Bug#846974: RFS: bit-babbler/0.6~bpo8+1

2016-12-04 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
-x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/b/bit-babbler/bit-babbler_0.6~bpo8+1.dsc Changes since the last upload: bit-babbler (0.6~bpo8+1) jessie-backports; urgency=medium * Rebuild for jessie-backports. -- Nicholas D Steeves Thu, 01 Dec 2016 23:47:57 -0500 bit-babbler (0.6) unstabl

Bug#846973: RFS: sndio/1.1.0-3~bpo8+1

2016-12-04 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
+1) jessie-backports; urgency=medium * Rebuild for jessie-backports. -- Nicholas D Steeves Fri, 02 Dec 2016 00:04:10 -0500 sndio (1.1.0-3) unstable; urgency=medium * From Helmut Grohne: "Fix FTCBFS: Pass cross compiler to configure." Thanks! (Closes: #843055) * sndiod

Bug#844184: RFS: muse-el/3.20+dfsg-1 [ITA]

2016-11-29 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Updated package was uploaded to mentors over the weekend.

Bug#844184: RFS: muse-el/3.20+dfsg-1 [ITA]

2016-11-24 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 07:25:29PM -0500, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > > 5. There are a lot of Lintian warnings. Please make the package > > Lintian-clean. > > I'm having trouble with "W: elpa-muse: syntax-error-in-debian-news-file > line 68 "found eof whe

Bug#844184: RFS: muse-el/3.20+dfsg-1 [ITA]

2016-11-24 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi Sean, Thank you very much for all your help and for this review! Would you please pull my working copy from here: git+ssh://git.debian.org/git/pkg-emacsen/pkg/muse-el.git here: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-emacsen/pkg/muse-el.git or consult this: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-emac

Bug#844184: RFS: muse-el/3.20+dfsg-1 [ITA]

2016-11-12 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
; before reading this bug report. (Closes: #720126) * Patch README to explain how installed files relate to src:muse-el. -- Nicholas D Steeves Tue, 18 Oct 2016 20:58:45 -0400 Regards, Nicholas D Steeves

Bug#839544: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.7.3-1~bpo8+1

2016-10-01 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
7.3-1~bpo8+1) jessie-backports; urgency=medium * Rebuild for jessie-backports. -- Nicholas D Steeves Sun, 25 Sep 2016 21:47:36 -0400 btrfs-progs (4.7.3-1) unstable; urgency=medium * New upstream release. -- Dimitri John Ledkov Thu, 22 Sep 2016 14:48:05 +0100 btrfs-progs (4.7.2-1

Bug#837040: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.7.2-0.1 [RC NMU]

2016-09-08 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 02:26:17PM +, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > Hi Adam, > > >Actually, if you've read responses to this bug report: > > > I read them, but the title for the RFS was wrong, we were talking about > unstable. > > The RFS is targeting testing, that is impossible because t

Bug#837040: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.7.2-0.1 [RC NMU]

2016-09-07 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Control: retitle -1 'RFS: btrfs-progs/4.7.2-0.1 [RC NMU]' Was almost asleep and then realised this; here is the correct link: dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/b/btrfs-progs/btrfs-progs_4.7.2-0.1.dsc Humble regards, Nicholas signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#837040: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.7.1-1~bpo8+1 [RC NMU]

2016-09-07 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 07:11:31AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 12:57:32AM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > > Package: sponsorship-requests > > Severity: grave > > > > I am looking for a sponsor for an urgent NMU of "btrfs-progs"

Bug#837040: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.7.1-1~bpo8+1 [RC NMU]

2016-09-07 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: grave Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for an urgent NMU of "btrfs-progs". Upstream has marked this as an "urgent fix" < https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Changelog#btrfs-progs-4.7.2_.28Sep_2016.29 > Sept 5th I filed bug #836778 notifying

Re: [ITA] muse-el, with issues, and questions

2016-08-30 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
P.S. git://repo.or.cz/muse-el.git is another possible valid source, and also has gpg-signed releases/tags. I'm unclear whether the github repo is the master or the mirror. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [ITA] muse-el, with issues, and questions

2016-08-30 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 09:26:24AM +, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > Hi, > > > > >> Also, it's now xz compressed, which I anticipated is something > >> Gianfranco might hassle me about if I didn't enable haha.> > > > >If you're not uploading a new upstream version you can't change the > >tar

Bug#835551: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.7.x-1~bpo8+1

2016-08-30 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi Gianfranco, > > >I also just uploaded 4.7.1 to Debian mentors. > > >Will the deferred queue automatically drop the proposed 4.7.1 bpo in case a > >major regression prevents the sid package from migrating to testing? > > > no, it won't prevent the drop, this is something I have to remember t

Re: [ITA] muse-el, with issues, and questions

2016-08-29 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On 29 August 2016 at 17:15, James Cowgill wrote: > On 29/08/16 21:49, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm adopting muse-el. Right now it's a work-in-progress. The steps I >> took to fixup this package can be found here: >> >> https://gith

Re: [ITA] muse-el, with issues, and questions

2016-08-29 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi Sean, On 29 August 2016 at 17:35, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 10:15:08PM +0100, James Cowgill wrote: >> > Finally, is now the time to fix the >> > debian-rules-missing-recommended-target warning? I'm saving homepage >> > and Vcs fields for last. >> >> Yes, those t

Re: [ITA] muse-el, with issues, and questions

2016-08-29 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On 29 August 2016 at 16:49, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > Hi, > > I'm adopting muse-el. Right now it's a work-in-progress. The steps I > took to fixup this package can be found here: > > https://github.com/sten0/muse-el > clone: https://github.com/sten0/muse-

[ITA] muse-el, with issues, and questions

2016-08-29 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi, I'm adopting muse-el. Right now it's a work-in-progress. The steps I took to fixup this package can be found here: https://github.com/sten0/muse-el clone: https://github.com/sten0/muse-el.git I've also uploaded a package, with "-sa" full sources for review here: https://mentors.debian.net/

Bug#835551: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.7-1~bpo8+1

2016-08-26 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
trfs-progs (4.7-1~bpo8+1) jessie-backports; urgency=medium * Rebuild for jessie-backports. -- Nicholas D Steeves Fri, 26 Aug 2016 19:19:01 -0400 btrfs-progs (4.7-1) unstable; urgency=medium * New upstream release. -- Dimitri John Ledkov Thu, 11 Aug 2016 12:52:07 +0100 btrfs-progs (4.6.

Bug#833312: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.6.1-1~bpo8+1

2016-08-02 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On 2 August 2016 at 18:11, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > in any case, I would prefer to see it fixed in unstable. > BTW such errors are normal when using backports, so fixing a single package > is worse than no fix at all (specially when the fix is "problematic") > > I would prefer to do a no-cha

Bug#833312: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.6.1-1~bpo8+1

2016-08-02 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
mitri.led...@surgut.co.uk ... Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 11:32:32 +0100 ... Message-ID: Subject: Re: Problem with btrfs-progs package From: Dimitri John Ledkov To: Uher Marek Cc: Nicholas D Steeves , debian-backpo...@lists.debian.org Thank you :-) Nicholas

Bug#833312: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.6.1-1~bpo8+1

2016-08-02 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
) jessie-backports; urgency=medium * Rebuild for jessie-backports. -- Nicholas D Steeves Tue, 26 Jul 2016 16:58:05 -0400 btrfs-progs (4.6.1-1) unstable; urgency=high [ Dimitri John Ledkov ] * New upstream release * Update debian/copyright as package is mostly GPL-2 only, not GPL-2

Bug#829205: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.5.3-0.1

2016-07-08 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi Adam, On 8 July 2016 at 08:58, Adam Borowski wrote: > Might be RC but certainly isn't urgent. I don't see Nicholas pointing any > of the upstream changes as immediately important (and I _do_ read > linux-bt...@vger.kernel.org); debian/copyright changes are hardly ever > time-sentitive too. F

Bug#829205: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.5.3-0.1

2016-07-08 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
understood that smaller, more atomic and easily reversible incremental changes over time were preferred, because that would make it easier for you to revert ones you didn't like: Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 00:20:44 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Bug#818687: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.4.1-1.1 [NMU] From: Dimit

Bug#829205: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.5.3-0.1

2016-07-07 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
oconf* stuff, send|receive stuff, subsystem a stuff, subsystem b stuff? > Another thing, you might consider to change > Files: debian/* > Copyright: 2007-2012, Daniel Baumann > > License: GPL-2+ > > Files: debian/watch > Copyright: 2016, Nicholas D Steeves > License: GP

Bug#829205: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.5.3-0.1

2016-07-07 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi Adam, Thank you for taking the time to help me along the way and to produce higher quality work. On 5 July 2016 at 22:12, Adam Borowski wrote: > >> * Fix serious errors in debian/copyright. This is not a GPL2+ package. >> Cme was used to generate a machine-readable copyright file, then

Bug#829205: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.5.3-0.1

2016-07-01 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for this update of "btrfs-progs". I have chosen to update to v4.5.3, because this version does not trigger a bug when combined with linux-4.6.x as discussed in the following email: https://www.spinics.net/lis

Bug#826293: RFS: bit-babbler/0.5~bpo8+1

2016-06-03 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
l/main/b/bit-babbler/bit-babbler_0.5~bpo8+1.dsc Regards, Nicholas D Steeves

Bug#826268: RFS: diskscan/0.19-1~bpo8+1

2016-06-03 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
y, one can download the package with dget using this command: dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/diskscan/diskscan_0.19-1~bpo8+1.dsc Changes since the last upload: * Rebuild for jessie-backports. (Closes: #824812) Regards, Nicholas D Steeves

Bug#823474: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.5.2-0.1~exp1

2016-05-09 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On 9 May 2016 at 13:18, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: >>Per https://wiki.debian.org/ftpmaster_Removals , I filed Bug #823848 >>"as an RC bug on the package". > > I have reassigned it to ftpmasters, I don't think there is need to wait for > the maintainer opinion, this is a binary without source. T

Bug#823474: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.5.2-0.1~exp1

2016-05-09 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On 9 May 2016 at 04:31, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: >>Waiting for his reply. > > > this seems the most important bit, I would appreciate you opening a bug > report against > the package (severity:important), explaining why you want a version in > experimental, > leaving xnox the time to answer

Bug#823474: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.5.2-0.1~exp1

2016-05-08 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi Gianfranco On 6 May 2016 at 04:32, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > > Hi, it would be nice to avoid having a possible and problematic version even > in experimental. > Specially because it might be source of data-losses to the end users. > I agree, however, upstream's official recommendation is

Bug#823474: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.5.2-0.1~exp1

2016-05-04 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "btrfs-progs". I've read upstream reports of regressions in the 4.5.x series that were solved by downgrading to 4.4.x, so I believe that it is most appropriate to upload to experimental at this

Bug#823277: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.4.1-1.1~bpo8+1

2016-05-03 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Thank you Gianfranco! Nicholas On 3 May 2016 at 06:20, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > Hi, signed and uploaded! > > cheers, > > G. > > > > > > Il Lunedì 2 Maggio 2016 23:42, Nicholas D Steeves ha > scritto: > Package: sponsorship-requests > Severity:

Bug#823277: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.4.1-1.1~bpo8+1

2016-05-02 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
visit the following URL: https://mentors.debian.net/package/btrfs-progs Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command: dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/b/btrfs-progs/btrfs-progs_4.4.1-1.1~bpo8+1.dsc Regards, Nicholas D Steeves

if a changelog is on a wiki, does the debian package need a local version?

2016-04-24 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi, If a package's changelog is published on a wiki, is it still necessary and/or desirable to ship a changelog with the Debian package? If yes, is something like the following the best solution: curl https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Changelog | html2text | sed '0,/(announcement)/d;/By ve

Bug#818687: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.4.1-1.1 [NMU]

2016-04-22 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi Gianfranco, Here is a link to the latest version, which uses triggers instead of postinst and postrm. I think it's ready to upload, but please double check :-) http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/b/btrfs-progs/btrfs-progs_4.4.1-1.1.dsc Cheers, Nicholas

Bug#818687: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.4.1-1.1 [NMU]

2016-04-22 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi Dimitri, On 22 April 2016 at 19:20, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > I haven't looked closely, but i have a lot dubious emails about btrfs package. > (a) i do not maintain backports, anybody is free to do those > (b) all of my packages are lowNMU, meaning I trust any/all DDs to do > sensible thing

Bug#818687: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.4.1-1.1 [NMU]

2016-04-22 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On 21 April 2016 at 03:53, Jakub Wilk wrote: > Policy §10.4 says that /bin/sh script need to follow SUSv3 + some > extensions. Both "hash" and "command -v" are optional in SUSv3 (but they are > mandatory in SUSv4), so in theory you shouldn't use them. In practice, > however, "command -v" is probab

Bug#818687: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.4.1-1.1 [NMU]

2016-04-22 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On 21 April 2016 at 08:33, Christian Seiler wrote: > Hi Gianfranco, > > On 04/21/2016 09:48 AM, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: >>> activate update-initramfs >> do you think it is worth adding to the current NMU or it is better to leave >> it for >> a future upload? > > I'm not sure if you meant to

Bug#818687: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.4.1-1.1 [NMU]

2016-04-20 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
s -u fi diff -ur ./debian/changelog ../btrfs-progs-4.4.1-static_path/debian/changelog --- ./debian/changelog 2016-04-20 19:18:09.337997103 -0400 +++ ../btrfs-progs-4.4.1-static_path/debian/changelog 2016-04-20 19:22:16.621669102 -0400 @@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ * Update standards versi

Bug#818687: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.4.1-1.1 [NMU]

2016-04-15 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On 15 April 2016 at 09:25, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > also some issues might be fixed in a later release > > http://debomatic-amd64.debian.net/distribution#unstable/btrfs-progs/4.4.1-1.1/lintian > > I: btrfs-progs source: duplicate-short-description btrfs-tools btrfs-tools-dbg > I: btrfs-progs

Bug#818687: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.4.1-1.1 [NMU]

2016-04-09 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On 8 April 2016 at 17:43, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: >>Given that both of these will be broken if this package isn't >>uploaded, is now the time to upload it? > > I didn't understand this sentence. It turns out debian-cd can list both btrfs-tools and btrfs-progs to handle the transition, howeve

Bug#818687: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.4.1-1.1 [NMU]

2016-04-08 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Moreinfo removed, because Sledge on #debian-installer directed me to what I needed to patch in debian-cd. -- Nicholas

Bug#818687: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.4.1-1.1 [NMU]

2016-04-08 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
I've filed a bug and submitted a patch for debian-cd and have contacted the maintainers of partman-btrfs links to the updated package on mentors and to a github repo, because jcristau on #debian-installer said he preferred pulling from a git repo. How long should I wait before filing an RFS bug ag

Bug#820407: RFS: smartmontools/6.4+svn4214-1~bpo8+1

2016-04-07 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal [important for RC bugs, wishlist for new packages] Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my backport of "smartmontools" Package name: smartmontools Version: 6.4+svn4214-1~bpo8+1 Section: utils It builds these binary packages: smartmonto

Bug#818687: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.4.1-1.1 [NMU]

2016-04-06 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On 5 April 2016 at 13:52, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > so, please remove the moreinfo tag once you have a feedback from -boot team. Will do. 'hope they rsvp soon! > also a reverse-dependency needs fixing here > https://codesearch.debian.net/results/btrfs-tools-udeb/page_0 > partman-btrfs Fix

Bug#818687: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.4.1-1.1 [NMU]

2016-04-05 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Fixed @ same URL. Lots of beginner mistakes, plus carelessness wrt to Standards Version :-$ Whoops! Thank you for your patience. On 5 April 2016 at 13:07, Gianfranco Costamagna > BTW I'm not sure about the udeb package rename, there is no upgrade path > there, maybe you can get in touch with >

Bug#818687: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.4.1-1.1 [NMU]

2016-04-05 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On 4 April 2016 at 09:20, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > I did a preliminary review on pkg-multimedia mail list [1] (where Nicholas > applied for the team join) > > > please address the issues I raised, and remove the moreinfo tag once done, > and I'll do another spin. > > > [1] > https://lists

Bug#818687: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.4.1-1.1 [NMU]

2016-03-19 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
to btrfs-progs (Closes: #780081) Kind Regards, Nicholas D Steeves

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