Re: changes file issue when packaging for backports

2014-11-13 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Thu, 13 Nov 2014, quidame wrote: Oops, not Priority: but Urgency: quidame quid...@safe-mail.net wrote: Hi, I try to backport bilibop_0.4.22 source package (native). If only changes from 0.4.22 to 0.4.22~bpo70+1 are copied in to the changes file, lintian complains with the

Re: Making entry-point nee gift a real BTS tag [Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers]

2014-11-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 03:54:05PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: Excellent; thanks. I'm going to make these gender-neutral, and then I'll commit them. This is the last chance for someone to object to entry-point as the tag name. If I hear no objections, I'll put this in place on Friday, around

Re: Depends on exact version

2014-11-13 Thread Daniel Lintott
On 12/11/14 22:40, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: [...] You require the exact upstream version (1.1). This can't work, because there will always be the Debian revision added (1.1-1~exp1). I had a suspicion that this was why, but wasn't sure. What should work better is '=

Re: Depends on exact version

2014-11-13 Thread Daniel Lintott
On 12/11/14 23:32, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2014, Roger Light wrote: Could you try ${binary:Version} instead? (= ${binary:Version}) can break binNMUs. Be careful. Indeed, I am keen to try and avoid any breakages like that. I also don't think the above would work

Re: Making entry-point nee gift a real BTS tag [Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers]

2014-11-13 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-11-13 09:42, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 07:42:33PM +0100, Stéphane Aulery wrote: entry-point The maintainer can easily solve this bug by himself, but he wants to take it to new contributors who wish to get involved in Debian. Bugs of any difficulty

Re: Depends on exact version

2014-11-13 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 12 Nov 2014, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2014, Roger Light wrote: Could you try ${binary:Version} instead? (= ${binary:Version}) can break binNMUs. Be careful. binNMUs will cause a few of the binary packages to have a different debian revision than the rest of

Re: Depends on exact version

2014-11-13 Thread Roger Light
binNMUs will cause a few of the binary packages to have a different debian revision than the rest of the binary packages and the source packages. We have a lintian check for this, I think. Is it not-binnmuable-all-depends-any? I should've remembered that one, because I use the fix that is

Re: Making entry-point nee gift a real BTS tag [Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers]

2014-11-13 Thread Stéphane Aulery
Le jeudi 13 novembre 2014 à 11:51:51, Christian Kastner a écrit : On 2014-11-13 09:42, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: I don't think we should include the initial part about maintainer can easily solve..., as it does seems a bit patronizing (that's easy for me, but I won't do it because...).

Re: Making entry-point nee gift a real BTS tag [Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers]

2014-11-13 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-11-13 12:43, Stéphane Aulery wrote: I'm sorry my English is poor and I can hardly do better. I wanted to summarize the main ideas of the second paragraph on page [1] which I find very good. The maintainer should know the first glance by reading the description if it can offer the bug

Re: Making entry-point nee gift a real BTS tag [Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers]

2014-11-13 Thread Stéphane Aulery
Le mercredi 12 novembre 2014 à 03:54:05, Don Armstrong a écrit : This is the last chance for someone to object to entry-point as the tag name. If I hear no objections, I'll put this in place on Friday, around 18:00 UTC. I am looking for an idea in a nutshell. I'm not English so it's hard for

Bug#769445: RFS: berkeley-abc/1.01+20141105hg5b5af75+dfsg-1

2014-11-13 Thread Ruben Undheim
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package berkeley-abc * Package name: berkeley-abc Version : 1.01+20141105hg5b5af75+dfsg-1 Upstream Author : Berkeley Logic Synthesis and Verification Group * URL :

[Fwd: Re: ITP? Sponsors of eudev, consolekit2, uselessd?]

2014-11-13 Thread Svante Signell
Hi, Seems like I sent my question to the wrong list. Please Cc: replies, I'm not subscribed (yet) ---BeginMessage--- Am 13.11.2014 um 19:17 schrieb Svante Signell: Hi, Hi, I'm currently looking into packaging eudev, consolekit2, uselessd for Debian. If doing so, is anybody interested in

Re: Depends on exact version

2014-11-13 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi Daniel, On 13.11.2014 11:29, Daniel Lintott wrote: On 12/11/14 22:40, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: What should work better is '= ${source:Upstream-Version}'. However, that is not enough to guarantee that the upstream versions always match. One could then have e.g.: gns3= 1.1-1 gns3-gui

Bug#769487: RFS: docbook-to-man/1:2.0.0-33 [ITA, upload to experimental]

2014-11-13 Thread Maxime Chatelle
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package docbook-to-man * Package name: docbook-to-man Version : 1:2.0.0-33 Upstream Author : Fred Dalrymple f...@veloce.com * URL :

Re: Making entry-point nee gift a real BTS tag

2014-11-13 Thread Don Armstrong
To avoid devolving in a naming the bike-shed discussion, anyone who has a strong opinion, please manually vote in https://debian.titanpad.com/24 and I'll tabulate them 24 hours from now. If you want a different option than the two I've listed, please add it at the top with a new letter.

How to use multiple upstream tarballs in Debian source packages: quid GIT ?

2014-11-13 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello Forum, in order to add some missing sample material, I add a second source to the upstream source tarball, then I followed the multiple upstream tarballs in Debian source packages approach [1]. This approach is currently used for spamassassin [2]. What is the GIT part of this approach ?

Re: How to use multiple upstream tarballs in Debian source packages: quid GIT ?

2014-11-13 Thread Vincent Cheng
Hi, On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Jerome BENOIT g62993...@rezozer.net wrote: Hello Forum, in order to add some missing sample material, I add a second source to the upstream source tarball, then I followed the multiple upstream tarballs in Debian source packages approach [1]. This