Re: How much is lintian an expert in english language ?

2015-08-30 Thread Russ Allbery
"Thomas Schmitt" writes: > It seems all to hang at Justin B Rye's statement > "Most English transitive verbs are pretty easygoing about >being turned into intransitives like this, >"to allow" is one of the exceptions" > Sez who ? > http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/allow > has

Re: How much is lintian an expert in english language ?

2015-08-30 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Jakub Wilk wrote: > See bug #795158. It seems all to hang at Justin B Rye's statement "Most English transitive verbs are pretty easygoing about being turned into intransitives like this, "to allow" is one of the exceptions" Sez who ? http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/allow h

Re: Bug#679265: RFH,O: libisoburn -- command line ISO-9660 and Rock Ridge manipulation tool [ITA]

2015-08-30 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > In that case, it is important that you set yourself to the owner of the > "O" bugs, and retitle them to "ITA", as I outlined here: Sorry for the misformat. It's just that after three years of no interest a potential helper for the obsolete RFH appeared. He was not amused to learn that i alr

Re: How much is lintian an expert in english language ?

2015-08-30 Thread Jakub Wilk
Hi Thomas! * Thomas Schmitt , 2015-08-31, 00:34: with my upstream hat on i got the proposal to change in documentation "allow to" to "allow one to". This seems to be inspired by lintian tags like https://lintian.debian.org/tags/spelling-error-in-manpage.html See bug #795158. -- Jakub Wilk

How much is lintian an expert in english language ?

2015-08-30 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, with my upstream hat on i got the proposal to change in documentation "allow to" to "allow one to". This seems to be inspired by lintian tags like https://lintian.debian.org/tags/spelling-error-in-manpage.html The long list of complaints on this page and the quite inconclusive google result

Bug#797407: RFS: node-mocha-lcov-reporter/0.0.2-1 -- LCOV reporter for Mocha

2015-08-30 Thread Julien Puydt
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "node-mocha-lcov-reporter" * Package name: node-mocha-lcov-reporter Version : 0.0.2-1 Upstream Author : Steven Looman * URL : https://github.com/StevenLooman/

Bug#797397: marked as done (RFS: sfcgal/1.1.0)

2015-08-30 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sun, 30 Aug 2015 15:14:17 +0200 with message-id <55e301a9.6030...@xs4all.nl> and subject line RFS: sfcgal/1.1.0 [uploaded] has caused the Debian Bug report #797397, regarding RFS: sfcgal/1.1.0 to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.

Bug#797397: RFS: sfcgal/1.1.0

2015-08-30 Thread Sven Geggus
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Hello, I have just uploaded a new Version of sfcgal to mentors.debian.net. In addition to the changes stated in debian/changelog this package has now been linked against libcgal11v5. * Package name: sfcgal Version : 1.1.0-4 Upstream

Bug#792716: marked as done (RFS: fdkaac/0.6.2-1 [ITP] -- command line encoder frontend for libfdk-aac)

2015-08-30 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sun, 30 Aug 2015 10:17:19 + (UTC) with message-id <706421073.3376884.1440929839400.javamail.ya...@mail.yahoo.com> and subject line Re: Bug#792716: RFS: fdkaac/0.6.2-1 [ITP] -- command line encoder frontend for libfdk-aac has caused the Debian Bug report #792716, regarding RF

Bug#792716: RFS: fdkaac/0.6.2-1 [ITP] -- command line encoder frontend for libfdk-aac

2015-08-30 Thread Marius Gavrilescu
New package is on mentors. As before, you can run dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/contrib/f/fdkaac/fdkaac_0.6.2-1.dsc to get it. Gianfranco Costamagna writes: > 1) please run a meld COPYING debian/copyright > > I see some differences that are MIT/Expat and some minor > diff

Bug#792716: RFS: fdkaac/0.6.2-1 [ITP] -- command line encoder frontend for libfdk-aac

2015-08-30 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Control: owner -1 ! Control: tags -1 moreinfo Hi Marius. some nitpicks: 1) please run a meld COPYING debian/copyright I see some differences that are MIT/Expat and some minor differences (like spaces and so on). Since upstream is using a machine readable copyright I suggest to keep it bit-

Re: Transition question: "old binaries left on "

2015-08-30 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi Andreas, > old binaries left on : libgenome-1.3-0 (from 1.3.1-7) the problem was actually a cruft left because one rdep wasn't built. you can see it there https://ftp-master.debian.org/cruft-report-daily.txt (I'm quoting, because on the next run it will be fixed, and ftpmaster will