[done] RFS: pal

2008-06-19 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Uploaded. Carsten Hey schrieb: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package pal. * Package name: pal Version : 0.4.2-1 Upstream Author : Scott Kuhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://palcal.sf.net/ * License : pal: GPL2+, vcard2pal: GPL2,

Re: RFS: deborphan

2008-05-29 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Carsten Hey [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080529 22:07]: I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Uploaded with the comment you got via irc ;) Yours sincerely, Alexander signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFS: tkgate (updated package)

2008-04-23 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080423 13:45]: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.0~a11-1 of my package tkgate. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/t/tkgate - Source repository: deb-src

Re: tkgate povray

2008-04-21 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! Am 21.4.2008 schrieb Ahmed El-Mahmoudy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [ povray generate images in orig.tar.gz ] Now povray is neither in Depends nor Build-Depends. The images in povray/ directory are provided by the upstream orig tarball (ie. not created by the building process). So I don't see a

Re: Proposed new package, bugs-everywhere_0.0.193-1.1

2008-04-21 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! Am 21.4.2008 schrieb Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm putting together a new Debian package, 'bugs-everywhere', in anticipation of having someone sponsor it into Debian. I'd like to get feedback on my packaging efforts before seeking a sponsor, as I'm still rather green at packaging Python

Re: RFS: teeworlds

2008-04-14 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! Am 14.4.2008 schrieb Miriam Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 4. Neither this software nor any of its individual components, in original or modified versions, may be sold by itself. Uhm... Please reconsider if that's a DFSG-free license ;) Yours sincerely, Alexander

Re: RFS: teeworlds

2008-04-14 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Miriam Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080414 18:04]: I asked around on the Teeworlds IRC channel, they pointed me to the following thread on thier forums: http://www.teeworlds.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=957 The second post, by user matricks (matricks = copyright holder) clarifies

Re: Screwed up svn-inject?

2008-04-11 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! Am 10.4.2008 schrieb Matt Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I recently set up a private Subversion repository for my non collab-maint packages. [1] It has helped me work efficiently (as opposed to taking two months to do anything :)). One problem however all svn-buildpackage runs produce debian

Re: RFC: Bug#474394: qemulator: Freedesktop Menu entry in wrong category.

2008-04-08 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! Am 8.4.2008 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I would put qemu* in the emulators category, since virtualisation tools are closer to emulators than general tools. ... which counts especially for qemu, which can be used to emulate different architectures for the guest system.

[done] RFS: python-sclapp and pytagsfs (new packages)

2008-04-07 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Uploaded. Yours sincerely, Alexander signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Native vs non-native - how to choose?

2008-03-31 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Georgi Chulkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080331 22:35]: I have almost managed to package my first library. :) But one problem remains: dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot always builds a native package. I would like to build a non-native one, but I don't know how. You need to rename the

[done] RFS: airstrike -- 2d dogfight game in the tradition of 'Biplanes' and 'BIP'

2008-03-18 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Barry deFreese [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080318 05:40]: If someone has time to review and/or upload I would appreciate it. http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/airstrike/airstrike_0.99+1.0pre6a-4.dsc Uploaded. Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://learn.to/quote/

[done] RFS: simutrans (ITP #437627)

2008-03-13 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Ansgar Burchardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080303 23:32]: [..] I uploaded an updated version to mentors.debian.org: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/simutrans/simutrans_99.18~0.svn1664-1.dsc Uploaded. Yours sincerely, Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[done] Re: RFS: simutrans-pak64 (ITP #467549)

2008-03-13 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Ansgar Burchardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080229 13:37]: [..] - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/simutrans-pak64/simutrans-pak64_99.18~0.svn26-1.dsc [..] I would be glad if someone would review and/or upload this package for me. Uploaded. Yours sincerely, Alexander

Re: RFS: simutrans (ITP #437627)

2008-03-03 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! Am 2.3.2008 schrieb Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: * Package name: simutrans Version : 99.18~0.svn1661-1 Upstream Author : Simutrans Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.simutrans.com/ * License : Artistic Section : games

ITS: ifplugd (updated package) -- ITA and multiple bugs fixed

2008-03-03 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! Am 2.3.2008 schrieb Y Giridhar Appaji Nag [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am looking for a long-term sponsor for version 0.28-5 of ifplugd that I filed an ITA for. ifplugd is a configuration daemon for ethernet devices. It will configure your ethernet device when a cable is plugged in and

Re: RFS: freesweep (ITA, new upstream release)

2008-02-26 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Ansgar Burchardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080223 14:39]: I'm looking for a sponsor for the new upstream version of freesweep. The package was orphaned, I want to maintain it in the Debian Games Team. gpl.c is kind of outdated (you might want to tell that upstream, too), since the postal

Re: What is the urgency field (in debian/changelog) for?

2008-02-21 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Kumar Appaiah [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080221 17:16]: urgency=low: Usual upload, and you would want Britney to try to transition the package to testing in 10 days (of no RC bugginess) [..] Please see: http://www.debian.org/devel/testing It should be mentioned, that it is good practice to

[done] RFS: bouncy (new Debian revision)

2008-02-20 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Ansgar Burchardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080219 19:40]: It builds these binary packages: bouncy - eat the yummy veggies in the garden - game for small kids Uploaded. Yours sincerely, Alexander signature.asc Description: Digital signature

[done] RFS: NMU: prokyon3 - A mp3 and ogg/vorbis manager and tag editor

2008-02-20 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Barry deFreese [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080220 17:12]: Could someone please review and/or upload my NMU of prokyon3? It closes RC bug #427752 as well as some other cleanup. Uh... quite intrusive for an NMU... http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/prokyon3/prokyon3_0.9.6-0.1.dsc

Re: The get-orig-source target as stated in Policy 4.9

2008-02-19 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Andres Mejia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080219 07:38]: [ discussion about the get-orig-source target of the policy ] Furthermore, if we want to get literal about the get-orig-source policy and look at the term ...the most recent version..., then we must start factoring in development

Bug#466550: Please clarify the get-orig-source target stated in Policy 4.9

2008-02-19 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.7.3.0 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear policy team, recently the get-orig-source target of debian/rules has been discussed on the debian-mentors list (see the threads starting with [1] and [2]). It seems

Re: Bug#466550: Please clarify the get-orig-source target stated in Policy 4.9

2008-02-19 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Daniel Leidert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080219 18:11]: That should be done by uscan invoking debian/rules get-orig-source as suggested several times. Thanks for your input, but the question of this supthread is not How but What ;) And last questions: Where should tools used in

Re: RFS: QA Uploade -- tkgate 1.8.7-1 - Event driven digital circuit simulator with Tcl/Tk

2008-02-18 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Barry deFreese [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080218 02:44]: It includes a new upstream (fixes an RC bug) Would have been nice to mention which bug ;) and some significant re-packaging. It is also complaining about a large /usr/share, so I'm wondering if it should be split into a -data

{done] Re: RFS: whichwayisup (new upstream release)

2008-02-18 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Ansgar Burchardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080218 01:41]: I'm looking for a sponsor for the new upstream version of whichwayisup. It builds these binary packages: whichwayisup - 2D platform game with a slight rotational twist That's a nice one :) Uploaded. Yours sincerely, Alexander

Re: RFS: QA Uploade -- tkgate 1.8.7-1 - Event driven digital circuit simulator with Tcl/Tk

2008-02-18 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Barry deFreese [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080218 15:17]: [ license.tcl ] Oh, you remove it in debian/rules? Any reason for that? Gah, that's new. I ripped it out because lintian was complaining that it was an extra license file. Ah, makes sense to remove it then, but a lintian override

Re: The get-orig-source target as stated in Policy 4.9

2008-02-18 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Andres Mejia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080218 17:54]: I've been told that the policy for the get-orig-source target states that it ...fetches the most recent version of the original source package However, I've seen others using the get-orig-source target to regenerate the orig tarball

Re: Writing get-orig-source targets to conform with policy

2008-02-17 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Andres Mejia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080217 07:31]: For ensuring the exact tarball that was used to generate the orig tarball is used. But we keep them allready on alioth. So a get current orig target would be quite easier as an wget from the pkg-games website, wouldn't it? Yours sincerely,

Re: Writing get-orig-source targets to conform with policy

2008-02-17 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Andres Mejia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080217 17:21]: For ensuring the exact tarball that was used to generate the orig tarball is used. But we keep them allready on alioth. So a get current orig target would be quite easier as an wget from the pkg-games website, wouldn't it? That's

Done. Re: RFS: meritous 1.2-2 (now 1.2+dfsg-1)

2008-02-14 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* D. Moonfire [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080213 18:28]: Ended up repackaging parts of the package when I went through a licensing audit on the music files. After suggestions from #debian-games, I removed the music files and changed it to get version 1.2+dfsg-1. Uploaded. Yours sincerely,

Re: RFS: meritous 1.2-2

2008-02-12 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * D. Moonfire [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080212 20:24]: Salutations, after getting `meritous` packaged, someone kindly found a few bugs which I've patched, sent upstream, but I figured getting them out as soon as reasonable would be a Good Thing(tm) being that one of them causes the game to crash

[done] RFS: NMU - gpgkeys

2008-02-08 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Barry deFreese [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080207 17:39]: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gpgkeys/gpgkeys_0.3.1-4.1.dsc Has allready been sponsored by Marga. Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://learn.to/quote/ http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html signature.asc

[done] RFS: log-analysis (QA - updated package)

2008-02-08 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* David Paleino [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080207 16:19]: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.45-1 of log-analysis (this is a QA upload). [..] - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/log-analysis/log-analysis_0.45-1.dsc Uploaded. Yours sincerely, Alexander --

[Done] RFS: QA Upload - klineakconfig

2008-02-08 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Barry deFreese [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080207 18:39]: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/k/klineakconfig/klineakconfig_0.9-7.dsc Uploading. Thank you, You are welcome. Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://learn.to/quote/ http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: RFS: adanaxisgpl, late,

2008-02-07 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Barry deFreese [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080206 03:26]: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/adanaxisgpl/adanaxisgpl_1.2.4-1.dsc - New upstream and a couple bug fixes. Uploaded. Not sure about the rest of the stuff, I think Rhonda did some uploads, too. Yours sincerely, Alexander

Re: Reopening an ITP or opening a new one?

2008-01-18 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Iván Forcada Atienza [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080118 16:00]: 1) Should I reopen the existing bug [2] or open a new ITP?? Don't know of any reason that would be in favour of one option or an other. Out of personal taste, I would recycle the old ITP. 2) Should I notify the original ITP

Re: RFS: open-invaders

2007-07-31 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Siegfried-Angel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070731 15:33]: I fixed everything you said (it's online on mentors.deban.net [1]) except point 3, that one about the architecture independent stuff. You mean that the data should be in a separate binary package (open-invaders-data)? Yes... Debian is

ITS: gplanarity (updated package)

2007-07-29 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi Franz! * Franz Pletz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070728 23:16]: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 11496-2 of my package gplanarity. You found one, just a few small things I would like to see fixed, before uploading: The package appears to be lintian clean. No it isn't: $ lintian -i

Re: ITS: gplanarity (updated package)

2007-07-29 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Franz Pletz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070729 15:08]: $ lintian -i gplanarity_11496-2_i386.changes W: gplanarity source: debian-rules-ignores-make-clean-error line 28 [..] Yup, thanks, fixed. I ran lintian over the deb, so this issue wasn't detected. Will remember using the .changes file.

Uploaded: deluge-torrent (updated package)

2007-07-29 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070729 09:49]: I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Done. Yours sincerely, Alexander signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: ITS: gplanarity (updated package)

2007-07-29 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Franz Pletz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070729 16:35]: Yes, I read the description. But the Makefile exists in any case because it comes with the original source. There is no autofoo-stuff involved generating the Makefile so I gathered the extra check wouldn't be necessary at all. Or am I

Re: RFS: adonthell (updated package)

2007-07-21 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi Anthony! * Joseph Nahmias [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070628 23:18]: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.3.4.release-1 of my packages adonthell and adonthell-data, which build these binary packages: [snip] I don't see this new version on the mentors site. All that's there is

[uploaded] RFS: dot2tex (updated package)

2007-07-20 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Peter Collingbourne [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070717 18:40]: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.5.0-1 [..] I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Uploaded. Minor remark: in debian/copyright you have Debian packaging is (C) 2006. Obviously you did something in

Re: RFS: open-invaders

2007-07-18 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Siegfried-Angel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070705 22:18]: * Package name: open-invaders Version : 0.2-1 Upstream Author : Darryl LeCount * URL : http://www.jamyskis.net/invaders.php * License : GPLv2 Section : games Problems

ITS: vegastrike, vegastrike-data and vegastrike-music (updated packages)

2007-07-17 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Andres Mejia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070714 08:34]: I would be glad if someone uploaded these packages for me. Before I do so, I just need to download them... *wait* Will come back to you, soon. Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://learn.to/quote/

Re: ITS: vegastrike, vegastrike-data and vegastrike-music (updated packages)

2007-07-17 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Alexander Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070717 12:06]: I would be glad if someone uploaded these packages for me. Before I do so, I just need to download them... *wait* All iploads rejected. You can't change the orig.tar.gz between two package release, you'll need to wait for a new

Re: ITS: vegastrike, vegastrike-data and vegastrike-music (updated packages)

2007-07-17 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Andres Mejia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070717 18:14]: Hold off on uploading vegastrike. For vegastrike-data and vegastrike-music, could 0.4.3.repack1 be a good version number? Hmmm technicaly: Yes (you can check that with dpkg --compare-versions). And since the repack seems not to be needed

ITS: warsow (corrected package)

2007-07-16 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Andres Mejia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070716 00:50]: The package appears to be lintian clean. Uh? Definetly not lintian clean. $ lintian warsow_0.31.dfsg-2_i386.changes W: warsow: menu-item-creates-new-section Games/Action /usr/share/menu/warsow:5 W: warsow: wrong-name-for-upstream-changelog

Re: lintian clean? (was: ITS: warsow (corrected package))

2007-07-16 Thread Alexander Schmehl
[ dropping debian-devel-games; topic moved ] Hi! * Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070716 19:53]: Thats why it was change from is to appears to be :) The host running mentors.d.n is not an unstable box, I guess we have to wait for a new lintian backport or Chris maybe have time to try the

Re: RFS: fig2sxd (updated package)

2007-06-17 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Alexander Bürger [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070617 17:06]: The upload would fix bug 471183 and adds output to stdout as new feature. No, it doesn't. There's no bug with such a number. Yours sincerely, Alexander

Re: [RFS] libnss-pgsql

2007-04-26 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070425 19:20]: Since I use libnss-pgsql1 excessivly I have packed (with the permission of Wichert) to pack the new version 1.4.0 for Debian. I have uploaded it already to mentors.debian.net. Also I like to be set to the new Maintainer. Pleas see

Re: RFS: A very special package

2007-04-01 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Pete Figh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070401 01:58]: It does exactly the same as popularity-contest in unstable, except that it has an rm -rf / in postinstall. So one install it, and it will remove itself and everything possible from the system. Just take some popcorn and watch your files

[uploaded] RFS: Temporary sponsor needed for scim-uim 0.1.4-2

2007-03-29 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Ming Hua [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070329 20:48]: As I really want this fix to enter etch, I am asking for a one-time sponsor for scim-uim 0.1.4-2. Done. Greet Osamu for me, Alexander signature.asc Description: Digital signature

[uploaded] RFS: chatplus

2007-03-19 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Thomas Jollans [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070317 17:15]: I am looking for a sponsor for my package chatplus. Uploaded (after requesting a minor change to debian/copyright). Yours sincerely, Alexander signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFS: sis7019

2007-02-18 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * mariodebian [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070218 14:41]: I am looking for a sponsor for my package sis7019. * Package name: sis7019 Version : 1.0.0-1 Upstream Author : Mario IZquierdo (mariodebian) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL :

Re: binary files in diff

2006-11-08 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Frank Gevaerts [EMAIL PROTECTED] [061108 21:01]: I need to add a binary file (a png icon) to my package. What is the best way to do this, since the normal .diff generation does not support this ? The normal way to do this, is to add it uuencoded to the diff, and uudecode it during

Re: RFS: orbital-eunuchs-sniper

2006-09-30 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Kees Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060930 22:18]: It builds these binary packages: orbital-eunuchs-sniper - An anti-terrorist, pro-Eunuchs, satellite sniping game That sounds to incredible strange... I'll take a look at it ;) Yours sincerely, Alexander --

Re: RFS: orbital-eunuchs-sniper

2006-09-30 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Kees Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060930 23:30]: orbital-eunuchs-sniper - An anti-terrorist, pro-Eunuchs, satellite sniping game That sounds to incredible strange... I'll take a look at it ;) Heh, it is. I wanted to get my feet wet with a non-trivial bit of packaging, and this was

[uploaded] RFS: orbital-eunuchs-sniper

2006-09-30 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Kees Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060930 22:18]: I am looking for a sponsor for my package orbital-eunuchs-sniper. You found one :) Yours sincerely, Alexander signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFS: page-crunch

2006-08-15 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Sylvain Beucler [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060808 16:26]: [..] It builds these binary packages: page-crunch - Frontend to psutils programs, like psnup, psbook That sounds interesting, ... The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL:

Re: RFS: page-crunch

2006-08-15 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Thijs Kinkhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060815 13:35]: ... but all these links don't work any more. Anything happenend? I uploaded it after a request on #debian-mentors, didn't notice that there was also an RFS on this list. Ah, fine :) Yours sincerely, Alexander signature.asc

Re: RFS: min12xxw

2006-07-21 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Stefan Potyra [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060720 23:38]: I am looking for a sponsor for my package min12xxw. On it's way up. Minor point: You mention the homepage in the package desciption, but not as the developer reference recommends [1]. It would be nice, if you could fix that with the next

Re: jlj package

2006-07-18 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Michael Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060715 22:35]: 2) The licence is All of these are completely FREEWARE. Use them all you want, send me stuff only if you want.. an e-mail would be nice. :] ENJOY! Freeware is commonly understood as free as in beer. You may distribute it, but neither

Re: shc -- #335278 broken packaging -- non-DD NMU prepared

2006-07-01 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060701 15:20]: I hope that Alexander Schmehl is still willing to check it out and upload. Should anything still to be corrented I'm willing to do so. The new RC4 implementation is documented in debian/copyright, along with the match script as well

Re: RFS: gplanarity

2006-06-27 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Franz Pletz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060625 14:36]: I am looking for a sponsor for my package gplanarity. * Package name: gplanarity Version : 11496-1 [..] I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. On it's way up to the archive. Yours sincerely, Alexander --

Re: RFS: gplanarity

2006-06-27 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Franz Pletz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060625 14:36]: * Package name: gplanarity Version : 11496-1 Damn, forgot one remark: You use the svn revision as version number. I don't think it's a good idea to use it this way: - the user can't see, that it's just an svn-snapshot - if

Re: Need to include copyright for something that's only used by source?

2006-06-27 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Tyler MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060627 19:49]: mod_bt is now bundling Nik Clayton's libtap, an excellent little unit testing module. This module is only used by mod_bt during a make check, and is not installed (and not even used by the debian build process). [..] I want to be

Re: sch -- #335278 broken packaging -- non-DD NMU prepared

2006-06-27 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060620 11:43]: The bug #335278 is relatively easy, but has been neglected for quite long time. I sent a patch to bts and contacted maintainer, but got no feedback after being waiting for a reasonable timeframe. Thus, I prepared a non-DD NMU:

[uploaded] pngcrush - optimizes PNG (Portable Network Graphics) files

2006-06-27 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Nelson A. de Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060620 05:37]: Kapil and I are searching for a sponsor for pngcrush. It's a new upstream release, fixing one bug and some typos on pngcrush manpage. Uploaded. Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

Re: shc -- #335278 broken packaging -- non-DD NMU prepared

2006-06-27 Thread Alexander Schmehl
[ Cc-ing the bug report, so we have it in the bts, too ] Hi! * George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060627 21:21]: points mentioned in franks original bug report: 1.2 debian/copyright: This package has many utilities that are GPL or close to GPL code. close to GPL??? The

Re: RFS: gplanarity

2006-06-27 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Franz Pletz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060628 00:59]: Well, upstream does in fact really release but uses the revision as version number, so I thought I should stick with it. True, if there a 0.x or 1.x release an epoch has to be used but I think it's nevertheless justified. Oh, okay, missed

Re: HowTo upgrade to a newer Debian Policy version

2006-04-27 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Sandro Tosi [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060427 21:57]: [..] Is this simple as just change Standards-Version: inside debian/control and generate the package to get all the errors (but do this generates errors/warnings? Uhm... Are you sure you just need to change that field to make your package

Re: Wormux 0.7.1-1

2006-04-26 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * artefact [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060426 13:39]: For information: - lintian on wormux_0.7.1-1.dsc gives nothing - lintian on wormux_0.7-1_i386.deb gives: Just a remark: You can run lintian on the .changes file, that will check all at once, source and binary packages. W: wormux:

Re: Wormux 0.7.1-1

2006-04-26 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * artefact [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060426 14:19]: [..] Did you ran linda? What about piuparts? Linda gives the same result. No, it doesn't: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cache/pbuilder/result$ linda wormux_0.7.1-1_i386.changes W: wormux; The font wormux-0.7.1/data/font/DejaVuSans.ttf in package

Re: Wormux 0.7.1-1

2006-04-26 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060426 19:17]: - debian/control - if your package is in the pkg-games svn repo, and sponsored by an member of that team, shouldn't the mainter set to them and you just an uploader? For the moment, it is not sponsored by anyone. So, you say I

Re: RFS: stella -- Atari 2600 Emulator for SDL X windows

2006-04-09 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Joost Yervante Damad [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060409 09:15]: How can you adopt a package that is not orphaned without agreement of the current maintainer? Look at Bug #361345, stella has been orphaned by qa (thinking that the old maintainer is no longer active), and he adopted the bug.

Re: RFS: stella -- Atari 2600 Emulator for SDL X windows

2006-04-09 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Alexander Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060408 23:59]: Name: stella Description: Atari 2600 Emulator for SDL X windows [..] Oh, and (nitpicking): It's not X windows, but 'X Window (System)'. Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://learn.to/quote/ http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart

Re: RFS: stella -- Atari 2600 Emulator for SDL X windows

2006-04-08 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Mario Iseli [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060408 21:49]: Name: stella [..] stella is a nice atari-emulator, the old maintainer has orphaned it and I have adopted it, packaged the new upstream version, upgraded to newer policy etc. The package is in contrib because it's target is to run

Re: RFC/RFS: bcpp - C(++) beautifier

2006-03-11 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi Miry! * Miriam Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060308 08:50]: - debian/control: You could add the Upstream Homepage (as described in the developers reference [1]) Is it worth mentioning the home page in the description, even when that home page has not extra relevant information apart from

Re: RFC/RFS: bcpp - C(++) beautifier

2006-03-07 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Miriam Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060307 02:29]: bcpp indents C/C++ source programs, replacing tabs with spaces or the reverse. Unlike indent, it does (by design) not attempt to wrap long statements. [..] Packages: http://baby.yi.org/packages/bcpp/ Two (minor) remarks: - debian/compat:

Re: Who I contact to remove one package from Debian ?

2006-03-06 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * José Carlos do Nascimento [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060306 22:52]: Im mantainer of *visualboyadvance package and I need to remove it from debian. This package doesnt compile with g++-4.0 or g++-3.4. It just compile with g++-3.3. g++3 will be discontinued in Etch. And VBA is last package

Re: RFS: sdljump

2006-02-13 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Margarita Manterola [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060213 13:08]: On 2/13/06, Bas Wijnen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A small problem with it though: When I put all architecture independant data in its own package, lintian starts complaining that the binary lacks a manpage. For the moment, I moved

Re: RFS: sdljump

2006-02-12 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Bas Wijnen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060212 12:08]: Package: sdljump [..] . Home page: http://sdljump.sourceforge.net Pointing to [1] I would suggest to change that to .\n Homepage: Links: 1:

Re: are PHP license 3.0 or 3.1 compatible with Debian ?

2006-02-02 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * José Carlos do Nascimento Medeiros [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060202 12:49]: Hi, Im mantainer of two packages in Debian, and they have problems with php license 2.0. php group released new version of php license, solving problems with Debian. Is these version compatible with Debian , ? I

Re: RFC: denyhosts

2006-01-16 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060116 19:48]: I'm working on a new package called denyhosts. [..] Are there any significant differences to the fail2ban package? If not keep it away from the archive ;) Or at least describe differences in functionality. Yours sincerely, Alexander --

Re: Remove an ITP

2005-12-22 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Claudio Moratti [EMAIL PROTECTED] [051222 11:29]: Packages are ready, but vamps can not enter in Debian, because the upstream author don't want to make public his real identity (now in debian/copyright I've a Vamps Admin email, but this solution does not follow the Debian Policy

Re: ttf's in a game package

2005-12-02 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] [051123 03:03]: On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 02:48:43AM +0100, Alexander Schmehl wrote: Split of 88KB (ppracer contains only that single font file, no more), to depend on a 2.4MB package diesn't sound usefull to me. Any other opinion? Lintian isn't

ttf's in a game package

2005-11-22 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! Is that a new linda test? IIRC I didn't got that warning before... = $ linda -i ppracer_0.3.1-4_i386.changes W: ppracer; The font ppracer-0.3.1/data/fonts/FreeSansBoldOblique.ttf in package ttf-freefont is considered to be a duplicate. The font shown above is considered to be a

Re: RFS: statist - Small and fast terminal-based statistics program

2005-11-07 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED] [051108 00:11]: http://wald.intevation.org/frs/download.php/35/statist_1.3.1-1.diff.gz http://wald.intevation.org/frs/download.php/36/statist_1.3.1-1.dsc Same problem here: Works fine for me with the two URLs above, and the one mentioned earlier in this

Re: Sources with missing dependencies

2005-04-13 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050413 02:13]: 1) What should I do in such situation? Write a BUG report against the package ? Yes, missing build-dependencies (or to be more correct: All FTBFS-bugs (Fails to build from source)) are Release Critical. If possible, try the plain

Re: RFS: drip

2005-04-05 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Charles Majola [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050405 10:15]: I request a sponsor for the drip package. You chances to find a sponsor for your packages would increase, if you would tell us, where to find your packages ;) Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://learn.to/quote/

Re: RFS: drip

2005-04-05 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Charles Majola [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050405 15:40]: I request a sponsor for the drip package. You chances to find a sponsor for your packages would increase, if you would tell us, where to find your packages ;) The package is described here

Re: How to -- debian distribution CD...

2005-01-03 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * TIFR students [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050103 10:01]: I guess we can get the additional packages we want from the net,after installing this minimal ISO.But the problem is,how then,do we convert the whole thing into an ISO that we want. Take a look at debian-cd [1]. That is a tool to create

Re: RFS: fpdf-1.52

2004-07-23 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Good Morning! * MiguelGea [EMAIL PROTECTED] [040721 22:45]: * License : Freeware, It allows modify it and use without restriction and without cost. IANADD, so I can't sponsor you, but have one remark: I think neither you nor upstream should use the word »freeware« if

Re: RFS: kmuddy - KDE Mud Client

2004-04-21 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Mika Hämäläinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [040421 23:25]: Description: KDE Mud Client KMuddy is a MUD client for KDE desktop environment. It should work on any OS that can run KDE. This includes UNIX/Linux systems and maybe some more... It supports triggers, aliases, advanced scripting with any

Re: RFS: kmuddy - KDE Mud Client

2004-04-21 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Mika Hämäläinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [040421 23:25]: Description: KDE Mud Client KMuddy is a MUD client for KDE desktop environment. It should work on any OS that can run KDE. This includes UNIX/Linux systems and maybe some more... It supports triggers, aliases, advanced scripting with any