Re: git-buildpackage and tarballs

2011-10-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 10:34:09PM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : I see those two issues as linked because of how version numbering works, which is the key difference in using the native format. With a native package, you only have a single version number, not a version with a Debian

Re: git-buildpackage and tarballs

2011-10-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: I think that I am missing documentation on that topic. Yes, I seem to recall there's an open Policy bug for the fact that native and non-native packages aren't particularly well-documented. The Policy §3.2 mentions ‘remember that hyphen (-) cannot be

Re: RFS: evilvte (updated package)

2011-10-23 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 01:32:16PM +0800, Wen-Yen Chuang wrote: Hi, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.5.0-1 of my package evilvte. (Programming language: C) Uploaded, thanks. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [

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

2011-10-23 Thread Guido van Steen
Dear Michael and other mentors, An annoying bug in the upstream source of fizsh version 1.0.4 has been discovered, and fixed. Therefore, upstream has released a new bug-fix version 1.0.5. This is why I withdraw this RFS, which is related to the version 1.0.4. I will upload a packaged version of

RFS: fizsh (already in Debian, new upstream version 1.0.5)

2011-10-23 Thread Guido van Steen
Dear Michael, and other mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package fizsh. * Package name: fizsh Version : 1.0.5-1 Upstream Author : Guido van Steen (myself) * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/fizsh/ * License : Modified BSD License Section

Re: RFS: python-pywcs

2011-10-23 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
Hello Ole, Le mardi 18 octobre 2011 à 19:06 +0200, Ole Streicher a écrit : Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package python-pywcs. [...] I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. I am willing to sponsor your package. However, I would like to know first if you

Alternative dependencies

2011-10-23 Thread Tony Houghton
What should you do if you have a dependency which can either use one package or two (or more) different packages. For example, roxterm's man pages can be built either with xmltoman, xmlto or xsltproc, but xsltproc additionally requires docbook-xsl. I don't think control file syntax supports

Re: Alternative dependencies

2011-10-23 Thread Michael Tautschnig
[...] Build-Depends: xsltproc | xmltoman | xmlto, docbook-xsl | xmltoman | xmlto This would be a correct rewrite to CNF, but ... Or would it be better to choose one and stick to that for the sake of consistency? ... there isn't much of a point doing it here for Build-Depends. The

Re: Alternative dependencies

2011-10-23 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 21:23:41 +0200 Michael Tautschnig m...@debian.org wrote: [...] Build-Depends: xsltproc | xmltoman | xmlto, docbook-xsl | xmltoman | xmlto This would be a correct rewrite to CNF, but ... Or would it be better to choose one and stick to that for the sake of

email rejected bugs.debian.org

2011-10-23 Thread Paul Elliott
I tried to correct a ITP by sending email to 646...@bugs.debian.org but the email was rejected. Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently: 646...@bugs.debian.org Technical details of permanent failure: Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the

Re: email rejected bugs.debian.org

2011-10-23 Thread Fernando Lemos
Paul, On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Paul Elliott pelli...@blackpatchpanel.com wrote: I tried to correct a ITP by sending email to 646...@bugs.debian.org but the email was rejected. Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:      646...@bugs.debian.org Technical details of

Re: email rejected bugs.debian.org

2011-10-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Fernando Lemos fernando...@gmail.com writes: Paul Elliott pelli...@blackpatchpanel.com wrote: This is a small family domain. I control it. It goes thru google email. only 2 accounts in domain. All the computers on it use linux. It is extremely unlikely any spam has ever been sent from this

Re: email rejected bugs.debian.org

2011-10-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 23 Oct 2011, Paul Elliott wrote: Technical details of permanent failure: Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the