Re: git-p4 package in contrib, how to proceed?

2015-01-12 Thread Jonathan Nieder
reassign 773245 src:git 1:2.1.3-1 quit Vincent Cheng wrote: Yes, source packages in main can generate binary packages in contrib; Policy does not prevent this from happening, and there are existing source packages in main, in the archive, which generate binary packages in contrib. See e.g.

Bug#688380: RFS: checkgmail/1.13+svn43-2+squeeze0.1 -- system tray gmail notifier

2012-09-22 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: sponsorship-requests Dear mentors, I am looking to upload a new version of checkgmail to squeeze. It fixes the release-critical bug #650454 and has been approved by the maintainer and stable release managers (see the pu bug #685346). The package can be found on alioth:

Re: Updating Mawk in Debian

2012-05-28 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Yann, yannubu...@gmail.com wrote: any news about updating Mawk with the last upstream version? I don't think it can happen and be properly tested in time for wheezy. The new upstream version has significant changes relative to the packaged version and probably introduces some (minor or not)

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

2012-03-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Also lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Nov 13 2010 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 - /lib32/ld-linux.so.2 and lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Nov 13 2010 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 - /lib/i486-linux-gnu/ld-linux.so.2 conflict. Currently libc6:i386 only Replaces libc6-i386. Which

Bug#658032: RFS: libgxps/0.2.1-1 [NEW] -- library for handling and rendering XPS documents

2012-02-17 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Savvas, Savvas Radevic wrote: Description: library for handling and rendering XPS documents (library) This library is being used by evince to read XPS documents. What's an XPS document? From Wikipedia I've learned that this is somehow related to the Open XML Paper Specification aka

Bug#659416: RFS: u-boot/2011.12-2.1 [NMU with maintainer permission] -- boot loader for embedded systems

2012-02-10 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: sponsorship-requests Hi, I am looking to upload the package u-boot. dget -u http://alioth.debian.org/~jrnieder-guest/temp/u-boot/u-boot_2011.12-2.1.dsc It builds a bootloader (Das U-Boot), some companion tools, and some transitional packages. The purpose of this upload is to fix

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

2012-02-09 Thread Jonathan Nieder
(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/lib32/ and /usr/lib/i486-linux-gnu/ will be first

Re: RFS: xz-utils (updated package)

2011-10-20 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jakub Wilk wrote: * Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com, 2011-10-17, 23:49: | Unfortunately one cannot even get lucky and find the symbol from | liblzma2 used from time to time: versioned symbols take precedence over | unversioned ones when resolving unversioned references. As far as I can

Re: RFS: xz-utils (updated package)

2011-10-20 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Sorry for the delay. Jakub Wilk wrote: Thanks, this is consistent with my understanding. Could you please update the patch header? [... two other nice suggestions snipped ...] I've put up an uploaded package incorporating your suggestions at -

Re: RFS: xz-utils (updated package)

2011-10-18 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jakub Wilk wrote: I don't claim to be an expert on symbol versioning, but I did some experiments, and it doesn't seem to be the case. If a program is linked to two versions of a library, one of which doesn't use versioned symbols, then the symbols from the directly-linked one shadows the

Re: RFS: xz-utils (updated package)

2011-10-18 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jakub Wilk wrote: * Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com, 2011-10-17, 23:49: - http://alioth.debian.org/~jrnieder-guest/temp/xz-utils_5.1.1alpha+20110809-3.dsc [...] I don't claim to be an expert on symbol versioning, but I forgot to say: thanks a lot for your careful review! If lzma_code@Base

RFS: xz-utils (updated package)

2011-10-17 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, I am looking to upload the new version 5.1.1alpha+20110809-3 of my package xz-utils to unstable. It builds these binary packages: xz-utils- high compression-ratio compressor xz-lzma - LZMA Utils compatibility commands xzdec - tiny decompressors liblzma-dev -

Re: RFS: git

2011-03-09 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Gerrit Pape wrote: On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 01:49:24AM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1:1.7.4.1-3 of git. Hi, I'm about to cross-read the changes and upload afterwards. Thanks for preparing the packages. Thanks, Gerrit. Sorry for the noise, all

RFS: git

2011-03-08 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1:1.7.4.1-3 of git. It builds these binary packages: git- fast, scalable, distributed revision control system git-all- fast, scalable, distributed revision control system (all subpacka git-arch - fast, scalable,

RFS: runit

2011-01-16 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.1.1-6.2 of the package runit. It builds these binary packages: runit - system-wide service supervision The upload would fix these bugs: 605912 That is, it allows upgrading from the package in lenny. The package can be found

Re: RFS: git

2011-01-15 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Piotr Ożarowski wrote: [Jonathan Nieder, 2011-01-14] Another week, another -rc (1:1.7.4~rc2-0.1). I sent an RFS for -rc0 two weeks ago; this is just a followup. The target distribution of this proposed NMU is experimental. [...] - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/git

RFS: git-core [lenny, 1:1.5.6.5-3+lenny3.3]

2011-01-14 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1:1.5.6.5-3+lenny3.3 of the package git-core. It builds these binary packages: git-arch - fast, scalable, distributed revision control system (arch interop git-core - fast, scalable, distributed revision control system git-cvs- fast,

RFS: git

2011-01-13 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi mentors, Another week, another -rc (1:1.7.4~rc2-0.1). I sent an RFS for -rc0 two weeks ago; this is just a followup. The target distribution of this proposed NMU is experimental. It builds these binary packages: git- fast, scalable, distributed revision control system git-all-

RFS: git

2011-01-07 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Dear mentors, I am looking to upload version 1:1.7.4~rc1-0.1 of the package git. I sent an RFS for ~rc0 eight days ago; this is just a followup. It builds these binary packages: git- fast, scalable, distributed revision control system git-all- fast, scalable, distributed revision

Re: RFS: git 1.7.4-rc0

2010-12-31 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Thomas Goirand wrote: On 12/31/2010 05:54 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: I am looking to upload version 1:1.7.4~rc0-0.1 of the package git to experimental. [...] If this is for SID, has the RT agreed for such an upload? This is for experimental. Probably it was confusing because

RFS: git 1.7.4-rc0

2010-12-30 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, I am looking to upload version 1:1.7.4~rc0-0.1 of the package git to experimental. This is a friendly non-maintainer upload (see Bug#600566) and if uploaded should go to DELAYED/7. It builds these binary packages: git- fast, scalable, distributed revision control system git-all-

RFS: git (updated package)

2010-12-16 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1:1.7.2.3-2.2 of the package git. It builds these binary packages: git- fast, scalable, distributed revision control system git-all- fast, scalable, distributed revision control system (all subpacka git-arch - fast,

Re: RFS: LeechCraft

2010-12-16 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Daniel Guzanoff wrote: Ansgar Burchardt wrote: You build-depend on libcurl4-openssl-dev. I suspect this means the program is linked (possibly indirectly) against openssl. Note that OpenSSL's license is not GPL-compatible. This library is linked with plugin (leechcraft-plugin-cftp), not

Re: RFS: failmalloc

2010-12-10 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Alessandro Ghedini wrote: I re-uploaded the package on Debian Mentors [0] with the changes suggested by Jonathan. More precisely, I was suggesting something like the following (eliminating the libfailmalloc-dev package completely). While at it, the patch below copes better with spaces in

Re: RFS: failmalloc

2010-12-10 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jonathan Nieder wrote: --- a/debian/scripts/failmalloc +++ b/debian/scripts/failmalloc @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@ #!/bin/bash usage () { -cat - 2 EOF +cat 2 EOF failmalloc, memory allocation failure crash-test tool. usage: failmalloc [-p|--probability probability] [-t|--times times

Re: RFS: failmalloc

2010-12-09 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Alessandro Ghedini wrote: On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 01:14:03AM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Does failmalloc have a public API? Is it meant to be linked into programs without using the LD_PRELOAD mechanism? If not, what good is a development library for it? Quoting from the upstream site

Re: RFS: failmalloc

2010-12-07 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Allesandro, Alessandro Ghedini wrote: * URL : http://www.nongnu.org/failmalloc [...] - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/failmalloc/failmalloc_1.0-1.dsc Since I am not a Debian Developer, I cannot upload this. Some comments anyway. Package:

Re: RFS: aspell-id ; second try

2010-12-05 Thread Jonathan Nieder
. . s/lisence/license/? . s/follow/follows/ . I would prefer if the changelog said Apply patches from Jonathan Nieder or something similar rather than implying I committed the changes directly. The patches were only suggested improvements; I do not want to be held

Re: RFS: aspell-id ; second try

2010-12-05 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Mahyuddin Susanto wrote: On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:08 AM, Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: Mahyuddin Susanto wrote: - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/aspell-id/aspell-id_1.2-0-4.dsc [...]  - 1.2-0-1: a based on such-and-such documentation placeholder[1]   seems

Comparison of packages in package descriptions (Re: esekeyd and triggerhappy)

2010-11-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Stefan Tomanek wrote: I'm not sure whether such a direct comparison of packages in their description might be not be considered offensive to some and might incite some kind of arms race: yo daemon so fat Think of such comparisons in the description of gnome/kde or vim/emacs packages

Re: RFS: aspell-kk

2010-11-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Timur, Timur Birsh wrote: Jonathan Nieder wrote: I'm not a DD so I can't upload your package, but here are a few nitpicks. . It seems this uses aspell 0.60 format. Shouldn't the package use Provides: aspell6-dictionary, then? In Debian Spelling Dictionaries and Tools Policy[1] I

RFS: git

2010-11-24 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi again, I am still looking for a sponsor for version 1:1.7.2.3-2.1 of Gerrit's package git. I sent a RFS six days ago; this is just a followup. It builds these binary packages: git- fast, scalable, distributed revision control system git-all- fast, scalable, distributed revision

Re: RFS: aspell-kk

2010-11-24 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Timur, Timur Birsh wrote: * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/kazlinux/ [...] Vcs-Git: git://github.com/taem/aspell-kk.git Has this dictionary been submitted to aspell upstream? I am guessing the patch tracker at [1] might be a good place to try. I'm not a DD so I can't

Re: RFS: aspell-id

2010-11-24 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Brian Nelson wrote: Yes, aspell dictionary packages should Provides: aspell-dictionary. The dictionary packaging otherwise looks OK with a very quick glance. Thanks for checking. I suppose [1] is where dictionary packaging is explained? Based on aspell/NEWS.Debian.gz, it seems my (already

Re: RFS: git

2010-11-24 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Ansgar Burchardt wrote: I just uploaded the package. Thanks for your work. Have you considered asking Gerrit to become a co-maintainer for the Git package? I saw you replying to several bug reports in the past and Gerrit already uploaded a git package with your name on it in the past.

Re: RFS: zsnes (updated package - ITA)

2010-11-23 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Etienne Millon wrote: The package builds in a clean chroot, so I thought this was good enough. If this is bad practice I will have another look at it. Yes, best practice is to explicitly declare all build-time dependencies that are not build-essential. So for example if the code uses Xlib

Re: RFS: triggerhappy

2010-11-23 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Stefan Tomanek wrote: Dies schrieb Jonathan Nieder (jrnie...@gmail.com): How does this compare to Rick van Rein's funkey[1]? Hm, funkey does require a kernel patch und looks quite dated? Funky Daemon which demonstrates how to parse the /dev/funkey character device. Thanks for a quick

Re: RFS: remotepad-server

2010-11-23 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Alexandre Rossi wrote: RemotePad is an open source application that controls the mouse cursor of your desktop PC. This way, you can use your iPhone or iPod touch as a wireless touchpad! Hmm, so this is a way of remotely injecting input events? I am not a DD, and even if I were, I cannot test

esekeyd and triggerhappy (Re: RFS: triggerhappy)

2010-11-23 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Krzysztof and Stefan, Stefan Tomanek wrote: I think esekeyd can only handle KEY events, while triggerhappy can also process Switch and button events. I am also unsure whether esekeyd support the hotplugging of input devices (done in triggerhappy by a udev script) or daemon control via

Re: RFC: MinGW-w64 toolchain (adoption and new packages)

2010-11-23 Thread Jonathan Nieder
this as part of the usual gcc and binutils packages, then. On 23 November 2010 01:22, Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: Stephen Kitt wrote: * binutils-mingw-w64, a simple binutils-source-based package providing   binutils targetting MinGW-w64's triplets; Any examples for how this can be used

Re: esekeyd and triggerhappy (Re: RFS: triggerhappy)

2010-11-23 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Stefan Tomanek wrote: I think merging the two programs would be difficult. Although young, triggerhappy has accumulated quite a few features that would require a redesigning many aspects of esekeyd (multiple devices, command socket, multiple config files). This information could be useful

Re: RFS: php-net-smtp (updated package)

2010-11-22 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Guillaume, Guillaume Delacour wrote: php-net-smtp (1.4.4-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream release * debian/rules: complete rewrite based on cdbs (dh-make-php template) Sounds like a bad idea. Shouldn't the fix to #602865 get some more testing by sid users first so it can get

Re: RFS: php-log (updated package)

2010-11-22 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Guillaume, Guillaume Delacour wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.12.3-1 of my package php-log. I am not a cdbs or php expert, but this looks pretty good. Some quick nitpicks: - Do you track your packaging with a vcs? If not, why not? :) (Mini-patches are easier

Re: RFC: MinGW-w64 toolchain (adoption and new packages)

2010-11-22 Thread Jonathan Nieder
(+cc: the almost-defunct debian-toolchain@ list, for posterity's sake) Hi Stephen, Stephen Kitt wrote: I'm working on packaging a new version of the MinGW-w64 toolchain, which allows 32- and 64-bit Windows software to be compiled as a cross-compiler target using gcc. Sounds neat. Have

Re: RFS: ramond

2010-11-22 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Nicolas, Nicolas Dandrimont wrote: We've been using this software on our network for a few months now and it has proven very useful in killing off the rogue IPv6 routes and notifying our users of their configuration problem. I think including it into Debian would be worthwile. Sounds

Re: RFS: triggerhappy

2010-11-22 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Stefan, Stefan Tomanek wrote: * URL : https://github.com/wertarbyte/triggerhappy [...] My motivation for maintaining this package is: I've written this small program to fill a need not covered by any existing program, so I think having it in Debian and making it available to

Re: RFS: zsnes (updated package - ITA)

2010-11-22 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Etienne, Etienne Millon wrote: I have been using this package for years and it seems to need love. As I am learning how to maintain package, this seems a perfect candidate for adoption. I am preparing an upload fixing a few bugs, and will close this ITA when it's done. These are words I

RFS: git fixes for squeeze

2010-11-18 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Friends, git users, mentors, Julien Cristau wrote: On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 18:47:40 -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Jonathan Nieder wrote: Some quick changes for git in squeeze. - Trivial fixes from upstream: memory leaks in cache_tree_free and diff; confusing use of static buffer

Re: RFS: xburst-tools

2010-06-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Paul Wise wrote: Please remove these prebuilt files from the debian/ directory and don't add them to the upstream tarball. ./debian/xburst_stage1.bin ./debian/xburst_stage2.bin ./debian/stage1.bin [...] The README.source indicates that this requires a cross-compiler for MIPS in the

Re: RFS: xburst-tools

2010-06-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Paul Wise wrote: I assume this woud be a source package that build-depends on the gcc MIPS cross compiler package generated by the new buildcross package in unstable. Oh! Thanks for the pointer. Something that may be possible down the track, once the Debian archive can support source

Re: Pseudo-essential packages and Pre-Depends

2010-03-10 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jonathan Nieder wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 11:57:28PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: I just realized that xz-utils and liblzma2 technically aren’t ready to be pseudo-essential: they use Depends: instead of Pre-Depends: for their dependencies. This doesn't follow

Pseudo-essential packages and Pre-Depends (Re: Next upload 2010-03-10 (dpkg 1.15.6))

2010-03-08 Thread Jonathan Nieder
[Please follow-up to debian-mentors, cc-ing me and Steve.] Hi Steve, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 11:57:28PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: I just realized that xz-utils and liblzma2 technically aren’t ready to be pseudo-essential: they use Depends: instead of Pre-Depends

Re: Source format 3.0 (quilt)

2010-02-08 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Tanguy Ortolo wrote: For the 3.0 (quilt), the packed source is well defined, but I have a doubt for the working form. According to dpkg-source(1), is seems to be the .orig.tar.ext and a working directory with patches applied *and* present in the debian/patches directory. Is that correct?

Re: Bug#554167: RFC: mawk (not maintainer, updated package)

2009-12-13 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Steve Langasek wrote: On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 12:04:17AM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: I am wondering what to do next: should I pursue a 14-day delayed NMU? Do nothing and hope some of my changes are picked up? An unsanctioned NMU of a new upstream version of a Priority: required package

Re: RFC: mawk (not maintainer, updated package)

2009-12-12 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Ryan Niebur wrote: On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 12:04:17AM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: [...] I am wondering what to do next: should I pursue a 14-day delayed NMU? Do nothing and hope some of my changes are picked up? have you tried asking the maintainer if you could work with him? all I can

Re: (non-)upstream changelog

2009-11-05 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Sandro Tosi wrote: P.P.S: I'm taking care of this package since few months... under previous maintainer, the upstream ChangeLog was still updated That's nicer, but I don't think it's worth a hunk in diff.gz (either as direct change or patch) for this. What’s stopping one from shipping

Bug#553707: RFH: lzma -- future of Debian squashfs-lzma

2009-11-01 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: wnpp X-Debbugs-CC: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org Hi, I was thinking about how to bring the lzma package more up to date, but I’m scared to do anything for fear of breaking squashfs-lzma. :) So I thought I’d write for advice. squashfs is a read-only compressed filesystem. Currently a

Re: Autotools (library + binary) to debian packages

2009-10-11 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Alfonso, Alfonso Ruzafa wrote: Hi mentors. Hope you can help me with this. I have an Autotools project (named libfoo) with 3 main directories: lib for the library source code, include for the header files and src for the command line tool source code to deal with the library. A typical

RFS: xz-utils (updated package)

2009-10-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Dear mentors, I am looking for feedback and a possible sponsor for the new version 4.999.9beta+20091002-1 of my package xz-utils. It builds these binary packages: xz-utils- high compression-ratio compressor liblzma-dev - development library liblzma-doc - doxygen-generated

Re: Replacing an essential package

2009-08-17 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Please do not CC the APT team on follow-ups --- it looks like APT already does the right thing here (sorry for the noise!). I wrote: The xz-utils package in experimental Conflicts/Replaces/Provides the pseudo-essential package lzma. I think this should be fine, since installing it only

Re: Bug#542060: Replacing an essential package

2009-08-17 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: Jonathan Nieder wrote: What I meant to achieve is accomplished with Replaces/Provides without the Conflicts. Once xz-utils has written over all the files of lzma, lzma would be marked as uninstalled, so normally the two packages would not be installed at once