Re: Useless call to ldconfig and shared libraries issue

2015-02-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 5:49 PM, Corentin Desfarges wrote: corentin@debian:~$ ldd /usr/bin/fwLauncher libfwCore.so.0 = not found libfwRuntime.so.0 = not found ... corentin@debian:~$ objdump -x /usr/bin/fwLauncher | grep -i rpath corentin@debian:~$ Looks like your binary does not

Re: Re: Re: Useless call to ldconfig and shared libraries issue

2015-02-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 9:17 PM, Corentin Desfarges wrote: I mean that I get the same error : ./debian/fw4spl/usr/bin/fwLauncher: error while loading shared libraries: libfwCore.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory This pair of commands will work: sudo debi

Re: Re: Useless call to ldconfig and shared libraries issue

2015-02-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 7:22 PM, Corentin Desfarges wrote: I've already try something like : -Wl,-rpath=/usr/lib/fw4spl Is it something like it that you were talking by rpath ? Yes. But it doesn't work. What does doesn't work mean? -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To

Re: Useless call to ldconfig and shared libraries issue

2015-02-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Corentin Desfarges wrote: When I try to launch my software, I get this error : ./debian/fw4spl/usr/bin/fwLauncher: error while loading shared libraries: libfwCore.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory And by using echo

Re: meaningful backtraces for crashes

2015-01-31 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 8:40 PM, Nico Schlömer wrote: For Mixxx [1], I would like for users to produce meaningful backtraces in case of crashes (see [2]). What build options are needed or useful for debugging purposes? What's the canonical way for adding them to the Debian packages? Until

Bug#776120: RFS: beret/1.2.1+git4e2f21bf4eeabfd137b2b846756a368b42456675-1 [ITP]

2015-01-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 4:41 AM, Jacob Adams wrote: At this point the only remaining problems with my package appear to be binary-without-manpage and debian-watch-file-is-missing which also shows up in fonts-averia-sans. beret has a manpage, so should I override that? AFAICT the manual page

Re: How do I split a source package into several binaries?

2015-01-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 6:39 AM, Jacob Adams wrote: (While I am at it, is that the correct place to install resources for a game? It is map files, music, a few pngs, etc.) /usr/share/games/beret/ -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#776120: RFS: beret/1.2.1+git4e2f21bf4eeabfd137b2b846756a368b42456675-1 [ITP]

2015-01-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Jacob Adams wrote: It builds those binary packages: beret - Adventures of a telekinetic scientist beret-data - Data for Beret, the adventures of a telekinetic scientist fonts-averia - Averia TrueType Font The Averia font appears to be a

Re: Looking for guidance on multi-binary package with private DSOs

2015-01-22 Thread Paul Wise
[I'm subscribed, no need to CC] On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 9:00 PM, Tristan Schmelcher wrote: Thanks guys. The confusion I'm concerned about in (2) is not the library files themselves, but the package names. If we install roccat-tools' liblua.so.2 to, say, /usr/lib/arch/roccat/liblua.so.2,

Re: Looking for guidance on multi-binary package with private DSOs

2015-01-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 7:12 AM, Tristan Schmelcher wrote: 2) Like (1), but install to a private directory and have everything in roccat-tools declare an rpath to it, thus avoiding ld.so collisions. This triggers binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath, but IIUC this would be an accepted use. However,

Re: Restoration of deleted package 'bitfighter'

2015-01-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 4:23 AM, D B wrote: However, I find that this has been deleted. Is there any possible way to restore it? I checked on the mentors server already (for someone else?) and found no copies, however his packaging is present in the upstream code repository:

Bug#773861: Signify - OpenBSD's cryptographic signing tool

2015-01-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Riley Baird wrote: Typos in upstream code: equivilent - equivalent ouput - output Do these really have to be fixed? They won't be visible to the user, and it's likely to annoy upstream more than anything. I'll do it if I have to, though. If upstream are so

Re: best way to fork data only package on Alioth?

2015-01-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Paul Elliott wrote: The new package contains data most people won't want. It is big. 69M But those who need this data, need it. By creating a different package, I give the majority the default of opting out, while giving the few the chance to get the data they

Re: best way to fork data only package on Alioth?

2015-01-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Paul Elliott wrote: The two sets of data are disjoint. Your initial mail made it sound like two packages have data in common. Since they actually have no data in common, I'm not sure why forking is needed. If you are wondering about forking the debian/ dir,

Re: Need Help

2015-01-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Nandaraj Ks wrote: I have tried to create a local debian package in my machine .After typing fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage -F I have encountered these error .Please give me a guidance to overcome this error... make: *** [clean] Error 2 dpkg-buildpackage:

Re: best way to fork data only package on Alioth?

2015-01-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Paul Elliott wrote: ... Your mail doesn't include which package/data you are talking. It is very hard to give you correct advice when we aren't being given the necessary information about the situation we are responding to. I want to create a new package that

Bug#750708: RFS: audiotools/2.21-3 [ITP] -- Collection of audio handling programs for the command line

2015-01-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 8:01 AM, Eric Shattow wrote: See: dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/audiotools/audiotools_2.22+dfsg1-1.dsc src/decoders/dvd_css.c looks like an embedded code copy of an old version of libdvdcss, please remove it from the source package and check for

Re: Type of license and static compile of libraries

2015-01-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 7:22 AM, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: I want to choose a library What kind of library do you want? But i need to compile as static library, Static libraries are not a good idea, please use dynamic libraries instead. How to compile a static library depends on the build

Re: Sage/SIngular: static vs dynamic

2015-01-02 Thread Paul Wise
I generally would say we should only provide static binaries when specifically requested or when that is required. If you do provide the static version, please set the Built-Using header correctly. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: tuxonice-userui: can architecture be changed to linux-any ?

2015-01-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 3:37 AM, Julien Muchembled wrote: I guess this should even be fixed for Jessie. I think it is too late to fix that for jessie, removal is probably the appropriate action. Ouch. Ideally yes, but how to test hibernation ? By building a kernel with TOI-enabled, running it

Bug#774348: RFS: hebrew-cal/1.0 [ ITP]

2015-01-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 4:45 AM, Riley Baird wrote: * Your short description would ideally give more information than Hebrew Calendar. How about a beautiful, Qt-based Hebrew calendar ... It is written in C++ using the Qt libraries, and is based on the libhdate code and zmanim-java-API. In

Re: tuxonice-userui: can architecture be changed to linux-any ?

2015-01-01 Thread Paul Wise
Some thoughts: The TuxOnIce Linux kernel patch was removed from Debian after lenny, why is tuxonice-userui still in Debian? If tuxonice-userui doesn't work without a TuxOnIce-patched version of the Linux kernel, then tuxonice-userui should either be moved to contrib or linux-patch-tuxonice should

Re: kcm-ufw follow-up

2014-12-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 7:21 AM, Shawn Sörbom wrote: I accepted. Now I am wondering, since I will now be doing both upstream and downstream work, what general guidelines should I use for determining when the next release is ready for Debian? First think about whether the release is ready for

Re: kcm-ufw follow-up

2014-12-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 7:21 AM, Shawn Sörbom wrote: maintaining kcm-ufw I wonder if a better future for this code would become a core part of KDE and have one UI with support for multiple firewall systems. Related links: https://launchpad.net/ufw-kde

Re: overriding lintian tags

2014-12-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 1:31 PM, T o n g wrote: I have the following lintian tags that I want to override: ~~~ W: zh-autoconvert: binary-without-manpage usr/bin/autob5 W: zh-autoconvert: binary-without-manpage usr/bin/autogb ~~~ These don't look appropriate to override in this case. They

Re: Sample Debian package to show-case all

2014-12-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 10:30 AM, T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com wrote: Is there a *simple* sample Debian package somewhere out there that show- case most of the important Debian packaging aspects? I think you want to look at the hello package. E.g., with a small C/C++ file, the sample

Re: Sample Debian package to show-case all

2014-12-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 12:30 PM, T o n g wrote: If we can influence upstream, why don't we get their structure right at the first place? If Debian can't influence it, then I believe no other distro on earth can influence it. I mean, nowadays Debian is so powerful and the line between

Re: launchpad for debian and autobuilders

2014-12-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote: But I have to install it, and prepare a server to do that. There's no a public service for debian that do that, no? The Debian autobuild service is here: https://buildd.debian.org/ -- bye, pabs

Re: dh-autoreconf: aclocal: rename aclocal.m4 to acinclude.m4

2014-12-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 9:58 PM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: aclocal rewrite the aclocal.m4 files, so precious information can be lost: a workaround is to rename the `aclocal.m4' files `acinclude.m4'. When this renaming process can take place ? in d/rules ? at the repacking stage ? Upstream would

Bug#771476: RFS: libfap6/1.4-1 [ITP]

2014-12-09 Thread Paul Wise
I don't intend to sponsor this but here is a review: On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 7:16 AM, Iain R. Learmonth wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package libfap6. Note that libfap5 is already packaged in Debian and this is a new upstream version with a new soname. Is there any reason to have

Re: Re: Re: Big data is needed for unit test

2014-12-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 10:17 PM, Corentin Desfarges wrote: It's not about a real patient... So I don't think that there is any problem of confidentiality in this case. Fair enough. I guess that this new orig.tar.gz would be created by using uscan (if the link is added in d/watch) ? Uscan

Re: Re: Re: Re: Big data is needed for unit test

2014-12-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 11:16 PM, Corentin Desfarges wrote: The file is just used by one of the unit tests. But there are more than 20 unit tests which need their own specific data to work. Ok, that makes this a bit more complicated, especially since the amount of data could grow over time.

Re: Big data is needed for unit test

2014-12-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Corentin Desfarges wrote: It is a .jsonz file. I assume that is a gzip compressed JSON file. Actually the file isn't into the source package. I've the choice, and it's why I would use the best practice. Please keep it separate then, it is better for Debian to

Re: Re: Big data is needed for unit test

2014-12-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 12:29 AM, Corentin Desfarges wrote: With the authorization of the responsibles of the project, I published the file here [2] It contains the names of one patient and his birth date so that probably wasn't a good idea. This file appears to contain CT scan results in a

Re: Big data is needed for unit test

2014-12-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Corentin Desfarges wrote: I'm working on the packaging of fw4spl (a medical software), and I'm faced with a new problematic : One of the unit tests needs to load an important data file, which has a big size (~200 Mo). I assume you mean 200MB here. Should I

Re: Self-maintained Debian packages best practice

2014-11-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 4:32 AM, T o n g wrote: Ok, good to know, but that's more targeting towards package building, not source code developing and maintaining. Does it imply that I should put the `debian` folder within my source tree now? Because as mentioned before, the last thing I want to

Bug#683120: RFS: yadifa/2.0.0-1 [ITP]

2014-11-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 10:41 PM, Markus Schade wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/y/yadifa/yadifa_2.0.0-1.dsc I don't intend to sponsor this but here is a quick review... I have been able to establish contact with upstream and while the website may not be updated frequently

Re: Arasan

2014-11-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 10:46 PM, Norbert Preining wrote: Do you have a Debian package ready? ... If someone else wants to help/contribute, I push the current status to a git repo for collaboration. BTW, Peter Pentchev is also interested in this package: https://bugs.debian.org/771057

Re: Packaging multiple version of cakephp

2014-11-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 12:48 AM, Maxime Chatelle wrote: The three branches should be co-installable. So, each package will want to install itself into /usr/share/php. To avoid names clashes, I think using a subdirectory by package and with a patch in the app templates to fix the include path

Bug#764460: Bug#765179: RFS: yubikey-neo-manager/0.2.2-1 [ITP] -- YubiKey NEO management graphical user interface

2014-11-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2014-10-26 at 18:53 -0400, Harlan Lieberman-Berg wrote: 1. There are several generated files included as part of the tarball that really should be removed, if possible. The m4 stuff has several examples of generated files in it - aclocal.m4, several Makefile.in's, much of the

Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers

2014-11-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: I have attached a diff of a working example using the built-in mimetypes module. This isn't a very big improvement since it's still based on file extensions, but changing the check to use the python-magic module on pypi should be

Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers

2014-11-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 3:20 AM, Christian Kastner wrote: With the recent gamification of just-about-everything, I was wondering whether following such an achievement-oriented approach, with opportunities for contribution formulated as a list of specific tasks, instead of general avenues,

Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers

2014-11-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 4:17 AM, Riley Baird wrote: I'm thinking that I could just create a new file data/mime and put the following in it: That isn't really what I had in mind. I should have explained more clearly. The match field for a test matches files based on their names and the program

Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers

2014-11-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: I really like this idea. I often spend more time looking for bugs or tasks I can help with than actually doing productive work. Please install the how-can-i-help package and use it when you are looking for something to do. How do you

Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers

2014-11-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Paul Wise wrote: Have the sponsor tell you to apply for NM because you are great. Apply for NM. I actually meant DM here, sorry for the confusion! -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ

Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers

2014-11-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: Both of these can be difficult. Debian already has a really large collection of software, and people grab ITPs quickly on new software that is popular. Ack, there is plenty of new package space in the long-tail of specialised software

Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers

2014-11-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 3:20 AM, Christian Kastner wrote: I'd appreciate feedback on the idea; and if this turns out to be worthwhile I'll look into an implementation. Excellent idea, please do work on implementing it. That said, debexpo (mentors.d.n codebase) development has basically

Bug#768377: RFS: hastymail2/1.1-1 [ITP] -- need help with lintian errors

2014-11-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Tobias Frost wrote: E source-is-missing plugins/notices/swf/soundmanager2.swf plugins/notices/swf/soundmanager2_flash9.swf plugins/html_mail/tiny_mce/plugins/media/moxieplayer.swf You'll need sources for everything and rebuild everything from

Re: Minimized Javascript

2014-11-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Maxime Chatelle wrote: I'm doing the packaging for a documentation package. The content is HTML, CSS, some images, one source javascript library, and 2 minimized javascript libraries. The minimized libraries is a problem. I think about these solutions: The

Re: Minimized Javascript

2014-11-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 12:47 AM, Maxime Chatelle wrote: Well, if I understand, the best way is: * Three packages for the three libraries. * One package for Gruntjs. * Request to POCO authors to provide a tarball without minimized libraries OR remove it myself, making a dfsg package. I'm

Re: How to forbid apt to use sources.list.d

2014-11-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 3:23 AM, Andreas Tille wrote: it seems apt-get recently changed its behaviour which affects blends-dev. Blends-dev defines a certain configured sources.list file which is set in $aptsources. Apt is called with the following options: ... I wonder whether this is a

Bug#738101: RFS: awstats/7.3+dfsg-1

2014-10-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 7:46 PM, Sergey B Kirpichev wrote: is there any chance for this package [1] to enter Jessie after ~1 year sitting on mentors.d.n?! (see #739247 about the privacy-breach-google-cse lintian error) If no, what exactly I should do? In general Debian expects sponsored

Bug#766982: RFS: plowshare4/1.0.6-1

2014-10-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 7:45 PM, Carl Suster wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package plowshare4 I don't intend to sponsor this but here is a review. This looks like the only thing that would block the upload: Some of the copyright holders are missing from debian/copyright. These

Re: Bug#766982: RFS: plowshare4/1.0.6-1

2014-10-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:33 PM, Dominique Dumont wrote: Although I don't know whether I should upload this change due to the upcoming freeze The release team might be willing to unblock such a change. BTW, could the default for cme check dpkg not show progress/debug info? -- bye, pabs

Bug#766982: RFS: plowshare4/1.0.6-1

2014-10-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2014-10-28 at 14:01 +1100, Carl Suster wrote: I'm not sure what you're referring to here - `licensecheck --copyright` and grep both seem to agree with the information in d/copyright with only two differences: (1) I changed the aliases in the copyright headers to the contributors' full

Re: uscan not downloading new upstream version of bowtie2

2014-10-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 5:38 AM, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: I am facing a strange issue with uscan. ... Any hint ? Looks like a bug, please file one. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: How to provide fake xserver in d/rules (couldn't connect to display localhost:11.0)

2014-10-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: I know some time ago somebody has given the answer to this problem but I Not sure about cdbs, but with dh it would be this: xvfb-run --auto-servernum --server-args=-screen 0 1024x768x24 dh_auto_build -- bye, pabs

Re: Package conflicting with itself?

2014-10-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 12:54 AM, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote: Does it makes sense for a package to conflict with itself? Not really, especially since there is no multi-arch header. You might want to file a bug report about this. It would probably be a good idea to add a lintian tag about it

Re: dump1090: Suggestions/comments for packaging internal web interface.

2014-10-22 Thread Paul Wise
I'm missing some information in your question: How is the internal HTTP server used? Why did upstream feel the need to reimplement a HTTP server? What hostname/URLs does the internal HTTP server usually serve? Personally I would talk to upstream and get them to remove the internal HTTP server.

Bug#765179: RFS: yubikey-neo-manager/0.2.2-1 [ITP] -- YubiKey NEO management graphical user interface

2014-10-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2014-10-15 at 11:54 +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: I'd love for you two to put your review cycles into it: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=764262 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=764460 My recent reviews have been to test Harlan's ability to review

Re: proper way to override dh_gencontrol

2014-10-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 9:58 PM, Robert Steckroth wrote: Oh ya, I read through that. The other problem is the `dh_make` custom template mechanism which only functions superficially. It doesn't override the `/usr/share/debhelper/dh_make/` ones very well unless all of them are copied and

Re: proper way to override dh_gencontrol

2014-10-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 9:22 PM, Robert Steckroth wrote: I want this to be a single script file. That would require directory structure to be present before the script. Generally we don't do that in Debian, please read through this: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/ -- bye,

Re: proper way to override dh_gencontrol

2014-10-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Robert Steckroth wrote: I have the following script which auto packages the blender binaries Is there any particular reason for not using the existing blender source/binary packages already in Debian? -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To

Bug#765179: RFS: yubikey-neo-manager/0.2.2-1 [ITP] -- YubiKey NEO management graphical user interface

2014-10-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Harlan Lieberman-Berg wrote: On Mon, 2014-10-13 at 21:35 +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for our package yubikey-neo-manager: Thank you for your help in packaging the yubikey neo manager for Debian! I've got a few

Re: Bug Severity Help

2014-10-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Bill Blough wrote: Probably so. And while it's an intriguing idea to think about, in my opinion it defeats the purpose, since xalan is an xlst implementation that provides an alternative to libxslt. I think I wasn't clear enough in my suggestion wording. I

Bug#764261: RFS: librocket/1.3-1 [ITP]

2014-10-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2014-10-06 at 22:13 -0400, Harlan Lieberman-Berg wrote: Thanks for packaging librocket for Debian. I've got a couple things for you to fix as the next steps. Good review Harlan, you missed some important things though, see below. 2. Your changelog should close an ITP bug - in your

Re: Bug Severity Help

2014-10-07 Thread Paul Wise
That sounds of a potential denial of service vulnerability. How likely is it that Xalan would be used with untrusted stylesheets supplied by attackers? If you don't think it would be possible to fix it you can ask the release team for a jessie-ignore tag, reportbug release.debian.org, choose 3

Re: Bug Severity Help

2014-10-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Bill Blough wrote: That's an interesting thought. That would likely resolve the issue as filed in the bug report against the xalan executables. However the same problem would still technically exist in the underlying library code (libxalan-c). Though,

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

2014-10-04 Thread Paul Wise
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 investigated. The point

Bug#763540: Review of psocksxx/0.0.5-1

2014-10-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2014-10-03 at 13:36 +0200, Jörg Frings-Fürst wrote: New package is uploaded to mentors[1]. The package looks good to me. I don't have time for sponsorship but I would encourage the regular sponsors on debian-mentors to upload this. The reason is that I want use GPL-3+ for my work. But

Bug#763540: Review of psocksxx/0.0.5-1

2014-09-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Harlan Lieberman-Berg wrote: I took a look at psocksxx, and it looks pretty good! Agreed, good review Harlan! A couple minor things that need to be changed: Agreed with both of these. Some more minor issues that you might want to fix at some point: The

Re: Install files based on architecture?

2014-09-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Bamm wrote: Is it possible for the debian/install file to install a file based on architecture? Perhaps something like this? The best thing to do is fix the upstream build system so it installs the right files in the right place but if that isn't possible

Re: Whom should I send a patch to?

2014-09-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 1:00 PM, lumin wrote: which way is recommended? Send it to the mailing list. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#760720: qrouter review

2014-09-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2014-09-20 at 10:26 +0200, Ruben Undheim wrote: I've implemented option no.1 and pushed it to the git repo here: git://anonscm.debian.org/debian-science/packages/qrouter.git That would be the best option, thanks. It would also be good to get upstream to remove their copy from their

Bug#760720: qrouter review

2014-09-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 3:54 AM, Ruben Undheim wrote: It seems like these are two different tkcon.tcl versions. I've seen that the package magic also bundles a tkcon.tcl version. You are possibly right here, but I would like to keep it as it is, as for now at least. Are these independent

Bug#761486: Review of piqi

2014-09-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2014-09-18 at 15:48 -0400, Harlan Lieberman-Berg wrote: Thank you for submitting piqi for review. I took a look at it, and it looks good. One quick clarification - have you send the patch upstream? I couldn't find mention of it in their issues or in their repo. Further review

Bug#750034: apt-zeroconf review

2014-09-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 2:53 AM, Harlan Lieberman-Berg wrote: apt-zeroconf is in pretty good shape. Some things that should be fixed before upload (I don't have time to be a sponsor): I'm not sure but I believe the removal of users in postrm is against policy, especially when

Re: automake and dh_auto_test

2014-09-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 3:40 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello Forum, pedantic This is actually a mailing list :) /pedantic I am wondering whether dh_auto_test works properly with Makefile generated via automake. It should work properly if upstream is doing things the usual way. For my

Re: p7zip and YACReader

2014-09-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 2:55 AM, Luis Ángel San Martín Rodríguez wrote: libarchive has a limited support for rar files (rar v3 only). That isn't much different from p7zip-full not supporting rar if you don't use non-free things :) It seems that there isn't a good solution for solving this

Bug#747169: RFS: socksjs-twisted/1.2.1-1 [ITP]

2014-09-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 5:09 AM, Alexandre Rossi wrote: From some other discussion, I had understood that including the missing source was enough. What is your advice here : should I add a Makefile to regenerate those files that don't even get in the binary package? Should I repack the source

Re: p7zip and YACReader

2014-09-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 3:14 AM, Luis Ángel San Martín Rodríguez wrote: Before YACReader 7.0 I was doing exactly that, using the command-line interface. The problem is that this approach is slower than using 7z.so directly, especially when you want to extract files in a certain order (f.e:

Re: p7zip and YACReader

2014-09-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Alexander Alemayhu wrote: source code isn't used to build p7zip but to build a wrapper for p7zip, as it comes without proper headers for library inclusion. On Debian, the wrapper uses Debian's version of p7zip, but it still needs a part of its source code at

Re: p7zip and YACReader

2014-09-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 4:03 AM, Felix Kauselmann wrote: I'll try. YACReaders source code uses a bunch of code and header files from p7zip to build it's internal logic (wrapper, whatever) to access 7z.so and Rar29.so. 7z.so and Rar29.so are then loaded dynamically at runtime. As I wrote

Re: new to linux

2014-09-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 5:01 AM, FERNANDO CROWLEY wrote: looking for some direction where to start contributing In addition to the suggestions of Riley, the folks on the #debian-mentors IRC channel will be happy to discuss with you the best ways for you to contribute based on your skills and

Bug#742077: RFS: vcmi/0.95-1 [ITP]

2014-08-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 6:52 AM, Johannes Schauer wrote: the upstream of fuzzylite relicensed from apache 2.0 to LGPL 3.0 with the release of fuzzylite 5.0 (but not the versions prior to that). So if upstream should upgrade their copy of the embedded fuzzylite, then the license problem

Bug#742077: RFS: vcmi/0.95-1 [ITP]

2014-08-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 8:16 AM, Johannes Schauer wrote: Would this solve the license incompatibility between fuzzylite (apache 2.0) and vcmi (gpl2+)? Yes because the latest version (5.0) of fuzzylite (LGPLv3) is compatible with vmci (GPLv2+). I asked upstream whether they can remove the

Re: Package embedding javascript library which is not available in Debian

2014-08-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Andreas Moog wrote: There is (as far as I can see) only one other package in Debian that uses elycharts, ocsinventory-server [2], and they use an older snapshot of the library, so I do not know if providing a separate package would be useful. According to some

Bug#758815: RFS: libircclient/1.8-1 [ITA]

2014-08-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Eriberto Mota wrote: https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2014/04/msg00057.html This is my personal opinion, it is not official Debian Policy. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#758815: RFS: libircclient/1.8-1 [ITA]

2014-08-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Eriberto Mota wrote: I know. An official documentation is https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/advanced.en.html. But I think that, in this case, we need follow the Debian Policy, right? Debian Policy doesn't mandate or suggest the inclusion of static

Re: Build-depending on non-free package

2014-08-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 1:07 AM, Ole Streicher wrote: I am just looking for a solution for this problem... It might be easier to port the software to something that isn't non-free so the package can be put in main. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#758715: RFS: bgfinancas/2.0-1 [ITP]‏

2014-08-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 7:49 AM, José Robson Mariano Alves wrote: Hi Eriberto, my program is in English and Brazilian Portuguese. Users have option to choose the language at startup. I think it would be best to just use the user's locale to decide which language to display. -- bye, pabs

Bug#758056: RFS: binwalk/2.0.1-1

2014-08-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2014-08-14 at 08:08 +0100, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: The maintainer didn't answer for more than one month (cc'd again), however, he publicly stated that he is looking for a comaintainer, saying feel free to take it over https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=727553 I

Re: Not seeing uploads in my packages page

2014-08-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 8:31 PM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: My ~/.dput.cf file has fqdn = mentors.debian.net as the destination for uploads. Perhaps it's misconfigured? The full file is: Did you run `dput mentors ...changes` or `dput ...changes`? The latter uploads to ftp-master, the former to

Bug#758056: RFS: binwalk/2.0.1-1

2014-08-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 3:49 AM, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package binwalk binwalk is already in Debian and is maintained by someone else. Please talk to them about getting it uploaded. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Not seeing uploads in my packages page

2014-08-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 3:28 AM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: In the past two days I've uploaded two packages: * qpid-dispatch * qpid-cpp I can't see mention of either of these in the logs. Are you sure you uploaded to mentors and not somewhere else like the main archive? -- bye, pabs

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

2014-08-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Yavor Doganov wrote: There is no recipe to render the images from the .blend file. ... Furthermore, it is possible that the current upstream has no clue at all how to generate the images This sounds like a problem to me. This is usually done only for users'

Bug#754260: RFS: terminology/0.6.0-1 [ITP]

2014-08-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2014-08-06 at 06:47 +0100, Anthony F McInerney wrote: https://phab.enlightenment.org/T1489 Why is that bug locked/private? The two main comments were Could you work on the patch to use the lib if the lib is found. This would require debian to provide a lz4.pc (and give it to

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

2014-08-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 6:44 AM, Yavor Doganov wrote: Only because they don't exist. It would never occur to me to regenerate an image file that is already in the tarball. I don't see the point; it seems unnecessary complication to me. We build from source for various reasons, it is no

Bug#754260: RFS: terminology/0.6.0-1 [ITP]

2014-08-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 2:16 AM, Anthony F McInerney wrote: Yup, the use-lz4.patch was great, i merged your rules/control with mine (that i'd created from your previous mail) and everything appears to be fine. I've pushed the patch (and the others) upstream, hopefully something will be done.

Re: [Help] Need help for architecture specific code (Was: Bug#756780: bowtie: FTBFS almost everywhere)

2014-08-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: third_party/cpuid.h No idea about this problem but here is what I could figure out based on the filename and the errors, using packages.d.o, codesearch.d.n and a quick look at wikipedia. third_party/cpuid.h looks like an outdated copy of the

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