Bug#657076: Updating and maintaining barry in Debian / Ubuntu

2012-06-05 Thread intrigeri
Upstream tag: barry-0.18.3-2 Upstream diff: git log -p barry-0.18.3..barry-0.18.3-2 Release URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/barry/files/barry/barry-0.18.3/sources/debian/barry_0.18.3-2.dsc Uploaded to sid, thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#657076: Updating and maintaining barry in Debian / Ubuntu

2012-06-04 Thread Chris Frey
On Sun, Jun 03, 2012 at 10:34:04AM +0200, intrigeri wrote: Sure. However, the URLs you provided me until now did not. Did I miss a way to get the real download URL from the click-one, without firing up a web browser? I didn't understand how the .dsc file could be used until I started playing

Bug#657076: Updating and maintaining barry in Debian / Ubuntu

2012-06-03 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Chris Frey wrote (31 May 2012 22:39:54 GMT) : Making every maintainer update their package in order to support hardening seems like the long way around. But so be it. :-) I agree but the decision was not made this way, so let's deal with it :) There is no guarantee either that the diffs

Bug#657076: Updating and maintaining barry in Debian / Ubuntu

2012-05-31 Thread Chris Frey
Thanks for your considerate replies, and continued patience. So far, when I think I can see the end, it is not the end, and it gets a little frustrating. :-) So your patience is appreciated. I've done some testing and experiments, and below are my results. On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 02:46:32PM

Bug#657076: Updating and maintaining barry in Debian / Ubuntu

2012-05-29 Thread intrigeri
Hi Chris, Chris Frey wrote (26 May 2012 02:15:12 GMT) : New version available, when you have time: Looks better and better. I trust we'll manage to get this ready in time for Wheezy! I left the hardening checks as-is for now, not overriding them, since from the conversation on some of the

Bug#657076: Updating and maintaining barry in Debian / Ubuntu

2012-05-29 Thread Chris Frey
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 10:48:43AM +0200, intrigeri wrote: Commit 85a9d87f makes debian/rules stop passing DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS = hardening=+all to dpkg-buildflags. I was doing testing with and without the revert, and the lintian tests did not improve. I plan to do a few more tests though.

Bug#657076: Updating and maintaining barry in Debian / Ubuntu

2012-05-29 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Chris Frey wrote (29 May 2012 09:45:15 GMT) : On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 10:48:43AM +0200, intrigeri wrote: Commit 85a9d87f makes debian/rules stop passing DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS = hardening=+all to dpkg-buildflags. I was doing testing with and without the revert, and the lintian tests

Bug#657076: Updating and maintaining barry in Debian / Ubuntu

2012-05-25 Thread Chris Frey
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 12:32:01PM +0200, intrigeri wrote: So, here's what Lintian tells me this time: * The no-symbols-control-file Lintian overrides were not updated. * The new hardening checks detect possible problems: I'll let you check, override false positives, and fix real problems.

Bug#657076: Updating and maintaining barry in Debian / Ubuntu

2012-05-16 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Chris Frey wrote (14 May 2012 21:35:45 GMT) : Development continues on Barry, and I assume it is ok to upload to Debian as soon as any new version is available. Yes. In short: Uploading to Debian unstable: sure. Uploading to stable backports once the package reaches the testing suite:

Bug#657076: Updating and maintaining barry in Debian / Ubuntu

2012-05-16 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Chris Frey wrote (16 May 2012 03:12:54 GMT) : Ok, version 0.18.2 is here: Pretty please, run the latest Lintian (== from Debian sid) with all nitpicking options enabled *yourself* on the source and binary packages before pushing them to me. My last review rounds have basically boiled down

Bug#657076: Updating and maintaining barry in Debian / Ubuntu

2012-05-15 Thread Chris Frey
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 07:48:04PM -0400, Chris Frey wrote: Hold the presses. I found one more issue. The pkg-config files need to be renamed to match the major version number (libbarry-18.pc instead of libbarry-0.pc). I'll be releasing 0.18.2 to fix this. Ok, version 0.18.2 is here:

Bug#657076: Updating and maintaining barry in Debian / Ubuntu

2012-05-14 Thread Chris Frey
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 10:38:23AM +0200, intrigeri wrote: The trailing : is wrong in: Files: src/vformat.h src/vformat.c: Oops, thanks. I also get: W: barry source: debhelper-but-no-misc-depends barrybackup-gui-dbg W: barry source: debhelper-but-no-misc-depends libbarry18 W:

Bug#657076: Updating and maintaining barry in Debian / Ubuntu

2012-05-14 Thread Chris Frey
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 05:35:45PM -0400, Chris Frey wrote: My lintian command didn't catch the *.dsc files. Fixed that, and fixed all the above. Hopefully this is the one. :-) You can grab it in the usual place:

Bug#657076: Updating and maintaining barry in Debian / Ubuntu

2012-05-12 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Great changes and explanations. See bellow for a few inline replies. Chris Frey wrote (12 May 2012 00:53:12 GMT) : 2. I don't think src/vformat.{h,c} is supported syntax in a Files: field in debian/copyright. Probably not, according to the spec. I changed it to list both files

Bug#657076: Updating and maintaining barry in Debian / Ubuntu

2012-05-11 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Chris Frey wrote (08 May 2012 06:01:58 GMT) : I believe this release can be uploaded. Almost :) Next review round results in: 1. debian/copyright may be syntaxically correct, but it looks weird compared to how people usually put things in there. Attached patch fixes this. Please

Bug#657076: Updating and maintaining barry in Debian / Ubuntu

2012-05-11 Thread intrigeri
intrigeri wrote (11 May 2012 08:23:58 GMT) : Next review round results in: Also, Lintian in --info --display-info --pedantic mode still outputs a bunch of relevant comments. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#657076: Updating and maintaining barry in Debian / Ubuntu

2012-05-11 Thread Chris Frey
On Fri, May 11, 2012, intrigeri wrote: Next review round results in: Thanks :-) 1. debian/copyright may be syntaxically correct, but it looks weird compared to how people usually put things in there. Attached patch fixes this. Please consider applying it. I applied the patch, with a

Bug#657076: Updating and maintaining barry in Debian / Ubuntu

2012-05-08 Thread Chris Frey
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 01:46:13PM +0200, intrigeri wrote: $ sudo apt-get install libconfig-model-perl $ cme check dpkg-copyright $ cme dump dpkg-copyright Thanks intrigeri. The cme check did find a syntax oddity, although the error message it produced was a bit cryptic. :-) I believe this

Bug#657076: Updating and maintaining barry in Debian / Ubuntu

2012-05-08 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Chris Frey wrote (08 May 2012 06:01:58 GMT) : I believe this release can be uploaded. I'll review this package later this week, probably on Friday. I'm assuming that you will do the actual upload? I will, once I'm happy with the state of the package. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#657076: Updating and maintaining barry in Debian / Ubuntu

2012-05-08 Thread Chris Frey
On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 11:22:48AM +0200, intrigeri wrote: I'm assuming that you will do the actual upload? I will, once I'm happy with the state of the package. Excellent. Thanks very much. Let me know if you find any show stoppers. :-) - Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#657076: Updating and maintaining barry in Debian / Ubuntu

2012-04-30 Thread intrigeri
Chris Frey wrote (30 Apr 2012 00:49:23 GMT) : Is there a tool I can use to make sure I've got the new format right? I ran it against lintian on sid, but I'm not sure if that's enough. $ sudo apt-get install libconfig-model-perl $ cme check dpkg-copyright $ cme dump dpkg-copyright (See also

Bug#657076: Updating and maintaining barry in Debian / Ubuntu

2012-04-29 Thread Chris Frey
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 01:38:29AM +0200, intrigeri wrote: Looks like great work. Congrats! Thanks for the feedback! * can you please convert debian/copyright to DEP5 format? (you're almost there, see http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/) Is there a tool I can use to make sure I've got the

Bug#657076: Updating and maintaining barry in Debian / Ubuntu

2012-04-28 Thread intrigeri
Chris Frey wrote (25 Apr 2012 23:59:02 GMT) : The latest git sources from http://repo.or.cz/w/barry.git should compile on sid, with no lintian warnings. Please let me know what you think. Looks like great work. Congrats! I've not built the package yet. A quick review only reveals: * what's

Bug#657076: Updating and maintaining barry in Debian / Ubuntu

2012-04-28 Thread intrigeri
Hi Chris, intrigeri wrote (26 Apr 2012 23:38:29 GMT) : Chris Frey wrote (25 Apr 2012 23:59:02 GMT) : The latest git sources from http://repo.or.cz/w/barry.git should compile on sid, I concur. with no lintian warnings. I see two kinds of warnings: debhelper-but-no-misc-depends and

Bug#657076: Updating and maintaining barry in Debian / Ubuntu

2012-04-26 Thread Chris Frey
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 03:36:45PM +0200, intrigeri wrote: The latest git sources from http://repo.or.cz/w/barry.git should compile on sid, with no lintian warnings. Please let me know what you think. Where can I find the corresponding orig.tar.gz? I'm hoping to release a real 0.18.0

Bug#657076: Updating and maintaining barry in Debian / Ubuntu

2012-04-26 Thread intrigeri
Hi Chris, Chris Frey wrote (25 Apr 2012 23:59:02 GMT) : I'm hoping you're still interested in reviewing Barry for upload to Debian sid. Sure. As for Barry itself, there's only general documentation updates, and one feature in the Desktop GUI that needs to be implemented before version 0.18

Bug#657076: Updating and maintaining barry in Debian / Ubuntu

2012-04-25 Thread Chris Frey
Hi intrigeri, I'm hoping you're still interested in reviewing Barry for upload to Debian sid. As for Barry itself, there's only general documentation updates, and one feature in the Desktop GUI that needs to be implemented before version 0.18 is released. As for the Debian packaging, it is

Bug#657076: Updating and maintaining barry in Debian / Ubuntu

2012-03-19 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Without opensync plugins, though, we should leave the Desktop out of Debian for now. Is there an easy way to make packages optional? There is, actually, a way to make your debian/control dynamic: http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/87y5rcla88.fsf@algernon.balabit Cheers, -- intrigeri

Bug#657076: Updating and maintaining barry in Debian / Ubuntu

2012-03-19 Thread Chris Frey
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 06:53:19PM +0100, intrigeri wrote: Hi, Without opensync plugins, though, we should leave the Desktop out of Debian for now. Is there an easy way to make packages optional? There is, actually, a way to make your debian/control dynamic:

Bug#657076: Updating and maintaining barry in Debian / Ubuntu

2012-03-04 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Chris Frey wrote (03 Mar 2012 14:50:14 GMT) : Stable is what I had handy. I realize this is a work in progress. I suggest you use a pbuilder sid chroot to build packages that are supposed to be uploaded into sid at some point. There's a large body of work on the opensync side that is not

Bug#657076: Updating and maintaining barry in Debian / Ubuntu

2012-03-04 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Chris Frey wrote (04 Mar 2012 13:59:49 GMT) : I, as the one who's spending time to review your packaging, and offered to sponsor your packages, do care. I find it useful to be able to infer, from a given package version number (be it a source or binary package built from your Git

Bug#657076: Updating and maintaining barry in Debian / Ubuntu

2012-03-04 Thread Chris Frey
On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 01:33:14PM +0100, intrigeri wrote: I named it opensync0 since that plugin depends on libopensync0, which is available in Squeeze. libopensync0 was a binary library package built from the opensync source package. Using ABI numbers in such a binary package name is

Bug#657076: Updating and maintaining barry in Debian / Ubuntu

2012-03-03 Thread Chris Frey
On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 09:26:34AM +0100, intrigeri wrote: The answer is basically none. Once can maintain a package in Debian (as is: doing maintenance work, being responsible, and being in the Maintainer: control field) without any kind of special status. Excellent! In the latest Barry

Bug#657076: Updating and maintaining barry in Debian / Ubuntu

2012-03-03 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Chris Frey wrote (03 Mar 2012 08:27:32 GMT) : In the latest Barry git tree, I've updated the debian packaging to Standards-Version 3.9.1 (the latest for Squeeze) We don't wait until all previous Debian releases are EOL'd before we start following the latest Debian Policy. Please follow the

Bug#657076: Updating and maintaining barry in Debian / Ubuntu

2012-03-03 Thread Chris Frey
On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 02:54:34PM +0100, intrigeri wrote: We don't wait until all previous Debian releases are EOL'd before we start following the latest Debian Policy. Please follow the latest available Standards-Version: Debian Policy 3.9.3 was released. See

Bug#657076: Updating and maintaining barry in Debian / Ubuntu

2012-03-01 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Chris Frey wrote (01 Mar 2012 01:59:39 GMT) : How much lag time is there between applying for maintainer status, and being able to have sponsored uploads? The answer is basically none. Once can maintain a package in Debian (as is: doing maintenance work, being responsible, and being in

Bug#657076: Updating and maintaining barry in Debian / Ubuntu

2012-02-29 Thread intrigeri
Hi Chris! One month has passed, and nobody adopted the barry package in Debian; the Wheezy freeze will happen in a few months. I suggest you decide whether you want to take care of barry in Debian, so that we avoid uploading packages in a hurry at the last minute. My help proposal (reviews and

Bug#657076: Updating and maintaining barry in Debian / Ubuntu

2012-02-29 Thread Chris Frey
On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 01:37:42AM +0100, intrigeri wrote: Hi Chris! One month has passed, and nobody adopted the barry package in Debian; the Wheezy freeze will happen in a few months. I suggest you decide whether you want to take care of barry in Debian, so that we avoid uploading

Bug#657076: Updating and maintaining barry in Debian / Ubuntu

2012-01-27 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Chris Frey wrote (27 Jan 2012 02:58:23 GMT) : Changelog: The changelog needs to be kept up to date in Debian. I've tried to limit myself to just using my own entry at the top, but I'm willing to find a better way to share that file if downstream wants to work with

Bug#657076: Updating and maintaining barry in Debian / Ubuntu

2012-01-27 Thread Chris Frey
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:20:10AM +0100, intrigeri wrote: I don't understand very well what you are expecting from the Debian maintainer. Be them anyone else or (soon?) yoursef, what they must put in debian/changelog is: Oh, I know the changelog must be updated, but some maintainers have the

Bug#657076: Updating and maintaining barry in Debian / Ubuntu

2012-01-26 Thread intrigeri
Hi Chris, Chris Frey wrote (24 Jan 2012 01:04:48 GMT) : 1) Version 0.18 is nearing readiness I'm hoping to release 0.18, maybe mid-Feb. There's a GUI in development to make syncing with opensync easier as well. It would be nice to have this coordinated with Debian

Bug#657076: Updating and maintaining barry in Debian / Ubuntu

2012-01-26 Thread Chris Frey
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 02:04:42AM +0100, intrigeri wrote: Changelog: The changelog needs to be kept up to date in Debian. I've tried to limit myself to just using my own entry at the top, but I'm willing to find a better way to share that file if downstream wants