Bug#830788: RFS: ifstat/1.1-9

2016-10-06 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 09:56:35AM +, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > Hi, > > > >It's using it indirectly for the crypto support. I've added the > > >Build-Depends to make the use more explicit and asked the upstream > >author to add the linking exception for ssl. He agreed about adding it >

Bug#830788: RFS: ifstat/1.1-9

2016-10-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 04:26:32PM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote: > Hi Goswin, > > Am Montag, den 11.07.2016, 15:44 +0200 schrieb Goswin von Brederlow: > > > Package: sponsorship-requests > > Severity: normal > > > > Dear mentors, > > > > I

Bug#830788: RFS: ifstat/1.1-9

2016-08-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 07:12:24PM +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 15:44:39 +0200 Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-...@web.de> > wrote: > > > Dear mentors, > > > > Hi, > > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "ifstat

Bug#830788: RFS: ifstat/1.1-9

2016-07-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
ble; urgency=low * Update to debhelper version 9 (Closes: #817499, #828348). * Add multiarch support. * Fix bandwidth spelling in manpage (Closes: #617336). * Use dpkg-buildflags for hardening. -- Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-...@web.de> Mon, 11 Jul 2016 12:03:29 +0200 The changes are pu

Re: [Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Proper upgrade path for lib32v4l-{0, dev}?

2012-07-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 10:01:28PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: [ CC'ing ia32-libs maintainers for their opinion. ] On 2012-07-01 16:04 +0200, Gregor Jasny wrote: Hello, currently my source package v4l-utils builds lib32v4l-0 and lib32v4l-dev packages on amd64. I'd like to get rid of

Re: [Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Proper upgrade path for lib32v4l-{0, dev}?

2012-07-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 10:27:34PM +0200, Gregor Jasny wrote: Hello, On 7/1/12 10:01 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: [ CC'ing ia32-libs maintainers for their opinion. ] Is the 20120616 or 20120701 version of ia32-libs supposed to go into Wheezy? Yes, 20120616 is already unblocked and 20120701

Bug#679739: RFS: ia32-libs/20120701 [RC]

2012-07-01 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: important Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package ia32-libs: Package name: ia32-libs Version : 20120701 Upstream Author : Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de URL : NA License : GPL Section

Re: Moving /home of a package account, and to where?

2012-07-01 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Marc Haber mh+debian-ment...@zugschlus.de writes: Hi, Debian QA decided recently that it is bad to have a system/package account created with its home directory in /home/package, as it is adduser --system's default btw. I am therefore faced with having to change /home to some non-/home

Re: How to build flavored package if upstream doesn't grok OOT build

2012-06-24 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Marc Haber mh+debian-ment...@zugschlus.de writes: On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 03:23:03PM +0200, Arno Töll wrote: On 23.06.2012 15:17, Marc Haber wrote: How can I build two flavors of a program with different configure parameters if upstream does not properly handle out-of-tree building and I

Bug#664884: RFS: libaio-ocaml/1.0.1-1

2012-03-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package libaio-ocaml * Package name: libaio-ocaml Version : 1.0.1-1 Upstream Author : Goswin von Brederlow * URL : http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-ocaml

Re: upstream source is a source rpm!

2012-03-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Mathieu Malaterre mathieu.malate...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de wrote: Mathieu Malaterre mathieu.malate...@gmail.com writes: Paul, On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 6:50 AM, Paul Elliott pelli...@blackpatchpanel.com wrote: I can unpack

Re: Bug#662632: RFS: libaio-ocaml/1.0~rc1

2012-03-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de writes: But then you have to split your workflow again. You have to edit upstream files in the master branch and debian files in the debian branch. Switching between the branches becomes a pain and working in 2

Re: upstream source is a source rpm!

2012-03-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Mathieu Malaterre mathieu.malate...@gmail.com writes: Paul, On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 6:50 AM, Paul Elliott pelli...@blackpatchpanel.com wrote: I can unpack this thingy with: rpm2cpio source.rpm | cpio -i But I have questions: Assuming I have the url of the source rpm, how would one write

Re: Bug#662632: RFS: libaio-ocaml/1.0~rc1

2012-03-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org writes: * Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de [120311 19:51]: git-dpm? http://git-dpm.alioth.debian.org/ http://wiki.debian.org/PackagingWithGit/GitDpm That would still make git think that your upstream branch is based on your master branch and thus

Re: Bug#662632: RFS: libaio-ocaml/1.0~rc1

2012-03-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de writes: I tried creating the upstream branch from the master branch and then removing the debian dir. But then on the next merge git complains about a merge conflict (modify/delete) when any file in debian

Re: Bug#662632: RFS: libaio-ocaml/1.0~rc1

2012-03-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org writes: * Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de [120311 08:10]: I tried creating the upstream branch from the master branch and then removing the debian dir. But then on the next merge git complains about a merge conflict (modify/delete) when any file

Bug#662632: RFS - libaio-ocaml 1.0-1

2012-03-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, I've just uploaded libaio-ocaml_1.0-1_amd64.changes to mentors [1] and also taged it in git [2,3] as debian/1.0-1. The debian/rules file now has a release target that creates the orig tarball, imports it into the upstream branch and pristine-tar branch if needed and tags the release. I

Re: Bug#662632: RFS: libaio-ocaml/1.0~rc1

2012-03-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de writes: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/notes/debian/git.html Where were you 2 years ago when I first asked about how to use git when being both upstream and debian maintainer

Re: scope of variable in prerm script

2012-03-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Brian Mercer Esq br...@mercerlegal.com writes: OK, probably a newb question: In Ondrej's php5-fpm.prerm script he has: [ -z $DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_NAME ] DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_NAME=php5-fpm dpkg-maintscript-helper mv_conffile /etc/php5/fpm/main.conf /etc/php5/fpm/php-fpm.conf 5.3.5-1 -- $@ but

Bug#662632: RFS: libaio-ocaml/1.0~rc1

2012-03-07 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
below pans out you will get your non-native package. Le 06/03/2012 10:36, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : Even with a single repository I need to roll out a new orig.tar.gz for every upstream change or have to commit upstream changes to debian/patches/* every time I build a source package and send

Bug#662632: RFS: libaio-ocaml/1.0~rc1

2012-03-07 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Benoît Knecht benoit.kne...@fsfe.org writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Benoît Knecht benoit.kne...@fsfe.org writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: [...] The package is native because I am both maintainer and upstream author. Does a watch file make sense for a native package

Bug#662632: RFS: libaio-ocaml/1.0~rc1

2012-03-07 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Stéphane Glondu glo...@debian.org writes: Le 07/03/2012 09:52, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : That is what major, minor and subversions (x.y.z) are for. If I change only something in Debian I would not increment x or y and I would not create a new tarball for release on e.g. ocamlforge. I

Bug#662632: RFS: libaio-ocaml/1.0~rc1

2012-03-07 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Stéphane Glondu glo...@debian.org writes: Le 07/03/2012 09:14, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : With a moments thought I would have 3 branches: - master - upstream - pristine-tar All developement would happen in the master branch. Then before the Debian upload I would merge master

Re: Bug#662632: RFS: libaio-ocaml/1.0~rc1

2012-03-07 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de writes: Given the above idea how would you lay out the git then? With a moments thought I would have 3 branches: - master - upstream - pristine-tar All developement would happen in the master branch. Then before

Bug#662632: RFS: libaio-ocaml/1.0~rc1

2012-03-06 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
tags 662632 - moreinfo thanks Stéphane Glondu glo...@debian.org writes: Le 05/03/2012 12:33, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : I am looking for a sponsor for my package libaio-ocaml I've looked at the git repository (037a448). It is written explicitly in [1]: Do not close RFS bugs

Bug#662632: RFS: libaio-ocaml/1.0~rc1

2012-03-06 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Benoit Knecht benoit.kne...@fsfe.org writes: Hi Goswin, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Benoît Knecht benoit.kne...@fsfe.org writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package libaio-ocaml * Package name: libaio-ocaml Version : 1.0~rc1

Bug#662632: RFS: libaio-ocaml/1.0~rc1

2012-03-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal [important for RC bugs, wishlist for new packages] Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package libaio-ocaml * Package name: libaio-ocaml Version : 1.0~rc1 Upstream Author : Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de

Bug#662632: RFS: libaio-ocaml/1.0~rc1

2012-03-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Benoît Knecht benoit.kne...@fsfe.org writes: retitle 662632 RFS: libaio-ocaml/1.0~rc1 [ITP] -- OCaml bindings for libaio tags 662632 moreinfo thanks Hi Goswin, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package libaio-ocaml * Package name: libaio-ocaml

Re: How to tell users that ia32-libs will go away

2012-02-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com writes: (replying on -mentors) Hi Goswin, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Having multiarch packages and ia32-libs installed will lead to some confusion. The runtime linker will not be able to differentiate between multiarch or ia32-libs libs. One of /usr

Re: How to tell users that ia32-libs will go away

2012-02-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Thibaut Paumard mlotpot.n...@free.fr writes: Le 09/02/12 15:53, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : Hi, now that a multiarch dpkg has been uploaded to experimental it looks like we can finaly get rid of ia32-libs* for wheezy. !!!HURAY!!! The problem now is the transition: 1) multiarch

Re: How to tell users that ia32-libs will go away

2012-02-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
, Feb 09, 2012 at 04:43:04PM +0100, Thibaut Paumard wrote: Le 09/02/12 15:53, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : now that a multiarch dpkg has been uploaded to experimental it looks like we can finaly get rid of ia32-libs* for wheezy. !!!HURAY!!! The problem now is the transition: 1

How to tell users that ia32-libs will go away

2012-02-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, now that a multiarch dpkg has been uploaded to experimental it looks like we can finaly get rid of ia32-libs* for wheezy. !!!HURAY!!! The problem now is the transition: 1) multiarch and ia32-libs are incompatible Having multiarch packages and ia32-libs installed will lead to some

Re: How to tell users that ia32-libs will go away

2012-02-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org writes: Goswin von Brederlow, le Thu 09 Feb 2012 15:53:35 +0100, a écrit : 3) What about stable users? I don't see a way to transition stable users slowly. As said above I intent to request removal of ia32-libs for wheezy. So there will be no transition

Re: How mature is Pkg-format 3.0 (git), yet?

2012-01-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Thijs Kinkhorst th...@debian.org writes: On Mon, January 16, 2012 23:26, Paul Wise wrote: I just wanted to ask how mature Package-format 3.0 (git) became until now. It is not currently accepted by the Debian archive: http://bugs.debian.org/642801 My experience until now is that it's

Re: RFS: xxxterm

2011-12-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Luis Henriques hen...@camandro.org writes: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package xxxterm. * Package name: xxxterm Version : 1:1.9.0-1 Upstream Author : Several (Marco Peereboom ma...@peereboom.us) * URL :

Please do not sponsor ia32-libs NMUs

2011-06-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, please do not sponsor the ia32-libs* uploads with +nmu in the version. Remi: If you want to join the ia32-libs team you are more than welcome to do so. Ia32-libs could certainly use some fresh blood. Request membership in the ia32-libs project on alioth and you will get write access to the

Re: /usr/lib64 or /usr/lib

2011-06-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de writes: Er no, this is not how dpkg behaves. It never converts symlinks to directories or vice versa, so the actual outcome is¹ that your file gets actually installed into /usr/lib through the symlink. This means that if

Re: /usr/lib64 or /usr/lib

2011-06-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de writes: On 2011-06-13 12:11 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de writes: On 2011-06-11 09:22 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Except for how dpkg behaves. If your package has a file in /usr/lib64/ and gets installed then dpkg

Re: /usr/lib64 or /usr/lib

2011-06-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de writes: On 2011-06-11 09:22 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Except for how dpkg behaves. If your package has a file in /usr/lib64/ and gets installed then dpkg records that that directory belongs to your package. Then the next time libc6 gets updated dpkg

Re: ia32-libs-dev build dependency vs. Ubuntu

2011-06-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Gregor Jasny gja...@googlemail.com writes: Hello, I'm the maintainer of v4l-utils and ran into the following problem: The last v4l-utils Debian package added a build dependency to libjpeg, and because I also build 32bit libs on amd64 (for Skype) I had to add an build dependency on

Re: Multiarch question

2011-06-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Michael Wild them...@users.sourceforge.net writes: Hi all I have a question concerning multiarch [1,2]. From what I read it is conceivable to have something like this on a system: /usr/{lib,include}/i386-linux-gnu /usr/{lib,include}/x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/{lib,include}/x86_64-kfreebsd-gnu

Re: /usr/lib64 or /usr/lib

2011-06-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
David Bremner brem...@debian.org writes: On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:41:34 -0700, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: 9.1.1 point 2: The requirement for amd64 to use /lib64 for 64 bit binaries is removed. Yeah, that is the point that confused me. For me, removing the requirement is

Re: Can quilt delete or rename a file?

2011-06-01 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Andriy Senkovych jolly_ro...@itblog.org.ua writes: Hello, Elliott. Yes, quilt can remove files. Here is example command sequence to achieve this: quilt new patch-name.diff quilt add file/to/be/removed rm file/to/be/removed quilt refresh quilt pop -a 2011/6/1 Paul Elliott

Re: Avoiding useless library dependencies

2011-05-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 1:56 AM, Nikolaus Rath nikol...@rath.org wrote: What's the proper way to fix this warning? Get this bug fixed: An addendum, fuse looks like it needs a new

Re: LC_MESSAGES=C in debian/rules

2011-05-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl writes: On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 10:48:04AM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: * Daniel Stender dan...@danielstender.com [110429 10:37]: is it best practice to set LC_MESSAGE=C in debian/rules to prevent things like test suite breaking when building within

Re: .changes files without source packages

2010-12-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Daniel Lazzari busytes...@gmail.com writes: Hello, Hopefully I have the correct list for this question. If not, I apologize in advance. I have a collection of SDK packages we are building using dpkg -b that we need to distribute to our external developers. Because some of the libraries

Re: Build-Depends-Indep, please review

2010-11-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net writes: On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 07:09:44PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Output at http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/build-rule-check.bz2 I haven't had time to analyse this, if someone else wants to, that would be cool. Done on lintian.debian.org

Re: Build-Depends-Indep, please review

2010-11-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net writes: On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 08:23:59PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 01:29:12PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 20101120183255.gf12...@khazad-dum.debian.net, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Fri, 19 Nov 2010, Boyd

Re: Build-Depends-Indep, please review

2010-11-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net writes: In 20101120183255.gf12...@khazad-dum.debian.net, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Fri, 19 Nov 2010, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: But hey, all the maintainer has to do is add 1, in words ONE, char to debian/rules. Just change

Re: Build-Depends-Indep, please review

2010-11-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
David Kalnischkies kalnischk...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 19:25, أحمد المحمودي aelmahmo...@sabily.org wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 07:07:07PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: And as discussed before policy disagrees with reality in this. Would you please

Re: Build-Depends-Indep, please review

2010-11-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net writes: On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 04:40:57PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: David Kalnischkies kalnischk...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 19:25, أحمد المحمودي aelmahmo...@sabily.org wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 07:07:07PM

Re: Build-Depends-Indep, please review

2010-11-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud did...@raboud.com writes: anatoly techtonik wrote: On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 10:02 AM, أحمد المحمودي aelmahmo...@sabily.org wrote: Hello, I thought Build-Depends-Indep is for build-deps that are not needed by clean target. What is the meaning of name

Re: Build-Depends-Indep, please review

2010-11-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
anatoly techtonik techto...@gmail.com writes: Hello, I've described situation around Build-Depends-Indep at http://wiki.debian.org/Build-Depends-Indep I hope it will be useful for people who are looking for description of this field. However, I am not expert in packaging, and some

Problem requesting a sponsor on mentors.debian.net

2010-11-17 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, I just clicked as Yes, I want a sponsor for ia32-libs-core on mentors.debian.net and got: Details about package 'ia32-libs-core' Traceback (most recent call last): File /var/www/mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/maintainer-packages, line 332, in ?

Re: Problem requesting a sponsor on mentors.debian.net

2010-11-17 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de writes: Hi, I just clicked as Yes, I want a sponsor for ia32-libs-core on mentors.debian.net and got: sorry, wrong destination. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: How to add dependencies that exist in another repository

2010-11-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk writes: On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 04:50:49PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Bob Proulx wrote: The packages for Debian there add a source.list.d file as you describe. (And it really confused me until I figured out what it had

Re: How to add dependencies that exist in another repository

2010-11-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes (Re: How to add dependencies that exist in another repository): On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Bob Proulx wrote: The packages for Debian there add a source.list.d file as you describe. (And it really confused me

Re: Using Quilt with a new package

2010-11-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Scott Howard showard...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org wrote: Le Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 01:02:25PM +0100, Daniel Lombraña González a écrit : After that, I kept reading about git-buildpackage and it seems that it should be more easy to

Re: Fwd: Build-Depends-Indep dependencies

2010-11-01 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
anatoly techtonik techto...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de wrote: Ansgar Burchardt ans...@43-1.org writes: anatoly techtonik techto...@gmail.com writes: Can anybody point me to the part of the policy where Build-Depends and Build

Re: Fwd: Build-Depends-Indep dependencies

2010-10-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ansgar Burchardt ans...@43-1.org writes: anatoly techtonik techto...@gmail.com writes: Can anybody point me to the part of the policy where Build-Depends and Build-Depends-Indep differences are explained? They differ in when they must be satisfied (that is for running which target in

Re: Four days

2010-10-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Asheesh Laroia ashe...@asheesh.org writes: The cool thing is, you (and others) can do that starting right now: Just email the debian-mentors list saying, Hey, I'm not a DD, but I can review someone's package. First reply I get is what I'll review! And if other people like the idea, they'll

Re: Rescue Plan for apt-listbugs

2010-10-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Francesco Poli f...@firenze.linux.it wrote: However, I still need confirmation that the git work-flow I am planning to follow won't mess everything up. Could someone please review it (see http://bugs.debian.org/588636#39)? A

Re: Four days

2010-10-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Michael Tautschnig m...@debian.org writes: Asheesh Laroia ashe...@asheesh.org writes: The cool thing is, you (and others) can do that starting right now: Just email the debian-mentors list saying, Hey, I'm not a DD, but I can review someone's package. First reply I get is what I'll

RFS: ia32-libs (updated package)Dear mentors,

2010-09-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/i/ia32-libs/ia32-libs_20100919.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Goswin von Brederlow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Advice on an interesting package

2010-09-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com writes: Hey everyone, I'm trying to sort out the packaging of barry-0.17-git snapshots and it's got some undesirable features which is making packaging a pain and I don't really know what the best way to deal with them is. It's got multiple binary packages

Re: Advice on an interesting package

2010-09-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Christoph Egger christ...@debian.org writes: Hi! Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com writes: Add to that the upstream has a tendency to merge in the debian changes into the trunk and I think he would like to merge in this directory too. I understand that upstream should avoid adding debian to

Re: Advice on an interesting package

2010-09-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 11:44 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Do we need both? We have neither in Debian (testing/sid) it seems anyway. Personally I'd say no, but this is for a ppa/unstable so it probably has different considerations. At the same

Re: How to change the version of a package

2010-08-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes: Karl Schmidt k...@xtronics.com writes: debchange -v 0.0.20100823 I don't use that tool (I use Emacs's mode for Debian changelogs), but the ‘debchange(1)’ manpage says the ‘--newversion’ option requires that you specify the complete

Re: conflicts/replaces/provides vs. breaks/replaces/provides under policy 3.9.1

2010-08-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org writes: Hi, It is complicated. On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 04:45:59PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org writes: = Case 2: package transition rule All

Re: Package Names Containing Versions

2010-07-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Chris Baines cbain...@gmail.com writes: Sorry, replying to my own message, I have just stumbled upon the Debian Shared Library Packaging guide (http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html#naminglibpkg ). Which explains the solution to my problem. Chris On Thu,

Re: conflicts/replaces/provides vs. breaks/replaces/provides under policy 3.9.1

2010-07-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org writes: Not answering the Conflics/Breaks issue, but some remark about Provides. * Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org [100726 17:27]: = Case 2: package transition rule All the contents of

Re: conflicts/replaces/provides vs. breaks/replaces/provides under policy 3.9.1

2010-07-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org writes: Hi folks, Breaks field was added to policy in 3.8 and current stable dpkg supports it as I understand. So we are ready to use it, as I understand. Under this new situation, I would like to confirm what is the best practice for each case scenario.

Re: purging upstream source tarball, or not?

2010-07-17 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Sébastien Barthélemy barthel...@crans.org writes: Hi, I'm trying to package libcolladadom, and I get a few generic questions. I already asked them in the RFS [1], but later realized that I would get a wider audience asking them separately. So here I am. Besides collada-dom, the upstream

Re: purging upstream source tarball, or not?

2010-07-17 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: 2010/7/17 Sébastien Barthélemy barthel...@crans.org: The project is quite inactive, I don't think they'll bother to make a new release. But, I'll file a bug. An inactive upstream is another problem. I would suggest joining or taking over upstream. At

Re: How to upload packages with skipped uploads

2010-07-17 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org writes: Hi, I just uploaded xpdf and then realized I was not closing bug for the changelog entries from un-uploaaed versions. I just closed them manually but what did I miss to be like this. Is there some trick to indicate previos upload was not the previous

Re: Different package sizes on amd64 and (cross)i386

2010-05-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Nicolas Joseph nicolas.jos...@valaide.org writes: Hello, I try to build a package for i386 and amd64. I cross-build the i386 package with the recommendation of the FAQ: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianAMD64Faq#line-95 but independent architecture packages (common.dev, dev.dev and

Re: Different package sizes on amd64 and (cross)i386

2010-05-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Nicolas Joseph nicolas.jos...@valaide.org writes: Maybe but debarchiver reject my upload because the file is already added and has a different md5 sum. how do you do for real repositories? 2010/5/16 Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de: Nicolas Joseph nicolas.jos...@valaide.org writes

Re: Which how to for apt-get repository on CentOS?

2010-05-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ignacio Valdes ival...@hal-pc.org writes: Finally it works! The problem was that if you have a tag in the control file like Conflicts: with no value it will not warn you and will tell you (far) downstream that something is wrong with dependencies but that is all. So the problem was simply a

Re: Which how to for apt-get repository on CentOS?

2010-05-07 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ignacio Valdes ival...@hal-pc.org writes: Does reprepro run on rpm based systems? So far I am not finding that it does. I currently have to use a rpm based repository server for reasons of history... -- IV Package: reprepro Depends: libarchive1 (= 2.0.25), libbz2-1.0, libc6 (= 2.7), libdb4.8,

Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in postinst?

2010-05-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Thomas Goirand tho...@goirand.fr writes: - Original message - We were talking about dpkg-parsechangelog. MfG                 Goswin Are you saying that dpkg-parsechangelog must also be available in RedHat like distros? Sorry, I didn't get it, but now I think you are quite

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps: not finding just build libraries

2010-05-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hector Oron hector.o...@gmail.com writes: Hello, I am trying to build a package (binutils for cross targets) which now also builds a shared library (libbfd) which fullfills the dependency of some binaries just built (objdump; objcopy). The upstream code builds fine, but, when I trigger

Re: Which how to for apt-get repository on CentOS?

2010-05-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: Ignacio Valdes ival...@hal-pc.org writes: Hi all, Building an apt-get repository on CentOS. There seems to be many documents on apt-get repository building but they point to many different commands like apparently deprecated dpkg-scanfiles, reprepro and

Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in postinst?

2010-05-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Thomas Goirand tho...@goirand.fr writes: Russ Allbery wrote: Thomas Goirand tho...@goirand.fr writes: then in your debian/rules build rule, you can do something like: MY_VERS=`head -n 1 debian/changelog | cut -d'(' -f2 | cut -d')' -f1 | cut -d'-' -f1`

Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in postinst?

2010-05-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Thomas Goirand tho...@goirand.fr writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Then change that. :) We have rpm in Debian. Let them have dpkg. MfG Goswin As much as I know, dpkg and debootstrap are both available as RPM packages for CentOS. But that doesn't mean you can use dpkg

Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in post inst?

2010-04-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ignacio Valdes ival...@hal-pc.org writes: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 6:45 AM, Thomas Goirand tho...@goirand.fr To my experience, it's a lot more easy to be able to maintain BOTH the rpm and the Debian package rather than just porting from one to another. If you want to avoid redundancy and

Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in post inst?

2010-04-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ignacio Valdes ival...@hal-pc.org writes: Hi, I want to define a variable such as package_initials in control file and be able to access %{package_initials} in postinst file. Do I define it in control file as: XC-package_initials: the_initials or some other way? -- IV mv debian/postinst

Re: help with dpkg-shlibdeps/library dependencies

2010-03-06 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
David Bremner brem...@unb.ca writes: I'm packaging the latest syncevolution (beta2) which needs a snapshot of libsynthesis (3.4.0.5+ds1). It builds fine, and seems to work, but the calculated depencies are wrong. src:libsynthesis makes two library binary packages, libsynthesis0 and

Re: Source format 3.0 (quilt)

2010-02-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Tanguy Ortolo tanguy+deb...@ortolo.eu writes: Le lundi 08 février 2010, Noel David Torres Taño a écrit : I do not use it that way. I use 3.0 to have several .orig.tgz files and no patches. This is because my package uses content from several upstreams. Take that in account when you

Re: how to compare versions

2010-02-06 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Wesley J. Landaker w...@icecavern.net writes: On Friday 05 February 2010 04:43:05 Hideki Yamane wrote: This is true in general, although it's perhaps worth noting that a rare pre- depends on a priority required package like debconf by a priority optional or extra package isn't likely to

Re: RFS: apt-move (updated package) + adopting

2010-02-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Karl Goetz k...@kgoetz.id.au writes: On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:21:56 +0100 Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de wrote: Karl Goetz k...@kgoetz.id.au writes: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 4.2.27-3 of my package apt-move. thanks, Karl Goetz Isn't

Re: how to compare versions

2010-02-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hideki Yamane henr...@debian.or.jp writes: Hi Matthew, On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 16:04:13 +1100 Matthew Palmer mpal...@debian.org wrote: In short: you don't. You should make it clear in the NEWS.Debian file that there are compatibility issues, and your README.Debian should describe how to

Re: RFS: apt-move (updated package) + adopting

2010-02-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Karl Goetz k...@kgoetz.id.au writes: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 4.2.27-3 of my package apt-move. It builds these binary packages: apt-move - Maintain Debian packages in a package pool The package appears to be lintian clean. The package can be found

Re: How to remove the relation between a file and a .deb package

2010-02-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Simon Richter s...@debian.org writes: Hi, On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 03:44:54PM +0100, M. Frey wrote: I got the Package A with the version 1.0 and 2.0. From version 2.0 on it's not necessary to keep track of the file fileB.txt. But I want to keep fileB.txt on the target system anyway. This

Re: The use of epoch in version

2010-01-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, others have given alternatives to the epoch already and I would follow them. You can never get rid of an epoch again so think hard about adding one for the first time. Now to the reason i reply: Mats Erik Andersson mats.anders...@gisladisker.se writes: In setting a positive epoch in the

Re: Multiples binaries with different versions from one source file?

2010-01-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: Eric Lavarde d...@zorglub.s.bawue.de writes: I fear I know the (negative) answer, but perhaps I missed something: I have one source package which creates a library and an application, where each has its own (different) version. The logical approach would

Re: Custom packages derived from Debian Source Packages

2010-01-27 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Erik Schanze schan...@gmx.de writes: Hi mentors, I have a question regarding repacking and hope you could give me some suggestions. I'd like to run a special x86 based device with Debian. I could use most of the common Debian packages, but I have to repack some of them for the use on

Re: Reforming 'orig.tar.gz' with included tar-ball.

2010-01-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Mats Erik Andersson mats.anders...@gisladisker.se writes: Hello all mentors, I am in the process of fulfilling an ITA filed on an orphaned package. However, I now experience a desire to begin patching the upstream source for compiling errors and spelling errors in the manual page. To my

Re: Reforming 'orig.tar.gz' with included tar-ball.

2010-01-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joachim Wiedorn ad_deb...@joonet.de writes: Hello, Mats Erik Andersson mats.anders...@gisladisker.se wrote: To my dismay the previous maintainer chose to let the 'orig.tar.gz'-file contain the packaged and compressed upstream tar archive. My personal taste is to abondon this practice, if

Re: How to write emacs dependency ?

2009-11-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Paul Gevers p...@climbing.nl writes: Craig Small wrote: On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 06:51:01PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-11-11 16:43 +0100, Christoph Egger wrote: Depends: emacs21 | emacs22 | emacs23 | xemacs21, gnus | emacs22 | emacs23 | xemacs21 This does not give you any guarantee

Re: Convenience copies in upstream code: dependencies, removal, copyright, and other issues

2009-10-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Thibaut Paumard mlotpot.n...@free.fr writes: Le 21 oct. 09 à 11:03, Jonathan Niehof a écrit : On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 5:48 AM, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: * Remove the convenience copy from the original source archive, or merely from the binary package? Related

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