Re: Watch file warning from mentors website

2013-02-26 Thread Scott Leggett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26/02/13 18:56, Bart Martens wrote: The redirector githubredir is obsolete, because github allows uscan now. It's possible that githubredir is still documented in some versions of man uscan. You can choose to add a comments-only watch file

Re: RFS: libengsas packages

2013-02-26 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 06:58:22PM +0100, Anton Gladky wrote: On 02/25/2013 05:37 PM, Andrew Shadura wrote: 6) Copyright-file must be in DEP-5 format. Please don't say 'must' when you're speaking about what's actually a recommendation, not a rule. Thanks. ok, agree, my typo. But I think it

Re: RFS: libengsas packages

2013-02-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 08:56:11AM +0100, Helmut Grohne a écrit : On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 06:58:22PM +0100, Anton Gladky wrote: On 02/25/2013 05:37 PM, Andrew Shadura wrote: 6) Copyright-file must be in DEP-5 format. Please don't say 'must' when you're speaking about what's actually a

Bug#701693: RFS: compton/0.0.1+git-2182505-2013-02-05-1 [ITP]

2013-02-26 Thread Scott Leggett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package compton * Package name: compton Version : 0.0.1+git-2182505-2013-02-05-1 Upstream Author : Christopher Jeffrey

Why is it so hard to get sponsors.....?

2013-02-26 Thread Willem van den Akker
Hi, I have 2 packages for which I request sponsoring. http://mentors.debian.net/package/jabberd2 Bug #698547 http://mentors.debian.net/package/jabber-muc Bug #698548 But until now nobody seemed to be interested in sponsoring them. I got messages not familiar with these packages or

Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsors.....?

2013-02-26 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 03:09:04PM +0100, Willem van den Akker wrote: Hi, I have 2 packages for which I request sponsoring. http://mentors.debian.net/package/jabberd2 Bug #698547 http://mentors.debian.net/package/jabber-muc Bug #698548 But until now nobody seemed to be interested in

Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsors.....?

2013-02-26 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:09:04 +0100, Willem van den Akkerwvdak...@wilsoft.nl wrote: Hi, I have 2 packages for which I request sponsoring. http://mentors.debian.net/package/jabberd2 Bug #698547 http://mentors.debian.net/package/jabber-muc Bug #698548 But until now nobody seemed to be interested

Bug#701739: RFS: rrep/1.3.4-1

2013-02-26 Thread Arno Onken
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package rrep * Package name: rrep Version : 1.3.4-1 Upstream Author : Arno Onken asn...@asnelt.org * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/rrep/ * License :

Bug#701668: RFS: medit/1.1.1-1 [ITA] -- Useful programming and around-programming text editor

2013-02-26 Thread Anton Gladky
Hi Jose, thanks for adopting this package. You have done a good job on packaging and I have not found there any critical errors there. So I uploaded that. But there are a couple of fix, which, please, prepare for your next upload: 1) Add CVS for packaging (preferable Alioth-services). 2)

Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsors.....?

2013-02-26 Thread Willem van den Akker
While this isn't true of the general case, which I think there's valid concern about, it is currently during freeze, most DDs are working on RC bugs :) Ok. Some sponsorship does still go on -- perhaps you could ask some of the DDs who maintain jabber servers -- the ejabberd folks or so,

Bug#701668: marked as done (RFS: medit/1.1.1-1 [ITA] -- Useful programming and around-programming text editor)

2013-02-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:25:45 +0100 with message-id 512d2859.8040...@debian.org and subject line Re: Bug#701668: RFS: medit/1.1.1-1 [ITA] -- Useful programming and around-programming text editor has caused the Debian Bug report #701668, regarding RFS: medit/1.1.1-1 [ITA] -- Useful

Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsors.....?

2013-02-26 Thread W. van den Akker
If I am reading your (big) changelogs correctly, you are (amongst other things) switching patch-system to quilt, and package new upstream versions - This is a big no-no for the release team during the freeze (see [1]) which we have had since June [2]. This might lower the chances of

Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsors.....?

2013-02-26 Thread Arno Töll
Hi, On 26.02.2013 22:31, W. van den Akker wrote: I understand [1] and [2]. I meant uploading to unstable and not testing. But none of the DD was ever answering the emails.. Be patient and don't give up. I know this can be frustrating and annoying, and we're slowly trying to improve the

Bug#698547: Comments on package

2013-02-26 Thread Anton Gladky
Hi Willem, thanks for adopting these the package. But there are some questions/notes regarding it: 1) Remove quilt and hardening-includes from BD, they are useless there. 2) Vcs-Browser: ;a=summary is not needed. 3) Convert copyright file into DEP-5 format. 4) debian/docs is not used? If so -

Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsors.....?

2013-02-26 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 26/02/13 21:51, Arno Töll wrote: Hi, On 26.02.2013 22:31, W. van den Akker wrote: I understand [1] and [2]. I meant uploading to unstable and not testing. But none of the DD was ever answering the emails.. Be patient and don't give up. I know this can be frustrating and annoying, and

Bug#700360: RFS: openfst/1.3.3-1 -- weighted finite-state transducers library

2013-02-26 Thread Giulio Paci
Il 25/02/2013 23:50, Jakub Wilk ha scritto: * Giulio Paci giuliop...@gmail.com, 2013-02-23, 19:37: I just sent another email further explaining the issue and pointing out it is a general issue. Thanks. I think this change * Move plugins from /usr/lib/fst/ to /usr/lib/fst/1/.

Bug#690049: marked as done (RFS: sylkserver/2.1.1-1 [ITP])

2013-02-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 27 Feb 2013 04:20:26 + with message-id e1uayvg-0002an...@quantz.debian.org and subject line closing RFS: sylkserver/2.1.1-1 [ITP] has caused the Debian Bug report #690049, regarding RFS: sylkserver/2.1.1-1 [ITP] to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the

Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsors.....?

2013-02-26 Thread Paul Wise
Here is a hopefully comprehensive, general answer to this question, not specific to your situation: Freeze: During the release freeze, most Debian folks are focussed on getting the release out. Fixing RC bugs, fixing important bugs, doing upgrade testing, writing release notes, finalising the

Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsors.....?

2013-02-26 Thread Paul Wise
Bah, I need to read before sending. On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Paul Wise wrote: Specialization: ... Unfortunately can mean Unfortunately this can mean there are no sponsors for particular areas. Preferences: Different folks have different packaging preferences, some like cdbs,

Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsors.....?

2013-02-26 Thread Bart Martens
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:07:11PM +, Philip Ashmore wrote: On 26/02/13 21:51, Arno Töll wrote: Hi, On 26.02.2013 22:31, W. van den Akker wrote: I understand [1] and [2]. I meant uploading to unstable and not testing. But none of the DD was ever answering the emails.. Be patient

Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsors.....?

2013-02-26 Thread Paul Wise
I'm reminded of the metrics stuff that was discussed ages ago: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsNet#Metrics -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact