Re: Initial Contact

2003-04-14 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, 13 Apr 2003, Fielder George Dowding wrote: Right! Get on with it, eh? I'd say that's a pretty succinct way of putting it! g - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Looking for a Sponsor

2003-04-14 Thread Antal A. Buss
Hi, I'm tring to be a Debian Developer. I made a program to make a mirror from Debian Distributions server called ddmirror (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ddmirror) and follow the guide lines from Debian Policy, Developers' Reference and Debian New Maintainers' Guide to make a deb package. If

Re: Still no sponsor for PySol

2003-04-14 Thread Roger Ward
First (forgive me if you've stated it already) is this a native debian package? I.e. are you developing it for debian, or are you packaging it? How are you generating the .diff.gz files? dpkg-buildpackage should name them something like: pysol_4.81.orig.tar.gz and pysol_4.81-1.diff.gz. If

Re: RFS: playmidi

2003-04-14 Thread Brian Nelson
Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 13 Apr 2003, nil wrote: From an outsider's point of view Debian looks like the most irresponsible distro with no contact whatsoever with original package authors. [...] I have a question for you, though: why is it, do you think, that someone

Re: Looking for a Sponsor

2003-04-14 Thread Brian Nelson
Antal A. Buss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm tring to be a Debian Developer. I made a program to make a mirror from Debian Distributions server called ddmirror (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ddmirror) and follow the guide lines from Debian Policy, Developers' Reference and Debian New

Re: Initial Contact

2003-04-14 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, 13 Apr 2003, Fielder George Dowding wrote: I will sign up for the d-mentors list. I will lurk until I understand what my next step is. The next step, simply speaking, is to make the modifications to defoma you think are appropriate, make a new package (including all the trimmings, like

Re: Initial Contact

2003-04-14 Thread Fielder George Dowding
On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 17:15:31 +1000 (EST) Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 13 Apr 2003, Fielder George Dowding wrote: I will sign up for the d-mentors list. I will lurk until I understand what my next step is. The next step, simply speaking, is to make the modifications to

RFS: mkultra -- Lightweight KDE window decoration theme kgpg -- GnuPG frontend for KDE

2003-04-14 Thread Mike Hommey
Hi I am still looking for a sponsor for mkultra package. Both packages are available on http://glandium.nerim.net/debian/unstable I got a sponsorship proposal for kgpg, but someone sponsoring both packages would be preferable ;) Packages descriptions : ITP #187490 * Package name: mkultra

Re: Initial Contact

2003-04-14 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, 13 Apr 2003, Fielder George Dowding wrote: Right! Get on with it, eh? I'd say that's a pretty succinct way of putting it! g - Matt

Re: Still no sponsor for PySol

2003-04-14 Thread Alexander Nofftz
Hi Roger! Am Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 12:47:43AM -0400 schrieb Roger Ward: First (forgive me if you've stated it already) is this a native debian package? I.e. are you developing it for debian, or are you packaging it? I'm packaging it, adopting the debianized version of Adam Klein. The

Re: Is redirecting stdout/stderr in postinst allowed?

2003-04-14 Thread Frank Küster
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Frank Küster wrote: db_get mypackage/someinfo VAR=`process $RET | mangle with $WHATEVER` exec 31 $someconffile echo #added by postinst echo $VAR exec 3 Of course in this case, a here-document would be sufficient, but not generally.

Re: Initial Contact

2003-04-14 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 09:00:21 +, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Sun, 13 Apr 2003, Fielder George Dowding wrote: Right! Get on with it, eh? I'd say that's a pretty succinct way of putting it! g Personally I'd rather use your Then you can start the long and glorious journey through NM.

Re: Still no sponsor for PySol

2003-04-14 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Alexander Nofftz wrote: How are you generating the .diff.gz files? dpkg-buildpackage should name them something like: pysol_4.81.orig.tar.gz and pysol_4.81-1.diff.gz. If anyone knows a better way than dpkg-buildpackage to generate the diff let me know... I generated them manually by using diff

Re: Initial Contact

2003-04-14 Thread Jesus Climent
On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 01:29:39PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Hi, Then you can start the long and glorious journey through NM. Emphasis on _long_. (Does anybody know why new maintainer approvals seem to be stalled (again)?) mode type=flame No. And probably is better not to ask, to

Request for sponsor to become a new maintainer.

2003-04-14 Thread Erik Welander
Request for sponsor to become a new maintainer. My name is Erik Welander, and I am making a request for sponsorship in order to become a new maintainer for a package I have created and tested. I have read the New Maintainer's Guide and followed these directions when creating the package.

Re: Initial Contact

2003-04-14 Thread Paul Telford
On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Matthias Urlichs wrote: statement. Emphasis on _long_. (Does anybody know why new maintainer approvals seem to be stalled (again)?) FWIW, I was approved this weekend so the process is still moving along. Total time from start to finish was about 7 months for me.

Looking for a sponsership for starvoyager

2003-04-14 Thread Idan Sofer
I have published the request two weeks ago, having no repies, I am reposting with a few more details. I have invested some time making sure the package conforms to debian's guidelines, and it passes lintian tests. The package itself is splitted to two, starvoyager, containing the binary, and

Re: NM's to fix bugs?

2003-04-14 Thread Andreas Metzler
Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Bugs] Well, and (for me) more importantly: I've send patches for different bugs, asked for more information from the bug submitter and so on (about two weeks ago) for two different packages. No reaction from either maintainer nor any bug submitter.

Re: Initial Contact

2003-04-14 Thread Joe Nahmias
Fielder George Dowding wrote: I will sign up for the d-mentors list. I will lurk until I understand what my next step is. Also, you should peruse the list archives[0]. At lot of the same issues seems to come up with frightening regularity! Joe Nahmias, DD wannabe [0]

Re: Still no sponsor for PySol

2003-04-14 Thread Roger Ward
Quoting Alexander Nofftz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm packaging it, adopting the debianized version of Adam Klein. The upstream sources can be found at: http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/pysol/ How are you generating the .diff.gz files? I generated them manually by using diff directy. I

Re: NM's to fix bugs?

2003-04-14 Thread Andreas Barth
* Andreas Metzler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030414 16:20]: Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Bugs] Well, and (for me) more importantly: I've send patches for different bugs, asked for more information from the bug submitter and so on (about two weeks ago) for two different packages. No

Re: RFS: playmidi

2003-04-14 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Brian Nelson may or may not have written... Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] I have a question for you, though: why is it, do you think, that someone would have thought that playmidi was quite dead upstream? [...] I made the claim based upon the fact that

Re: Request for sponsor to become a new maintainer.

2003-04-14 Thread Brian Nelson
Erik Welander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Request for sponsor to become a new maintainer. My name is Erik Welander, and I am making a request for sponsorship in order to become a new maintainer for a package I have created and tested. I have read the New Maintainer's Guide and followed these

Re: RFS: eli -- compiler cunstruction kit

2003-04-14 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Frank eli is a set of tools for compiler construction (lexer, parser Frank generators, handling of semantic analysis with AGs, commandline Frank parser generator, debugging tools, ...) that integrates and Frank unites all of the tools so you have not to worry about their Frank interaction. It

Re: Still no sponsor for PySol

2003-04-14 Thread David Lloyd
Roger et al, Again, I would reccomend using dpkg-buildpackage, even if you only intend to generate the source upload. If you name the source tarball (upstream source) pkg_version.orig.tar.gz and are in the source tree (with /debian/ setup) it should generate the .diff.gz based on the last