Re: Debian versioning question

2023-11-12 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2023-11-10 "Preuße, Hilmar" wrote: > On 10.11.2023 03:10, Wookey wrote: >> I think your options are >> 1) add an epoch (which exists to deal with this sort of problem) >> > Well, would like to avoid it, if possible. I think it is also not the right solutions, epochs are imho intended to fix

Re: Upload commands to debomatic-amd64

2023-10-30 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2023-10-30 Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Dear all, > I am trying to follow documentation from: > * http://debomatic-amd64.debian.net/ > and: > * > https://deb-o-matic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/upload.html#prepare-command-files > Which does not seems to be working for me today; > % dcut -U

Re: python-module packaging: builtin distutils vs python3-setuptools

2023-10-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2023-10-29 Andreas Metzler wrote: [...] > Looking at other Debian packages this does not look like right. However I > have checked "python3 setup.py install --help" and tried to look at > python3-setuptools documentation to find the correct knob/setting to > swit

python-module packaging: builtin distutils vs python3-setuptools

2023-10-28 Thread Andreas Metzler
Hello, I am trying to unbreak building of gpgme python bindings (#1054786). The build result differs/breaks when python3-setuptools is installed. Afaiui python3-setuptools is a newer/extended version of python's built-in distutil (which is scheduled for removal). If python3-setuptools the new

Re: uscan - inherit version number of component from main package (SVN)

2023-10-08 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2023-10-08 Hugh McMaster wrote: [...] > Try this in your d/watch file: [...] > # netpbm-free user guide > opts="mode=svn, pgpmode=none, \ > component=userguide" \ > https://svn.code.sf.net/p/netpbm/code/userguide \ > HEAD ignore > > You want to match against HEAD to download the

uscan - inherit version number of component from main package (SVN)

2023-10-07 Thread Andreas Metzler
Hello, I would like to convert netpbm-free to a multiple component package, one for the main code http://netpbm.svn.code.sourceforge.net/p/netpbm/code/release_number/ which is versioned and the docs from http://netpbm.svn.code.sourceforge.net/p/netpbm/code/userguide/ with HEAD as

Downside of using invoke-rc.d (restart|reload) on systemd?

2023-07-16 Thread Andreas Metzler
Hello, if I would like to restart a daemon in a maintainerscript after dpkg-reconfigure is there a downside of simply using invoke-rc.d foo restart instead of something like if [ -d /run/systemd/system ]; then # systemd deb-systemd-invoke restart foo.service else # SysV

Re: dh_install by file suffix

2023-07-16 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2023-07-15 Ole Streicher wrote: > Hi, > I am upgrading one of my packages (iraf) to a new version. The new version > comes with a "make install", which installs everything under /usr/lib/iraf/ > (and some other places). > The "iraf" source package needs to divide these files into user

Re: Soname bumps, new binary packages - NEW/BY-HAND queue uploading?

2022-04-11 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2022-04-06 Adam Borowski wrote: > On Wed, Apr 06, 2022 at 03:02:07PM +0100, Philip Wyett wrote: > > Could someone point me to the documentation that relates to upload > > of packages that have new binary packages i.e. name change during an > > update? Specifically to the new/by-hand queue. >

Bug#1003769: RFS: byacc/1.0-2 [ITA] -- public domain Berkeley LALR Yacc parser generator

2022-01-23 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2022-01-16 Andreas Metzler wrote: [...] > I will probably followup with further wishes/comments later, not today > but hopefully in next week. [...] Hello Thomas, I think there are just two thing left pre upload: 1. The upload introduces an epoch because the upstream version wen

Bug#1003769: RFS: byacc/1.0-2 [ITA] -- public domain Berkeley LALR Yacc parser generator

2022-01-16 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2022-01-16 Thomas Dickey wrote: [...] > I reviewed the test-data differences, didn't see a problem, and verified > with cproto (which uses lex/yacc) that there are no differences. > So I updated the debian files to combine the two (just packaging one > "byacc" with backtracking). Great.

Bug#1003769: RFS: byacc/1.0-2 [ITA] -- public domain Berkeley LALR Yacc parser generator

2022-01-16 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2022-01-16 Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 08:03:14AM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: [...] > > I would like to question the introduction of another binary package: > > * "byacc2" seems to be a (newly introduced) Debiansm. Googling for > > &q

Bug#1003769: RFS: byacc/1.0-2 [ITA] -- public domain Berkeley LALR Yacc parser generator

2022-01-15 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2022-01-15 Thomas Dickey wrote: [...] > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "byacc": > * Package name: byacc >Version : 1:2.0.20220114-1 >Upstream Author : (Thomas E. Dickey) > * URL : https://invisible-island.net/byacc/ > * License : GPL-3,

Bug#971067: RFS: libexif-gtk/0.5.0-1

2020-11-07 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2020-11-06 Hugh McMaster wrote: [...] > Sorry for the long delay. Real life got in the way. Hello Hugh, no worries. > I’ve adapted your patch and made some other changes. [...] Thanks for doublechecking, uploaded. cu Andreas signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#971067: RFS: libexif-gtk/0.5.0-1

2020-10-18 Thread Andreas Metzler
s possible. Draft atached. cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure' >From 9c8f11e6e575d46d462d3f48237bd681dee5e76e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreas Metzler Date: Sun, 18 Oc

Bug#971067: RFS: libexif-gtk/0.5.0-1

2020-10-04 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2020-10-04 Hugh McMaster wrote: [...] > We can't remove libexif-gtk, as libexif-gtk-dev is a r-b-dep of mlt. I missed that one. > Interestingly, mlt doesn't use GTK2, just the libexif functionality. [...] Afaict it is an unused b-d, bug filed. cu Andreas

Bug#971067: RFS: libexif-gtk/0.5.0-1

2020-10-02 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2020-10-01 Hugh McMaster wrote: [...] > I've uploaded a new version of libexif-gtk to Debian Mentors, fixing > the issues discussed in this thread. > Thanks for your help with this. Good morning Hugh, I think this looks alright now. I thought I should try it out and there is a only single

Bug#971067: RFS: libexif-gtk/0.5.0-1

2020-09-30 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2020-09-30 Hugh McMaster wrote: > Hi Andreas, > On Tue, 29 Sep 2020 at 22:03, Andreas Metzler wrote: [...] > > The transitional package makes no sense, it actually causes breakage. > > Packages depend on libexif-gtk5 because they need a library with > > soname lib

Bug#971067: RFS: libexif-gtk/0.5.0-1

2020-09-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2020-09-27 Hugh McMaster wrote: [...] > I am looking for a sponsor to upload the package "libexif-gtk" to NEW, > as switching to GTK 3 caused the main package to be renamed. > * Package name: libexif-gtk [...] > The source builds the following binary packages: > libexif-gtk-dev -

Bug#960691: RFS: libexif/0.6.21-7 -- library to parse EXIF files

2020-05-16 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2020-05-15 Hugh McMaster wrote: > Package: sponsorship-requests > Severity: normal > Dear mentors and Debian PhotoTools Team members, > I am looking for a sponsor for the package "libexif" > * Package name: libexif >Version : 0.6.21-7 [..] Will do. cu Andreas -- `What a

Re: Lintian - pkg-config-references-unknown-shared-library

2019-02-15 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2019-02-15 Herbert Fortes wrote: > I working on a Debian revison for libgphoto2 and > have this Lintian about pkg-config. > pkg-config-references-unknown-shared-library > The libgphoto2_port/libgphoto2_port.pc.in file has: > Libs: -L${libdir} -lgphoto2 -lm [...] Hello, Looks like a false

Bug#897102: libexif-gtk/0.4.0-2

2018-05-01 Thread Andreas Metzler
ebb93e97ee71883cc265bab268597d10c35d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreas Metzler <ametz...@bebt.de> Date: Tue, 1 May 2018 13:42:09 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Add lost change: Use 'uversionmangle' instead of 'oversionmangle'. --- debian/watch | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 de

Bug#897102: libexif-gtk/0.4.0-2

2018-04-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2018-04-29 Hugh McMaster <hugh.mcmas...@outlook.com> wrote: > On Sunday, 29 April 2018 10:11 PM, Andreas Metzler wrote: [...] > > 0.4.0-1 says "Switch to LGPL-2.1+ for libexif-gtk 0.4.0.". Is this > > correct? While COPYING contains a copy of LGPL-2.1 only a singl

Bug#897102: libexif-gtk/0.4.0-2

2018-04-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2018-04-29 Hugh McMaster wrote: > Package: sponsorship-requests > Severity: normal > Dear mentors and Debian PhotoTools Team, > I am looking for a sponsor for a Team Upload of the package "libexif-gtk". > Version 0.4.0-1 is is currently in Experimental and is

Bug#894615: RFS: libexif/0.6.21-5

2018-04-02 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2018-04-02 Hugh McMaster wrote: > Package: sponsorship-requests > Severity: normal > Dear mentors and Debian PhotoTools Team, > I am looking for a sponsor for a Team Upload of the package "libexif". [...] Hello Hugh, looks good except for the watchfile, you need

Disable building of a specific binary package on selected archs

2017-12-08 Thread Andreas Metzler
Hello, I would like to disable building of libelua-bin and libelua1 binary package on amd64. [1] However negated architecture specifiers [!amd64] are not allowed in the Architecture field of debian/control. As a hotfix I can explicitely list all archs present in unstable/experimental. Is there a

Re: Problem with dh_installman: usr/share/man/man8/amadmin.8: No such file or directory at /usr/bin/dh_installman line 131.

2016-07-31 Thread Andreas Metzler
Jose M Calhariz wrote: > I am changing the rules of the package amanda to debhelper 9 and I am > stopped in a problem with dh_installman. I have checked what I know > and everything is correct. But still I think that is something > obvious that I am missing.

Re: debian/watch - check multiple hosts?

2015-12-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > Andreas Metzler <ametz...@bebt.de> writes: >> is it possible to have uscan check multiple hosts? e.g. for GNU >> findutils I would like to look at both stable and unstable releases > Are you aware the watch file is me

Re: debian/watch - check multiple hosts?

2015-12-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 3:24 PM, Andreas Metzler wrote: >> is it possible to have uscan check multiple hosts? e.g. >> for GNU findutils I would like to look at both stable and unstable >> releases i.e. combining these two watchfiles

debian/watch - check multiple hosts?

2015-12-28 Thread Andreas Metzler
Hello, is it possible to have uscan check multiple hosts? e.g. for GNU findutils I would like to look at both stable and unstable releases i.e. combining these two watchfiles: version=3 opts=pgpsigurlmangle=s/$/.sig/ \ ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/findutils/findutils-([\d\.\d]+)\.tar\.(?:gz|bz2|xz)

Re: Depends on exact version

2014-11-21 Thread Andreas Metzler
Daniel Lintott dan...@serverb.co.uk wrote: On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 02:39:15PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: Daniel Lintott dan...@serverb.co.uk wrote: I have a package which is split into two sources (a server and gui). The server version should match the gui version (upstream version) at all

Re: Depends on exact version

2014-11-16 Thread Andreas Metzler
Daniel Lintott dan...@serverb.co.uk wrote: I have a package which is split into two sources (a server and gui). The server version should match the gui version (upstream version) at all times. Because of this when I'm creating the meta-package that will depend on both the gui and server,

Bug#759742: RFS: tkinfo/2.8-5 [ITA, RC]

2014-09-13 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2014-08-29 Peter pe...@pblackman.plus.com wrote: [...] I am looking for a sponsor for my package tkinfo Hello Peter, thanks for adopting this package, I occasionally use it and will be happy to sponsor. [...] Changes since the last upload: [...] * Add dh-installmime to binary-indep

Request for review - python-gnutls

2014-09-06 Thread Andreas Metzler
Hello, given that python-gnutls is one of the last packages still depending on libgnutls26 [1] I have thrown in a little bit of effort to prepare a NMU fixing this. However I am not a regular python user and would therefore appreciate a second set of eyes doublechecking that the result is not

Re: Bug#740482: RFS: [RC][security] imagemagick/8:6.7.7.10-8

2014-03-03 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2014-03-02 Bastien ROUCARIES roucaries.bast...@gmail.com wrote: Le 2 mars 2014 16:19, Andreas Metzler ametz...@bebt.de a écrit : On 2014-03-02 Bastien ROUCARIES roucaries.bast...@gmail.com wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package imagemagick [...] Uploaded. Rejected by ftpmaster

Re: Bug#740482: RFS: [RC][security] imagemagick/8:6.7.7.10-8

2014-03-02 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2014-03-02 Bastien ROUCARIES roucaries.bast...@gmail.com wrote: Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal [important for RC bugs, wishlist for new packages] Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package imagemagick [...] Changes since the last upload: Fix three

Re: Is there a place for ndjbdns in Debian

2014-02-20 Thread Andreas Metzler
Dariusz Dwornikowski dariusz.dwornikow...@cs.put.poznan.pl wrote: I am working on a MaraDNS package, the upstream Author, Sam Trenholme suggested that maybe it could also worth packaging ndjbdns, a djbdns fork but with GPL licence and all bugs fixed. Also the upstream of ndjbdns is quite

Re: dh: different dh option for -indep

2013-12-31 Thread Andreas Metzler
Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, 30 Dec 2013, Andreas Metzler wrote: [...] MYDHMODS := $(shell if dh_listpackages | grep -q foo-doc ; \ then echo --with autoreconf,sphinxdoc ; \ else echo --with autoreconf ; fi) [...] Nice trick! Still, this is a wrong

Re: dh: different dh option for -indep

2013-12-30 Thread Andreas Metzler
Olе Streicher debian-de...@liska.ath.cx wrote: my package will create a separate arch-independent -doc package with sphinxdoc. Since therefore sphinx is not needed for architecure dependent builds, I moved the build dependency of the package into the Build-Depends-Indep field in

Re: Different symbols for different architectures

2013-12-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: Seems that different architectures have different symbols. To me it doesn't look that simple, since the missing symbols are the same on many arches. It seems like upstream is basing the presence/absence

Re: arch-dependent files in Multi-Arch: same package

2013-12-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
Olе Streicher debian-de...@liska.ath.cx wrote: for some of my newly uploaded packages, I got a bug report 'arch-dependent files in Multi-Arch: same package' [1]. The files in question are in /usr/share/doc/package. However, these differences do not come from differences in the architecture

Re: Correcting a version number

2013-12-11 Thread Andreas Metzler
Daniel Lintott dan...@serverb.co.uk wrote: On 10/12/13 19:21, Dominik George wrote: [2] http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/watch?pkg=vpcs_0.5b0-1 In that special case, I'd even say your versioning mistake is good because upstream's ~ notation is a mess. That char is reserved for Debian ;) (yes,

Re: Correcting a version number

2013-12-10 Thread Andreas Metzler
Daniel Lintott dan...@serverb.co.uk wrote: [..] I have realised that in an earlier package upload, I made a blunder with regards the version of the package. The package was versioned as 0.5b0-1, though I somehow missed, despite testing the watch file that this should have been 0.5~b0-1. I

Bug#726873: RFS: id3/0.15-4

2013-10-20 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2013-10-20 Stefan Ott ste...@ott.net wrote: Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package id3 [...] Hello, I have just uploaded the package. cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so

Re: Versionned dependancies on build-essential packages. (was: Re: Where did Bacula 1.38.11-7+b1 come from?)

2007-02-24 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2007-02-24 Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 07:30:38PM +0100, Andreas Metzler a écrit : Build-Depends: dpkg-dev (=1.13.19) [...] [Thread from -devel diverted to -mentors.] I do not follow that list, thanks for the cc. I was just wondering the reason why

Re: RF{S,C}: gtklp 1.0rel+1.0d

2005-07-03 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2005-06-14 Zak B. Elep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Cc'ing Andreas Metzler as he was my last sponsor ;)] Hi! I've repackaged gtklp to accomodate the new version 1.0d. There are no bugfixes in this package :( but I've done some changes to debian/rules and /control for proper handling

Re: Packaging xmountains...

2004-09-11 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-09-11 MiguelGea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On ds, 2004-09-11 at 00:12, Thomas Viehmann wrote: MiguelGea wrote: install in /usr/share/man/man* but no in usr/X11R6/man/man1 Why would you (Policy 12.1)? If I execute lintian -i xmountains it say to me this: E: xmountains:

Re: Packaging xmountains...

2004-09-11 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-09-11 MiguelGea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On ds, 2004-09-11 at 00:12, Thomas Viehmann wrote: MiguelGea wrote: install in /usr/share/man/man* but no in usr/X11R6/man/man1 Why would you (Policy 12.1)? If I execute lintian -i xmountains it say to me this: E: xmountains:

Re: Bashisms and Dashisms...

2004-09-06 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 04:18:21PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: A maintainer script with a #!/bin/sh line should only use posix syntax. If one needs more features (e.g. test -L), one can instead use #!/bin/bash. test -L is POSIX afaict. However, this seems unnecessarily restricted to me. dash

Re: Bashisms and Dashisms...

2004-09-06 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 05:51:47PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: Andreas Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 04:18:21PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: A maintainer script with a #!/bin/sh line should only use posix syntax. If one needs more features (e.g. test -L), one can

Re: Bashisms and Dashisms...

2004-09-06 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 04:18:21PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: A maintainer script with a #!/bin/sh line should only use posix syntax. If one needs more features (e.g. test -L), one can instead use #!/bin/bash. test -L is POSIX afaict. However, this seems unnecessarily restricted to me. dash

Re: Bashisms and Dashisms...

2004-09-06 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 05:51:47PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: Andreas Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 04:18:21PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: A maintainer script with a #!/bin/sh line should only use posix syntax. If one needs more features (e.g. test -L), one can

Re: RFS: viewglob -- A graphical display of directories referenced at the shell prompt

2004-09-04 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-09-04 Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 11:02:26PM +0200, Michael Schiansky wrote: [...] Why do you call dpatch 'obfuscated' ? [...] Compared to simply making the source changes directly, it's obfuscated. Agreed. It's also obfuscated for users who can no

Re: RFS: viewglob -- A graphical display of directories referenced at the shell prompt

2004-09-04 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-09-04 Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 11:02:26PM +0200, Michael Schiansky wrote: [...] Why do you call dpatch 'obfuscated' ? [...] Compared to simply making the source changes directly, it's obfuscated. Agreed. It's also obfuscated for users who can no

Re: Update-excuses: Makes N non-depending packages uninstallable on ...

2004-08-30 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-08-30 Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm wondering how to interpret, especially the last part. http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=tetex-bin First it says: * Updating tetex-bin makes 3 depending packages uninstallable on alpha: jbibtex-bin, jmpost, ptex-bin

Re: Bug#268774: digikam depends on libtiff3g in testing, kdelibs4 3.3 in unstable: t-p-u upload needed

2004-08-30 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 09:06:01AM -0700, Paul Telford wrote: On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Steve Langasek wrote: digikam has been removed from testing, because it depended on libexif9. The version of digikam in unstable will almost certainly depend on kdelibs4 3.3 once it's been successfully built

Re: Bug#268774: digikam depends on libtiff3g in testing, kdelibs4 3.3 in unstable: t-p-u upload needed

2004-08-30 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 09:45:26AM -0700, Paul Telford wrote: On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Andreas Metzler wrote: Why do you need to upload to unstable at all? Is there something wrong with the version in unstable? Can't you simply upload 0.6.2-3 unchanged (except for debian/changelog) as 0.6.2

Re: RFS: gtklp-1.0pre1

2004-08-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-08-29 Zak B. Elep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gtklp (1.0pre1-1) unstable; urgency=low [...] I would not use this version number. You'd be forced to either use a epoch for the real 1.0 or 1.0rel $ dpkg --compare-versions 0.9u-1 '' '1.0pre1-1' || echo not ok $ dpkg --compare-versions 1.0-1

Re: RFS: gtklp-0.9u

2004-08-28 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-08-25 Zak B. Elep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, gonna make this quick, as I'm in a public Knoppix box: I've just finished a very *late* deb of gtklp-0.9u. Nothing really worth noting, except that it might get into Sarge (but, in all probability, it won't :() Could you please hit

Re: RFS: kst: A KDE data analysis program

2004-08-27 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 01:35:34PM +0100, Mark Hymers wrote: [...] There is a KDE NMU in incoming at the moment which fixes the libopenexr issue. Could you offer me one piece of advice? Should I make the Build-Depends on kdelibs4 versioned (i.e. kdelibs4 ( 3.3.0-1.1)) to make sure buildds

Re: RFS: kst: A KDE data analysis program

2004-08-27 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 01:35:34PM +0100, Mark Hymers wrote: [...] There is a KDE NMU in incoming at the moment which fixes the libopenexr issue. Could you offer me one piece of advice? Should I make the Build-Depends on kdelibs4 versioned (i.e. kdelibs4 ( 3.3.0-1.1)) to make sure buildds

Re: version numbers in testing-proposed-updates (was: current specialities for NMUs)

2004-08-25 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 03:28:29PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in debian-devel: These packages are frozen, i.e. newer uploads to unstable won't go into testing. The official way is to upload also a package to testing. To upload a package to testing

Re: irda-utils: howto dist-upgrade when package name has changed?

2004-08-23 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-08-23 Sebastian Henschel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] the problem is that the package(s) in stable are called irda-tools and irda-common and the current version is called irda-utils. when doing a dist-ugprade from stable to unstable, irda-tools and irda-common are not replaced

Re: irda-utils: howto dist-upgrade when package name has changed?

2004-08-23 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-08-23 Sebastian Henschel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] the problem is that the package(s) in stable are called irda-tools and irda-common and the current version is called irda-utils. when doing a dist-ugprade from stable to unstable, irda-tools and irda-common are not replaced

Re: xpat2 testing excuses

2004-08-21 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-08-21 Laszlo 'GCS' Boszormenyi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Andreas Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-08-18 16:54:27 +0200]: The testing scripts did not run succesfully tonight. Any expected date when they will be fixed? It seems they are still broken, at least I do not see

Re: xpat2 testing excuses

2004-08-21 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-08-21 Laszlo 'GCS' Boszormenyi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Andreas Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-08-18 16:54:27 +0200]: The testing scripts did not run succesfully tonight. Any expected date when they will be fixed? It seems they are still broken, at least I do not see

Re: xpat2 testing excuses

2004-08-18 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 04:23:51PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: xpat2 is installed for m68k a couple of days ago, though it isn't entering testing because it has not yet built on m68k?? It has been built 2 times according buildd.d.o, it is installed according to buildd.net, but waiting for a

Re: xpat2 testing excuses

2004-08-18 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 04:23:51PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: xpat2 is installed for m68k a couple of days ago, though it isn't entering testing because it has not yet built on m68k?? It has been built 2 times according buildd.d.o, it is installed according to buildd.net, but waiting for a

Re: Problems with cylcing dependencies in sid-sarge

2004-08-17 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-08-17 Christian Hammers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Two packages, libdbi-perl and libdbd-csv-perl have problems going to testing also each of them seems to be fine and they should be able to go in simultaneously. Can anybody explain to me what's wrong here? [...] Testing does not

Re: Problems with cylcing dependencies in sid-sarge

2004-08-17 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-08-17 Christian Hammers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Two packages, libdbi-perl and libdbd-csv-perl have problems going to testing also each of them seems to be fine and they should be able to go in simultaneously. Can anybody explain to me what's wrong here? [...] Testing does not

Re: RFS: splay -- A bit better prepared now ...

2004-08-16 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-08-16 John Hedges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] There is a slight complication: the QA team uploaded a version that fixed some arch bugs by setting architecture to all [1]. I don't seem to be able to get the latest sources [...] 0.9.5.2-5 is available on every mirror, e.g.

Re: gprolog: buildds not touching it

2004-08-16 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-08-16 Salvador Abreu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GNU Prolog (the gprolog package) is a native-code compiler with back-ends for several targets and *no* generic target: it can't work for a given architecture unless a back-end has been written for it. I've tried to deal with this with a

Re: RFS: splay -- A bit better prepared now ...

2004-08-16 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 05:58:26PM +0100, John Hedges wrote: [...] I've put a new copy at the above address. I made a last minute change to debian/control and uploaded the package. -Description: Sound player for MPEG-1,2 layer 1,2,3 Based on maplay, this - package decodes layer I, II, and III

Re: RFS: splay -- A bit better prepared now ...

2004-08-16 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-08-16 John Hedges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] There is a slight complication: the QA team uploaded a version that fixed some arch bugs by setting architecture to all [1]. I don't seem to be able to get the latest sources [...] 0.9.5.2-5 is available on every mirror, e.g.

Re: gprolog: buildds not touching it

2004-08-16 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-08-16 Salvador Abreu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GNU Prolog (the gprolog package) is a native-code compiler with back-ends for several targets and *no* generic target: it can't work for a given architecture unless a back-end has been written for it. I've tried to deal with this with a

Re: RFS: splay -- A bit better prepared now ...

2004-08-16 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 03:24:52PM +0100, John Hedges wrote: [...] If you feel inclined to take a further look, 0.9.5.2-6 is now at http://www.callpoint.org/splay/ Almost ok. debian/control must not hardcode the shlibs-dependencies, use ${shlibs:Depends} instead. cu andreas

Re: RFS: splay -- A bit better prepared now ...

2004-08-16 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 05:58:26PM +0100, John Hedges wrote: [...] I've put a new copy at the above address. I made a last minute change to debian/control and uploaded the package. -Description: Sound player for MPEG-1,2 layer 1,2,3 Based on maplay, this - package decodes layer I, II, and III

Re: RFS: wmnetmon - new maintainer

2004-08-15 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-08-15 Rolandas Juodzbalis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I taked maintenance of this package from Søren Boll Overgaard, who has no time for it. And he has no time for sponsoring this package. If someone can, please sponsorship. New package is located at

Re: RFS: wmnetmon - new maintainer

2004-08-15 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-08-15 Rolandas Juodzbalis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I taked maintenance of this package from Søren Boll Overgaard, who has no time for it. And he has no time for sponsoring this package. If someone can, please sponsorship. New package is located at

Re: RFS: wmnetmon - new maintainer

2004-08-15 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-08-15 Rolandas Juodzbalis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andreas Metzler wrote: On 2004-08-15 Rolandas Juodzbalis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I taked maintenance of this package from Søren Boll Overgaard, who has no time for it. And he has no time for sponsoring this package. If someone can

Re: RFS: wmnetmon - new maintainer

2004-08-15 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-08-15 Rolandas Juodzbalis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I implemented all changes you suggested and even decreased version number ;) New files are uploaded in ftp. Please check everyone who needs it. Thanks, that is better. However debveinan copyright now looks as if you were upstream

Re: RFS: wmnetmon - new maintainer

2004-08-15 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-08-15 Rolandas Juodzbalis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I taked maintenance of this package from Søren Boll Overgaard, who has no time for it. And he has no time for sponsoring this package. If someone can, please sponsorship. New package is located at

Re: RFS: wmnetmon - new maintainer

2004-08-15 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-08-15 Rolandas Juodzbalis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I taked maintenance of this package from Søren Boll Overgaard, who has no time for it. And he has no time for sponsoring this package. If someone can, please sponsorship. New package is located at

Re: RFS: wmnetmon - new maintainer

2004-08-15 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-08-15 Rolandas Juodzbalis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andreas Metzler wrote: On 2004-08-15 Rolandas Juodzbalis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I taked maintenance of this package from Søren Boll Overgaard, who has no time for it. And he has no time for sponsoring this package. If someone can

Re: RFS: wmnetmon - new maintainer

2004-08-15 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-08-15 Rolandas Juodzbalis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I implemented all changes you suggested and even decreased version number ;) New files are uploaded in ftp. Please check everyone who needs it. Thanks, that is better. However debveinan copyright now looks as if you were upstream

Re: how buildd's work?

2004-08-06 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-08-06 Laszlo 'GCS' Boszormenyi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I contributed a very small amount to the subversion package. What I see from packages.qa.debian.org is that building it on alpha and other archs are failed as the newest apache2 cause trouble with the dependencies. The problem is

Re: how buildd's work?

2004-08-06 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-08-06 Laszlo 'GCS' Boszormenyi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I contributed a very small amount to the subversion package. What I see from packages.qa.debian.org is that building it on alpha and other archs are failed as the newest apache2 cause trouble with the dependencies. The problem is

Re: buildds

2004-08-05 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-08-05 Alexander List [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I uploaded a non-free package (diablo) two days ago and wonder what I can do to make the buillds attempt to build it for all the non-i386 archs... The autobuilders will not build nonfree packages no matter what you try. - You can build

Re: simple cron packaging question

2004-08-05 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-08-05 Brian Sutherland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As my first foray into debian packaging, I want to create a package that installs a cron job to be run daily. My approach is to install a simple script into /etc/cron.daily/ that calls a more complex script which I install into

Re: buildds

2004-08-05 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-08-05 Alexander List [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I uploaded a non-free package (diablo) two days ago and wonder what I can do to make the buillds attempt to build it for all the non-i386 archs... The autobuilders will not build nonfree packages no matter what you try. - You can build

Re: simple cron packaging question

2004-08-05 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-08-05 Brian Sutherland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As my first foray into debian packaging, I want to create a package that installs a cron job to be run daily. My approach is to install a simple script into /etc/cron.daily/ that calls a more complex script which I install into

Re: How to retire a bug tagged wontfix,woody?

2004-08-02 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 03:03:31PM +0200, Kevin Glynn wrote: I am the (new) maintainer for mozart. I have one Serious bug outstanding: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=mozart). The bug was tagged wontfix, woody. The bug has been fixed in versions later than woody.

Re: How to retire a bug tagged wontfix,woody?

2004-08-02 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 03:03:31PM +0200, Kevin Glynn wrote: I am the (new) maintainer for mozart. I have one Serious bug outstanding: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=mozart). The bug was tagged wontfix, woody. The bug has been fixed in versions later than woody.

Re: dpkg and a symlink that gets a directory

2004-07-30 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-07-30 Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I think what you want is described in the dpkg programmers manual: A directory will never be replaced by a symbolic links to a directory or vice versa; instead, the existing state (symlink

Re: dpkg and a symlink that gets a directory

2004-07-30 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-07-30 Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I think what you want is described in the dpkg programmers manual: A directory will never be replaced by a symbolic links to a directory or vice versa; instead, the existing state (symlink

Re: fixing a woody-only bug?

2004-07-28 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-07-28 Magosányi Árpád (mag) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please tell me how to fix a woody-only bug. I know that the uploaded version should only contain the fix. I thought that the distribution in changelog should be woody-proposed upgrades. [...] No, stable. Afaict from developers

Re: fixing a woody-only bug?

2004-07-28 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-07-28 Magosányi Árpád (mag) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please tell me how to fix a woody-only bug. I know that the uploaded version should only contain the fix. I thought that the distribution in changelog should be woody-proposed upgrades. [...] No, stable. Afaict from developers

Re: CDBS warning

2004-07-27 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-07-27 Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i switched my packages to cdbs and i think it is very good. but i have one problem, in the build process i get this warning: /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/buildcore.mk:59: DEB_BUILD_MAKE_TARGET is a deprecated variable [...]

Re: CDBS warning

2004-07-27 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-07-27 Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i switched my packages to cdbs and i think it is very good. but i have one problem, in the build process i get this warning: /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/buildcore.mk:59: DEB_BUILD_MAKE_TARGET is a deprecated variable [...]

Re: garbage during upload, dput wont work

2004-07-26 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 02:42:47PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: I was uploading a package to the ftp-master queue, during the upload I lost network connectivity and the upload has been interrupted after having uploaded the .dsc and (partially) the .orig.tar.gz. [...] Hints? Remove the

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