New packaging advice, manpages and binary additions

2007-10-15 Thread Robin Cornelius
Hi everyone, trying to create a new debian package but have a few queries. I'm trying to create a new package for an app that i use that I would like to see in debian, and hopefully in the longterm become a DD. I have not yet filed a ITP on WNPP. The first issue i had was getting my man page to

Re: New packaging advice, manpages and binary additions

2007-10-15 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 10:46:08AM +0100, Robin Cornelius wrote: The first issue i had was getting my man page to be found in the debianised source. I could not find this documentation anywhere but it seems that just having my manpage named debian/qavimator.6 was not enough i had to also have

Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath error message

2007-10-15 Thread varun_shrivastava
hi Justin Pryzby-43 wrote: packagename.shlibs is what gets installed to /v/l/d/i. shlibs.local is an additional thing read by dpkg-shlibdeps for cases when someone elses public library package doesn't include packagename.shlibs. In this case dpkg wouldn't otherwise be able to find the

Re: New packaging advice, manpages and binary additions

2007-10-15 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 03:59:46PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: Put a file called manpages in the Debian directory (or package/manpages, in case you use multiple packages). The contents Sorry, it should be package.manpages. of this file should be: debian/qavimator.6 That's it, if you

RFS: ladr and prover9-manual (updated package)

2007-10-15 Thread Peter Collingbourne
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my packages ladr and prover9-manual (I am packaging the documentation separately because upstream distributes it in a separate tarball). * Package name: ladr, prover9-manual Version : 0.0.200710 Upstream Author : William McCune [EMAIL

Re: Bug#444514: marked as done (gpredict: FTBFS: error: 'GtkTooltips' undeclared)

2007-10-15 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, IANADD, but... On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 01:28:36AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Shall we open bugs for each and every problem encountered, with individual patch, and then check them regularly through the QA? Or fix yes, thats probably the best way to go. them all while we're at it, and

Re: Bug#444514: marked as done (gpredict: FTBFS: error: 'GtkTooltips' undeclared)

2007-10-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 01:03:30PM +0200, Patrick Schoenfeld a écrit : http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-pkgs.en.html#s-nmu It states: Do not do housekeeping tasks, do not change the name of modules or files, do not move directories; in general, do not fix things which are

Re: Bug#444514: marked as done (gpredict: FTBFS: error: 'GtkTooltips' undeclared)

2007-10-15 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 08:36:26PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Since the maintainer is not a DD and is apparently inactive for one year, I would recommend Cyril to ask on -devel, and -qa if he can orphan the package, and then propose comprehensive NMU. If it is to be orphaned, there are two

Re: New packaging advice, manpages and binary additions

2007-10-15 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2007/10/15, Robin Cornelius [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Second issue is how do I add a binary file, eg an icon (xpm), to the source tree?. The applicaiton is a X11 QT app and so it would be nice to have a menu icon but upstream does not have one. Clearly the ideal situation is to get upstream to add

RFS: gbemol

2007-10-15 Thread Stefan Ebner
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package gbemol. * Package name: gbemol Version : 0.2.1-1 Upstream Author : [Felipe Weckx felipe.weckx at gmail dot com] * URL : [http://gbemol.sourceforge.net/] * License : [GPL] Section : sound It

Re: New packaging advice, manpages and binary additions

2007-10-15 Thread Thomas Goirand
First, I'm not a DD, just I try to maintain some packages. So don't take my advices as facts. Robin Cornelius wrote: Hi everyone, trying to create a new debian package but have a few queries. I'm trying to create a new package for an app that i use that I would like to see in debian, and

Re: On Homepage links [was: RFS: esmtp (updated package)]

2007-10-15 Thread José Fonseca
On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 21:01:24 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: I'd appreciate if a DD could sponsor the upload of esmtp (user configurable relay-only MTA): I'm no DD, etc., you know the drill. Name:esmtp Version: 0.6.0-1 Uploaded:2007-09-03 17:27:01 Description: esmtp - User

Re: Bug#444514: marked as done (gpredict: FTBFS: error: 'GtkTooltips' undeclared)

2007-10-15 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 08:36:26PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: in the past, I followed those rules for an obviously unmanitained package, and all it resulted in was that a DD ignored my NMU patch and uploaded his own NMU which contained all the fixes I refrained to include... (and I think he

Re: Bug#444514: marked as done (gpredict: FTBFS: error: 'GtkTooltips' undeclared)

2007-10-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 03:42:54PM +0200, Patrick Schoenfeld a écrit : No? The maintainer of gpredict appearently is active (he answered in this thread..) and a DD. Oops, I slipped a few lines when looking at the thread, and thought that the package was esmtp, which looks unmaintained but is

Re: RFS: grun -- GTK based Run dialog [delayed-7 NMU]

2007-10-15 Thread Bas Wijnen
Hi, On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 03:41:27PM -0500, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for a 7 days delayed NMU of package grun. I was a bit busy, and expected someone else to look at this before me, but appearantly that didn't happen. It seems like a serious problem, so

Re: RFS: grun -- GTK based Run dialog [delayed-7 NMU]

2007-10-15 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
Bas Wijnen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have just one question about this part: @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ #include grun2.xpm #if defined (HAVE_GETTEXT) || defined (HAVE_CATGETS) #include libintl.h +#define UTF8 UTF-8 #else #include intl/libintl.h #endif @@ -1107,6 +1108,7 @@ int PASCAL

RFS: lsb-hardware4linux.info-collector

2007-10-15 Thread Victor Moral
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package lsb-hardware4linux.info-collector. * Package name: lsb-hardware4linux.info-collector Version : 0.9.4-2 Upstream Author : Frederic Lepied [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://hardware4linux.info/download/ * License

RFS: adanaxisgpl 1.2.2-1

2007-10-15 Thread Barry deFreese
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package adanaxisgpl. * Package name: adanaxisgpl Version : 1.2.2-1 Upstream Author : Andy Southgate * URL : http://www.mushware.com * License : GPL Section : non-free/games It builds these binary

RFS: gmult 5.1-1

2007-10-15 Thread Barry deFreese
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package gmult. * Package name: gmult Version : 5.3-1 Upstream Author : Michael Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://mterry.name/gmult/ * License : GPL Section : games It builds these binary packages:

Re: package-name-doesnt-match-sonames

2007-10-15 Thread Felipe Sateler
Neil Williams wrote: On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 23:10:52 -0200 Eriberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi mentors! I am packaging a tool to translate words (KTranslator). I fixed some Your most important comment is right at the end: The libs are specifics to this program. In which case, the

Re: package-name-doesnt-match-sonames

2007-10-15 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:40:43 -0300 Felipe Sateler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The libs are specifics to this program. In which case, the libs MUST NOT be in /usr/lib/ but in /usr/lib/foo - in your case probably /usr/lib/ktranslator/. Then lintian won't bother you. You aren't building a

Re: Bug#444514: marked as done (gpredict: FTBFS: error: 'GtkTooltips' undeclared)

2007-10-15 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Patrick Schoenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] (15/10/2007): No? The maintainer of gpredict appearently is active (he answered in this thread..) and a DD. You might not be aware of [1,2,3]. Reading the (originally) Cc'd bugreport might help… 1.

Re: RFS: adanaxisgpl 1.2.2-1

2007-10-15 Thread Paul Wise
On 10/16/07, Barry deFreese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think this should need to go in non-free, so I'm not sure why it's defaulting there. This also closes RFP: 444144 If it is DFSG-compliant, please edit the Section in debian/control. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: package-name-doesnt-match-sonames

2007-10-15 Thread Felipe Sateler
Neil Williams wrote: On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:40:43 -0300 Felipe Sateler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The libs are specifics to this program. In which case, the libs MUST NOT be in /usr/lib/ but in /usr/lib/foo - in your case probably /usr/lib/ktranslator/. Then lintian won't bother

Re: RFS: adanaxisgpl 1.2.2-1

2007-10-15 Thread Barry deFreese
Paul Wise wrote: On 10/16/07, Barry deFreese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think this should need to go in non-free, so I'm not sure why it's defaulting there. This also closes RFP: 444144 If it is DFSG-compliant, please edit the Section in debian/control. Yes, I realized

RFS: cegui-mk2 (updated package)

2007-10-15 Thread Muammar El Khatib
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.5.0-3 of my package cegui-mk2. It builds these binary packages: libcegui-mk2-1 - Crazy Eddie's GUI (libraries) libcegui-mk2-1-dbg - Crazy Eddie's GUI (debugging libraries) libcegui-mk2-dev - Crazy Eddie's GUI (development files)