RFS: cherrytree (2nd try)

2011-10-20 Thread Vincent Cheng
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "cherrytree". (I haven't gotten a single reply in a week since my first RFS request, so I'm sending this out again.) * Package name: cherrytree Version : 0.23.1-1 Upstream Author : Giuseppe Penone * URL : http:

Re: watch file when url is raw text not in a link.

2011-10-20 Thread Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Paul Elliott wrote: > > > Is it possible to write a watch file for a case when the url is raw text in > the web page but not in a link, that is, no href? > > This web page contains the pointer to the file: > > http://www.openastro.org/?Download > > which is > > htt

Re: RFS: xz-utils (updated package)

2011-10-20 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Sorry for the delay. Jakub Wilk wrote: > Thanks, this is consistent with my understanding. Could you please update > the patch header? [... two other nice suggestions snipped ...] I've put up an uploaded package incorporating your suggestions at - http://alioth.debian.org/~jrnieder-guest/

watch file when url is raw text not in a link.

2011-10-20 Thread Paul Elliott
Is it possible to write a watch file for a case when the url is raw text in the web page but not in a link, that is, no href? This web page contains the pointer to the file: http://www.openastro.org/?Download which is https://launchpad.net/~pellesimon/+archive/+files/openastro.org_1.1.25.orig

RFS: fizsh (already in Debian, new upstream version 1.0.4)

2011-10-20 Thread Guido van Steen
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "fizsh". * Package name: fizsh Version : 1.0.4-1 Upstream Author : Guido van Steen (myself) * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/fizsh/ * License : Modified BSD License Section : shells To

Re: berlios closing; where should my projects escape to?

2011-10-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Andrea Bolognani writes: > This doesn’t completely disprove your point, though. Truth is, most DVCS > are no more different from one another than different imperative > programming languages are, and programmers constantly move from a > project using a certain language to another using a differen

Re: Python build dependencies

2011-10-20 Thread David Paleino
On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 20:43:35 +0200, Guido van Steen wrote: > Dear list, > > I maintain a package called fizsh. Fizsh only depends on zsh. > > [..] > > If I build the package with "dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -us" I > get the following warning: > > "dh_pysupport: This program is deprecated,

Re: Python build dependencies

2011-10-20 Thread Guido van Steen
Sorry for being a bit unclear. Instead of: > It is not completely clear to me why get this warning. Why do I do NOT > need Python to build the package? Is python needed for debhelper? In > that case should python not be included as a build-depend as well? I meant: > It is not completely clear t

Re: RFS: gnome-pie - visual application launcher for GNOME

2011-10-20 Thread Andrea Veri
On Thu, 20 Oct 2011, Alessandro Ghedini wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gnome-pie". > > * Package name: gnome-pie >Version : 0.2+gitdfdad95-1 >Upstream Author : Simon Schneegans > * URL : http://gnome-pie.simonschneegans.de

RFS: gnome-pie - visual application launcher for GNOME

2011-10-20 Thread Alessandro Ghedini
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gnome-pie". * Package name: gnome-pie Version : 0.2+gitdfdad95-1 Upstream Author : Simon Schneegans * URL : http://gnome-pie.simonschneegans.de/ * License : GPL-3.0+ Section : gnome It b

Re: berlios closing; where should my projects escape to?

2011-10-20 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 20, 2011, at 08:48 AM, Alex Chiang wrote: >The lowest common denominator is patch(1). > >So all you really need to know how to do is use the upstream's >tool to obtain the source: > > git clone > bzr branch > svn co > etc. > >Then, you can import the source into your

Re: berlios closing; where should my projects escape to?

2011-10-20 Thread Gergely Nagy
Alex Chiang writes: > The lowest common denominator is patch(1). > > So all you really need to know how to do is use the upstream's > tool to obtain the source: > > git clone > bzr branch > svn co > etc. Even better, at least in Debian's case, there's debcheckout(1). It h

Re: RFS: fadecut

2011-10-20 Thread Didier Raboud
Le jeudi, 20 octobre 2011 17.30:40, Marco Balmer a écrit : > Thanks Didier for checking my package. Make test (testing suite) runs not > proper at the moment. I disabled it and re-uploaded the package: > http://mentors.debian.net/package/fadecut Thanks; uploaded ! Cheers, OdyX signature.asc De

Re: berlios closing; where should my projects escape to?

2011-10-20 Thread Alex Chiang
* Barry Warsaw : > On Oct 20, 2011, at 11:04 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > > >For example I might stop putting off the Mailman stuff I > >promised to work on (porting the Indymedia patchset to mailman > >3) if it wasn't using bzr. > > That does make me sad. > > If you contribute in general to open sour

Re: RFS: fadecut

2011-10-20 Thread Marco Balmer
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 02:42:31PM +0200, Didier Raboud wrote: > I just built it and although it built correctly (buildlog attached), I think > there are some things that should be changed: There are many > mkdir: cannot create directory `/sbuild-nonexistent': Permission denied" > those indic

Re: berlios closing; where should my projects escape to?

2011-10-20 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 20, 2011, at 11:04 PM, Paul Wise wrote: >I think people tend not to contribute at all to projects using a VCS >they don't like. I still contribute to Python . >For example I might stop putting off the Mailman stuff I promised to >work on (porting the Indymedia patchset to mailman 3) if it

Re: berlios closing; where should my projects escape to?

2011-10-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > I also think that Bazaar is easy enough to learn for both experienced and > inexperienced developers/dvcs users.  I can't think of a single contributor to > e.g. GNU Mailman or python-mode.el that has told me they won't contribute just > beca

Re: berlios closing; where should my projects escape to?

2011-10-20 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 20, 2011, at 12:26 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: >Not getting into any war, but it seems 90% of everyone thinks Git is a way >better than BZR, and that the 10% that remains are BZR extremists. Since >VCS is all about sharing your sources (unless you don't care about others >and sees it as only

Re: berlios closing; where should my projects escape to?

2011-10-20 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 07:34:31AM +0100, Roger Light wrote: > I think it's more like "100% of people prefer the DVCS they use first > because anything after that is different". False. I started off with Bazaar, used it happily for a couple years, then moved everything to Git because I liked it b

Re: RFS: aspsms-t

2011-10-20 Thread Didier Raboud
Le vendredi, 14 octobre 2011 11.31:25, Marco Balmer a écrit : > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for a my new debian package: > > * Package name: aspsms-t Hi Marco, and thanks for this new package, indeed probably useful (too) to have in Debian ! So here's my review: * debia

Re: RFS: jabber-querybot

2011-10-20 Thread Didier Raboud
Le vendredi, 14 octobre 2011 11.40:16, Marco Balmer a écrit : > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for a my new debian package: > > * Package name: jabber-querybot Hi Marco, and thanks for this new package, indeed probably useful to have in Debian ! Now on for the review: * the

Re: RFS: fadecut

2011-10-20 Thread Didier Raboud
buildprocess; it really should. Cheers, -- OdyX fadecut_0.1.1-1-amd64-20111020-1422.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: berlios closing; where should my projects escape to?

2011-10-20 Thread Ben Finney
Russ Allbery writes: > Roger Light writes: > > > I think it's more like "100% of people prefer the DVCS they use first > > because anything after that is different". > > Nope. Used svk first, then arch, then used bzr extensively for a while, > and then learned Git and switched everything else o

Re: RFS: xz-utils (updated package)

2011-10-20 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Jonathan Nieder , 2011-10-20, 05:38: Resolution of unversioned symbols seems (though I haven't found time to check carefully yet) to happen on a first-library-mapped-wins basis. [snip] In the cases where the actual result is "v2, v2" instead of one implementation being used directly and anoth

Re: RFS: xz-utils (updated package)

2011-10-20 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Jonathan Nieder , 2011-10-17, 23:49: > | Unfortunately one cannot even get lucky and find the symbol from > | liblzma2 used from time to time: versioned symbols take precedence over > | unversioned ones when resolving unversioned references. > > As far as I can tell, this is

Re: RFS: xplanet

2011-10-20 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Ruben Molina , 2011-10-19, 20:57: Your package doesn't respect DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt. Please consider using dpkg-buildflags to fix this issue. :) Thanks. I added dpkg-dev to Build-Depends, included /usr/share/dpkg/buildflags.mk, and addded a DPKG_EXPORT_BUILDFLAGS=1 in debian/rules Hmm, y

Re: berlios closing; where should my projects escape to?

2011-10-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Roger Light writes: > I think it's more like "100% of people prefer the DVCS they use first > because anything after that is different". Nope. Used svk first, then arch, then used bzr extensively for a while, and then learned Git and switched everything else over to it as soon as possible. --

Re: dh --parallel

2011-10-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise writes: > Best file a couple of bugs about that on autoconf upstream: > Please implement autoreconf -jX > Please implement ./configure -jX Autoconf upstream has already considered parallel configure. My impression of that dicussion is that there's just no way it will happen, at least