Re: Where to host a native package as a non-DD

2006-08-02 Thread George Danchev
On Wednesday 02 August 2006 22:31, Neil Williams wrote: Hi, I'm in the NM process. I have a number of packages hosted at SourceForge that are platform distribution independent, two of which are already in Debian. I now have a simple package that should (I think) be a Debian native package:

Re: RFS: pmplib - create music databases used by portable media players

2006-07-30 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 30 July 2006 23:50, Martin Ellis wrote: On Monday 03 July 2006 00:30, Martin Ellis wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package pmplib. * Package name: pmplib Upstream Authors : Nyaochi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Martin Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL

Re: RFS: sitebar (updated package)

2006-07-29 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 29 July 2006 21:41, James Westby wrote: On (29/07/06 14:14), Kevin Coyner wrote: Please note that at mentors.debian.net it does throw off a lintian warning: W: sitebar source: build-depends-without-arch-dep Build-Depends: debhelper (=5.0), po-debconf I have this

Re: Sponsor for 'hotkeyd' using the input event device

2006-07-29 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 30 July 2006 01:51, Christopher Zimmermann wrote: Hi! Hi, I wrote a small daemon in perl which listens for keystrokes on the /dev/input/event[0123] input event devices and executes small commands or even complex scripts when certain keys are pressed. I know that there are already

pbuilder outside inside chroot hook scripts

2006-07-24 Thread George Danchev
Hello, Situation background: I have two packages which are not available in debian archive. The first one is a library, the second one depends on. The library package builds in pbuilder just fine, but when I try to build the second one I run in unsatisfied build-depends since the library

Re: pbuilder outside inside chroot hook scripts

2006-07-24 Thread George Danchev
On Monday 24 July 2006 12:34, Thomas Weber wrote: Improvement?: I think the wishlist described in #316547 has its merits, since one should be able to feed self-healing pbuilder image with needed build-depends at least. The external (outside chroot hook script will be used to re-index[2]

Re: library files in package

2006-07-20 Thread George Danchev
On Wednesday 19 July 2006 17:26, Steven Hill wrote: Is there a way to include library files in a package and have them installed automatically in /usr/lib, Yes, you can have binary package installing files whereever you want, but you must comply with what Filesystem Hierarchy Standard says

Re: RFS: quilt-el

2006-07-17 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 16 July 2006 21:06, Satoru Takeuchi wrote: Hi mentors, At Mon, 10 Jul 2006 01:25:03 +0900, Satoru Takeuchi wrote: Hi mentors, I'm looking for a sponsor for the quilt-el package. * Package name: quilt-el Version : 0.4-hg20060425-1 Upstream Author : Matt

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

2006-07-16 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 15 July 2006 03:48, Russ Allbery wrote: George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Friday 14 July 2006 10:08, Bas Wijnen wrote: They could check that non-NMU uploads must not say Non maintainer upload in the changelog. Appearantly they don't do that. I think a wishlist bug

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

2006-07-16 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 15 July 2006 15:14, Ricardo Mones wrote: On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:49:10 +0200 Bas Wijnen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So it is very well possible (but probably not a good idea) to perform real NMU as a maintainer. A lintian/linda check wouldn't give a false positive there.

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

2006-07-14 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 14 July 2006 03:52, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 08:22:25AM +1200, Nigel Jones wrote: From memory, aren't NMU's (even more so, non-DD NMU's) only meant to fix RC bugs? Not new upstream releases? On 7/14/06, George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yet

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

2006-07-14 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 14 July 2006 10:08, Bas Wijnen wrote: On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 09:34:20AM +0300, George Danchev wrote: shc (3.8.6-1) unstable; urgency=low ^^^ This is the wrong version number for an NMU anyway. True. Fixed as -0.1. Hm, it would be nice if lintian

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

2006-07-14 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 14 July 2006 14:49, Bas Wijnen wrote: On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 01:31:22PM +0200, Ricardo Mones wrote: That also should be catched and warned, since an NMU done by a maintaner makes no sense. It's not very common, but it does: the NMU is prepared by another non-DD and the

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

2006-07-13 Thread George Danchev
Hello, Yet another attempt to find a sponsor for the shc package. Fixes several RC-bugs as described by Frank Lichtenheld in #335278 buglog. Changes read: shc (3.8.6-1) unstable; urgency=low . * Non-maintainer upload. * New upstream release. (Closes: #338451) * Clear out shc.c ARC4

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

2006-07-13 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 13 July 2006 23:22, Nigel Jones wrote: From memory, aren't NMU's (even more so, non-DD NMU's) only meant to fix RC bugs? Not new upstream releases? Just 2 cents This new upstream release (3.8.6) resolves both: rc4 implementation bugs and license issues. If I go for backporting

Academic Free License (was: Re: RFS: The bobcat library, stealth and bisonc++)

2006-07-08 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 07 July 2006 18:11, Frank B. Brokken wrote: Hi List, Hello Lists, Frank, -legal, Could you please comment on AFL v. 2.1 as found at: http://opensource.org/licenses/afl-2.1.php this will serve as a future reference as well On June 30th, I sent in RFS's for my two programs

Re: Empty files in pbuilder chroot

2006-07-06 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 06 July 2006 18:13, Thibaut Paumard wrote: Hello, Hello, I'm trying to set up pbuilder, but I end up with empty files (0 size, access rights set to a-rwx). In particular, cc is empty. When running pbuilder build, ldconfig complains about many libraries that are also empty. Any

Re: RFS: sshbackup

2006-07-05 Thread George Danchev
On Tuesday 04 July 2006 21:45, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.07.04.2035 +0200]: However I noticed that you ship a configuration file with your package and I guess you want your users to be able to preserve their own configurations done

Re: RFS: gtkradiant

2006-07-04 Thread George Danchev
On Tuesday 04 July 2006 14:05, Frits Daalmans wrote: --cut-- Hello George, Hello, thanks for the feedback. I put the modules and plugins in /usr/lib/games/gtkradiant/ now. (version 1.5.0-4) You are correct. For games /usr/lib/games hierarchy is used in addition to the /usr/share/games. I

Re: RFS: sshbackup

2006-07-04 Thread George Danchev
On Tuesday 04 July 2006 20:54, Joona Kiiski wrote: Hello, I've just finished building my first debian package sshbackup. sshbackup is small perl script I originally wrote for myself to assist in backup process. When I got more interested about debian, I decided that it was a good exercise to

Re: Procedure for adopting a package?

2006-07-02 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 02 July 2006 23:53, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: --cut-- From the bug reports you've filed against calcurse it's clear to me that you probably are the perfect person to maintain it, so in the final analysis I have no issue with you becoming the maintainer. But like I said, I

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

2006-07-01 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 01 July 2006 08:41, Joe Smith wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 12:58:59AM +0200, Alexander Schmehl wrote: /** * 'Alleged RC4' Source Code picked up from the news. * From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John L. Allen) *

Re: RFS - kwin-style-dekorator -- window decoration for kde using png images

2006-07-01 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 01 July 2006 20:49, Sune Vuorela wrote: --cut-- It can be found on http://mirror.pusling.com/dekorator Thanks in advance. ..no comments? Looks correct... a couple of extra things you may want to correct anyway: - since nothing goes to usr/{s}bin you don't need the debian/dirs

Re: Perl and/or Python projects (was:Hi ,)

2006-06-30 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 30 June 2006 10:33, Deepak Kumar Tripathi wrote: Dear All, I am looking for an Debian Perl or Python project .But I am not understanding that from where I will start and how I will start. I am not new in Debian . Can any body tell me that how will I start contribution in Debian

Re: RFS: gtkradiant

2006-06-30 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 29 June 2006 21:50, Frits Daalmans wrote: --cut-- Thank you for your time! Welcome ;-) Lintian is now happy and I've done an upload to version 1.5.0-3 to mentors.debian.net Well, yet another one for fun, I missed to spot at the first place: linda -i

Re: RFS: The bobcat library

2006-06-30 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 30 June 2006 13:54, Frank B. Brokken wrote: Dear list / Debian Sponsors, Hello Frank, I couldn't sponsor your work (still in NMq;-), but here are some minor comments you might find useful. Also check your other packages against these considerations. I'm looking for a

Re: RFS: The bobcat library

2006-06-30 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 30 June 2006 16:30, George Danchev wrote: On Friday 30 June 2006 13:54, Frank B. Brokken wrote: Dear list / Debian Sponsors, Hello Frank, --cut-- ... and while we are at it: debian/control - I failed to see anything i386-specific for Package: libbobcat1, thus declare

Re: RFS: qemu-launcher - GTK+ front-end to QEMU computer emulator

2006-06-30 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 30 June 2006 17:01, Linas Žvirblis wrote: Dear mentors and Debian users, Hello Linas, I am looking for *testers* and a sponsor for my package qemu-launcher. Looks good. Btw, you do not need to build-depend on perl, since debhelper will drag it for you anyway. Also add a watch file

Re: Request-For-Sponsorship (xfardic)

2006-06-30 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 30 June 2006 20:43, Florent Rougon wrote: Often, changelog entries explain why certain technical packaging decisions were made (for instance, Build-Depend on foo = $version because of $reason). These entries are definitely useful, even if they happened before the first release

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

2006-06-28 Thread George Danchev
On Wednesday 28 June 2006 01:58, Alexander Schmehl wrote: Let's start with something simple: - According to the header, the script match was [EMAIL PROTECTED] It has no explicit license, but is so easy and short, that I don't think one could claim copyright for that (the german word for

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

2006-06-28 Thread George Danchev
On Wednesday 28 June 2006 12:10, Frank Küster wrote: George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems that Northrop Grumman's corporate mail server does not remember the guy in question:  - Transcript of session follows - ... while talking to gateway.grumman.com.: DATA

Re: RFS: gtkradiant

2006-06-27 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 25 June 2006 17:11, Frits Daalmans wrote: From: Frits Daalmans [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org Subject: RFS: gtkradiant Dear mentors, Hi, I am looking for a sponsor for my package gtkradiant. * Package name: gtkradiant Version : 1.5.0-1

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

2006-06-27 Thread George Danchev
On Tuesday 27 June 2006 21:32, Alexander Schmehl wrote: 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

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

2006-06-20 Thread George Danchev
Hello -mentors, 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:

Re: How can I help Debian best?

2006-06-13 Thread George Danchev
On Tuesday 13 June 2006 19:05, Christian Hütter wrote: Hello Bas, thank you very much for your kind and informative reply. I think Debian can be a benefit for the free software community by being as complete as possible (in terms of free software) That is a very good point I didn't

Re: I can translate

2006-06-13 Thread George Danchev
On Tuesday 13 June 2006 22:27, DusteD wrote: Hi, i would like to help the debian project if there is any need for a english danish translator. Where do i go from here ? Hello there, You can help with the translations of Debian Installer, Debian documentation and the Debian web

Re: Somebody please put peless in a debian repository!

2006-06-12 Thread George Danchev
On Monday 12 June 2006 15:35, Robert Collins wrote: On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 08:12 -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: During the xlibs-dev transition, I learned that listing full build-dependencies (not just the minimal set) is recommended, though I don't know how widely accepted or followed this is.

Re: Somebody please put peless in a debian repository!

2006-06-11 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 11 June 2006 06:38, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 10:20:34PM -0500, Paul Elliott a écrit : All the debian style files can be found at: ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/peless/ubuntu.510/ Dear Paul, I had a quick look at your package. Here are some immediate comments:

Re: Somebody please put peless in a debian repository!

2006-06-11 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 11 June 2006 10:13, George Danchev wrote: --cut-- - Some of the build-dependancies are superfluous, as they depend on each others. Simplifying them will reduce the possibility of errors. For instance, on my system, I could not install libboost-filesystem1.33.0

Re: How to include information about a source package ?

2006-05-01 Thread George Danchev
On Monday 01 May 2006 05:24, Jeremy Stanley wrote: On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 01:01:43AM +0300, George Danchev wrote: [...] Right. These are all good reasons to start hacking around ;-) but now I can think of some troubles for autobuilder in case of upstream sites not accesible

Re: How to include information about a source package ?

2006-05-01 Thread George Danchev
On Monday 01 May 2006 22:05, Don Armstrong wrote: On Mon, 01 May 2006, George Danchev wrote: 1) Since debian/copyright already contains the upstream URL I would add also the hashes against it in a machine parsable way: It was downloaded from ftp://ftp.coolsite.org/dir/file-1.2.tar.gz

Re: How to include information about a source package ?

2006-05-01 Thread George Danchev
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 00:24, Don Armstrong wrote: On Mon, 01 May 2006, George Danchev wrote: On Monday 01 May 2006 22:05, Don Armstrong wrote: On Mon, 01 May 2006, George Danchev wrote: 1) Since debian/copyright already contains the upstream URL I would add also the hashes against

Re: How to include information about a source package ?

2006-04-30 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 30 April 2006 10:05, Russ Allbery wrote: --snip-- One advantage of insisting on a get-orig-source target as part of the review is that it ensures that the derivation of the .orig.tar.gz file is automated and reproducible, making it easier and quicker to package the *next* upstream

Re: How to include information about a source package ?

2006-04-30 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 30 April 2006 12:41, Bart Martens wrote: On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 12:05:19AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Bart Martens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-p ractices.en.html#s-bpp-origtargz

Re: How to include information about a source package ?

2006-04-30 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 30 April 2006 21:29, Russ Allbery wrote: --cut-- No, I would instead say: * Repackaging must be documented in debian/copyright, and if the repackaging means that anything a user may expect to be present is missing, that must be documented in README.Debian. * A

Re: How to include information about a source package ?

2006-04-30 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 30 April 2006 21:37, Russ Allbery wrote: Bart Martens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 12:05:19AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: One advantage of insisting on a get-orig-source target Do you insist on a get-orig-source target while sponsoring? It's currently

Re: How to include information about a source package ?

2006-04-30 Thread George Danchev
On Monday 01 May 2006 00:11, Jeremy Stanley wrote: On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 10:06:59PM +0300, George Danchev wrote: Nobody says that get-orig-source must be only used for repackaging purposes. I think it is fine to have such target just getting the upstream source (ok a hash checking against

Re: How to include information about a source package ?

2006-04-29 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 29 April 2006 06:50, Russ Allbery wrote: Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --snip-- I think ./debian/copyright is relevant, and for saods9 I have made mention in both places. I feel that it should be a machine readable copy, too, even if the comments are

Re: How to include information about a source package ?

2006-04-29 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 29 April 2006 21:34, Russ Allbery wrote: George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just to mention that when the get-orig-source target fetches the tarball it must be checked every-single time to prevent silently (intentionaly or not) changed tarball files under the builder's

Re: How to include information about a source package ?

2006-04-29 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 29 April 2006 22:06, Russ Allbery wrote: George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Saturday 29 April 2006 21:34, Russ Allbery wrote: After I've done one upload with a particular upstream source, I usually just pull the upstream source out of the Debian archive so that I don't

Re: uscan, get-orig-source, and making upstream tarball DFSG-free

2005-09-15 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 15 September 2005 05:44, Justin Pryzby wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 01:43:10AM +0200, Nicolas Boullis wrote: Hi, [ Hmmm, looks like my mailer ate my message... :-( ] For a package of mine, I need to remove a non-free file from every upstream tarball. Doing it by hand is

Re: uscan, get-orig-source, and making upstream tarball DFSG-free

2005-09-15 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 15 September 2005 18:43, Justin Pryzby wrote: --cut-- What I did, in an unofficial package, is to include a debian/rules:get-orig-source target which simply calls a script, created in ./debian/ by the .diff.gz. A prerequisite for that rule is permissions, which chmod 755

Re: packages size versus files under dpkg control

2005-09-15 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 15 September 2005 20:33, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: --cut-- I see nothing in Policy 6, Policy 10, or FHS which answers the question, so either I am just not seeing it or I am looking in the wrong place. If W.B. or others wish to comment, I would be interested in what they had

Re: packages size versus files under dpkg control

2005-09-15 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 15 September 2005 22:52, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 01:37:27PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 01:33:20PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 05:30:30PM +, Thaddeus H. Black wrote: W. Borgert wrote: Back

Re: RFC: firebird2-1.5.2

2005-09-13 Thread George Danchev
On Monday 29 August 2005 15:02, Damyan Ivanov wrote: Hi, Mentors, First, an introduction. firebird2 packages need a recompile due to C++ ABI transition (#317314). Current version is 1.5.1-4. Its codebase has problems compiling both with gcc-3.4 and 4.0 I've decided to package 1.5.2, which

Re: PowerPC build issue

2005-09-10 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 10 September 2005 13:12, Ghe Rivero wrote: Hi everyone, Hi, one of my packages compiles properly on every platform instead on powerpc. The problem is: dh_installdocs -X.deps -X.dirstamp find: paths must precede expression Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [path...]

Re: debian-mentors FAQ updated

2005-09-09 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 09 September 2005 15:01, Matthew Palmer wrote: --cut-- The FAQ is at: http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html a minor typo at: How do I effectively keep track of my packaging changes? At the basic level, it's a good idea to keep an archive of the completed source

Re: libwww0 dependency problem on new architecture

2005-08-28 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 28 August 2005 00:31, Lennert Buytenhek wrote: On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 10:15:36PM +0200, Lennert Buytenhek wrote: While trying to bootstrap debian sarge for a new architecture*, I'm having some problems while building the w3c-libwww package. In short, the regular sarge arm

pptpconfig php with pcntl support

2005-04-26 Thread George Danchev
Hello mentors, I would like to ask the following: really nice gtk-php app which deserves to be included in debian: http://quozl.netrek.org/pptp/pptpconfig/ pptpconfig needs a php interpreter built with --enable-pcntl (it calls functions like: pcntl_signal(), pcntl_wifexited(),

[irrtoolset] looking for co-maint sponsor

2005-04-16 Thread George Danchev
Hello, RFP: #189359 [1] Package: irrtoolset Priority: optional Section: utils Installed-Size: 1984 Maintainer: George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] Architecture: i386 Version: 4.8.2-1 Depends: libncurses5, libreadline4, libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2, tcl8.3, tk8.3, xlibs Filename: ./dists/sid/irrtoolset

Re: [irrtoolset] looking for co-maint sponsor

2005-04-16 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 16 April 2005 09:15, George Danchev wrote: Hello, RFP: #189359 [1] Package: irrtoolset Priority: optional Section: utils Installed-Size: 1984 Maintainer: George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] Architecture: i386 Version: 4.8.2-1 Depends: libncurses5, libreadline4, libstdc++2.10

how to handle bugs (wishlist) in packages we build depend on

2005-04-03 Thread George Danchev
Hello, Here is the situation: We have #290338 against ara [1]. Also we believe we have done our packaging right, but as you can see from the buildd logs [2] of the latest version, we end up with: -log- dpkg-genchanges: arch-specific upload - not including arch-independent packages

Re: what's a sponsor ?

2005-04-02 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 01 April 2005 02:48, Matthew Palmer wrote: -cut-- Time to link the FAQ from the main page I guess ... honestly ;-) The main page? The front page of debian.org? I don't know it's quite that exciting... Well, no ;-) I mean a link at http://mentors.debian.net/ as it was done for

Re: what's a sponsor ?

2005-03-31 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 31 March 2005 23:08, Florian Ernst wrote: Hello *, On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 10:02:47PM +0200, Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote: I saw a flow of RFS: messages. Does RFS mean Request For Sponsor? Yes. What's that? What is it about? I dont understand... Searching

Re: RFS: mkat - Burn, catalog, search data, audio CDs or directories with tagging support

2005-03-24 Thread George Danchev
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 08:11, Dmitry Maksyoma wrote: --cut-- Where can I find the .diff.gz and the .dsc file? The .dsc can be found at http://monster.amur.ru/~ledestin/mkat/debian/ with the rebuilt .deb, but there is no .diff.gz, because I get sources directly from cvs. In detail, the

ara bug suggestions buildd states

2005-03-24 Thread George Danchev
Hello, I have some questions I would like to clarify for myself regarding some suggestions given within ara's [1] bug #290338 (ara: [m68k] FTBFS dh_testdir: I have no package to build). Thiemo Seufer suggests forcing the package to cause dep-wait onto build by wanting a build-dependency

Re: ara bug suggestions buildd states

2005-03-24 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 24 March 2005 13:49, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I have some questions I would like to clarify for myself regarding some suggestions given within ara's [1] bug #290338 (ara: [m68k] FTBFS dh_testdir: I have no package to build

Re: Updates to d-mentors FAQ

2005-03-24 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 25 March 2005 07:56, Matthew Palmer wrote: In preference to doing work, I've added an extra section to d-mentors FAQ entitled For Sponsors. Comments / improvements appreciated. http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html What I think is good to see is a recommendation

Re: RFS: balance -- userland tcp proxy with failover

2005-01-07 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 07 January 2005 21:47, James Richardson wrote: Hello, I have just packaged balance a generic userland tcp proxy with failover and round robin functionality. Balance can also be controlled at run time via simple command line interface. Please take a look at

shlibdeps and duplicate-relation depends warnings

2004-12-25 Thread George Danchev
Hello, Marry Christmas and Heppy New Year to all of you. I'm trying to update and fix the packaging of MPlayer, but I stumpble with some issues and I want to get consulted by you. In case you want to take a look my debian/ directory is here (this is what comes from mplayer cvs, but I have

Re: shlibdeps and duplicate-relation depends warnings

2004-12-25 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 25 December 2004 17:53, Justin Pryzby wrote: Morning and happy holidays. Evening and happy holidays to you too. Try dh_shlibdeps -l./debian/mplayer-libs-package/usr/lib in ./debian/rules (where that is the directory into which shared libraries are installed). Read about it in

Re: Simple Debian Package Creation?

2004-11-03 Thread George Danchev
On Wednesday 03 November 2004 19:32, Rene Engelhard wrote: --cut-- 2. The number of files that I have to create within the /debian directory is difficult to deal with, and having to create the /debian directory within my application directory and being forced to name my application

Re: Simple Debian Package Creation?

2004-11-03 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 04 November 2004 00:52, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: --cut-- That is related to debian/control file. Whole packaging scripts assume that every Package: whatever line in debian/control is used for final packages. So if you have: Package: my_cool_package line in debian/control

Re: Simple Debian Package Creation?

2004-11-03 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 04 November 2004 02:37, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 02:18:35AM +0200, George Danchev wrote: my humble question is: if I have Source: and multiple Package: lines described in my debian/control file. But how is these debian/Package:/ subdirectories created.. I

Re: Simple Debian Package Creation?

2004-11-03 Thread George Danchev
On Wednesday 03 November 2004 19:32, Rene Engelhard wrote: --cut-- 2. The number of files that I have to create within the /debian directory is difficult to deal with, and having to create the /debian directory within my application directory and being forced to name my application

Re: Simple Debian Package Creation?

2004-11-03 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 04 November 2004 00:52, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: --cut-- That is related to debian/control file. Whole packaging scripts assume that every Package: whatever line in debian/control is used for final packages. So if you have: Package: my_cool_package line in debian/control

RFH: ara

2004-11-02 Thread George Danchev
Hello, This is an ocaml app and could be compiled to bytecode or natively on some arches. Since the native build is not available on some arches and the bytecode version could be compiled only one, I was told to follow the spamoracle approach [1]. Sources: SCM repo: svn co

RFH: ara

2004-11-02 Thread George Danchev
Hello, This is an ocaml app and could be compiled to bytecode or natively on some arches. Since the native build is not available on some arches and the bytecode version could be compiled only one, I was told to follow the spamoracle approach [1]. Sources: SCM repo: svn co

[RFS]: pcopy - a replacement for dd

2004-10-02 Thread George Danchev
Hello, Package: pcopy License: GPL URL: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~pen/pcopy/ Desc: Pcopy is intended to be used when doing large disk(partition) to disk(partition) copying where dd is just too slow (and error prone). Preliminary packages: ftp://ftp.logos-bg.net/debian/ (.diff.gz, .dsc, build,

Re: [RFS]: pcopy - a replacement for dd

2004-10-02 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 02 October 2004 21:25, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sat, 02 Oct 2004, George Danchev wrote: Desc: Pcopy is intended to be used when doing large disk(partition) to disk(partition) copying where dd is just too slow (and error prone). When DD is slow, it just mean you

RFS: irrtoolset and/or flare

2004-09-29 Thread George Danchev
Hello, 1) Package name : irr-tools RTP: #189359 Version : 4.8.2 Upstream Author : Internet Routing Registry Toolset Project * URL : http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/pub-services/db/irrtoolset/index.html ftp://ftp.ripe.net/tools/IRRToolSet/IRRToolSet-4.8.2/IRRToolSet-4.8.2.tar.gz * License : Unknown

Re: Need a sponsor

2004-09-29 Thread George Danchev
On Wednesday 29 September 2004 17:15, Cai Qian wrote: nobody will sponsor you if nobody have the chances to review the package and the sources. url? I am sorry to miss the urls to the packages, because I haven't found a place (10-15M) for them. However, I can send them to you if you want.

debuild: producing diff.gz and signing issues

2004-09-29 Thread George Danchev
Hello, I have two probs using debuid, which I can not resolve from the sections of devscripts.conf: * I do not figure out why diff.gz file in not produced, but the tar.gz file content the debian/ directory. * I am always asked twice to provide my passphrase when signing the .dsc and

Re: debuild: producing diff.gz and signing issues

2004-09-29 Thread George Danchev
On Wednesday 29 September 2004 19:08, Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 05:58:52PM +0200, Alexandre wrote: On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 06:47:46PM +0300, George Danchev wrote: * I am always asked twice to provide my passphrase when signing the .dsc and other files after the build

RFS: irrtoolset and/or flare

2004-09-29 Thread George Danchev
Hello, 1) Package name : irr-tools RTP: #189359 Version : 4.8.2 Upstream Author : Internet Routing Registry Toolset Project * URL : http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/pub-services/db/irrtoolset/index.html ftp://ftp.ripe.net/tools/IRRToolSet/IRRToolSet-4.8.2/IRRToolSet-4.8.2.tar.gz * License : Unknown

Re: Need a sponsor

2004-09-29 Thread George Danchev
On Wednesday 29 September 2004 17:15, Cai Qian wrote: nobody will sponsor you if nobody have the chances to review the package and the sources. url? I am sorry to miss the urls to the packages, because I haven't found a place (10-15M) for them. However, I can send them to you if you want.

Re: debuild: producing diff.gz and signing issues

2004-09-29 Thread George Danchev
On Wednesday 29 September 2004 19:08, Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 05:58:52PM +0200, Alexandre wrote: On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 06:47:46PM +0300, George Danchev wrote: * I am always asked twice to provide my passphrase when signing the .dsc and other files after the build

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