Re: cannot allocate memory in static TLS block (Was: Bug#953832: drmaa: autopkgtest failure: RuntimeError: Could not find drmaa library)

2020-03-14 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Andreas, On 14-03-2020 14:30, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Paul, [...] > Any help would be welcome I can't help you with this. Paul signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

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

2020-02-06 Thread Paul Gevers
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 changes the versioning scheme from kernel releases >>> (libbpf-dev and libbpf0 currently are at 5.4.13-1 in

Re: Meaning of "Checking build-dependency (indep) on amd64" excuse

2019-01-17 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Feri, Please CC me on reply. >> I think I understand the rest, although I don't know whether the >> autopkgtest regression blocks migration indefinitely. That would be >> unfortunate, because unstable pcs needs unstable pacemaker, so they >> deadlock... > > I think you will need to ask the

Re: r-cran-dbi changed from arch=any to arch=all which makes it "unvisible" in unstable (Was: New version of r-bioc-genomicranges breaks autopkgtests of r-bioc-summarizedexperiment in testing)

2018-05-10 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Andreas On 10-05-18 22:08, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 12:57:54PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: >> | >> | ftp.debian.org is the right pseudo-package for removal (of the 0.8-1 >> | packages) from unstable. >> >> Ok, thanks, filed as #898354. > > Seems that bug is somehow

Re: r-cran-dbi changed from arch=any to arch=all which makes it "unvisible" in unstable (Was: New version of r-bioc-genomicranges breaks autopkgtests of r-bioc-summarizedexperiment in testing)

2018-05-10 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 10-05-18 19:57, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > On 10 May 2018 at 19:47, Paul Gevers wrote: > | On 10-05-18 14:04, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > | > Sorry about that. It must have been an old packaging oversight that only > came > | > to light now -- DBI never had a src/ dire

Re: r-cran-dbi changed from arch=any to arch=all which makes it "unvisible" in unstable (Was: New version of r-bioc-genomicranges breaks autopkgtests of r-bioc-summarizedexperiment in testing)

2018-05-10 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Dir, On 10-05-18 14:04, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > Sorry about that. It must have been an old packaging oversight that only came > to light now -- DBI never had a src/ directory and should have been 'all' all > along. > > Any idea how we can correct that at the repo? Shall we file a bug with

Re: controlling error handling in sourced shell code

2015-12-21 Thread Paul Gevers
control: tags -1 -help On 20-12-15 15:03, Paul Gevers wrote: > I am looking into fixing bug 807353¹ against my package dbconfig-common. > dbconfig-common is written in shell, such that it can easily be sourced > and used in maintainer scripts. The issue is that when you call a > sour

controlling error handling in sourced shell code

2015-12-20 Thread Paul Gevers
control: tags -1 help Hi all, I am looking into fixing bug 807353¹ against my package dbconfig-common. dbconfig-common is written in shell, such that it can easily be sourced and used in maintainer scripts. The issue is that when you call a sourced function in the test part of an if-then-fi

Bug#805250: RFS: chrony/2.1.1-1

2015-11-17 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: owner -1 ! Hi Vincent On 16-11-15 00:03, Vincent Blut wrote: > Here is the changelog for the version 2.1.1. Looks good. I just ran debmake -k on the copyright file and it found one missing license: GPL-2+ on test/simulation/test.common. I think the tool is right. You didn't push the

Bug#799093: RFS: chrony/1.31.1-2

2015-09-21 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Vincent, On 17-09-15 22:03, Vincent Blut wrote: > Le jeu. 17 sept. 2015 à 19:58, Paul Gevers <elb...@debian.org> a écrit : > I will then revert commit e88f1460f3e. >> As I would call this a regression, I rather have it fixed in our current >> upload. And I thi

Bug#799093: RFS: chrony/1.31.1-2

2015-09-17 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Vincent, On 16-09-15 22:13, Vincent Blut wrote: > Le mer. 16 sept. 2015 à 19:57, Paul Gevers <elb...@debian.org> a écrit : >> Commit e88f1460f3e now prevents the upstream NEWS file to be installed >> as upstream changelog. I rather have that stayed in. You pr

Bug#799093: RFS: chrony/1.31.1-2

2015-09-16 Thread Paul Gevers
Building right now. On 15-09-15 23:08, Joachim Wiedorn wrote: > for clarifying: > > The NEWS.Debian file will be used while updating the package: > If you write a new entry into NEWS.Debian, this new entry will be shown > while running apt-get install. And from man dh_installchangelogs:

Bug#799093: RFS: chrony/1.31.1-2

2015-09-16 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Vincent, On 15-09-15 21:56, Vincent Blut wrote: > I also pushed the changes to the git repository. Commit e88f1460f3e now prevents the upstream NEWS file to be installed as upstream changelog. I rather have that stayed in. You probably should call "dh_installchangelogs NEWS debian/NEWS" or

Bug#799093: RFS: chrony/1.31.1-2

2015-09-15 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: owner -1 ! Hi Vincent, On 15-09-15 21:56, Vincent Blut wrote: > Could you please take a look at chrony 1.31.1-2¹? Sure, my dashboard told me that there was a new chrony, so I was expecting this e-mail. Surprisingly it was not to package that. Could you also fix the watch file, as you

Bug#799093: RFS: chrony/1.31.1-2

2015-09-15 Thread Paul Gevers
On 15-09-15 22:06, Paul Gevers wrote: > On 15-09-15 21:56, Vincent Blut wrote: >> Could you please take a look at chrony 1.31.1-2¹? > > Sure, my dashboard told me that there was a new chrony, so I was > expecting this e-mail. Surprisingly it was not to package that. Could > y

Bug#793876: RFS: chrony/1.31.1-1

2015-08-27 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Vincent, On 24-08-15 23:52, Vincent Blut wrote: Which file do you have in common with ntp? Please re-read ¹. I guess I’ve been misled by § 7.6.2! The previous section shows the usage of the 'replaces:' field for packages providing *files* already provided by another package. However,

Bug#793876: RFS: chrony/1.31.1-1

2015-08-21 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Vincent, [I am merging the e-mails you send yesterday to make the thread easier again.] On 20-08-15 18:12, Vincent Blut wrote: Le jeu. 20 août 2015 à 12:10, Paul Gevers elb...@debian.org a écrit : On 19-08-15 21:29, Vincent Blut wrote: Please add the CVE numbers that were fixed by upstream

Bug#793876: RFS: chrony/1.31.1-1

2015-08-21 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi On 20-08-15 22:33, Joachim Wiedorn wrote: Hello Vincent, Vincent Blut wrote on 2015-08-20 18:36: features. By the way, if I want to close these outdated bug reports, what’s the canonical way to do it? I guess I can’t do that from d/changelog? do it in the changelog: e.g. LP:

Bug#793876: RFS: chrony/1.31.1-1

2015-08-20 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Vincent, Live from Debconf15. On 19-08-15 21:29, Vincent Blut wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package chrony Please note this is a first manual inspection. Not all items are critical, most are just nitpicks or tips or questions. Please add the CVE numbers that were fixed by

Bug#793876: RFS: chrony/1.31.1-1

2015-08-20 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi On 20-08-15 12:10, Paul Gevers wrote: Are the man pages regrenerated Could you check with upstream that he/she really is generating the man pages by hand in groff format? If not, ask him to include the source. Are (new) examples installed Is there a reason why you don't install

Bug#793876: RFS: chrony/1.31.1-1

2015-08-19 Thread Paul Gevers
control: owner -1 ! On 19-08-15 21:29, Vincent Blut wrote: So, nobody’s interested to see chrony updated ? ;-) I will look at it soon. Paul signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: R: Validating user input with debconf

2015-08-10 Thread Paul Gevers
You can also check how I solved this in dbconfig-common in the dbc_get_app_pass function that is called during configure of any package that depends on dbconfig-common: https://sources.debian.net/src/dbconfig-common/1.8.52/dpkg/common/#L853 Although in this case the non-interactive mode is easier

Re: response 30 when sending INPUT command to debconf

2015-04-28 Thread Paul Gevers
On 28-04-15 14:26, Christopher Baines wrote: This happens when the package is installed, and I am running dpkg-reconfigure. The manpage seems to suggest that this can happen for three reasons: Debconf decides if the question is actually displayed, based on its priority, and whether the user

Re: [Debian-med-packaging] Bug#775302: [fis-gtm] UTF-8 libgtmutils.so in fis-gtm-6.2-000 is missing routines (fwd)

2015-04-24 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi On 24-04-15 06:02, Amul Shah wrote: While this fix works, it strikes me as not completely correct because 21 # Set up locale support in the pbuilder environment 22 override_dh_auto_build: 23 mkdir -p debian/tmp/locale/ 24 localedef -f UTF-8 -i en_US

Re: dquilt debuild problem

2015-04-22 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi João, I haven't used dquilt in a while (its use has rapidly decrease since source format 3) but have you checked that refreshing with plain quilt (without the d) solves the issue? To understand the issue, you may even compare the patch file before and after quilt refresh to see what has

Re: Debian git workflow

2015-04-03 Thread Paul Gevers
On 03-04-15 17:55, Felix Natter wrote: does nobody have an opinion on this? In short: Is it better to have _a lot_ of beta gbp import-origs, commits that are reverted/superceded etc. OR develop on a private repository and copy the debian/* changes to alioth on a release? If this means that

Bug#780935: RFS: bakefile/1.2.5.1-1 [ITP]

2015-03-22 Thread Paul Gevers
On 22-03-15 06:39, Riley Baird wrote: -The upstream tarball contains embedded code copies of the java version of antlr, which violates Debian policy. This depends on the license, but in general this statement is not completely true. You'll need to repack the tarball and add +ds to the

Bug#773992: RFS: xmlrpc-c/1.33.15+svn20141223~2672-1 [ITA]

2015-02-19 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Jörg, Ping. Any progress on xmlrpc-c? On 10-01-15 21:35, Paul Gevers wrote: On 10-01-15 20:59, Paul Gevers wrote: I think you don't need to add the version to the dpkg-gensymbols call, and if you do, why strip the Debian part of the version? Doesn't dh_makeshlibs call dpkg-gensymbols

simple shell question

2015-02-18 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi all, I am wondering about the following, what is the practical difference in a shell script between [ $foo ] and [ -n $foo ] or [ ! $foo ] and [ -z $foo ] Looking up their literal meaning shows that they are different of course, but is there also a practical difference? Paul signature.asc

Bug#773992: RFS: xmlrpc-c/1.33.15+svn20141223~2672-1 [ITA]

2015-01-10 Thread Paul Gevers
On 10-01-15 20:59, Paul Gevers wrote: I think you don't need to add the version to the dpkg-gensymbols call, and if you do, why strip the Debian part of the version? Doesn't dh_makeshlibs call dpkg-gensymbols itself? So if you try to override anything, shouldn't the dpkg-gensymbols calls

Bug#773992: RFS: xmlrpc-c/1.33.15+svn20141223~2672-1 [ITA]

2015-01-10 Thread Paul Gevers
Hello Jörg, On 07-01-15 13:12, Jörg Frings-Fürst wrote: Am Montag, den 05.01.2015, 21:55 +0100 schrieb Paul Gevers: On 30-12-14 21:17, Jörg Frings-Fürst wrote: Am Montag, den 29.12.2014, 11:13 +0100 schrieb Paul Gevers: On 26-12-14 20:48, Jörg Frings-Fürst wrote: Sure, saw that. I guess you

Bug#773992: RFS: xmlrpc-c/1.33.15+svn20141223~2672-1 [ITA]

2015-01-05 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Jörg, On 30-12-14 21:17, Jörg Frings-Fürst wrote: first sorry for my late answer. I was i little bit ooo and then the 31C3. No problem. Also sorry I didn't replied sooner. Am Montag, den 29.12.2014, 11:13 +0100 schrieb Paul Gevers: On 26-12-14 20:48, Jörg Frings-Fürst wrote: Ironically

Bug#773992: RFS: xmlrpc-c/1.33.15+svn20141223~2672-1 [ITA]

2014-12-29 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: owner -1 ! Hi Jörg, On 26-12-14 20:48, Jörg Frings-Fürst wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package xmlrpc-c I am willing to help, review below is incomplete yet though (just scanned the changes once). Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this

Bug#768916: RFS: systempreferences.app/1.2.0-2 -- GNUstep preferences application [RC]

2014-11-29 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: owner -1 ! Judging the response of Sebastian in bug 768764, he doesn't have time anymore. Building right now, uploading after dinner... Paul signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#770146: RFS: gnustep-back/0.24.0-4 -- GNUstep GUI Backend [RC]

2014-11-21 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: owner -1 ! Control: tags -1 pending On 19-11-14 07:57, Yavor Doganov wrote: I'm looking for a sponsor for my package gnustep-back. Building now, etc... Paul signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#770224: RFS: gnustep-base/1.22.1-4+deb7u1 -- GNUstep Base library [RC SECURITY] [wheezy]

2014-11-21 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: owner -1 ! Control: tags -1 pending On 19-11-14 22:14, Yavor Doganov wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package gnustep-base. Building soon, etc... Paul signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#769688: RFS: gnustep-sqlclient/1.8.1-1 -- SQL client library for GNUstep

2014-11-15 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: owner -1 ! Control: tags -1 pending On 15-11-14 16:53, Yavor Doganov wrote: I'm looking for a sponsor for my package gnustep-sqlclient. You found one. As always I build from git, I assume that is all right. Paul signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#769142: RFS: rsskit/0.3-3 -- GNUstep RSS framework [RC]

2014-11-11 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: owner -1 ! On 11-11-14 19:47, Yavor Doganov wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package rsskit. It builds these binary packages: This upload is targeted for t-p-u; the debdiff was pre-approved by the release team (release.d.o #768923). Checking, building etc... Paul

Re: HELP: Bug#766821: relion: FTBFS: B-D on nonexistent openmpi-gcc

2014-10-26 Thread Paul Gevers
On 26-10-14 07:37, Vincent Cheng wrote: Anny suggestion for a solution since I have no idea about those other architectures? Drop the build-dep on openmpi-gcc. You must make sure that the first build dependency in a set of alternative build-deps is always installable, otherwise it's going

Bug#764067: lintian: prevent misuse of overrides by allowing maintainer comments

2014-10-05 Thread Paul Gevers
-mentors@lists.debian.org On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Paul Gevers wrote: I have seen this before and I (as a maintainer) don't understand this comment so bold as it is put here. I would say that overrides can help you to see which items you (or your sponsee¹ in case of sponsorship) already

lintian overrides [Was: Bug#763540: Review of psocksxx/0.0.5-1]

2014-10-03 Thread Paul Gevers
On 04-10-14 00:44, Paul Wise wrote: They are also not for experimental, pedantic or info level issues. So all of these issues should either be ignored or fixed but not overridden. I have seen this before and I (as a maintainer) don't understand this comment so bold as it is put here. I would

Bug#741648: RFS: cbootimage/1.2-2

2014-09-05 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Marc, On 05-09-14 16:29, Eriberto Mota wrote: Not mandatory or recommended by policy. However, a good practice commonly requested by all sponsors to allow the control of the code by you or any external people. You must implement it. Just to be sure, I read this as You must implement it if

emacspeak - piuparts and gnupg

2014-08-30 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi all, I am trying to investigate why emacspeak has a piuparts purge failure [1]. It fails because there are files in /root/.gnupg/. As emacspeak doesn't depend on gnupg and doesn't do anything of itself with gnupg, I don't have a clear picture of where to start. It seems that emacspeak is the

Bug#755962: RFS: zipper.app/1.5-1 [ITA] -- Archive manager for GNUstep

2014-08-24 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: owner -1 ! Control: tags -1 pending On 24-07-14 23:08, Yavor Doganov wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package zipper.app. You found one one. Building right now (for real), but still I have some remarks that I like you to fix next time: * If suggests are not installed, is the

Bug#751698: RFS: talksoup.app/1.0alpha-32-g55b4d4e-2 [ITA]

2014-08-23 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Yavor, Several new remarks. When they are resolved (by an explanation or a fix) I will build and upload. - library files are not in /usr/lib anymore but in /usr/lib/talksoup.app/ . As far as I can tell this is good, but it is not documented in changelog. - d/copyright: * years of Adrew,

Bug#756373: RFS: gnustep-examples/1:1.4.0-1 -- GNUstep example applications

2014-08-23 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: owner -1 ! Control: tags -1 moreinfo Hi Yavor, On 29-07-14 12:39, Yavor Doganov wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package gnustep-examples. Some remarks, when they are resolved I think I will upload. * copyright file needs updated dates (also in the negative direction) *

Bug#750865: RFS: lynkeos.app/1.2-7

2014-08-08 Thread Paul Gevers
: *** [clean] Error 2 dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules clean gave error exit status 2 Description: Debian policy 12.1 says that man pages should be installed in sections 1 to 9. Author: Paul Gevers elb...@debian.org --- a/GNUstep/lynkeos.1 +++ b/GNUstep/lynkeos.1 @@ -1,6 +1,6

Bug#751875: RFS: gorm.app/1.2.20-1

2014-08-07 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: tags -1 +pending -moreinfo Hi Yavor, On 06-08-14 13:25, Yavor Doganov wrote: I find the man page rather short, is it reasonable to improve it? I have extended it as much as I could. Looks much better now, thanks. I didn't check yet, but aren't you know installing the d/docs adn

Bug#750800: RFS: gtamsanalyzer.app/0.42-7

2014-08-06 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Yavor, This bug was already closed, but I already had a look... On Sat, 07 Jun 2014 04:57:13 +0300 Yavor Doganov ya...@gnu.org wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package gtamsanalyzer.app. gtamsanalyzer.app - Qualitative Research Software for GNUstep First remark, I don't really

Bug#751550: RFS: aclock.app/0.4.0-1 [ITA]

2014-08-06 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Yavor, On 04-08-14 22:12, Yavor Doganov wrote: Paul Gevers wrote: Are there any sources for the png/wav in Resources ? There's a Blender file (cuckoo.blend) in the top directory. Then I really suggest to create the images (and the wav?) from that file during building. I share the opinion

Bug#751698: RFS: talksoup.app/1.0alpha-32-g55b4d4e-2 [ITA]

2014-08-06 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: owner -1 ! Control: tags -1 moreinfo Hi Yavor, On Sun, 15 Jun 2014 20:15:41 +0300 Yavor Doganov ya...@gnu.org wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package talksoup.app. Some remarks: Icon in desktop file in /usr/lib/ Text about license file on Debian systems does not mention the

Bug#750865: RFS: lynkeos.app/1.2-7

2014-08-06 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: owner -1 ! Control: tags -1 moreinfo Hi Yavor, On Sat, 07 Jun 2014 21:20:42 +0300 Yavor Doganov ya...@gnu.org wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package lynkeos.app. Some remarks in random order: The location of icon in the desktop file point to /usr/lib/ Could you add tilde

Bug#751550: RFS: aclock.app/0.4.0-1 [ITA]

2014-08-06 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: tags -1 pending On 06-08-14 13:57, Yavor Doganov wrote: Then I really suggest to create the images (and the wav?) from that file during building. I share the opinion of many (most?) DD's that the only way to make sure that we can build from sources with tools available in Debian is

Bug#751550: RFS: aclock.app/0.4.0-1 [ITA]

2014-08-03 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: owner -1 ! Control: tags -1 moreinfo Hi Yavor, On Sat, 14 Jun 2014 09:19:24 +0300 Yavor Doganov ya...@gnu.org wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package aclock.app. I have several (in random order) remarks: Are there any sources for the png/wav in Resources ? The man page is

Bug#751659: RFS: gridlock.app/1.10-4 [ITA]

2014-08-03 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: owner -1 ! Control: tags -1 moreinfo Hi Yavor, On Sun, 15 Jun 2014 10:45:38 +0300 Yavor Doganov ya...@gnu.org wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package gridlock.app. I have several (in random order) remarks: Please acknowledge nmus (even if the content is nearly all yours)

Bug#751875: RFS: gorm.app/1.2.20-1

2014-08-03 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: owner -1 ! Control: tags -1 moreinfo Hi Yavor, On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 14:50:16 +0300 Yavor Doganov ya...@gnu.org wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package gorm.app. I have several (in random order) remarks: I find the man page rather short, is it reasonable to improve it? I

Bug#755210: RFS: gnustep-sqlclient/1.7.3-2 -- SQL client library for GNUstep

2014-07-19 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: owner -1 ! Control: tags -1 pending On 18-07-14 21:56, Yavor Doganov wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package gnustep-sqlclient. As I sponsored the initial upload, I will take this one as well. Paul signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#752339: Some questions about RFS: dbuskit/0.1.1-1 [ITP]

2014-07-16 Thread Paul Gevers
On 15-07-14 18:52, Yavor Doganov wrote: Paul Gevers wrote: Whatever you do, to prevent accidental usage of a pre-build object file it is very common to at least clean them. It is done by `make distclean'. I hate to disagree, but for me it doesn't. After `make distclean` the files are still

Bug#752339: Some questions about RFS: dbuskit/0.1.1-1 [ITP]

2014-07-15 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: owner -1 ! Control: tags -1 moreinfo Hi Yavor, Before I upload this package to the new queue, could you please comment on the lintian errors about missing source? I am looking for a statement like: I added lintian overrides for these files as the source is available several directories

Bug#752339: Some questions about RFS: dbuskit/0.1.1-1 [ITP]

2014-07-15 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Yavor, And an additional remark: the COPYING file and the headers in several (all?) source files don't match. The COPYING file says LGPL-2.1+ while the headers say LGPL-2+. Please update your d/copyright file to match the situation. Paul signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#752339: Some questions about RFS: dbuskit/0.1.1-1 [ITP]

2014-07-15 Thread Paul Gevers
On 15-07-14 14:54, Yavor Doganov wrote: Paul Gevers wrote: Before I upload this package to the new queue, could you please comment on the lintian errors about missing source? The reason for these is gnustep-make's incapable dist rule, combined with not so careful upstream. I am looking

Bug#754870: RFS: systempreferences.app/1.2.0-1 -- GNUstep preferences application

2014-07-15 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: owner -1 ! Control: tags -1 pending I like the Description of the packages to be consistent. Either System Preferences *is* or System Preferences *are*. I think the second option is the logic one considering the name, but otherwise you need something like The System Preferences

Bug#752339: Some questions about RFS: dbuskit/0.1.1-1 [ITP]

2014-07-15 Thread Paul Gevers
On 15-07-14 16:05, Yavor Doganov wrote: Well, the source has to be DFSG-free. How we guarantee that usually is by building everything from source during the build. If you don't want to build it, you have to remove them from source and repack I don't understand. It is quite common for a

Bug#753348: RFS: gnustep-performance/0.5.0-1 [ITP] -- GNUstep performance library

2014-07-15 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: owner -1 ! Control: tags -1 pending I uploaded the package, but may I request that next time you add a symbols file so that depending packages get a properly versioned dependency? See lintian info tag: I: libperformance0.5: no-symbols-control-file usr/lib/libPerformance.so.0.5.0 N: N:

Bug#753348: RFS: gnustep-performance/0.5.0-1 [ITP] -- GNUstep performance library

2014-07-15 Thread Paul Gevers
On 15-07-14 18:46, Yavor Doganov wrote: Paul Gevers wrote: I uploaded the package, but may I request that next time you add a symbols file so that depending packages get a properly versioned dependency? Symbols files are ultimately unapplicable for Objective-C libraries (see #749202

Bug#753406: RFS: gnustep-sqlclient/1.7.3-1 [ITP] -- SQL client library for GNUstep

2014-07-15 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Yavor, On 01-07-14 17:13, Yavor Doganov wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package gnustep-sqlclient. libsqlclient1.7 - SQL client library for GNUstep (runtime library) This package contains files in an unversioned sub-directory of /usr/lib/ This is a violation of Debian policy §8.2

Bug#753406: RFS: gnustep-sqlclient/1.7.3-1 [ITP] -- SQL client library for GNUstep

2014-07-15 Thread Paul Gevers
On 15-07-14 21:16, Yavor Doganov wrote: Paul Gevers wrote: libsqlclient1.7 - SQL client library for GNUstep (runtime library) This package contains files in an unversioned sub-directory of /usr/lib/ This is a violation of Debian policy §8.2 Right, I totally missed that... I'm not sure

Bug#751208: RFS: lusernet.app/0.4.2-7

2014-07-07 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: owner -1 Control: pending -1 On 11-06-14 06:12, Yavor Doganov wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package lusernet.app. I am building and uploading shortly, however, please add the following to your git tree in debian/copyright (preferably you figure out the dates of the

Re: Raleway and Open Sans fonts in Debian

2014-07-05 Thread Paul Gevers
On 04-07-14 22:03, Sergey Shnatsel Davidoff wrote: Should I request splitting these fonts into individual packages? If yes, how do I do that? You can request a split. File it as a wishlist bug against the providing package (as you would with any bug). Also prepare yourself to get wontfix as a

Bug#749452: RFS: gnustep-gui/0.24.0-1

2014-07-04 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Yavor, On 27-05-14 02:57, Yavor Doganov wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package gnustep-gui. I can't promise that I will upload the package, but if you can push your changes to the packaging git I promise that I will have a look. (I prefer the git over just the package as it makes

Bug#749452: RFS: gnustep-gui/0.24.0-1

2014-07-04 Thread Paul Gevers
On 04-07-14 22:01, Paul Gevers wrote: I can't promise that I will upload the package, but if you can push your changes to the packaging git I promise that I will have a look. Never mind, I was fooled by the web interface of gitweb [1], which didn't show the changes of the experimental branch

Re: how to properly remove an empty config directory

2014-06-20 Thread Paul Gevers
On 20-06-14 07:55, Guido van Steen wrote: 3. remove the empty directory /etc/apt.conf.d that shouldn't exits. More precise: 3. remove the empty directory /etc/apt.conf.d if it is empty. well, the command rmdir only removes a dir when it is empty. I think you already got the answer to do

Re: how to convert a .doc file in the context of a package build?

2014-05-17 Thread Paul Gevers
On 14-05-14 05:39, Paul Wise wrote: (but not in a package build context). libreoffice --headless --convert-to pdf --outdir . input.ods I do use it during packaging. Well, soffice as command, but I assume that is a synonym. (Package: winff) Paul signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: argument against splitting packages

2014-04-25 Thread Paul Gevers
On 24-04-14 20:41, Don Armstrong wrote: The cases where you should split are generally really obvious; if it's not clear, ask here or in #debian-mentors, and you'll get some reasonable advice. Ok, so let me show one of the two issues I have at hand (the other is currently being discussed on

argument against splitting packages

2014-04-24 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi all, In the last couple of days, the following came up multiple times. Splitting binary packages adds to the total amount of packages in Debian. I have heard that (some) people are very careful before they decide to do that. What is the argument? I can come up with one, but I wonder if there

Re: header-only dependence

2014-03-22 Thread Paul Gevers
On 22-03-14 13:33, Nico Schlömer wrote: Hi all, I'm packaging a library libA which depends on a header-only library libB. Obviously I need libB to be present whenever I build an executable against libA. Where in debian/control will I have to fill in libB? If I am correct, you should have

Bug#739029: RFS: qgis/2.0.1-2

2014-02-14 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Bas, [ Sorry, no intent to sponsor this right now, but ... ] On 15-02-14 03:12, Bas Couwenberg wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package qgis This package is part of a proposed transition (by you). You would do well to at least mention this fact in your RFS. Paul signature.asc

Bug#737907: RFS: chrony/1.29.1-1 -- Set the computer clock from time servers

2014-02-08 Thread Paul Gevers
On 06-02-14 22:04, Joachim Wiedorn wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package chrony If nobody beats me to it, I will have a look. Feel free to bug me if I haven't responded within a week. Paul signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#737907: RFS: chrony/1.29.1-1 -- Set the computer clock from time servers

2014-02-08 Thread Paul Gevers
On 06-02-14 22:04, Joachim Wiedorn wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package chrony From the Debian side this looks trivial and I think I will upload as is, but some remarks still. - Upstream FAQ removed two questions and part of the answer to one question is now part of the answer to

Bug#737907: RFS: chrony/1.29.1-1 -- Set the computer clock from time servers

2014-02-08 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Joachim, On 08-02-14 18:51, Joachim Wiedorn wrote: - Your watch file doesn't work, please find attached a version that works and at the same time takes advantage of the fact that upstream signs its releases. You need the also attached keyring for that but feel free to generate that

Bug#736085: RFS: doublecmd/0.5.8-1 -- twin-panel (commander-style) file manager

2014-01-24 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: owner 736085 ! On 19-01-14 16:41, Graham Inggs wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my update to package doublecmd: Interesting that I have missed this the first time that you did this work. Funny thing is that we are trying to get things related to FreePascal into one team, so I

Bug#736085: RFS: doublecmd/0.5.8-1 -- twin-panel (commander-style) file manager

2014-01-24 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Graham, On 19-01-14 16:41, Graham Inggs wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my update to package doublecmd: By source and binary inspection: - Some (if not all, I am unsure) of your Conflicts are unneeded, Breaks is good enough. Please read [1] and following paragraphs carefully again. -

Re: Wish to package astronomy software

2014-01-05 Thread Paul Gevers
[Are you subscribed to debian-mentors? CC'ing you just in case you're not]. On 05-01-14 12:42, Bamm wrote: I'm Bamm from the Philippines. I'm new to this list Welcome. and I hope to gain advice how to package for Debian. Have you read the front page of https://mentors.debian.net/ If it is

Re: Wish to package astronomy software

2014-01-05 Thread Paul Gevers
On 05-01-14 14:23, Bamm wrote: Please file an ITP (Intend to package) bug against the WNPP (pseudo) package. You should use the reportbug command for that, as it gives you the proper template to file out. Thanks! Where do I report the ITP bug? Is there an online form, e.g., bugzilla? $

Re: empty-binary-package

2014-01-02 Thread Paul Gevers
On 02-01-14 20:44, Russ Allbery wrote: Be aware of one gotcha: the destination column in *.install files specifies the destination *directory*, not file name. You cannot use dh_install to rename files; Except if you build depend on dh-exec and use it (The man page is good, so I am not going

Bug#729359: RFS: mtink/1.0.16-8 [QA] -- Status monitor tool for Epson inkjet printers

2013-11-30 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: -1 pending On 30-11-13 11:05, Graham Inggs wrote: I've pushed some commits to the git on collab-maint. I added a comment about the overridden Lintian spelling error warnings, rewrote the package descriptions, merged the changes I had made in d/control into d/control.in and

Bug#729359: RFS: mtink/1.0.16-8 [QA] -- Status monitor tool for Epson inkjet printers

2013-11-21 Thread Paul Gevers
On 21-11-13 16:28, Graham Inggs wrote: I have looked, but don't think there is anything I can fix there. Hmm, than I will leave some comments here and there. And, as you have been working on silencing lintian, why have you not tried to fix the extended-description-is-probably-too-short info

Re: Upstream tarballs with varying line endings

2013-11-21 Thread Paul Gevers
On 21-11-13 19:17, Felix Natter wrote: 1. integrate http://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/fixcrlf.html upstream (generate tarball, extract, fix line endings, generate tarball) Sound like a good solution. 2. write a get-orig-source target that does the same? If yes, shall I append +dfsg1 to the

Bug#729359: RFS: mtink/1.0.16-8 [QA] -- Status monitor tool for Epson inkjet printers

2013-11-20 Thread Paul Gevers
On 14-11-13 21:56, Paul Gevers wrote: Would you mind creating a VCS repository on Alioth (collab-maint comes to mind) to ease further QA maintenance? That's a good idea. I will do that. Alioth is down due to broken disk raid, so you'll have to wait for now. Alioth is up again

Bug#729359: RFS: mtink/1.0.16-8 [QA] -- Status monitor tool for Epson inkjet printers

2013-11-14 Thread Paul Gevers
On 13-11-13 14:46, Graham Inggs wrote: Isn't it (easily) possible to fix these spelling errors, or are they false positives? If you stick to the overrides, please document why in the override file. Well, they occur in non-English messages so I would say false positives, but perhaps the best

Bug#729359: RFS: mtink/1.0.16-8 [QA] -- Status monitor tool for Epson inkjet printers

2013-11-12 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: owner -1 ! On 12-11-13 11:01, Graham Inggs wrote: * Override remaining Lintian spelling error warnings. Isn't it (easily) possible to fix these spelling errors, or are they false positives? If you stick to the overrides, please document why in the override file. Would you mind

Bug#714310: RFS: polyphone/1.1-1 [ITP]' from 'RFS: polyphone/1.0-1 [ITP]

2013-11-09 Thread Paul Gevers
[A review of part of the review] On 09-11-13 16:51, Daniel Lintott wrote: I'm also fairly new to reviewing, so forgive me if I miss something! 1. As your package is not yet in debian, the entries in debian/changelog should be merged to a single entry, for the version of the package that will

Bug#724757: RFS: dxsamples/4.2.0-2 [ITA] -- Sample programs for the OpenDX Data Explorer

2013-10-13 Thread Paul Gevers
On 10/13/13 19:24, Graham Inggs wrote: If dx-doc and dxsamples are not installed, dx still functions, except that the online help and samples are not available. My reasoning was that if either dx-doc or dxsamples were installed on their own, without dx, there would be no change in their

Bug#724757: RFS: dxsamples/4.2.0-2 [ITA] -- Sample programs for the OpenDX Data Explorer

2013-10-11 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Graham, I hope this is my last comment in this bug ;) On 11-10-13 17:37, Graham Inggs wrote: I agree that in most cases you would want the symlinks in the package that provides the target files. I think an exception would be where there is not a strong dependence (either way) between the

Bug#724757: RFS: dxsamples/4.2.0-2 [ITA] -- Sample programs for the OpenDX Data Explorer

2013-10-07 Thread Paul Gevers
On 07-10-13 14:47, Graham Inggs wrote: On 05/10/2013 19:22, Paul Gevers wrote: What I intended you to do is to state the above also in bug 412811, so that it is clear for people looking at that bug report. And when you communicate with debian-legal, make sure the bug is in CC. I will do. I

Bug#724757: RFS: dxsamples/4.2.0-2 [ITA] -- Sample programs for the OpenDX Data Explorer

2013-10-05 Thread Paul Gevers
On 05-10-13 09:23, Graham Inggs wrote: I have completed the changes in dx (getting dxexec to run on kfreebsd) and I think both packages are now ready for sponsoring. This week I have more time. I will try to look at both soon. Paul signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#724757: RFS: dxsamples/4.2.0-2 [ITA] -- Sample programs for the OpenDX Data Explorer

2013-10-05 Thread Paul Gevers
On 28-09-13 11:15, Graham Inggs wrote: Could you please tag bug 412811 (new upstream version) as wont-fix if you still believe it is not fixable (please check). I did check on this with the previous maintainer and I intend to get the opinion of debian-legal on how to proceed. It may be

Bug#724757: RFS: dxsamples/4.2.0-2 [ITA] -- Sample programs for the OpenDX Data Explorer

2013-09-28 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: owner -1 ! On 27-09-13 17:09, Graham Inggs wrote: * Package name: dxsamples Version : 4.2.0-2 Could you please tag bug 412811 (new upstream version) as wont-fix if you still believe it is not fixable (please check). And could you please at least comment on bug 173709

FWD: RFS: doublecmd/0.5.6-1 [ITP] -- twin-panel (commander-style) file manager

2013-09-24 Thread Paul Gevers
://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/doublecmd-help.git Regards Paul, for Graham Inggs Original Message Subject:A favour please? Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 11:58:20 +0200 From: Graham Inggs graham.in...@gmail.com To: Paul Gevers elb...@debian.org Hi Paul Could you

Re: Volunteer in need of a mentor

2013-09-23 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Beco, Welcome. On 23-09-13 21:39, Beco wrote: After some time programming my own softwares to solve little problems, scientific problems, and some useful exercises to teach C, I decided it's time to do another step. I am ready to help a little more, starting with packaging one little guy

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