Bug#736671: RFS: asused/3.72-11 [ITA]

2014-01-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 6:35 AM, Sebastien Badia wrote: * URL : http://www.ripe.net/tools/ According to the upstream FTP site, asused has been 'decommissioned'. I wonder if the package should be replaced in Debian by whatever replaces it upstream? ftp://ftp.ripe.net/tools/OLD/ --

Bug#736665: RFS: otf-clear-sans/1.0-3

2014-01-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 8:14 AM, Daniel Aleksandersen wrote: This is my first package. Should I follow some special procedure? or just rename the files and re-upload? Since probably no-one has the old package name installed, just rename everything, retitle the bug and re-upload. I have

Bug#736665: RFS: fonts-clear-sans/1.0-1

2014-01-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2014-01-26 at 02:37 +0100, Daniel Aleksandersen wrote: I would have to fork the project, declare the SVGs the source, and then convert them back to OpenType? That sounds like a lot of work. :-/ I definitely would not suggest forking the project but taking over maintenance of the

Re: Auxiliary Flash Package for Java Package

2014-01-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2014-01-24 at 19:17 +0100, Felix Natter wrote: I guess it is ok to simply do the repacking/reimporting with gbp import-orig --filter ...? What would the version number be: 1.2.23+dfsg1-1 or 1.2.23+dfsg1-3 (current version number is 1.2.23-2)? I guess 1.2.23+dfsg1-1 is ok since:

Re: Auxiliary Flash Package for Java Package

2014-01-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 2:53 AM, Felix Natter wrote: Freeplane (a package in pkg-java) uses a swf file for browsing exported mindmaps. Now I need to distribute the source (see #736106), so I plan to put it in a separate package freeplane-flash-browser. Personally I would just delete the SWF

Re: Checking build errors

2014-01-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 3:59 AM, L.C. Karssen wrote: What I can't see is their exact error messages. This is because automake by default runs tests in parallel and sends the output of the individual tests to a file called test-suite.log. Is there a way to get access to that file on the build

Re: shared and static library names differ

2014-01-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 1:40 AM, Roman Valov wrote: The problem is that on unix systems cmake generates shared library with name libglfw.so.3 (libglfw.so intented to be put into -dev package) and static library is built with api version in its name: libglfw3.a Sounds like a bug that should

Re: Bug#735324: RFS: freexl/1.0.0g-1

2014-01-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 3:07 AM, Bas Couwenberg wrote: * Add lintian override for debian-watch-may-check-gpg-signature, upstream doesn't provide signatures for verification. The only time it is appropriate to override this tag is when you have asked upstream to sign their tarballs and they

Re: DFSG package to remove images/documentation

2014-01-12 Thread Paul Wise
Ask upstream to remove the non-source files from their source tarball and distribute binary packages for users who don't have the right build tools. If they don't want to do that the way I workaround this is: Delete the files in debian/rules clean (usually just add them to debian/clean). Delete

Re: Problem with unusual upstream source directory

2014-01-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 12:18 AM, Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote: So I have got a problem, upstream has localization files in po/ directory. When make is called, it traverses to po/ and also calls make, then .po files change (they are updated with the current date) like in the example below.

Re: generic debian/rules that creates directories

2014-01-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 12:08 PM, T o n g wrote: Ok, so I read the manpage of dh_installdirs(1), which I included below. But still how can I use it to create patch that I can send upstream to support creating $DESTDIR/usr/bin and so on, as suggested by Paul? The two topics are completely

Re: Different symbols for different architectures

2013-12-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: Seems that different architectures have different symbols. To me it doesn't look that simple, since the missing symbols are the same on many arches. It seems like upstream is basing the presence/absence of some public functions on what is

Re: arch-dependent files in Multi-Arch: same package

2013-12-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 3:00 AM, Olе Streicher wrote: This would be an option, as long as there is not complaint that an arch-independent package should be generated identically regardless of the architecture it is built on :-) At some point we want the entire archive to be reproducibly

Bug#710989: RFS for plover, continued

2013-12-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2013-12-28 at 20:58 +, Thomas Thurman wrote: So sorry to have vanished. No worries. I've updated the plover packaging to (attempt to) address your concerns raised in http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2013/06/msg00026.html . Please could you take a further look when you have

Bug#710989: RFS for plover, continued

2013-12-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2013-12-30 at 13:09 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: Other issues: In addition Jakub Wilk provided you some more stuff to look at here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=710989#15 -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: Packaging GNUstep automatically

2013-12-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Markus Hitter wrote: 1) Reducing the number of patches coming with the packaging to zero. If something doesn't align, upstream should be fixed instead. As do Debian: http://www.debian.org/social_contract 2) Provide a one-stop script to GNUstep developers

Re: Packaging GNUstep automatically

2013-12-25 Thread Paul Wise
Please don't take my mails as definitive answers, I'm just one of many Debian contributors. On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Markus Hitter wrote: Packaging is out of the scope of Debian? That's an unexpected response. :-) You asked about automated packaging, which isn't something we do in

Re: Packaging GNUstep automatically

2013-12-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Paul Wise wrote: On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Markus Hitter wrote: Which trouble? I see only needs maintainer multiple times. Lets see: Woops, I sent the mail without finishing the list: Many of the packages don't have complete debtags: http

Re: Building Perl modules that have dependencies

2013-12-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 1:08 AM, T o n g wrote: - Can I specify multiple Perl modules to cpan2dsc/dh-make-perl? I tried that and it looks like no is the answer: $ cpan2dsc Toadfarm ACL::Lite == dh-make-perl 0.80 == cpan2dsc requires exactly one non-option argument at

Re: file-in-unusual-dir and binary-without-manpage

2013-12-06 Thread Paul Wise
Don't symlink the manual page, that isn't useful at all. Just ignore the warning until you or upstream have written a useful manual page. On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 8:46 AM, T o n g wrote: $(INSTALL) -m 644 file/dbab.addr $(etcdir) This command installs the file /etc instead of putting

Re: file-in-unusual-dir and binary-without-manpage

2013-12-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 10:10 AM, T o n g wrote: But how come the following get my files in the correct place? $(INSTALL) -m 755 bin/dbab-get-list $(bindir) $(INSTALL) -m 644 file/dbab-get-list.8 $(mandir) This command creates bindir before putting files in it. $(INSTALL) -m

Re: Please help fix these build errors

2013-12-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 11:00 AM, T o n g wrote: - dpkg-source: error: cannot write /tmp/temp-lintian-lab-... Something is wrong with your /tmp directory. It is probably either full or has incorrect permissions. - unknown substitution variable ${shlibs:Depends} If you aren't packaging ELF

Re: locale patch

2013-12-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 9:55 PM, Salvo Tomaselli Do you think I should consider the patch or no? Depends on the patch and the package, please include details when asking questions. I would suggest neither option; instead, fix the patch and then accept it. -- bye, pabs

Re: packaging review (lintian clean)

2013-12-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 1:37 AM, Robert Ames wrote: 1) Is the use of tempfile here correct? (is this properly secure / policy compliant? should it be in /var/run? but /var/run requires permissions issues) The manual page for tempfile says that it is deprecated in favour of mktemp. Otherwise

Bug#721424: RFS: pentobi/7.1-1

2013-11-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 12:30 AM, Juhani Numminen wrote: I can add this file, but are you aware of its uses other than to “display bibliographic information about which academic article to cite”? Also as pointed out earlier, DEP12 isn’t available. The PTS points at it where the file is

Re: Seeking advice and a mentor for mikmod packages

2013-11-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 7:47 AM, David Griffith wrote: What am I missing? Some documentation that may help: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/advanced.en.html#library http://manpages.debian.org/man/0/dpkg-shlibdeps http://manpages.debian.org/man/0/deb-shlibs

Re: Upstream tarballs with varying line endings

2013-11-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Felix Natter wrote: Unfortunately libjgoodies-forms-java 1.6 renames some classes so you can't have a source code/patch that works with both 1.4 and 1.6... Is there really no way to do #ifdef in Java? I wonder if you could have two implementations and have ant

Re: Updating an existing package

2013-11-22 Thread Paul Wise
I would suggest contacting the Java list: http://lists.debian.org/debian-java/ -- 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:

Bug#721424: RFS: pentobi/7.1-1

2013-11-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Juhani Numminen wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package pentobi. Uploaded, thanks for taking care of the package. Here are some things you might want to look at: Please send upstream these links.

Re: Update a Qt Linguist Translation in GNS3

2013-11-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 1:21 AM, Andrew Shadura wrote: Use lrelease tool. Please have a look at openrpt package, I used it there. Please also ask upstream to drop the pre-built files from their tarball and build them from source during the build process. -- bye, pabs

Re: Upstream tarballs with varying line endings

2013-11-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 2:17 AM, Felix Natter wrote: This is not possible for all patches. For instance, Freeplane also has a Mageia linux package and so due to the lack of a recent Mageia libjgoodies-forms-java package, we cannot update upstream to the new libjgoodies-forms-java... It is

Re: Upstream tarballs with varying line endings

2013-11-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 3:15 AM, Felix Natter wrote: The patches don't apply with line ending changes. The best course of action appears to be to get your patches included upstream and also ask them to stop exporting tarballs with Windows line endings. -- bye, pabs

Bug#729375: RFS: authprogs/0.5.1-1 [ITP #616126]

2013-11-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2013-11-16 at 13:40 +0100, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: Sorry, the package on mentors was still the old one. ( it wasn't uploaded because of .upload file, and I somehow forgot to upload it again after I deleted the .upload file) Now I really uploaded the new one with the mentioned

Re: Help with bug #728027

2013-11-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Jose G. López wrote: I was looking for a solution and I saw that ubuntu uses build1 as version's end name [0]. That is how they version rebuilds, in Debian we use something different for that: https://wiki.debian.org/binNMU Is this aproach ok in debian? A

Bug#729375: RFS: authprogs/0.5.1-1 [ITP #616126]

2013-11-15 Thread Paul Wise
Just a note on your style of reply. Not including blank lines around your responses while also interleaving them with my mail makes your mail really hard to read. You can also strip the parts of my mail that are unnecessary for your mail. On Fri, 2013-11-15 at 17:40 +0100, Alex Mestiashvili

Bug#729375: RFS: authprogs/0.5.1-1 [ITP #616126]

2013-11-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package authprogs Since I may want to use this in the future, I've taken a look at it. A review: debian/copyright is incorrect, authprogs is GPL-2.0 not GPL-2.0+. If you want it to be GPL-2.0+ you

Re: Bug#729375: RFS: authprogs/0.5.1-1 [ITP #616126]

2013-11-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: This is already in progress -- no need to send more patches. This was mainly a trick to get more people involved in lintian development :) Good to hear it is in progress though. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To

Re: How to deal with error adding symbols: DSO missing from command line

2013-11-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 6:01 AM, Andreas Tille wrote: I tried to add gio here but configure fails when I'm doing so. Any idea how to do this correctly? Change the first instance to this: PKG_CHECK_MODULES([GTK], [gtk+-2.0 = 2.12 glib-2.0 = 2.14 gio-2.0], , [ -- bye, pabs

Re: How to deal with error adding symbols: DSO missing from command line

2013-11-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 8:46 PM, Andreas Tille andr...@an3as.eu wrote: libtool: link: gcc ... -lX11 -ldbus-1 -ldbus-glib-1 -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -pthread ,,, Any ideas? g_file_delete comes from -lgio-2.0, which is missing. -- bye, pabs

Re: How to deal with error adding symbols: DSO missing from command line

2013-11-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: That seems obvious to me but I wonder whether this is not part of the result of pkg-config ... Neither of the uses of PKG_CHECK_MODULES include gio: http://sources.debian.net/src/artha/1.0.2-1/configure.ac#L58

Bug#728716: RFS: xchroot/2.3.2-9 [ITP] -- Hi Debian!

2013-11-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: Do you know a license somehow similar in spirit than mine which I could use? It would be nice to have something that oblidges 'closed distributions' to publish at least their sources as required by some software in RHEL which is

Re: upload of xchroot-2.3.2-1 vanishes

2013-10-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 12:32 AM, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: Having modified my .dsc file by letting the files section be autogenerated the upload still did not succeed. There must be some other error in my package though it compiles without warnings at me. Could anyone please have a look? I

Re: upload of xchroot-2.3.2-1 vanishes

2013-10-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 6:34 AM, Paul Wise wrote: This line in debian/control is completely invalid: Section: System/X11/Utilities I'm told that the mentors.debian.net software is now more forgiving and will accept packages with invalid sections instead of crashing. -- bye, pabs http

Re: Packaging an extension with gnome-shell version dependency

2013-10-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Joseph Herlant wrote: I've packaged an extension for gnome-shell, and I realized that the version I packaged is only compatible with gnome-shell 3.4, so it will only work with Debian testing and stable, but not unstable. You will need to package a version that

Re: Packaging an extension with gnome-shell version dependency

2013-10-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Joseph Herlant wrote: So that means that I won't be able to have my package in testing before gnome 3.8 gets in testing? Correct. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: upload of xchroot-2.3.2-1 vanishes

2013-10-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 11:41 PM, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: Having filed an ITP bug for xchroot as required (721447) and uploaded xchroot-2.3.2-1 with the correct key to mentors.debian.net by dput more than a day ago the package still has not appeared in my personal folder at

Re: uninstalling issue of a local Debian package

2013-10-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 1:52 AM, Florian Rothmaier wrote: I'm an astro-physicist working for the Virtual Observatory project at the University of Heidelberg. Awesome! What is the reason behind this issue? It sounds like your prerm is missing the code needed to delete the .pyc files. For

Re: Adding packages for new project (sView) - first steps

2013-10-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Godfrey Chung wrote: Please follow the steps from http://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers. In addition, since you are developing the software, please read our upstream guide: http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide -- bye, pabs

Re: Debian Packaging of Shared Library on raspbian wheezy (raspberry pi)

2013-10-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 1:58 AM, Andrew Bakin wrote: 1) Should I be trying to use the build.sh script at all? If not, I need a mechanism for copying some files in the deb package (a udev rule). I know I can do this in debian/rules - more reading required. If build.sh is the upstream supported

Re: Is it OK to have compile warnings

2013-10-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Tong Sun wrote: Is it OK to have compile warnings when building a package? If not, It is fairly normal to have compile warnings since GCC gets stricter over time. how can I fix the following: dial.c: In function 'main': dial.c:273:8: warning: ignoring

Re: Gitorious and debian/watch file

2013-10-15 Thread Paul Wise
When asking questions about watch files, at minimum you should point at the download page or website of the project you are asking about. Otherwise we have no idea how to answer your question. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Gitorious and debian/watch file

2013-10-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Pierre Blanc wrote: It's a general question non specific to my package :) Hmm, none of these work any longer: http://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=gitorious.org+path%3Adebian%2Fwatch Unfortunately it appears that gitorious changed their code and now it is

Re: Packaging AngularJS application as part of the python twisted application

2013-10-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Ben Finney wrote: I think we're going to have to (as the Debian Python community? as the broader Debian maintainer community?) come up with a unified approach to dealing with the rapidly increasing tendency for upstream releases bundling doing this. Upstream

Re: Verification of Japanese debconf translations.

2013-10-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 7:25 AM, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: Since there is no list debian-l10n-japanese, I could use some advice on how to find an authoritative statement of an identifiable project member. Apparently Japanese translation stuff happens on the debian-japanese list:

Re: race condition

2013-10-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Beco wrote: After implementing the score (using SGID), I have a race condition in my game. Please delete that code and revert to using per-user scores. Making it setgid games just creates a source of vulnerabilities and is strongly discouraged. Please follow the

Bug#724896: RFS: wiktionarytodict/20130929 [ITP] -- dictionaries for dictd

2013-10-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 9:26 PM, Tim Edwards wrote: No, not yet. It should be a pretty straightforward set of packages to include as it's really just a packaging of dictionaries generated by my scripts available at https://github.com/tkedwards/wiktionarytodict How are the dictionaries

Re: permission to write to /usr/local/share/packagename

2013-10-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 5:09 AM, Vincent Bernat wrote: On Debian, those high scores are usually stored in /var/games/X. The file permissions allow a user from the group games to write the file. See for example `monsterz`. That usually requires the game to be setgid, which isn't worth the

Re: permission to write to /usr/local/share/packagename

2013-10-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Paul Wise wrote: per-user high-scores or I forgot to mention that most computers these days (at least in rich countries) are not multi-user so this isn't as big of an issue as it would seem. network service to share high scores You need to ensure that both

Bug#723142: RFS: dnt/0.10-1 [ITP]

2013-10-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Vincent Prat wrote: Thanks to both of you for the review. As regards the repackaging of the orig.tar tarball, if I have correctly understood, there are two solutions: do it by hand (and document it in README.source) or do it automatically with a get-orig-source

Re: Should .pc filenames depend on the version number?

2013-10-03 Thread Paul Wise
I am not sure which version numbers you are referring to but the API version number should be part of the .pc file name (for example GTK+ has gtk+-2.0.pc and gtk+-3.0.pc) but the ABI version number should not be. The version number of the library is usually not the same as either of the API/ABI

Bug#723142: RFS: dnt/0.10-1 [ITP]

2013-10-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 6:59 AM, Markus Koschany wrote: - It is not 100% clear how you obtained the sources. The original tarball is bz2 compressed. Yours is gz compressed. I suggest you switch to xz compression in source/options and for the upstream tarball and document modifications either

Re: Upgrading the Debian Policy

2013-09-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Dominik George wrote: Sorry to disapoint you, but you should read *all of* DPM before passing a package for upload to a sponsor or to mentors. I don't think we have never expected that new maintainers read policy before creating a package. The Debian member who

Re: Suggested package not available

2013-09-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 12:51 AM, Martin Eberhard Schauer wrote: today I found a package at (1) with sug: xine [hppa] Package not available message translated from German xine does not seem to be available at all. It appears to be renamed to xine-ui:

Re: An Analysis of the RFS Process

2013-09-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 2:37 AM, Dave Steele wrote: I was curious about the current efficacy of the BTS-based RFS process, and so created some charts[1] to provide visibility. Interesting stuff, some thoughts... If you plan to continue running these charts, please add some links to them on

Re: An Analysis of the RFS Process

2013-09-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Wookey wrote: I expect most other devs are in a similar boat. Indeed, your experience sounds fairly typical. So, no real answers there, but I would appreciate some feedback on just how much responsibility sponsors are expected to take. I assume it's the same

Re: Bug #722014 - should I upload new package to stable?

2013-09-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Tomasz Rybak wrote: I am DM, I maintain PyCUDA and PyOpenCL which are in contrib as they require non-free drivers to run software on GPU. I got bug report #722014 about non-free example distributed in examples/, in python-pyopencl-doc package. Basically

Bug#718323: another hyperrogue suggestion from debian reviewers

2013-09-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 7:16 PM, Zeno Rogue wrote: Neon Corridor has agreed to compose music for HyperRogue, under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence. Is this OK for Debian? As mentioned by others it is not acceptable for Debian. In addition it would be great if the music were as

Re: Upstream database update not in a single step

2013-08-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Jan-Pascal van Best wrote: My problem is that upstream does not provide a single-step database upgrade from the version in Wheezy to the current version. Normally database upgrades are performed by running a PHP script (upgrade-db.php) which uses a number of

Re: DFSG and assembler code

2013-08-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 1:45 AM, Albert Huang wrote: However, TIGCC/GCC4TI is another problem, in that the tool is a heavily patched outdated version of binutils/gcc, and that it has a very strange developer environment in order to function. (Specifically, it relies on shell scripts to

Bug#719973: RFS: fonts-klaudia-berenika/2011-09-03-1 (ITP #719787)

2013-08-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 8:01 AM, Eric Anholt wrote: OK, something went wrong with the upload on my end, then. The tree I was working from has them removed. Thanks, uploaded. It will be in NEW waiting for ftpmaster checks soon. Non-blocker and minor issues that would be good to fix at some

Bug#719973: RFS: fonts-klaudia-berenika/2011-09-03-1 (ITP #719787)

2013-08-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Eric Anholt wrote: dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/fonts-klaudia-berenika/fonts-klaudia-berenika_2011-09-03-1.dsc Unfortunately this still contains the sourceless PDFs so I guess the package will be rejected by the FTPmasters. -- bye,

Bug#662955: RFS: rubyripper/0.6.2-1 [ITP]

2013-08-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 1:02 AM, Scott Leggett wrote: This didn't work for me, Hmm, it still works for me, are you sure? the wiki[0]. Actually, the example has a bug where it looks for two adjacent periods in the file name. I note that you were the last editor of the page - maybe you could

Re: Package dropped from testing/unstable: ITP or ITA?

2013-08-12 Thread Paul Wise
Please read the devref section about reintroducing packages: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#reintroducing-pkgs -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#712026: transcriber review

2013-08-12 Thread Paul Wise
A new blocker: The upstream website contains this text: New! Jul 11 Transcriber has been superseded by TranscriberAG: see http://transag.sourceforge.net/! I wonder if it would be best to replace Transcriber with TranscriberAG in Debian. TranscriberAG uses GTK+ and C++ instead of Tcl/Tk. On

Bug#712026: transcriber review

2013-08-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2013-08-12 at 10:27 +0200, Giulio Paci wrote: In my opinion it is not: Thanks for the explanation, seems reasonable to leave it for now. BTW: if upstream doesn't respond to your patch requests, sourceforge now has an abandoned project takeover process that you could use to get access

Bug#718323: RFS: hyperrogue/3.7+dfsg-1 [ITP] -- non-euclidean graphical rogue-like game

2013-08-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2013-08-02 at 03:04 +0200, chrysn wrote: zeno (the hyperrogue author) has shown interest in pango sdl, but won't convert on short term. (currently, there's no i18n either). Cool, fair enough. as i assume that fontconfig will do just that kind of fallbacks, i've changed the depends

Bug#718323: RFS: hyperrogue/3.7+dfsg-1 [ITP] -- non-euclidean graphical rogue-like game

2013-07-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:23 AM, chrysn wrote: i've written a package for the hyperrogue game, and would like to ask for sponsorship for this new package. Here is a first-pass review: About the fonts stuff; The best would be if the program used SDL Pango instead or as an alternative to SDL

Bug#718323: RFS: hyperrogue/3.7+dfsg-1 [ITP] -- non-euclidean graphical rogue-like game

2013-07-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 8:17 PM, chrysn wrote: given that the game only displays its own static strings and usually ships the font file, i'd assume upstream will stay with sdl ttf, but i asked anyway. The main advantage of fontconfig is not having to hard-code font pathnames at build time nor

Re: correct packaging of web applications

2013-07-22 Thread Paul Wise
This is what I would do: add a script (or use the existing one for your framework) to the package that the sysadmin can run that sets up an instance of the app under a sysadmin-chosen URL with sysadmin-chosen filesystem/database storage. Some more links about this topic:

Re: correct packaging of web applications

2013-07-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Sebastian Tramp wrote: Unfortunately, webapps-common looks very unmaintained. Sadly that is true, you might want to help out with it. Unfortunately there is no discussion on how to reload the apache configuration? I guess the right thing here is to use

Re: using /usr/libexec directory

2013-07-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Lucio Messina wrote: Another question: If I want to put my package in the official repository of Debian, what should I do? http://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers An empty lintian output is enough? That is a good idea but isn't officially required. Some

Re: help to fix lintian problems: ancient-standards-version

2013-07-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 5:55 AM, Tong Sun wrote: but googling on source: ancient-standards-version didn't give me much helpful answer. The first result is the lintian info for this warning: http://lintian.debian.org/tags/ancient-standards-version.html -- bye, pabs

Bug#712910: RFS: autoconf-archive/20130609-1

2013-06-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 3:08 AM, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: Please check the replacement of autoconf-gl-macros package Pabs could you check if your pacakge built with this version ? chromium-bsu builds just fine with the new macros from autoconf-archive on Debian. I haven't tested this on other

Bug#712910: RFS: autoconf-archive/20130609-1

2013-06-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 3:08 AM, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: CC: Paul Wise p...@debian.org Firstly, please use X-Debbugs-CC instead of CC when reporting bugs: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting#xcc Please check the replacement of autoconf-gl-macros package Pabs could you check if your

Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsor (Part 2, was: RFS Jabberd2 / Jabber-muc)

2013-06-18 Thread Paul Wise
My guess is that the intersection between people who have upload access, experience, time, interest in running an XMPP server, aren't already running other XMPP server software and are reading this list is close to zero. Daniel Pocock has been blogging about XMPP, federated services and other

Re: libraries compiled with clang

2013-06-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 9:42 PM, Jeroen Massar wrote: Please see: http://clang.debian.net/ Also: http://buildd-clang.debian.net/package.php -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: How to handle a package triggering ice or segv during build?

2013-06-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Thomas Moulard wrote: [1] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=debian-science/packages/visp.git;a=commitdiff;h=6994be42b1aa3e5d700187fd432a09abb4e542e4;hp=0361f28d746259e3131928c12786e90b7aace299 The first part of the patch is very wrong. You should override

Re: How to handle a package requiring external test data for its test suite?

2013-06-17 Thread Paul Wise
Since upstream distributes the data in a separate source package, I would suggest packaging it separately and then build-depending on the data package. We have larger packages in the archive so the size isn't a problem. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: How to handle a package triggering ice or segv during build?

2013-06-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Thomas Moulard wrote: Actually I think so too but I am a bit reluctant to process the Doxygen documentation locally then copy it into the package (mainly because it will easy to forget updating the documentation). If you are aware of a package that could

Bug#711855: RFS: aircrack-ng/1:1.1-6

2013-06-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2013-06-12 at 03:10 +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: Which package contains such oui file? Is there any package shipping generic oui files to be shared or is every package shipping just his own oui file? None yet, all packages that need it ship a copy of it, possibly in a

Bug#711855: RFS: aircrack-ng/1:1.1-6

2013-06-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 12:48 AM, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: I'm not sure if beta versions are welcome on Debian or should be avoided if possible. My understanding is that it should be avoided if possible. The main thing is that packages uploaded to unstable are destined for the next

Re: RFS: new powertop version

2013-06-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2013-06-08 at 13:09 +0200, Julian Wollrath wrote: Since for this powertop release it is too late to ask upstream to update autotools, I added autotools-dev to the build-deps. But I will ask them, to consider updating autotools for their next release, so that the build-dep can be

Re: Please review: geierlein - free Elster client for German tax declarations

2013-06-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 10:02 PM, Dominik George wrote: There are two issues I see with the package that I would like to get feedback on: - I had to remove test cases from upstream's build system ... - Geierlein uses some JavaScript libraries that Debian does not (yet) include. ... I

Re: RFS: new powertop version

2013-06-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 1:50 AM, Julian Wollrath wrote: W: powertop source: outdated-autotools-helper-file config.guess 2012-02-10 W: powertop source: outdated-autotools-helper-file config.sub 2012-02-10 But I do not know, what the best way, with cdbs as build system, would be to get rid of

Re: Directories: FHS; permissions

2013-06-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Olе Streicher wrote: In my package, I need two directories that have the permission drwxrwxrwt: Users shall be able to create a subdirectory on their own there: one is a cache area, and the other is a storage place. I would suggest that you use the appropriate

Bug#710989: RFS: plover/2.2.0-4 ITP

2013-06-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 5:26 AM, Thomas Thurman wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package plover. As promised, here is a review... There are some that I require to be fixed before I would upload this to Debian: There is a security issue (DoS attack); on multi-user systems, any user can

Re: How to avoid all arch notice in dpkg-buildpackage.

2013-06-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 9:35 AM, linux at iocellnetworks wrote: I guess I had my hopes a little bit high when I wrote to the list. I was hoping for something more along the lines of a mentor as described on Wikipedia: ... the personal name Mentor has been adopted in English as a term meaning

Re: Using GnuPG and its daemon gpg-agent

2013-06-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 10:49 AM, T o n g wrote: Does it happen to you as well? I'm using a desktop (GNOME) that starts a gpg agent before everything else. I suggest you modify your login setup to do this and or check if they already do that. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise --

Re: Half of webapp in /usr/ and half in /var

2013-05-30 Thread Paul Wise
Please include some details about the app. Where does it normally place code? Where does it normally place files modified by the web app? How does it generate an apache config? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Half of webapp in /usr/ and half in /var

2013-05-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 8:20 PM, Anton Balashov wrote: Like most of webapps, it expects all its dirs in /var/www :) But I should put some dirs in /usr/share/pkg and some in /var/lib/pkg It doesn't have its apache config. So you will need to change the webapp to be more flexible about where

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