Doubt about using a forked version for a new package release

2017-09-28 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! I would like to have some opinions and suggestions about the best action when updating a package that has a forked version. The forked version is better updated, maintained and has improvements over the original version. Debian has pngnq at version 1.0 with the latest upstream version at 1.1

Re: RFS: mdbtools (30 days)

2011-11-06 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! 2011/11/6 Jean-Michel Vourgère jmv_...@nirgal.com: I am still looking for a sponsor for my package mdbtools. The former maintainer, Tim Retout, has no time to sponsor it after all. I will take a look at it. Will send you a message later. Best regards, Nelson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Watch file for inconsistently versioned simple C-source download

2011-03-03 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi Andreas! On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Andreas Tille andr...@an3as.eu wrote: any idea (besides simply asking upstream for a more consistent distribution of the source)? Won't this work? version=3 http://www.microbesonline.org/fasttree/ FastTree-(.*)\.c Best regards, Nelson -- To

Re: RFS: ora2pg (updated package)

2010-06-20 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 3:02 AM, Julián Moreno Patiño darkju...@gmail.com wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 6.2-1 of my package ora2pg. Uploaded. Thank you! Best regards, Nelson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: RFS: ora2pg (updated package)

2010-05-23 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Julián Moreno Patiño darkju...@gmail.com wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 6.1-1 of my package ora2pg. Uploaded. Thank you for your work! Best regards, Nelson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: RFS: hlbr (updated package)

2010-03-01 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Eriberto eribe...@eriberto.pro.br wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.7.2-1 of my package hlbr. Uploaded. Best regards, Nelson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: RFS: docbook-slides-demo (updated package)

2010-02-26 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Mathieu Malaterre mathieu.malate...@gmail.com wrote: - Why the repackaging? All you do is to move the only existing directory from the tarball into its own tarball? Please don't do this (see the Debian reject FAQ). This will also solve the next comment:

Re: RFS: slimrat

2010-01-26 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Michal Čihař ni...@debian.org wrote: You should use ${source:Version} for arch:all packages as these can not be binnmued. This is true when we are declaring a dependency of an arch:any package to an arch:all. But for slimrat, there are two arch:all packages

Re: RFS: pgn-extract (adopting orphaned package)

2010-01-04 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Christoph Egger christ...@debian.org wrote: Looking at it currently. However your watchfile seems to be dysfunctional, otherwise the package looks fine to me. (...) % uscan --report-status Useless content call in void context at

Re: RFS: googleearth-package (updated package)

2009-12-05 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 1:08 PM, ad...@foolcontrol.org wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.5.7 of my package googleearth-package. Remove debian/changelog.dch.save Also, you could take a look at https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/googleearth-package/0.5.6ubuntu2

Re: RFS: pgtune

2009-11-03 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Rodolphe Quiedeville rodol...@quiedeville.org wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package pgtune. I will take a look at it. Will send you a message later. Best regards, Nelson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: MUMmer patches and Artistic license.

2009-07-04 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi Charles! On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Charles Plessyple...@debian.org wrote: we have a patch in the Debian package mummer for which we lost origin and detailed description. I would like to forward it upstream, but I would prefer to know what it does before ;) Would somebody have a few

Re: RFS: pgdbf

2009-06-29 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 2:22 AM, Chris Taylorch...@code-monkeys.org wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package pgdbf. I will take a look at it. Best regards, Nelson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: RFS: audiopreview

2009-06-26 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi Chris! On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Chris Taylorch...@code-monkeys.org wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package audiopreview. I will take a look at it. Best regards, Nelson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: RFS: libnet (updated package) (try #3) (2nd new upstream version)

2009-06-10 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi Stefanos! 2009/6/10 Stefanos Harhalakis v...@v13.gr: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.1.4-1 of my package libnet. I will take a look at it. Best regards, Nelson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: RFS: cppcheck, new upstream version 1.33

2009-06-10 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi Reijo! On Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:00:57 +0300 Reijo Tomperi aggr...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: New upstream version was released, so I made a new Debian package of it. Uploaded. Just as a suggestion for your next revision, you could remove the A from cppcheck's short description (staying

Re: RFS: libemu

2008-10-30 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 3:01 AM, Chris Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package libemu. I will take a look at it. Best regards, Nelson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: recoverjpeg (updated package)

2008-10-27 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 4:51 AM, William Vera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, any DD can help me to upload? the package is clean and it's updated to upstreams's new version. I will take a look at it. Best regards, Nelson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: RFS: scrot (updated package)

2008-10-27 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi again! On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 5:05 AM, William Vera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Mentors, any uploader for scrot? the package is clean I will see this one too :-) Best regards, Nelson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: RFS: libnet (adopted and updated package)

2008-09-11 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi David! On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 7:08 AM, David Paleino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.1.2.1-3 of the package libnet, which I'm adopting (ITA #483710). I will take a look at it. Best regards, Nelson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: disk-manager

2008-06-19 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi David! On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:55 PM, David Paleino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've prepared a new package to be included in Debian: disk-manager (ITP #486699 [1]). It's missing some dependencies to build: libxml-parser-perl and python-gtk2 Can you verify this? Thank you! Best regards,

Re: RFS: disk-manager

2008-06-19 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 5:18 PM, David Paleino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (no need to CC me, thanks!) OK :-) You can get the updated package at the usual URL: Uploaded. Thank you! Best regards, Nelson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: RFS: macchanger (adopted package)

2008-06-02 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi David! On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 5:08 PM, David Paleino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.5.0-2 of macchanger, which I'm adopting. I will look at it. Best regards, Nelson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: RFS: john (adopted and updated package)

2008-04-18 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi David! On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 11:19 AM, David Paleino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.7.2-1 of the package john, which I'm adopting. This one I have interest in sponsoring :-) I will take a look at it and soon I send you a message. Best regards,

Re: RFS: polipo (updated package)

2007-10-11 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi Denis! On 10/11/07, DS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.0.3-1 of my package polipo. Actually you didn't change the watch file, as you have described in your changelog :-) Best regards, Nelson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: RFS: cellwriter

2007-09-09 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On 9/9/07, Neil Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nelson A. de Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And it's not necessary to have Encoding=UTF-8 in cellwriter.desktop. I would recommend reinstating the Encoding line and testing all future desktop files with desktop-file-validate, part

Re: RFS: cellwriter

2007-09-08 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On 9/8/07, Michael Levin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not necessary to install README (this info is already on the package description and on the manpage). AUTHORS is also included on debian/copyright, so I don't see a need to install it too. It's a GNU standard to have it, so why

Re: RFS: cellwriter

2007-09-08 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi Michael! Your package looks good. There are only 3 small things that you may want to do (or you can do them on a latter version of your package). On 9/8/07, Michael Levin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 20:12 -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: There is no problem

Re: RFS: cellwriter

2007-09-07 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi Michael! On 9/7/07, Michael Levin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, your debian/copyright is basically empty and (maybe) you need to review debian/rules. Fixed the copyright. The rules file works fine as far as I can tell. I know that it's working, but I only asked because of this line on

Re: RFS: cellwriter

2007-09-06 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi Michael! On 9/6/07, Michael Levin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've reuploaded the package with these changes. You are using a different source code than the original one (md5sum of them): abfc4789241a09b14a99f27f7d5c5566 cellwriter-1.0.0.tar.gz d1dad3e165314efe605469e015548820

Re: RFS: museek+ (updated package)

2007-09-06 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On 9/6/07, Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.1.13+svn.20070906.r740-1 of my package museek+. Uploaded. Thank you! Best regards, Nelson

Re: In-Program documentation

2007-09-05 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On 9/5/07, Jörg Sommer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note [78]: The system administrator should be able to delete files in /usr/share/doc/ without causing any programs to break. Is anywhere said when a program break? Are missing help files (available via menu entry) a breakage? If the

Re: In-Program documentation

2007-09-04 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On 9/4/07, Jörg Sommer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's a little known requirement that packages continue to work after /u/s/doc is removed. So it's not allowed to install required files there. You could do (2) or (3) with links *from* u/s/d

Re: RFS: ntfs-3g (updated package)

2007-08-30 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
On 8/30/07, Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1:1.826-1 of my package ntfs-3g. Uploaded. Best regards, Nelson

Re: RFS: cellwriter

2007-08-21 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Nice to see how I sent the wrong email :-( Hi! On 8/21/07, Michael Levin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 22:38 +0100, Jonny Lamb wrote: * debian/control has a format for homepage URLs, which is *two* spaces then Homepage: http://www.example.com/; I can't find mention of

Re: RFS: ophcrack (updated package)

2007-08-20 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On 8/20/07, Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.4.1~debian-1 of my package ophcrack. Uploaded. Best regards, Nelson

Re: RFS: ufiformat

2007-08-16 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On 8/16/07, David Given [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package ufiformat. I will take a look at it. Best regards, Nelson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: audtty

2007-08-16 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi Chris! On 8/17/07, Chris Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I uploaded the corrected package to mentors.debian.net: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/audtty/audtty_0.1.5a-1.dsc I will review it. Best regards, Nelson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: RFS: qink (updated package)

2007-08-15 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On 8/15/07, Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.3.1-2 of my package qink. Uploaded. I hope that you don't mind about this: diff -urN debian/changelog qink-0.3.1/debian/changelog --- debian/changelog2007-08-15

Re: RFS: xawtv (updated package)

2007-08-15 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On 8/15/07, Krzysztof Burghardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 3.95.dfsg.1-5 of my package xawtv. Uploaded. On your next revision you can verify these lintian messages: I: xawtv: possible-non-posix-code-in-maintainer-script config:15 'test -c

Re: RFS: deluge-torrent (updated package)

2007-08-12 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi Adam! On 8/12/07, Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.5.4.1-1 of my package deluge-torrent. The first thing is that your deluge-torrent_0.5.4.1.orig.tar.gz is not the original tarball. It have a modified setup.py and a lot of .lo

Re: RFS: deluge-torrent (updated package)

2007-08-12 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On 8/12/07, Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, it has been fixed and re-uploaded. However, lintian still show a warning about debian/menu. I don't understand why, please ignore it or fix it by yourself if you understand what's wrong :) From

Re: RFS: aqualung (updated package)

2007-08-10 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On 8/10/07, Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.9~beta8-1 of my package aqualung. Uploaded too. This can be fixed on the next revision/version: W: aqualung: desktop-entry-invalid-category Application

Re: RFS: ntfs-3g (updated package)

2007-08-10 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi Adam! On 8/10/07, Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1:1.810-1 of my package ntfs-3g. There :-) Best regards, Nelson

Re: RFS: libinklevel (updated package)

2007-08-10 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On 8/10/07, Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.7.2-1 of my package libinklevel. Uploaded. Best regards, Nelson

Re: RFS: boa (updated package)

2007-08-10 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On 8/10/07, Francois-Denis Gonthier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a bit strange, because the package I've uploaded was actually built using cowbuilder, and it builds flawlessly using that. (I just retried) It fails here too. The patch below fix this: $ diff -urN debian debian.old/ diff

Re: RFS: boa (updated package)

2007-08-10 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi again! On 8/10/07, Nelson A. de Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/10/07, Francois-Denis Gonthier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a bit strange, because the package I've uploaded was actually built using cowbuilder, and it builds flawlessly using that. (I just retried) It fails

Re: RFS: boa (updated package)

2007-08-10 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On 8/10/07, Francois-Denis Gonthier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have reuploaded the package on mendors.debian.net. You don't need these lines on debian/rules. Patches are automagically handled by /usr/share/quilt/quilt.make. diff -urN debian.old/rules debian/rules --- debian.old/rules

Re: RFS: ntfs-3g (updated package)

2007-08-08 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi Adam! On 8/8/07, Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1:1.710-2 of my package ntfs-3g. Uploaded. I don't know if you prefer, but you can contact me directly if you need to have another version/revision of the packages that I have

Re: RFS: ntfs-3g (updated package)

2007-08-08 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi Adam! On 8/8/07, Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would you sponsor my wx2.8 ubuntu sync uploads ? Hum... I am afraid that it is more complex than just maintaining a sync from Ubuntu... :-/ If you could contact other interested people in getting wxdidgets2.8 on Debian, like

Re: RFS: ink (updated package)

2007-07-27 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On 7/27/07, Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.4.1-1 of my package ink. Uploaded. Thank you! Best regards, Nelson

Re: RFS: qink

2007-07-27 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi again! On 7/26/07, Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package qink. Uploaded too. Best regards, Nelson

Re: RFS: wmmemload (updated package)

2007-07-25 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On 7/25/07, Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The upstream homepage can be found at http://www.markstaggs.net/.; Please use the Homepage tag like described in 6.3.4 dev-ref. Developer's reference section 6.3.4 is Supplementing changelogs with NEWS.Debian files. You mean section 6.2.4

Re: RFS: wmmemload (updated package)

2007-07-25 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On 7/25/07, Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Nelson A. de Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-07-25 17:48]: It's a recommendation. It's not wrong to don't use Homepage on the package long description. Who sad it's wrong? I just asked why he doesn't use it. Please use the Homepage tag

Re: RFS: ntfs-3g (updated package)

2007-07-11 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi all! On 7/11/07, Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1:1.710-1 of my package ntfs-3g. It's uploaded. Thank you for your contribution :-) And for the support team of mentors.d.n: The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:

Re: RFS: ntfs-3g (updated package)

2007-07-11 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi Christoph! On 7/11/07, chaas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It annoyed me on the todo list so I fixed it and the RFS template now shows the correct URLs. Please let me know if URL are still not working. Thank you very much for your attention and your work! Best regards, Nelson -- To

Re: staying in stable but compiling for sid

2007-04-13 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi Kamaraju! On 4/13/07, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any other elegant solution? I have heard about chroot, pbuilder etc., Will they be of any help in this scenario? Yep. I would go with pbuilder. ;-) Best regards, Nelson -- bash:

Re: RFS: mtpaint

2007-04-08 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi Muammar! On 4/9/07, Muammar Wadih El Khatib Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package mtpaint. I will take a look at it and then I send you an email. Nelson -- bash: ~/bin/program-to-generate-a-random-signature: No such file or directory -- To

Re: RFS: quickplot (updated package)

2007-02-06 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi Muammar! On 2/6/07, Muammar Wadih El Khatib Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The new revision of the package can be found on mentors.debian.net: Uploaded! Thank you for your work. Best regards, Nelson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: RFS: quickplot (updated package)

2007-02-05 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi Muammar! On 2/6/07, Muammar Wadih El Khatib Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.8.6-3 of my package quickplot. On debian/changelog there is: * New upstream release. But actually it isn't a new upstream release, right? (as I can see on [1],

Re: Required package in build-deps?

2007-01-29 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi Laurent! On 1/29/07, Laurent Bigonville [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sould I add procps package to the build-deps or is this a problem with buildd? I am not 100% sure, but based on the explanation below, I would say that you need to add procps as a build-dep: cdebootstrap has 3 flavours of

Re: RFS: pam-keyring (Was Re: Required package in build-deps?)

2007-01-29 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
On 1/29/07, Laurent Bigonville [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone upload the new package for me? Uploaded! Thank you for your work. Best regards, Nelson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SVN snapshot versioning

2007-01-22 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On 1/22/07, Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess it depends. If there has been no stable release with a version number, then something like 20070112svn is what I would use for I would suggest using 0.0.date [1] snapshots between releases, I would do something

Re: dropping dependencies for a package

2006-12-30 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi Carlo! On 12/30/06, Carlo Segre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If a new version of a package drops a dependency on a previously required package, should an install-time reminder be given to the user? I don't really want to add debconf clutter for such a trivial matter but it is probably not good

Re: binary files in diff

2006-11-08 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On 11/8/06, Frank Gevaerts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to add a binary file (a png icon) to my package. What is the best way to do this, since the normal .diff generation does not support this ? Use uuencode. See

Re: 2 ftpds packages conflicts

2006-11-06 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On 11/6/06, Jean-Sebastien Pilon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It might not be the best place to aask this, but I have been seeking for help elsewhere and found no satisfactory resolution to my problem and it is package related ;) debian-user maybe. Any idea how i can fix this ? You can

Re: 2 ftpds packages conflicts

2006-11-06 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Argh, now I saw your problem! You already have it installed. I don't know how to help on this Sorry :-( Nelson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2 ftpds packages conflicts

2006-11-06 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi (one more time) You can get the source of the package, edit debian/control and remove Conflicts: ftp-server and Provides: ftp-server, rebuild the package and install it. You will need to do this with only one package (vsftpd or pure-ftpd). The problem is that if you want to keep it updated,

Re: Re: RFS: renrot - a program to rename and rotate files according to EXIF tags [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2006-11-06 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi Neil! On 11/6/06, Neil Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All of the parts which would be needed for a full upload (.changes, .dsc, .orig.tar.gz, .diff.gz, and .deb) can be downloaded from following site: ftp://andriy.asplinux.com.ua/pub/people/andy/renrot/Debian/ Some small things: Since

Re: RFS: renrot - a program to rename and rotate files according to EXIF tags [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2006-11-06 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi Andy! On 11/6/06, Andy Shevchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: Since the package isn't on Debian, it's good to open an ITP bug (so we avoid duplicated work and everybody will see that you are working on this package). And this bug needs to be closed on the package

Re: Modifying upstream source

2006-10-21 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi Martin! On 10/21/06, Martin Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a package called pyecm where the upstream distributes a pyecm.py file but in Debian I'd like it to be called pyecm as that's a much better command name (it's being used as a shell script and not a module). If pyecm will be

Doubt about license

2006-09-26 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi mentors! I am creating a package of a program that have several files with: * The contents of this file are subject to the Netscape Public * License Version 1.1 (the License); you may not use this file * except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of * the License at

Re: Doubt about license

2006-09-26 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On 9/26/06, James Westby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Asking the upstream author about the license of the program, he said that it's legacy code and the program is licensed under GPL only. He holds the copyright on this code? The full copyright message is: * The contents of this file are

Re: Packing WNPP

2006-09-19 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi Henrique! On 9/19/06, Henrique Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to adopt rpl, a newcomer package in WNPP. Must I be a DD the adopt this package? Or I pack it and look for a sponsor? You don't need to be a DD! Everybody can create a package for Debian. But it looks that someone

Re: Bug not found: what am I doing wrong?

2006-08-24 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On 8/24/06, Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 09:26:12PM -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira a écrit : I think that it's because the bug is already archived. Archived bugs can't be modified. At the top of http://bugs.debian.org/136004 there is: Bug is archived

Re: Bug not found: what am I doing wrong?

2006-08-23 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi Charles! On 8/23/06, Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a bit puzzled because the bug 136004 exists... http://bugs.debian.org/136004 Does anybody has an idea of what I am doing wrong? I think that it's because the bug is already archived. Archived bugs can't be modified. At the

Re: RFS: advanced PNG (Portable Network Graphics) optimizer

2006-08-06 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! Alexander Schmehl uploaded OptiPNG for me. Thank you all. Best regards, Nelson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help with watch file

2006-08-05 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On 8/5/06, Kapil Hari Paranjape [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But why on my system it is not working without --pasv? Everybody else (that answered) just used uscan --verbose and it worked... Can somebody, please, explain this to me? 2. Your network has a transparent proxy setup. This one

Re: RFS: advanced PNG (Portable Network Graphics) optimizer

2006-08-05 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On 8/5/06, Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 04:57 -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: I am searching for a sponsor for OptiPNG. Hmm, I thought you would have a permanent sponsor by now. Florian Ragwitz has been sponsoring OptiPNG for me. But I have contacted him

Help with watch file

2006-08-04 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi mentors! I have one watch file with the following lines: version=3 ftp://ftp.genetics.wustl.edu/pub/eddy/software/squid-(.*)\.tar\.gz Doing an uscan --verbose, I get: $ uscan --verbose -- Scanning for watchfiles in . -- Found watchfile in ./debian -- In debian/watch, processing watchfile

Re: Help with watch file

2006-08-04 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On 8/4/06, Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the correct line to get versions from a FTP directory, with files like ftp://ftp.genetics.wustl.edu/pub/eddy/software/squid-1.9g.tar.gz? Add debian uupdate (without quotes) at the end of the line in the watch file. Still

Re: Help with watch file

2006-08-04 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On 8/4/06, martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I guess the watch file syntax is correct. Maybe some network problem at your side or at ftp.genetics.wustl.edu? Consider passive mode on/off ? Yes, it was this. Using uscan --pasv --verbose with uscan from Sid and from Sarge it

RFS: advanced PNG (Portable Network Graphics) optimizer

2006-08-01 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi mentors! I am searching for a sponsor for OptiPNG. It's an updated package (new upstream release). Linda and lintian clean and builds OK on pbuilder. Files are here: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/o/optipng/optipng_0.5.3-1.dsc

Re: Advice with static only library

2006-07-30 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On 7/30/06, Neil McGovern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 09:45:45PM -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: Now the doubt: do I provide the static library only or do I create shared librarys, as suggested? A fairly simple approach would be: does anything else use

Advice with static only library

2006-07-29 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi mentors! I am with one doubt. I have a program that creates some binary files and a static library (no shared library). After talking with the upstream author, he said that his program is very stable and it makes everything that he wants (and he won't modify it to include dynamic libraries,

RFS (again): pngnq - tool for optimizing PNG (Portable Network Graphics) images

2006-07-14 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! One week ago I have sent a message (http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/07/msg00148.html) requesting a sponsor for one package (pngnq), but I got no answers :-( The package is very simple and it's already on Debian. It's OK with pbuilder, linda and lintian. If someone could verify

[RFS] pngnq - tool for optimizing PNG (Portable Network Graphics) images

2006-07-08 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! A new version of pngnq was released and I have updated my package. It's building OK on pbuilder and is lintian and linda clean. Could someone, please, upload it for me? Files are available here: http://biolinux.df.ibilce.unesp.br/naoliv/pngnq/ Or the direct links:

Re: Build depends....?

2006-06-23 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On 6/23/06, Mihai Felseghi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello dear mentors , please tell me if there is a method of finding the build depends for a piece of software (so i can fill the Build-Depends field of the control file)? I tried to use the script from New Maintainers Guide but it gave

[RFS] pngcrush - optimizes PNG (Portable Network Graphics) files

2006-06-19 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! Kapil and I are searching for a sponsor for pngcrush. It's a new upstream release, fixing one bug and some typos on pngcrush manpage. Files are here: http://biolinux.df.ibilce.unesp.br/naoliv/pngcrush/ And just one thing, please. Build with -v1.6.2-1 so the changes from version 1.6.3-1

[RFS] pngnq - tool for optimizing PNG (Portable Network Graphics) images

2006-06-18 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! Can someone, please, do an upload of pngnq for me? It's fixing a FTBFS. Files are here: http://biolinux.df.ibilce.unesp.br/naoliv/pngnq/ Thank you very much! Best regards, Nelson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: [RFS] OptiPNG - advanced PNG (Portable Network Graphics) optimizer

2006-06-18 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On 6/18/06, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 18 Jun 2006, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: What have changed: - foo; - bar; - bla; - the last change. It's just a personal taste. It is also how lists should be handled in certain languages (like Brazilian

[RFS] OptiPNG - advanced PNG (Portable Network Graphics) optimizer

2006-06-17 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! Could someone, please, verify and upload (if there are no problems) an updated package of OptiPNG, please? It's a new upstream version, fixing one bug and one typo. Also, OptiPNG is already on Debian (kindly sponsored by Florian Ragwitz). Files are all available here:

Re: [RFS] OptiPNG - advanced PNG (Portable Network Graphics) optimizer

2006-06-17 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi On 6/17/06, Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But is there a reason for using ';' instead of '.' in changelog lines? When I use ; I try to say that there are more itens after the current one. A period means it's the end, there isn't anything more below this line. It's something like

Re: optional building of a package

2006-06-05 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On 6/5/06, Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to make sure that probcons-extra will depend on the probcons package with the same version as itself? Yes. Just use Depends: probcons (= ${Source-Version}) inside the probcons-extra section. Best regards, Nelson -- To

Re: optional building of a package

2006-06-05 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On 6/5/06, Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 09:29 -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: Just use Depends: probcons (= ${Source-Version}) Please don't use Source-Version - from the dpkg-gencontrol manual: The source package version (from the changelog file

Re: Debian package without released upstream source

2006-06-04 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On 6/4/06, Jörg Sommer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, my question is: Can I release a package that bases on not-released sources? If so, I request for an sponsor. Otherwise, what should I do? Wait? Well... you can. I saw on

Re: Debian package without released upstream source

2006-06-04 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi Jörg! On 6/4/06, Jörg Sommer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw on http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10646release_id=241671 that it's a release candidate version, right? No. The source is here: http://dev.atmarama.org/xindy-2.2-beta2.tar.gz It's really outside of

Re: help with gmail-notify

2006-06-03 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On 6/1/06, Joseph Smidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lintian keeps complaining I do not list a dependancy on python. But no matter what I put, including python in all its forms it still complians. I was wondering if somebody could comment on my package to see what I am doing wrong. It you

Re: optional building of a package

2006-06-02 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On 6/3/06, Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the other hand, it could simply build a probcons-extra package by default, with a clear description saying that it is likely that probcons-extra will not be useful to the persons tempted to install it. My opinion is that it's better to

Re: optional building of a package

2006-06-02 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
On 6/3/06, Franz Pletz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 01:46:35PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: ambiguous names (convert, makegunplut, project) which will not be useful Please keep in mind that there's already a convert binary in imagemagick, so you should either not install

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