Re: RFS: mediatomb -- open source (GPL) UPnP MediaServer with a web interface

2007-11-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Nov 26, 2007 3:36 PM, Andres Mejia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package mediatomb. A more thorough review of your package: doc/mediatomb.1 is generated from docbook xml, but that source code isn't available in the source package. This means the package cannot

Re: ITA: libdbi + libdbi-drivers (updated packages) 2nd try, please consider!

2007-11-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Nov 26, 2007 4:36 PM, Thomas Goirand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I did is this: ... Is that ok like this? Or should I just not backup the files, and delete them at the clean, as Craig Small suggested (less prone to errors)? Looks fine to me. Removing them on clean is just as good, and

Re: ITA: libdbi + libdbi-drivers (updated packages) 2nd try, please consider!

2007-11-26 Thread Thomas Goirand
Paul Wise wrote: On Nov 26, 2007 4:36 PM, Thomas Goirand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Wise wrote: You might want to support noopt too. What's that? Like nostrip, but ensures that the package is build with no optimisation (gcc -O0). Useful for people debugging crashes. Most of the time, I

Re: ITA: libdbi + libdbi-drivers (updated packages) 2nd try, please consider!

2007-11-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Nov 26, 2007 6:20 PM, Thomas Goirand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most of the time, I see people using -O2 instead. I'd find using a poor optimization level only for some that needs debugging quite frustrating. Can't people wishing to do debugging recompile the package (and even remove the

Re: scheme48 watch file

2007-11-26 Thread Trent W. Buck
[CC'd to mentors; please also CC replies directly to me as I'm not subscribed to that list.] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=411425 http://www.s48.org/1.7/scheme48-1.7.tgz http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/scheme48/ Regarding Please add a debian/watch file. ...I

Re: service helper package

2007-11-26 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 09:01:50PM -0800, C.J. Adams-Collier wrote: is there something like a service-common package that provides a helper script like the following for services to source? I think the current solution is provide a template with dh_make, which is somewhat more general since the

Re: service helper package

2007-11-26 Thread Matt Palmer
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 04:49:26AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 09:01:50PM -0800, C.J. Adams-Collier wrote: # Make sure the RUNDIR exists with correct permissions if [ ! -d $RUNDIR ]; then Any reason not to include the rundir in the pacakge? Then you don't have to

Re: service helper package

2007-11-26 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hallo C.J., C.J. Adams-Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there something like a service-common package that provides a helper script like the following for services to source? I'm thinking that it would belong somewhere like /usr/share/service-common/init.sh. I have not tested the

Re: service helper package

2007-11-26 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Jörg Sommer said: Init scripts should not use Bash, they should be Posix Shell scripts! Not strictly true. A script written for use with #!/bin/sh should use the POSIX superset allowed by policy. A script aimed at bsah should just declare it's interpreter as

interpretted scripts (Re: service helper package)

2007-11-26 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 02:13:42PM +, Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Jörg Sommer said: Init scripts should not use Bash, they should be Posix Shell scripts! Not strictly true. A script written for use with #!/bin/sh should use the POSIX superset allowed by policy.

Re: scheme48 watch file

2007-11-26 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Montag, den 26.11.2007, 20:30 +1100 schrieb Trent W. Buck: [CC'd to mentors; please also CC replies directly to me as I'm not subscribed to that list.] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=411425 http://www.s48.org/1.7/scheme48-1.7.tgz

RFS: dragbox

2007-11-26 Thread ulrik
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 From: Ulrik Sverdrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org Subject: RFS: dragbox Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package dragbox. * Package name: dragbox Version : 0.2.5-2 Upstream Author : Ulrik

-dbg package for a suite - one libfoo-dbg package sufficient?

2007-11-26 Thread Daniel Leidert
Hello, From a complete suite I build several packages: a library, a -dev, a plugin package for mozilla-based browsers and two packages that contain some applications. Now I got 2 crash reports during a short time. I normally rebuilt the packages with the nostrip option to get better backtraces.

Re: RFS: gnome-color-chooser

2007-11-26 Thread JackTheDipper
Thank you very much for your useful suggestions! Paul Wise wrote: E, I guess the diff.gz is empty because you are upstream? Can I suggest that you put the debian/ directory in the diff.gz instead of your upstream tarball? Ok, done. You didn't file an ITP bug and close it in the

Re: scheme48 watch file

2007-11-26 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 03:08:12PM +, Daniel Leidert wrote: Please add a debian/watch file. version=3 opts=downloadurlmangle=s/([^\/]+)\/download.html$/$1\/scheme48-$1.tgz/,filenamemangle=s/([^\/]+)\/download.html/scheme48-$1.tgz/ \ http://s48.org/index.html \

Re: interpretted scripts (Re: service helper package)

2007-11-26 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Justin Pryzby said: On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 02:13:42PM +, Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Jörg Sommer said: Init scripts should not use Bash, they should be Posix Shell scripts! Not strictly true. A script written for use with

Re: Ubuntu-to-Debian packaging

2007-11-26 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 06:23:50PM -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: You need a new changelog for Debian starting from scratch and you could adapt the copyright (if the license allow it) or just make one new. Why? Thats IMHO a very bad way to do it. 1) changelog is to track was has been

RFS: mcl

2007-11-26 Thread Philipp Benner
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package mcl. * Package name: mcl Version : 1:06-058-1 Upstream Author : Stijn van Dongen [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://micans.org/mcl/ * License : GPL-2 Section : math The MCL package is an

Re: scheme48 watch file

2007-11-26 Thread Eric Cooper
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 08:30:56PM +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote: ...I haven't been able to work out how to do this, because http://s48.org/ has a link to 1.7/download.html instead of to 1.7/ Here's a version that works, using the downloadurlmangle option: version=3

Re: RFS: dragbox

2007-11-26 Thread Nico Golde
Hi Ulrik, * ulrik [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-11-26 17:07]: [...] I am looking for a sponsor for my package dragbox. * Package name: dragbox Version : 0.2.5-2 Upstream Author : Ulrik Sverdrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL :

Re: service helper package

2007-11-26 Thread Thomas Goirand
Stephen Gran wrote: # Check whether we were configured to not start the services. check_for_no_start() { if [ $SERVICE_DISABLED = yes ]; then This is such a broken behavior. Initscripts are enabled and disabled in the configuration of the init system. That's not quite true - many

Re: interpretted scripts (Re: service helper package)

2007-11-26 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 03:53:33PM +, Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Justin Pryzby said: On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 02:13:42PM +, Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Jörg Sommer said: Init scripts should not use Bash, they should be Posix Shell

Re: service helper package

2007-11-26 Thread Neil Williams
Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Jörg Sommer said: Init scripts should not use Bash, they should be Posix Shell scripts! Not strictly true. A script written for use with #!/bin/sh should use the POSIX superset allowed by policy. A script aimed at bsah should just declare

Re: -dbg package for a suite - one libfoo-dbg package sufficient?

2007-11-26 Thread Matt Palmer
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 03:44:14PM +, Daniel Leidert wrote: From a complete suite I build several packages: a library, a -dev, a plugin package for mozilla-based browsers and two packages that contain some applications. Now I got 2 crash reports during a short time. I normally rebuilt

Re: scheme48 watch file

2007-11-26 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Montag, den 26.11.2007, 10:31 -0500 schrieb Eric Cooper: On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 08:30:56PM +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote: ...I haven't been able to work out how to do this, because http://s48.org/ has a link to 1.7/download.html instead of to 1.7/ Here's a version that works, using the

Re: Ubuntu-to-Debian packaging

2007-11-26 Thread L. Redrejo
El lun, 26-11-2007 a las 16:30 +0100, Patrick Schoenfeld escribió: On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 06:23:50PM -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: You need a new changelog for Debian starting from scratch and you could adapt the copyright (if the license allow it) or just make one new. Why?

Re: Ubuntu-to-Debian packaging

2007-11-26 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, [no need to CC me. I never expressed the wish that I want that] On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 09:34:27PM +0100, José L. Redrejo Rodríguez wrote: Not too long ago, about 4 years, when Ubuntu didn't exist, I tried to upload my first package to Debian. It was a package we had been using in LinEx

Re: RFS: gnome-color-chooser

2007-11-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Nov 27, 2007 1:03 AM, JackTheDipper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Again, thank you very much for your help! A new version has just been uploaded to debian mentors and is waiting for reviewing. ;-) Jack [please reply directly to the list] More review: please spell-check your package

Re: RFS: gnome-color-chooser

2007-11-26 Thread Paul Wise
Awesome fan art btw :) -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: dragbox

2007-11-26 Thread ulrik
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Nico, (I would like to be CC'd any replies, if that is not totally out of form) Hi Ulrik, * ulrik [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-11-26 17:07]: [...] I am looking for a sponsor for my package dragbox. * Package name: dragbox Version :

RFS: pykaraoke (updated package)

2007-11-26 Thread Miriam Ruiz
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.5.1.ds1-1 of my package pykaraoke. It builds these binary packages: pykaraoke - free CDG/MIDI/MPEG karaoke player pykaraoke-bin - free CDG/MIDI/MPEG karaoke player python-pykaraoke - free CDG/MIDI/MPEG karaoke player The package

Re: service helper package

2007-11-26 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 01:47:31 +0800 Thomas Goirand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen Gran wrote: That's not quite true - many packages in debian use an enable/disable variable in an /etc/default/package file. Not talking about any policy, but I personally hate it. Why on earth would you

Re: service helper package

2007-11-26 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, Thomas Goirand wrote: Stephen Gran wrote: # Check whether we were configured to not start the services. check_for_no_start() { if [ $SERVICE_DISABLED = yes ]; then This is such a broken behavior. Initscripts are enabled and disabled in the configuration of the init system. That's not

Re: service helper package

2007-11-26 Thread David Watson
On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 01:47 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: Stephen Gran wrote: # Check whether we were configured to not start the services. check_for_no_start() { if [ $SERVICE_DISABLED = yes ]; then This is such a broken behavior. Initscripts are enabled and disabled in the

Re: service helper package

2007-11-26 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Thomas Goirand wrote: Stephen Gran wrote: # Check whether we were configured to not start the services. check_for_no_start() { if [ $SERVICE_DISABLED = yes ]; then This is such a broken behavior. Initscripts are enabled and disabled in the configuration of the

Re: RFS: pykaraoke (updated package)

2007-11-26 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
Miriam, You're already in DPMT, how about joining PAPT as well and maintaining this package there? We can offer for example: * fixing lintian overrides * building python extensions for all supported Python versions in python-pykaraoke package * handling new dpkg fields fast (some freaks have

Re: -dbg package for a suite - one libfoo-dbg package sufficient?

2007-11-26 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Dienstag, den 27.11.2007, 06:14 +1100 schrieb Matt Palmer: On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 03:44:14PM +, Daniel Leidert wrote: [..] But: the packages for the plugin and the applications are very small, so I think creating own -dbg packages for them is not sufficient. But am I allowed to

Re: RFS: pykaraoke (updated package)

2007-11-26 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
Miriam, You're already in DPMT, how about joining PAPT as well and maintaining this package there? We can offer for example: * fixing lintian overrides * building python extensions for all supported Python versions in python-pykaraoke package * handling new dpkg fields fast (some freaks have

Re: RFS: pykaraoke (updated package)

2007-11-26 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2007/11/27, Piotr Ożarowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Miriam, You're already in DPMT, how about joining PAPT as well and maintaining this package there? We can offer for example: * fixing lintian overrides * building python extensions for all supported Python versions in python-pykaraoke package

Re: service helper package

2007-11-26 Thread C.J. Adams-Collier
On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 12:32 +, Jörg Sommer wrote: Hallo C.J., C.J. Adams-Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there something like a service-common package that provides a helper script like the following for services to source? I'm thinking that it would belong somewhere like

Re: service helper package

2007-11-26 Thread Raphael Geissert
On 25/11/2007, C.J. Adams-Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there something like a service-common package that provides a helper script like the following for services to source? I'm thinking that it would belong somewhere like /usr/share/service-common/init.sh. I have not tested the

Re: service helper package

2007-11-26 Thread Matt Palmer
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 11:03:57PM +0100, Eric Lavarde wrote: Thomas Goirand wrote: Stephen Gran wrote: # Check whether we were configured to not start the services. check_for_no_start() { if [ $SERVICE_DISABLED = yes ]; then This is such a broken behavior. Initscripts are enabled and

Re: service helper package

2007-11-26 Thread Michael Biebl
Eric Lavarde schrieb: Hi, Thomas Goirand wrote: Stephen Gran wrote: # Check whether we were configured to not start the services. check_for_no_start() { if [ $SERVICE_DISABLED = yes ]; then This is such a broken behavior. Initscripts are enabled and disabled in the configuration of

Re: service helper package

2007-11-26 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 04:51:38PM -0800, C.J. Adams-Collier wrote: On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 12:32 +, Jörg Sommer wrote: C.J. Adams-Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # Fully qualified paths to required programs START_STOP_DAEMON=/sbin/start-stop-daemon CAT=/bin/cat ECHO=/bin/echo

Re: service helper package

2007-11-26 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, C.J. Adams-Collier said: On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 12:32 +, Jörg Sommer wrote: Why not use echo and cat? Calling echo this way the shell can't use the builtin echo command and must spawn a new process. Is there a test to determine whether there is a

Re: service helper package

2007-11-26 Thread Thomas Goirand
Eric Lavarde wrote: Hi, Thomas Goirand wrote: Stephen Gran wrote: # Check whether we were configured to not start the services. check_for_no_start() { if [ $SERVICE_DISABLED = yes ]; then This is such a broken behavior. Initscripts are enabled and disabled in the configuration of the