Re: Bug#397939: Lintian: outdated-autotools-helper-file

2008-02-18 Thread Loïc Minier
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008, Colin Watson wrote: This isn't true if you just let the patch be applied by dpkg-source -x, since the timestamp-handling bug I mentioned earlier was fixed. It might be true if you use a less capable patching system. ;-) Eh you and me know I was referring to dpatch,

In which section should go this kernel patch package (tuxonice)?

2008-02-18 Thread Mattia Oss
Hi, I'm trying to make a deb of kernel patch tuxonice[1], an alternative way to suspend-to-disk and suspend-to-ram. In which section should this package go? admin? devel? What is tuxonice: TuxOnIce is most easily described as the Linux equivalent of Windows' hibernate functionality. It saves the

Re: Writing get-orig-source targets to conform with policy

2008-02-18 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 12:30:32AM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote: Am Sonntag, den 17.02.2008, 23:58 +0100 schrieb Bas Wijnen: [..] The get-orig-source target specifies that it must work from anywhere. Where do you read this? The policy says, that it [..] may be invoked in any directory

RFS: ITA: libapache-mod-layout

2008-02-18 Thread Andreas Wenning
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 5.1-1 of my package libapache-mod-layout. It builds these binary packages: libapache2-mod-layout - Apache web page content wrapper mod_layout allows you to create a single look and feel throughout a website without using server side

Re: Re: RFS: gnormalize

2008-02-18 Thread Alessio Gaeta
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I'm very sorry for my delay, but... I forgot to subscribe the mailing list! You replied only there and I didn't noticed anything... Nice start, isn't it? :/ Anyway, thank you so much for your precious hints, I will do my best. But some doubt are

Re: Bug#397939: Lintian: outdated-autotools-helper-file

2008-02-18 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 11:55:03PM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote: On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 09:29:59PM +, Mark Brown wrote: On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 08:08:47PM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote: OTOH if the standard Debian build process jumps through unusual hoops like forcing regeneration of all the

Re: RFS: QA Uploade -- tkgate 1.8.7-1 - Event driven digital circuit simulator with Tcl/Tk

2008-02-18 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Barry deFreese [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080218 02:44]: It includes a new upstream (fixes an RC bug) Would have been nice to mention which bug ;) and some significant re-packaging. It is also complaining about a large /usr/share, so I'm wondering if it should be split into a -data

Re: RFS: nettee

2008-02-18 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi Joel, IANADD, anyways here are some comments about your sponsoring request that might be useful. First of all: On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 01:04:48AM -0300, Joel Franco wrote: It builds these binary packages: nettee - a network tee program It would be a good idea to include a long

Re: In which section should go this kernel patch package (tuxonice)?

2008-02-18 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Mattia Oss wrote: I'm trying to make a deb of kernel patch tuxonice[1], an alternative way to suspend-to-disk and suspend-to-ram. In which section should this package go? admin? devel? At first glance this is likely to be more than one package. There is the

{done] Re: RFS: whichwayisup (new upstream release)

2008-02-18 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Ansgar Burchardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080218 01:41]: I'm looking for a sponsor for the new upstream version of whichwayisup. It builds these binary packages: whichwayisup - 2D platform game with a slight rotational twist That's a nice one :) Uploaded. Yours sincerely, Alexander

Re: RFS: thailatex (updated package)

2008-02-18 Thread Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
On Feb 6, 2008 9:48 PM, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 6, 2008 9:23 PM, Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not so sure if this is OK, what do the texlive Debian people say? The change in the postinst looks fairly simple, perhaps it could be integrated into

Re: In which section should go this kernel patch package (tuxonice)?

2008-02-18 Thread Mattia Oss
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:42:32 +0530 Kapil Hari Paranjape [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At first glance this is likely to be more than one package. There is the kernel-patch which would be in devel, the hibernate script which would be in admin and the user-interface which could be in utils. I'm

Re: RFS: QA Uploade -- tkgate 1.8.7-1 - Event driven digital circuit simulator with Tcl/Tk

2008-02-18 Thread Barry deFreese
Alexander Schmehl wrote: Hi! * Barry deFreese [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080218 02:44]: It includes a new upstream (fixes an RC bug) Would have been nice to mention which bug ;) Sorry, will do, next time. and some significant re-packaging. It is also complaining about a large

Re: In which section should go this kernel patch package (tuxonice)?

2008-02-18 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Mattia Oss wrote: On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:42:32 +0530 Kapil Hari Paranjape [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At first glance this is likely to be more than one package. There is the kernel-patch which would be in devel, the hibernate script which would be in admin and

Re: In which section should go this kernel patch package (tuxonice)?

2008-02-18 Thread Mattia Oss
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:53:02 +0530 Kapil Hari Paranjape [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Mattia Oss wrote: So it should be devel, right? Right. I think the remaining linux-patch-* packages are in devel too! This is what I thought! But when I searched in the debian

Re: In which section should go this kernel patch package (tuxonice)?

2008-02-18 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Mattia Oss wrote: This is what I thought! But when I searched in the debian archive I found: linux-patch-aufs: Section: misc linux-patch-bootsplash: Section: graphics linux-patch-debian-2.6.24:Section: devel linux-patch-debianlogo:

Re: RFS: QA Uploade -- tkgate 1.8.7-1 - Event driven digital circuit simulator with Tcl/Tk

2008-02-18 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Barry deFreese [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080218 15:17]: [ license.tcl ] Oh, you remove it in debian/rules? Any reason for that? Gah, that's new. I ripped it out because lintian was complaining that it was an extra license file. Ah, makes sense to remove it then, but a lintian override

Re: Bug#397939: Lintian: outdated-autotools-helper-file

2008-02-18 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 12:47:41PM +, Mark Brown wrote: On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 11:55:03PM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote: On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 09:29:59PM +, Mark Brown wrote: If you're willing to do things by forcing a particular version in the general case then this sounds more like

The get-orig-source target as stated in Policy 4.9

2008-02-18 Thread Andres Mejia
I've been told that the policy for the get-orig-source target states that it ...fetches the most recent version of the original source package However, I've seen others using the get-orig-source target to regenerate the orig tarball for their packages at a particular version. I've been

Re: The get-orig-source target as stated in Policy 4.9

2008-02-18 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Montag, den 18.02.2008, 11:54 -0500 schrieb Andres Mejia: I've been told that the policy for the get-orig-source target states that it ...fetches the most recent version of the original source package However, I've seen others using the get-orig-source target to regenerate the orig

RFS: xiterm+thai

2008-02-18 Thread Neutron Soutmun
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package xiterm+thai. * Package name: xiterm+thai Version : 1.07-1 Upstream Author : Vuthichai Ampornaramveth [EMAIL PROTECTED], Theppitak Karoonboonyanan [EMAIL

Re: ITP takeover?

2008-02-18 Thread Erick Mattos
Hi David, 2008/2/17, David Paleino [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can't we propose him to upload it to experimental? That wouldn't hurt unstable (thus also testing -- and stable) users, but we could still have Code::Blocks inside Debian repositories. As he told me, he doesn't believe on 2.8 version

Re: Bug#397939: Lintian: outdated-autotools-helper-file

2008-02-18 Thread Chris Waters
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 08:08:47PM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote: Let's compare it with a Java program. Would you consider it acceptable for the packager to build it, uuencode it, put it in the diff.gz and from debian/rules just uudecode it, instead of regenerating it? Well, I see one big

Re: Bug#397939: Lintian: outdated-autotools-helper-file

2008-02-18 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 05:03:24PM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote: On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 12:47:41PM +, Mark Brown wrote: On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 11:55:03PM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote: No, I don't want to force a version, I want the package to force it. By forcing a version I mean doing so in

RFS: tcpser (updated package) (try 3)

2008-02-18 Thread Peter Collingbourne
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my updated package tcpser. * Package name: tcpser Version : 1.0rc12-1 Upstream Author : Jim Brain [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.jbrain.com/pub/linux/serial * License : GPL Section : net It builds

RFS: plywood (updated package)

2008-02-18 Thread Monty Taylor
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.5.11-1 of my package plywood. It builds these binary packages: plywood- Playwriting typing and typesetting help The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 213112, 446178 The package can be found

RFS: vagalume

2008-02-18 Thread Alberto Garcia
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package vagalume. * Package name: vagalume Version : 0.5.1-2 Upstream Author : Alberto Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : https://garage.maemo.org/projects/vagalume * License : GNU GPLv3 Section : sound

Re: RFS: nettee

2008-02-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Feb 18, 2008 9:28 PM, Patrick Schoenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/n/nettee/nettee_0.1.8-3.dsc Some additional comments: Now to your package: - debian/changelog s/rewrited/rewritten/ - debian/copyright Please move Copyright (C)

RFS: NMU: libauthen-smb-perl - SMB authentication module for Perl

2008-02-18 Thread Barry deFreese
Hi, Could someone please review/upload the following: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libauthen-smb-perl/libauthen-smb-perl_0.91-3.1.dsc Should close #432809 though I'm not sure it is the best/full solution. Description: SMB authentication module for Perl This package supplies a

RFS: xiterm+thai

2008-02-18 Thread Neutron Soutmun
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package xiterm+thai. * Package name: xiterm+thai Version : 1.07-1 Upstream Author : Vuthichai Ampornaramveth [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED], Theppitak Karoonboonyanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

Re: The get-orig-source target as stated in Policy 4.9

2008-02-18 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Andres Mejia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080218 17:54]: I've been told that the policy for the get-orig-source target states that it ...fetches the most recent version of the original source package However, I've seen others using the get-orig-source target to regenerate the orig tarball

RFS: ITA: ksocrat

2008-02-18 Thread Sikon
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package ksocrat (ITA, see bug #321596). * Package name: ksocrat Version : 3.2.1-3 Upstream Author : Zavolzhsky Alexandr [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://ksocrat.linux.kiev.ua/ * License : GPLv2 or later Section

Re: The get-orig-source target as stated in Policy 4.9

2008-02-18 Thread Andres Mejia
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 12:21:09 am Alexander Schmehl wrote: Hi! * Andres Mejia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080218 17:54]: I've been told that the policy for the get-orig-source target states that it ...fetches the most recent version of the original source package However, I've seen

Re: The get-orig-source target as stated in Policy 4.9

2008-02-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Andres Mejia [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What I would like to know is, what was the original purpose for the get-orig-source target. Maybe that would clear up what the get-orig-source target is supposed to do. It's been in Policy from before upgrading-checklist was started and there's no