Re: RFS: packagekit (ping2)

2010-10-17 Thread Matthias Klumpp
[...] (lots of further info on packagekit) Well, I am a DD and in principle could sponsor such a package, but I just lack all the know how needed to properly evaluate gnome-related packages. And, as I already wrote in another reponse to an RFS some minutes ago, it seems that nobody else

RFS: ceph

2010-10-17 Thread Sage Weil
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package ceph. Ceph is a distributed file system designed for scalability, reliability, and performance. I am the upstream maintainer and primary developer for Ceph. The current package has been reviewed by Asheesh Laroia and Clint Byrum (at

Re: RFS: ceph

2010-10-17 Thread Laszlo Boszormenyi
Hi Sage, On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 14:33 -0700, Sage Weil wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package ceph. I was going to make a package of ceph, so I would be happy to be your sponsor. The package appears to be lintian clean. Actually it has some lintian warnings. The current

Packaging free software with non-free data files

2010-10-17 Thread Stefan Ott
Hi list I have a small question: I would like to package a piece of software that, when first launched, downloads additional non-free data files which are needed to run. I am now wondering whether a) I should just leave it at that, possibly adding a note to the package, or b) ask the upstream

Re: Packaging free software with non-free data files

2010-10-17 Thread Paul Wise
Sounds like it belongs in contrib and the non-free data should be packaged separately. Have you asked upstream to put the data under a DFSG-free license? If you can give some details about which package and what the data is, maybe we can give you a better answer. -- bye, pabs

RFS: sciteproj

2010-10-17 Thread Andreas Ronnquist
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package sciteproj. * Package name: sciteproj Version : 0.3.14-1 Upstream Author : Andreas Rönnquist gus...@gusnan.se * URL : http://www.gusnan.se/sciteproj * License : GPLv3 Section : editors It

Re: Seeking advice on automounter-like daemon starting at boot

2010-10-17 Thread gustavo panizzo gfa
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 07:13:52PM -0300, Fernando Lemos wrote: Hello, mentors disclaimer: i'm not a DD/DM I could make udisks-glue run as another user (say, nobody), but that would mean that the default config would not be able to mount devices. That's because PolicyKit will only allow

Re: RFS: ceph

2010-10-17 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010, Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote: Hi Sage, On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 14:33 -0700, Sage Weil wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package ceph. I was going to make a package of ceph, so I would be happy to be your sponsor. Yay! I hope this works out. The package appears to be

Re: Packaging free software with non-free data files

2010-10-17 Thread Stefan Ott
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 06:14, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: Sounds like it belongs in contrib and the non-free data should be packaged separately. Have you asked upstream to put the data under a DFSG-free license? No, not yet, but I'm pretty sure they won't do that. If you can give some

Re: Packaging free software with non-free data files

2010-10-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Stefan Ott ste...@ott.net wrote: The package is pyfa [1], a fitting assistant for EVE Online. Their latest download URL that I managed to find that actually contains some sort of license information [2] is rather old, from 2006. I guess I'll contact them to

Re: Seeking advice on automounter-like daemon starting at boot

2010-10-17 Thread gustavo panizzo gfa
d) Create an user udisks, add a PolicyKit rule to allow it to mount device files, use that for the init script (not even sure it's possible) how would it leave the file permissions on the mounted filesystems? Would them be readable/writable by local users? i was referring to option D if

Re: RFS: ceph

2010-10-17 Thread Sage Weil
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010, Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote: On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 14:33 -0700, Sage Weil wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package ceph. I was going to make a package of ceph, so I would be happy to be your sponsor. Wonderful! Thank you :) The package appears to be lintian

Re: Packaging free software with non-free data files

2010-10-17 Thread Stefan Ott
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 07:18, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: (sorry about the CC, my mail client was a little too smart) :) The package is pyfa [1], a fitting assistant for EVE Online. Their latest download URL that I managed to find that actually contains some sort of license information