Bug#950760: RFS: libbpf/0.0.6-1 -- eBPF helper library (development files)

2020-02-06 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 06.02.20 um 09:22 schrieb Adam D. Barratt: > On 2020-02-06 08:12, Paul Gevers wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On 06-02-2020 00:07, Adam D. Barratt wrote: >>> On Wed, 2020-02-05 at 22:42 +, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 10:22 PM Christian Barcenas wrote: > Because this

Re: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#895261: RFS: dbus-broker/13-2 [ITP] -- Linux D-Bus Message Broker

2018-07-08 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi Daniele Am 09.07.2018 um 01:45 schrieb Daniele Nicolodi: > my attempt to implement user service management in init-system-helpers > and debhelper unfortunately stalled by lack of review of the > init-system-helper patches. Before I loose all interest, how do prefer > to solve the issue of

Re: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#895261: RFS: dbus-broker/13-2 [ITP] -- Linux D-Bus Message Broker

2018-05-29 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 29.05.2018 um 19:30 schrieb Daniele Nicolodi: > What would it take to have user services managed in a similar way as > system services? Should I look into implementing that in > init-system-helpers or should a new dh helper be created? It would need changes to both init-system-helpers and

Re: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#895261: RFS: dbus-broker/13-2 [ITP] -- Linux D-Bus Message Broker

2018-05-29 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 17.05.2018 um 22:15 schrieb Daniele Nicolodi: > Hello all, > > I'm still looking for a sponsor for this package. Would anyone have a > bit of spare time to look at it and let me know how it can be made fit > for upload? > > Is there any specific reason why this package is harder to review

Bug#883627: RFS: network-manager-fortisslvpn/1.2.6-1 [ITP] -- NetworkManager Fortinet SSLVPN plugin

2018-01-21 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi! On Wed, 17 Jan 2018 14:31:24 +0100 Lubomir Rintel wrote: > At 1.2.8 now. > > https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/n/network-manager-fortisslvpn/network-manager-fortisslvpn_1.2.8-1.dsc I think the package is already in a pretty good shape. Only a few minor nits. The

Bug#848327: Bug#824532: [Pkg-auth-maintainers] Bug#848327: RFS: libu2f-host/1.1.3-1

2017-06-01 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 02.06.2017 um 00:13 schrieb Nicolas Braud-Santoni: > Since no other workable solutions were proposed, and since Michael made it > clear > that this is not baggage he would carry in udev, I updated the proposed > upload: > >

Bug#856603: RFS: arc-theme/20170302-1

2017-04-30 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 30.04.2017 um 18:39 schrieb Julien Cristau: > On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 16:57:18 +, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> 3.22.9-1 is a whole new upstream release, with changes that actively break unrelated packages. As you just mentioned, it does at least require themes

Bug#848327: Bug#824532: [Pkg-auth-maintainers] Bug#848327: RFS: libu2f-host/1.1.3-1

2017-01-29 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 29.01.2017 um 22:07 schrieb Luca Capello: > Hi there, > > On Fri, 27 Jan 2017 23:08:08 +0100, Nicolas Braud-Santoni wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 03:29:39PM +0100, Luca Capello wrote: >>> >>> sorry for the late reply, the package was rejected: >>> >>> >>>

Re: Specify package to build only on a single architecture?

2013-06-29 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 30.06.2013 05:42, schrieb Steve M. Robbins: Hi, I have a package that is only useful on 1 architecture. How is that stated in the control file? I tried putting Architecture in the initial paragraph but the build complains: dpkg-source: warning: unknown information field

Bug#698853: RFS: gosa/2.7.4-4.1 [RC] [NMU] -- make package installable again

2013-01-24 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi, On 24.01.2013 16:09, Dominik George wrote: Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: important Control: tags 698635 + patch pending Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my NMU of package gosa. The upload would fix RC bug #698635. - a2enmod headers + [[ -x

Bug#698853: RFS: gosa/2.7.4-4.1 [RC] [NMU] -- make package installable again

2013-01-24 Thread Michael Biebl
On 24.01.2013 17:26, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: On 01/24/2013 17:01, Michael Biebl wrote: a/ the script uses set -e, this means it will it exit with an error if a2enmod is missing I learned that this is not true: % bash -c 'set -e; false true; echo Ha.' Ha. Which I found

Bug#693197: RFS: mozilla-gnome-keyring/0.6.5-1

2012-12-14 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi Ximin, I'm mostly interested in this change in 0.6.6-1: * Build separate libraries against both xulrunner-dev and icedove-dev. (Closes: #690324) So I can rebuild the extension for iceweasel/icedove 7. I see that the package now builds

Bug#693197: RFS: mozilla-gnome-keyring/0.6.5-1

2012-12-14 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi again, On 15.12.2012 04:06, Michael Biebl wrote: Hi Ximin, I'm mostly interested in this change in 0.6.6-1: * Build separate libraries against both xulrunner-dev and icedove-dev. (Closes: #690324) So I can rebuild the extension for iceweasel/icedove 7

Bug#693197: RFS: mozilla-gnome-keyring/0.6.5-1

2012-12-14 Thread Michael Biebl
On 15.12.2012 04:06, Michael Biebl wrote: How does this exactly work? How does the iceweasel extension know that it should load libgnomekeyring.so whereas the icedove extension should load libgnomekeyring-icedove.so? nvm, found it in the mean time: the chrome.manifest maps the libraries

Re: Is there anyway to prettify long *-Depends: lines?

2012-05-12 Thread Michael Biebl
On 12.05.2012 23:03, Paul Elliott wrote: I have a really long Build-Depends: line. .. Is there anyway to prettify these lines? wrap them like e.g. http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-gnome/desktop/unstable/glib2.0/debian/control?view=markup -- Why is it that all of the instruments

Bug#671816: RFS: gnome-ksnapshot/1.0 [ITP]

2012-05-07 Thread Michael Biebl
On 07.05.2012 09:29, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: tag 671816 + moreinfo wontfix thanks Luca or...@email.it writes: I am looking for a sponsor for my package gnome-ksnapshot. This simple package should be relevant for all people that like GNOME, and nevertheless think that ksnapshot is /far/

[UPLOADED] Re: RFS: kbdd/0.6-3 FTBFS fix with glib = 2.31

2012-03-25 Thread Michael Biebl
On 25.03.2012 00:01, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version of my package kbdd. kbdd (0.6-3) unstable; urgency=low I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Uploaded. Thanks, Michael -- Why is it that all of the

Re: RFS: frei0r-plugins (upstream 1.3)

2012-02-01 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi Jaromil, On 09.03.2011 12:03, Jaromil wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.3 of package frei0r-plugins for which i'm upstream maintainer and debian package uploader. frei0r is involved in the currently ongoing opencv transition [1]. It FTBFS [2] and thus blocks this

Re: RFS: mobile-broadband-provider-info (updated package)

2011-11-24 Thread Michael Biebl
On 24.11.2011 14:36, Didier Raboud wrote: Paul Wise wrote: This is why I think packaging it at all is possibly a bad idea since people running Debian stable/oldstable will always have old information. It would be better if the software that uses it were to be responsible for downloading it

Re: RFS: mobile-broadband-provider-info (updated package)

2011-11-24 Thread Michael Biebl
On 24.11.2011 22:09, Michael Biebl wrote: That said, mobile-broadband-provider-info sounds like a good candidate for volatile. Small correction: volatile was lenny. It's -updates now. -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth

Re: RFS: gnomeradio - upload to solve RC bug

2011-11-15 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi Francesco, On 15.11.2011 13:16, fra...@hal.hierax.net wrote: I'm looking for a sponsor for gnome radio, I've asked my usual sponsor for this package, but considering the importance of the bug I try to find a sponsor asking someone here. The package applies some patches for the gnome3

Re: RFS: gnomeradio - upload to solve RC bug

2011-11-15 Thread Michael Biebl
On 15.11.2011 18:03, Francesco Namuri wrote: Hi Michael, uploaded to mentors without the DM flag. http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gnomeradio/gnomeradio_1.8-2.dsc Uploaded. Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are

Re: RFS: gnome-shell-extensions

2011-11-06 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 06.11.2011 12:34, schrieb Josselin Mouette: Hi, Le mardi 01 novembre 2011 à 10:24 +0100, Victor Seva a écrit : Dear mentors and Gnome maintainers, I am looking for a sponsor for gnome-shell-extensions. The source is accessible at [0] and the binaries on [1]. As you can see on [2] I

Re: RFS: gnome-shell-extensions

2011-11-06 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 06.11.2011 14:57, schrieb Victor Seva: 2011/11/6 Leo 'costela' Antunes cost...@debian.org: On 06/11/11 12:34, Josselin Mouette wrote: Since there is no extension manager in 3.0, I think we should start this package from gnome-shell 3.2 (currently sitting in experimental). This way there

Re: dsf vs dfsg

2011-10-28 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 28.10.2011 17:44, schrieb Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh: Dear all, I Vesrion section of packages, may be we can see dfsg that it's abbreviation of Debian Free Software Guidline,So i see dsf word in Version section of some packages such as sysvinit_2.88dsf-13.1_i386.deb. What is meaning of dsf?

Re: RFS: mail-notification (updated package; NMU for RC bugs among others)

2011-09-06 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 07.09.2011 00:57, schrieb Stephen Kitt: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the package mail-notification. This update would fix a couple of RC bugs (the usual Evolution updates, which also require a switch to GTK+ 3); Hm, the package still build-depends on libgtk2.0-dev, is that

Re: RFS: hwinfo (updated package)

2011-06-16 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 16.06.2011 13:48, schrieb Kilian Krause: Hi William, On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 11:22 +, William Vera wrote: On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Kilian Krause kil...@debian.org wrote: On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 11:05 -0500, William Vera wrote: in a clean unstable chroot I get: gcc -c -O2 -Wall

[UPLOADED] Re: RFS: gtkpod (updated package)

2011-05-23 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 06.05.2011 18:30, schrieb Matteo F. Vescovi: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.0.1-1 of my package gtkpod. This is the last upstream release of a package already in Debian. It builds these binary packages: gtkpod- manage songs and playlists on an

Re: RFS: gtkpod (updated package)

2011-05-19 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi Matteo! Am 06.05.2011 18:30, schrieb Matteo F. Vescovi: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.0.1-1 of my package gtkpod. I don't own or use an iPod bug I'm willing to sponsor your updated gtkpod package, as I'd like to see #613168 fixed There are a few issues I

Re: RFS: gtkpod (updated package)

2011-05-02 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 02.05.2011 10:04, schrieb Matteo F. Vescovi: On 02/05/2011 09:40, Etienne Millon wrote: Hello, Your package fails to build from source in an up-to-date sid chroot. Please see the attached build log. I did not investigate further but something seems wrong with your perl-related

Re: RFS: gtkpod (updated package)

2011-05-02 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 02.05.2011 16:49, schrieb Matteo F. Vescovi: So I have only one alternative :-) And doesn't sound easy, at least for me ;-) But I'll give me a try... maybe I could even succeed :-) The right way to go about this is to find out if there 3rd party packages using this library, you need to

Re: uswsusp package

2011-03-11 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 12.03.2011 00:15, schrieb Rodolfo kix Garcia: Dear mentors, this week suspend-utils 1.0 was released. Now includes support for KMS systems. I am updating the uswsusp from v0.8 to v1.0. The package has not been officially orphaned yet, so just taking over the Maintainer field is not

Re: Autotools, CDBS, and handling generated files

2011-02-22 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 22.02.2011 13:01, schrieb Matt Kraai: Hi, /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz says that the best practice for handling files generated by Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool is to generate these files during the build process and make the clean target remove them.

Re: RFS: downtimed

2011-02-08 Thread Michael Biebl
On 08.02.2011 23:07, Michael Biebl wrote: I don't like those disable-service-via-etc-default files at all. Oh, and it also breaks 3rd party tools which use /etc/init.d/foo status to find out if a service is running or not. -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life

Re: RFS: downtimed

2011-02-08 Thread Michael Biebl
On 08.02.2011 18:01, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi Mats, On Dienstag, 8. Februar 2011, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/downtimed/downtimed_0.4-1.dsc - # Do we want to go? is strange english (says the German..) in /etc/defaul/downtimed, I would probably

Re: RFS: faenza-icon-theme

2011-01-24 Thread Michael Biebl
On 24.01.2011 20:31, Julien Valroff wrote: Hi Adnan, Le lundi 24 janv. 2011 à 04:09:00 (+0100), Adnan Hodzic a écrit : Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package faenza-icon-theme. btw is this theme specific to GNOME or can it be used with other desktop environments? The

Re: RFS: light-themes

2011-01-24 Thread Michael Biebl
On 24.01.2011 07:10, Adnan Hodzic wrote: The package appears to be lintian clean. I'm getting Now running lintian... W: light-themes: extended-description-line-too-long Aside from that, the package has a dependency on gtk2-engines-murrine (= 0.90.3+git20100810) which can't be satisfied. Do

Re: RFS: light-themes

2011-01-24 Thread Michael Biebl
On 24.01.2011 23:48, Adnan Hodzic wrote: Aside from that, the package has a dependency on gtk2-engines-murrine (= 0.90.3+git20100810) which can't be satisfied. Do you need the git snapshot version of murrine and if so are you working on getting the package updated? That package is in

Re: Debhelper: LDFLAGS

2010-12-19 Thread Michael Biebl
On 19.12.2010 21:17, Jakub Wilk wrote: $ export LDFLAGS=bar # set by evil dpkg-buildpackage Hm, seems I missed that part. Does dpkg-builpackage really set and *export* the LDFLAGS env var? That said, relying on dpkg-buildpackage to export the env variable means, you get different builds if you

Re: Debhelper: LDFLAGS

2010-12-19 Thread Michael Biebl
On 19.12.2010 21:17, Jakub Wilk wrote: * Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net, 2010-12-19, 21:59: When you say that setting the custom LDFLAGS doesn't work, have you actually exported them? :) If you just do LDFLAGS=... or LDFLAGS != ... or LDFLAGS := ..., make(1) will only use the new value

Re: Help with uswsusp

2010-09-11 Thread Michael Biebl
On 11.09.2010 20:45, Rodolfo kix Garcia wrote: after the Rafael's reply , what do you think is the next step? Create a new uswsusp package? wait? do not update the package? I don't really care enough for uswsusp to give good advice, especially as I don't use uswsusp (anymore). Getting a

Re: Help with uswsusp

2010-09-08 Thread Michael Biebl
On 07.09.2010 21:15, Rodolfo kix Garcia wrote: On 07/09/10 01:40, Kan-Ru Chen wrote: Hi! Now I am trying to maintain the database (from 8 months ago), and the project was moved from sourceforge to git.kernel.org, but there is not a new version in the webpage. The database is important

Re: RFS: mobile-broadband-provider-info (updated package)

2010-04-24 Thread Michael Biebl
On 22.04.2010 16:37, Bhavani Shankar R wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 20100422-1 of my package mobile-broadband-provider-info. .. I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Uploaded. Thanks for your contributions. Michael -- Why is

Re: RFS: wpasupplicant (updated package)

2010-02-16 Thread Michael Biebl
Kel Modderman wrote: On Monday 15 February 2010 07:30:55 Michael Biebl wrote: The only comment I have, is about the conffile removal. As you remove the obsolete conffiles in postinst, dpkg will not notice that (only at the next upgrade). dpkg -L will still list them, even if they have been

Re: RFS: wpasupplicant (updated package)

2010-02-14 Thread Michael Biebl
Kel Modderman wrote: Hi mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.6.10-1 of the package wpasupplicant. It has been a long time since its last update due to myself travelling and the rest of pkg-wpa-devel maintenance group being inactive. The inactive members have since

Re: dependencies of a library-dev package

2009-07-22 Thread Michael Biebl
Thomas Koch wrote: Hi, I'm packaging a program which needs libgearman-dev to build. The libgearman source includes event.h, but the libgearman-dev package does not depend on libevent. Should my program build-depend on libevent-dev or is it the responsibility of libgearman-dev to depend

Re: RFS: lesstif2 (updated package) [Was: Re: How to give lesstif2 some attention?]

2009-04-29 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 29.04.2009 23:12, schrieb Neil Williams: On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:09:37 +0200 Paul Geversp...@climbing.nl wrote: W: lesstif2 source: outdated-autotools-helper-file config.guess 2005-05-15 W: lesstif2 source: outdated-autotools-helper-file config.sub 2005-05-12 The PTS claims 85 lintian

Re: About symbol versioning, soname bumps and symbols files.

2009-04-24 Thread Michael Biebl
Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: My questions are: 1.) Is it fine to use symbol versioning like this to avoid bumping the soname or is this crack? Does this approach have downsides? 2.) Why are *there* different versions of sctp_connectx (Base and VERS_1 being and alias). I would have

About symbol versioning, soname bumps and symbols files.

2009-04-21 Thread Michael Biebl
[not sure if debian-mentors is the right list, but I try anyway] Hi, I maintain the lksctp-tools package, which builds the libsctp1 binary package. The package so fare has been fairly straight forward and for version 1.0.9 I used a symbols file for libsctp1 which looks like this: libsctp.so.1

Re: RFS: cnetworkmanager

2009-03-03 Thread Michael Biebl
Alexander Block wrote: I've just updated the package on debian mentors to 0.8.2-2. The new upload contains some suggestions made by Ahmed El-Mahmoudy. Regards, Alexander Block Alexander Block wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package cnetworkmanager. * Package

Re: RFS: dbus-inspector

2008-11-11 Thread Michael Biebl
Carlos wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package dbus-inspector. Package name: dbus-inspector Version : 0.2.1-1 Upstream Author : Erich Schubert [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL : http://people.debian.org/~erich/dbus-inspector.tgz License :

Re: Trying to understand patch management - in combination with version control

2008-09-09 Thread Michael Biebl
Sune Vuorela wrote: On 2008-09-02, Andreas Schildbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, when I (or a co-maintainer) check out the project from SVN, I get (as expected) a nearly empty project directory, containing just the debian directory. But, how am I supposed to actually create the patches

Re: RFS: sctplib

2008-05-08 Thread Michael Biebl
Thomas Dreibholz wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package sctplib. * Package name: sctplib Version : 1:1.0.8~beta4-1unstable Upstream Author : Andreas Jungmaier, Thomas Dreibholz, Michael Tuexen * URL : http://www.sctp.de and

[DONE] RFS: pinot

2008-02-24 Thread Michael Biebl
David Paleino wrote: On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:01:16 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: ... P.S.: After this final round I think the package is ready for sponsoring, which I'll happily do. The package is ready, at the usual URL. Uploaded. Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all

Re: RFS: pinot

2008-02-23 Thread Michael Biebl
David Paleino wrote: Usual url on mentors :) Hi David, A few more comments: 1.) debian/patches/01-fix_pinot.desktop.patch The desktop file seems to be correctly encoded in UTF-8, so removing the Encoding line seems wrong to me. Could you elaborate why this patch is necessary. 2.) Missing

Re: RFS: pinot

2008-02-23 Thread Michael Biebl
David Paleino wrote: On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:21:13 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: A few more comments: 1.) debian/patches/01-fix_pinot.desktop.patch The desktop file seems to be correctly encoded in UTF-8, so removing the Encoding line seems wrong to me. Could you elaborate why this patch

Re: RFS: pinot

2008-02-23 Thread Michael Biebl
David Paleino wrote: This module requires python-(gnome2, dbus, etc, you have to check the python files). These dependencies are currently missing. Maybe it would make sense to split out the deskbar module into a separate package, so the pinot package is not affected by the additional

Re: RFS: pinot

2008-02-20 Thread Michael Biebl
David Paleino wrote: Hi *, I am looking for a sponsor for pinot. * Package name: pinot Version : 0.82-1 Upstream Author : Fabrice Colin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (and others) * URL : http://pinot.berlios.de * License : GPL, GPL-2+, LGPL-2+, LGPL-2.1

Re: RFS: pinot

2008-02-20 Thread Michael Biebl
David Paleino wrote: Il giorno Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:53:18 +0100 Michael Biebl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: David Paleino wrote: Pinot is a D-Bus service that crawls, indexes your documents and monitors them for changes. It also has a GTK-based user interface that enables to query

Re: RFS: avant-window-navigator 0.2.1

2008-01-31 Thread Michael Biebl
Julien Lavergne wrote: Hi Luca, Thanks for the review. * It looks like you're shipping a non DFSG-free icon, data/avant-window-navigator.svg under CC 2.0 by-sa, as specified by its rdf metadata. Please contact upstream and ask him to relicense it under a free one (ie. upgrade to CC

Re: RFS: gthumb (updated and adopted package)

2008-01-21 Thread Michael Biebl
David Paleino wrote: Il giorno Wed, 2 Jan 2008 11:57:17 +0100 David Paleino [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: ... I've prepared a new version (3:2.10.8-1). Which is finally ready, thanks to Ove Kaaven, who avoided me going mad, and to Julien Valroff, who helped as well. dget

Re: RFS: gthumb (updated and adopted package)

2008-01-21 Thread Michael Biebl
Michael Biebl wrote: David Paleino wrote: Il giorno Wed, 2 Jan 2008 11:57:17 +0100 David Paleino [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: ... I've prepared a new version (3:2.10.8-1). Which is finally ready, thanks to Ove Kaaven, who avoided me going mad, and to Julien Valroff, who helped as well

Re: RFS: gthumb (updated and adopted package)

2008-01-21 Thread Michael Biebl
David Paleino wrote: Il giorno Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:32:57 +0100 Michael Biebl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Michael Biebl wrote: David Paleino wrote: dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gthumb/gthumb_2.10.8-1.dsc This version has two serious bugs: Oh, and another thing

Re: alpine_1.0+dfsg-2_source.changes REJECTED

2008-01-13 Thread Michael Biebl
Asheesh Laroia wrote: Dear Mentors, I'm a Debian Maintainer now and am uploading a new release of my package alpine, for which I successfully uploaded 1.0+dfsg-1 to the archive. I noticed that according to http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?pkg=alpine , the Debian archive never builds i386

Re: RFS: gthumb (updated and adopted package)

2008-01-13 Thread Michael Biebl
David Paleino wrote: Il giorno Mon, 07 Jan 2008 05:52:03 +0100 Michael Biebl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Could you please make the yelp dependency a Recommends? May I ask why? Sure. I believe yelp is better suited as a Depends (AFAIK, to read gnome-doc documentation, you need yelp

Re: RFS: gthumb (updated and adopted package)

2008-01-06 Thread Michael Biebl
David Paleino wrote: Il giorno Wed, 2 Jan 2008 11:57:17 +0100 David Paleino [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: ... I've prepared a new version (3:2.10.8-1). Which is finally ready, thanks to Ove Kaaven, who avoided me going mad, and to Julien Valroff, who helped as well. Could you please make

Re: service helper package

2007-11-26 Thread Michael Biebl
Eric Lavarde schrieb: Hi, Thomas Goirand wrote: Stephen Gran wrote: # Check whether we were configured to not start the services. check_for_no_start() { if [ $SERVICE_DISABLED = yes ]; then This is such a broken behavior. Initscripts are enabled and disabled in the configuration of

Re: dpkg-statoverride (Re: RFS: mediatomb -- open source (GPL) UPnP MediaServer with a web interface)

2007-11-09 Thread Michael Biebl
Am Donnerstag, den 08.11.2007, 20:31 -0500 schrieb Justin Pryzby: On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 10:35:00AM +0930, Paul Wise wrote: On Nov 9, 2007 9:43 AM, Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 09:35:05AM +0930, Paul Wise wrote: postinst should use dpkg-statoverride

Re: Need help with a watch file

2007-11-06 Thread Michael Biebl
Gudjon I. Gudjonsson schrieb: Hi Michael Hi Gudjon! http://www.alwins-world.de/programs/download/kdesvn/(.*)x/kdesvn-(.*)\.tar\.bz2 [..] This seems to be OK but I think the x is needed. Yeah, works great. Thanks a lot! Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking

Re: Need help with a watch file

2007-11-05 Thread Michael Biebl
Michael Biebl schrieb: Asheesh Laroia schrieb: On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Michael Biebl wrote: I tried to use a match for the sub directory, as the uscan man page claims that this is supported: http://www.alwins-world.de/programs/download/kdesvn/(.)/kdesvn-(.*).tar.bz2 Don't you mean http

Need help with a watch file

2007-11-05 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi everyone, I've got some troubles creating a working watch file for kdesvn. Upstream uses version numbered subdirectories. http://www.alwins-world.de/programs/download/kdesvn/ Currently the latest version is http://www.alwins-world.de/programs/download/kdesvn/0.14.x/kdesvn-0.14.0.tar.bz2 I

Re: Need help with a watch file

2007-11-05 Thread Michael Biebl
Asheesh Laroia schrieb: On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Michael Biebl wrote: I tried to use a match for the sub directory, as the uscan man page claims that this is supported: http://www.alwins-world.de/programs/download/kdesvn/(.)/kdesvn-(.*).tar.bz2 Don't you mean http://www.alwins-world.de

Re: RFS: avant-window-navigator

2007-10-22 Thread Michael Biebl
Marco Rodrigues schrieb: Dear mentors, There is obviously something odd here. I am looking for a sponsor for my package avant-window-navigator. * Package name: avant-window-navigator Version : 0.2-1 Upstream Author : Julien Lavergne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Upstream is njpatel,

Re: RFS: gimmie

2007-07-21 Thread Michael Biebl
Thierry Randrianiriana schrieb: On 7/20/07, Michael Biebl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] Just tested it. Seems, Recommends is not enough for python-dbus and python-gmenu. Gimmie crashes, when either python-gmenu or python-dbus are not installed: [..] So, both should be added to Depends

Re: RFS: gimmie

2007-07-16 Thread Michael Biebl
Thierry Randrianiriana wrote: Hi Michael, Sorry for the delay, I'm very busy these last weeks, I changed the package and uploaded it. http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gimmie/gimmie_0.2.7-1.dsc Michael Biebl wrote: 4.) ./configure checks for a couple of python modules like

Re: RFS: gimmie

2007-07-16 Thread Michael Biebl
Michael Biebl wrote: 4.) ./configure checks for a couple of python modules like gmenu etc, which are are not added to the the Depends list of gimmie. Could you elaborate on that? Should these python modules be added to the list of runtime dependencies? fixed, I added these dependencies

Re: RFS: gimmie

2007-07-14 Thread Michael Biebl
Michael Biebl wrote: Thierry Randrianiriana schrieb: I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. the package looks well done, I only have some smaller points: [..] If you can address the above issues, I'll gladly sponsor your package. Hi Thierry, haven't heard from you

Re: RFS: gimmie

2007-07-01 Thread Michael Biebl
Thierry Randrianiriana schrieb: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package gimmie. * Package name: gimmie Version : 0.2.7-1 Upstream Authors: Alex Graveley [EMAIL PROTECTED] David Trowbridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Hearn [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I need a sponsor

2007-04-27 Thread Michael Biebl
Tobias Richter schrieb: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Name:liborigin Version:20070115-1 Uploaded:2007-04-26 13:39:01 Description: liborigin-dev - A library to read files from the Origin plotting program liborigin0 - A library to read files from the Origin plotting program opj2dat - Converts

Re: I need a sponsor

2007-04-27 Thread Michael Biebl
Michael Biebl schrieb: Tobias Richter schrieb: The hompage refernces should follow the current style: Homepage http://www.example.com Use the following syntax to specify the homepage: long description... . Homeapage: http://foo.com/ ^ Argh, sorry for the typo

Re: debian/prerm is executed on *reconfigure*?

2007-03-17 Thread Michael Biebl
schönfeld / in-medias-res.com schrieb: Hi mentors, hi Dpkg developers, i could need some help with a bug that has been reported to be in one of my packages. According to #408823 my package removes a configuration file when dpkg-reconfigure is invoked. I'm really wondering about this,

Removing obsolete conffiles on upgrade

2007-02-08 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi list, as you probably all know, conffiles from older package versions are kept on package upgrades, even if the new package version does not ship the conffile anymore. How do I best get rid of such an old/obsolete conffile? Simply delete it in preinst? Do I have to check if it was modified

Re: RFS: network-manager-openvpn

2007-01-22 Thread Michael Biebl
Soren Hansen wrote: On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 08:49:17PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: configure.in: AC_INIT(NetworkManager-openvpn, 0.3.2, [EMAIL PROTECTED], NetworkManager-openvpn) This means, upstream version number is 0.3.2. Why did you chose 0.6.4? I chose 0.6.4 to match the version

Re: RFS: network-manager-openvpn

2007-01-19 Thread Michael Biebl
Soren Hansen wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package network-manager-openvpn. * Package name: network-manager-openvpn Version : 0.6.4svn2242-1 Upstream Author : RedHat Inc. * URL :

Re: Best practice for packages using devhelp for their API documentation

2006-11-21 Thread Michael Biebl
Kevin B. McCarty wrote: Hi Michael, [CC'ing maintainer of devhelp.] Michael Biebl wrote (on debian-mentors): the hal-doc package contains the API documentation for hal. In the last upstream release, upstream decided to use devhelp [1] for the API documentation. The location

Best practice for packages using devhelp for their API documentation

2006-11-17 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi all, the hal-doc package contains the API documentation for hal. In the last upstream release, upstream decided to use devhelp [1] for the API documentation. The location of the documentation files changed (to /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/hal/) which lead to this bug report [2]. While taking a

Re: Using the user nobody in my package

2006-11-16 Thread Michael Biebl
Marc Haber wrote: On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 01:41:30AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: I always use something like this in my postinst scripts if ! getent group foo /dev/null ; then addgroup --quiet --system foo fi This avoids the warning/error message, if the group/user already exists

Re: RFH: audacity - looking for co-maintainer

2006-11-10 Thread Michael Biebl
Matt Brubeck wrote: Package: wnpp The Debian audacity package needs some more attention than I have been able to give it recently. I am looking for a co-maintainer or team to help maintain this package, and possibly to adopt it from me. Hi Matt, as I wanted to get rid of old gtk1.2

Re: Who sponsored the NMU of clustalw?

2006-11-06 Thread Michael Biebl
Charles Plessy wrote: Dear all, I am the co-maintainer of clustalw, which is in trouble because it has been removed from Etch after a NMU. The reason is that it could not be re-built on the s390 arch, thus being unable to migrate to Etch and to solve the problem the NMU was targetting. I

Re: Linking with --as-needed in Debian Packages (Was: Re: RFS: flamerobin (updated package))

2006-10-30 Thread Michael Biebl
Richard Laager wrote: On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 14:31 +0200, Damyan Ivanov wrote: * Added --as-needed to LDFLAGS to avoid unnecessary NEEDED entries. Thanks to Christian 'Greek0' Aichinger. Is the use of --as-needed encouraged/discouraged in Debian? Is there a reason this isn't used

Re: Error with debian/changelog file

2006-10-09 Thread Michael Biebl
Ted Percival wrote: Martin Kelly wrote: After trying to build my package (pyecm), I recieved the following error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Desktop/pyecm-0.1$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot parsechangelog/debian: error: badly formatted trailer line, at file debian/changelog line 5

Depending on an essential package

2006-09-18 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi everybody, if I add a dependency on util-linux because I need that /sbin/getty is installed, why must this dependency be versioned? If I simply add Depends: util-linux lintian complains loudly and issues an error message: depends-on-essential-package-without-using-version depends: util-linux

Re: Depending on an essential package

2006-09-18 Thread Michael Biebl
Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 01:29:27PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: if I add a dependency on util-linux because I need that /sbin/getty is installed, why must this dependency be versioned? If I simply add Depends: util-linux lintian complains loudly and issues an error

Re: Depending on an essential package

2006-09-18 Thread Michael Biebl
Franz Pletz wrote: On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 04:38:28PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: Sometimes I wished lintian would display hints like yours and not only such short one liners. Use lintian -i for more verbose output. Mea culpa! I indeed missed -i completely. Next time I better learn how

Re: Relibtoolize

2006-09-10 Thread Michael Biebl
You could use autoreconf -vfi in the future. It should do the right thing automatically. Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: shlib-with-non-pic-code

2006-09-01 Thread Michael Biebl
Christian Aichinger wrote: On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 06:44:28PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: Seems to be a tougher problem than I initially thought. The package builds fine here when run from my normal user account but I confirm that it fails inside the pbuilder chroot. The problem is that uic

Re: shlib-with-non-pic-code

2006-08-31 Thread Michael Biebl
Christian Aichinger wrote: On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 11:48:32PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: You can get the source via dget at http://debs.michaelbiebl.de/dists/unstable/main/source/kdesvn_0.9.2-1.dsc Solving this problem would be much easier if the package built in the first place. It gives

Re: shlib-with-non-pic-code

2006-08-29 Thread Michael Biebl
Christian Aichinger wrote: Michael, if you put the source package online somewhere I'll take a look and see if I can help with this. Your help is greatly appreciated! You can get the source via dget at http://debs.michaelbiebl.de/dists/unstable/main/source/kdesvn_0.9.2-1.dsc Thanks, Michael

shlib-with-non-pic-code

2006-08-28 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi everyone! I got a strange problem with my kdesvn package and hope someone can help me. Upstream switched the build system from autotools to CMake. Now lintian complains about the files in /usr/lib/kde3: E: kdesvn-kio-plugins: shlib-with-non-pic-code usr/lib/kde3/kded_kdesvnd.so E:

Re: shlib-with-non-pic-code

2006-08-28 Thread Michael Biebl
Matthew Palmer wrote: On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 07:57:27PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: Now lintian complains about the files in /usr/lib/kde3: E: kdesvn-kio-plugins: shlib-with-non-pic-code usr/lib/kde3/kded_kdesvnd.so E: kdesvn-kio-plugins: shlib-with-non-pic-code usr/lib/kde3/kio_ksvn.so E

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