Re: general question about quilt patch handling

Werner Detter writes: >> For example, if 3.patch has not been forwarded upstream yet, then I >> would definitely modify it (instead of creating a new patch). > > I've modified 3.patch - in the course of the modification one line has > been deleted (perl "use"

Re: general question about quilt patch handling

Werner Detter writes: >> Have you got any reason not to simply refresh your patches? >> Something like: quilt pop -a; while quilt push; do quilt refresh; done > > well, there is no reason. I'm asking because this is the first time > I have this topic. Sure, refreshing

Re: Copyright of composite Makefile.in files

Vincent Bernat <ber...@debian.org> writes: > ❦ 30 novembre 2015 10:41 +0100, Ferenc Wagner <wf...@niif.hu> : > >> Makefile.in files distributed in an upstream tarball often have several >> copyright notices: the FSF copyleft at the top added by Automake and >>

Re: Copyright of composite Makefile.in files

Alex Vong writes: > I am not a mentor, the following is just my opinions: I'm afraid that if you answer a question on debian-mentors, you're a mentor by definition. :) > I don't know how Makefile.in is being handled in particular, but I > think in general, if one file

Copyright of composite Makefile.in files

Dear mentors, Makefile.in files distributed in an upstream tarball often have several copyright notices: the FSF copyleft at the top added by Automake and later those carried over from other macro packages included into Makefile.am (for example: include doxygen.am). The result is like this: #

Re: GCC5 library transition for xml-security-c -- needed or not?

Jakub Wilk <jw...@debian.org> writes: > * Ferenc Wagner <wf...@niif.hu>, 2015-11-26, 19:28: > >> I'm packaging a new upstream version of xml-security-c. The previous >> sid version was 1.7.2-3, which had a transition bug filed for it: >> https://bugs.debian.

GCC5 library transition for xml-security-c -- needed or not?

Dear mentors, I'm packaging a new upstream version of xml-security-c. The previous sid version was 1.7.2-3, which had a transition bug filed for it: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=791323 Simon McVittie tagged it "unreproducible", because he suspected that the exported cxx11

Re: How to track header dependencies amongst -dev packages?

Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu writes: I'm packaging software which consists of multiple libraries. I put those libraries into various lib* binary packages with corresponding lib*-dev packages. Some header files contained in the lib*-dev packages include others in other lib*-dev packages, thus

How to track header dependencies amongst -dev packages?

Hi, I'm packaging software which consists of multiple libraries. I put those libraries into various lib* binary packages with corresponding lib*-dev packages. Some header files contained in the lib*-dev packages include others in other lib*-dev packages, thus package dependencies must be

Re: Are the build-arch and build-indep targets required?

Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org writes: * Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu, 2015-07-29, 12:04: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-debianrules first says yes, by starting a paragraph as: build-arch (required), build-indep (required) Yes, they were made mandatory in version

Are the build-arch and build-indep targets required?

Hi, https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-debianrules first says yes, by starting a paragraph as: build-arch (required), build-indep (required) but a couple of paragraphs later is also says: Both binary-* targets should depend on the build target, or on the

Bug#788824: RFS: sblim-wbemcli/1.6.3-1 (new upstream patchlevel release + minor touch-ups)

Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package sblim-wbemcli * Package name: sblim-wbemcli Version : 1.6.3-1 Upstream Author : Tyrel Datwyler tyr...@us.ibm.com * URL :

Re: Avoiding linking with /home/packaging/X/libxx.so

lumin cdlumin...@gmail.com writes: Is there any problem with -rpath that needs a fix ? https://wiki.debian.org/RpathIssue -- Feri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: init script cannot stop pid process

Mateusz Łukasik mat...@linuxmint.pl writes: On 12.02.2015 07:57, Chow Loong Jin wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 10:25:38PM +0100, Mateusz Łukasik wrote: Hello, I make darkhttpd package and have a small issue. I prepare init script:

Re: Looking for guidance on multi-binary package with private DSOs

Tristan Schmelcher tristan_schmelc...@alumni.uwaterloo.ca writes: 2) Like (1), but install to a private directory and have everything in roccat-tools declare an rpath to it, thus avoiding ld.so collisions. This triggers binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath, but IIUC this would be an accepted use.

Bug#772004: [Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#614569: RFS: Bug#614569: slapd fails to dump/reload partial replica -- NMU sponsor needed

Luca Bruno lu...@debian.org writes: On Wednesday 03 December 2014 18:21:08 Ryan Tandy wrote: On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 11:40:24PM +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote: I got pre-approval on #771962: the upload will be unblocked, provided it's in unstable by Monday the 8th of December. People

Bug#765747: RFS: openldap/2.4.40-1 [RC]

Ryan Tandy r...@nardis.ca writes: - Invoke find, chmod, and chown with -H in case /var/lib/ldap is a symlink. (Closes: #742862) You mean chgrp, not chmod. * debian/slapd.README.Debian: Add a note about database format upgrades and the consequences of missing one.

Bug#765747: RFS: openldap/2.4.40-1 [RC]

I backported your package to wheezy and upgraded a machine carrying a partial replica. The upgrade failed, so I added the -s option to the slapadd call in the postinst. Please consider using it. Btw. is the dump/restore necessary with MDB? I found no information about the format

Bug#765747: RFS: openldap/2.4.40-1 [RC]

Ryan Tandy r...@nardis.ca writes: On 18/10/14 02:26 AM, Ferenc Wagner wrote: Ryan Tandy r...@nardis.ca writes: * debian/slapd.init.ldif: Btw: why do you give rigths to the RootDN explicitly? Doesn't it skip all ACL processing anyway? Good point, again; I hadn't noticed

Bug#765648: RFS: fbxkb/0.6-1.2 [NMU]

Dmitry Borisyuk q1we...@i.com.ua writes: The package fbxkb has long-standing bugs (#412254, #436824 and others), and seems unmaintained (the maintainer does not respond for years). As I happen to install this package, I patched it for my local use, and now upload it to mentors; it would be

Bug#763758: RFS: sblim-wbemcli/1.6.2-8

Hi Russ, In the past you sponsored the initial upload of my sblim-wbemcli package into Debian. I prepared a new revision of it with very few changes, could you please sponsor it again? https://mentors.debian.net/package/sblim-wbemcli -- Thanks, Feri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#763758: RFS: sblim-wbemcli/1.6.2-8

Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package sblim-wbemcli * Package name: sblim-wbemcli Version : 1.6.2-8 Upstream Author : Tyrel Datwyler tyr...@us.ibm.com * URL :

Re: How to do a test sbuild with additional package, not in the repositories?

Paul Elliott pelli...@blackpatchpanel.com writes: I must prepare a new version of my package because of a transition. however they are holding one package that my package depends on, out of unstable because that would start the transition. The package is libwxsqlite3-3.0-dev I want to be

Re: Is there a way to preserve pbuilder chroot environment?

Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Wookey wrote: I must admit I'm surprised so many people still use pbuilder, although I do agree that the syntax is a bit simpler for a 'standard upload' build. I still use cowbuilder because schroot doesn't support cowdancer

Re: bash script in /usr/games

Steven Hamilton o...@scorch.net writes: I've just done some more testing though and dh is definitely interperating my bash file as an init script and creating a /etc/init.d/mrrescue entry in the build tree. Any ideas how to override this behaviour? Didn't you name your script debian/init or

Bug#677013: Debian time package sponsor?

Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com writes: Sandro Tosi wrote: I also see that there are several changes performed directly in the upstream code, such as autotools/configure/make and friends, Yes. But note that those had been made before too. I only updated the autotools files (again) because the

Re: RFS: sblim-wbemcli - Web-Based Enterprise Management command line client

Dear mentors, Please disregard this thread, I filled in a proper RFS bug report (#676646) with largerly identical content. The new location of the package is mentors.debian.net, though. -- Regards, Feri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

RFS: sblim-wbemcli - Web-Based Enterprise Management command line client

Hi, I'm looking for a sponsor for my freshly created sblim-wbemcli package. Let me quote its long description from the homepage of the sblim SourceForge project (http://sblim.wiki.sourceforge.net): The WBEM Command Line Interface is a standalone, convenient systems management utility for