Re: Git and tarballs

2011-07-08 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 06 Jul 2011, Wolodja Wentland wrote: Tarball only Branches NameLocal/RemoteMerges From Tracks - master local n/a

Re: RE : : RFS: autoconf-archive (updated package)

2011-07-08 Thread roucaries bastien
Reuploaded a new version comments online On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Kilian Krause kil...@debian.org wrote: Hi Bastien, On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 07:50 +0200, roucaries bastien wrote: Please do not upload directly, i will upload git tree before under collab maint and postthe final ppackage

Re: how to get people to run lintian on their packages

2011-07-08 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Karl, On 08.07.2011 05:49, Karl Goetz wrote: - The -I and --pedantic options should always be used. Why is that? the manual entry for --pedantic says Pedantic tags are Lintian at its most pickiest and include checks for

Re: how to get people to run lintian on their packages

2011-07-08 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 11:13:53AM +0200, Arno Töll a écrit : That said, some pedantic tags can probably be ignored but most are nonetheless still a very helpful addition one better should consider when packaging software. Hello everybody, I would like to add that in my experience, an

Re: RFS: xxxterm (2nd attempt)

2011-07-08 Thread Kilian Krause
Luis, On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 23:12 +0100, Luis Henriques wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package xxxterm. * Package name: xxxterm Version : 1.399-1 Upstream Author : Marco Peereboom ma...@peereboom.us, Stevan Andjelkovic ste...@student.chalmers.se,

Re: how to get people to run lintian on their packages

2011-07-08 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le vendredi 8 juillet 2011 11:13:53, Arno Töll a écrit : Hi Karl, On 08.07.2011 05:49, Karl Goetz wrote: - The -I and --pedantic options should always be used. Why is that? the manual entry for --pedantic says Pedantic tags are Lintian at its most pickiest and

RFC: git-flow

2011-07-08 Thread Gergely Nagy
Hi! While I'm not looking for a sponsor for my package, git-flow, I would appreciate any comments regarding the packaging, and all ideas for improvement. * Package name: git-flow Version : 0.4.1-1~preview0 Upstream Author : Vincent Driessen vinc...@datafox.nl,

Re: RFS: flush (updated package)

2011-07-08 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Fabrizio Regalli fab...@fabreg.it [110707 21:22]: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.9.10-1 of my package flush. Some 'LDFLAGS += -Wl,-z,defs -Wl,--as-needed' should help to get the depedency list a bit shortened. Ok, I can add this flags. Please do not add

Re: RFS: usb-imagewriter

2011-07-08 Thread Fabrizio Regalli
On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 12:58 +0200, Fabrizio Regalli wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package usb-imagewriter. * Package name: usb-imagewriter Version : 0.1.3-1 Upstream Author : Oliver Grawert o...@ubuntu.com * URL :

Re: RFS: xxxterm (2nd attempt)

2011-07-08 Thread Luis Henriques
Hi Kilian, Kilian Krause kil...@debian.org writes: Having a look at your package I find: First of all, thanks a lot for looking at the package! Later today I will go through your comments, make all the changes your suggesting and update the package at mentors. A few comments below. 1.

Re: RFS: usb-imagewriter

2011-07-08 Thread Fabrizio Regalli
On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 13:03 +0200, Fabrizio Regalli wrote: On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 12:58 +0200, Fabrizio Regalli wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package usb-imagewriter. * Package name: usb-imagewriter Version : 0.1.3-1 Upstream Author : Oliver

Re: Nitpicking: you are doing it wrong

2011-07-08 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le vendredi 8 juillet 2011 12:55:52, Jakub Wilk a écrit : [SNIP] Don't get me wrong, in my opinion (some of) these things are good. But making a big fuss about them is not helping anybody. It only distracts attention from things that are important, and creates false impression that they

Re: RFS: qasmixer

2011-07-08 Thread Sebastian H.
Hello Kilian Also thanks to you for taking the time to review this package. The new package source is uploaded. looking closer at your package I find the following: 1. It's an intial upload to Debian AFAICT. Yet your debian/changelog is cluttered with a number of entries already. For

Re: Nitpicking: you are doing it wrong

2011-07-08 Thread Scott Howard
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org wrote: Dear reviewers, next time if you are going to complain about: - debian/compat being too low; There are cases where it should be bumped [1], support for old versions gets removed. Many sponsors take the approach What should be

RFS: nullidentd (adopting package)

2011-07-08 Thread Jeroen Schot
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.0-5 of my package nullidentd. It builds these binary packages: nullidentd - small, fast identd daemon Here is the ‘lintian’ commandline I ran, and its output: $ lintian -IE --pedantic I: nullidentd source:

Re: Nitpicking: you are doing it wrong

2011-07-08 Thread Scott Howard
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org wrote: Don't get me wrong, in my opinion (some of) these things are good. But making a big fuss about them is not helping anybody. It only distracts attention from things that are important, and creates false impression that they are

Re: Nitpicking: you are doing it wrong

2011-07-08 Thread David Bremner
On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 08:47:31 -0400, Scott Howard showard...@gmail.com wrote: - debian/copyright not in DEP-5 format; This is accepted and will be policy soon [3]. What should be done eventually must be done immediately. I think you might misunderstand the DEP process, which is easy to

Re: Nitpicking: you are doing it wrong

2011-07-08 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 12:55 +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: (I'm creating a new thread rather than replying to a particular message, because my mail is not at all personal. It's a general tendency amongst many debian-mentors reviewers that I'm going to rant about.) A sponsor on 2011-07-08, 11:22

Re: Nitpicking: you are doing it wrong

2011-07-08 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08.07.2011 15:56, Wolodja Wentland wrote: 1. You're using debhelper compat 7 and also only debhelper = 7.0.50~ as Build-Depends. Please bump that to 8 Seriously? Is the sponsor suggesting that one should be build-depending on a newer version,

Re: RFS: nullidentd (adopting package)

2011-07-08 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:40:46 +0200, Jeroen Schot wrote: Here is the ‘lintian’ commandline I ran, and its output: Thank you for providing this information! $ lintian -IE --pedantic I: nullidentd source: quilt-patch-missing-description 01_random_usernames.diff I: nullidentd source:

Re: Nitpicking: you are doing it wrong

2011-07-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Scott Howard showard...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org wrote: - debian/copyright not in DEP-5 format; This is accepted and will be policy soon [3]. What should be done eventually must be done immediately. It will be in Policy and maintained via

Re: Nitpicking: you are doing it wrong

2011-07-08 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 04:31:49PM +0200, Arno Töll wrote: On 08.07.2011 15:56, Wolodja Wentland wrote: I can understand how this applies to older packages that have been created in the past and just don't use some of the new functionality, but I guess that the points are valid for

Re: Nitpicking: you are doing it wrong

2011-07-08 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Adam, On 08.07.2011 18:24, Adam Borowski wrote: If you don't make use of newest shiniest features, higher debhelper levels just make backporting harder for no gain. There is debhelper 8 in both, lenny-backports as well as in squeeze-backports.

Re: RFS: libpar2 (reupload to Debian)

2011-07-08 Thread Andreas Moog
On 07/07/2011 10:43 PM, Paul Wise wrote: There is one lintian warning: I: libpar2-0: no-symbols-control-file usr/lib/libpar2.so.0.0.1 Ups, yes. Symbols file added. Two cppcheck warnings: [libpar2.h:29]: (error) Memory leak: LibPar2::par1Repairer [libpar2.h:30]: (error) Memory leak:

Re: RFS: qasmixer

2011-07-08 Thread Kilian Krause
Hi Sebastian, On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 02:05:05PM +0200, Sebastian H. wrote: [...] 2. Your debian/watch doesn't work. Yield remote version -0.12.0 [...] The whole point for the 0.12.1 release was to make Debian integration smoother. Since most things seem to work now I've uploaded the tarball

Re: RFS: xxxterm (2nd attempt)

2011-07-08 Thread Luis Henriques
Hi, Kilian Krause kil...@debian.org writes: Having a look at your package I find: Ok, so I re-worked the package and uploaded a new version into mentors: dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/x/xxxterm/xxxterm_1.399-1.dsc I tried to follow all the advices, a few comments follow.

Re: Nitpicking: you are doing it wrong

2011-07-08 Thread Michael Tautschnig
Hi Jakub, hi all, [...] (whether or not to request bumping debhelper compat; I do agree with the technical arguments put forward by Jakub, but that's not the focus of my reply) The obvious provocative answer is: Nitpicking is the way to go. As always, however, there's more than black and white

Re: RFS: libpar2 (reupload to Debian)

2011-07-08 Thread Kilian Krause
Hi Andreas, On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 07:35:41PM +0200, Andreas Moog wrote: On 07/07/2011 10:43 PM, Paul Wise wrote: There is one lintian warning: I: libpar2-0: no-symbols-control-file usr/lib/libpar2.so.0.0.1 Ups, yes. Symbols file added. [...] Thanks for checking the package, a new

Re: RFS: xnoise (2nd try)

2011-07-08 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Hello Jörn, I have packaged xnoise without any lintian errors/warnings. Very good work. Unfortunately I am not a DD. So you must search further for an sponsor. One tip: Instead of using in debian/rules: override_dh_installman: dh_installman debian/xnoise.1 it is better creating a file

Re: Nitpicking: you are doing it wrong

2011-07-08 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi, Nice topic, thanks to Jakub for having the good idea to have started it. On 07/08/2011 08:47 PM, Scott Howard wrote: Right now, the general consensus is the dh and cdbs produce debian packages that are easier to maintain in the long run (if the sponsor has to take over maintenance of the

Re: Nitpicking: you are doing it wrong

2011-07-08 Thread Thomas Goirand
On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 12:55 +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: [...] but should be made explicit as the reasons not to use dh, for example, might mean that the helper is lacking functionality or behaves buggy in certain situations. I don't get it here... Do you think that debian/rules calling

Re: Nitpicking: you are doing it wrong

2011-07-08 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi Adam, On 08.07.2011 18:24, Adam Borowski wrote: If you don't make use of newest shiniest features, higher debhelper levels just make backporting harder for no gain. There is debhelper 8 in both, lenny-backports as well as in squeeze-backports. Moreover Debian packages target Sid,

Re: Nitpicking: you are doing it wrong

2011-07-08 Thread Gergely Nagy
Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org writes: On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 12:55 +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: [...] but should be made explicit as the reasons not to use dh, for example, might mean that the helper is lacking functionality or behaves buggy in certain situations. I don't get it here...

Re: Nitpicking: you are doing it wrong

2011-07-08 Thread Leo costela Antunes
On 08/07/11 22:23, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 07/08/2011 08:47 PM, Scott Howard wrote: Right now, the general consensus is the dh and cdbs produce debian packages that are easier to maintain in the long run (if the sponsor has to take over maintenance of the package or if NMUs are required in

Re: Nitpicking: you are doing it wrong

2011-07-08 Thread Christian Kastner
On 07/08/2011 12:29 PM, Arno Töll wrote: On 08.07.2011 18:24, Adam Borowski wrote: If you don't make use of newest shiniest features, higher debhelper levels just make backporting harder for no gain. There is debhelper 8 in both, lenny-backports as well as in squeeze-backports. There's no

Re: RFS: libpar2 (reupload to Debian)

2011-07-08 Thread Andreas Moog
On 07/08/2011 09:31 PM, Kilian Krause wrote: Hi Andreas, On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 07:35:41PM +0200, Andreas Moog wrote: On 07/07/2011 10:43 PM, Paul Wise wrote: There is one lintian warning: I: libpar2-0: no-symbols-control-file usr/lib/libpar2.so.0.0.1 Ups, yes. Symbols file added.

Re: Nitpicking: you are doing it wrong

2011-07-08 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday, July 09, 2011 12:41:09 AM Leo costela Antunes wrote: On 08/07/11 22:23, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 07/08/2011 08:47 PM, Scott Howard wrote: Right now, the general consensus is the dh and cdbs produce debian packages that are easier to maintain in the long run (if the sponsor

Re: Nitpicking: you are doing it wrong

2011-07-08 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 04:23:05AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 07/08/2011 08:47 PM, Scott Howard wrote: Right now, the general consensus is the dh and cdbs produce debian packages that are easier to maintain in the long run (if the sponsor has to take over maintenance of the package or

Re: how to get people to run lintian on their packages

2011-07-08 Thread Karl Goetz
On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 11:32:20 +0200 Thomas Preud'homme robo...@celest.fr wrote: Le vendredi 8 juillet 2011 11:13:53, Arno Töll a écrit : Hi Karl, On 08.07.2011 05:49, Karl Goetz wrote: - The -I and --pedantic options should always be used. Why is that? the manual entry for

Re: Nitpicking: you are doing it wrong

2011-07-08 Thread Joey Hess
Scott Howard wrote: From the debhelper manpage Unless otherwise indicated, all debhelper documentation assumes that you are using the most recent compatibility level, and in most cases does not indicate if the behavior is different in an earlier compatibility level, so if you are not using