Bug#856652: RFS: xpdf/3.04.real-5 [ITA]

2017-03-10 Thread Michael Gilbert
Sean Whitton wrote: > After the release of stretch, I intend to work on removing xpdf from the > archive for the reason that it is unmaintainable, not because it depends > on poppler. Orphaning does not mean that a package is unmaintainable. As I've stated elsewhere I will continue to be willing

Bug#856652: RFS: xpdf/3.04.real-5 [ITA]

2017-03-10 Thread Michael Gilbert
Svante Signell wrote: > What else do you need? What are your problems with a _real_ upstream xpdf? You don't seem to get what everyone is telling you. If you are not capable of or willing to maintain xpdf with the poppler backend, then you should not be its maintainer. If a non-popplerized xpdf

My sponsorship guidelines once the freeze gets lifted

2013-05-04 Thread Michael Gilbert
I just want to let everyone know that I will be making myself available to sponsor packages after the freeze again. My interest is more toward keeping testing and testing security in good shape rather than new and shiny stuff, although I will look at the occasional game. With that said, here are

Re: retitle WNPP bug

2013-03-06 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Alfonso Sabato Sicilianowrote: Hi, I would make my first package so I would retitle this http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=652580 from RFP to ITP. I am still not DM, can I do it? I need to have a sponsor ti retitle the WNPP bug? Yes, of course!

Bug#694872: Why was this bug closed?

2012-12-02 Thread Michael Gilbert
Well, I thought this was only the case when there is no other option, because the version has to be smaller than the one in unstable (when testing has 4.3.6-1 and unstable has 4.3.6-2 with unacceptable changes). I did a t-p-u update like this (without the deb7u suffix) yesterday (for fossil),

Bug#694872: Why was this bug closed?

2012-12-02 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Ivo De Decker wrote: Hi Mike, On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 03:20:25PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: Well, I thought this was only the case when there is no other option, because the version has to be smaller than the one in unstable (when testing has 4.3.6-1

Bug#694872: Why was this bug closed?

2012-12-02 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Ivo De Decker wrote: Mike, On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 04:36:23PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: Yes. I don't have a link to the final decision, but you can easily verify the veracity of that statement by looking at the versioning of packages that have gone

Another round of easy RC bugs

2012-11-27 Thread Michael Gilbert
Hi, I've taken a look at the bugs tagged patch, and the following 11 strike me as likely being rather easy to fix. 677861 681457 687396 687848 692129 693208 - seems to just need a tpu upload 693980 694015 694061 694340 694417 So, let's fix these easy 11 bugs! Best wishes, Mike -- To

Bug#694459: RFS: lcdf-typetools/2.92+dfsg1-1.1 [NMU] [RC]

2012-11-27 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 10:29 AM, roucaries bastien wrote: Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: important Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the package lcdf-typetools I have found two license problem on this package: - #694352 lcdf-typetool include non free adobe data; glyph

Bug#694164: RFS: redmine/1.4.4+dfsg1-2 [NMU] [RC]

2012-11-24 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Dominik George n...@naturalnet.de wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package redmine Hi, thanks for working on these issues. I'd like to see a few things corrected in the changelog, but otherwise it looks good. * NMU to fix RC bugs. There is specific

Re: Some easy-looking rc bugs

2012-11-23 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote: The following look like they'll be pretty easy, so they're a prime opportunity for mentees to build, test, and prepare a package to be potentially sponsored: So, it's been almost a week, and I decided to take a look at where things stand

Re: Some easy-looking rc bugs

2012-11-23 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote: On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote: The following look like they'll be pretty easy, so they're a prime opportunity for mentees to build, test, and prepare a package to be potentially sponsored: So, it's been almost

Bug#693925: RFS: harden/0.1.38+nmu1 [RC] [NMU]

2012-11-21 Thread Michael Gilbert
Reviewed and uploaded. Thanks! Make sure to send your debdiff to the bug report to stay in compliance with nmu rules: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#nmu-guidelines Thanks, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Bug#693249: RFS: etw/3.6+svn140-4 [RC] [ITA] arcade-style soccer game

2012-11-18 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Markus Koschany wrote: thanks for taking the time to review the changes. Indeed the author of etw already checks for PATH_MAX in etw.c and stores the result in TEMP_DIR. On the other hand he uses 1024 bytes for the buffer at most and truncates the rest if it

Re: dm upload permissions

2012-11-17 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 2:29 AM, Bart Martens wrote: Hello, As I wrote earlier on debian-devel [1] I have a few reports [2] about DM upload permissions. According to the announcement [3] the permissions only via DMUA=yes will be revoked on 24th of November 2012, and that date is coming

Bug#693249: RFS: etw/3.6+svn140-4 [RC] [ITA] arcade-style soccer game

2012-11-17 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Markus Koschany wrote: Changes since the last upload: * New Maintainer. (Closes: #544922) * Eat the Whistle will be maintained in a Git repository from now on. Change the Vcs-fields in debian/control accordingly. * debian/patches: Add

Some easy-looking rc bugs

2012-11-17 Thread Michael Gilbert
Hi, I had a quick look through the rc bugs that have a patch: http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi?release=wheezy_and_sidpatch=onlymerged=igndone=ignfnewerval=7rc=1sortby=idsorto=ascchints=1ctags=1cdeferred=1 The following look like they'll be pretty easy, so they're a prime opportunity for mentees to

Bug#693182: RFS: sqldeveloper-package/0.3.0 [RC]

2012-11-14 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 4:03 AM, Lazarus Long wrote: Hi: The deferred NMU uploader has canceled it in behalf of mine. I'm not sure how to proceed now. Should I remove my version, or should it be re-evaluated as a RC bug fix? Preferably the nmu will be re-uploaded since it's a targeted

Bug#693182: RFS: sqldeveloper-package/0.3.0 [RC]

2012-11-13 Thread Michael Gilbert
control: severity -1 normal control: retitle -1 RFS: sqldeveloper-package/0.3.0 On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Lazarus Longwrote: - Download links updated (Closes: #618650) (Reported by Sergio Fernandez) Since there is already a deferred nmu fixing the rc issue, I'm downgrading the

Bug#691893: RFS: roundup/1.4.20-2

2012-11-11 Thread Michael Gilbert
control: retitle -1 RFS: roundup/1.4.20-2 control: severity -1 normal Downgrading the severity of this request since an nmu was uploaded to fix the rc issue. Before further review, the package will need to be updated to incorporate the nmu, and at this point the upload should probably target

Bug#692065: RFS: mcrypt/2.6.8-1.3 [RC][NMU]

2012-11-02 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Jean-Michel Vourgère wrote: * CVE-2012-4527: stack-based buffer overflow by encryption / decryption of overly long file names (Closes: #690924) I've reviewed this and it looks mostly good. However, can you explain why you chose ERRWIDTH=PATH_MAX+1024

Bug#686070: libpam-ssh/1.92-15

2012-11-02 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: I'm removing the not-fit-for-wheezy tag since Thomas claims to have improved on that matter. It still have the tag `not-fit-for-wheezy'. This is more evidence that this tag doesn't actually provide anything useful. This package was

Bug#692065: RFS: mcrypt/2.6.8-1.3 [RC][NMU]

2012-11-02 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Jean-Michel Vourgère wrote: I don't see the point to upload a version of just that to mentors. Just use: patch -p 1 80-width patch , update the changelog and you're done with the NMU. It gives you a chance to be the one contributing to the release. I'm

Bug#691893: RFS: roundup/1.4.20-2 [RC]

2012-11-02 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Kai Storbeck wrote: Hi Mike, Thanks for your prompt review. It seems I wasn't fully aware of the Freeze Policy. I was under a wrong assumtion that I could make the package's state better during the freeze. I've spoken with Salvatore who proposed an NMU for

Re: fix for rc bug #665199

2012-11-02 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 10:11 AM, gustavo panizzo wrote: hello, i've prepared an updated version of slapd package which fix the bug #665199 Hi, I've just reviewed this, and it looks reasonable. However, the changelog note is not really descriptive enough: * Fix a bug while upgrading from

Bug#692065: RFS: mcrypt/2.6.8-1.3 [RC][NMU]

2012-11-01 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Jean-Michel Vourgère wrote: mcrypt (2.6.8-1.3) unstable; urgency=medium . * Non-maintainer upload. * CVE-2012-4527: stack-based buffer overflow by encryption / decryption of overly long file names (Closes: #690924) I've reviewed this and it looks

Re: (Non-)Usefulness of the current for-wheezy and fit-for-wheezy usertags

2012-10-31 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 6:40 AM, Thibaut Paumard wrote: First of all, you are free to view the bug page with the ordering you prefer. Try using ordering=standard: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=sponsorship-requests;ordering=standard Thanks for the hint. Reverting to

Bug#686070: libpam-ssh/1.92-15

2012-10-30 Thread Michael Gilbert
control: retitle -1 RFS: libpam-ssh/1.92-15 [ITP] [REINTRODUCTION] Unfortunately this package was removed from unstable, so it won't be considered for upload until after wheezy unfreezes. Removing RC since as a NEW package the RC categorization does not apply. Best wishes, Mike -- To

Bug#691893: RFS: roundup/1.4.20-2 [RC]

2012-10-30 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 6:18 PM, Kai Storbeck wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package roundup. I have a dedicated uploader (Toni Mueller), but another eye on my changes needn't hurt. It fixes 3 outstanding bugs, one of which is an RC bug. Hi, I've just reviewed this. + * patch

Ideas on contributing during the freeze

2012-10-27 Thread Michael Gilbert
Hi, I remember being rather frustrated during past freezes (before I was a DD) at the lack of interesting things to do (since the fun stuff like ITPs tend to go nowhere at these times). I assume there are a lot of others in a similar situation now, so I just want to give a couple suggestions.

Re: (Non-)Usefulness of the current for-wheezy and fit-for-wheezy usertags

2012-10-26 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Paul Wise wrote: It is possible to target a package for testing during the freeze even though it does not fix any RC bugs, see everthing other than item one here: http://release.debian.org/testing/freeze_policy.html I am certainly well aware of the freeze

My sponsoring guidelines

2012-10-25 Thread Michael Gilbert
Just to let everyone know, I am making myself available to sponsor uploads that fix RC bugs. Those uploads may be either NMUs or maintainer uploads, just make sure to mark your sponsorship-request with RC and I (and others) will notice it. Best wishes, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

(Non-)Usefulness of the current for-wheezy and fit-for-wheezy usertags

2012-10-25 Thread Michael Gilbert
Hi, I feel like the current for-wheezy and fit-for-wheezy usertags actually make the sponsorship-requests bug page harder to use than it needs to be. In actuality, any bug tagged ITP and QA should not have either of those tags (since no itp or qa upload is going in until the freeze is lifted

Bug#691014: RFS: swftools/0.9.2+ds1-3 [RC]

2012-10-21 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 3:14 AM, Christian Welzel wrote: Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: important Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package swftools * Package name: swftools Version : 0.9.2+ds1-3 Hi, I've just reviewed these changes. The fix

Re: Upgrade rar Package Version

2012-10-18 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Ma Xiaojun wrote: There is no reason shipping 4.0 beta3 rather than latest 4.20. If we check change Changelog, it is clear that the package get active uploads until 4.0 beta3 is uploaded.

Re: Architecture-independent packages with missing build-dependencies on some architectures

2012-09-22 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Stephen Kitt wrote: Dear mentors, I maintain the wine-gecko package (wine-gecko-1.4), which is in an interesting situation because its build-dependencies can't be satisfied on all architectures, but it builds an Architecture: all package. Something similar

Re: Bug#659077: RFS for package no longer at mentors

2012-07-15 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 7:05 AM, Bart Martens wrote: Hello, I see that the package at mentors is no longer there. What happened ? Can the RFS be closed, or can you restore the package at mentors ? no package at mentors for RFS 664181 trustmanager 3.0.5-1 no package at mentors for RFS

Re: Bug#675873: RFS: pam-shield/0.9.6-1 [ITA]

2012-07-13 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Jonathan Niehof wrote: Dear mentors-- I'm not sure if the etiquette for nag requests has been sorted out given the move of RFS to the bug tracker, but I submitted this RFS two weeks ago and have

Re: modifications by sponsors

2012-07-11 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote: On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Arno Töll wrote: Hi, On 11.07.2012 13:34, Bart Martens wrote: Is it OK that a sponsor adds modifications to a sponsored package ? I see it regularly that sponsors do little modifications of

Re: My package sponsoring guidelines

2012-06-26 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Andreas Rütten wrote: Hi Mike, do you still have some time available for reviewing NMUs? If so I would like to point you attention to this one: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=676927 Hi, The bugs solved in your version are not release

Re: Bug#675873: RFS: pam-shield/0.9.6-1 [ITA]

2012-06-19 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Jonathan Niehof wrote: Dear mentors-- I'm not sure if the etiquette for nag requests has been sorted out given the move of RFS to the bug tracker, but I submitted this RFS two weeks ago and have not received so much as a nibble. If anyone is able to devote

Bug#659522: RFS: prelink/20111012-1 [QA]

2012-06-12 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Daniel Martí wrote: Would you mind incorporating the libtool fixes that I pushed in the -6 upload? Sure. But please, if you want to incorporate more changes, either do it all at once or email them to me so I can add them to the newer package. I'm starting

Bug#659522: RFS: prelink/20111012-1 [QA]

2012-06-12 Thread Michael Gilbert
I've read quite a bit on the kfreebsd-i386 problems with ELF, but I have encountered a different solution in every thread on the internet. Some said to patch libelf.h, which is sadly not shipped with prelink. We have libelf-0.7.0.patch, but that patchs a nonexistent file. We do have

Re: Bug#677277: lists.debian.org: new list: sponsorship-reque...@lists.debian.org

2012-06-12 Thread Michael Gilbert
I'll just try this selectricity poll for now so we don't get billions of votes here: http://selectricity.org/quickvote/debianrfslist So, I don't think those options accurately describe the choices. The options really are: 1. Send useful bts discussion as well as verbose control messages to

Bug#659522: prelink - problems with 0.0.20090925-4

2012-06-11 Thread Michael Gilbert
Since the last time I did the 20111012-1 package from 2090925-1 it worked flawlessly with the same dpatch - quilt script, I'm assuming some change took effect between revisions 1 and 4 that broke this package for quilt, but apparently not for dpatch. There were two patches applied in -2 that

Bug#659522: prelink - problems with 0.0.20090925-4

2012-06-11 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Daniel Martí wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 12:11:30PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: There were two patches applied in -2 that were cherry-picked from the upstream version you're working on now.  The patch systems will still be trying to apply those, but quilt

Bug#659522: RFS: prelink/20111012-1 [QA]

2012-06-11 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Daniel Martí mv...@mvdan.cc wrote: Dear Debian Mentors, A new package can be found up at mentors.debian.net: http://mentors.debian.net/package/prelink http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/prelink/prelink_0.0.20111012-1.dsc Here is the full

Re: RFS: yubiserver/0.2-2 [RC]

2012-05-06 Thread Michael Gilbert
Changes since the last upload are: * Fixed buffer overruns. * Fixed FTBFS bug in debian/rules file. (Closes: Bug#666357)  Thanks to Lucas Nussbaum and Anibal Monsalve Salazar  for their help and for pointing this out. Hi, I've just reviewed this package. Since this apparently fixes some

Re: RFS: yubiserver/0.2-2 [RC]

2012-05-06 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Michael Gilbert michael.s.gilb...@gmail.com wrote: Changes since the last upload are: * Fixed buffer overruns. * Fixed FTBFS bug in debian/rules file. (Closes: Bug#666357)  Thanks to Lucas Nussbaum and Anibal Monsalve Salazar  for their help and for pointing

Bug#662076: RFS: pam-shield/0.9.2-3.3 [NMU] [RC]

2012-05-06 Thread Michael Gilbert
Hi, I've reviewed this package, and it looks good. A couple other tasks need to be done though: 1. Please send your nmu debdiff to #658830. 2. Since this is fixing a potential security issue, please send a message (including patch and a good description of the problem) to oss-sec [0]

Bug#659083: RFS: xmoto -- 2D motocross platform game

2012-05-06 Thread Michael Gilbert
Hi, I just reviewed this package. It looks good except for a couple issues: 1. bin/credits.rpl seems to be a binary file in the repacked upstream source (there may be others, but I stopped at that one) 2. I'm not sure that it's good practice to apply the patch directly within the upstream

My package sponsoring guidelines

2012-04-24 Thread Michael Gilbert
Hi, I'm going to be making some of my time available to review packages. So, I'm primarily interested in looking at work that fixes release-critical bugs, security issues, and just regular bugs as well (i.e. non-maintainer uploads, NMUs). So, if you're the bug fixing type, this is for you. I

Re: Mentors upload authentication

2012-02-20 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 5:27 AM, Stephen Gran wrote: In terms of gpg public keys, the user could simply upload theirs to a public_html alioth location, which would allow the mentors scraping algorithms to pick that up.  That process itself would be rather simple, and could be documented in a

Re: Mentors upload authentication

2012-02-16 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:17 AM, Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Michael Gilbert said: Based on discussion about making mentors official, one of the key requirements is contributor DMUP agreement and upload authentication. One thought I had recently was to move the file

Mentors upload authentication

2012-02-15 Thread Michael Gilbert
Based on discussion about making mentors official, one of the key requirements is contributor DMUP agreement and upload authentication. One thought I had recently was to move the file hosting functionality over to alioth, which already has the necessary authentication infrastructure. The process

Re: Mentors upload authentication

2012-02-15 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Paul Wise wrote: I don't think that will work, since you need to be in a project to get SSH access to alioth: http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/SSH#I.27m_unable_to_Connect_via_SSH.2C_... They could be made part of a new contributors project to start them out.

Re: Bug#657100: Please add a sponsorship-requests pseudo-package

2012-01-23 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 24 Jan 2012, Arno Töll wrote: Hence, please add a sponsorship-requests pseudo-package with debian-mentors@lists.debian.org as a package owner and we can get started. This seems like a good name to me as well. I still need the text

Re: Bug#657100: Please add a sponsorship-requests pseudo-package

2012-01-23 Thread Michael Gilbert
As for the usertag names, I came up with the following when writing support for this into reportbug: 'new': a sponsorship request for a brand new package, 'update': a sponsorship request for an update to a package you've gotten sponsored and uploaded

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-19 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Hi, I'm generally not a big fan to overuse the BTS for stuff it wasn't really designed for. This tends to result in complex processes that are difficult to follow for newcomers. That statement actually describes the Debian project as a

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-19 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org writes: * Gergely Nagy alger...@balabit.hu, 2012-01-19, 17:24: I might be mistaken, but the amount of NEW Why only NEW? Checking only NEW packages doesn't buy us more than, say, checking only package with with

Re: Making mentors.debian.net a .org (was: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests)

2012-01-19 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 6:47 AM, Arno Töll wrote: DSA is the team which makes a DNS CNAME record, or provides a hosting facility. In my interpretation they are not making facts by that. Making mentors.debian.net a .org makes the project official part of Debian, just like any other core team,

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-18 Thread Michael Gilbert
Hi, I just wanted to join the growing chorus of supporter for this proposal. I think its wonderful, and that's only partially because I resurrected the discussion a few months ago. On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: Hi, On Wed Jan 18, 2012 at 08:40:34 +0100, Raphael

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-18 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 7:43 AM, Arno Töll wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On 18.01.2012 08:40, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Dear DSA, do you think it's possible to have a CNAME mentors.debian.org pointing to mentors.debian.net? It's currently not hosted on a .d.o

Mentors/debexpo SOAP interface bugs

2011-11-04 Thread Michael Gilbert
Hi, I'm trying to make use of the mentors soap interface, but it seems to be broken.  I've tried both python-soappy and python-suds and get different errors for each.  Here is the output of the attached scripts that demonstrate the problems:    $ ./test-soappy    [...]    KeyError: u'xs'    $

Re: New software revision on mentors.debian.net

2011-09-30 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:30:49 +0200 Arno Töll wrote: Finally, a random poll: Are you bored from announcements like this, I make on this mailing list regarding Debexpo software updates and bugs since that's not /entirely/ on-topic here and you would hence prefer to use our own mailing list for

Re: reportbug: support for mentors.debian.org pseudo package

2011-09-30 Thread Michael Gilbert
Hi, On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:23:35 +0200 Arno Töll wrote: I appreciate your efforts and I like the idea of reportbug integration. I won't comment about the patch itself, I am not maintaining the reportbug package, so I can't judge. Thanks for your kind words. However please note,

Re: reportbug: support for mentors.debian.org pseudo package

2011-09-30 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 23:27:28 +0200 Arno Töll wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Michael, On 30.09.2011 21:57, Michael Gilbert wrote: Then let's get mentors officialized to tear down this barrier! This is not something I or you or anyone else could push forward

Re: What version of debian to develop debian packages?

2011-09-28 Thread Michael Gilbert
Paul Elliott wrote: What version of debian must you have to develop debian packages? mentors.debian.net complains about my standards version: W: libswe source: out-of-date-standards-version 3.9.1 (current is 3.9.2) But if I set this version 3.9.2 on the control file Then lintian

Re: At what point do I create a seperate -doc package for a library?

2011-09-28 Thread Michael Gilbert
Paul Elliott wrote: lintian -i -I is complaining about architecture-independent data: I: libswe-dev: arch-dep-package-has-big-usr-share 2121kB 78% N: N:The package has a significant amount of architecture-independent data N:(over 4MB, or over 2MB and more than 50% of the package)

reportbug: support for mentors.debian.org pseudo package

2011-09-28 Thread Michael Gilbert
-6.2.1gilbert1/debian/changelog 2011-09-29 00:16:40.0 -0400 @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +reportbug (6.2.1gilbert1) unstable; urgency=low + + * Add support for mentors.debian.org pseudo package. + + -- Michael Gilbert michael.s.gilb...@gmail.com Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:16:21 -0400 + reportbug (6.2.1) unstable

RFS: minetest

2011-09-13 Thread Michael Gilbert
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package minetest. * Package name: minetest Version : 0.2.20110731.3-1 Upstream Author : celero...@gmail.com * URL : http://celeron.55.lt/minetest * License : GPL-2+ Section : games It builds

RFS: jthread

2011-09-13 Thread Michael Gilbert
if someone uploaded this package for me. Best wishes, Michael Gilbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110913222650.5d7b47eb846a5c0c3ec79...@gmail.com

Tracking RFSs as bugs

2011-09-05 Thread Michael Gilbert
Hi, I've been thinking about how mentors works lately (after watching Asheesh's debconf11 talk). It seems like the 4 day response effort worked somewhat well for a while, but kind of tailed off, and I've been pondering what could be done instead that would have some staying power. I've noticed

Re: Tracking RFSs as bugs

2011-09-05 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Mon, 5 Sep 2011 20:51:47 +0100 Michael Tautschnig wrote: I'm all for tracking RFS in some more formal way, it would quite a bit reduce the load on my inbox (which I'm currently using for tracking). There is one fundamental difference, however, to, e.g, the release team: there is no

Re: Tracking RFSs as bugs

2011-09-05 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Mon, 5 Sep 2011 22:46:11 +0200 Jakub Wilk wrote: This is not a new idea: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2002/08/msg00262.html After reading through that old discussion, I conclude that the highly confrontational approach chosen by Raphael at that time lead to people basically tuning

Re: Best practice for changelog file

2011-08-25 Thread Michael Gilbert
Vsevolod Velichko wrote: Dear Charles, this the very thing I want to do, but as far as I can understand, I should replace that variables myself, am I right? When I try to put the variables in debian/changelog, dpkg-buildpackage fails with error: dpkg-buildpackage: source version

Re: RFS: lesstif2

2011-08-11 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:06:29 +0200 Paul Gevers wrote: On top of that, there are a few spelling corrections, and a couple cases of refactoring/improving the code in the standalone version. If this is really the case, I would propose to get these improvements into the libxpm package (and

Re: RFS: lesstif2

2011-08-08 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Mon, 08 Aug 2011 21:31:11 +0200 Paul Gevers wrote: Have you investigated the changes made by upstream lesstif in the embedded code and verified that they are not necessary? Hi, On the surface, the diff between the embeded library in lesstif and the standalone libxpm seem rather large.

RFS: lesstif2

2011-08-07 Thread Michael Gilbert
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Re: How to close open security issues

2011-06-04 Thread Michael Gilbert
Nikolaus Rath wrote: Hello, http://packages.qa.debian.org/f/fuse.html reports 4 open security issues. I prepared an upload that fixes them, but how do I tell the package tracking system that they are fixed? There seem to be no associated debian BTS numbers. I've added fixed version info

Re: RFS: gordon

2011-05-06 Thread Michael Gilbert
Michael Tautschnig wrote: Hi Michael, I am looking for a sponsor for my package gordon. * Package name: gordon Version : 0~git20101011-1 Section : utils [...] I had previously reviewed that package; sorry for taking so long for yet another round of

RFS: amphetamine/amphetamine-data

2011-03-14 Thread Michael Gilbert
Hi, I'm adopting amphetamine to close bug #544910, and I've brought the packaging more up to date. I would greatly appreciate review/sponsorship of the new packages: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/amphetamine http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/amphetamine-data Best

Re: RFS: enemy-territory

2011-02-21 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 11:52:08 +0100, Alessandro Ghedini wrote: Hello, On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 08:03:41PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package enemy-territory. * Package name: enemy-territory Version : 2.60-1 Upstream Author : id

RFS: yui-builder

2011-02-20 Thread Michael Gilbert
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package yui-builder. * Package name: yui-builder Version : 1.0.0b1-1 * URL : http://yuilibrary.com/projects/builder * License : BSD It builds these binary packages: yui-builder - a build environment for YUI The

RFS: unix-privesc-check

2011-02-20 Thread Michael Gilbert
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package unix-privesc-check. * Package name: unix-privesc-check Version : 1.4-1 * URL : http://pentestmonkey.net/tools/unix-privesc-check * License : GPL-2 Section : utils It builds these binary packages:

RFS: gordon

2011-02-20 Thread Michael Gilbert
/gordon/gordon_0~git20101011-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Best wishes, Michael Gilbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

RFS: enemy-territory

2011-02-20 Thread Michael Gilbert
-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/contrib/e/enemy-territory/enemy-territory_2.60-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Michael Gilbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: RFS: unix-privesc-check

2011-02-20 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 19:56:29 -0500 Michael Gilbert wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package unix-privesc-check. * Package name: unix-privesc-check Version : 1.4-1 * URL : http://pentestmonkey.net/tools/unix-privesc-check * License

RFS: xpdf (updated package)

2010-12-19 Thread Michael Gilbert
Hi, Would anyone be so kind as to sponsor an RC bug fix upload for xpdf? A diff is attached. The package is available for review at: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/x/xpdf Thanks, Mike xpdf.debdiff Description: Binary data

Re: RFS: xpdf (updated package)

2010-12-19 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:31:52 + Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 07:21:46PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: Would anyone be so kind as to sponsor an RC bug fix upload for xpdf? A diff is attached. The package is available for review at: http://mentors.debian.net/debian

Re: RFS: libvdpau (updated package)

2010-11-12 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:37:39 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Michael Gilbert michael.s.gilb...@gmail.com writes: Would anyone be willing to sponsor another RC-fix upload? This new libvdpau package fixes bug #603220: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libvdpau Thank you very much

Re: RFS: libvdpau (updated package)

2010-11-12 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:09:46 +0100, Michael Tautschnig wrote: Hi Michael, On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:37:39 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Michael Gilbert michael.s.gilb...@gmail.com writes: Would anyone be willing to sponsor another RC-fix upload? This new libvdpau package fixes bug

Re: RFS: libvdpau (updated package)

2010-11-12 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:54:53 -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: Hi, Would anyone be willing to sponsor another RC-fix upload? This new libvdpau package fixes bug #603220: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libvdpau Just FYI, I'm withdrawing this request since the maintainers

Re: RFS: libvdpau (updated package)

2010-11-12 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:58:23 +0100, Michael Tautschnig wrote: Hi again, [...] I'm sure you are aware of [1]. The second item of Before doing an NMU states: Did you give enough time to the maintainer? Unless I got something wrong, there weren't more than a few hours

RFS: libvdpau (updated package)

2010-11-11 Thread Michael Gilbert
Hi, Would anyone be willing to sponsor another RC-fix upload? This new libvdpau package fixes bug #603220: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libvdpau Thanks, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: RFS: wine (updated package)

2010-11-10 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 2:03 AM, gregor herrmann wrote: On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 23:08:50 -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: Would anyone be willing to sponsor an RC-fix upload?  This new wine package fixes bug #602872: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/w/wine Uploaded to DELAYED/7. Thanks

RFS: wine (updated package)

2010-11-08 Thread Michael Gilbert
Hi, Would anyone be willing to sponsor an RC-fix upload? This new wine package fixes bug #602872: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/w/wine Thanks, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Uploading during freeze time

2010-10-12 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 08:55:11 -0500, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: On 11 October 2010 19:02, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso jord...@gmail.com writes: The *real* problem is that labelling Firefox 3.6 as experimental is downright silly. Hm, okay.  I guess

Re: Uploading during freeze time

2010-10-12 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:44:51 -0500, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: I just realised, the packages I'm complaining about are essentially squeeze backports. That is, they're packages that the packager wishes could have gone into squeeze but can't because of the freeze, so they go into

Re: Four days

2010-10-06 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 16:30:37 +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: One is to use the mentors mailing list as the maintainer for mentee packages. That way the burden of quickly orphaned packages is dispersed over the whole set of mentors rather than just one. Perhaps that will encourage more DD

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