY Layout Creator. Let's assume the Debian package name would be diylc. If you want to see this software included in Debian you must first consider whether you want to be a Maintainer and do the packaging yourself or you just want to propose the package for inclusion. In the first case you can start by filing an ITP (Intent to Package) bug against the wnpp package. This is made in order to prevent double work (i.e. someone else working on the same software without knowing you do as well) and sometimes to track progress (if it takes too long). Now you can start actually working on the package. Have you done this? You initial bugreport only mentions there is a package at some site, which might suggest you don't even want to maintain it yourself. In this case please retitle the ITP bug to RFP (Request for Package), to signal that you don't want to maintain it, but it would be nice for Debian to have it. Maybe somebody will be interested in maintaining it for Debian. If I'm wrong and you do intend to be Maintainer you should first prepare a package and only then start looking for a sponsor (i.e. someone to upload the package for you to Debian, at least until you gain the necessary rights to do so yourself). If something in my above explanations is not clear please follow-up on debian-mentors (not debian-user). Reply-To is set accordingly. By the way this suggest below from the documentation isn't any help as reportbug errors and so does the alternative suggested in the error message. It is not helpful at all to say reportbug errors without providing the error message :( Hope this explains, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Request For Sponsor: Bug 731282
Andrei I think I'll probably just give up - I feel like I'm banging my head against a brick wall. I don't think I want to spend a week or so studying reams of documentation learning what all this is about - I learned how to make a (compiled) deb package and then how to create a repository and make it available in less time than I have already spent trying to disentangle the documentation to understand what is required, I got the (source) deb package put onto GetDeb with one email message. I didn't bother posting the error message because I didn't want to spend hours getting involved in a debate about why the suggestions in an error message caused another error message with a piece of software that I would only use once. That was not what I came her for - it would be more banging my head against a brick wall. Anyway, I appreciate your attempts to help - thank you. Chris On 04/12/13 10:18, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 04 dec 13, 09:25:25, ChrisofBristol (gmail) wrote: I'm told that I need to file a separate RFS bug against the sponsorship-requests pseudo-package. JFTR, that was me, while triaging bugs filed against unknown packages. I have spent hours reading the documentation and I thought that I had done this, I am totally mystified about what else I need to do and how. Has anyone got any helpful suggestions please? Let me try to explain in more detail how software gets packaged for Debian. Let's assume there is some interesting software that you want to see in Debian, in this case DIY Layout Creator. Let's assume the Debian package name would be diylc. If you want to see this software included in Debian you must first consider whether you want to be a Maintainer and do the packaging yourself or you just want to propose the package for inclusion. In the first case you can start by filing an ITP (Intent to Package) bug against the wnpp package. This is made in order to prevent double work (i.e. someone else working on the same software without knowing you do as well) and sometimes to track progress (if it takes too long). Now you can start actually working on the package. Have you done this? You initial bugreport only mentions there is a package at some site, which might suggest you don't even want to maintain it yourself. In this case please retitle the ITP bug to RFP (Request for Package), to signal that you don't want to maintain it, but it would be nice for Debian to have it. Maybe somebody will be interested in maintaining it for Debian. If I'm wrong and you do intend to be Maintainer you should first prepare a package and only then start looking for a sponsor (i.e. someone to upload the package for you to Debian, at least until you gain the necessary rights to do so yourself). If something in my above explanations is not clear please follow-up on debian-mentors (not debian-user). Reply-To is set accordingly. By the way this suggest below from the documentation isn't any help as reportbug errors and so does the alternative suggested in the error message. It is not helpful at all to say reportbug errors without providing the error message :( Hope this explains, Andrei -- 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/529f0522.3010...@gmail.com
RFS: dict-freedict-*
Hello, after the FreeDict packages got orphaned, I as a member of the FreeDict project decided to step up to package the packages for Debian, otherwise there would be no dictionary databases from FreeDict in the archives. The package seems to be lintian-clean with --pedantic. Currently, there are 78 imported dictionaries resulting in 79 packages and a source archive. To provide *one* download link, I made up a tarball with all required files: http://crustulus.de/downloads/freedict.tar.bz2 The source can be obtained using git: git clone ssh://git.debian.org/git/pkg-freedict/pkg-freedict.git For any questions, please feel free to contact me off-list or at the packaging group's mailing list at pkg-freedict-disc...@lists.alioth.debian.org. Thanks! Sebastian -- Web: http://www.crustulus.de | Blog: http://www.crustulus.de/cgi-bin/blog.cgi?de-0 Freies Latein-Deutsch-Wörterbuch: http://www.crustulus.de/freedict.de.html FreeDict: Free multilingual dictionary databases - http://www.freedict.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#731036: RFS: think-rotate/3.0-1
On Tue, 03 Dec 2013, Martin Ueding wrote: Mostly because the package would not contain the majority of the stand-alone thinkpad-specific tools and utils (such as tpb, thinkbat, thinkfan, etc). That is the problem, it is just screen rotation and docking. “-scripts” sounds like some assorted scripts, and does not feel like it is claiming to be complete like “-utils” would. think-scripts (or thinkpad-scripts) is fine, IMHO. However, please do be aware that we already have some thinkpad-specific scripts or functionality in packages: acpi-fakekey (mostly to reroute input events into legacy acpi-like events) acpi-support So it is best to make sure there is no duplication, etc. -- One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie. -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- 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/20131204124556.gf17...@khazad-dum.debian.net
Bug#731337: RFS: xlsxwriter/0.5.1-1
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package xlsxwriter Package name: xlsxwriter Version : 0.5.1-1 Upstream Author : John McNamara jmcnam...@cpan.org URL : https://github.com/jmcnamara/XlsxWriter License : BSD Section : python It builds those binary packages: python-xlsxwriter - Python module for creating Excel XLSX files. python3-xlsxwriter - Python 3 module for creating Excel XLSX files. To access further information about this package, please visit the following URL: http://mentors.debian.net/package/xlsxwriter Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command: dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/x/xlsxwriter/xlsxwriter_0.5.1-1.dsc Regards, Sylvain Pineau -- 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/529f2611.7010...@canonical.com
Bug#731341: RFS: xlsxwriter/0.5.1-1 [ITP]
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package xlsxwriter Package name: xlsxwriter Version : 0.5.1-1 Upstream Author : John McNamara jmcnam...@cpan.org URL : https://github.com/jmcnamara/XlsxWriter License : BSD Section : python It builds those binary packages: python-xlsxwriter - Python module for creating Excel XLSX files. python3-xlsxwriter - Python 3 module for creating Excel XLSX files. To access further information about this package, please visit the following URL: http://mentors.debian.net/package/xlsxwriter Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command: dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/x/xlsxwriter/xlsxwriter_0.5.1-1.dsc Regards, Sylvain Pineau -- 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/529f28dc.6060...@canonical.com
Bug#728510: RFS: secpanel/1:0.6.1-2 (second try)
Hi! Please, Could some DD have a look at my package? Really, thank you very much! Regards Daniel -- Daniel Echeverry http://wiki.debian.org/DanielEcheverry Linux user: #477840 Debian user Software libre http://www.rinconinformatico.net
Bug#730623: marked as done (RFS: nauty/2.5r6+ds-1 [ITA] -- library for graph automorphisms)
Your message dated Wed, 04 Dec 2013 16:27:00 + with message-id e1vofhw-mg...@quantz.debian.org and subject line closing RFS: nauty/2.5r6+ds-1 [ITA] -- library for graph automorphisms has caused the Debian Bug report #730623, regarding RFS: nauty/2.5r6+ds-1 [ITA] -- library for graph automorphisms to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact ow...@bugs.debian.org immediately.) -- 730623: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=730623 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems ---BeginMessage--- Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dearr mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package nauty * Package name: nauty Version : 2.5r6+ds-1 Upstream Author : Brendan McKay b...@cs.anu.edu.au Adolfo Piperno pipe...@di.uniroma1.it * URL : http://pallini.di.uniroma1.it * License : ad hoc Section : non-free/math It builds those binary packages: libnauty2 - library for graph automorphisms -- library package libnauty2-dbg - library for graph automorphisms -- debug symbols package libnauty2-dev - library for graph automorphisms -- development package nauty - library for graph automorphisms -- interface and tools nauty-doc - library for graph automorphisms -- user guide To access further information about this package, please visit the following URL: http://mentors.debian.net/package/nauty Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command: dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/non-free/n/nauty/nauty_2.5r6+ds-1.dsc More information about hello can be obtained from http://www.example.com. Changes since the last upload: nauty (2.5r6+ds-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream version. * New maintainer (Closes: #725407). * Debianization: - debian/copyright: - refresh; - bump format to DEP-5 . - debian/control: - introduce the debug symbols package libnauty-dbg; - gather documentations (user guide and technical notes) into the dedicated package nauty-doc; - Description fields, refresh; - debhelper build-dep, bump to = 9; - Standards Version, bump to 3.9.4; - Vcs-* headers, canonicalize. - debian/patches/ patches: - autotoolize from scratch to permit a full dh integration (Closes: #727929); - prepend nauty- to the name of the nauty tools; - bump format to DEP-3. - debian/watch, update; - debian/repack, repack script to clean up and gain weight; - debian/rules: - fully integrate dh; - get-orig-source uscan based target which downloads the currently packaged upstream tarball and repacks it; - default target which basically queries package status with uscan -- output in DEHS format; - debian/ man pages, now generated on fly by help2man through the autotools machinery. - debian/*: - propagate SONAME `current version' index change due to new ABI; - introduce `version script' files to consolidate the ABI; - explicit multi-arch support. * Gather headers into a dedicated folder named after the package. * Provide a library for each nauty `variant' wrt upstream source tarball. * Provide pkg-config support (only for the nauty `automatic variant'). * Provide an ad hoc script to build (and clean) the upstream source examples. * Minor fixes, enhancements and full autotools support have been submitted to the upstream maintainers. -- Jerome Benoit calcu...@rezozer.net Tue, 26 Nov 2013 20:27:57 + Regards, Jerome BENOIT ---End Message--- ---BeginMessage--- Package nauty has been removed from mentors.---End Message---
