Re: Modifications of the changelog.

2012-04-24 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi, On Di, 24 Apr 2012, Ben Finney wrote: To say it more plainly: Modifying previous changelog entries, while not prohibited, does break an implicit user expectation. I think that expectation is reasonable to an extent, and breaking it is costly to the same extent. But there are good reasons

Re: Some questions related to signing

2012-04-24 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 24/04/12 04:25, Paul Wise a écrit : On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Christopher Howard wrote: * I make binary deb packages available for my projects from my Web site, but I also wanted to make the deb source files available, so that people can wrap their own binary debs for other

packaging help

2012-04-24 Thread Whit Armstrong
First off, is this the right list to ask basic questions about packaging? I'm trying to package a small daemon that provdies a ZMQ remote execution facility for R. The code is here: https://github.com/armstrtw/deathstar.core I've read the package tutorials several times, but I'm having trouble

Re: RFS: open-axiom/1.4.1+svn~2626-1

2012-04-24 Thread David Bremner
Игорь Пашев pashev.i...@gmail.com writes: Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package open-axiom I will have a look at this. d -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: packaging help

2012-04-24 Thread Daniel Pocock
I've read the package tutorials several times, but I'm having trouble finding out how to create a new user during the install (I don't want the daemon to run as root). Can someone point me in the right direction? Two suggestions: a) think about what type of user you want:

Bug#670254: RFS: lcmaps/1.5.5-1 [ITP] -- I'm looking for a sponsor.

2012-04-24 Thread Dennis van Dok
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package lcmaps * Package name: lcmaps Version : 1.5.5-1 Upstream Author : Nikhef Grid Security Middleware Team grid-mw-secur...@nikhef.nl * URL :

Re: packaging help

2012-04-24 Thread Whit Armstrong
Thanks, Daniel. I would be looking for 6-64999, assuming my package eventually made it into debian, I suppose it would need to have a 'globally allocated' uid. The idea is simply not to give users executing an R script on the machine root access. Regarding, reSIProcate, it's cdbs based?

Re: packaging help

2012-04-24 Thread Gergely Nagy
Whit Armstrong armstrong.w...@gmail.com writes: Thanks, Daniel. I would be looking for 6-64999, assuming my package eventually made it into debian, I suppose it would need to have a 'globally allocated' uid. The idea is simply not to give users executing an R script on the machine root

Re: packaging help

2012-04-24 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On 04/24/2012 03:16 PM, Whit Armstrong wrote: I would be looking for 6-64999, assuming my package eventually made it into debian, I suppose it would need to have a 'globally allocated' uid. The idea is simply not to give users executing an R script on the machine root access. You

Re: packaging help

2012-04-24 Thread George Danchev
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:39:41 +0200, Ansgar Burchardt ans...@43-1.org wrote: On 04/24/2012 03:16 PM, Whit Armstrong wrote: I would be looking for 6-64999, assuming my package eventually made it into debian, I suppose it would need to have a 'globally allocated' uid. The idea is simply not

Re: packaging help

2012-04-24 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Whit Armstrong armstrong.w...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Daniel. I would be looking for 6-64999, assuming my package eventually made it into debian, I suppose it would need to have a 'globally allocated' uid.  The idea is simply not to give users executing

Re: packaging help

2012-04-24 Thread Whit Armstrong
Matt, Ansgar, and Gergely, Thanks for the tips. Can you also help with some advice on the init.d script? The init.d script for deathstar launches a daemon which listens for jobs, and one worker per core. Can I use the same pid file for all of those processes? -Whit On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at

Re: packaging help

2012-04-24 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Whit Armstrong armstrong.w...@gmail.com wrote: Matt, Ansgar, and Gergely, Thanks for the tips. Can you also help with some advice on the init.d script? Perhaps. The init.d script for deathstar launches a daemon which listens for jobs, and one worker per

Re: packaging help

2012-04-24 Thread Gergely Nagy
Whit Armstrong armstrong.w...@gmail.com writes: Matt, Ansgar, and Gergely, Thanks for the tips. Can you also help with some advice on the init.d script? The init.d script for deathstar launches a daemon which listens for jobs, and one worker per core. Can I use the same pid file for all

Re: packaging help

2012-04-24 Thread Whit Armstrong
I assume it has a main process, which when stopped, would result in the workers being killed too. If that is so, I do not think you need to store the pids of the workers anywhere. Perhaps I'm confusing terminology here. The main deamon does not spawn the workers. It and the workers are

Re: packaging help

2012-04-24 Thread Gergely Nagy
Whit Armstrong armstrong.w...@gmail.com writes: I assume it has a main process, which when stopped, would result in the workers being killed too. If that is so, I do not think you need to store the pids of the workers anywhere. Perhaps I'm confusing terminology here. The main deamon does

Bug#658426: Re-Orphaning

2012-04-24 Thread Daniel Martí
# Re-orphaning. submitter 658426 ! owner 658426 ! close 658426 thanks I wish to re-orphan this package. The changes are minimal, plus the package is pretty old and unpopular. Cheers, Dan -- Daniel Martí - mv...@mvdan.cc - GPG 0x58BF72C3 pgpwpdTVPorfU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Processed: Re-Orphaning

2012-04-24 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: # Re-orphaning. submitter 658426 ! Bug #658426 [sponsorship-requests] RFS: xfonts-bolkhov/20001007-7 [ITA] -- Cyrillic fonts for X Changed Bug submitter to 'Daniel Martí mv...@mvdan.cc' from 'Daniel Martí danielmarti.deb...@gmail.com' owner

Bug#669903: marked as done (RFS: ttylog/0.1.d-2)

2012-04-24 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:28:52 +0200 with message-id 1335302932.15788.18.camel@LAPJFS and subject line RFS: ttylog/0.1.d-2 uploaded has caused the Debian Bug report #669903, regarding RFS: ttylog/0.1.d-2 to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt

Bug#670334: RFS: notion/3+2012042300-1 [ITP] -- Notion tiling tabbed window manager

2012-04-24 Thread Arnout Engelen
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package notion Package name: notion Version : 3+2012042300-1 Upstream Author : The Notion Team, p/a arnou...@bzzt.net URL : http://notion.sf.net License

Bug#669598: RFS: python-django-djblets/0.6.17-1 [ITP] -- Collection of useful extensions for Django

2012-04-24 Thread Jakub Wilk
(I don't intend to sponsor this package.) * Dmitry Nezhevenko d...@dion.org.ua, 2012-04-22, 14:03: dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/python-django-djblets/python-django-djblets_0.6.17-1.dsc I'd use debhelper (= 8) instead of debhelper (= 8.0.0), for easier backporting.

Bug#669599: RFS: python-django-evolution/0.6.7-1 [ITP] -- Schema evolution for the Django web framework

2012-04-24 Thread Jakub Wilk
(I don't intend to sponsor this package.) * Dmitry Nezhevenko d...@dion.org.ua, 2012-04-20, 13:39: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/python-django-evolution/python-django-evolution_0.6.7-1.dsc Why priority extra? I'd use debhelper (= 8) instead of debhelper (= 8.0.0), for easier

Bug#670195: RFS: lierolibre/0.1-1

2012-04-24 Thread Martin Erik Werner
On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 10:14 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 5:26 AM, Martin Erik Werner wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my new package lierolibre A review, since you are upstream too, I'm including some advice related to that too. Thanks for the review, ./TODO :)

My package sponsoring guidelines

2012-04-24 Thread Michael Gilbert
Hi, I'm going to be making some of my time available to review packages. So, I'm primarily interested in looking at work that fixes release-critical bugs, security issues, and just regular bugs as well (i.e. non-maintainer uploads, NMUs). So, if you're the bug fixing type, this is for you. I

Bug#670195: RFS: lierolibre/0.1-1

2012-04-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Martin Erik Werner wrote: Via autoreconf you mean? I'll look into that. Yep Well the zlib is unused, (and now deleted). I was not aware of libpcl and libtut, I'll have a look at ripping those out as well. ... Hmm, I though I removed that since I found it

Bug#670195: RFS: lierolibre/0.1-1

2012-04-24 Thread Paul Wise
One more thing, the WM close button doesn't close the game (at least in GNOME 3). -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Bug#670195: RFS: lierolibre/0.1-1

2012-04-24 Thread Guillem Jover
On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 01:50:59 +0200, Martin Erik Werner wrote: On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 10:14 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: I note many files don't have copyright/license headers: http://tieguy.org/blog/2012/03/17/on-the-importance-of-per-file-license-information/ I'm aware, I have taken to