Hi,
> a) The version numbering rules provide for a '1:' prefix to be used to
>deal with version numbering mistakes. A version number starting with
>'1:' counts as higher than any without such a prefix; a '2:' counts as
>higher than '1:', etc. So you could re-upload 2.10.08+ds-1 with version
Hi,
> Here I am not a member of DebianEdu team and told if am not a member
> of one team there is no reason to do team upload.
> Ideally, I should contact the team to join in or tell team I am going
> to fix ftbfs issue.
Whether the maintainer is a team doesn't matter here (it just means I am
Hi,
is there a reason why you are not working with the packaging team, and doing
NMUs without contacting the team beforehand?
-nik
Hi,
>If I wanted to package software licensed under MIT, and the version given
>upstream matches the Expat license word-for-word, does the above sentence mean
>I should replace all references to the MIT license with Expat?
Yes.
> Should my copyright file look like this?
No. The MIT block and
Hi,
> Is it ok for source code to be in Github?
No. In my opinion (and I am aware that sadly, the majority of the project
probably does not share this opinion), that is a direct violation of Debian's
Code of Conduct, and its Social Contract as well.
GitHub has discriminatory terms of use that
Hi,
> Now I need to move some files to another package. Is there an easy
> method the exclude some files from this package or do I have to compile
> a positive list (which might vary between versions)?
In debian/rules:
override_dh_auto_install:
dh_install -ppackage1 -Xexclude1
Hi,
> Does there exist a tool for Debian that will parse a package directory (its
> source files), extract the "SPDX-License-Identifier:" and produce something
> that would fit into a machine-readable debian/copyright file?
AFAIK, the reuse tool (which also generates these annoying headers) can
Hi,
> Written in Rust, it is safer, faster, and greener.
There is quite a huge piece missing in this chain of argumentation.
-nik
Hi,
> I tried to copy that font file to ${HOME}/.fonts and fc-list is even
> listing the font in question[1]:
>
> /tmp/.fonts/yudit.ttf: Yudit Unicode:style=LR
>
> but finally the test fails
have you tried updating the fontconfig cache (using fc-cache -f)?
Cheers,
Nik
gz
*snip*
HTH,
Nik
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Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2021 22:07:39 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Correctly scan S3 bucket in d/watch
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2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions
Hi,
On Sat, Oct 09, 2021 at 09:46:51PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi,
>
> when I try to visit
>
> https://alkesgroup.broadinstitute.org/BOLT-LMM/downloads/
>
> with any browser I get a list of files. However, the watch file
> of bolt-lmm[1] pointing to that web page returns:
You don't
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Hi,
> Certainly, a merge is the superior solution and i am glad its actually
> being considered, but my understanding is that code refactoring/cleaning
> could take a considerable amount of time, and
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Hi antisocrates,
> Ingo will outline what needs to be done to get i3-gaps into a mergable
> state, so that we can eventually bring these features to all i3 users.
>
> For the time being, our recommendation is to NOT add i3-gaps to Debian or
> any
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> Thanks for your contribution! I looked into your package and have the
> following remarks:
Oh, plus, also please fix the issues listed on your package's mentors page as
well, obiously ☺.
- -nik
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Hi,
On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 04:10:03AM +0300, antisocrates wrote:
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "i3-gaps"
Thanks for your contribution! I looked into your package and have the
following remarks:
* Did you talk to the i3-wm
>To show where you can find the information is more helpful than to one
>specific inforamtion.
Except that the needed information - how to get debsign to find the correct key
- cannot be found where the newcomer was pointed.
-nik
>> I saw many people are stop using the "pristine-tar" branch, since the
>> "pristine-tar" tool can do just that.
>
>To add more content, this is where the idea comes from:
>https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/generating_pristine_tarballs_from_git_repositories/
I do not understand what you are trying
Hi,
>However, after reading the manpage for dh_installdeb [4] (more
>specifically, the section `package.maintscript', I changed my mind and
>added lines such as:
>
> rm_conffile /etc/bash_completion.d/harbour 1:2.8-5~
>
>So... Is that the right thing to do? I.e. regardless of the version
>at
>Copyright is a severe thing. You can bring Debian into severe legal
>problems.
>Remove at least the game data from mentors and Debian infrastructure
>ASAP until copyright is settled.
All very unclear, but very obviously not free:
Hi,
> My debian/control has the
> possible-unindented-list-in-extended-description warning.
>
> I've checked back-and-forth several times but really couldn't figure
> out where that possibility could be.
It comes from the (not possibly, but certainly) unindented list on lines
30 to 45 ;).
Hi,
>Sorry, is there anything wrong with being on the BSD-2-Clause license
>and the non-free/games section?
If it's BSD licenced, it's not non-free.
Maybe some parts are not BSD?
-nik
Hi,
> * License : BSD-2-Clause
> Section : non-free/games
Huh?
-nik
dget -x
https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/libd/libdsk/libdsk_1.5.4+dfsg-1.dsc
Changes since the last upload:
libdsk (1.5.4+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=low
* Initial release (Closes: #168591)
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D
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Regards,
Dominik George
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Dominik George
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Hi,
>>I am looking for a sponsor for my package "flask-compress"
>
>
>where did the package go?
It went to "found a sponsor, had to change something, did not reupload because
sponsor does not use mentors" ;).
-nik
Hi Mattia,
thanks for looking at the package!
> so, this package is in DPMT, hence I'm looking only at the git repo.
I removed it from mentors and, as you are not far from sponsoring it ;),
did not re-upload the fixed version.
In case the sponsorship will not work out, I will re-upload it to
ress_1.3.1-1.dsc
Flask-Compress is an extension for the popular Flask micro-framework for web
applications.
Regards,
Dominik George
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Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for my package "osmalchemy"
* Package name: osmalchemy
Version : 0.1.post1-1
Upstream Author : Dominik George <n...@naturaln
ain/m/mimerender/mimerender_0.6.0-1.dsc
The package is a dependency of the soon to be added flask-restless package.
Regards,
Dominik George
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as co-maintainer
under the pkg-javascript umbrella if that is desired, though.
Regards,
Dominik George
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Kernel
Hi,
I have realised that in an earlier package upload, I made a blunder
with regards the version of the package.
Where is that package now? On mentors, or in Debian?
-nik
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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,
that's false and not so humble ;))!
Why not keep your version numbering as it is and use
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Felix Natter fnat...@gmx.net schrieb:
hello,
my problem is that Freeplane's git is configured such that native line
endings (LF on UNIX, CRLF on Windows) are used in checkouts and thus
the
Upstream tarballs are either CR or CRLF, depending on on
Hi,
to the maintainer and any sponsor:
** Please do a very, very careful license review! **
We had a very long discussion about this software at debianforum.de
[0][1][2] because the upstream author wanted us to test the software,
but was reluctant to grant us a view at the code all through the
Hi,
for d in glimpse.1 glimpseindex.1 glimpseserver.1 ; do \
/usr/bin/install -c -m 444 $d /usr/share/man/man1 ; \
done
Obviously, that should be ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/man/man1 .
Cheers,
Nik
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I took a look at the good build, which is glimpse-4.18.5, and I see:
for d in glimpse.1 glimpseindex.1 glimpseserver.1 ; do \
/usr/bin/install -c -m 444 $d /export/build/glimpse/bld/
glimpse-4.18.5/debian/tmp/usr/share/man/man1 ; \
done
Do you know what
{PWD}. (Closes: #726653)
-- Dominik George n...@naturalnet.de Wed, 30 Oct 2013 12:57:10 +0100
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Dominik George
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)
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Dominik George
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Richi Lists ricu...@gmail.com schrieb:
Or can I add the excpetion myself, assuming since the author chose to
link agains openssl, he is ok with it?
Definitely not. Upstream did not link against it - you do that.
- -nik
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The real issue is, who linked the binary that gets distributed, and
therefore, who has to comply with the GPL, and this is not the upstream
author. To rephrase Dominik's comment: Upstream did not link
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Dominik George n...@naturalnet.de writes:
That said, I my personal opinion is that doing the above is plain
nonsense from a FOSS point of view, and if upstream's intention is to
produce open software
Dear mentors,
I have worked closely together with Javier on fixing issues with his
youtube-cli (formerly yt) package. It appears to be of good quality now,
and I found Javier to be a good teamplayer and accepting and reacting to
criticism really well, so I'd consider him fit for maintainership of
Hi,
The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian
Policy (Standards-Version 3.9.4 instead of 3.8.3).
This is at first nothing more than the Standards-Version field in
debian/control.
I never knew the details of Debian Policy before […]
Sorry to disapoint you, but you
Lintian does not down-scale its checks based on the S-V field; so you
will get (almost) the same result regardless of what value you put in
the field. The obvious exception is checks that actually cares about
the content of the S-V field (which is something like 5 tags or so).
Yes, and yet
Andrew Shadura bugzi...@tut.by schrieb:
Hello,
On 24 September 2013 14:48, Dominik George n...@naturalnet.de wrote:
lintian --color=always -I -E -i --pedantic
lintian -vIiE --pedantic --color=auto
Properly reads as -Evil :)
Hi,
please fix your font and/or try not to be funny when you
Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net schrieb:
On 2013-09-24 16:42, Dominik George wrote:
Andrew Shadura bugzi...@tut.by schrieb:
Hello,
On 24 September 2013 14:48, Dominik George n...@naturalnet.de
wrote:
lintian --color=always -I -E -i --pedantic
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Hi,
I updated one of my packages on mentors earlier and wanted to clarify
whether each upload increment the build number? (For example 0.4b2-1
would become 0.4b2-2)
Yes, each upload should increase the Debian revision, and contain a
changelog
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I think the current compatibility level is 8, not 9.
Forget it.
- -nik
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Hi,
I do not see why this should be supported by Debian. Skype is proprietary and,
allegedly, malicious spyware that we should not encourage our users to use.
IMHO you should go support Telepathy or some other framework that allow
programming for less malicious software.
-nik
Gianfranco
Hi,
following up on RFP #695204, I have started packaging the Geierlein client
needed
by German folks to send VAT declarations to the fiscal authorities. It is quite
an
important package as our authorities do not provide a Linux version of their
official
client. Geierlein is the successor of
the
following URL:
http://mentors.debian.net/package/gosa
Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this
command:
dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gosa/gosa_2.7.4-4.1.dsc
Changes since the last upload: see attached debdiff.
Regards,
Dominik George
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Unfortunately the fix is not good enough. Two issues:
a/ the script uses set -e, this means it will it exit with an error if
a2enmod is missing
No, why should it? That's the whole point of the test before the call of
a2enmod. If it doesn't exist, it is never called.
b/ [[ (double brackets)
Prevent session fixation in Special:UserLogin
+ Prevent linker regex from exceeding backtrack limit
I intentionally did not touch any lintian warning that were not introduced
by these changes to make the changes to squeeze minimal and only
security-related.
Regards,
Dominik
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Hi,
Did you coordinate this upload with the Security Team? Did the team
authorize the upload? (See devref §5.8.5 [1] for details)
I CC'ed debian-security on this bugreport. I am not fmailiar with uploads
to squeeze-security and was hoping for
/ldap2zone/ldap2zone_0.2-3.1.dsc
Changes:
ldap2zone (0.2-3.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Non-maintainer upload.
* Fix unbound variable in ldap2bind script (Closes: #690377).
Regards,
Dominik George
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I propose uploading to DELAYED/5 to give the maintainer some more time to
respond to the bug report themselves, but to squash RC bugs I'd really
love
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The debdiff is attached.
Regards,
Dominik George
diff -Nru couchdb-1.2.0/debian/changelog couchdb-1.2.0/debian/changelog
--- couchdb-1.2.0/debian/changelog 2012-07-19 20:35:03.0 +0200
+++ couchdb-1.2.0/debian/changelog
Hi,
Thank you all for this work - Dominik, would you work directly on
the git repository of the redmine package ? That would allow much
easier maintenance.
Currently, I do not really plan on doing more work on the package, just RC
bug fixing.
Michael, please send follow-ups directly
Hi Michael,
I incorporated the changes you requested.
Cheers,
Nik
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* debian/control: add dependency on rubygems or recent enough ruby
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* debian/postinst: replace exit status -1 with 2 for shell compatibility
(Closes: #687449).
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kthxbye
Sorry, I meant 1.1, not 2.
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Hi,
* changelog field says, that you want to upload your package to lucid,
but you should change it to unstable or experimental (you are
uploading to Debian, not directly yo Ubuntu)
apart from that, wouldn't lucid be just a bit outdated either ;) ?
Cheers,
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On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:23:25AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
Dominik George d...@naturalnik.de (26/02/2010):
OK, as it is done in postinst, there does not seem to be a
difference to my current chown setup. dpkg
Mmm, in this case by local changes we (at least I, but I assume
also KiBi and Paul Wise) mean what the sysadmin has done by hand
after installing a previous version of the package, not
what some parts of the package installation have done during
the installation itself.
I know what local
I do wonder why some scripts have to be owned by a particular user
instead of root, could you explain this?
Although I don't see how this answers my question, it is intended to
have the execution of these scripts limited to users within a group.
Please read debian-policy 10.9 and 10.9.1:
Hi,
I am packaging some scripts (for local distribution), so I am both
upstream and maintainer ;).
The sources tree includes a Makefile providing the default targets for
building and installing.
The preinst script creates a system user, and this is the user the
scripts should be owned by
Dominik George
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Hello mentors,
I am just packaging my Pidgin Last.fm Plugin for Debian and am wondering how
to get a .changes file. The problem is that the plugin consists of a single
perl script which is copied to /usr/lib/pidgin. What I already did is:
- Create a fodler structure with the file system tree
$ dh-make
$ cd debian/
edit/copy in control, copyright, changelog and edit rules
remove unwanted files
$ cd ../
$ dpkg-buildpackage
Sounds easy - but how do I get it to copy my one single file? What Dmitry
suggested does not quite work ...
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