RFS: aldo (updated package)

2010-01-26 Thread Giuseppe `denever` Martino
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.7.6-1 of my package aldo. It builds these binary packages: aldo - Morse code training program The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 565412 The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: -

Reforming 'orig.tar.gz' with included tar-ball.

2010-01-26 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Hello all mentors, I am in the process of fulfilling an ITA filed on an orphaned package. However, I now experience a desire to begin patching the upstream source for compiling errors and spelling errors in the manual page. To my dismay the previous maintainer chose to let the 'orig.tar.gz'-file

Re: Reforming 'orig.tar.gz' with included tar-ball.

2010-01-26 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tuesday 26,January,2010 06:44 PM, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: Hello all mentors, I am in the process of fulfilling an ITA filed on an orphaned package. However, I now experience a desire to begin patching the upstream source for compiling errors and spelling errors in the manual page.

Re: Reforming 'orig.tar.gz' with included tar-ball.

2010-01-26 Thread Al Nikolov
Mats Erik Andersson wrote: Is there some reverence that should prevent me from taking the step of letting a new 'orig.tar.gz' be a byte-for-byte copy of the upstream source archive? I will make the new package conform to 3.0 (quilt). It's nothing wrong and even preferable to convert your

Re: Reforming 'orig.tar.gz' with included tar-ball.

2010-01-26 Thread Thomas Goirand
Chow Loong Jin wrote: On Tuesday 26,January,2010 06:44 PM, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: Hello all mentors, I am in the process of fulfilling an ITA filed on an orphaned package. However, I now experience a desire to begin patching the upstream source for compiling errors and spelling errors in

RFS: xf86-input-tslib

2010-01-26 Thread Wen-Yen Chuang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.0.6-2 of my package xf86-input-tslib. (Programming language: C) The package is lintian clean. It builds the binary package: xserver-xorg-input-tslib The upload would fix 1 normal bug

Re: [pkg-fso-maint] RFS: xf86-input-tslib

2010-01-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Hi Wen-Yen Chuang (and others reading this), On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 08:30:36PM +0800, Wen-Yen Chuang wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.0.6-2 of my package xf86-input-tslib. (Programming language: C) Please consider teaming up with someone as alternative to seeking

Getting packges into debian (was Re: package cuneiform)

2010-01-26 Thread Leandro Doctors
2010/1/25 Alexander Dolgunin a.dolgu...@googlemail.com: Hi all! I'm going to pack 0.8.0 version of cuneiform-linux, so I wander what is the proper procedure. Info about the proper procedure in order to get your package included in Debian can be found at: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/

Re: [pkg-fso-maint] RFS: xf86-input-tslib

2010-01-26 Thread Wen-Yen Chuang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/26/10 20:59, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Please consider teaming up with someone as alternative to seeking sponsors. I have asked for maintainer/co-maintainer on pkg-fso-maint mailing list long time ago. I also asked some potential people that may

Re: Reforming 'orig.tar.gz' with included tar-ball.

2010-01-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Mats Erik Andersson mats.anders...@gisladisker.se writes: Hello all mentors, I am in the process of fulfilling an ITA filed on an orphaned package. However, I now experience a desire to begin patching the upstream source for compiling errors and spelling errors in the manual page. To my

Dependency on oss-compat for (old) apps using /dev/dsp?

2010-01-26 Thread Yavor Doganov
Is it a RC bug if a package using /dev/dsp on GNU/Linux does not explicitly depend on oss-compat? I remember a recent release goal proposal about dropping/fixing apps that still do that, but I can't find it at the official release-goals list (anyway, even if it was approved, release goal related

RFS: mobile-broadband-provider-info (updated package)

2010-01-26 Thread Bhavani Shankar R
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 20100126-1 of my package mobile-broadband-provider-info. It builds these binary packages: mobile-broadband-provider-info - database of mobile broadband service providers The package

RFS: php5-midgard2

2010-01-26 Thread Piotr Pokora
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package php5-midgard2. * Package name: php5-midgard2 Version : 9.09.2-2 Upstream Author : Midgard Project community and developers * URL : http://www.midgard-project.org * License : LGPL Section : web

RFS: midgard-python

2010-01-26 Thread Piotr Pokora
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package midgard-python. * Package name: midgard-python Version : 9.09.2-2 Upstream Author : Midgard Project community and developers * URL : http://www.midgard-project.org * License : LGPL Section :

Re: [pkg-fso-maint] RFS: xf86-input-tslib

2010-01-26 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2010/1/26 Wen-Yen Chuang ca...@calno.com: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/26/10 20:59, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Please consider teaming up with someone as alternative to seeking sponsors. I am busy. I plan to orphan xf86-input-tslib after the release of Squeeze.

Re: [pkg-fso-maint] RFS: xf86-input-tslib

2010-01-26 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:45:16 +0100 Hector Oron hector.o...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/1/26 Wen-Yen Chuang ca...@calno.com: On 01/26/10 20:59, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Please consider teaming up with someone as alternative to seeking sponsors. That someone used to be me but, right now, I don't

Re: [pkg-fso-maint] RFS: xf86-input-tslib

2010-01-26 Thread Hector Oron
Hi, 2010/1/26 Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org: If anyone want to maintain xf86-input-tslib, please drop a mail to me. I can orphan it anytime so you can adopt it. I won't need a formal orphaning bug report, Emdebian will cover it. I wonder how that works. Jonas, feel free to be

Re: Reforming 'orig.tar.gz' with included tar-ball.

2010-01-26 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Hello, Mats Erik Andersson mats.anders...@gisladisker.se wrote: To my dismay the previous maintainer chose to let the 'orig.tar.gz'-file contain the packaged and compressed upstream tar archive. My personal taste is to abondon this practice, if for no other reason to simplify the rules-file.

Re: [pkg-fso-maint] RFS: xf86-input-tslib

2010-01-26 Thread Wen-Yen Chuang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/26/10 23:19, Hector Oron wrote: 2010/1/26 Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org: I won't need a formal orphaning bug report, Emdebian will cover it. I wonder how that works. I am OK with that you adopt this packages without an orphaning bug

Re: [pkg-fso-maint] RFS: xf86-input-tslib

2010-01-26 Thread Hector Oron
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, En/na Wen-Yen Chuang ha escrit: On 01/26/10 23:19, Hector Oron wrote: 2010/1/26 Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org: I won't need a formal orphaning bug report, Emdebian will cover it. I wonder how that works. I am OK with that you adopt

RFS: libpam-alreadyloggedin (updated package)

2010-01-26 Thread Jakub Wilk
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.3-2 of my package libpam-alreadyloggedin. It builds these binary packages: libpam-alreadyloggedin - PAM module to skip password authentication for logged users The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these

Re: Reforming 'orig.tar.gz' with included tar-ball.

2010-01-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joachim Wiedorn ad_deb...@joonet.de writes: Hello, Mats Erik Andersson mats.anders...@gisladisker.se wrote: To my dismay the previous maintainer chose to let the 'orig.tar.gz'-file contain the packaged and compressed upstream tar archive. My personal taste is to abondon this practice, if

Custom packages derived from Debian Source Packages

2010-01-26 Thread Erik Schanze
Hi mentors, I have a question regarding repacking and hope you could give me some suggestions. I'd like to run a special x86 based device with Debian. I could use most of the common Debian packages, but I have to repack some of them for the use on this device. The packages will be provided and

Re: Custom packages derived from Debian Source Packages

2010-01-26 Thread The Fungi
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 09:20:34PM +0100, Erik Schanze wrote: [...] I'm a bit lost to find a way which is compatible to Debian archive and packages that are easy to maintain and to follow Debian versions (mostly security fixes). [...] Have your custom repository use a different distribution

RFS: gdisk (updated package)

2010-01-26 Thread Guillaume Delacour
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.6.1-1 of my package gdisk. It builds these binary packages: gdisk - GPT fdisk text-mode partitioning tool The package appears to be lintian clean. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL:

RFS: wmaker-data (updated package)

2010-01-26 Thread Noel David Torres Taño
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.9~3-4 of my package wmaker-data. It builds these binary packages: wmaker-data - several free icons for use with WindowMaker and others The package appears to be lintian clean (lintian 2.3.1). The package can be found on

Re: [pkg-fso-maint] RFS: xf86-input-tslib

2010-01-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 05:16:56PM +0100, Hector Oron wrote: En/na Wen-Yen Chuang ha escrit: On 01/26/10 23:19, Hector Oron wrote: 2010/1/26 Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org: I won't need a formal orphaning bug report, Emdebian will cover it. I wonder how that works. I am OK with that you

Re: Getting packges into debian (was Re: package cuneiform)

2010-01-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Leandro Doctors ldoct...@gmail.com wrote: Info about the proper procedure in order to get your package included in Debian can be found at: Also see the debian-mentors FAQ: http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html -- bye, pabs

Re: Reforming 'orig.tar.gz' with included tar-ball.

2010-01-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Mats Erik Andersson mats.anders...@gisladisker.se wrote: I am in the process of fulfilling an ITA filed on an orphaned package. However, I now experience a desire to begin patching the upstream source for compiling errors and spelling errors in the manual page.

Re: RFS: slimrat

2010-01-26 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Michal Čihař ni...@debian.org wrote: You should use ${source:Version} for arch:all packages as these can not be binnmued. This is true when we are declaring a dependency of an arch:any package to an arch:all. But for slimrat, there are two arch:all packages

Re: Reforming 'orig.tar.gz' with included tar-ball.

2010-01-26 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Hello all, so many comments, but no two take similar viewpoints. The absolute winner from an informational point was the first exposition of Goswin von Bredow. Read it again! Let me comment lightly to indicate that I appreciate all your comments. Very useful learning material indeed. By chance I

Re: Reforming 'orig.tar.gz' with included tar-ball.

2010-01-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Mats Erik Andersson mats.anders...@gisladisker.se wrote: The upstream author is a long time Debian Developer that has not touched the code since 2004. Ah, I guess you could/should take over this project too. Which package is it BTW? -- bye, pabs

RFS: cobertura

2010-01-26 Thread Miguel Landaeta
Hi mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package cobertura. * Package name: cobertura Version : 1.9.3+dfsg-1 Upstream Author : Mark Doliner theking...@users.sourceforge.net * URL : http://cobertura.sourceforge.net/ * License : mostly GPL-2+ and Apache 1.1