Re: RFS: wmmixer

2011-07-11 Thread Rodolfo kix Garcia
On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:17:20 +0100, Michael Tautschnig wrote: Hi again, [...] Minor improvements to be made: - You don't need to build-depend on quilt. I don't know how to solve it. I cannot found the build-depend. Sorry, I meant the Build-Depends: entry in debian/control. [...]

Re: RFS: wmmixer

2011-07-11 Thread Michael Tautschnig
Hi, [...] I think the package is finished now. Cool, thanks, package looks pretty good. I've just uploaded it, but please consider the following comments for the next version you might prepare: - I've remove one line from changelog (priority to extra), added the Homepage to

Re: RFS: usb-imagewriter

2011-07-11 Thread Fabrizio Regalli
Hi Kilian, thank you for your review. On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 21:00 +0200, Kilian Krause wrote: Reviewing your package I find a bit of chat on the ITP bug yet no notion if that problem of using Ubuntu logo has yet been solved and how. Unfortunately, no. I need to understand: - if the logo

Re: Incorporating patches best practice

2011-07-11 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le lundi 11 juillet 2011 06:52:58, Ben Finney a écrit : Gary Briggs chu...@icculus.org writes: [SNIP] 1) Obviously not appropriate in the general case, but I could do a major new release, since I've added a couple of big features since the last deiban package. A new release of the same

Re: RFS: nullidentd (adopting package)

2011-07-11 Thread Jeroen Schot
On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:33:29 +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: 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:

Re: RFS: taxbird (updated package)

2011-07-11 Thread Olaf Dietsche
Michael Tautschnig m...@debian.org writes: Could you please briefly explain why you are NMUing this package? Are you intending to take over package maintainership? What about the previous maintainer? No, I don't want to take over the package. The maintainer is still maintaining libgeier and

Re: RFS: usb-imagewriter

2011-07-11 Thread Fabrizio Regalli
Hi Kilian, On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 10:50 +0200, Kilian Krause wrote: Then go ahead and ask upstream about this. They know what use they can accept. Ok. Later will send an email to author asking for information. The manpage is .. uhm, extremely brief. Sure that's all you want to tell

Re: RFS: libgeier (updated package)

2011-07-11 Thread Olaf Dietsche
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Olaf Dietsche wrote: The package appears to be lintian clean. Not really: I: libgeier source: missing-debian-source-format W: libgeier source: debian-rules-missing-recommended-target build-arch W: libgeier source:

Re: RFS: usb-imagewriter

2011-07-11 Thread Kilian Krause
Hi Fabrizio, On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 11:35 +0200, Fabrizio Regalli wrote: Or is it because the package is no longer maintained upstream? Last commit is from 2009. The second one. This package is a little bit 'outdated' That's why I'm asking. Are you sure upstream will

Re: RFS: xnoise (2nd try)

2011-07-11 Thread shuerhaaken
Hello Alessandro Ghedini, I tried to implement all your points. I reuploaded the packages to debian mentors. I have some comments to your testings, see below:  + IMHO the Section should be sound instead of x11. sound doesn't seem to fit right, because xnoise is a media player and also does

Re: dacco and qdacco packages waiting sponsor

2011-07-11 Thread Innocent De Marchi
Hi Michael, Hi! These packages are waiting for a sponsor: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/q/qdacco and http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/dacco. This is a Catalan-English dictionary and a query GUI. [...] I've just uploaded dacco, looks good. Thank you

Re: RFS: xnoise (2nd try)

2011-07-11 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le lundi 11 juillet 2011 16:58:17, shuerhaaken a écrit : Hello Alessandro Ghedini, I tried to implement all your points. I reuploaded the packages to debian mentors. I have some comments to your testings, see below: + IMHO the Section should be sound instead of x11. sound doesn't

Re: Nitpicking: you are doing it wrong

2011-07-11 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 07/09/2011 10:30 PM, Leo costela Antunes wrote: [ lots of valid arguments ] I think you got me (at least partly) convince on the short dh style. However, I reamain convince that Jakub's point to not nitpicking new comers on the dh versus dh_* style is very valid. Thanks for the

Re: RFS: xnoise (2nd try)

2011-07-11 Thread Alessandro Ghedini
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 04:58:17PM +0200, shuerhaaken wrote:  + IMHO the Section should be sound instead of x11. sound doesn't seem to fit right, because xnoise is a media player and also does video. If you find something more fitting, please comment. Duh. Makes sense... Some similar

Re: dpkg status Conffiles obsolete flag?

2011-07-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Ansgar Burchardt wrote: Sven Joachim wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: I am hoping to understand the obsolete flag on conffiles in the dpkg status file. There are many packages that include this flag at the end of the line. For example: [...] They are obsolete because they no longer exist

Re: RFS: mosh

2011-07-11 Thread David Banks
Hi Michael, On 10/07/11 22:39, Michael Tautschnig wrote: I'm sorry, I haven't yet reviewed your package, I'm only commenting on the issues you raised. No problem, I appreciate it. For reference, I have attempted to build against a libgc using a default configuration and it breaks badly at

Re: RFS: libgeier (updated package)

2011-07-11 Thread Olaf Dietsche
Uwe Kleine-König uklei...@strlen.de writes: On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 02:17:55PM +0200, Olaf Dietsche wrote: P: libgeier-dev: no-upstream-changelog P: libgeier0: no-upstream-changelog Doesn't make sense, since upstream changelog is empty. So overwrite it. I don't understand that. What

Re: RFS: taxbird (updated package)

2011-07-11 Thread Michael Tautschnig
Hi Olaf, Michael Tautschnig m...@debian.org writes: Could you please briefly explain why you are NMUing this package? Are you intending to take over package maintainership? What about the previous maintainer? No, I don't want to take over the package. The maintainer is still

Re: RFS: libgeier (updated package)

2011-07-11 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Olaf Dietsche olaf--mail.debian-ment...@olafdietsche.de wrote on 2011-07-11 20:17: So overwrite it. I don't understand that. What do you mean with overwrite it? You create a file debian/libgeier-dev.lintian-overrides with the line: libgeier-dev: no-upstream-changelog and a file

Re: RFS: libgeier (updated package)

2011-07-11 Thread Andreas Moog
On 07/11/2011 09:12 PM, Joachim Wiedorn wrote: So overwrite it. I don't understand that. What do you mean with overwrite it? You create a file debian/libgeier-dev.lintian-overrides with the line: libgeier-dev: no-upstream-changelog and a file debian/libgeier0.lintian-overrides with the

Re: RFS: libgeier (updated package)

2011-07-11 Thread Andreas Moog
On 07/11/2011 08:17 PM, Olaf Dietsche wrote: I didn't look into your package, but still having an empty dependency_libs entry is important for multiarch support. According to http://release.debian.org/~aba/la/current.txt (which is linked from

Re: RFS: libgeier (updated package)

2011-07-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:29 PM, Andreas Moog wrote: Is it really considered necessary to override a wishlist/--pedantic lintian tag? Definitely not. It also is not correct to override lintian when it is correct. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: RFS: xnoise (2nd try)

2011-07-11 Thread shuerhaaken
Hello Alessandro Duh. Makes sense... Some similar packages (e.g. banshee and amarok) are in sound, but I can't say what's the best solution. I'll look around what has been chosen for other media players. That's what Suggests/Recommends are made for. E.g. Rhythmbox Recommends

Re: RFS: mosh

2011-07-11 Thread Michael Tautschnig
Hi David, [...] Given that, according to the discussion in #156, some earlier version had apparently worked fine: couldn't the Debian package simply revert that optimization that requires GC_DONT_ADD_BYTE_AT_END? At the time this was implemented it was quite a significant change and

Re: RFS: libgeier (updated package)

2011-07-11 Thread Olaf Dietsche
Andreas Moog am...@ubuntu.com writes: On 07/11/2011 08:17 PM, Olaf Dietsche wrote: I didn't look into your package, but still having an empty dependency_libs entry is important for multiarch support. According to http://release.debian.org/~aba/la/current.txt (which is linked from

Re: RFS: libgeier (updated package)

2011-07-11 Thread Andreas Moog
On 07/11/2011 10:03 PM, Olaf Dietsche wrote: Andreas Moogam...@ubuntu.com writes: On 07/11/2011 08:17 PM, Olaf Dietsche wrote: I didn't look into your package, but still having an empty dependency_libs entry is important for multiarch support. According to

Re: Re: RFS: fribid

2011-07-11 Thread Samuel Lidén Borell
Please recheck with lintian, I'm getting a couple of warnings here: W: fribid source: debian-rules-missing-recommended-target build-arch W: fribid source: out-of-date-standards-version 3.9.1 (current is 3.9.2) Please check debian/copyright. Seems like you are missing some entries... e.g: