Bug#1002916: [pkg-php-pear] Bug#1002916: RFS: php-nesbot-carbon/2.55.2-1 [RC] -- simple PHP API extension for DateTime
Hi Robin, Le 01/01/2022 à 10:51, Robin Gustafsson a écrit : On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 8:17 PM David Prévot wrote: […] Anyway, I just granted you DM rights on this package […] Thank you! I still don't see it listed in dm.txt[1] though. Did it process successfully? Right, I messed up the “dcut dm” call, should be fixed now. Please do ping me if I failed again (might be an hourly cron to get the file updated). Regards David OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Bug#1002916: [pkg-php-pear] Bug#1002916: RFS: php-nesbot-carbon/2.55.2-1 [RC] -- simple PHP API extension for DateTime
Hi Robin, Le 31/12/2021 à 12:56, Robin Gustafsson a écrit : […] I am looking for a sponsor for my package "php-nesbot-carbon": I looked at the VCS and all your changes look (more than) fine, thanks (I only skimmed at upstream changes, but trust you did due diligence). You may also wish to build-depend on dh-sequence-phpcomposer (eventually instead of pkg-php-composer) instead of using --with phpcomposer in d/rules. Anyway, I just granted you DM rights on this package so you can upload it yourself (do tell if you want me to upload it directly in the mean time). When will you find enough time to go through the DM process? ;). Cheers David OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Proposed updates checklist
Hi Sean, Thank you for your quick and positive answer! Le 22/03/2016 22:49, Sean Whitton a écrit : > On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 07:45:07PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: >> 1. File a bug against release.debian.org saying what changes I want to >>backport and why [hope this is right because I'm going to do it >>right now]. > > Ah, I should attach a debdiff to this bug report. Yes, i.e., having everything from 1. to 6. done before opening the bug report. »> 6. dch --release --distribution=stable s/stable/jessie/ The process is partially (and probably on the outdated side) documented in the developer’s reference. Seems like you’re already on your way anyway; 23:31 < KGB-1> Sean Whitton jessie-pu 0c123f5 mozilla-devscripts debian/changelog releasing 0.39+deb8u1 * http://deb.li/3GPad Still haven’t looked at the code, but: 23:16 < KGB-2> Sean Whitton jessie-pu f69c703 mozilla-devscripts data/xul-app-data.csv.Debian oops, only firefox-esr will end up in jessie * http://deb.li/3EymC Please don’t: the more the merrier (think of backports-sloppy-sloppy or mozilla.d.n, or whatever), having things working for firefox shouldn’t be prevented IMHO. Regards David signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Bug#694459: Bug#699915: tpu: lcdf-typetools/2.92+dfsg1-1.1
Hi, Le 06/02/2013 13:56, Michael Stapelberg a écrit : I would like to upload lcdf-typetools/2.92+dfsg1-1.1 to testing-proposed-updates to fix #694352 in wheezy. At the moment, 2.92-1+b1 is in testing and 2.92-2 is in unstable. Is there any reason not to push this version directly in unstable ? (2.92+dfsg1-1.1 is greater than 2.92-2 anyway). 2.92+dfsg1-0.1 might be more conventional for an initial NMU too. Regards David signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Bug#699474: RFS: b43-fwcutter/1:017-1 [ITA]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, Le 31/01/2013 17:25, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz a écrit : And there is also no need for experimental. Yes there is. Better safe than sorry. The package doesn't have any RC bugs in testing, yet… so we don't need to resort to experimental due to the freeze. That sound like a misguided advice. Please, do not upload to unstable packages not aimed for Wheezy during the freeze* (IOW, thanks to the sponsoree for proposing this upload to experimental). Regards David P.-S.: *except if they are not already present in Wheezy, or maybe if the version in Sid is already messed up, which is not the case here. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJRCvaDAAoJELgqIXr9/gnykfcP/RdyIr74/+CFgal8kwUml/Ux VCZVvfk8wde99M4+QbnSGfx/KrFAyogg6VQEf6AG2L+fbsJu9zO6KCYlgrDJCAIj L/5MxkOA/9mf+2kK2OCIGDYwFhv8pNAQdoEsLI3H0xuJFxcvXotUf5POm2mByUKN 6cTY3Fs2iV7pByySNxXtRgRFGFQzAQQflJoeEjJN2drHzd3rjH7IM7smzdNOWfTF YrBAS8ykYJ5GhjiLf+h6UIH5QS6+U1qoWVfX3uKUVY8pv7qz1t+t94lmPUKRNnAQ wB/73DDceoA8bV3njhIofb3j47AOA88j05vLbkLIvbVVQiZP+Zp2KT+sT/G8QI8E rDB2ngWgNaDnGmeITs48KNt4WUPCy1inYgzqHBm7o333ZTp6+QYPka/yXc+DqSX8 kTV/gn5M3NmrwFsc7/hFAcLfcoTHGR+/ke9qWL4DtnfJaR9/sQqvFX+wf3Z+hEQc n2wSPvGZG7THxAo9QXP8UdWDdJKazsRrqH5RzdsMD6LyBtHzPtlbxflr4iH0UnVq Kkcu5fL6pYfnP6TCjZENU3fDUY3cG43KR1N6bVsQwRQ4Q1TMcCWKSD8FS9nhsTNh QurI3Lxd+2brMqttku/bzh1DagvoH9kCMPseivudXXdAucw67bt/hy3kenQOmJhE j7vKUeAVf4IPdGzES0rU =jdlE -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/510af683.3020...@tilapin.org
Re: RFS: Lazarus/0.9.30.4-4
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi Abou, and others, Le 08/01/2013 13:23, Abou Al Montacir a écrit : Can anyone please sponsor this? I'll take it from Subversion if it's up to date, and upload it or be back to you ASAP. Regards David -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJQ7FmpAAoJELgqIXr9/gnyD7oP/0lQs9ZXGZ+zv8m5rvG014PO ouxo82OrJw+4TK2LzuzCVShubaBPX8I/rvz/YFS/duGxu9tL/nE3+knWMZ/h/3aH U+9rCcurMr+IQ/HfzXkKP2gsP07MIcN6yigcnH0RFQrkyCjCtLo80R3/TezdKAz1 ZcpoV8H/qB3yBcbTHA5eAWatzmZxwuFJqHjj9B1CT80jkSOVg0Lokqwt7KoA6kph oqaFOhNkIalxAYmrXep58G9Y3IAEGV4J6zmxQJezxBCgidB/whEGiNDjNRTgP+1t cFUtfulp2xBjKUlF+eOA8WhDz4LhSWcs/DfjM1V+fNzuhe94mWGPDjddhZY3+3fq AdiiA9sHU9pyACd8SjwWjv7ETXUDE7oTKErIzpZwUtQMz2FgGAjvnBmdRUP2pys6 Q+Nq5KFbAzg3EsMloLy1d1omVscAOTjXB9sS6/a2fpf6mjO3yvVXM4v8bbQvzKKc 8A5dnIwtF2wgbWRmPQ10WN6Y1trI1MPXbU/qbxb/OMlgoX4f6Mnsykbyyu+vRL84 RiH0jVi4XEBr8i9VESWTASAD7ZlUyimrwNhyBWcjWai8PpJqymdQqhVZBy/YPAKF qounV6Juf5kSQ0NCth+375eUtxVjEPfbMTTVdvAyg/nCXs3Z9W9+YzLbrULuVRSz gvlY+8RybpUqwHrkQhDA =sJIk -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/50ec59aa.7020...@debian.org
Bug#696907: RFS: mosquitto/0.15-2 [RC]
Hi Roger, Le 29/12/2012 11:21, Roger Light a écrit : I've uploaded a new version that doesn't include the unrelated changes. Thanks, the three RC-bug fixes are pretty straightforward, but the DEP-3 headers don't contain an Applied-Upstream field. Since you seem involved upstream, are those fixes not applied upstream because of a rewrite of those parts in the current code? If not, could you please point to the related upstream commits? I'd prefer if someone already familiar with the codebase, or at least using MQTT, would be willing to review the changes and upload it. If that doesn't happen, feel free to ping me back in about a week. Regards David signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Bug#696907: RFS: mosquitto/0.15-2 [RC]
Hi, I haven't looked at the three RC bugs you just filled, nor how you fixed them, but Le 28/12/2012 21:45, Roger Light a écrit : * Bumped standards release to 3.9.3. No changes needed. * Bumped dh compat to 9 to fix hardening-no-fortify-functions. * Fixed python-module-in-wrong-location. doesn't seem in line with the current freeze policy [0], Rule #1: “do not make changes to the package that are not related to fixing the bugs in question […] this implies *not* […] Changing debhelper compat version” 0: http://release.debian.org/wheezy/freeze_policy.html Regards David signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: RFS: Lazarus/0.9.30.4-4
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Le 26/12/2012 08:26, Abou Al Montacir a écrit : Please, also fix #696075. This does not seem very easy and may take some time. It actually looks like something pretty trivial to fix, please have a look at this advice: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=689154#52 As pointed by Andreas, dpkg-maintscript-helper should help to take care of the conffiles if needed. There is no point to bother the release team without fixing this RC bug, please also bear in mind that only 0.9.30.4-1.1 is in wheezy, and the debdiff against this version should comply with the current freeze policy. Regards David -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJQ2wBrAAoJELgqIXr9/gnyOHcP/0DMjfMbx9l/n6biBr81t6pY KLoxZd7MbbeV12PFcKu3nRSPzvSWTMd3WRBycZZZlunlhJ59V77B/Uyz89wpiqtM Cx8Y1wb01hFp1+MfSXuwgCiHmADReKfL1xJMWuf9wwoaNElje/x7Hx63vFEwgazn 1yW+Zpv+r1kGjdjUeRcGZ+e7UXsKLD8bGnIcfCgv3Ha6P6+i6CZpomarkjGr/XLW ilQg1wsj50DDXSsgP/ARdQw1phS2aZLWGOAMHhnSV5tyGU7/1YTmYBvhRdwa2c2H BmquIvdJ9t60c1QD43bV6brxC6RMtT2A+NfOi0jxYPSCSAsmOXzPnaAwTotUbE/S e6iNSJrfdis9PI7eOjEkpoUTkcqH7T0lf5srmCTxoUL8sdiDqfhfMxPKe5qx+pyE KJN+r8ZEul1if7fhBzmWfoR1nFVHnjZ2UwfXtiV7s3KMngaM73r0NI/6gwAqPFPl gor/Q6abCstZYomcaLltfo3ElX2KyZ8P2i8FB6byidOvFG0EJoUih7f7xZCCJwO2 n8sO7LmOdYIpahvndOMeL6z6uRbVScPsNkoJXXKLnzfp63T9USLw5StKXbi7jGA3 NM3qdPbyg6bFWRM9LCEWXLI2zx78iG8M82Y0Hh57RARqz7YL41zSJ6/kANQuEj7J Ln/Ejy4j6ROayW8VGAur =z0en -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/50db006e.7050...@debian.org
Re: RFS: Lazarus/0.9.30.4-4
Hi Abou, Le 24/12/2012 15:33, Abou Al Montacir a écrit : This upload is fixing an important bugs#6862O7 to allow translating user targeted question upon installation. Please, also fix #696075. The respective dsc file can be found at:http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/lazarus/lazarus_0.9.30.4-4.dsc It does not seem available. Regards David signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Bug#693613: RFS: doc-linux-fr/2005.08-1.1 [NMU] [RC] -- remove build-dep to allow removal
Hi, Le 18/11/2012 11:59, Ivo De Decker a écrit : I am looking for a sponsor for my NMU of doc-linux-fr. This NMU removes the (unneeded) build-dep on mirror, as requested by bug 691570. The proper way to handle orphaned package is via QA upload, not NMU. I'm looking at the package right now if it can be updated too while fixing this important bug, are you interested by this package? Regards David signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Bug#693613: RFS: doc-linux-fr/2005.08-1.1 [NMU] [RC] -- remove build-dep to allow removal
Hi, Le 18/11/2012 13:55, gregor herrmann a écrit : On Sun, 18 Nov 2012 13:40:23 -0400, David Prévot wrote: I'm looking at the package right now if it can be updated too while fixing this important bug, are you interested by this package? Seems I was to fast with the QA upload of -2, sorry. Or me way too slow to ITA this package orphaned over a year ago, no worry. But still, you can upload a -3 with other changes, if you want. [0] I just wanted to keep the diff small in freeze times ... Sure, thanks for that. I was just thinking about being granted an unblock via the 4th point of the freeze policy (“documentation fixes that are included with fixes for the above criteria.”) in the same time, just gonna have to figure out quickly if I can do that without to much changes in the package (that does rely on mirror to be refreshed and some URLs that may be down since 2005…). Regards David signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Bug#692923: RFS: chrony/1.24-3.2 [RC, NMU]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, Le 11/11/2012 09:00, Joachim Wiedorn a écrit : David Prévot wrote on 2012-11-10 17:40: Please use 1.24-3.1+deb7u1 as a version number (and eventually directly “wheezy” instead of “testing-proposed-updates”). That's confusing me. Let me try a third time then… What is that for a strange version numbering system? The purpose is to indicate that the upload was targeted to Wheezy (deb7), and it's the first one (u1), see #685646 for the rationales, or the debian-release list archives. Which time is the right time to contact the release team? Now, with a debdiff, see Rule #5 http://release.debian.org/wheezy/freeze_policy.html Now I see two ways: a) uploading (with sponsor) to testing-proposed-updates; then ask release team (as bug report) for unblocking. Not an option. b) ask release team; then upload (with sponsor) to testing-proposed- updates or direct to wheezy. Optionally the release team do unblocking. Using « wheezy » in the changelog will lend in testing-proposed-updates, don't worry about that, just ask the release-team to ACK your bug fix, they may even sponsor directly your upload (if they don't have time, someone else will be happy to do it promptly, me included). Regards David -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJQn7AyAAoJELgqIXr9/gnygFAQAJgPr+FyzTDU/o6vn6tGoJ5T +zTVV6THG7tPm6KPXp8K5izjUPgxLILUL2W2y9SRY7GSeWdVNthkNXAXWN9KwZMv kcTi0sNEB82eqe2CguYrmNZ6BLfVCci12JnG4r9bY4jKKxgzjMXdGrDqqkJytfZI FhwtXwA+VmERIrr8J+3CMOGKVuSPx72xcoDMaBYMC7dkjnhDmzufY/gxg7ItFasc DgxjMydTWy/ogSKOXZYT5WSg86zJ7OEuQDaMutds2uO5p1Rdutavd/x/1n4MRZCZ a9XcC+KkqvCVaWpIJ4w6GrzZOWzb7N4aTv3bn6s4NRh9uJEZbAfZmcd6//xAhIwc gUdxvUZwYifGhsVk75iatEhu7fGZeXQ/xeyrJM7HIY6D7nakbepcQhr0wc83Y80t yYeB65Ri9b4haJSe0yfn8qpkhFvOy8IcSBWRboKvP4eJLwjJIufX9w5BN4w8/iQ+ p7xK/F67r84sWuwMlwT0B6JhRfgPyzSny6cLwUeC6Ag7oUtpMnMeQ6o84D90WeU+ ioy0pHQ2LS0Ogby5+exub/+xtFLHY9sqBBF4oTx13zUcpgyDd0n2JjGbrP8CZt6g NEtWcCtgUHjxw2QhC8O9LWe/9RfYrbzsfK7kyfG9RzcWGIUZD0cFJQiZwtCmgVwe Pu1ltz/LqjLhF3n2ix6+ =w/jm -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/509fb033.9000...@debian.org
Bug#692923: RFS: chrony/1.24-3.2 [RC, NMU]
Le 10/11/2012 17:10, Joachim Wiedorn a écrit : RTC support (solves #642209 for version 1.24). Closes: #642209 It should be “Closes: #691340”. Regards David signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Bug#692923: RFS: chrony/1.24-3.2 [RC, NMU]
Le 10/11/2012 17:10, Joachim Wiedorn a écrit : chrony (1.24-3.2) testing-proposed-updates; urgency=medium Please use 1.24-3.1+deb7u1 as a version number (and eventually directly “wheezy” instead of “testing-proposed-updates”). Since packages meant to testing-proposed-updates should be acknowledged by the release team prior to the upload, please do contact first the release-team (preferably via a bug report against release.debian.org) with a debdiff against the version in Wheezy. Regards David signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Bug#691014: marked as done (RFS: swftools/0.9.2+ds1-3 [RC])
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, Le 22/10/2012 16:38, Christian Welzel a écrit : The package was uploaded. Looks like it wasn't. Regards David -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJQjutVAAoJELgqIXr9/gnycZEP/RCPsGHG6p+9Vd2ooHkQQIRV 7EqY4/OgkZawcIzQrB38BazPp/urQ59vQ5wUUUnw/atlw02SGYJoPJZ7V0QC1xdf 5NbTuCEjf7+IkmFvyA6Fd+p4JgcNSzFDOBFrD5NIMZyMFaa0X2qSDQlDD2CDihNm YOwBQzbTHOSylQ81gmFjP+zYKKXDp5HBGrOgRWwzWurX92I7Om4LcByoPk1368Eu 2tEutVW9DO42QqFQ7rRpGHShUmHs8d7XekTWi0Yqz7zc9hi1RzKDutEedJPPSkIF H/Q6vAAz1oy+iMOC3uu85mq4KvPVJzD5QSzgfgIgVxd11AJBUwPca+eozFlIOFjF v51aEPqUPuyN0zv2tXc2aQpP8Y6lDShNdyTZ8104zIXXtaAClqei+615sg1Giu3Z wKc2wo1g/yDtENqAUMPLNrQ1TWOWCrSNTnNPFbcddwkjzcNDLXvzpUCF2kezM6e4 Yh564NfbYJDTU2xmqsQ5XVVVjwZWDU8mWXNUdq5mNplTMcMKrIStWpyx5MzOC4en r+llzRAmaJ1GfMDWtyFHMFlkgcd0Uk/BJrDS2MMhnA9xcCqi1ytxQkgWKoPYGuXS UzAh3D5JrrD0My8SBaXYRSOaCb+sThOuo2OpuGDpIl8iSKq4BbqX2kADRsHt3xWz MtBC0LVDXLPGCeDGD4+r =J1HE -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/508eeb56.5070...@debian.org
Bug#673457: RFS: psi-plus-i18n/0.15.5338.4-1 [ITP] -- translation files for Psi+
Control: tags -1 pending Control: owner -1 ! Hi Boris, Le 25/09/2012 04:57, Boris Pek a écrit : Package is very small and simple. It will not require much time. Indeed (maybe the build is a little complicated to simply copy some files ;). Anyone interested in localization? Sure. Other people looking for a sponsor for a localization-only package or localization-only update are welcome to (X-Debbugs)-CC debian-i8n@l.d.o where localization-friendly people may be happy to help. Back to the package: - there is a useless .gitignore file in the upstream tarball, you may wish to remove it (since you're upstream); - the get-orig-source target currently doesn't work: the downloaded 0.15.5338.6 file come without its .tar.gz suffix, that confuses uscan; - I don't really see the point of repacking the upstream tarball just to reduce its size. It would be more useful to use xz for the binary package and save the bandwidth for the user-oriented stuff; - why does it depends on psi-plus-common? Wouldn't it be more useful to depend on psi-plus? - the package description could be improved, please consider asking for a review on debian-l10n-english@l.d.o; - since it's a localization package, psi-plus-l10n may be more accurate than psi-plus-i18n for its name. None of these remark/questions must be fixed for the initial upload, but in case you consider the last remark (renaming the package to psi-plus-l10n), it would be better to upload with the accurate name (so I didn't uploaded it directly) in order not to pass the ftpmaster NEW queue twice. Regards David signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Bug#667092: RFS: tcng/10b-4 [RC, QA]
Le 04/04/2012 06:38, Adam Borowski a écrit : Should I be rather Lintian correct, or what-seems-to-be-right correct? Reading the long description usually helps: $ lintian-info --tags changelog-should-mention-qa W: changelog-should-mention-qa N: N: If this upload is to orphan this package, please mention this fact on N: the first line of the changelog. If this is a QA upload, please N: mention QA (group) upload there. Regards David signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Advice on use of patch system while hacking
Hi, Le 01/04/2012 16:01, Ross Boylan a écrit : What's the best way to work with a dpatch-based package developing code Why not just moving away from that deprecated tool and use 3.0 (quilt) format instead? https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/08/msg00380.html Regards David signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Any hint for help2man if programm does not accept help option
Hi, Le 01/04/2012 18:24, Gergely Nagy a écrit : Andreas Tille andr...@an3as.eu writes: I would like to add man pages to a program which does not accept any help option but if you call it without any option it outputs the help help2man -h $program will probably do the trick. No: $ help2man -h help2man help2man: can't get `' info from help2man but $ reportbug help2man may help to make it work one day. Regards David signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Help updating debian/templates
Hi, Le 23/02/2012 10:23, Nick Leverton a écrit : I want to add some additional examples to the debconf templates in my package nullmailer. Is this really necessary? http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#s6.5.1 The examples would only change config file entries (for the nullmailer/relayhost entry), and shouldn't need translating - they would be the same in all languages. So flag them as non translatable if they are really not translatable (note that most example should be translatable), see po-debconf(7). You may wish to ask for advices on debian-l10-english@l.d.o (send your modified templates in order to get them reviewed). I note that if I run debconf-updatepo, my updated template gets amended into all extant .po files, and they all get marked as fuzzy. Is this all I need to do, or do I have to notify anyone or do anything about the fuzziness ? Please send a translation call with podebconf-report-po(1), even if only one string changed, *before* uploading the package. The Developer's Reference describes all this (but I've a doubt when you claim that “all [strings] get marked as fuzzy”, and wonder if you did something wrong). http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#s6.5.2 Regards David signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Help in packaging (Was: negative vote for maintainer Michael Gilbert)
Hi, Le 05/01/2012 14:18, W. van den Akker a écrit : On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 10:03 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: If you're lucky, you get a few responses from people saying they want to help but with no idea how to go about it, ... To be a little off-topic but... Well, this all thread is (getting) off-topic… Maybe debian-mentors would suit better to continue this sub-thread. Reply-to set accordingly. I have many times offered my help to maintain orphaned and non-orphaned packages, but I was lucky when I got a response. Mostly I didnt got any. Orphaned packages are packages without maintainer, so you can't expect any answer. If you want to become a maintainer for some of those packages, that will be welcome [1]. 1: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#adopting As Russ already pointed, even if help is mostly welcome in packaging and other related parts (e.g. handling bugs and proposing patches to them) — i.e. actually providing some help — most of the time, asking someone if she wants help is doomed to fail if it implies that she needs to tutor the helper. If you're afraid to propose some help were it might not be welcome, just focus on the 61 RFH bugs [2] and 547 bugs tagged “help” [3]. 2 : http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested 3 : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=help How much I like debian, the maintainers are not very beginners friendly (however there are some exceptions). A lot of documentation is available in the Debian website and packages, it should provide all needed information to beginners, and if it's not enough, some friendly maintainers take their time to review and help beginners on debian-mentors (but I'm pretty sure everyone will be more productive if beginners initially tried to answer their own questions and review their own packages with the available documentation, and after lurking a few days the list before asking anything: the same questions and errors seem to come back all the time). Regards David signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: RFS: zathura
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Le 20/07/2010 06:37, Sebastian Ramacher a écrit : Fixed and uploaded. Anything else? Just tried it, it looks like a nice, simple and quick PDF viewer. Just a remark : upstream README file is pointless for the end user and should me removed from the binary package (removing debian/docs is enough). The long description might be improved [0] in order to encourage end users to try and install this package. You can ask for advice and review on debian-l10n-engl...@lists.debian.org if you wish. [0]http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#bpp-pkg-desc Cheers David -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkxFztYACgkQ18/WetbTC/rteQCgh5eu4D1BKZIVeA1FUr0jGdYB 0S0An090L7cn+U00uO/Or5XizQyuCA1J =cKuE -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/i24ist$sv...@dough.gmane.org
