Package: wnpp
Package: wnpp
Package: wnpp
Package: wnpp
Control: tags -1 + patch
This patch changes the version of the kangaroo cow salsa merge from an
NMU, "-5.1", to a QA upload, "-6" (because the package is orphaned)
and makes the kangaroo cow license "GPL-2+".
Thanks,
Paul Hardy
diff -u -r -N nmu-kangaroo/debia
Unicode's new version for 2019 is attached, with data files in
http://www.unicode.org/ivd/data/ explicitly mentioned as covered under
the license. The source text is at
http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html.
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Paul Hardy
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ling that, "C<..>".
> +or failing that, C<..>.
> Passed on to dgit, if git-debrebase invokes dgit.
>
> =item --[no-]origs
> --
> 2.11.0
>
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.
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position the grave accent.
On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 12:18 PM Sean Whitton wrote:
>
> On Sat 05 Jan 2019 at 09:19am -0800, Paul Hardy wrote:
>
> > -You should also write appropriate dput configuration,
> > +You should also write an appropriate dput configuratio
On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 2:44 AM Ian Jackson
wrote:
> ..
> You are using git for this, right ?
Yes. That is how I generated the git format-patch file.
If you can give me a couple of days I will look over the 8.3 man page
changes as well.
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Paul Hardy
my creating the modified
patch.
All the best,
Paul Hardy
last moment.
> Hello Paul,
>
> Thank you for your interest. Here is a review of the patch.
>
> On Sat 05 Jan 2019 at 09:19am -0800, Paul Hardy wrote:
>
> > dgit clone needs to be told the source package name
> > -(which might be different to the binary package name,
>
and out
better.
In git-debrebase.5.pod, after "reified" I added " [re-quiltified?]" as
a guess of what you meant. You'll want to change that accordingly.
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Paul Hardy
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I have submitted a merge request for this on salsa.debian.org.
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Paul Hardy
Here is a kangaroo cow NMU patch created with "diff -r -N -u". The
directories are "cowsay-3.03+dfsg2-5" (current Debian unstable
version) and "cowsay-3.03+dfsg2-5.1" (kangaroo cow NMU version).
Thanks,
Paul Hardy
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Control: tags -1 + pending - help
I am going to prepare an NMU to fix this bug using the patch that I
submitted previously.
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Paul Hardy
the Unicode Consortium's license terms, even if
unintentional, after they so kindly gave me a lifetime membership
gratis[1]. :-)
> Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, let alone a copyright lawyer.
Me neither, so I erred on the side of caution.
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Paul Hardy
[1] http://unicode.org/consortium/members.html
sion. If not,
at least I took the time to make it available.
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Paul Hardy
hole thing can be left
out and that bug closed, as you wish.
Thanks,
Paul Hardy
it horizontally) with the stated copyright and
license terms.
Francois, this package has no maintainer right now so if you want to
upload this patch please do. The header information in kangaroo.cow
could be copied into debian/copyright as well.
Have fun!
Thanks,
Paul Hardy
kangaroo.cow
e installation?
I know that the package priority is up to the FTP Masters and not up
to any of us. I just mention the above as input for the ed maintainer
to discuss with the FTP Masters if so desired.
Thank you,
Paul Hardy
ntian (concerning
"wrong-path-for-interpreter" with the relaxed 4.2.1 policy), and in
fact that bug was already filed by someone else and already closed
(#908350).
Thank you for your detailed responses,
Paul Hardy
[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2018/06/msg00098.html
[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2018/06/msg00099.html
Russ,
On Sun, Oct 7, 2018 at 3:59 PM Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> Paul Hardy writes:
>
> > Thank you for dealing with bug #907725 ("xfonts packages are not using
> > the x11 section in practice"). I was told that it was up to the FTP
> > Masters, so I wrote the
this useful.
Thank you,
Paul Hardy
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ow
swamped they are so I wasn't expecting a rapid response.
Sincerely,
Paul Hardy
-- Forwarded message -----
From: Paul Hardy
Date: Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 6:40 AM
Subject: Appropriate Section for PCF Fonts
To:
Dear FTP Masters,
I am preparing a new upload of my Unifont package, whic
Control: tags -1 patch
Is the attached patch acceptable? I verified that OUTOFSYNC_ARCHES is
set to null in the latest britney2 source.
Thanks,
Paul Hardy
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a chance of something being lost in
translation. If nobody who is familiar with the Debian md format has
time I can do that, but then please compare any formatting with the
HTML file that I submitted; I do know HTML well and what I did there
is what I intended. HTML is my native language. :-)
>
> On
gave at Debconf15. What is not said, however,
> is that transcription is incomplete: it stops at example ("tip") 1, and
> the talk goes up to tip 9. Finishing that transcription would be a nice
> contribuition, if anyone out there is listening (hint, hint).
>
> > On 03-09-18 0
Thanks for fixing this so quickly! My package was passing its other
checks and has already migrated to testing.
Paul Hardy
;--or just
make up an example to replace that one.
It would be nice to make these changes before the buster freeze if
possible, so a cleaned-up version gets into stable as soon as
possible.
Thank you,
Paul Hardy
. That version entered unstable on 2018-08-11.
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Paul Hardy
conform.
In keeping with the original Unix philosophy that a program should do
one thing, and do it well, less should be able to render scrolling
text as it is meant to be displayed. That doesn't solve the situation
of the UTF-8 BOM though. I hope that utfcheck helps the situation.
Thanks,
Paul Hardy
al web page.
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Paul Hardy
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d [see bug #906617]. This was my first time using Debian's
CI testing and what I did works but is a little rough around the
edges. I think I have a better understanding of the CI testing
environment now, and should be able to accomplish both things next
weekend.
Thanks,
Paul Hardy
On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 11:57 AM Paul Gevers wrote:
> On 26-08-18 04:33, Paul Hardy wrote:
> > I can suggest additional text as a patch here, re-opening the bug (I
> > didn't want to do that before). Then you can accept or reject the
> > text I suggest, and close the bug a
i Paul,
>
> On 25-08-18 03:02, Paul Hardy wrote:
> ...
> Patches to the documentation are always welcome, especially to cover
> blind spots in our minds, even if only to get us in the right direction
> of what you are really looking for. However, as Martin already
> mentio
g filed against it. I want to
fix the bug, but I also am hoping to improve some other things related
to Debian packaging when I do. CI testing is one such thing.
On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 1:52 PM Martin Pitt wrote:
>
> Hello Paul,
>
> Paul Hardy [2018-08-19 7:44 -0700]:
>> ..
On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 12:57 AM, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 06:52:26PM -0700, Paul Hardy wrote:
>> Would it be possible to copy /root someplace temporarily during
>> installation, for example to /home/root if /home is an available file
>> system or even
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Paul Hardy wrote:
> Cyril,
>
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 7:28 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
>>
>> Control: retitle -1 installation-reports: /root directory deleted when
>> re-installing
Would it be possible to copy /root someplace temp
different.
Thanks,
Paul Hardy
On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 6:47 AM, Paul Hardy wrote:
> it can be said that the package has made a good faith effort to
I meant the "packager", not the "package", anthropomorphism aside!
Thanks,
Paul Hardy
On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 10:26 AM, Ian Jackson
wrote:
> Paul Hardy writes ("Bug#883950: Next steps on "[GPL-3+]" proposal"):
>> License: GPL-2
>> file:///usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2
>
> I'm late to this party, but one of the things that is w
". It would be
improbable for a user to see a URI like that and not realize that it
points to a specific file location on the system.
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Paul Hardy
it in the next upstream release.
Paul Hardy
or others to pick and
choose what they wanted to use.
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 11:12:12PM -0700, Paul Hardy wrote:
>> Package: debmake-doc
>> Version: 1.9-1
>> Tags: patch
>>
>> Section 5.16.1 recommends running autoreconf when building a package
> ...
> Let's a
g with running various checks on the final result (see
the GNU Automake manual for further details). It is advisable if you are
using GNU Autotools to ensure that "make distcheck" succeeds on the upstream
package before attempting to create a debianized version. If the upstream
package fails a "make distcheck" with Autotools, it will probably have
issues on Debian.
[end insert]
Thanks,
Paul Hardy
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: "Paul Hardy"
Version: 1.0
Upstream Author: Paul Hardy
URL: http://unifoundry.com/utfcheck
License: GPL 2+
Programming Language: flex
Description: check validity of UTF-8 and ASCII files
The utfcheck program examines a text file and prints a summa
s as a "zero-width no-break space". That was
its original purpose as a word joiner, and that is how the Unicode
Standard says it still should be rendered for backward-compatibility
with earlier versions of Unicode (see Unicode Standard 11.0, Section
23.2, Layout Controls).
Even in raw mode, I still would not trust less to find out if a file
started with a BOM--I use od.
Thanks,
Paul Hardy
; would imply a policy violation.
"Should" implies a recommendation. If it truly is a policy violation,
then I need to remove or edit the comments in my debian/watch files.
:-)
You might want to change the copyright from "2014-2015" to
"2014-2018", but I didn't change
Package: debian-keyring
Version: 2018.06.24
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Dear debian-keyring Maintianers,
Attached are a few typo corrections for the README file.
Thanks,
Paul Hardy
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+++ README.new 2018
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: "Paul Hardy"
Version: 1.0
Upstream Author: Paul Hardy
URL: http://unifoundry.com/unibetacode
License: GPL 2+, GFDL 1.3+
Programming Language: flex
Description: convert classical Greek and Coptic between Beta Code and Unicode
The unibetaco
ello, my name is %s!\n"
should fix that. See this excerpt at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettext
#: src/name.c:36
msgid "My name is %s.\n"
msgstr "Je m'appelle %s.\n"
Paul Hardy
ran into it.
Thanks,
Paul Hardy
(that only contains one letter!) and some text
files, I don't know that autopkgtest can test anything.
Please go ahead and modify this any way you want if it will help make
debmake-doc clearer.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks,
Paul Hardy
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I just ran across this link by Martin Pitt about adt being deprecated,
with adt-run being replaced by autopkgtest in unstable:
https://piware.de/2016/06/autopkgtest-4-0-simplified-cli-deprecating-adt/
That information might give you content for the new autopkgtest process.
Thanks,
Paul
> without bdf2psf.
Thanks for noticing this. I am preparing a new Unifont release and
have already made that change, as well as the one I just reported in
bug #930833 (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=903833).
I figured I'd report that before someone else did.
Take care,
Paul Hardy
Package: ttf-unifont
Version: 1:11.0.01-1
Severity: minor
The package ttf-unifont is a TrueType font. TrueType fonts do not
need a Depends entry for xfonts-utils.
This will be fixed in the next upcoming Unifont release.
Thanks,
Paul Hardy
I meant to say typing "adt-run --version" gives the warning message
about it being deprecated, not just typing "adt-run" by itself.
Thanks,
Paul Hardy
manpage.1. This
guide could also mention the GNU help2man package, which takes the
output of a program's "--help" and "--version" options to create a
simple man page. help2man is available as a Debian package.
Thanks,
Paul Hardy
was that the correct way of saying "I am so-and-so"
in French is "je m'appelle" ("I call myself"), not "je suis". I don't
know if that is a bug in gettext or just in the debmake-doc package.
* I will submit proofreading comments for the debmake(1) man page
s
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: "Paul Hardy"
Version: 1.0
Upstream Author: Paul Hardy
URL: http://unifoundry.com/utf8gen/
License: GPL 2+, GFDL 1.3+
Programming Language: C
Description: convert ASCII hexadecimal Unicode code points to UTF-8
The utf8gen package contains o
mes, but generally a semicolon is better.
Also, you might or might not want to mention in the introduction for
section 2.3 that control files are ordinarily stored in the debian
directory under package-name.doc-base.
Thanks,
Paul Hardy
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the
majority of his time over the past several years.
He has sent me a version of man2texi that still needs some work before
it can be released. Some issues with texinfo need to be resolved. I
have not looked at this yet but (now that Unifont 11.0.01 is released)
plan to look at it soon.
Thanks,
Paul
ix it the following weekend. Otherwise, I am
planning for a Unifont update with a lot of glyph fixes.
Thank you,
Paul Hardy
Greetings Manuel,
On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 1:52 PM, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <
manuel.montez...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + pending
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> 2017-09-13 05:35 Paul Hardy:
>
>> Helmut,
>>
>> ...
>> I am preparing another upload
On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 12:56 AM, Adam D. Barratt
<a...@adam-barratt.org.uk> wrote:
> On 2017-10-08 23:51, Paul Hardy wrote:
>>
>> Section 5.13.2: low priority packages no longer wait 10 days to
>> migrate to testing; they wait 5 days now. If this is a permanen
update this section.
Section 5.13.3: recommend removing the ending punctuation in the list
for all elements except the final "." on the last element.
Section 6.7.8.1: tar can read a ".tar.gz" file directly without using
zcat; consider rewriting this line to just use tar.
Thank you,
Paul Hardy
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for FontForge to accept that file.
The "Justa.ttf" file contains just the letter 'a' (and maybe some
other things that FontForge adds on its own).
You can give these files any license you want.
[I think we can remove Sean from future emails on this bug, because it
is no longer again
all -s" if they
want, for non-Debian builds.
Is it okay with you if I wait until Sunday, October 1st to perform
this upload? I will be away from home the weekend after next without
a computer; I would rather not perform an upload right before being
away from home.
Thanks again,
Paul Hardy
/?id=126157380dc0eba302f3d476b1cffc13f968c207
That is great. The next lintian release should be able to close this
bug then, unless Stefan disagrees.
Thank you!
Paul Hardy
n of an upstream tarball.
However, I have modified my building procedure so that now I do create
a ".asc" signature file from my GNU ".sig" file before pdebuild
starts. So I have circumvented the whole issue, but that doesn't
solve it for others.
Thank you,
Paul Hardy
her that or have lintian generate an error--or override the error,
which I did not want to do.
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Paul Hardy
sig" files, but that discussion
is leaning towards ".asc"-only signatures.
Of course, Debian Policy 4.1.0 also just added mention of
debian/upstream/signing-key.asc.
Thank you,
Paul Hardy
; file (I just tried after getting
the lintian error). Running a command of the form "gpg --verify
mypkg_orig.tar.gz.sig" sees that the signature is valid for the
tarball.
In the meantime, will anyone object to our using a lintian override for this?
Thanks,
Paul Hardy
eneral
SGML files on Debian, apart from xsltproc.
I am not the maintainer of this package, and DocBook 4.1 is very, very
old at this point, but I am posting this in case it helps you resolve
this bug. Hopefully, this is also enough information for you to
decide to close the bug.
Good luck,
Paul
I am adding the maintainer of the New Maintainer's Guide and the Guide
for Debian Maintainers, Osamu Aoki, to this discussion. I would like
to reassign this wishlist bug to one of those packages if Osamu
agrees.
On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 6:59 PM, Paul Hardy <unifoun...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 5:46 PM, Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> wrote:
> Hello Paul,
>
> On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 04:36:55PM -0700, Paul Hardy wrote:
>> I was wondering if a maintainer signed a .dsc file in a package that
>> was uploaded (and hence signed) by a s
Sean,
On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 5:42 PM, Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> wrote:
> Hello Paul,
>
> On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 04:28:03PM -0700, Paul Hardy wrote:
>> My intention was to point someone new to packaging fonts in Debian in
>> the direction of an easy path
Russ,
On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 10:56 AM, Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote:
> Paul Hardy <unifoun...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> ...Debian Policy Manual, Section 5.4, "Debian source control files - .dsc",
>> states in the first sentence:
>
>> &q
Control: severity 868496 wishlist
On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 1:01 PM, Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> wrote:
> Hello Paul,
>
> On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 02:56:24AM -0700, Paul Hardy wrote:
>> Then would you consider it acceptable to make some mention in a
>
Andrey,
On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 12:21 AM, Andrey Rahmatullin <w...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 09:57:32PM -0700, Paul Hardy wrote:
>> "Font packages must invoke update-fonts-dir on each directory into
>> which they install fonts. This inv
whether someone who is creating a package to be
uploaded by a sponsor can clearsign their own .dsc file, or if only
the sponsor is able to do that without causing upload problems.
What is permissible? Can you clarify that in a future update to this section?
Thank you,
Paul Hardy
are inserted into the
maintainer scripts by dh_installdeb. See dh_installdeb(1) for an
explanation of how this works."
See also the Debian Fonts Packaging Policy page at
https://wiki.debian.org/Fonts/PackagingPolicy.
The new "dh $@" rules format invokes dh_installxfonts on a font
package at the appropriate time.
Thank you,
Paul Hardy
to Debian, would you be
amenable to starting Debian UTF-8 documents with the UTF-8 signature?
Then they would appear correctly in web browsers no matter what
Content or Meta tags say.
This same issue applies to other Debian documents of course (such as
the txt versions of maint-guide).
Thanks,
Paul Hardy
ioned this as an aside at the end of bug report #868281 but
figured I should also add that info to this bug report.
Thanks,
Paul Hardy
Because there are so many patches in the original attachment for this
bug report, I am attaching a GPG signature of the gzipped patch file
in this message for verification.
Thanks,
Paul Hardy
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approval.
Thanks,
Paul Hardy
at carries his approval.
Thanks,
Paul Hardy
kages in unstable now for 5
days, not 10 days. I don't know if that is a temporary change or is
permanent. If a permanent change, you might also consider changing
the text to use "normal" urgency.
Thanks,
Paul Hardy
"--allow-*'
option.
Please consider just removing the "--force-yes" option in the
B90lintian example in maint-guide Chapter 6.
Thanks,
Paul Hardy
-is-now-available/.
Thanks,
Paul Hardy
and all the chapters
are modified. I have not changed anything substantive, but will file
a couple of non-typo-related bugs for other aspects of maint-guide.
Thanks,
Paul Hardy
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Package: unifont-bin
Version: 1:10.0.01-1
Severity: normal
--
There is no more "extra" priority in Debian. The unifont-bin
"Priority" field should be updated to "optional" to match the package
override.
This will be fixed in the next Unifont upload.
Thanks,
Paul Hardy
g/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=866192. I am CCing
this message there.
Thanks,
Paul Hardy
ian stable.
Thanks,
Paul Hardy
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Latest version is 3.9.8 and your package only follows 4.0.0..."
Note also the misspelling of "severely" as "severly". The new tracker
spells this correctly.
Paul Hardy
Package: debian-policy
Version: 4.0.0.4
Severity: normal
--
Dear debian-policy Maintainers:
-- Forwarded message --
From: Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org>
Date: Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 10:16 PM
Subject: Re: Broken Link in Policy HTML Page
To: Paul Hardy <unifoun...@gmai
s sequence.
LibreOffice Writer on Stretch does insert the UTF-8 signature at the
beginning of a ".txt" file saved in UTF-8 format, as described in
"less" bug 473227 with respect to OpenOffice.
Thanks,
Paul Hardy
Paul,
On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 8:24 PM, Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2017-06-25 at 16:07 -0700, Paul Hardy wrote:
>
>> Earlier today, I sent the GNU less maintainer a two-line patch to the
>> "charset.c" file after my original email to him.
>
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