Bug#971634: RFS: btrfsmaintenance/0.5-1 -- automate btrfs maintenance tasks on mountpoints or directories
Hi Nicholas, I will take a look at the package. Sven
Bug#935390: RFS: vnstat/2.4-1 [NMU] [ITA]
On Sun, Sep 01, 2019 at 09:23:06AM -0700, Rob Savoury wrote: > Package: sponsorship-requests > dget -x > https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/v/vnstat/vnstat_2.4-0.1.dsc Hey Rob and Christian, the package looks good to me. I've uploaded it to delayed-3 in case Christian objects the upload. From what I understood he's fine with the NMU, but just in case. So Christian in case you object to this upload give me a short notice and I can cancel it within the next three days. Rob the "ITA" tag in the bug is a bit misleading in the sense that if you want to adopt someting (ITA - Intent To Adopt), you usually set yourself as the package maintainer in debian/control. I'm not sure what Christian is up to, but maybe it makes sense to move the package to https://salsa.debian.org/debian and have it group maintained. But that's up to Christian to decide. Sven
Bug#935390: RFS: vnstat/2.4-1 [NMU] [ITA]
On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 01:26:35AM -0700, Rob Savoury wrote: Hey Rob, > Changes since the last upload: > >* New upstream version 2.4 > . >* debian/patches/ >+ drop patch applied upstream (timeout for restart) >+ modify pidfile and systemd patches for new source files >* d/control: bump to std version 4.4.0 and add libsqlite3-dev BD (vnstat > 2.x) While I value the work, this is not properly packaged as an NMU. I uploaded the last NMU by Teemu because it made perfectly sense to upload those changes which were already implemented by Christian Göttsche. But Christian is still the maintainer of the package as far as I can tell. So would be nice to have an ACK from him if such kind of informal team uploads are ok. And beside of that NMUs which implement major version changes are mostly an exception. I would prefer either some team upload or some notice by Christian how he intents to handle this package. Sven
Bug#932843: RFS: vnstat/1.18-2.1 [NMU]
On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 06:40:18PM +0300, Teemu Toivola wrote: Hi, > See the discussion in bug #907020 [1] for all details. The short version is > that in August 2018 Christian introduced new autopkgtest tests in 1.18-2 > which didn't work due to lack of root access. #907020 was opened as a > result and Christian made the fix during the same day in Salsa. However, > for some reason, that fix was never uploaded. Last week the severity of > #907020 was changed from normal to serious placing the package to the > autoremoval queue. As I wasn't able to get in touch with Christian, I > concluded that doing a NMU for the changes he had already made in Salsa > would be the right thing to do. That's why the policy bump is to version > 4.2.1 as I didn't want to mix in any of my own changes. I see. Ok doesn't make much sense to discuss more about this one-liner or the policy version. While the later does not make much sense it won't cause any harm either. Thanks for pushing that fix forward. Sven
Bug#932843: RFS: vnstat/1.18-2.1 [NMU]
On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 10:56:47PM +0300, Teemu Toivola wrote: Hey guys, > vnstat (1.18-2.1) unstable; urgency=medium > > * Non-maintainer upload. > * Changes by Christian Göttsche > - d/tests: run as root to fix debci (Closes: #907020) > - d/control: bump to std version 4.2.1 (no further changes) > > -- Teemu Toivola Tue, 23 Jul 2019 00:47:18 +0300 What's the situation of this package, are you now taking over the Debian packaging as well? Is Christian just missing a sponsor? >From a technical perspective the policy is already at 4.4, though that should not matter so much in this specific case. Sven
Bug#916859: closed by Andrey Rahmatullin (Re: Bug#916859: RFS: PDF Studio Viewer/2018 [ITP] -- pdf viewer)
On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 05:12:39PM -0500, Studio Support wrote: > Hello Andrey, > > Regarding the solution on Bug#916859 about our package "pdfstudioviewer" > > It's free in the real sense of the term, meaning that users don't pay for it. > But it is not open source. Our end-user license is displayed to users upon > running our application the first time. > > We don't care if our application is listed under the Free or the Commercial > products. > > We have a Debian installer so I hope you can use that. Hi, I, and propably many more Debian developers, appreciate that you try to engange with the Debian project, but really we're focused on open source software. You might want to read https://www.debian.org/social_contract.html So yes it's true that we have this sad part called "non-free" on our mirrors but formally it's not really part of the distribution, and still everything shipped in non-free requires to have a source package as well. https://wiki.debian.org/Packaging/SourcePackage In the end I can only encourage you to open source your software, otherwise you've to move on and distribute it via your own self hosted repository. Sven
Bug#893052: RFS: btrfsmaintenance/0.4.1-1 [I maintain the package]
On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 10:38:37PM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > Hi Sven, > > On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 08:06:13PM +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote: > > Hi, > > uploaded the package. I've to make up my mind about the kind of linux > > specific > > arch all packaging stuff. > > > > Sven > > Thank you for sponsoring this upload :-) > > Should I leave filing a wishlist bug against dpkg-dev, for the > creation of an arch: linux-all to you, or go ahead and do it myself? Hi Nicholas, I would not fill a bug and I would not change anything else on the package. Introducing something like "linux-all" would also require changes in the archive software and other places. Just telling dpkg that it exists is only a small part of the complete story. After looking around and thinking a bit more about this issue, I think the gain from solving it is very limited. If you try to install btrfsmaintenance on kfreebsd or hurd you'll already be told that the dependencies are not satisfiable because btrfsprogs is not available. In case someone would port it and make it available, the situation gets more complicated. Now you would be able to install the package and have the maintenance scripts available, but you still might be lacking the btrfs support in the kernel. At least at the moment that would not cause any harm because the cron job is not enable by default and I guess the btrfsprogs tools would still fail if executed. So at least there is no harm done to the system. Since this is all very hypothetical I would just ignore this case for now. If you would like to maybe get other viewpoints on this issue feel free to ask on debian-mentors or debian-devel. My opinion is in the end just mine. :) Cheers, Sven
Bug#893052: RFS: btrfsmaintenance/0.4.1-1 [I maintain the package]
On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 10:38:37PM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > Hi Sven, > > On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 08:06:13PM +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote: > > Hi, > > uploaded the package. I've to make up my mind about the kind of linux > > specific > > arch all packaging stuff. > > > > Sven > > Thank you for sponsoring this upload :-) > > Should I leave filing a wishlist bug against dpkg-dev, for the > creation of an arch: linux-all to you, or go ahead and do it myself? I would be surprised if that's the first time we've this issue. So I wanted to search for prior discussions first. Sven
Bug#874373: RFS: vnstat/1.17-1+nmu1 ITA
On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 02:05:12PM +0200, Christian Göttsche wrote: > I uploaded a new package version in which the not upstreamed patches > are dropped, the maintainer is set to myself and the vcs fields are > updated accordingly. > With #874387 Felix is searching for a new maintainer for this package; > what are the requirements for me to become such? Basically just set yourself as the maintainer (the technical part) and find a sponsor to review and upload the package (the more social part). > Also, I like to ask a technical question: > What is the common dealing with state file upon package purge? > Vnstat saves the network statistics under /var/lib/vnstat and as this > folder is listed in debian/vnstat.install, dpkg warns upon purge > operation that this directory cannot be deleted, because it is not > empty. > Should the directory be emptied in the postrm script or is this > warning acceptable? Should be deleted on purge. I think mariadb packaging nowadays has an additional debconf fronted question if you really want to purge the database. I personally do not think that the value of vnstat history is so huge to implement an additional dialog but YMMV. Sven
Re: Bug#801253: reproducing and fixing lintian errors of wicd 1.7.3-3 package
On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 06:02:27PM +0100, toogley wrote: > On 02/07/2016 10:30 PM, gregor herrmann wrote: Hi, > thanks. > >Additionally, lintian runs more tests when run against the .changes > >file (and not the .debs); and lintian has some nice command line / > >configuration options to enable additional tests (informational, > >pedantic, experimental). I think I once saw someone recommending lintian -EviI and you can add --pedantic to the mix. But the combination is easy to remember and a good starting point. :) Sven
Bug#768251: RFS: ip2location/7.0.0-1 [ITP]
On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 09:45:25PM -0800, Lim Chris wrote: Hi, Package name: ip2location Version : 7.0.0-1 Upstream Author : IP2Location URL : http://www.ip2location.com Is this tool of any use without the commercial database? Are there free databases available? Otherwise I think this belongs to contrib. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141106100332.gb4...@timegate.de
Re: Bug#712787: ITP for Distkeys
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 02:04:37PM -0300, Eriberto wrote: Hi, Not wrong. The package is in first upload. 2014. Please, don't interfer in my revision without a strong motive. Well the point of public discussion on d-m kind of is to have a discussion about different views on certain issues. Sure in the end you've your standards because in the end you sign it. But don't be too surprised that not everyone shares your view in all aspects. And I too think that upload year and copyright year do not have to match in all cases. In the end just a minor point one could or could not demand to be aligned. Cheers, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140922171733.ga4...@timegate.de
Bug#762379: RFS: urjtag/0.10+r2007-1.2 [RC, NMU]
On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 07:16:01PM +0200, Andreas Moog wrote: Hi, Changes since the last upload: urjtag (0.10+r2007-1.2) unstable; urgency=medium * Non-maintainer upload. * debian/patches/0010_prefix_REG.patch: (Closes: #756827) - Prefix all REG_* with BFIN_REG to not clash with enumerators defined in /usr/include/sys/ucontext.h, this fixes FTBFS: error: redeclaration of enumerator 'REG_R0' Thanks for your contribution, uploaded. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140921173325.gb7...@timegate.de
Bug#757428: RFS: nullmailer/1:1.13-1 [RC]
On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 01:39:47AM +0100, Nick Leverton wrote: Hi, Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command: dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/n/nullmailer/nullmailer_1.13-1.dsc Thanks, uploaded. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140808115927.ga4...@timegate.de
Re: Backport ipmitool for stable release
On Sun, Aug 03, 2014 at 07:19:46PM +0200, Jörg Frings-Fürst wrote: Hi, on ipmitool exist a bug[1] to add Dell 13G server support. Therefore my questions: - Does Debian have rules when backports are possible? http://backports.debian.org/Contribute/#index5h3 Two answer your question I guess the main points are: - It builds in a wheezy enviroment. - The relevant release is already part of testing so it has a chance to be part of the next stable release. That is for backports of course not for adding patches to the current stable package as part of a point release. There the rules are slightly different and reviewed by the release team. In either case having the code tested in unstable/testing first is a good starting point. - What is your opinion about this backport? Sounds like a reasonable request. :) The size of the patch and level of complexity is not high so after having the code in unstable and testing a request for inclusion of patched package in the next point release is not too far fetched. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140803194725.gc4...@timegate.de
Re: Bug#756436: RFS: mytop/1.9.1-2
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 09:44:49AM +0200, Werner Detter wrote: Hi, Thanks, upload worked. Uploaded to the archive. Thanks. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140731091612.ga4...@timegate.de
Bug#733258: RFS: kerneltop/0.8-2.2 [put in ITP, ITA, RC, NMU if applicable]
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 09:21:14PM +0100, Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote: * URL : http://www.xenotime.net/linux/kerneltop/ Found the same URL in a very old LWN article, but currently it holds some electronic cigarette weblog. Sven -- There we were, the three of us, the thief the king and I. Finally, we were forced to see, we were equals in the night. [Streetlight Manifesto - The three of us] -- 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/20131228123610.gb3...@garkbit.lan
Bug#733258: RFS: kerneltop/0.8-2.2 [put in ITP, ITA, RC, NMU if applicable]
On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 03:34:37PM +0100, Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote: Yes I know. This URL was in the original package, I could not find alternative resource. I will try to contact upstream, especially when I have patches to forward. I am quite new to this and I am not sure what should be done in this situation. Keeping it in the debian/copyright file for historic references is fine. Citing it in sponsorship requests like this one might raise some suspicion like it did on my side. I would've just replaced the url with 'down' or 'no longer available'. I'm not sure if there is still some kind of active upstream, could not find something so far. Sven -- There we were, the three of us, the thief the king and I. Finally, we were forced to see, we were equals in the night. [Streetlight Manifesto - The three of us] -- 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/20131228212038.gh3...@garkbit.lan
Re: RFS: fio 2.11
On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 09:40:03AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Hi, Upstream maintainer Jens Axboe told me that he likely releases a fio 2.12 this week, which has some patches merged I currently carry in the package. I suggest that I remove the compression setting then and do another RFS. Would that be okay with you? Fine with me. Feel free to just sent me a link to the .dsc without all the fluffy RFS bug stuff around it. ;) Cheers, Sven -- we live we love we learn and breathe each breath we take makes me believe that we can take this road forever if we take this road together [ AZ0 - Endless Roads ] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: RFS: fio 2.11
On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 04:57:41PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Hi, Okay, should be fine to go now: I'm in general fine with the package. None the less a remark to maybe think about: a) Is it worth to switch to xz for this package? b) Is it a good idea to force the compression-level to 9? For a) I think maybe for b) I guess buildd maintainers and maybe even devs of weaker arches might hate you. I've no good idea myself how xz works internally but if I recall the threads on d-d correctly about making xz the default a compression level above 6 was deemed way too much. I think even lower levels were proposed as a Debian default when xz will be the default compression method. Oh and the orig.tar.gz is still supplied as .tar.gz maybe getting that switched to xz would make also sense. On the other hand for such a small package the benefit is small. Uploaded, thanks Martin. Cheers, Sven -- we live we love we learn and breathe / each breath we take makes me believe that we can take this road forever / if we take this road together [ AZ0 - Endless Roads ] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Bug#706820: RFS: mytop/1.9.1-1 ITA
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 05:58:52PM +0200, Werner Detter wrote: Hi, I'll check the new package over the weekend but won't get it done today. updated and uploaded the package. URL in manpage is now also fixed. Also, I've informed upstream about all patches we've applied and sent them those. Thanks Werner, uploaded a few minutes ago. Sven -- we live we love we learn and breathe each breath we take makes me believe that we can take this road forever if we take this road together [ AZ0 - Endless Roads ] -- 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/20130512103541.ga3...@timegate.de
Re: Bug#706820: RFS: mytop/1.9.1-1 ITA
On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 07:31:30PM +0200, Werner Detter wrote: Hi, - the manpage states the wrong homepage (minor issue) Well, actually the first releases till Version 1.6 came from origin upstream - http://jeremy.zawodny.com/mysql/mytop/ After 1.6, seems like, another upstream took ofter maintenance, seems like: http://www.mysqlfanboy.com/mytop/ how to handle this? Just patch it as every other issue and pest^inform upstream and propose a patch. As noted that's really minor and if it had been the only issue with the package I would've already uploaded it. I'll check the new package over the weekend but won't get it done today. Sven -- we live we love we learn and breathe each breath we take makes me believe that we can take this road forever if we take this road together [ AZ0 - Endless Roads ] -- 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/20130510083823.ga4...@timegate.de
Re: Bug#706820: RFS: mytop/1.9.1-1 ITA
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 10:08:05PM +0200, Werner Detter wrote:
Hi everybody,
I've recreated and uploaded the package to mentors. I've rewritten
debian/rules from scratch to get
rid of the old build style from the origin package maintainer.
Could anyone please have a look at the package? :)
- verbose mode in debian/rules is still enabled
- the manpage states the wrong homepage (minor issue)
- dependency on libconfig-inifiles-perl got lost
- Please, you run dh_perl read the fine manpage and find out how
${perl:Depends} could help you. Doesn't catch all modules here
but would be a start.
Sven
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Re: Bug#706820: RFS: mytop/1.9.1-1 ITA
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 11:40:31AM +0200, Werner Detter wrote: Hi, * URL : http://www.mysqlfanboy.com/mytop/ Unreachable from here currently, when have you reached that site the last time? * Checked and recreated patchs from old upstream against new version - Add 01_fix_pod.patch - Add 02_remove_db_test.patch - Add 03_fix_newlines.patch - Add 04_fix_unitialized.patch - Add 05_fix_terminal_flicker.patch - Add 06_prevent_ctrl_char_printing.patch - Add 07_fix_screenwidth.patch (Closes: #565759) - Add 08_add_doc_on_missing_cli_options.patch - Add 09_add_mycnf.patch, contains now error handling (Closes: #627300, #694555) - Add 10_q_is_quilt.patch - Add 11_fix_warnings.patch Uh fun to review ... I find the naming of patch 10 a bit confusing or is this a pun I don't get currently? How many of these patches have been proposed for upstream inclusion? Beside that I wonder if it would make sense to rely more on the dh_ tools instead of self crafted stuff like cd debian/tmp ; find . -type f ! -path ./DEBIAN* -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum | sed -e 's!\./!!' DEBIAN/md5sums chmod 644 debian/tmp/DEBIAN/md5sums dpkg-gencontrol -isp chown -R root.root debian/tmp chmod -R go=rX debian/tmp dpkg --build debian/tmp .. dh_perl dh_md5sums It doesn't even make sense to generate the md5sum file first by hand, create the package itself and then run dh_perl and dh_md5sums. dh_perl even throws out a visible message that someting is wrong. And yes that is wrong. The naming of the mytop.example file is also a bit unlucky since that would also match dh_installexamples, and yes I see that's currently not used in this package but could be a source of further confusion. For the maintainerscripts I'll have to reread the relevant policy parts myself first. If it was my package I wouldn't even install a menu item for such a tool but that's up to you in the end. Oh and dh_installmenu exists to free one from the burden of writing the correct maintainer scripts for that task. Sven -- we live we love we learn and breathe / each breath we take makes me believe that we can take this road forever / if we take this road together [ AZ0 - Endless Roads ] -- 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/20130505132546.gb2...@garkbit.lan
Re: Bug#703399: FS: udevil/0.4.1-1 ITP
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 09:15:33AM +0100, Mateusz Łukasik wrote: Hi, udevil - Mounts and unmounts removable devices and networks without a I've to admint that I didn't follow the current way of mounting removal devices in desktop enviroments but I'm still wondering what's the advantage of udevil over tools like pmount? Beside that the short description should start in lower case. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#bpp-pkg-synopsis Sven -- We are what you say We are not what you think [ Dead Sara - We are what you say ] -- 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/20130319091737.GB4547@garkbit
Re: Please sponsor fio (flexible I/O tester)
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 04:22:45PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Hi, I updated my fio debian package to 2.0.8 of fio. Thanks uploaded. Sven -- 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/20120626082658.ga17...@sho.bk.hosteurope.de
Re: Please sponsor fio (flexible I/O tester)
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 04:22:45PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Hi, My usual sponsors Sebastian 'tokkee' Harl and Michael Prokop seem to be missing in action. I kinda doubt that, I guess they're just busy as everyone else is. :) Can somebody review my updates and upload? Where could one pick up the package for review? Couldn't find it on mentors.d.n nor a bugreport associated with sponsorship-request. I'd guess you've usually worked through the collab-maint git repo? Sven -- 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/20120625161018.ga10...@sho.bk.hosteurope.de
Re: Please sponsor fio (flexible I/O tester)
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 06:10:18PM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: I'd guess you've usually worked through the collab-maint git repo? Short round of nitpicking the wrong way ;) at what I've found in the git repo. 1) I see no point in listing changes from 2.0.7 and that you've undone them with 2.0.8 because they're fixed in 2.0.8 upstream in the debian/changelog. Those back and forth changes are documented in the VCS history. In my opinion that's enough if someone cares, because they never hit the archive anyway. 2) It's rather non-obvious that you patch the DPKG_EXPORT_BUILDFLAGS into the upstream makefile instead of debian/rules. Haven't seen that before and I'm not sure what to think of such tactics. Anyway you have to build depend on dpkg-dev (= 1.16.1~) because of the makefile snippet you include. 3) I'd skip the capital letters in the short description. It's shortened to fio everywhere else and somewhere in the dev-ref it's mentioned that it's not sentence and thus should not start with a capital letter. Rest seems to be ok at a first glance, though that version jump is a bit late in the release cycle. :-/ Sven -- 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/20120625164202.ga15...@sho.bk.hosteurope.de
Re: Please sponsor fio (flexible I/O tester)
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 06:57:18PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Hi, Rest seems to be ok at a first glance, And another small one I would change to be more generic: debian/copyright: -Source: http://brick.kernel.dk/snaps/fio-1.32.tar.gz +Source: http://brick.kernel.dk/snaps/ though that version jump is a bit late in the release cycle. :-/ Well I already tried to get fio 2.0.7 sponsored ;). I am using the 2.0.7 for quite a while already and think it is fine. Yeah we should really try to get it included in wheezy. Sven -- 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/20120625170834.ga15...@sho.bk.hosteurope.de
Re: Please sponsor fio (flexible I/O tester)
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 07:18:40PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Montag, 25. Juni 2012, 19:08:34 schrieb Sven Hoexter: Hi, debian/copyright: -Source: http://brick.kernel.dk/snaps/fio-1.32.tar.gz +Source: http://brick.kernel.dk/snaps/ Shouldn´t this field show what has been used for initial packaging? I'd find that pretty useless, or at least I don't see a value in such historic information. And we've a VCS to keep historic information of a package. http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#source-field points at http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs#s-copyrightfile and that gives us In addition, the copyright file must say where the upstream sources (if any) were obtained, .. Often it might feel a bit like a duplication of the homepage field in debian/control but especially in this case those two have very different content. One can of course deduce the right place to look at with the current value, but I don't think it's that useful The webserver even provides a directory listing with the full array of tarballs. Sven -- 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/20120625172938.gc15...@sho.bk.hosteurope.de
Bug#665980: RFS: evilvte/0.5.1-1 [updated package]
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 01:55:25PM +0800, Wen-Yen Chuang wrote: Hi, I fixed the hardened build flags which lintian did not check when I uploaded last deb-src. Hope this version could be uploaded before frozen of wheezy. Uploaded but I've lost track of the current sponsoring procedures about closing/taging the bugs. Couldn't find a documentation ad-hoc but I didn't search that hard. ;) Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20120520103050.GA2985@marvin
Workflow documentation [was: Re: Bug#665980: RFS: evilvte/0.5.1-1 [updated package]]
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 08:53:01PM +0800, Wen-Yen Chuang wrote: Hi, This is my first upload after debian-mentors started using BTS. Below are documents I dug: [1] Wiki for sponsorship-requests BTS workflow http://wiki.debian.org/Mentors/BTS Ah great, thank you. That's what I've been looking for. :) Arno: Could you link that page from mentors.d.n? I'd add it in mentors.d.n/qa in the Getting started section as What does the current workflow look like? Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20120520142106.GD2985@marvin
Re: RFS: nginx 1.1.14-1 backport to Debian Squeeze
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 08:50:13PM +0100, Cyril Lavier wrote: Hi, I am looking for a sponsor for my package nginx. It's a backport of the package which is available on Debian Testing. Uploaded. Sven -- 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/20120214142754.ga9...@sho.bk.hosteurope.de
Re: RFS: libapache2-mod-rpaf
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 01:48:52PM +0400, Sergey B Kirpichev wrote: Hi, before this falls through the cracks I've uploaded the package to get the bug fixed. in theory I'm willing to sponsor an upload (well I did the QA upload of this package a few month ago) but I don't like people setting DMUA on public sponsoring requests. I'm sorry, but that was noted in comments. Feel free to drop this control field. Droped. I don't see how I can judge if you're able to handle the package or not. E.g. by looking in QA? There are other people where I promised and failed to look at prior work. I'd never try to do something like this again when I don't know if I can take the time to do it for sure. I'm not sure how near we're to new Apache release but maybe the deprecation notice would be more appropriate in a NEWS file? Yep. But I'm not aware on the release plans for apache. Anyway, *right now* the NEWS file looks as a wrong place for the deprecation warning stuff. Agreed. I've no idea if we currently have that as a policy or not. No. Actually most packages seem to stick to the mod_foo.c naming but there is at least the alias_module which diverts. $ fgrep -R 'IfModule' /etc/apache2/apache2.conf /etc/apache2/mods-available/|grep _module /etc/apache2/apache2.conf:IfModule mpm_prefork_module /etc/apache2/apache2.conf:IfModule mpm_worker_module /etc/apache2/apache2.conf:IfModule mpm_event_module /etc/apache2/mods-available/alias.conf:IfModule alias_module /etc/apache2/mods-available/reqtimeout.conf:IfModule reqtimeout_module /etc/apache2/mods-available/deflate.conf:IfModule deflate_module These all are core modules. Yeah looks like the anticipated mixture. Sven -- 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/20120116150910.ga11...@sho.bk.hosteurope.de
Re: RFS: Cacti
On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 02:19:19PM +0700, Mahyuddin Susanto wrote: Hi, cacti - Frontend to rrdtool for monitoring systems and services This upload will be fixed #653863 which is RC bug. To access further information about this package, please visit the following URL: Diff looks sensible, so uploaded. Hope your team members don't mind. Sven -- 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/20120102095502.ga6...@sho.bk.hosteurope.de
Re: RFS: libapache2-mod-rpaf
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 01:36:51PM +0300, Sergey B Kirpichev wrote: Hi, It builds those binary packages: libapache2-mod-rpaf - module for Apache2 which takes the last IP from the 'X-Forwarded-For' header in theory I'm willing to sponsor an upload (well I did the QA upload of this package a few month ago) but I don't like people setting DMUA on public sponsoring requests. It's IMHO something different if we've some history of working together but on a maybe onetime upload I don't see how I can judge if you're able to handle the package or not. But maybe someone else has a different opionion on how DMUA should be used. Ok now back to the technical stuff: I'm not sure how near we're to new Apache release but maybe the deprecation notice would be more appropriate in a NEWS file? But maybe that can wait until we acutally have it in Debian. The other issue is the module naming. I adopted the crazy file renaming from the original package just to keep the usual mod_foo.c naming. I've no idea if we currently have that as a policy or not. Actually most packages seem to stick to the mod_foo.c naming but there is at least the alias_module which diverts. So this is not a show stopper. Cheers, Sven -- 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/20120102103810.gb6...@sho.bk.hosteurope.de
Re: RFS: nginx backport to Debian Squeeze.
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 08:29:45PM +0100, Cyril Lavier wrote: Hi, I am looking for a sponsor for my package nginx. It's a backport of the package which is available on Debian Testing. * Package name: nginx * Version : 1.1.8-2~bpo60+1 * Section : httpd As long as the primary maintainer/uploader do not veto an update for backports, or prefer to care about sponsoring it themself, I'd be willing to upload it. Sven -- 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/20111215134930.ga6...@sho.bk.hosteurope.de
Re: RFS: nginx backport to Debian Squeeze.
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 07:23:20PM +0530, Kartik Mistry wrote: Hi, I personally feel that Cyril is doing good job in backporting nginx. Someday, I or some other will wake up and sponsor nginx in backport. Thanks - Sven :) Ok. Uploaded. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20111215205507.GA3684@marvin
Re: RFS: evilvte (updated package)
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 01:32:16PM +0800, Wen-Yen Chuang wrote: Hi, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.5.0-1 of my package evilvte. (Programming language: C) Uploaded, thanks. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20111023103546.GB2277@marvin
Re: RFS: mail-notification (updated package; NMU for RC bugs among others)
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 12:31:56AM +0200, Stephen Kitt wrote: I've reuploaded it to m.d.n, and placed it on http://www.sk2.org/mail-notification/ too (http://www.sk2.org/mail-notification/mail-notification_5.4.dfsg.1-2.5.dsc). Uploaded. I already wrote you last time that I think, that you should work with the people from Fedora etc. to fold all the patches into a new upstream release. Please, for the sake of sanity try to get something going. The patch stack is insane. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110914211437.GD2500@marvin
Re: RFS: mail-notification (updated package; NMU for RC bugs among others)
On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 12:16:40AM +0200, Stephen Kitt wrote: Hi, In the meantime though, would any one like to sponsor the NMU? I wanted to take a look at it over the weekend but parts of the package went missing from mentors.d.n. I made Arno aware of it in #debian-metors. Maybe you can reupload it or upload it somewhere else. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110912202659.GA8301@marvin
Re: RFS: mail-notification (updated package; NMU for RC bugs among others)
On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 10:34:11AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: Hi, OK - do you have any pointers to migration documentation? The main intent of the NMU was to fix the FTBFS, not really overhaul the whole package, but it would indeed be better to avoid leaving predictable future FTBFSes... It seems strange to me to have changes of this scale in a NMU. Wouldn't you rather either hijack the package or talk to Liu Qi about adding yourself as a co-maintainer? Especially since it's your 5th NMU of this package in a row, you're kind of its official non-maintainer :p I've uploaded one the NMUs in the past and last time Liu ACK'ed the NMU because he had not enough time to care at the time. I think I already proposed to Steve to take over the whole thing upstream because it's dead otherwise. Steve and some other people from other distros currently pass around patches and the mess is getting bigger every other month. :-/ Sven -- 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/20110907100857.gc2...@sho.bk.hosteurope.de
Re: RFS: cvsconnect (QA upload) [new package]
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 09:56:30AM +0200, Jeroen Schot wrote: Hi, thanks for caring, I've uploaded your package. I have to disagree with you here. The point of mentioning the source of a package in debian/copyright is to document it's origin. The original source URL can still be useful in combination with services such as The Wayback Machine[1]. [1]: http://www.archive.org/web/web.php ACK. Cheers, Sven -- 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/20110831080931.gc2...@sho.bk.hosteurope.de
Re: RFS: cvsconnect (QA upload)
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 12:27:35PM +0200, Jeroen Schot wrote: I: cvsconnect source: debian-watch-file-is-missing This is because the upstream source is no longer available. Well then kill the Homepage field from debian/control aswell and maybe add to the copyright field that this page is no longer available. Sven -- 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/20110830110728.gc2...@sho.bk.hosteurope.de
Re: RFS: ndpmon
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 02:32:36PM -0400, John R. Baskwill wrote: Hey John, thanks for working on ndpmon. I am looking for a sponsor for my package ndpmon, Here are some more remarks, I'm not sure if some of them were already discussed, I didn't follow the original RFS and just read one of your later mails. * The Vcs-* fields in debian/control have kind of a different meaning, they're not for the upstream repo. See Dev-Ref 6.2.5. * debian/copyright is incomplete. Stuff from plugins/mac_resolv is missing and debian/manuf. I'd suggest to start with 'grep -ir copyright *'. * I don't think the README.Debian contains useful information. * Regarding the manuf file I'm not 100% sure if we can distribute that and if it's really GPL 2+ because according to the comments it's compiled from several sources. Did they all agree that it's GPL 2+? I've strong doubts about that for the IEEE. Didn't look at the init script so far, if nobody else steps up I'll try to do that later this week. Cheers, Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110830182843.GB2312@marvin
Re: RFS: evilvte
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 11:00:00PM +0800, Wen-Yen Chuang wrote: Hi, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.4.9-1 of my package evilvte. (Programming language: C) Uploaded, but here are some remarks for subsequent uploads you might want to think about. debian/changelog: * Update debian/copyright Such statements in a changelog are very terse. I would've preferred to read something like Update debian/copyright, the included icons are now licensed as GPL2+. Without the diff to the prior version you've no chance to know what was changed, which makes the changelog entry rather useless. Opinions on this topic might differ and I for sure wrote such things in my changelogs aswell, but IMHO we all should try to avoid it. debian/copyright: I don't think the following is valid DEP-5 syntax: Files: debian/*, except debian/evilvte.xpm I don't care about DEP-5 but others might do. So be nice and if you claim it's DEP-5 syntax, try to make it valid. Cheers, Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110822203953.GA2493@marvin
Re: RFS: obexpushd (adopted two uploads ago) (was: Re: RFS: obexpushd (adopted one upload ago))
On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 03:17:03AM +0200, Gabriele Giacone wrote: Hi, I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. DMUA flag would be really appreciated too. I try to look at it tonight but I can't assure that I'll have the time. Are there important fixes included that should hit the worl^unstable asap? In case someone else with too much free time (Killian? ;) would like to step up feel free to do so, just write me mail so I know that I can remove it from my todo list. BTW you should've pinged me somewhat earlier after the squeeze release to re-upload 0.11.1 to unstable. Cheers, Sven -- 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/20110808101817.ga14...@niap.stormbind.net
Re: RFS: obexpushd (adopted two uploads ago)
On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 11:16:28PM +0200, Gabriele Giacone wrote: Hi, 3.) You edit debian/changelog for past entries. This should not be done. As the edit is minor I'll leave it as is. Truth is hoexter (0.11.1-1 uploader) made such change [0] before uploading and I didn't port it back to my git repo. Result: not present in 0.11.2-1. For non-reviewers: we are talking about no changes needed present or not after Bump Standards Version to std-ver. I'm not yet sure what to learn from this issue but I found it more concerning that you, I guess by accident, refreshed the finishing line for the changelog entry. Now we've this in the changelog: obexpushd (0.11.2-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream release. * Bump Standards Version to 3.9.2 (no changes). * Add 01errno patch. * Update homepage and watchfile. -- Gabriele Giacone 1o5g4...@gmail.com Mon, 08 Aug 2011 02:55:21 +0200 obexpushd (0.11.1-1) experimental; urgency=low * New upstream release. + Fix NULL pointer dereference (Closes: #592270). * Standards-Version to 3.9.1. * d/copyright: Fixed md5.c path. * Removed Ola Lundqvist from Uploaders. -- Gabriele Giacone 1o5g4...@gmail.com Mon, 08 Aug 2011 01:57:03 +020 That's bogus in so far that the upload to experimental didn't happen today but back in December 2010. I failed in a similar way when I replied in private instead of CC'ing -mentors, which might have avoid this mess. :( At least it won't hurt anyone, it's just a broken history. Sven -- I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart, comes a rebel fist [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110808223150.GA2068@colin
Re: RFS: flush (updated package)
On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 07:01:51PM +0200, Fabrizio Regalli wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.9.11-1 of my package flush. Looks good, dput is currently running. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110804204801.GA28487@marvin
Re: RFS: radiotray (updated package)
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 01:17:35PM +0200, Jan Hrdina wrote: Hi, I am looking for somebody, who would upload new version 0.6.4-0.1 of package radiotray to Debian. It is an online radio stream player for tray and the new version fixes lots of important bugs and adds localization support. This package is currently maintained by Elías Alejandro Año Mendoza, did you contact him about a new upstream release? You can also just open a wishlist bug against the package and offer your patches there. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110731164622.GG12273@marvin
Modified tarballs [was: Re: RFS: minidlna (updated package and FTBFS fix)]
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 09:03:07PM -0300, Fernando Lemos wrote: Hi, Just to clarify, I find it concerning that we might be accepting source uploads that don't come straight from upstream and don't match what was released upstream. I'm relieved to hear that there is a way to ensure in your specific case that the source is the same as shipped upstream. I wish this was a requirement for new packages entering Debian. We do it all the time. Just 'dpkg -l|grep dfsg' on your local system and you should find plenty of those modified source tarballs. What I, as an uploader, do in such cases is a diff between the upstream provided tarball and what's in the dfsg orig.tar.gz. You can get a rough overview with diffstat and then review suspicious additions in more detail. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110723074614.GA2371@marvin
Re: RFS: flush (updated package)
On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 10:21:50PM +0200, Fabrizio Regalli wrote: Hi, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.9.10-1 of my package flush. Some 'LDFLAGS += -Wl,-z,defs -Wl,--as-needed' should help to get the depedency list a bit shortened. Otherwise the package looks fine and I would be willing to upload it, but it fails to start here. (flush:4437): GLib-WARNING **: /build/buildd-glib2.0_2.28.6-1-i386-A3fp41/glib2.0-2.28.6/./glib/goption.c:2132: ignoring no-arg, optional-arg or filename flags (8) on option of type 0 (flush:4437): GLib-WARNING **: /build/buildd-glib2.0_2.28.6-1-i386-A3fp41/glib2.0-2.28.6/./glib/goption.c:2132: ignoring no-arg, optional-arg or filename flags (16) on option of type 4 (flush:4437): GLib-WARNING **: /build/buildd-glib2.0_2.28.6-1-i386-A3fp41/glib2.0-2.28.6/./glib/goption.c:2132: ignoring no-arg, optional-arg or filename flags (8) on option of type 0 W: Creating Flush session failed. Can't get DBus session bus address. I've to admit that I've no idea about dbus except that dbus-daemon is running. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110707191216.GI2274@marvin
Re: RFS: wav2cdr (updated package)
On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 10:59:26PM -0500, Edgar Antonio Palma de la Cruz wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.3.4-1 of my package wav2cdr. Uploaded, thanks. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110707193119.GA19521@marvin
Re: RFS: flush (updated package)
On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 09:17:46PM +0200, Fabrizio Regalli wrote: Hi Fabrizio, Really strange. I tried to install and use it before request sponsor, and I have not found errors I've no doubt in that, it's possible that there's something wrong with the dbus stuff here. With the devil sitting on my shoulder I could still upload it and fill a bug afterwards. The state of the package in unstable can't get worse anyway. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110707193702.GB19521@marvin
Re: RFS: flush (updated package)
On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 09:44:01PM +0200, Fabrizio Regalli wrote: Hi, I decided to take this package (and renew it) for his horrible state in sid. Uploaded, thanks. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110707211156.GA21640@marvin
Re: RFS: qasmixer
On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 10:25:26AM +0200, Kilian Krause wrote: Hi, just for me to understand. DEP-5 is frozen. Why exactly is the version needed now that it isn't altered anymore? It doesn't really matter because it has to be changed for the final location anyway. http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2011/05/msg00529.html Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110704085445.GA10824@marvin
Re: RFS: RHash - Utility for computing hash sums and magnet links
On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 01:09:15PM +0200, Arno Töll wrote: On 09.06.2011 12:45, rhash.admin wrote: Hi, Ok, switched to 8th version for auto-running dpkg-gensymbols, but some DDs (on #d-mentor) prefer to package with 7th debhelper to simplify backporting. That's right for oldstable. But Lenny is about to become obsolete in a forseeable future and your package will most likely not enter Lenny anyway. However for Squeeze dh 8 compatibility is fine [1] debhelper | 8.0.0~bpo50+2 | backports/lenny | source, all Depending on debhelper 8.0.0~ could be used to make this possible if wished for. I for one don't get it either why people propose packages with old standards version and compat level. IMO one should be kind of prepared for the future now and not slack on such things just because they still work and I don't have to check what's been changed in the requirements. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110609133711.GA3169@marvin
Re: RFS: oss-compat (adoption, updated package)
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 01:06:59AM +0200, Stephen Kitt wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.0.5 of the package oss-compat, which I am adopting within the games team. (I believe this makes sense since the main users of the Open Sound System nowadays are old Linux games.) Looks like we've another case of duplicated work here: http://packages.qa.debian.org/o/oss-compat/news/20110608T100624Z.html Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110608101048.GD2362@marvin
Re: RFS: oss-compat (adoption, updated package)
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 02:57:58PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: Hi, with so many replies, I guess I should write one more. :-/ I'm not really sure why Fuddl reset the maintainer field when uploading; the usual practice is to set it to the Debian Games Team (as Stephen did) and, if necessary, put the uploader's name in the, well, Uploaders field :) That's what obviously made me write the mail, I didn't even look at the package itself, just checked the qa page first for bugs et al and found the upload - from a different maintainer. Just after sending my reply I received the 'Thanks' mail and thought that they've worked that out in private and everyone else would ignore my now pointless mail. So thanks to the involved people to ack that everything went smooth and in agreement. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110608122120.GF2362@marvin
Re: RFS: [QA Upload] netsend
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 02:14:24PM +0200, Arno Töll wrote: Hi, CC'ed Tim: Are you still on board for netsed? Thread starts here http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2011/06/msg00015.html Fair enough. I just didn't feel comfortable to package an entire new upstream source for a QA upload. I'd say in this case it would've been ok from my point of view. Others might disagree. Anyway good to know that there's already some sort of adoption going on. Glad to see you worked on that already Mats, therefore I updated my package and merged our approaches. I attached a diff outlining all changes in debian/ I made. I agree to most of them but there's more than one way to do it. ;) and left QA as I originally suggested. If you still want to adopt the package, I'd suggest you to change bug #487339 to ITA and seek for sponsors for your first maintainer upload, with or without the DDs originally interested to join you. ACK. I'd be willing to help but * The upstream branch is missing the last two new upstream releases. Donno what went wrong there. Mats can you check that? Maybe you just have to push your upstream branch. pristine-tar would've been nice but not that important. * I'd prefer to merge the changelog entries. I've to admit that I've a 50:50 ratio of forgetting to build the package with a fitting -v to include all changelogs so that all bugs will be closed correctly. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110606114820.GA8054@marvin
Re: RFS: [QA Upload] netsend
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 09:59:46AM +0200, Arno Töll wrote: Hi, I'd like to ask for sponsoring of my QA upload for the package netsed. It does not introduce a new version since upstream is dead since 2001 but the package is fairly cool, has a reasonable popcon and no open RC bugs (but WNPP bug #487339[1]. You could adopt it - note there is a non-official new upstream version you may want to switch to as outlined in #586037 [2]. Moreover you would eventually becoming upstream as well) Reading the bug logs I'd favour an upload using the 'new upstream' version. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110602082259.GA2318@marvin
Re: RFS: sfftobmp (updated package) (QA upload) (RC bug fix)
On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 07:29:59AM -0500, Daniel Echeverry wrote: Hi, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 3.1.2-4 of my package sfftobmp. Uploaded. I took the freedom to extent your silent manpage improvement with the 'omitted' spelling fix proposed by lintian and fixed the watch file. (The new upstream release has windows only improvements according to the changelog so I didn't bother to roll that in too.) Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110601150704.GE5334@marvin
Re: RFS: doctrine (updated package, ping)
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:27:01AM +0200, Federico Giménez Nieto wrote: Hi, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.2.4-1 of my package doctrine. I'm not sure how the .orig.tar.gz has been generated (didn't digg deeper) but it contains a lot of 1970's files which will result in an auto-reject by ftp-master. Beside that I would like to lobby for dev-ref 6.2.2 and change s/Tool/tool in the short description. Rest seems to be fine at a first glance. Since this is team maintained I wonder if there isn't someone from the team with some more experience in the area to sponsor the upload? Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110529100504.GB2414@marvin
Re: RFS: squidguard (updated package, RC bug fix)
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 12:43:11PM +0200, Joachim Wiedorn wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.4-3 of my package squidguard. * Oh another DEP5 format definition, and now one that isn't available. I guess that should evolve into some d.n host instead d.o and without the wsvn in it. Or something else. My confusion grows from package to package. :) * I would also document the switch from depends squid | squid3 to squid3 | squid in debian/changelog but YMMV. And I would be most grateful if a kind sponsor would set the DM-Upload-Allowed (DMUA) bit. I won't do it for a one shot upload but maybe Kartik would like to jump in. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110529114129.GA18249@marvin
DEP-5 format definition hell
Hi, I currently see a wild mix of different format definitions used by people hitting debian-mentors. While I personally don't care as long as the copyright file is complete I don't think this fulfills the goal of this DEP. It would be nice if the involved people would clarify what should be used. So far I've seen the following referenced: a) SVN revisions of the mdwn file (seems to be ok) b) http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/ (seems to be not that wrong but exactly this current document claims that a revision of the mdwn file should be used) c) a wiki page (rejected that one, seems wrong to me) d) broken links (obviously rejected) TIA, Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110529115729.GB18249@marvin
Re: RFS: squidguard (updated package, RC bug fix)
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 05:02:16PM +0200, Joachim Wiedorn wrote: [...] Also done. Shame on me but I missed two other things, I would've commited them to the collab-maint repo but that seems to still miss the the changes in the package. * I see no reason for urgency=high here. There are no security fixes and we're not in the middle of the release process. So urgency=low should be used. * Vcs-Browser should point to the gitweb frontend and not to the http access for the git repository itself. So in this case this should be http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/squidguard.git And a minor one from lintian pedantic checks: squidguard.config uses /bin/sh -e instead of set -e. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110529165247.GA20202@marvin
Re: RFS: squidguard (updated package, RC bug fix)
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 08:06:55PM +0200, Joachim Wiedorn wrote: Hi, Sven Hoexter s...@timegate.de wrote on 2011-05-29 18:52: * I see no reason for urgency=high here. There are no security fixes and we're not in the middle of the release process. So urgency=low should be used. There is a reason: package libdb4.7 isn't anymore and if someone want to install (new) squidguard it would be not usable (in testing). Can I use urgency=medium (5 days)? Yeah some breakage happens from time to time. I still don't think that's a good reason to shorten the staging periode in unstable, or is this inflicted by this new don't break testing cause it's rolling mantra? As long as it's not security relevant or we're in release freeze, in my opinion, every upload should be urgency=low. There is a terrible muddle with the new Alioth. Yes I know, and I don't like it either. I had looked onto the git repository which show us the following addresses: URL git://anonscm.debian.org/collab-maint/squidguard.git git+ssh://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/squidguard.git http://anonscm.debian.org/git/collab-maint/squidguard.git and I have thought, this is be right. But what is right now And if not, what should be the right git address (git://)? The one you would clone as third party: Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/collab-maint/squidguard.git The one you can point your browser to: Vcs-Browser: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/squidguard.git Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110529182210.GB20202@marvin
Re: RFS: squidguard (updated package, RC bug fix)
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 09:01:11PM +0200, Joachim Wiedorn wrote: Uploaded. Now the only problem is the not existing write access to the git repo of collab-maint ... Hmpf. Is this really a permission denied to write to the repo or did you use ssh with password-auth in the past? I've seen some comments on IRC that the new alioth setup only allows key based ssh logins so you've to add your key via the alioth webfrontend first. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110529200748.GC20202@marvin
Re: RFS: archivemount (updated package, 3rd try)
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 12:35:43PM +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:29:49PM +0300, Nanakos Chrysostomos wrote: Will this upload resolve the problem of compiling only to linux and kfreebsd and exclude hurd-i386 architecture? I changed Architecture Field from any to linux-any. kfreebsd is not linux so setting linux-any you excluded it. I think you need to narrow the arch field only when the code *fails to compile* because, for example, of some linux-only syscall. When it doesn't build because of missing build-deps, that may change in the future so I don't do anything (I'm quite new to Debian packaging so I may be wrong though). The original problem was that fuse-utils wasn't available on kfreebsd (according to the bugreport). Just yesterday(?) Daniel Baumann adopted fuse and changed the package contents and currently fuse-utils is only a dummy package. This requires some re-evaluation of the situation and adjustmend of the archivemount depends. Sven -- I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart, comes a rebel fist [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110528065332.GA1834@colin
Re: RFS: archivemount (updated package, 3rd try)
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 11:48:39AM +0300, Nanakos Chrysostomos wrote: On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 08:53:33AM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: Hi, The original problem was that fuse-utils wasn't available on kfreebsd The problem was not in kfreebsd but in hurd-i386. I have the slight feeling we're talking about different issue here. According to #613119, which you even close in your changelog, it's been about kfreebsd, and as far as I can tell there's been no fuse-utils package on kfreebsd nor hurd and there is now no fuse package on both of them. So this problem isn't solved at all. I currently can't say if archivemount is of any use without the rest of the fuse tools or not. Looking at the blocking bug #613300 I don't think it is but I've not digged that deep yet. If it is indeed useful to have on kfreebsd without fuse the dependency has to be adjusted accordingly [!kfreebsd-i386 !kfreebsd-amd64]. Otherwise using linux-any seems to be a good solution, it's not worth to build a package on architectures where it can't be used anyway. The problem still remains even if Daniel Baumann has adopted and uploaded a new version of the fuse package. Please check [0] again to see that the status of hurd-i386 architecture has a dependency installability. So even with this change archivemount will remain in the current state and useless for all linux users. I prefer the package to be sponsored and used for now only from linux and kfreebsd users and when everything is ready we will upload the package again including the missing architecture. I included kfreebsd-any in the Architecture Field and re-uploaded the package. Please bare in mind that the package remains in the current state for more than 300 days waiting fuse-utils for the hurd-i386 arch. Uh since when is hurd a release architecture? The migration seems to be stopped by the RC bug mentioned above. only a dummy package. This requires some re-evaluation of the situation and adjustmend of the archivemount depends. Do we need that for the moment? IMO it would make sense to do it now while you're at it, I'd guess that Daniel would like to fate out the old fuse-utils package sooner or later anyway. So switching now to a versioned depends on fuse =2.8.5-2 is IMO reasonable. Beside that: There's still lintian barking at the issue with the description. I'm not sure if lintian is 100% right there and if the deselect issue is still present but double spaces in front of the * should do the trick. IMHO all the (useless) dotted empty lines are a bit ugly, I would revert that. You should also check your changelog, beside closing a bug which isn't fixed with arch kfreebsd-any the changelog only states the change from any to linux-any. The changes to debian/rules are also missing. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110528112602.GA2340@marvin
Re: RFS: archivemount (updated package, 3rd try)
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 02:48:59PM +0300, Nanakos Chrysostomos wrote: On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 01:26:02PM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: Hi, You should also check your changelog, beside closing a bug which isn't fixed with arch kfreebsd-any the changelog only states the change from any to linux-any. The changes to debian/rules are also missing. I would like to keep my first change which was only linux-any. Yes, that's ok. What do you mean that the changes to debian/rules are missing? I have made the changes you proposed and added the reverse one in clean. No more lintian errors. Maybe I'm missing something here, please enlighten me. You made changes to debian/control and debian/rules and they're not documented in debian/changelog. I'd think of something like this: * Change the dependency on fuse-utils to fuse (=2.8.5-2). Since fuse 2.8.5-2 fuse-utils package is only a transitional dummy package. * Change debian/rules to keep a backup copy of config.guess in the configure target which will be restored in the clean target, to keep the diff.gz clean. Maybe that's a bit too verbose, but it helps to recap later, why those changes were made. I hope this time everything is fine and the package could be sponsored. Very close, beside the changelog everything else looks ok. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110528122931.GB2340@marvin
Re: RFS: archivemount (updated package, 3rd try)
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 03:36:46PM +0300, Nanakos Chrysostomos wrote: Re-uploaded to mentors.d.n Uploaded to the archive. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110528130756.GC2340@marvin
Re: RFS: archivemount (updated package, 3rd try)
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 06:07:55PM +0300, Nanakos Chrysostomos wrote: Hi, The package is lintian clean (Lintian v2.5.0~rc3) but it not reports (post pbuilder build, lintian 2.5.0 but that shouldn't make a big difference for those warnings) $ lintian -iIv archivemount_0.6.1-2_i386.changes N: Processing source package archivemount (version 0.6.1-2) ... W: archivemount source: format-3.0-but-debian-changes-patch [...] N: Processing binary package archivemount (version 0.6.1-2) ... W: archivemount: possible-unindented-list-in-extended-description The first one is the config.sub replacement. What about using something like the following for your configure target: set -e; if ! [ -f config/config.sub.backup ]; then \ mv config/config.sub config/config.sub.backup; \ ln -s /usr/share/misc/config.sub config/config.sub; \ fi And kind of the reverse for the clean target. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110527193957.GE2197@marvin
Re: RFS: gtklp 1.2.8-1 (updated package)
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 01:17:12PM +0800, Zak B. Elep wrote: Hi, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.2.8-1 of my package gtklp. * Double builds leave some modified m4 files in the diff. (I consider this whole 'autoreconf delete the files in clean' thing a bit hackish but well, that's up to you in the end. Donno if dh-autoreconf can be integrated nicely with cdbs.) * Adding LDFLAGS += -Wl,--as-needed could shrink the direct depends a lot. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110525090846.GA2146@marvin
Re: RFS: rush (new package)
On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 06:55:10PM +0200, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: Hi Mats, if a repackaging in order to circumvent GFDL-1.3 is not enough for you to proceed, then nothing will ever satisfy your desires. Still, I send a further reminder. I just started to look at your package and I'm not sure if I'll work with you towards an upload (I'm offline for the coming week anyway) but here are a few questions and remarks. * The homepage gives me a 404. * Why do you choose to name the source package rush and the binary package gnurush? I somehow miss the point to divert here the source and binary package name. * I think the DEP5 format specification you give recommends to use a svn revision as format specification. While I can only continue to say that I don't care about DEP5 at all, as long as it's not declared to be mandatory by ftp-master, I would appreciate it if those who use it could settle what they would like to use as the format specification. * Some auto generated drepper magic with a copyright notice: po/Makefile.in.in:# Copyright (C) 1995-1997, 2000-2007 by Ulrich Drepper drep...@gnu.ai.mit.edu build-aux/* has some more to check (yes, PITA to check them all ...) * While some might have already forgotten about the FHS, your recommended use of /opt is against the idea of /opt. Depending on the general setup, and the content I'd like to serve, I would use /srv or /var. HTH Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110513095903.GA2071@marvin
Re: RFS: nzbget (2nd try)
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 09:36:45PM +0200, Andreas Moog wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package nzbget. I only had a very short look at it: * 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. * 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. * Is there really a texinfo manual somewhere? The rest seems to be ok, though I can't build it currently. 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. Sven -- I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart, comes a rebel fist [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110513203654.GA1821@colin
Re: RFS: cdpr (updated package)
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:55:59AM -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: Hi, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.4-1 of my package cdpr. * Why are you mangling a prior changelog entry when the changes to debian/rules did not happen back then? * Will something break with compat level 8? If not, why not switch to it directly and while you're at it document it in the changelog. * debian/copyright is a bit delicate. You list Lance O'Connor while all the file headers list MonkeyMental.com. I guess Lance O'Connor is the person behind the domain but IMO debian/copyright doesn't reflect the actual copyright holder given in the code. Seems wrong to me, I'd mention both. But I'm not sure how to correctly reflect this in this fancy new file format for debian/copyright which I don't use. Regarding this new file format I believe most people reference a revision in a subversion repository instead of the wiki page. A minor point is that you reference /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL which is not necessarily GPL2+ but still not totaly wrong if you make use of the '+'. Opinion may vary on that one. * Regarding the examples you install, I'd recommend to use dh_installexamples so they end up in the correct location. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110512091906.GA2118@marvin
Re: RFS: ketchup (updated package, adopting, 3rd try)
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:22:15AM +0200, Johann Felix Soden wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.9.8+hg5533f6de130c-3 of the orphaned package ketchup which I want to adopt. Uploaded. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110512093811.GB2118@marvin
Re: RFS: piwigo (updated package)
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 06:43:43PM +0200, Nicolas wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.2.1-1 of my package piwigo. I think you forgot to merge the changelog from 2.1.2-3 back into the master branch. The french po is there but maybe double check that it's the correct version because there are changes compared to the one in 2.1.2-3 And here you can enter a blank line: +piwigo (2.2.1-1) unstable; urgency=low + * New upstream release S-V got updated to 3.9.2 but isn't mentioned in the changelog. When you add it, please also note if you had make changes for this more or not. IMHO the debian/changelog should also mention that you added an entry to Debian.NEWS The source format conversion and subsequent changes to debian/rules is completly missing in debian/changelog. Such an amount of missing documentation makes me relatively uncomfortable and doesn't motivate me to invest more time to test the binary package at all. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110512100302.GC2118@marvin
Re: RFS: cdpr (updated package)
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 07:04:50AM -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 4:19 AM, Sven Hoexter s...@timegate.de wrote: Hi, Not sure about the breakage with compat level 8. This is where I saw the reference to 7: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/dother.en.html#compat That will be almost ever outdated. See man 7 debhelper somewhere near the end about the compatiblity level and the changes. A minor point is that you reference /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL which is not necessarily GPL2+ but still not totaly wrong if you make use of the '+'. Opinion may vary on that one. lintian --pedantic complained. I pinged d-devel before and didn't get a clear answer, IIRC. I'm not sure if there will ever be a final answer to such questions. I don't mind it if you use it this way. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110512122558.GJ2118@marvin
Re: RFS: cdpr (updated package)
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:29:43AM -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: Hi, I've made the relevant changes and re-uploaded to mentors Uploaded to the archive. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110512160048.GL2118@marvin
Re: RFS: mp3splt-gtk (updated package)
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 08:11:48PM +0200, Gunter Königsmann wrote: Hi, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.6.1-1 of my package mp3splt-gtk along as the companion packages mp3splt and libmp3splt. Uh that's not very nice, this is a hidden NMU against all standards. Did you try to contact the current maintainer? Please read http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#nmu Beside that I would prefer if you would document in a changelog whay you changed in debian/control. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#bpp-debian-changelog Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110511101349.GC2096@marvin
Re: RFS: fetchmail-6.3.19 backport to Lenny
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 03:05:10PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: Hi, more or less a full quote for debian-backports I'm looking for a sponsor for a backport of fetchmail-6.3.19-1 to Debian Lenny. The main reason for the backport is to forestall at least the very first requirement of the upstream fetchmail maintainers when problems are reported - upgrade to the latest version :) I wonder if it makes sense to tackle such things for Lenny backports now that we're more or less half through the year of old-stable support. The package is available at mentors.d.n: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.3.19-1~bpo50+1.dsc It should be aimed at -sloppy. I first sent this as a request for review to the pkg-fetchmail alioth list (the maintainers of the Debian fetchmail package) - http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fetchmail-maint/2011-April/004071.html There were no concerns or objections raised, and Nico Golde seems to approve of the idea, as expressed in his reply - http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fetchmail-maint/2011-May/004075.html Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110510123139.GC2158@marvin
Re: RFS: downtimed (updated package)
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 04:56:13PM +0200, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: Dear mentors, pinging on my initial pledge. Uploaded. Sven -- I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart, comes a rebel fist [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110510223129.GA1872@colin
Re: RFS: ripit (updated package, upload to unstable only)
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 01:38:02PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 3.9.0-2 of my package ripit. Uploaded, thanks. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110426123205.GC4051@marvin
Re: RFS: grub-customizer
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 08:30:05PM +0200, Daniel Richter wrote: Hey, I've been asked some time ago to take a look at this package. I'm still not sure if I'd really like to sponsor it. I'm not sure how exactly we handle software which edits rather vital configuration files and I did not even test it yet. I am looking for a sponsor for my package grub-customizer. * Package name: grub-customizer Version : 2.1.2 I started to look at the 2.1.2-3 on mentors.d.n, I hope that's more or less your recent build. * There's a debian/patches/debian-changes-2.1-1 in the package which looks a bit scarry with all those XML in it. Looks like mostly Eclipse meta data except for grub-customizer-2.1/src/config.h. Ideally get rid of it. IMHO the .project directory shouldn't be part of the upstream release. * Why urgency=medium? There's no reason for it. * You should be safe with a debhelper compat level 8. * There's a spurious debhelper.log, just delete it. * The last number in the standards-version can be omitted, should be now 3.9.2. Please read the upgrade-checklist when updating. * I currently don't see a reason why you depend on 'menu' but maybe I've missed something. * The watch file doesn't work. * Since there are copyright notes for the translations, please note them in debian/copyright. * Please avoid the direct linking where possible, usually some LDFLAGS should be enough. (see the dpkg-shlibdeps warnings at the end of the build) * If this tool is only compatible with grub2 maybe the .desktop file should talk about grub2 instead of grub? (I've no idea about the official terminology used by the grub devs) HTH, Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110426131644.GA20370@marvin
Re: RFS: ripit (updated package, upload to unstable only)
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 03:49:30PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: Hey Peter, -Description: Textbased audio CD ripper +Description: textbased audio CD ripper this is a rather interesting one. After a short look at various packages we seem to have a mixture of upper and lower cases. Maybe we should try to go with one variant and advice that in the policy (except for proper names of course). Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110426133346.GB20370@marvin
Re: RFS: ripit (updated package, upload to unstable only)
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 08:48:16AM -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: Hi, It seems like lowercase would be the way to go. The description is not a sentence and capitalizing the first letter makes it feel like a sentence (when it is not one.) Since it now feels like a sentence, you also begin to wonder where the ending punctuation is. It's already noted in the developers-reference, it's just that a lot of us forget about it or ignore it. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#bpp-pkg-synopsis Sven, need to fix my packages ;) -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110426140457.GD20370@marvin
Re: RFS: mpg321 (updated package, 3rd try)
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 08:39:58PM +0300, Nanakos Chrysostomos wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 07:35:07PM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 19:12, Nanakos Chrysostomos nana...@wired-net.gr wrote: Another DD has told me in the past that I had to split my patches in order for him to accept my package and I should always work in that way for my packages to be accepted. Well, I don't know if it was just a matter of personal taste of that DD, but it's not a requirement. You should provide a single patch for a single change, but it's not restricting the patch to touch only one file. So, in the example of -K, if the addition of it modifies 5 files, it's perfectly fine (and it is *the* standard way) to provide a single patch with all the diffs in it. I had the same perception as you on the issue but as I said before I had been told to follow these instructions. Anyway, your help from now on is precious because I can handle in a much better way future patches and versions of my packages. Just in case this has been me, I hope I wrote something about one patch per *issue* you try to fix and not one patch per changed file. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110420180616.GD16713@marvin
Re: RFS: mail-notification (RC bug fix, NMU with maintainer's approval)
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 11:36:30PM +0100, Stephen Kitt wrote: Hi, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 5.4.dfsg.1-2.4 of my package mail-notification. This is an NMU approved by LUI Qi, the current maintainer. Uploaded. I hope it works cause I can't test the evolution part ... Please consider a) setting up a team VCS so that you can co-maintain it properly and b) forking it with some people from other distros to handle the growing patchset in a more pleasant way. Usually I would offer help at least for a) but I'm busy and/or offline for the next weeks. Thanks, Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110314192622.GC2187@marvin
Re: RFS: antennavis (updated package - resolves FTBFS with binutils-gold)
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 04:54:37PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: Hi, I don't know what kind of change we are talking about here, but I certainly disagree with your never ever!. Sometimes there are valid reasons to amend existing changelog entries; please see Developers Reference 5.1 for an example. Hmpf, yes indeed. There had to be an exception, thanks. But I personally disagree with the exception. Even in case of CVE numbers or similar things that's still some information that didn't exist in the past so IMO it shouldn't be added there. If needed one should add it to a new changelog entry for a new revision but not edit some past entries already in the wild. Donno if I'm alone with this opinion and I'm not eager to fight it with claws here. ;) Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110304120151.GF2111@marvin
Re: RFS: antennavis (updated package - resolves FTBFS with binutils-gold)
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 05:55:59PM +0200, Nanakos Chrysostomos wrote: Hi, I really don't have the same problem. That's rather strange. Please try to include the opengl library on the command line as well as the glut library. Try adding -lGL to the end of LDFLAGS in the Makefile file and build the package without using the pbuilder. Let me know of the result please. Yes, that works. It's enough to add -lGL to the patch. Another mistake on my side: I thought that this software requires some antenna hardware and is more for testing but it seems to be only visualization of models so I think I can test it myself. So no need to bother the ham people. Sorry. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110304121437.GG2111@marvin
Re: RFS: scidavis (updated package)
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 09:36:41AM +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote: I would upload it but I currently can't build it because of python-qt4 missing sip-api-7.1 which seems to be deprecated. Uploaded. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110303112618.GG2113@marvin
Re: RFS: antennavis (updated package - resolves FTBFS with binutils-gold)
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 06:48:04PM +0200, Nanakos Chrysostomos wrote: Hi, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.3.1-2 of my package antennavis. * Do not (never ever!) change prior changelog entries of versions that already hit the archive. * The package fails to build here with pbuilder (-1 and -2), both linking issue. * Tcl 8.4 will be faded out, idealy build-depend on tk-dev only instead of some specific Tcl and Tk version. Maybe use the tcltk-depends (debhelper like) tool to generate the tcl and tk depends. After all I can't test it anyway so you should talk to the debian-hams@l.d.o people about sponsoring and testing the package with equipment. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110303152729.GA16280@marvin
Re: RFS: antennavis (updated package - resolves FTBFS with binutils-gold)
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 05:33:57PM +0200, Nanakos Chrysostomos wrote: On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 04:27:29PM +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote: * The package fails to build here with pbuilder (-1 and -2), both linking issue. I don't have a similar problem. (?) The -1 package: cc -L/usr/X11R6/lib TkAntenna.o AntennaWidget.o ParseArgs.o togl.o ant.o pcard.o VisField.o VisWires.o -ltk8.4 -ltcl8.4 -lXmu -lGLU -o TkAnt /usr/bin/ld: togl.o: undefined reference to symbol 'XUnmapWindow' /usr/bin/ld: note: 'XUnmapWindow' is defined in DSO //usr/lib/libX11.so.6 so try adding it to the linker command line //usr/lib/libX11.so.6: could not read symbols: Invalid operation collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [TkAnt] Error 1 The -2 package: cc -L/usr/X11R6/lib TkAntenna.o AntennaWidget.o ParseArgs.o togl.o ant.o pcard.o VisField.o VisWires.o -ltk8.4 -ltcl8.4 -lXmu -lGLU -lX11 -lm -o TkAnt /usr/bin/ld: togl.o: undefined reference to symbol 'glXUseXFont' /usr/bin/ld: note: 'glXUseXFont' is defined in DSO //usr/lib/libGL.so.1 so try adding it to the linker command line //usr/lib/libGL.so.1: could not read symbols: Invalid operation collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [TkAnt] Error 1 Both in a sid pbuilder on i386. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110303154711.GB16280@marvin
Re: RFS: mail-notification (updated package)
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 09:25:40AM +0100, Stephen Kitt wrote: Hi, first of all I've uploaded the package. Thanks for fixing it once again. I didn't test the evolution part so I hope that works as well. (flame me later if it breaks ...) As far as I'm aware LUI Qi is MIA (mia have been notified), but the package hasn't been QA-orphaned yet. I did contact the maintainer regarding possible co-maintainership a while ago, after Sandro Tosi suggested it (see the thread starting at http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2010/05/msg00387.html). Please follow up with mia@ to check the current state of the process. I didn't add the DMUA+Uploader flag because that should definitely not happen in a NMU without an OK from the maintainer and that wouldn't be a NMU anymore. There is no upstream any more, the package is kept alive by various people and the patches float around Ubuntu, Fedora and the Debian BTS. 5.4 is the last upstream release, version 4.0 as available on launchpad is the same as the January 2007 release available from nongnu.org. Impressive chaos. :( Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110302094206.GC4144@marvin
Re: RFS: mail-notification (updated package)
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 05:51:55PM +0800, LIU Qi wrote: On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 10:42:06AM +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote: Hi, Please follow up with mia@ to check the current state of the process. I didn't add the DMUA+Uploader flag because that should definitely not happen in a NMU without an OK from the maintainer and that wouldn't be a NMU anymore. As discussed earlier in the mailing list, currently I have no enough time to maintain the package. So I would like to co-maintain the package with Stephen. And I will return to maintain the package later this month. Great, that makes it a lot easier. Please negotiate in private for a VCS and a place to host it. Maybe that fits under some Gnome packaging umbrella or collab-maint if you'd like to host it on alioth.d.o. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110302101222.GD4144@marvin
Re: RFS: mail-notification (updated package)
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 01:15:17AM +0100, Stephen Kitt wrote: Hi, Note that I should soon be a DM, so if you do sponsor my package and deem it appropriate, I'd appreciate a DMUA field. (This is my third NMU of this package; I'll gladly adopt it once it's orphaned.) Without some more details this looks rather strange. What's up with the current maintainer? Is there some agreement that he'll orphan the package? Oh and for a NMU at least the RC bug should've the diff attached and a message that you plan to NMU etc. Beside that do you know what's the state of all those patches upstream? The 'mail-notification' project on launchpad has some 4.0 version from 2010 while the mailnotify page on nongnu.org (from the same author) holds a version 5.4 from 2008 which seems to be what's in the Debian package. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110301220333.GA16612@marvin
Re: RFS: scidavis (updated package)
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 08:58:04PM -0500, Ruben Molina wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.2.4-2 of my package scidavis. I would upload it but I currently can't build it because of python-qt4 missing sip-api-7.1 which seems to be deprecated. Beside that you can remove README.source from the package. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110226083641.GA2354@marvin
Re: using pristine-tar
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 08:14:52PM -0500, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: Howdy d-m, I'm working on a package, and I'm thinking about using pristine-tar. Is there a best practices / tutorial set anywhere? I did some googling, but since nothing jumped out, I figured some of the better resources might be common knowledge around here. My guess would be that most people use it together with git and git-buildpackage. It then boils down to having a pristine-tar branch and a debian/gbp.conf with [DEFAULT] pristine-tar = True In general the manpages for both, pristine-tar and git-buildpackage, are helpful. HTH, Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110220081337.GA1970@marvin
