Re: Flash in debian

2012-01-28 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Paul, On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:13:34 Paul Wise wrote: I say Flash needs to die in a fire. If you have upstreams who have Flash components, please spend your time working on transitioning them to JavaScript, the new HTML5 tags (audio, video, canvas etc) and other new web technologies (like

Re: RFS: git2cl

2012-01-21 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Paul, On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:36:45 Paul Wise wrote: On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: This wouldn't be a problem with responsive upstream. I already tried to contact him but he is not answering to emails. This was also confirmed by other people who tried to reach

Re: RFS: tupi -- 2D Animation design and authoring tool

2012-01-21 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:40:03 Paul Wise wrote: You might want to get involved in the multimedia team: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianMultimedia https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/Join https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/FAQ Thank you, I'll consider this. Frankly this idea

Re: RFS: git2cl

2012-01-20 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Paul, My apologies, I didn't mean to be rude for not replyng - I only noticed this email of yours just now. Sorry for missing it. On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:56:55 Paul Wise wrote: On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: However you failed to clearly articulate the requirements

Re: RFS: git2cl

2012-01-20 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:27:08 Jakub Wilk wrote: * Dmitry Smirnov only...@member.fsf.org, 2012-01-20, 23:49: But how much time and effort one can afford in order to regenerate single HTML file? Surely it wouldn't cost you more time than arguing about the issue takes. True, especially if you

Re: RFS: git2cl

2012-01-20 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:27:08 Jakub Wilk wrote: * Dmitry Smirnov only...@member.fsf.org, 2012-01-20, 23:49: But how much time and effort one can afford in order to regenerate single HTML file? Surely it wouldn't cost you more time than arguing about the issue takes. Another argument

Re: RFS: tupi -- 2D Animation design and authoring tool

2012-01-18 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Thank you for advice, Paul. Upstream is very responsive and helpful. I gave this link to him. Cheers, Dmitry. On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:38:52 Paul Wise wrote: If you contact upstream, please mention our upstream guide too: http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: RFS: ipset

2012-01-18 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Neutron, You effort is appreciated but ipset already provided by xtables-addons. http://xtables-addons.sourceforge.net/ xtables-addons is already in debian, if need ipset compatible with recent linux kernels. Regards, Dmitry. On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 05:18:29 Neutron Soutmun wrote: Dear

Re: RFS: ipset

2012-01-18 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Yes, I'm using xtables-addons until now and I learn to package from your work :) But found this commit: Thank you for kind words. :) A real pleasure. build: deactivate build of ipset-genl by default == 8 == Changes: +- Deactivate build of ipset-genl by default. + I think the original

Re: RFS: ipset

2012-01-18 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Neutron, Is ipset6 means ipset for IPv6 ? or ipset (6.x) ? I'm interested in the IPv6 with ipset but not tested yet. The IPv6 is not widely used in Thailand yet. I meant ipset v6.* as this is the only one which works with up-to-date kernels. (I didn't try it with IPv6) I reckon

RFS: tupi -- 2D Animation design and authoring tool

2012-01-17 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Dear mentors, I'm still looking for a sponsor for package tupi. # Tupi: 2D Magic is a design and authoring tool for digital artists interested in 2D Animation, offering an interface experience focused on 8-100 years old kids. It's source code is based on the KTooN project. . Some of its

Re: RFS: git2cl

2011-12-06 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Benoît, I appreciate your detailed explanation. I agree with everything you've sad regarding general terms. All your points are valid and well-explained. I think this discussion drifted away from particular situation. Specifically to git2cl there are still number of questions left: -- Is

Re: RFS: dvbackup

2011-12-06 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Dear Benoît, I'm applauding to your extensive review and attention to details. Thank you. I don't know if I should have ever brought something so non-perfect to your pedantic attention. :) I just want to remind that I never intended to make the perfect package out of it. I merely fix some

Re: RFS: git2cl

2011-12-06 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Wednesday 07 December 2011 13:56:44 Paul Wise wrote: On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: Would you please explain you decision? I think my position has been adequately explained by myself and others in this thread, but in short: Debian has made various promises

Re: RFS: Planner (orphan package)

2011-12-05 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Josue, and I can not reproduce the bug. Strange, it was annoying me for a while so I could only build using pbuilder (slow) but not using debuild. It was failing with python-gtk2-dev 2.17.0 and installation of 2.24.0 fixed the problem for me. Dmitry could you provide more

Re: RFS: git2cl

2011-12-05 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
original work merely because you can. Regards, Dmitry. On Tuesday 06 December 2011 11:25:38 Arno Töll wrote: Hello Dmitry, On 03.12.2011 09:23, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: However I'm not too sure if introdicing another build-dependency worth regenerating single file merely to get almost the same

Re: RFS: git2cl

2011-12-05 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Tuesday 06 December 2011 14:54:41 Paul Wise wrote: I withdraw my intention to sponsor git2cl. No worries, Paul, I'm sincerely grateful to you for your time and help. Thank you. Would you please explain you decision? Obviously you disagree with something I sad, so I would appreciate if you

Re: RFS: Planner (orphan package)

2011-12-04 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Why are you using python-gobject-dev from stable?, are you trying to make a backport for stable?. As always the distribution for new (and new versions of) packages should be unstable (or even experimental), but of course I am willing to help if you are trying to make a backport. Wait a

Re: RFS: git2cl

2011-12-03 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Saturday 03 December 2011 16:52:03 Paul Wise wrote: One more thing that I missed, sorry about this :( README.html is actually generated from README. Please delete that in get-orig-source, build-dep on asciidoc, run asciidoc at build time to generate it and (optionally) send upstream a

Re: RFS: portabase - easy-to-use personal database application

2011-12-03 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Saturday 03 December 2011 21:52:24 Arno Töll wrote: Hello Dmitry, On 03.12.2011 08:55, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: * RFS (new package): fcgi-daemon http://mentors.debian.net/package/fcgi-daemon Could you please ask md whether he is interested to sponsor it? He said, he would use

Re: RFS: Planner (orphan package)

2011-12-03 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Josue, I think the package is not ready yet. I just tried to build it and got error: planner-python-plugin.c:26:23: fatal error: pygobject.h: No such file or directory pygobject.h provided by python-gi-dev python-gobject-dev python-gobject-2-dev I have python-gobject-dev from stable. I

Re: RFS: git2cl

2011-12-02 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Dear Paul, Thank you very much for taking your time to review. Please find updated package on the following URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/git2cl/git2cl_2.0+git200808271242-1.dsc git repository is updated as well. I'm looking for sponsor for my package git2cl Since I use

Re: RFS: git2cl

2011-12-02 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
There is no reason to have +git200808271242 in the upstream version number since you are packaging a tagged version. I would suggest using `git describe | sed s/git2cl-//` to get a useful version number. This works nicely even when you are packaging a non-tagged version. Thanks for handy

Re: RFS: git2cl

2011-12-02 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Friday 02 December 2011 19:48:27 Paul Wise wrote: On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Paul Wise wrote: Please add a debian/watch file explaining that upstream does not release tarballs and that the gitweb server used does not have the ability to export tarballs. Actually this is better:

RFS: tupi -- 2D Animation design and authoring tool

2011-12-02 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Dear mentors, I'm looking for a sponsor for my new package tupi. It would be great is someone could review and upload it for me. * Package name: tupi * Version : 0.1+git11-1 * Upstream Author : Gustav Gonzalez i...@maefloresta.com * Homepage:

Re: RFS: git2cl

2011-12-02 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/git2cl/git2cl_2.0+git200808271242-1.dsc for about 10 hours. Correct upload has been done minutes ago (verified). Regards, Dmitry. On Friday 02 December 2011 22:42:10 Dmitry Smirnov wrote: I incorporated it into updated release available from same sources (git repo

Re: RFS: git2cl

2011-12-02 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Saturday 03 December 2011 15:58:21 Paul Wise wrote: On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: Thanks for handy advice. It may be nice to use tags for versioning, but I'd like to keep translated-to-date version because it is human-readable and meaningful. 2.0 doesn't say

RFS: portabase - easy-to-use personal database application

2011-12-02 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Dear mentors, I'm looking for a sponsor for my new package portabase. It would be great is someone could review and upload it for me. * Package name: portabase * Version : 2.0-1-1 * Upstream Author : Jeremy Bowman jmbow...@alum.mit.edu * Homepage:

RFS: timebrowse -- NILFS Snapshot Manager/Windows VSS like Nautilus extension

2011-11-30 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package timebrowse. It would be great is someone could review and uploaded it for me. * Package name : timebrowse * Version : 0.6-1 * Upstream Author : Jiro SEKIBA j...@unicus.jp * Homepage :

RFS: fcgi-daemon -- Perl-aware FastCGI daemon

2011-11-30 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Dear mentors, I'm looking for a sponsor for my new package fcgi-daemon. It would be great is someone could review and upload it for me. * Package name: fcgi-daemon * Version : 0.2021-1 * Upstream Author : Dmitry Smirnov only...@cpan.org * Homepage

Re: RFS: git2cl

2011-11-30 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
: On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 16:30:31 +1100 Dmitry Smirnov only...@member.fsf.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Mentors, I'm looking for sponsor for my package git2cl Package name: git2cl URL : http://josefsson.org/git2cl/ License

Re: RFS: dvbackup

2011-11-27 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Interesting, I was able to reproduce the problem when I downloaded my own package and run 'debian/rules clean' this puzzled me for an hour but then I found the problem. Somehow a broken source package has been uploaded - it did not applied patches I wrote to fix broke upstream makefiles. My

Re: RFS: git2cl

2011-11-26 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Luca, I'm not affiliated with upstream in any way... I can integrate your patch for you and hopefully forward it upstream eventually. Regards, Dmitry. On 26/11/11 20:59, Luca BRUNO wrote: Dmitry Smirnov scrisse: I'm looking for sponsor for my package git2cl On a sidenote, are you

Re: RFS: dvbackup

2011-11-26 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I updated http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/dvbackup/dvbackup_0.0.4rj1-7.dsc with sort of elegant solution for regeneration of man pages. I added 'clean' target to debian/rules, which wipes *.1 pages so docbook-to-man regenerates them.

Re: RFS: dvbackup

2011-11-26 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Thank you, well spotted. On 27/11/11 00:53, Benoît Knecht wrote: Your debian/control file is invalid (see debian policy 5.6.23 [1]), and you left over some text at the end of the description. [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Homepage I removed

Re: RFS: dvbackup

2011-11-26 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
I see... Well, the proper solution would be to separate both packages; right now, the .orig.tar.bz2 file is not at all an upstream archive (it's not even the concatenation of both upstream archives), so of course it makes it impossible to comply with the policy. Yes, orig.tar is such a

RFS: dvbackup

2011-11-25 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Mentors, dvbackup is orphaned (#573466) and outdated for a while. I prepared NMU with some improvements (below) so I hope it can be uploaded. Regards, Dmitry. - -- * debian/control - (Closes: #488559) thanks to Justin B Rye

RFS: abiword

2011-11-25 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Mentors, abiword is orphaned (#648341) so for a time being I can look after it. (Since I'm not a DM shall I put Debian QA Group packa...@qa.debian.org to Maintainer field?) I've made some changes to simplify packaging and adoption of future

Re: RFS: abiword

2011-11-25 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Dear Arno, Thank you very much for your advices, always so useful. Regards, Dmitry. On 26/11/11 12:50, Arno Töll wrote: Hello again, On 26.11.2011 02:26, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: (Since I'm not a DM shall I put Debian QA Group packa...@qa.debian.org to Maintainer field?) this is up

Re: RFS: dvbackup

2011-11-25 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
-dev to take care of outdated config.(sub|guess) + * debian/watch: updated (related to #449933) + * debian/rules: added support for buildflags + * debian/compat: to 8 + * debian/copyright: minor update + + -- Dmitry Smirnov only...@member.fsf.org Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:02:15 +1100 + dvbackup

RFS: git2cl

2011-11-25 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Mentors, I'm looking for sponsor for my package git2cl Package name: git2cl URL : http://josefsson.org/git2cl/ License : GPL-2+ Section : utils It is a simple tool to convert git logs to GNU ChangeLog format

uploaded package as if it belong to someone else

2011-11-10 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Mentors, Just wanted to share a peculiar situation with package upload: Recently I uploaded a package to mentors for review, but it didn't show in http://mentors.debian.net/packages/my (Fortunately I could get a URL for .dsc file from confirmation email so it wasn't much of a problem apart

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