Re: Handling of sponsorship requests

2012-08-24 Thread Nicolas Dandrimont
Le 24/08/2012 à 03:55, Bart Martens ba...@debian.org écrivit : where else would you suggest putting it to make sure people, well, read it? :) It would be nice to have a link to the freeze policy there. http://release.debian.org/wheezy/freeze_policy.html Done! Feel free to suggest an

Re: tool to create .deb for proprietary software?

2012-08-24 Thread David Cho-Lerat
Hi all, Depending on your own ambition there are several approaches. The easiest and simplest way is to use dpkg-deb -b which does right what you asked for. A slightly more advanced way would be to use tools like checkinstall(1) which require some Makefile which installs files to the file

Bug#667511: RFS: updeb/1.0.3 [NEW] -- Non-interactive upgrade Debian system

2012-08-24 Thread Vladimir Stavrinov
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko deb...@onerussian.com wrote: would you mind making one of such exemplar reports publicly available for the demonstration purposes? ;) http://sourceforge.net/projects/updeb/files/updeb-report_example.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#685635: RFS: fonts-pecita/3.4-1

2012-08-24 Thread Bart Martens
The version available for download upstream is 3.4.1, not 3.4. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120824164353.ga27...@master.debian.org

Bug#678107: RFS: acsccid/1.0.4-1

2012-08-24 Thread Bart Martens
Hi Godfrey, I rebuilt your package at mentors uploaded there on 2012-06-19 08:06, and I found this difference : | Files in second .deb but not in first | - | -rw-r--r-- root/root

Bug#683184: RFS: suckless-tools/39-1 [ITA]

2012-08-24 Thread Jakub Wilk
You create the empty suckless-tools_${version}.orig.tar.gz tarball in the wrong directory. Why do you redirect tar's stderr to /dev/null? I recommend passing these options to tar, so that the user's name/group/umask are not leaked: --owner root --group root --mode a+rX Have you seen

Bug#685573: RFS: vfu/4.12-1

2012-08-24 Thread William Vera
Hi Bart, On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:43 AM, Bart Martens ba...@debian.org wrote: Hi William, I had a look at your package at mentors uploaded there on 2012-08-22 01:48. Thanks! Please complete debian/copyright, see for example vslib/pcre/pcre.h. I just updated debian/copyright Was the

it's free license?

2012-08-24 Thread Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh
Dear Mentors, I want to know the following license is free or not: // Copyright © 2002-2010 Nikolaus Gebhardt This software is provided ‘as-is’, without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any

Bug#678107: RFS: acsccid/1.0.4-1

2012-08-24 Thread Godfrey Chung
Hi Bart | Files in second .deb but not in first | - | -rw-r--r-- root/root /usr/lib/pcsc/drivers/ifd-acsccid.bundle/Contents/Linux/libacsccid.so | | Files in first .deb but not in second | - |

dh machinery and module how to export only given symbol

2012-08-24 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello: I have to build a module that exports only symbol with a given prefix: in the pre-dh debian/rules , something as CFLAGS=$(cflags) -Wl,--version-script,debian/PACAKAGENAME.version was use. I cannot figure out how to proceed within the dh machinery. Any hint is welcome. Thanks

Re: it's free license?

2012-08-24 Thread Vincent Cheng
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh moh...@pahlevanzadeh.org wrote: Dear Mentors, I want to know the following license is free or not: // Copyright © 2002-2010 Nikolaus Gebhardt This software is provided ‘as-is’, without

Bug#685836: RFS: libpam-ssh/1.97+ds-1 [ITP] [UPSTREAM] [RESOLVED] [REINTRODUCTION]

2012-08-24 Thread Jerome Benoit
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear Mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package libpam-ssh * Package name: libpam-ssh Version : 1.97+ds-1 Upstream Author : Wolfgang Rosenauer * URL :

Bug#685836: RFS: libpam-ssh/1.97+ds-1 reintroduction

2012-08-24 Thread Bart Martens
Hi Jerome, Is your goal to add this package to wheezy ? The package at mentors uploaded there on 2012-08-25 01:46 appears to have more minimal differences with 1.92-14. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: dh machinery and module how to export only given symbol

2012-08-24 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Sat, 25 Aug 2012, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello: I have to build a module that exports only symbol with a given prefix: in the pre-dh debian/rules , something as CFLAGS=$(cflags) -Wl,--version-script,debian/PACAKAGENAME.version was use. I cannot figure out how to proceed