RFS: libscalar-properties-perl (updated package)

2009-01-29 Thread Miguelangel Jose Freitas Loreto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.13-1 of my ITA package "libscalar-properties-perl". It builds these binary packages: libscalar-properties-perl - perl module to add run-time properties on scalar variables The package ap

RFS: libdata-compare-perl (updated package)

2009-01-29 Thread Miguelangel Jose Freitas Loreto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.21-1 of my ITA package "libdata-compare-perl". It builds these binary packages: libdata-compare-perl - perl module to compare perl data structures recursively The package appears to be l

Re: Autoupdate of java application downloads external libraries

2009-01-29 Thread Alexander Block
George Danchev wrote: A more important question would be: `is this ok with you as a Debian package maintainer and your debian users to have such a package in Debian'. How are you supposed to track the versions of the stuff installed and being unpredictably upgraded in the users' $HOME? How

What to do if the original tarball contains a debian subdirectory

2009-01-29 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
2009/1/29 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI : I'd say it depends on what you are doing. If you are building on the work already there, keep the changelog. But if you are ignoring upstream's debian/ directory and starting your packaging from scratch, you can drop it. By keep the changelog you mean add my

Re: RFS: battery-stats (updated package)

2009-01-29 Thread Antonio Radici
Gonéri Le Bouder wrote: Since battery-stats 0.3.3-2 is in testing you shouldn't upload a new upstream release in unstable[1]. experimental is still an option. You can prepare a 0.3.3-3 package with just the fix for #512701, after the upload you'll have to ask the release team to accept this packa

Re: debian/symbols

2009-01-29 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Hello Thorsten, Thorsten Alteholz wrote: > Hi, > > I need some advice on using the debian/symbols-file. > The package libctl3 needs a symbols file, so I added something like: > > libctl.so.3 libtcl3 #MINVER# ^^^ ^^^ BTW, about last lintian complaint: 'libctl' and 'libtcl': one

Re: debian/symbols

2009-01-29 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 07:13:59PM +0100, Thorsten Alteholz wrote: > libctl.so.3 libtcl3 #MINVER# >scm_list_...@base >scm_object_prope...@base >(...) >lintian -I -E libctl3_3.0.3-2_i386.deb >E: libctl3: symbols-file-contains-current-version-with-debian-revision on > symbol

Re: Autoupdate of java application downloads external libraries

2009-01-29 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 29 January 2009 15:22:06 Alexander Block wrote: > Hello mentors, Hi, > I'm currently packaging the application jDownloader which requires very > frequent updates. The mainstream devs have solved the updating with an > auto-update feature that checks for new versions of the core part a

debian/symbols

2009-01-29 Thread Thorsten Alteholz
Hi, I need some advice on using the debian/symbols-file. The package libctl3 needs a symbols file, so I added something like: libctl.so.3 libtcl3 #MINVER# scm_list_...@base scm_object_prope...@base (...) to debian/libctl3.symbols. I got these lines from the output of dpkg-gensymbols

Re: RFS: qrupdate

2009-01-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:24 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: >> patches/add-soname seems to change the whitespace in the definition of SRC, >> why? > > Why not? It fits into 80 columns that way. :-) Just a gratuitous change, also unrelated to the purpose of the patch. >> patches/add-soname

Re: RFS: battery-stats (updated package)

2009-01-29 Thread Gonéri Le Bouder
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 03:29:52PM +, Antonio Radici wrote: > Sid has my last release (0.3.3-3) which caused #512701, this is why I > released this new version :-) Whether you want to put it in sid or > experimental it's the same for me, in any case lenny will be fine > because it will k

Re: Autoupdate of java application downloads external libraries

2009-01-29 Thread Eric
Hi Alex, I'm not a DD, but here my opinion: - using local libraries is an issue for licensing and security reasons (they don't get fixed with security updates). - this said, the same could be said of the Firefox plugins, but they're only installed for the user running Firefox. Hence I would sugge

Re: RFS: battery-stats (updated package)

2009-01-29 Thread Antonio Radici
Gonéri Le Bouder wrote: Ok, I see. I don't think the release team will accept a so import debdiff. linda:~/tmp$debdiff battery-stats_0.3.3-3.dsc battery-stats_0.3.4-1.dsc| wc -l 13569 I doubt release team will accept this in testing. If you want to see #512701 fixed in Lenny, you've to prepare

Re: RFS: battery-stats (updated package)

2009-01-29 Thread Gonéri Le Bouder
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 01:08:34AM +, Antonio Radici wrote: > Gonéri Le Bouder wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 08:01:29PM +, Antonio Radici wrote: > Hi, > thanks for your review, I will fix these problems tomorrow. > Just to clarify the status of battery-stats: version 0.3.3-3 was *alrea

RFS: qrupdate

2009-01-29 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2009/1/28 Paul Wise : > You should use a Debian-specific SONAME if upstream doesn't have one. > Please teach upstream about SONAMEs, ABI etc and get them to do that > stuff instead of doing it yourself. That's actually already done, and upstream has accepted my patch to add a soname, but hasn't ma

Re: Autoupdate of java application downloads external libraries

2009-01-29 Thread Alexander Block
Hi Eric, thanks for you response. I forgot to say that updates are all stored in the users home directory. Even a core update would place all updated files into the home directory. Well I already checked the debian-volatile idea but the problem is that it is not enabled by default. I think this

Autoupdate of java application downloads external libraries

2009-01-29 Thread Alexander Block
Hello mentors, I'm currently packaging the application jDownloader which requires very frequent updates. The mainstream devs have solved the updating with an auto-update feature that checks for new versions of the core part and plugins. As I understand, this is absolutely ok as other applicati

Re: What to do if the original tarball contains a debian subdirectory

2009-01-29 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Luca Niccoli wrote: > A related question: > The original debian/ contains a changelog, which documents the past > releases (packaged in .deb for i386 by upstream); should I get rid of > that or keep it/import it? > I'd say it depends on what you are doing. If you are building on the work alread

Re: What to do if the original tarball contains a debian subdirectory

2009-01-29 Thread Al Nikolov
Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > I have a similar question. Upstream has file ./debian/files in their > tarball. > > Lintian complained about that file so I've deleted it. But during build in > pbuilder it gets added back from the orig tarball. How to handle this? That's because such change cannot be r

Re: What to do if the original tarball contains a debian subdirectory

2009-01-29 Thread Luca Niccoli
2009/1/28 Adeodato Simó : > (The recommendation above is my opinion, and there are other DDs who > think different. Me, I believe having a readable diff.gz is motivation > enough as to repack the tarball.) OTOH, reading the policy manual I get the idea that a pristine original tarball is not some

Re: debian OID / dicom3tools packaging

2009-01-29 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 2:44 AM, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > Hi, > > To begin, I think there's some confusion about UID and OID. They > are actually the same thing, according to Clunie: > > What DICOM calls "UIDs" are referred to in the > ISO OSI world as Object Identifiers (OIDs). > > What Mathi