Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
[ please Cc:-me on replies if you want to get my attention, I'm not subscribed to -mentors ] On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:26:49 +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: Second concern i have here is that (AFAIK) everyone can upload everything to mentors.debian.net. Which would mean we then would/could

Re: RFS: quickrdp

2012-01-24 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 22 January 2012 17:08:48 Tobias Eliasson wrote: Hi, --cut-- There are multiple implementations of telnet in Debian. Does quickrdp really need this particular one provided by the telnet binary package? If not, then the recommendation/suggestion should be changed to

How to migrate to testing

2012-01-24 Thread Olе Streicher
Hi everyone, I recvently adopted a package (sextractor) which was uploaded to unstable 11 days ago. The previous version is really old (~ 6 years) and had a few bugs. The problem is now that the new version depends on some packages that are still not available everywhere (libatlas-base-dev), and

Re: RFS: ipset

2012-01-24 Thread Pierre Chifflier
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 05:31:01PM +0700, Neutron Soutmun wrote: I must apologize you, Pierre but I have to CC you because we need your suggestions. [...] IMO, if the next release (1.41) of xtables-addons will not build ipset, so, ipset package should set the Conflicts to only for

Re: RFS: rhinote (new upstream version)

2012-01-24 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 08:47:21AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: I always get curious when people upload with no comments, so here is a review: First of all, thank you for the review. I’m always looking forward to improve my packages, and an in–depth review gives me the chance to do just that. You

Re: How to migrate to testing

2012-01-24 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24.01.2012 10:49, Olе Streicher wrote: The problem is now that the new version depends on some packages that are still not available everywhere (libatlas-base-dev), and it also fails to build on mips and mipsel (when running the unit test of the

Re: RFS: rhinote (new upstream version)

2012-01-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Andrea Bolognani wrote: Yeah, I should probably have mentioned it, but mostly due to the fact that I’ve added Vcs-* fields — or is collab-maint considered special in this regard? Right, collab-maint isn't special here. Do you suggest mentioning the addition

Re: How to migrate to testing

2012-01-24 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Arno Töll deb...@toell.net, 2012-01-24, 11:48: The problem is now that the new version depends on some packages that are still not available everywhere (libatlas-base-dev), Like where? (Presumably you meant s/depend/build-depends/.) and it also fails to build on mips and mipsel (when

Re: How to migrate to testing

2012-01-24 Thread Olе Streicher
Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org writes: * Arno Töll deb...@toell.net, 2012-01-24, 11:48: The problem is now that the new version depends on some packages that are still not available everywhere (libatlas-base-dev), Like where? (Presumably you meant s/depend/build-depends/.) You are right here.

Re: How to migrate to testing

2012-01-24 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Olе Streicher debian-de...@liska.ath.cx, 2012-01-24, 12:52: The problem is now that the new version depends on some packages that are still not available everywhere (libatlas-base-dev), Like where? (Presumably you meant s/depend/build-depends/.) You are right here. However, the binary would

Re: How to migrate to testing

2012-01-24 Thread Olе Streicher
Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org writes: * Olе Streicher debian-de...@liska.ath.cx, 2012-01-24, 12:52: The problem is now that the new version depends on some packages that are still not available everywhere (libatlas-base-dev), Like where? (Presumably you meant s/depend/build-depends/.) You are

Re: How to migrate to testing

2012-01-24 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Olе Streicher debian-de...@liska.ath.cx, 2012-01-24, 13:04: The problem is now that the new version depends on some packages that are still not available everywhere (libatlas-base-dev), Like where? (Presumably you meant s/depend/build-depends/.) You are right here. However, the binary would

Re: How to migrate to testing

2012-01-24 Thread Olе Streicher
Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org writes: * Olе Streicher debian-de...@liska.ath.cx, 2012-01-24, 13:04: The problem is now that the new version depends on some packages that are still not available everywhere (libatlas-base-dev), Like where? (Presumably you meant s/depend/build-depends/.) You are

Re: RFS: suckless-tools 39-1

2012-01-24 Thread Michael Stummvoll
Hi mentors, I uploaded a new version of the suckless-tools package: * dropped st now, cause its maintained by the stterm-packe. * included sprop and lsx from the suckless-upstream into the package. * changed slock to not suid root but setgid shadow * changed to quilt sourceformat with

Re: upstream changelog in XML format

2012-01-24 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi ! On 24/01/12 02:57, Samuel Bronson wrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Jerome BENOITg62993...@rezozer.net wrote: Thanks for your reply: You're quite welcome. On 23/01/12 19:54, Samuel Bronson wrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 1:08 AM, Jerome BENOITg62993...@rezozer.net wrote:

Re: How to migrate to testing

2012-01-24 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Olе Streicher debian-de...@liska.ath.cx, 2012-01-24, 14:25: The main problem is that on the mips and mipsel architectures the packages compile but their unit tests fail - timeout on mips, Does the test suite involve heavy floating-point computations? Two of our mips buildds, corelli and

Re: How to migrate to testing

2012-01-24 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org wrote on 2012-01-24 18:14: Does the test suite involve heavy floating-point computations? Two of our mips buildds, corelli and lucatelli, doesn't have FPU, so it wouldn't be surprising if they couldn't run such a testsuite in a I have seen in some packages that

Re: Re: RFS: dmaths

2012-01-24 Thread Innocent De Marchi
Hi Jakob, I have decided to make profound changes in the compilation of the package: I've removed some unnecessary things and updated debian/rules to dh $@. In addition, I have automated the process of packaging of sources. Thus, the compilation is more clear and simple. I hope that the package

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-24 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 24 Jan 2012, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: [Octavio Alvarez, 2012-01-24] Just a note, though: the non-automatic subscription behavior of the BTS could confuse new potential package maintainers, as they might not subscribe to the corresponding bug (this has happened to me). Is it a bad

Re: How to migrate to testing

2012-01-24 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Joachim Wiedorn ad_deb...@joonet.de, 2012-01-24, 19:05: Does the test suite involve heavy floating-point computations? Two of our mips buildds, corelli and lucatelli, doesn't have FPU, so it wouldn't be surprising if they couldn't run such a testsuite in a I have seen in some packages that

Re: Bug#657100: Please add a sponsorship-requests pseudo-package

2012-01-24 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 23 Jan 2012, Michael Gilbert wrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 24 Jan 2012, Arno Töll wrote: Hence, please add a sponsorship-requests pseudo-package with debian-mentors@lists.debian.org as a package owner and we can get started. This seems like

Re: How to migrate to testing

2012-01-24 Thread Olе Streicher
Joachim Wiedorn ad_deb...@joonet.de writes: Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org wrote on 2012-01-24 18:14: Does the test suite involve heavy floating-point computations? Two of our mips buildds, corelli and lucatelli, doesn't have FPU, so it wouldn't be surprising if they couldn't run such a

Re: upstream changelog in XML format

2012-01-24 Thread Rupert Swarbrick
Jerome BENOIT g62993...@rezozer.net writes: Is there a better way to deal with this `Changes.xml' ? I guess that I can add some stuff in the makefile to convert it in text format: do specific tools exist to convert this kind of changelog in text format ? If I were you, I'd ask upstream about

Re: RFS: ipset

2012-01-24 Thread Neutron Soutmun
Is there any plan to fix #651790 ? This way, xtables-addons can also remove the Conflicts with ipset, and ipset can also Conflicts with xtables-addons ( 1.4x) This bug also fixed, the ipset package is build only the userland utility and no needs to build against any recent kernel which the

What is autobuilder? Please help me understand this bug.

2012-01-24 Thread Paul Elliott
Recently libswe made it into debian(unstable). Almost immeadiately, I got this bug: http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/PackagingProject Source: libswe Version: 1.77.00.0004-1 Severity: serious Justification: fails to build from source Automated builds of libswe are failing because unoconv

Re: What is autobuilder? Please help me understand this bug.

2012-01-24 Thread Gergely Nagy
Paul Elliott pelli...@blackpatchpanel.com writes: http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/PackagingProject Source: libswe Version: 1.77.00.0004-1 Severity: serious Justification: fails to build from source Automated builds of libswe are failing because unoconv (used to produce PDF and HTML

Re: Help with architecture not supporting SSE (Was: Bug#656755: libhmsbeagle FTBFS on everything except amd64)

2012-01-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 01:37:59AM +, peter green wrote: Andreas Tille wrote: Hi, I have to admit that I do not have any experience with SSE issues. Any advise what to do in cases like this (see build logs linked below)? From looking at the build logs it looks like it is trying to

Re: What is autobuilder? Please help me understand this bug.

2012-01-24 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:20:12AM -0600, Paul Elliott wrote: Source: libswe Automated builds of libswe are failing because unoconv (used to produce PDF and HTML documentation) assumes a writable home directory, Seems like a matter of setting HOME=`pwd` Given that the documentation

What to do if FTBFS bug is not reproducible?

2012-01-24 Thread Vasudev Kamath
Hello, I'm working on to prepare QA upload for surf which is orphaned by its previous maintainer. There is a FTBFS bug reported against this package [1]. But I'm not able to reproduce this bug. Package builds fine on the pbuilder clean chroot. I've already reported this on the bug and also have