Re: heimdall android flasher

2011-09-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 2:22 AM, 810d4rk wrote: Hi to all, is anyone interested in uploading heimdall version 1.1.1 to the repos? Heimdall is a cross-platform open-source tool suite used to flash firmware (aka ROMs) onto Samsung Galaxy S

Re: Attempt to dput fails.

2011-09-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Paul Elliott wrote:  Uploading swe-standard-data_1-1_all.deb: Upload failed: 502 Bad Gateway ...    for res in getaddrinfo(host, port, 0, SOCK_STREAM): socket.gaierror: [Errno -2] Name or service not known Looks like either a DNS issue or a proxy issue.

Re: RFS: pygame

2011-09-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 6:18 AM, Vincent Cheng wrote: Debian's pygame package removes the original freesansbold.ttf file in pygame's source and symlinks it to a system copy of freesansbold.ttf (/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSansBold.ttf) during the build process (via an override

Re: Shared libs dependencies

2011-09-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Bernhard R. Link wrote: The real problem with using symbol files without understandin them is something like the following examples: Do you know if the abi-compliance-checker program/package copes with this case? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: What to do about the situation with id3v2

2011-09-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Stefan Ott wrote: I realize that replacing a perfectly working little tool like id3 with my mostly untested id3v2 fork might not be the nicest thing to do, but at the moment it's the best solution I can come up with. Thus I was wondering if any of you have

Re: RFS: flare

2011-09-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 3:15 AM, Jan-Hendrik (hennr) Peters wrote: Yes I asked the game team, no response so I came back here. Hmm, are you sure you did? I'm not seeing your mail in the debian-devel-games archives. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: RFS: flare

2011-09-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Matthias Schmitz matth...@sigxcpu.org wrote: maybe the debian games team has too many mailing lists :-) http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-games-devel/2011-August/019720.html That would be the bugs list, I doubt many people read it. I haven't had time

Re: RFS: pygame

2011-09-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 2:44 AM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: Your changes look okay, but could you please document the copyright holder and license for freesansbold.ttf[1]? Looks like lib/freesansbold.ttf constitutes a GPL violation since this is one of the fonts from the GNU FreeFont project,

Re: RFS: devilspie

2011-09-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Andreas Rönnquist wrote:   Upstream Author : Ross Burton r...@debian.org  * URL             : http://burtonini.com/blog/computers/devilspie/ Ross looks inactive upstream too: http://git.gnome.org/browse/devilspie/log/ Since he doesn't use it any more I would

Re: RFS: watermelons

2011-09-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Stephen M. Webb wrote: watermelons - bounce the falling watermelons game Since this is a game, you might want to join the Debian games team, find sponsorship and help us maintain other games: http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Team -- bye, pabs

Re: RFS: gdevilspie

2011-09-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 1:32 AM, Andreas Rönnquist wrote: gdevilspie - User friendly interface for devilspie ... This is an initial QA upload of an orphaned package [1], fixing bug 628492 [2] by updating the depends and recommends. It also updates the packaging to fix the lintian warnings.

Re: How to startx inside a pbuilder-managed chroot?

2011-09-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 6:15 AM, Francesco Poli wrote: May I run Intel video drivers on my actual hardware from inside a kvm virtual machine? It looks like kvm is supposed to support PCI pass-through, but not for graphics cards:

Re: Report from the debconf11 sponsoring/mentors BoF.

2011-09-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 1:44 PM, David Bremner wrote: Also it was discussued how to avoid follow-up RFS mails for successive uploads to the debian-mentors mailing list. Those are typically a sign of a non-functional mentoring process, as it implies that either the maintainer did not know

Re: RFS: pysvn

2011-09-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Henry velez wrote: pysvn - Automatically imported during mentors.debian.net migration -- re-upload to get fresh data here U. Always read the email that you are sending before you send it. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To

Re: spotweb_0~20110903+gitab1d95b4-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2011-09-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Jan-Pascal van Best wrote: Upstream is only GIT, there are no official releases yet (I've asked, since the application is already widely used). There is also nothing like build time, since upstream more or less advises to use git clone to put the application in

Re: spotweb_0~20110903+gitab1d95b4-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2011-09-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Jan-Pascal van Best wrote: Some of the compressed .js and .css files in the upstream source are not accompanied by their uncompressed originals. I've now put those in debian/extra_sources, to be able to generate the proper compressed files at package build

Re: Tracking RFSs as bugs

2011-09-06 Thread Paul Wise
I'm concerned that this might turn out about as useful as filing an RFP bug against wnpp; not very useful at all. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: RFS: fizsh

2011-09-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Guido van Steen wrote: I corrected the errors you spotted. I also added a lintian-override file to suppress the lintian hyphen-used-as-minus-sign tag. (This override-file will not be needed anymore when Upstream releases a newer version of fizsh.) You should

Re: Cannot install paraview package

2011-09-03 Thread Paul Wise
Sounds like you got bitten by a transition: http://release.debian.org/transitions/html/libav.html Until it gets rebuilt you will need to have testing added to your sources.list. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: RFS: xxxterm

2011-08-28 Thread Paul Wise
Here is a review of your package: I would personally wrap the build-deps one package per line, since it makes it easier to see what changed. Your watch file is overly generic, I would suggest using this instead: http://opensource.conformal.com/snapshots/xxxterm/xxxterm-([\d\.]+)\.tgz There is

Re: RFS: xxxterm

2011-08-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Luis Henriques wrote: Sorry, but I don't think that's an option upstream will take.  For example, the default homepage of the upstream version is a website of a company.  One of the patches changes this to a blank page and has been discarded by upstream. ...

Re: RFS: manaplus

2011-08-24 Thread Paul Wise
Here is a review: mana-4144 was never in Debian, is it really necessary to have it in Replaces? tmwcetki-archive-keyring is not available in Debian so it should not be in Depends. I like to wrap Build-Depends one per line for diff readability. You may want to do that too. No need to mention

Re: Re[2]: RFS: manaplus

2011-08-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 6:23 PM, andrei karas wrote: I am upstream author. Most time i compliling with embeded libs. Some libs a bit changed and this error was not detected before i released tarball. For packaging i add this patch. I see. Please commit the patch to your version control

Re: Re[4]: RFS: manaplus

2011-08-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 6:53 PM, andrei karas wrote: ManaPlus support two server types. Support for one of server disabled by default and files for this server not used in compilation process but included in sources. Keep them, someone might want to enable this type of server. -- bye, pabs

Re: Downloading of test data

2011-08-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Don't be. That's not a reason to avoid distributing it in Debian, if it's useful overall to Debian recipients to do so. The question remains about getting a free-software license to do so, but you're aware of

Re: mentors.debian.net runs the debexpo code now

2011-08-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Asheesh Laroia wrote: Thanks to huge work by Johnny Lamb, Christoph Haas, Jan Dittberner, Kalle Söderman, Serafeim Zanikolas, David Paleino, and Paul Wise, we have had a alpha-level product called Debexpo that can replace mentors.debian.net as the place we do

Re: RFS: airoscript-ng

2011-08-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 10:54 PM, David Francos Cuartero wrote: airoscript-ng - aircrack-ng user interface aircrack-ng needs a new maintainer, do you plan to take over that too? I'm a bit worried about aircrack-ng upstream development too, are you in touch with the developers? -- bye, pabs

Re: RFS: lebiniou, lebiniou-data (3rd try) (new upstream version)

2011-08-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 12:28:57AM +0200, Kilian Krause wrote: Regarding fonts/FreeMono.ttf I'm not sure whether that one needs to be removed from the source tarball too. It would be a GPL violation to not remove it. There are quite a few such packages in the archive already, we should not add

Re: RFS: xscorch (updated package)

2011-08-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 4:55 AM, Jacob Luna Lundberg wrote: xscorch    - Clone of Scorched Earth You might be interested in getting involved in the Debian games team. We are having a meeting this weekend: http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Team http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Meetings/2011-08-07 --

Re: how to get people to run lintian on their packages

2011-08-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Asheesh Laroia wrote: A quick, much-delayed follow-up to this thread: expo.debian.net shows lintian output on the web now. Which version of lintian does it use? It would be nice if it were pinned to sid or backports. I guess it doesn't process the binary

Re: RFS: wizznic

2011-08-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Asheesh Laroia wrote: I suggest emailing the Debian games team! I think they would love to help you get this into Debian. Especially if you are willing to help out with other games. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: RFS: Sitplus -- Free software framework for ludic-therapeutic activities

2011-07-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Luis Rivas lui...@gmail.com wrote: Description: Sitplus is a framework for ludic-therapeutic activities for people with disabilities, developed by César Mauri. It offers new You might want to send a copy of your RFS to the debian-accessibility list. -- bye,

Re: Modified tarballs [was: Re: RFS: minidlna (updated package and FTBFS fix)]

2011-07-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Sven Hoexter s...@timegate.de wrote: We do it all the time. Just 'dpkg -l|grep dfsg' on your local system and you should find plenty of those modified source tarballs. What I, as an uploader, do in such cases is a diff between the upstream provided tarball

Re: ITP 634783: Need help to remove a linitian warning desktop-command-not-in-package usr/share/applications/package.desktop x-www-browser

2011-07-22 Thread Paul Wise
This is a false positive, please report a bug against lintian asking for it to not warn about the use of x-www-browser or x-terminal-emulator in desktop files. I also wonder why a webapp needs a desktop file. BTW, a better command to use is xdg-open, which is cross-distro. -- bye, pabs

Re: DEP-5 and derivative work

2011-07-21 Thread Paul Wise
What file format is pzl? I can't find any info about it. Please run file cat.pzl in the appropriate directory. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: DEP-5 and derivative work

2011-07-21 Thread Paul Wise
2011/7/21 Elías Alejandro eal...@gmail.com: cat.pzl was an example, real file is: penguin-3x2.pzl $file penguin-3x2.pzl penguin-3x2.pzl: data Hmmm, can anything read it? What does your package use it for? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: RFS: libbs2b and bs2b-ladspa

2011-07-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Andrew Gainer wrote: The package appears to be *sort of* lintian clean. When in doubt, run lintian with --info, which gives detailed information about the warnings. * There are several old-fsf-address-in-copyright-file warnings. Is the correct procedure on

Re: RFS: eviacam

2011-07-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Cesar Mauri wrote: eviacam    - A cross platform webcam based mouse emulator My main motivation for maintaining this software is due to the lack of a full featured, well maintained replacement. Enable Viacam (aka eViacam) is a mouse replacement software that

Re: package with new soname: questions about .symbols and uploading

2011-07-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Johan Van de Wauw wrote: But I still want to fix the .symbols file. However, I was not able to find how I should do it in this case (new packagename). Symbols files are mainly useful when one SONAME/package name lasts longer than one Debian release cycles.

Re: RFS: libharu (updated package)

2011-07-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Johan Van de Wauw wrote: - I've removed the .symbols because it is a bit irrelevant in a package whose name changes when the so-name changes (see discussion on d.mentors: [0]. [0]: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2011/07/msg00365.html Ahh, the package

Re: RFS: amispammer (updated package)

2011-07-13 Thread Paul Wise
It is already uploaded, but why do you need bzip2 compression in the .deb for such a tiny package?? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Checking package version numbers

2011-07-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Carlo Segre wrote: I recall that there was a script which permits one to compare package version names to determine which one is greater.  I just can't remember the name of the script.  Any clues? dpkg --compare-versions -- bye, pabs

Re: RFS: libgeier (updated package)

2011-07-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:29 PM, Andreas Moog wrote: Is it really considered necessary to override a wishlist/--pedantic lintian tag? Definitely not. It also is not correct to override lintian when it is correct. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: RFS: naev

2011-07-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Simon McVittie wrote: In my understanding of Policy and the DFSG, there's a difference between data not being built from source code, and data not being accompanied by source code at all. Data not *being built from* source code is a technical bug: it means

Re: RFS: lebiniou, lebiniou-data

2011-07-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Olivier Girondel wrote: I included the FreeMono.sfd, COPYING and README files from the freefont package in the source tarball. I don't think that was needed. Really you only need them in any non-Debian binary packages that you make (for Windows/MacOS etc). Even

Re: RFS: sxiv (updated package)

2011-07-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Daniel Echeverry wrote: sxiv       - simple X image viewer The package is already uploaded by kilian, but here is a review of things you could fix: The upstream README.md file contains installation information that isn't relevant to users of binary packages.

Re: RFS: sxiv (updated package)

2011-07-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Daniel Echeverry wrote: 2011/7/7 Paul Wise p...@debian.org The upstream README.md file contains installation information that isn't relevant to users of binary packages. Looking at the rest of the content, that is covered by the manual page. IIRC README.md files

Re: RFS: libpar2 (reupload to Debian)

2011-07-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Andreas Moog wrote: dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libpar2/libpar2_0.2-2.dsc I am unable to unpack the source package: dpkg-source: error: File ./libpar2_0.2.orig.tar.gz has size 401700 instead of expected 403492 -- bye, pabs

Re: RFS: libgeier (updated package)

2011-07-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Olaf Dietsche wrote: The package appears to be lintian clean. Not really: I: libgeier source: missing-debian-source-format W: libgeier source: debian-rules-missing-recommended-target build-arch W: libgeier source: debian-rules-missing-recommended-target

Re: RFS: libpar2 (reupload to Debian)

2011-07-07 Thread Paul Wise
There is one lintian warning: I: libpar2-0: no-symbols-control-file usr/lib/libpar2.so.0.0.1 Two cppcheck warnings: [libpar2.h:29]: (error) Memory leak: LibPar2::par1Repairer [libpar2.h:30]: (error) Memory leak: LibPar2::par2Repairer Since you are essentially upstream now, will you be

how to get people to run lintian on their packages

2011-07-07 Thread Paul Wise
It is rare to see an RFS that says The package appears to be lintian clean. and the package (especially binary ones) actually be lintian clean. If we were to change the RFS template, what could we change it to in order to encourage accuracy and for people to actually use lintian and fix any issues

Re: RFS: libgeier (updated package)

2011-07-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 22:53 +0200, Olaf Dietsche wrote: So, where do these other warnings come from? From my bash configuration: alias lintian='lintian --info --display-info --display-experimental --pedantic --show-overrides --checksums --color auto' And always use the latest lintian from

Re: how to get people to run lintian on their packages

2011-07-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Kilian Krause kil...@debian.org wrote: Until that happens though I've put together a somewhat lenghty test-script that I usually run on my resulting packages after they are built as a review process. And if that fails, I'll report it back to the list like

Re: RFS: trophy (Adopted and updated package)

2011-07-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Kilian Krause kil...@debian.org wrote: 1. Using dh-autoreconf is ugly. Please try to avoid it and backport the full regenerated configure in your patch to make sure the source is identical on all buildds. IMHO dh-autoreconf is a solution for a local build that

Re: RFS: trophy (Adopted and updated package)

2011-07-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Kilian Krause wrote: I do remember these funny situations where you autoconf with another version and/or another setup than upstream and configure was generated but broken. Thus all I was saying is that configure shouldn't be among those files dynamically

Re: RFS: trophy (Adopted and updated package)

2011-07-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Kilian Krause kil...@debian.org wrote: That exactly was my idea too. To ship a source that is known and can be predicted regarding changes. If a security upload would be required but autoconf generates a broken configure due to some circumstances that couldn't

Re: RFS: lebiniou, lebiniou-data

2011-06-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 10:19 AM, David Banks amoe...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 June 2011 03:43, Olivier Girondel olivier.giron...@gmail.com wrote: [wrt fonts] Yes, I already got a remark from Paul Wise about this, but I'm not sure what to do, regarding the source of FreeMono.ttf FreeMono.ttf

Re: RFS: opencpn

2011-06-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Hamish hamis...@yahoo.com wrote: mmph, IMO .orig should mean orig, and the .diff should take care of the cleanup needed for Debianization. (the exception being dfsg incompatible stuff) Lintian will alert us if a change in the cmake rules re-embed the libs.

Re: RFS: opencpn

2011-06-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 7:34 AM, Hamish hamis...@yahoo.com wrote: I've no answer, but I notice that `apt-file search paypal` turns up a handful of other debian packages in the same boat, for good or bad. If it is deemed to be copyright/trademark problematic, there should be no trouble going

Re: RFS: opencpn

2011-06-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Hamish hamis...@yahoo.com wrote: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-grass-devel/2011-June/010184.html I feel your cringe, but we need a stable, controlled place with history to house the dfsg version of the source tarball; so $alioth is it. We could

Re: RFS: flvmeta (updated package)

2011-06-25 Thread Paul Wise
Uploaded. Some things you might want to deal with or pass upstream: Is src/libyaml a copy of the libyaml in libyaml in Debian? If so, please report this embedded code copy to the Debian security team. Also get upstream to remove it or otherwise ensure the Debian package only builds against the

Re: RFS: halevt (updated package)

2011-06-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Marcos Talau wrote: halevt     - generic handler for HAL events HAL is deprecated and planned to be removed: http://wiki.debian.org/HALRemoval What role does this package have in a world without HAL? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To

Re: RFS: angband (updated package, 2nd try)

2011-06-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Michael Tautschnig m...@debian.org wrote: Despite my upload I'm slightly wondering whether you do have stronger ties with the Debian Games team or not? It might be very worthwhile to join forces with them and have future versions sponsored by them. That said,

Re: RFS: fgrun

2011-06-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Michael Tautschnig wrote: Have you considered joining forces with the Games cabal [1]? I've uploaded this package, but IMHO it makes much more sense if all the games-related packages are dealt with in a much more consistent way. Michael, you seem to be

Re: RFS: hwinfo (updated package)

2011-06-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Kilian Krause wrote: in a clean unstable chroot I get: gcc -c -O2 -Wall -Wno-pointer-sign -pipe -g -fPIC  -I../../src/hd -I /usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I /usr/lib64/dbus-1.0/include -I /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/include hal.c hal.c:19:24: fatal error: hal/libhal.h: No

Re: RFS: brainparty

2011-06-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Johannes Storm wrote: i am not the upstream author. i was unsure with the licenses, because in brainparty-data are some sound-files under Creative Common (see copyright-file). perhabs someone can say me if CC is also a free license and i can take the stuff to

Re: RFS: brainparty

2011-06-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Johannes Storm jo-mas...@gmx.de wrote: i am in contact with the upstream author. he will dropping the soundsnap files. perhaps he also can replace stuff with CC-BY-ND so the package becomes free. Excellent! what does it means »source code of a font«? isn't

Re: RFS: brainparty

2011-06-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:17 AM, Johannes Storm jo-mas...@gmx.de wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package brainparty. ...  Section         : contrib/x11 That should be contrib/games. Why is it in contrib? Seems like you are the author so you could make everything freely licensed. None

Re: Avoiding useless library dependencies

2011-05-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 5:40 AM, Nikolaus Rath nikol...@rath.org wrote: I already submitted an ITP (see bug) and I'm preparing a new upload. It'd be very happy to do this in a team. Looks like Daniel Baumann has taken over the package instead:

Re: How to close open security issues

2011-05-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Nikolaus Rath nikol...@rath.org wrote: 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

Re: Menu question: Sound Application

2011-05-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Peter Bennett pgbenn...@comcast.net wrote: I do have a freedesktop file named jampal.desktop in addition to the menu file, but I do not know how I can validate that the desktop file is correct. Run desktop-file-validate and lintian. I do also have an xpm

Re: Avoiding useless library dependencies

2011-05-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 1:56 AM, Nikolaus Rath nikol...@rath.org wrote: What's the proper way to fix this warning? Get this bug fixed: http://bugs.debian.org/530346 I would suggest filing a bug and patch upstream, then pinging 530346 and marking it as forwarded to the upstream bug:

Re: Avoiding useless library dependencies

2011-05-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 1:56 AM, Nikolaus Rath nikol...@rath.org wrote: What's the proper way to fix this warning? Get this bug fixed: An addendum, fuse looks like it needs a new maintainer: http://bugs.debian.org624818 http

Re: Menu question: Sound Application

2011-05-21 Thread Paul Wise
Charles answered your question, but I would like to point out that with GNOME 3, hierarchical menus have been removed in favour of a list of apps, a search box and a list of categories. Clicking the categories or typing in the search box filters the list of apps. If you install menu/menu-xdg with

Re: bt747: doubts on licenses and embedded libraries

2011-05-15 Thread Paul Wise
Yep, package any embedded code copies separately. For modified code copies, try to get the changes into their proper upstream or the Debian package if it exists. Then depend on that version. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Shared library incompatibilty and versioned build-dependencies

2011-05-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 1:07 AM, Matt Kraai kr...@ftbfs.org wrote: I'm trying to create a new package of The Unarchiver. Thanks! How are you building it? I took a look and gave up when I saw it has no makefiles, only an Xcode project and the GNUStep pbxbuild (that translates Xcode stuff to

Re: RFS: manaplus

2011-05-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 1:22 AM, andrei karas aka...@inbox.ru wrote: Section : games You might want to join the Debian games team and help out with other games too: http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Team Jump on our IRC channel and we will walk you through the process. We are also

Re: RFS: nzbget (2nd try)

2011-05-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 3:36 AM, Andreas Moog am...@ubuntu.com wrote: The package appears to be lintian clean except for I: nzbget: spelling-error-in-binary usr/bin/nzbget begining beginning but I think this doesn't warrant a distribution patch. You may as well add a patch and send it

Re: RFS: jchart2d

2011-05-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 5:35 AM, Christian Lins christ...@lins.me wrote: Uhm, in the meantime I noticed that the upstream tarball contains helper (dependency) binaries that are partly non-free :( Ouch. As they are only used for minor functions and the library works well without them, I've

Re: Library Question

2011-05-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 5:00 AM, Rainer Dorsch rdor...@web.de wrote: Can you give a few hints what I need to change in the freetype/debian/rules file to create a libfreetype6-navit package? I would think: - for the private directory: changing the prefix in ./configure - for the package name:

Re: Library Question

2011-05-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Rainer Dorsch rdor...@web.de wrote: No, navit is a third party application, which I want to package on maemo. Nokia does not ship any version of Navit (they ship the proprietary OVI maps). Freetype belongs to the core system which is shipped by Nokia, which I do

Re: Library Question

2011-05-07 Thread Paul Wise
Since this is about maemo you can do whatever is allowed there. In Debian we would make an update to freetype with a patch targetting the fix, if the issue is severe enough. In this case it sounds like Navit is being backported? If so the backport would probably be made to depend on a freetype

Re: What to do about libofx?

2011-05-03 Thread Paul Wise
Thomas looks quite MIA, please follow these procedures: http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/beyond-pkging.html#mia-qa Generally you should be building and testing on whatever suite you hope to get it uploaded to. If you are able to do your testing in a VM, that would probably be

Re: What to do about libofx?

2011-05-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Bryan Donlan bdonlan+deb...@gmail.com wrote: The document you linked asks me to collect some information (mia-query, echelon) that's only available to debian account holders - I'll have to make do with what public information I can find. I guess I'll just

Re: RFS: opencpn

2011-05-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net wrote: Hmm, it's very, very rare that I find myself disagreeing with Paul Wise[0] Hmm, whats [0]? but I think that the cross-platformness of a package / library / toolset might actually be relevant if one looks at Debian

Re: RFR: lebiniou

2011-05-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Olivier Girondel oliv...@biniou.info wrote: lebiniou      - displays images that evolve with sound I would suggest getting involved in the multimedia team, you will probably find a sponsor there: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia -- bye, pabs

Re: RFS: ardentryst

2011-05-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Michael Tautschnig m...@debian.org wrote: To the best of my knowledge there hasn't been much response to your request on this list. Have you considered contacting and working with the Debian Games team? They might be of much more help in this particular case.

Re: get-orig-source or watch file

2011-05-01 Thread Paul Wise
Could you give an actual package name and upstream website? That would help greatly. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: RFS: opencpn

2011-05-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Hamish hamis...@yahoo.com wrote: this is an update on this from a year ago:   http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2010/02/msg00115.html after a while and a fair bit of work upstream* I think we're ready for another shot at review.  *[mainly hard work by

Re: RFS: opencpn

2011-05-01 Thread Paul Wise
A new review: There are bound to be more things to fix, I'll do another one when the issues below are resolved. Hamish, you should add yourself to the Uploaders, or use `dch --team` to indicate a GIS team upload. override_dh_installman shouldn't be needed, best create a debian/opencpn.manpages

Re: get-orig-source or watch file

2011-05-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Andreas Noteng andr...@noteng.no wrote: http://bashburn.dose.se/index.php?s=downloads If you could convince them to upload all of their tarballs to sourceforge, then you could just use uscan. Alternatively you could get them to include version numbers in their

Re: RFS: frei0r (updated package)

2011-04-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Jaromil jaro...@dyne.org wrote: On Wed, 27 Apr 2011, George Danchev wrote: I don't feel comfortable with multimedia stuff, but you probably want to join Debian pkg-multimedia group, to help and get helped with sponsoring, as you seem to have several multimedia

Re: What to do about the situation with id3v2

2011-04-27 Thread Paul Wise
Since upstream is effectively dead, for Debian's purposes, you have the same responsibilities as upstream. Given the above, why not take over the upstream project. The mailing list still seems active so theoretically upstream could give you admin access to the sourceforge project and you could

Re: Override paths for the very latest lintian.

2011-04-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 7:02 AM, David Kalnischkies kalnischkies+deb...@gmail.com wrote: Please have a look at: 201102232247.30644.geiss...@debian.org http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/02/msg9.html Every maintainer of Debian packages should be subscribed to d-d-a. --

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

2011-04-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Bhavani Shankar R bh...@ubuntu.com wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 20110424-1 of my package mobile-broadband-provider-info. Built, signed and uploaded. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: RFS: x-tile

2011-04-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Rahul Bedarkar rahulbedarka...@gmail.com wrote: x-tile - GNOME applet to select number of windows and tile them IIRC applets are going away in GNOME 3 so this will need to be rewritten. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: RFS: ax-emergency-listen

2011-04-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Fabrizio Regalli fab...@fabreg.it wrote: ax-emergency-listen - small utility to monitor APRS emergency packets You might want to bounce your RFS to the hams list or join the team: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianHams http://lists.debian.org/debian-hams/ -- bye,

Re: RFS: alure (updated package)

2011-04-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Tobias Hansen tobias@gmx.de wrote: first of all, thanks for uploading the package. :) I saw that you removed the shlibs file. alure 1.1 introduced new symbols and so there must be a way for other packages to depend on alure 1.1, right? SLUDGE for example

Re: RFS: whatmask

2011-04-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Michael Fincham mich...@hotplate.co.nz wrote: whatmask   - automatically calculates parameters of a subnet or subnet mask How does this compare with sipcalc, which is already in Debian? Also, does it support IPv6? -- bye, pabs

Re: RFS: sonic

2011-04-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 4:54 AM, Bill Cox waywardg...@gmail.com wrote: I have to admit I haven't figured out how to distribute ChangeLog properly.  My google-fu is failing me.  I'd like to get rid of the override.  Also, like some other projects, like speech-dispatcher, I'm keeping the log in

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