Re: ITR: xmlrpc-epi - copyright issues

2008-04-05 Thread Robin Cornelius
Neil Williams wrote: On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 12:12 +0100, Robin Cornelius wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package xmlrpc-epi. Hi Neil, thanks for your time on this. 2. expat - debian/copyright quotes this as being dual-licenced MPL or GPL but does not note that the

Re: ITR: xmlrpc-epi - copyright issues

2008-04-05 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 10:47 +0100, Robin Cornelius wrote: 1) It probably would be a very good idea to remove the expat source code from upstream completely and ensure the code builds with the latest expat from expat's upstream instead of carrying a specific copy. Agreed. Files:

Re: RFS: mailscanner (updated package)

2008-04-05 Thread Noèl Köthe
Hello Simon, On Do, 2008-04-03 at 22:57 +0200, Simon Walter wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 4.68.8-1 of my package mailscanner. It builds these binary packages: mailscanner - email gateway for virus scanning, spam and phishing detection The package appears to be

Re: cowbuilder and --distribution experimental

2008-04-05 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 01:57:24PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: Hi, Hi again mentors !!! I've now a strange problem creating an experimental COW image. I use cowbuilder --create --distribution experimental but I obtain an unmet error with e2fsprogs (PreDepends: libuuid1 (=

Re: ITR: xmlrpc-epi - copyright issues

2008-04-05 Thread Joey Hess
Neil Williams wrote: Copyright issues: 1. The machine-interpretable copyright format is meant to be hierarchical - Files: * should not appear before any other more specific matches. i.e. exclude all the awkward files explicitly in turn, then the last stanza is everything else. That's not

Re: RFS: compiz-switch

2008-04-05 Thread Helmut Grohne
* Package name: compiz-switch 1) Your diff.gz modifies files out side debian/. Many sponsors will consider this a bad practise, so I suggest using a patch system like dpatch or quilt in order to reach more potential sponsors. 2) There is a debian/menu file. However dh_installmenu is

Re: RFS: compiz-switch

2008-04-05 Thread Mauro Lizaur
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Alessio Gaeta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Description: Compiz-Switch provides a simple yet effective way to switch between Compiz and the window manager of the desktop environment in use on a single click. The package (not the software inside it! :) ) is quite

Re: cowbuilder and --distribution experimental

2008-04-05 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, experimental is not a complete distribution. You cannot just use --distribution experimental. I think that you should use an unstable chroot and add to apt experimental sources. You will also have to provide a correct /etc/apt/preferences (otherwise, experimental

Re: Unused libSM and libICE (was: Re: RFS: xiterm+thai)

2008-04-05 Thread Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: debian/xiterm+thai/usr/bin/xiterm+thai shouldn't be linked with libSM.so.6 (it uses none of its symbols).

RFC: kgb -- Archiver for .kgb files (doesn't work on non-32bits archs, changes made to address that issue)

2008-04-05 Thread Raphael Geissert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, This package is already in the archive, and I have DM upload rights for it. A few days ago I noticed this package doesn't work on non 32bits architectures so I've done a few changes to the package. The relevant part of changelog of the next

Re: RFS: python-sclapp and pytagsfs (new packages) - trying again

2008-04-05 Thread Y Giridhar Appaji Nag
Trying again for a sponsor. I've got comments and updated both the packages: - sclapp for a complete debian/copyright file, thanks Bernd Zeimetz (who gave me some useful comments but indicated he is busy right now to discuss the changes) - pytagsfs for a new upstream release. pytagsfs