Re: Fixing old-fsf-address-in-copyright-file

2009-03-15 Thread Ben Finney
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: Seems obvious to me that it is asking you to update the debian copyright file only. That will satisfy Lintian, yes, but only because Lintian can't reasonably test whether the upstream license grant matches what's in the ‘debian/copyright’. Common sense seems

Re: Fixing old-fsf-address-in-copyright-file

2009-03-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 05:37:08PM +1100, Ben Finney a écrit : If we distribute a package with ‘debian/copyright’ so that it deliberately differs from upstream in this regard, are we not violating policy §12.5 “Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright and

Re: New upstream release

2009-03-15 Thread Jaromír Mikeš
Od: Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals (RainCT) sgevat...@ubuntu.cat Well, I guess you're missing Section: in debian/control. Exactly .. ;) thank you ... fixed regards mira -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

RFS: php-geoip (updated package)

2009-03-15 Thread Sergey B Kirpichev
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.0.7-1 of my package php-geoip. It builds these binary packages: php5-geoip - GeoIP module for php5 The package appears to be lintian clean. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL:

Re: Fixing old-fsf-address-in-copyright-file

2009-03-15 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Ben Finney wrote: If we distribute a package with ‘debian/copyright’ so that it deliberately differs from upstream in this regard, are we not violating policy §12.5 “Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright and distribution license in the file

Re: Fixing old-fsf-address-in-copyright-file

2009-03-15 Thread Ben Finney
(Now including debian-policy; this bears on how to interpret §12.5 w.r.t. changing the FSF's address in an upstream license grant.) Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: Le Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 05:37:08PM +1100, Ben Finney a écrit : If we distribute a package with ‘debian/copyright’ so

debian/control

2009-03-15 Thread Jaromír Mikeš
Hello, I am not sure what to fill to Section in control file for my new package I am building. Program is small easy CLI utility generating sound (pink and white noise) Thanks for help mira -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Fixing old-fsf-address-in-copyright-file

2009-03-15 Thread Ben Finney
Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes: If it is not required to be verbatim in ‘debian/policy’, then why include it at all? On the other hand, if it *is* required to be in ‘debian/policy’ verbatim, doesn't that preclude changing what it says before upstream makes the same change?

Re: debian/control

2009-03-15 Thread Laurent Guignard
On dim, 15 mar 2009 13:57:40 +0100, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: Hello, Hello, I am not sure what to fill to Section in control file for my new package I am building. Program is small easy CLI utility generating sound (pink and white noise) Thanks for help For me this type of software has

Re: debian/control

2009-03-15 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-03-15, Laurent Guignard lguignard.deb...@gmail.com wrote: On dim, 15 mar 2009 13:57:40 +0100, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: Hello, Hello, I am not sure what to fill to Section in control file for my new package I am building. Program is small easy CLI utility generating sound (pink and

Re: debian/control

2009-03-15 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Jaromír Mikeš [Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:57:40 +0100]: Hello, I am not sure what to fill to Section in control file for my new package I am building. Program is small easy CLI utility generating sound (pink and white noise) Section: sound sounds appropriate to me. -- - Are you sure we're

Re: debian/control

2009-03-15 Thread Jaromír Mikeš
Od: Adeodato Simó d...@net.com.org.es Section: sound sounds appropriate to me. I will use sound ... thank you all. cheers mira -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: RFS: redmine

2009-03-15 Thread Jérémy Lal
They aren't redmine plugins, but rails plugins that redmine requires. okay, I'll work on those next week and next weekend. Thanks, Ryan Ok, i get it. indeed there are plugins in vendor/plugins, but i fear that you can't really put them apart from redmine : i asked JP Lang (upstream developer)

RFC: new version of bibutils

2009-03-15 Thread David Bremner
Dear mentors, Dear debian-science people; I am hoping that Yaroslav Halchen will continue sponsoring this (Hi Yaroslav!), but I made quite a few changes in this new version including: - soname bump - added a symbol file - converted packaging to topgit - two standards

itp-bug

2009-03-15 Thread Jaromír Mikeš
Hello, I know that I should report a bug if I want make a new package. I was studying Developers Reference, section 5.1 but anyway it is not clear for me how to do it. Can somebody help me pls? regards mira -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: itp-bug

2009-03-15 Thread Ryan Niebur
Hi, On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 05:48:29PM +0100, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: Hello, I know that I should report a bug if I want make a new package. I was studying Developers Reference, section 5.1 but anyway it is not clear for me how to do it. Can somebody help me pls? run reportbug wnpp. if

Re: itp-bug

2009-03-15 Thread Jaromír Mikeš
Od: Ryan Niebur ryanrya...@gmail.com On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 05:48:29PM +0100, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: I know that I should report a bug if I want make a new package. I was studying Developers Reference, section 5.1 but anyway it is not clear for me how to do it. Can somebody help me

Re: itp-bug

2009-03-15 Thread Paul Wise
2009/3/16 Jaromír Mikeš mira.mi...@seznam.cz: I am running ubuntu based distro reportbug wnpp not working on it can I use ubuntu-bug? Or some other way? You need a Debian sid install to build and test your packages in before uploading them to Debian, so you could use that to report the bug.

Re: itp-bug

2009-03-15 Thread Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals (RainCT)
2009/3/16 Jaromír Mikeš mira.mi...@seznam.cz: I am running ubuntu based distro reportbug wnpp not working on it can I use ubuntu-bug? Or some other way? reportbug --bts=debian -- Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals (RainCT) Ubuntu Developer. Debian Contributor. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: itp-bug

2009-03-15 Thread Andreas Wenning
Hi mira In that case you need to specify that you are reporting in the Debian BTS: reportbug --bts debian wnpp Cheers, Andreas -- ,-¤. Kubuntu Linux ¤; http://www.kubuntu.org `-¤' Linux for Human Beings On Sunday 15 March 2009 18:12:02 Jaromír Mikeš wrote: Od: Ryan Niebur

Re: itp-bug

2009-03-15 Thread Jaromír Mikeš
Od: Paul Wise p...@debian.org You need a Debian sid install to build and test your packages in before uploading them to Debian, so you could use that to report the bug. I am using pbuilder with option --distribution sid It should be fine I hope. mira -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: itp-bug

2009-03-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 15 March 2009 12:52:51 Jaromír Mikeš wrote: Od: Paul Wise p...@debian.org You need a Debian sid install to build and test your packages in before uploading them to Debian, so you could use that to report the bug. I am using pbuilder with option --distribution sid It should be fine I

RFS: commons-math

2009-03-15 Thread Damien Raude-Morvan
Dear mentors and Java maintainers, I am looking for a sponsor for my package commons-math. * Package name: commons-math Version : 1.2-1 Upstream Author : Apache Software Foundation * URL : http://commons.apache.org/math/ * License : Apache 2.0 Section

makefile

2009-03-15 Thread Jaromír Mikeš
Hello, Is it allowed to edit makefile? If not how I can patch original makefile with my patch? cheers mira -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: makefile

2009-03-15 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 08:50:55PM +0100, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: Hello, Is it allowed to edit makefile? Yes, in the manner of [1]. If you do it this way, you will see your changes appear in the .diff.gz when you build the package. Or, if you want to keep the source pristine, use a patch

Re: RFS: commons-math

2009-03-15 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Sun Mar 15 20:30, Damien Raude-Morvan wrote: Dear mentors and Java maintainers, I am looking for a sponsor for my package commons-math. Hi Damien, I'm looking at it now, I've got a couple of points, firstly, libraries should not depend on runtimes (you depend on openjdk-6-jre-headless |

Re: makefile

2009-03-15 Thread Jaromír Mikeš
Od: Jonathan Wiltshire deb...@jwiltshire.org.uk Hello, Is it allowed to edit makefile? Yes, in the manner of [1]. If you do it this way, you will see your changes appear in the .diff.gz when you build the package. Or, if you want to keep the source pristine, use a patch system:

Re: makefile

2009-03-15 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 21:33, Jaromír Mikeš mira.mi...@seznam.cz wrote: Od: Jonathan Wiltshire deb...@jwiltshire.org.uk Hello, Is it allowed to edit makefile? Yes, in the manner of [1]. If you do it this way, you will see your changes appear in the .diff.gz when you build the package.

RFS: pidgin-osd 2nd attempt

2009-03-15 Thread Michael Domann
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package pidgin-osd. * Package name: pidgin-osd Version : 0.1.0-1 Upstream Author :Maik Broemme * URL : https://babelize.org/pidgin-osd.php * License : GPL3 Section : net It builds these binary

Re: RFS: commons-math

2009-03-15 Thread Damien Raude-Morvan
On Sunday 15 March 2009 21:09:33 Matthew Johnson wrote: Hi Damien, I'm looking at it now, I've got a couple of points, Hi Matthew and thanks for taking care. firstly, libraries should not depend on runtimes (you depend on openjdk-6-jre-headless | java2-runtime-headless), applications using

Re: makefile

2009-03-15 Thread Jaromír Mikeš
Od: Sandro Tosi mo...@debian.org Ok this ml is for mentoring, but use google and read doc before asking every single question you face. For the point above, see [1]. [1] http://packaging-handbook.alioth.debian.org/wiki/PatchSystems/ Sorry, and thanks for link. regards mira -- To

Re: RFS: lbzip2

2009-03-15 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On 02/18/09 15:25, Paul Wise wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:12 AM, ERSEK Laszlo la...@elte.hu wrote: I uploaded a new build of the package: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/lbzip2 Please contact this list for future versions and I will upload if I am able. I released a new