How to create quilt-based source packages using debuild

2009-05-03 Thread Benjamin Mesing
Hi, I am having trouble understanding how to build a quilt based source-package. My packaging is based on quilt, but when running debuild, debuild creates a traditional style source package. I've tried to add Format: 3.0 (quilt) to the control file and a Format 3 source package is correctly

Re: Bug#510377: RFS: udav

2009-05-03 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Hi Paul Thanks a lot for your feedback on the packaging for udav. On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 11:45:21AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: Some feedback based on the diff.gz: Please get your package description reviewed by the debian-l10n-englist email list, it contains some gramatical errors. I sent a

Re: Bug#510377: RFS: udav

2009-05-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Salvatore Bonaccorso salvatore.bonacco...@gmail.com wrote: How the above spelling-error-in-binary was done? I have a pbuilder hook that runs this lintian command and always use the latest lintian from sid: lintian --info --display-info --display-experimental

RFS: inosync

2009-05-03 Thread Ryan Niebur
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package inosync. * Package name: inosync Version : 0.2-1 Upstream Author : Benedikt Böhm b...@xnull.de * URL : http://bb.xnull.de/projects/inosync/ * License : BSD Section : utils It builds these

Re: On the quest for automated QA checks

2009-05-03 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Russ. I'd like to make it clear that I'm just brainstorming here and that at this stage, I'm not really concerned with the feasibility of the ideas. I'm just doing a what if thing. On May 02 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br writes: * for instance deprecated

Re: Lintian clean? (was: Re: RFS: mpview)

2009-05-03 Thread George Danchev
Quoting Magnus Holmgren holmg...@debian.org: On lördagen den 2 maj 2009, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: 2009/5/2 Magnus Holmgren holmg...@debian.org: On torsdagen den 26 mars 2009, Michal Čihař wrote: Dne Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:21:29 +0100 Adam Ziaja a...@ziaja.name napsal(a): The package appears

Still regarding the QA quest (was: Re: RFS: udav)

2009-05-03 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Paul. As you read my message earlier, I think that it would be a good thing to take this reply of yours to illustrate what I had in mind when I said things of doing more extensive automated checks: On May 03 2009, Paul Wise wrote: Some feedback based on the diff.gz: (...) It might be a

Re: Lintian clean? (was: Re: RFS: mpview)

2009-05-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 3:26 PM, George Danchev danc...@spnet.net wrote: Running just lintian on m.d.o is not enough, what is indeed needed is lintian from *sid* to be run over the package. I'm guessing that m.d.o is running lintian from stable which knows less than the lintian from sid for

Re: On the quest for automated QA checks

2009-05-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br writes: I'd like to make it clear that I'm just brainstorming here and that at this stage, I'm not really concerned with the feasibility of the ideas. I'm just doing a what if thing. Oh, sure, totally understood. On May 02 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: Lintian

Re: Still regarding the QA quest (was: Re: RFS: udav)

2009-05-03 Thread Paul Wise
2009/5/3 Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br: On May 03 2009, Paul Wise wrote: Some feedback based on the diff.gz: (...) It might be a good idea to put an icon in the menu file. From the upstream screenshots it looks like they have one you could use. This one could be automated, perhaps? A

Re: On the quest for automated QA checks

2009-05-03 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 03 May 2009 01:01:51 -0700 Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: * seeing if a given package providing a library has the -dev package containing the soname in the name of the package (e.g., libfoo0-dev). This is sometimes the right thing to do, sometimes not. I know, I know.

Re: Lintian clean? (was: Re: RFS: mpview)

2009-05-03 Thread George Danchev
Quoting Paul Wise p...@debian.org: On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 3:26 PM, George Danchev danc...@spnet.net wrote: Running just lintian on m.d.o is not enough, what is indeed needed is lintian from *sid* to be run over the package. I'm guessing that m.d.o is running lintian from stable which knows

Re: RFS: fswebcam

2009-05-03 Thread Luca Niccoli
2009/5/2 Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org: One important fact missing from your RFS: what programming language(s) is/are in use in the package? No need to specify the build system, just the basic C, C++, C#, python, perl, etc. although it would be better to mention C source code using

Re: On the quest for automated QA checks

2009-05-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: I wonder if the easy way to do this would be to write something (this wouldn't be Lintian) that analyzes a build log for interesting issues. debexpo will probably do this. IIRC the hppa (or was it ia64) porters do this for gcc

Re: Lintian clean? (was: Re: RFS: mpview)

2009-05-03 Thread Luca Niccoli
2009/5/3 George Danchev danc...@spnet.net: Nod. I'm in favour of removing any lintian assertions from m.d.o, since that might be misleading. Maybe write something like: [Check the package with lintian --pedantic and explain the reason for warnings and errors or state that is clean] In the RFS

Re: RFS: fswebcam

2009-05-03 Thread Patrick Matthäi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Luca Niccoli schrieb: Depending on the answer to the above, I may sponsor it - one step I At the moment Patrick is doing an extensive review of it, so it would be doubled work I guess. If he won't be able/willing to sponsor it, I will ask again,

Re: RFS: lesstif2 (updated package)

2009-05-03 Thread Paul Gevers
This is a big package with a high popcon count, do you have the time for such a large task? On your own? Is there any upstream activity? I have the intention to try. And of course all help is appreciated, but I would say that any improvement over inactivity is good. I really think this cleaning

RFS: valkyrie

2009-05-03 Thread Hai Zaar
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package valkyrie. * Package name: valkyrie Version : 1.4.0-1 Upstream Author : Donna Robinson * URL : [fill in URL of upstreams web site] * License : [fill in] Section : devel It builds these binary

Re: How to create quilt-based source packages using debuild

2009-05-03 Thread Noel David Torres Taño
On Sunday 03 May 2009 08:15:42 Benjamin Mesing wrote: Hi, I am having trouble understanding how to build a quilt based source-package. My packaging is based on quilt, but when running debuild, debuild creates a traditional style source package. I've tried to add Format: 3.0 (quilt) to the

RFS: libbash

2009-05-03 Thread Hai Zaar
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package libbash. * Package name: libbash Version : 0.9.10b Upstream Author : Hai Zaar haiz...@haizaar.com * URL : http://libbash.sf.net * License : GPLv3 Section : libs It builds these binary packages:

Re: RFS: texttrainer

2009-05-03 Thread Jacob Kanev
On Tuesday 23 December 2008, Charles Plessy wrote: I see from your home page that you have some interest in neuroscience. Do you know the Debian Med project? If your neuroLab library is used by other free softwares, you are welcome to package it within our team. At the moment I'm busy

Re: Lintian clean? (was: Re: RFS: mpview)

2009-05-03 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 03 May 2009 13:24:12 Luca Niccoli wrote: 2009/5/3 George Danchev danc...@spnet.net: Nod. I'm in favour of removing any lintian assertions from m.d.o, since that might be misleading. Maybe write something like: [Check the package with lintian --pedantic and explain the reason for

RFS: libapache2-mod-authz-unixgroup

2009-05-03 Thread Hai Zaar
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package libapache2-mod-authz-unixgroup. * Package name: libapache2-mod-authz-unixgroup Version : 1.0.1-1 Upstream Author : Jan Wolter j...@unixpapa.com * URL : http://www.unixpapa.com/mod_authz_unixgroup/ * License

Re: RFS: udav

2009-05-03 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Hi Paul and all On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 11:45:21AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Salvatore Bonaccorso salvatore.bonacco...@gmail.com wrote: - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/u/udav/udav_0.5.1-1.dsc Some feedback based on the diff.gz: Please

RFS: libapache2-mod-authnz-external

2009-05-03 Thread Hai Zaar
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package libapache2-mod-authnz-external. * Package name: libapache2-mod-authnz-external Version : 3.2.3 Upstream Author : Jan Wolter j...@unixpapa.com * URL : http://www.unixpapa.com/mod_auth_external/ * License :

Re: Lintian clean? (was: Re: RFS: mpview)

2009-05-03 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Paul Wise (Sun, 03 May 2009 15:56:23 +0800): m.d.n (currently) only has source packages to deal with so that makes the lintian warnings from there much less useful. Will/could/should debexpo require that uploads are accompanied with binaries, even if to throw them away after running eg.

Re: Lintian clean? (was: Re: RFS: mpview)

2009-05-03 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 3 May 2009 22:25:07 +0200 Adeodato Simó d...@net.com.org.es wrote: + Paul Wise (Sun, 03 May 2009 15:56:23 +0800): m.d.n (currently) only has source packages to deal with so that makes the lintian warnings from there much less useful. Will/could/should debexpo require that

RFS: drraw -- a simple web based presentation front-end for RRDtool [3rd try]

2009-05-03 Thread Mohammad Ebrahim Mohammadi Panah
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package drraw. It is a simple yet powerful tool for producing graphs out of RRD files and showing them on the web. I guess I've done a tolerable work of packaging it. However this is my first package an I need your advice and sponsorship for

Re: Lintian clean?

2009-05-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Luca Niccoli lultimou...@gmail.com writes: Maybe write something like: [Check the package with lintian --pedantic and explain the reason for warnings and errors or state that is clean] I suppose it makes sense to recommend --pedantic if that's what all the mentors are using, but just to be

RFS: pwauth

2009-05-03 Thread Hai Zaar
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package pwauth. * Package name: pwauth Version : 2.3.8-1 Upstream Author : Jan Wolter j...@unixpapa.com * URL : http://code.google.com/p/pwauth/ * License : BSD Section : utils It builds these binary

RFS: texttrainer

2009-05-03 Thread Jacob Kanev
Dear mentors, still looking for a sponsor for my package texttrainer (1). * Package name: texttrainer Version : 0.0.3-1 Upstream Author : Jacob Kanev j_ka...@arcor.de * URL : http://home.arcor.de/j_kanev/texttrainer * License : GPL 3 Language: C++

RFS: valkyrie

2009-05-03 Thread Hai Zaar
Dear mentors, I've accidentally hit send button to early. I want to submit my RFS again with all fields filled in. I am looking for a sponsor for my package valkyrie. * Package name    : valkyrie  Version         : 1.4.0-1  Upstream Author : Donna Robinson do...@valgrind.org * URL             :

Re: Lintian clean?

2009-05-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 87d4aq2t1l@windlord.stanford.edu, Russ Allbery wrote: Luca Niccoli lultimou...@gmail.com writes: Maybe write something like: [Check the package with lintian --pedantic and explain the reason for warnings and errors or state that is clean] I suppose it makes sense to recommend --pedantic

Re: Lintian clean? (was: Re: RFS: mpview)

2009-05-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 20090503202507.ga2...@chistera.yi.org, Adeodato Simó wrote: + Paul Wise (Sun, 03 May 2009 15:56:23 +0800): m.d.n (currently) only has source packages to deal with so that makes the lintian warnings from there much less useful. Will/could/should debexpo require that uploads are accompanied