Re: package transition question

2010-11-04 Thread Harald Jenny
On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 12:26:00PM +, The Fungi wrote: On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 11:59:27AM +0100, Harald Jenny wrote: [...] Our current idea is to do the installation, run the program in postinst to check for config errors and if we find some we issue a warning message and cease to

Re: package transition question

2010-11-04 Thread Harald Jenny
On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 10:13:28PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 8:26 PM, The Fungi fu...@yuggoth.org wrote: Alternatives would be (more user friendly) come up with a configuration translator if all existing options can have a 1-to-1 transform/mapping to new options or

Reviews by non-DDs and acknowledgements

2010-11-04 Thread Michael Tautschnig
Hi all, I'm really happy to see a sizeable number of reviews of RFS'ed packages floating in, thank you all!!! To keep this momentum and have it in a way also documented I'd like to suggest that people uploading improved packages also thank their non-DD reviewers (for DDs I consider doing reviews

Re: RFS: dalle

2010-11-04 Thread Mònica
On Wednesday 03 November 2010 at 23:23:54, Alberto Fernández wrote: El mié, 03-11-2010 a las 10:55 +0100, Mònica escribió: Thanks very much for your help. I've just uploaded a fixed package with your suggestions. :-) I'm not a DD, but here's my review for your package: The review is

Re: RFS: minidlna

2010-11-04 Thread Michael Tautschnig
Hi Benoît, [...] I just uploaded a new version (1.0.18-3) [1] that addresses all the issues you've pointed out to me (except the missing license headers, I'll ask upstream about that). I hope I didn't miss anything, but please let me know if there are any problems left. I've spotted

Re: Using Quilt with a new package

2010-11-04 Thread Daniel Lombraña González
Hi everyone, Thanks for all your help. I think that right now the easiest way for me is to handle the modifications by hand as they are not very difficult to manage (just comment out one line in the SQL file). Neverthless, what I wanted is to do this automatically for me :). I will try it again

Re: RFS: sciteproj

2010-11-04 Thread Michael Tautschnig
Hi Andreas, [...] I have fixed these items in a new upload to mentors, and mailed Michael Vogt with links to the RFS and this thread. best regards -- Andreas Rönnquist gus...@gusnan.se I have done another upload, version 0.3.15 - I hadn't updated the version number in

Re: RFS: sciteproj

2010-11-04 Thread Andreas Ronnquist
On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 10:15:58 +0100 Michael Tautschnig m...@debian.org wrote: Hi Andreas, [...] I have done another upload, version 0.3.15 - I hadn't updated the version number in the man-page I provide, and some minor GTK updates (added -DGTK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED, and fixed the minor

Java library license problem

2010-11-04 Thread Mònica
Hello, I am trying to package bluej [1], a Java program, but I think there is a license problem. This program uses a library that is not free (AppleJavaExtensions.jar). Apparently, the use of this library is only to build the MacOS version of the program. I think I could change the upstream

The handling of piupart failures.

2010-11-04 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Dear all, being a simple DM, this has not yet given me the full knowledge to handle a failure from Piuparts. In my particular case, the package `webfs', Piuparts reports unowned leftovers, like /etc/adduser.conf /etc/crontab /lib/libpopt.so.0 /usr/share/bug/logrotate and a

Re: Java library license problem

2010-11-04 Thread Julien Viard de Galbert
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 12:11:10PM +0100, Mònica wrote: Hello, Hello, I am trying to package bluej [1], a Java program, but I think there is a license problem. First have you seen the bug was merged with an other ITP [2] where more discussion are in progress. This program uses a library

Re: Java library license problem

2010-11-04 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 12:11:10PM +0100, Mònica wrote: This program uses a library that is not free (AppleJavaExtensions.jar). Apparently, the use of this library is only to build the MacOS version of the program. I think I could change the upstream source and achieve that the software

Re: Java library license problem

2010-11-04 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Am 04.11.2010 12:11, schrieb Mònica: This program uses a library that is not free (AppleJavaExtensions.jar). Apparently, the use of this library is only to build the MacOS version of the program. So the rest of it is free and could be part of Debian main if it wasn't for this library?

Re: Java library license problem

2010-11-04 Thread Mònica
Hello, On Thursday 04 November 2010 at 12:15:41, Julien Viard de Galbert wrote: On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 12:11:10PM +0100, Mònica wrote: Hello, Hello, I am trying to package bluej [1], a Java program, but I think there is a license problem. First have you seen the bug was merged

Re: Java library license problem

2010-11-04 Thread Mònica
Hi! On Thursday 04 November 2010 at 12:17:39, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: Hi! Am 04.11.2010 12:11, schrieb Mònica: This program uses a library that is not free (AppleJavaExtensions.jar). Apparently, the use of this library is only to build the MacOS version of the program.

RFS: dbxml

2010-11-04 Thread Jeroen Koekkoek
Dear Mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package dbxml. * Package name: dbxml Version : 2.5.16-1 Upstream Author : Oracle * URL : http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/berkeley-db/db/index.html * License : BSD and Apache 1.1 Section

Re: The handling of piupart failures.

2010-11-04 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Mats, thanks for using piuparts to improve the quality of Debian! On Donnerstag, 4. November 2010, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: being a simple DM, this has not yet given me the full knowledge to handle a failure from Piuparts. don't worry, we all learn every day. (At least I hope so ;) In

Re: The handling of piupart failures.

2010-11-04 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Dear Holger, and all readers at debian-mentors, a quick reply to a useful answer! torsdag den 4 november 2010 klockan 12:54 skrev Holger Levsen detta: Hi Mats, thanks for using piuparts to improve the quality of Debian! In my particular case, the package `webfs', Piuparts reports

Second try (nobody answered first time) RFS: kstars-data-extra-tycho2

2010-11-04 Thread Noel David Torres Taño
On Sábado 18 Septiembre 2010 22:38:23 Noel David Torres Taño escribió: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package kstars-data-extra-tycho2. * Package name: kstars-data-extra-tycho2 Version : 1.1r1-1 Upstream Author : Akarsh Simha, Jason Harris

Build-Depends-Indep, please review

2010-11-04 Thread anatoly techtonik
Hello, I've described situation around Build-Depends-Indep at http://wiki.debian.org/Build-Depends-Indep I hope it will be useful for people who are looking for description of this field. However, I am not expert in packaging, and some information is obviously missing. If you can fill the blanks,

Re: The handling of piupart failures.

2010-11-04 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Mats, On Donnerstag, 4. November 2010, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: At this point only the number of packages differs: 6112 against 6113. All potential problems are clearly conceiled and postponed. I wonder if your package (and all its depends) are installable in a empty sid chroot... at

Re: The handling of piupart failures.

2010-11-04 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Dear all, I can deliver at least a diagnosis to the benefit of our edification! torsdag den 4 november 2010 klockan 14:00 skrev Mats Erik Andersson detta: Dear Holger, and all readers at debian-mentors, a quick reply to a useful answer! torsdag den 4 november 2010 klockan 12:54 skrev

Re: The handling of piupart failures.

2010-11-04 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
torsdag den 4 november 2010 klockan 16:58 skrev Holger Levsen detta: Hi Mats, On Donnerstag, 4. November 2010, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: At this point only the number of packages differs: 6112 against 6113. All potential problems are clearly conceiled and postponed. I wonder if your

Re: Bug#602358: ITP: rtl8192ce-dkms -- Realtek RTL8192CE driver in DKMS format.

2010-11-04 Thread Fernando Lemos
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Reinhard Tartler siret...@debian.org wrote: is the fact that the package uses dkms relevant for the end user? it seems as an implementation detail of the package to me, so I'd suggest to drop that suffix. Not a good idea, seems like most (or all) DKMS packages

Bug#602409: logrotate test needs to remove logrotate package and its depends too

2010-11-04 Thread Holger Levsen
package: piuparts severity: important x-debbugs-cc: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org, mats.anders...@gisladisker.se, 566...@bugs.debian.org Hi Mats, On Donnerstag, 4. November 2010, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: I am reading that last logging report, and I must draw this conclusion: * There

svn-buildpackage path problems with added patch

2010-11-04 Thread Daniel Stender
Hi people, I've added another .diff with quilt in debian/patches an now svn-buildpackage breaks processing this patch: cut dpkg-source --before-build ocrodjvu-0.4.6 dpkg-source: Fehler: ocrodjvu-0.4.6/debian/patches/hocr-header.diff kann nicht gelesen werden: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht

Re: svn-buildpackage path problems with added patch

2010-11-04 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 20:07, Daniel Stender dan...@danielstender.com wrote: Hi people, I've added another .diff with quilt in debian/patches an now svn-buildpackage breaks processing this patch: cut dpkg-source --before-build ocrodjvu-0.4.6 dpkg-source: Fehler:

Re: Reviews by non-DDs and acknowledgements

2010-11-04 Thread Romain Beauxis
Le jeudi 4 novembre 2010 03:20:11, Michael Tautschnig a écrit : I'm really happy to see a sizeable number of reviews of RFS'ed packages floating in, thank you all!!! To keep this momentum and have it in a way also documented I'd like to suggest that people uploading improved packages also

Re: Bug#602358: ITP: rtl8192ce-dkms -- Realtek RTL8192CE driver in DKMS format.

2010-11-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Reinhard Tartler siret...@debian.org writes: is the fact that the package uses dkms relevant for the end user? it seems as an implementation detail of the package to me, so I'd suggest to drop that suffix. There are some things the user has to know to do to use a dkms package correctly

Re: svn-buildpackage path problems with added patch

2010-11-04 Thread Daniel Stender
Hi yes o.k. sorry with the German, I've added a patch and altered patches/series and did svn-b --svn-ignore-new. When he tries to apply the new patch it's simply not found: cut pkg-source: info: applying hocr-header.diff dpkg-source: error: cannot read

Re: svn-buildpackage path problems with added patch

2010-11-04 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hi Daniel, please keep all the recipients in the loop, in this case -mentors was missing. On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 22:48, Daniel Stender dan...@danielstender.com wrote: Hi yes o.k. sorry with the German, I've added a patch and altered patches/series and did svn-b --svn-ignore-new. When he

Re: RFS: dalle

2010-11-04 Thread Alberto Fernández
Hi Thomas, First of all, thanks for your suggestions. El jue, 04-11-2010 a las 21:33 +0800, Thomas Goirand escribió: On 11/03/2010 08:23 AM, Alberto Fernández wrote:Kind regards Alberto Fernández Hi Alberto, I don't have the intention to sponsor the package, but I just wanted to

Re: RFS: dalle

2010-11-04 Thread Alberto Fernández
El jue, 04-11-2010 a las 10:11 +0100, Mònica escribió: On Wednesday 03 November 2010 at 23:23:54, Alberto Fernández wrote: El mié, 03-11-2010 a las 10:55 +0100, Mònica escribió: Thanks very much for your help. I've just uploaded a fixed package with your suggestions. :-) I'm not

Re: RFS: wicd-client-kde

2010-11-04 Thread Iker Salmón San Millán
I have uploaded a new package, but there are a couple of issues. first i have to rename the ITP and i've been looking how to do it but i haven't found. The second thing is that i get an error that anthony (author) can't reproduce it. The program works well but there is kind of issue with the

Re: RFS: wicd-client-kde

2010-11-04 Thread Fernando Lemos
Hi, 2010/11/4 Iker Salmón San Millán sha...@esdebian.org: first i have to rename the ITP and i've been looking how to do it but i haven't found. Please read: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control In short, write something like this to cont...@b.d.o: retitle 1234 RFP: My package here