Bug#398198: A fresh package...

2007-08-07 Thread Loïc Minier
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007, Marc-André Lureau wrote: I have update copyrights licenses. I hope it's ok! Good work on the copyright side of things! But unfortunately, you need to list the full license grant in the copyright file (like there was for the LGPL). It's the part with: This library is

Bug#398198: A fresh package...

2007-08-07 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 09:06:29AM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: Good work on the copyright side of things! But unfortunately, you need to list the full license grant in the copyright file (like there was for the LGPL). It's the part with: This library is free software finishing with the FSF

Bug#398198: A fresh package...

2007-08-07 Thread Loïc Minier
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007, Kumar Appaiah wrote: Hope it's OK now. Also, I hope Marc-André doesn't mind that I have done this, since I had a little free time! :-) Thanks; it's fine! I've tagged and uploaded this. -- Loïc Minier

Bug#398198: A fresh package...

2007-08-07 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 10:10:50AM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: Thanks; it's fine! I've tagged and uploaded this. Mighty nice of you! Thanks to Matthias, Marc-André and you for all the advice! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036

Bug#398198: A fresh package...

2007-08-07 Thread Marc-André Lureau
Hi, On 8/7/07, Kumar Appaiah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Done. It's LGPL 2 or later for Vala, and GPL 2 for gapi. Hope it's OK now. Also, I hope Marc-André doesn't mind that I have done this, since I had a little free time! :-) Are you kidding? Great! thanks again! -- Marc-André Lureau

Bug#398198: A fresh package...

2007-08-06 Thread Loïc Minier
Hi, On Sun, Aug 05, 2007, Marc-André Lureau wrote: The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/v/vala - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget

Bug#398198: A fresh package...

2007-08-06 Thread Loïc Minier
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007, Kumar Appaiah wrote: Have you had time to look at our changes? I know that you are aware, but I just wanted to make sure... Thanks for the reminder; I'm usually quite responsive, even for sponsoring requests, but you may ping me after a couple of days without news. In

Bug#398198: A fresh package...

2007-08-06 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 02:53:16PM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: Thanks for the reminder; I'm usually quite responsive, even for sponsoring requests, but you may ping me after a couple of days without news. In this particular case, I was sick, had real life things to do, and had another

Bug#398198: A fresh package...

2007-08-06 Thread Marc-André Lureau
Hi, I have update copyrights licenses. I hope it's ok! Regards, -- Marc-André Lureau, GSmartMix On 8/6/07, Loïc Minier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Sun, Aug 05, 2007, Marc-André Lureau wrote: The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL:

Bug#398198: A fresh package...

2007-08-05 Thread Marc-André Lureau
Hi, Sorry for the mess. The latest package is here. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/v/vala - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget

Bug#398198: A fresh package...

2007-08-05 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 01:09:08PM +0300, Marc-André Lureau wrote: - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/v/vala/vala_0.1.2-1.dsc Dear Loic, Have you had time to look at our changes? I know that you are aware, but I just wanted to make sure... Thanks! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458,

Bug#398198: A fresh package...

2007-08-04 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Marc, I just observed one more minor mistake; it is that the version has been bumped to 0.12-2. You should not do that, since the Debian revision number *always* must begin with 1. So, I have modified your changelog to add those changes to 0.12-1 itself; that is, I have added your man page

Bug#398198: A fresh package...

2007-08-04 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 06:21:08PM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: On Fri, Aug 03, 2007, Kumar Appaiah wrote: Then, edit the control file and add me as Uploader, just below Loic's name. Then, about the changelog, I think a fresh, clean changelog is needed,

Bug#398198: A fresh package...

2007-08-04 Thread Marc-André Lureau
hi, Thanks you guys. vala is now on mentors.debian.net, Ready for you, Loic, to review and upload. I am happy to assure the maintenance, since Mathias is probably on holidays or busy on something else. Regards, -- Marc-André Lureau, GSmartMix

Bug#398198: A fresh package...

2007-08-04 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 10:59:59PM +0300, Marc-André Lureau wrote: hi, Thanks you guys. vala is now on mentors.debian.net, Ready for you, Loic, to review and upload. http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/v/vala/vala_0.1.2-1.dsc Just to make it easy for review! :-) Kumar -- Kumar

Bug#398198: A fresh package...

2007-08-03 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On 03/08/07, Marc-André Lureau wrote: *Ready* :) ready to what? Release it? How does that happen? you just have to put it in the incoming queue? Yes. But before that, I'd like to respond to all your earlier mails. First of all, you weren't actually being rude. It's just that it took time for

Bug#398198: A fresh package...

2007-08-03 Thread Loïc Minier
Hi, On Fri, Aug 03, 2007, Marc-André Lureau wrote: Where should go the request? I'll just tell you: elmarco-guest. I've requested your addition and you were added to collab-maint. On Fri, Aug 03, 2007, Marc-André Lureau wrote: I don't think svn-upgrade copes with mergeWithUpstream

Bug#398198: A fresh package...

2007-08-03 Thread Marc-André Lureau
hi, What is [EMAIL PROTECTED] :) I'll check out later! Please take back the ownership Kumar! It's totally fine for me! -- Marc-André Lureau, GSmartMix On 8/2/07, Kumar Appaiah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: owner 398198 [EMAIL PROTECTED] thankyou

Bug#398198: A fresh package...

2007-08-03 Thread Marc-André Lureau
Hi, @Marc-André and Mathias: I'm ready when you're; basically, I don't feel like taking care of more packages, but I would be happy to sponsor one of you (or you two). *Ready* :) ready to what? Release it? How does that happen? you just have to put it in the incoming queue? Kumar ? would

Bug#398198: A fresh package...

2007-08-02 Thread Marc-André Lureau
Kumar, I hope you had a look at our effort to package vala, since it has been reviewed by at least 3 people several times.. I also have a difficult environment here, but this is not a reason to push a single-men effort package so fast. Loic, I still don't know how to use collab, and what would

Bug#398198: A fresh package...

2007-08-02 Thread Kumar Appaiah
owner 398198 [EMAIL PROTECTED] thankyou On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:33:25AM +0300, Marc-André Lureau wrote: Kumar, I hope you had a look at our effort to package vala, since it has been reviewed by at least 3 people several times.. I also have a difficult environment here, but this is not

Bug#398198: [Fwd: Re: Bug#398198: A fresh package...]

2007-08-02 Thread Kumar Appaiah
for a break. Sorry for the haste! Please do excuse me. :-) Kumar - Forwarded message from Kumar Appaiah [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Kumar Appaiah Subject: Re: Bug#398198: A fresh package... To: Marc-André Lureau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Loic, Mathias Hasselmann Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 14:26

Bug#398198: A fresh package...

2007-08-02 Thread Loïc Minier
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007, Marc-André Lureau wrote: Loic, I still don't know how to use collab, and what would have been the next steps... Did you try to look it up? I'm surprized you didn't find any information. A quick primer: - create an alioth account - request this account to be added to

Bug#398198: A fresh package...

2007-08-02 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:13:19AM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/collab-maint/ext-maint/vala/trunk cd trunk svn-buildpackage With some difficulty, I managed to do this just now. Other than a few minor points, I don't think there are many changes I could

Bug#398198: A fresh package...

2007-08-02 Thread Loïc Minier
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007, Kumar Appaiah wrote: 1. Watch file version can be bumped to 3. Not really necessary though; I have on strong feeling about such kind of tradeoffs. I do recommend using the latest debhelper compatibility level, so I suppose using the latest watch file format makes sense.

Bug#398198: A fresh package...

2007-08-02 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 02:46:16PM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: I guess you can just bump the version to 0.1.2 with the latest upstream version and push it into unstable. What do you feel? Feel free to disagree with your points. Sure, this is possible; if you do this, you should update the

Bug#398198: A fresh package...

2007-08-02 Thread Loïc Minier
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007, Kumar Appaiah wrote: Though I really didn't do much work on the package, I would still request you to add me to collab-maint since I want to know how the system works. My username is kumanna-guest. I've requested your addition to collab-maint to Raphaël Hertzog per

Bug#398198: A fresh package...

2007-08-02 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 07:13:21PM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: I've requested your addition to collab-maint to Raphaël Hertzog per http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/04/msg00013.html and he added you immediately: 19:10 lool buxy: Could you please add kumanna-guest to

Bug#398198: A fresh package...

2007-08-02 Thread Loïc Minier
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007, Kumar Appaiah wrote: Done! I've done some goofy things (NMU etc.) to fix up lintian warnings, but I guess you can just edit the changelog and fix that up. Oh no need to start a new changelog version; you can simply type dch and it will do the right thing, e.g. it will

Bug#398198: A fresh package...

2007-08-02 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 09:31:36PM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: On Thu, Aug 02, 2007, Kumar Appaiah wrote: Done! I've done some goofy things (NMU etc.) to fix up lintian warnings, but I guess you can just edit the changelog and fix that up. Oh no need to start a new changelog version; you

Bug#398198: A fresh package...

2007-07-29 Thread Loïc Minier
Hi Kumar, On Sat, Jul 28, 2007, Kumar Appaiah wrote: I have (before reading this bug thread) made an independent attempt to package vala, and have made a lintian clean package. It is at: dget http://kumar.travisbsd.org/debpackages/vala_0.1.2-1.dsc TBH, I already reviewed and

Bug#398198: A fresh package...

2007-07-29 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Loic, On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:41:47AM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: TBH, I already reviewed and polished the version in collab-maint and I'm not too excited about reviewing a different implementation. People originally interested in maintaining vala in Debian do not seem to be

Bug#398198: A fresh package...

2007-07-28 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Friends, I have (before reading this bug thread) made an independent attempt to package vala, and have made a lintian clean package. It is at: dget http://kumar.travisbsd.org/debpackages/vala_0.1.2-1.dsc Please send me your comments on the packaging. Thanks! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462,