Bug#969291: RFS: sane-backends/1.0.31-1~experimental1 [RC] -- API library for scanners [transitional package]

Hi, On Thu, 10 Sep 2020, Jörg Frings-Fürst wrote: > > I'd like to see this new upstream release in sid so I'm taking a look > > but I'm quite surprised by many things. And actually I want this fix > > in the package too: > > https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/merge_requests/502 > > I

Bug#969291: RFS: sane-backends/1.0.31-1~experimental1 [RC] -- API library for scanners [transitional package]

Hi, On Sat, 05 Sep 2020, Jörg Frings-Fürst wrote: > > First of all, why is this packaging git repository not hosted on > > salsa.debian.org? I can create you a repository in the "debian" > > namespace and grant you commit rights on this repository. It > > would make it easier for random DD to

Bug#969291: RFS: sane-backends/1.0.31-1~experimental1 [RC] -- API library for scanners [transitional package]

Hello, I'd like to see this new upstream release in sid so I'm taking a look but I'm quite surprised by many things. And actually I want this fix in the package too: https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/merge_requests/502 First of all, why is this packaging git repository not hosted on

Looking for new maintainer(s) for net-snmp

Hello everybody, the net-snmp source package is looking for a new maintainer: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=835654 It is currently affected by 3 release critical bugs and has many reverse dependencies so it really needs to be well maintained. Uptsream seems to be reasonably

Bug#846348: ITP: capstone -- lightweight multi-architecture disassembly framework

Hello Pranith, On Wed, 30 Nov 2016, Pranith Kumar wrote: > Package: wnpp > > * Package name: capstone > Version : 4.0 > Upstream Author : Nguyen Anh Quynh > * URL : http://www.capstone-engine.org/ it looks like you are a bit confused. capstone is

Bug#827397: RFS: vlc/2.0.3-5+deb7u3

Hi, On Fri, 30 Sep 2016, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > > The real question is: is this upload ACKed by the LTS team? I don't > > have a hold on LTS workflow, and in my thoughts I believe uploads have > > to be ACKed, pretty much like regular security uploads, and stable > > uploads? > > can we

freeradius needs a new maintainer

[ Bcc debian-mentors ] Hello, following the recent discussions in #806617 it has become apparent that we need a new maintainer for freeradius. Debian still has version 2.2.x when upstream is now on 3.0.x. Is there anyone interested? It would be a pity to see freeradius gone from Debian.

pkg-fonts team needs help to maintain font-forge

Hello, looking at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=745732 which has been languishing for two years, it looks like the pkg-fonts team could need some help to maintain this package. This new upstream version is needed by at least two other fonts, one of which has a serious bug

Re: How to avoid version restrictions for JS libraries (Was: Bug#820879: r-cran-shiny: uninstallable in sid: Depends: libjs-jquery (< 1.11.3+dfsg.0~) but 1.12.3-1 is to be installed)

On Thu, 14 Apr 2016, Andreas Tille wrote: > You might like to checkout r-cran-shiny[1] or look directly at the > linktrees file[2]. > > > But replace can definitely operate on > > directories even though it will only act on all files below that > > directory. You must have done some mistake in

Re: How to avoid version restrictions for JS libraries (Was: Bug#820879: r-cran-shiny: uninstallable in sid: Depends: libjs-jquery (< 1.11.3+dfsg.0~) but 1.12.3-1 is to be installed)

On Wed, 13 Apr 2016, Andreas Tille wrote: > The thing is I used "replace" in the first place instead of embed but > it resulted in > > dh_linktree > dpkg-query: error: --search needs at least one file name pattern argument > > Use --help for help about querying packages. > dh_linktree: error:

Re: How to avoid version restrictions for JS libraries (Was: Bug#820879: r-cran-shiny: uninstallable in sid: Depends: libjs-jquery (< 1.11.3+dfsg.0~) but 1.12.3-1 is to be installed)

On Wed, 13 Apr 2016, Andreas Tille wrote: > Could you advise for the proper option to get a less strict dependency? Please read its manual page, it's all documented: | The "replace" action is like "deduplicate" except that it does | replace existing files even if their content is different from

Re: How to avoid version restrictions for JS libraries (Was: Bug#820879: r-cran-shiny: uninstallable in sid: Depends: libjs-jquery (< 1.11.3+dfsg.0~) but 1.12.3-1 is to be installed)

On Wed, 13 Apr 2016, Andreas Tille wrote: > Ahhh, good hint. So the solution to my problem would rather be to > drop dh_linktree? (Raphael in CC whether I might have missed something). It really depends... you're trading one problem for another. In general, it's best if you can just rely on the

Re: hdparm needs a new maintainer

Hello, On Tue, 01 Mar 2016, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > As there are at least 3 persons ( including me :) ) interesting in the > package, I think it will be a good use case for a collab-maint repository. > Further I suggest to use gbp [0] and also switch to debhelper. > > I've played a bit

hdparm needs a new maintainer

Hello, hdparm is a popular package which has been recently orphaned (see #816168). It provides an udeb so it might be needed/useful in the context of debian-installer too. There are multiple reverse dependencies too. There are 4 RC bugs against it and a new upstream release waiting to be

Bug#789497: RFS: python-requirements-detector/0.4-1 [ITP]

Hello Daniel, On Sun, 21 Jun 2015, Daniel Stender wrote: I'm looking for an uploader resp. sponsor for my package of (python-)requirements-detector [1]. I took a look at your package. It's mostly good but you should not ship /usr/bin/detect-requirements in both packages. Python 2 and Python 3

Re: Using the same Alioth git repo for multiple source packages.

Hi, On Tue, 18 Nov 2014, Maxime Chatelle wrote: Is it a good practice to use the same Alioth packaging repository to maintain two (and later, three) source packages ? Obviously the three source package come from the same upstream git repository. The point is to maintain 2 (or 3) development

Re: Making entry-point nee gift a real BTS tag [Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers]

On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Don Armstrong wrote: The existing help tag is really for bugs for which the maintainer needs or wants help; these are basically a superset of entry-point, and bugs which are more difficult than it would be reasonable for a new contributor to help. I suppose it would be

Bug#752690: Updated release of LedgerSMB

Hi Vincent, On Sun, 03 Aug 2014, Vincent Cheng wrote: Took a bit longer than expected but v1.3.41 has been released; update the title for the RFS bug with the new version. I can't seem to find 1.3.41 on mentors.d.n, only version 1.3.40. The debdiff looks sane enough however, so I'm

Bug#744253: RFS: ledgersmb/1.3.39-1 [RC]

On Wed, 23 Apr 2014, RJ Clay wrote: Raphael Hertzog is active according to MIA, so he's probably just a bit too busy right now to handle RFS requests. Wouldn't surprise me at all.. Indeed, I have been busy with a move to a new house. Sorry for my lack of response. I'd feel a lot more

Re: How to selectively silence git-multimail messages ?

On Sun, 26 Jan 2014, Raphael Hertzog wrote: The possibility to limit the number of commit notices also looks like a good idea, I filed it here: https://github.com/mhagger/git-multimail/issues/41 Apparently that feature already exists, I just overlooked it. In the Alioth git repository, just

Re: How to selectively silence git-multimail messages ?

On Fri, 24 Jan 2014, Russ Allbery wrote: Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: Sometimes, I can guess in advance that a push will generate a flood of emails that will not be very relevant at best and annoying at worse on my packaging team's mailing list. For instance, merges from

Re: dh: different dh option for -indep

Hi, On Mon, 30 Dec 2013, Andreas Metzler wrote: Assuming foo-doc is arch independent and therefore not built on -B this should work: MYDHMODS := $(shell if dh_listpackages | grep -q foo-doc ; \ then echo --with autoreconf,sphinxdoc ; \ else echo --with autoreconf ; fi)

Re: No relro when building from inside a Git package ?

Hi, On Fri, 22 Nov 2013, Andreas Tille wrote: $ gbp-clone ssh://git.debian.org/git/debian-med/htslib.git $ cd htslib (debian/unstable) $ git branch * debian/unstable develop pristine-tar (debian/unstable) $ git-buildpackage (debian/unstable) $ lintian -I --pedantic

Help needed to maintain wordpress

[ Bcc debian-devel to make the offer both to new maintainers and experienced ones ] Hello, I would like to find someone willing to take over the maintenance of wordpress in Debian (the most popular software to run a blog). The package is in a relatively good shape but it needs active

Re: Help needed to maintain wordpress

Hello Nicolas Pablo, On Thu, 14 Nov 2013, Nicolas wrote: I can try to help. I'm a php developper and and I help the maintainer of dotclear package (another great project to make a blog !!). On Thu, 14 Nov 2013, pablo vazquez wrote: I'm starting with debian but i have strong background with

Re: Help needed to maintain wordpress

Hi, On Thu, 14 Nov 2013, Ean Schuessler wrote: I've been looking to get myself back involved with Debian and have been looking for something useful to work on. Our day to day paying work requires that we work with Wordpress and we have an interest in trying to automate installs (which we are

Re: réduire la taille d'un paquet source et ajouter des paramètres spécifiques dans le fichier control

[Indicating that -mentors is an english list] Bonjour Zoubeïda, debian-mentors est une liste anglophone. Il faut donc poser vos questions en anglais. Autrement vous pouvez essayer d'utilisez debian-devel-french: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-french/ Je réponds en anglais à la suite: On

Re: lintian: no-upstream-changelog + non-standard changelog

Hi, On Thu, 16 May 2013, Felix Natter wrote: Eric (the previous packager) installed this file as /usr/share/doc/freeplane/history_en.txt.gz, which seems ok. But how should I deal with the no-upstream-changelog lintian warning? Pass history_en.txt to dh_installchangelogs and let it do its

Re: Trying to use dh_linktree to replace jquery.js but failed

Hi, On Fri, 10 May 2013, Andreas Tille wrote: $ cat debian/libgtkdatabox-0.9.2-0-doc.linktrees replace usr/share/javascript/jquery/jquery.js usr/share/doc/libgtkdatabox-0.9.2-0-doc/html/jquery.js $ grep -A1 dh-linktree debian/control dh-linktree,

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jan 25, 2013

Hi, On Fri, 25 Jan 2013, w...@debian.org wrote: The following packages have been given up for adoption: salt (#698772), offered yesterday Description: remote manager to administer servers Installations reported by Popcon: 90 I just wanted to point out that this package is —

Re: Package version numbers

On Wed, 16 Jan 2013, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Jakub Wilk (jw...@debian.org): I would paint the bikeshed the following color: 0.8.51+dfsg1-0.1 Isn't that missing the fact that this is a t-p-u upload, which is indeed the start of a wheezy branch? So something we were naming

Re: Bug#651606: RFP: gitlab -- git project/repository hosting management app

On Wed, 19 Dec 2012, Daniel Martí wrote: Is there any packaging team I should contact? Should I start using collab-maint on anonscm.debian.org for its packaging right away? The packaging work will surely require you to create a bunch of ruby gems so you might want to joint the ruby extras team.

Re: Maintainer address for collab-maint team maintained packages

On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Arno Töll wrote: Thing is, you can't use the QA forwarder because it relies on your source control field to learn about actual forwardings. If you would add right that address, the result would be an infinite loop because you would essentially forward mail to

Bug#691711: [Pkg-sql-ledger-discussion] New LedgerSMB Debian package, v1.3.23-1

On Sun, 28 Oct 2012, Robert James Clay wrote: A new version of the LedgerSMB package, v1.3.23-1, is now available and has been uploaded to the Mentors site pending a sponsor. Raphael; if you're able to take a look at it, I'd appreciated it! Do you want to upload it to unstable or to

Re: Renaming files, patching, renaming files, unpatching, and 3.0 (quilt)

Hi, On Wed, 10 Oct 2012, Jasmine Hassan wrote: For instance, I'm packaging Compiz 0.8.8, for MATE desktop. This, at least initially, requires a lot of code substitutions, and quite a few file/dir renaming. (ex.: gnome - mate, gconf - mateconf, metacity - marco, etc.) I use a home-brewed

Re: Renaming files, patching, renaming files, unpatching, and 3.0 (quilt)

On Wed, 10 Oct 2012, Jasmine Hassan wrote: Exactly, and gnome 2.x is no longer maintained, nor is Compiz 0.8.8, last in release 0.8.x from April 2011 So you have no other solution than to take over upstream maintenance. In that case, I truly believe that MATE should fork Compiz as well and

Bug#684106: RFS: ledgersmb/1.3.21-2

Hi, On Thu, 30 Aug 2012, Bart Martens wrote: Hi Robert, Have you noticed that there's a newer upstream release ? http://sourceforge.net/projects/ledger-smb/files/ He did, but as he wanted to try to get an updated version into wheezy (there are serious issues with the current version in

Re: dh machinery and module how to export only given symbol

Hi, On Sat, 25 Aug 2012, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello: I have to build a module that exports only symbol with a given prefix: in the pre-dh debian/rules , something as CFLAGS=$(cflags) -Wl,--version-script,debian/PACAKAGENAME.version was use. I cannot figure out how to proceed

Bug#684106: New LedgerSMB Debian package, v1.3.21-1

On Thu, 09 Aug 2012, Robert James Clay wrote: Also; my inclination now is to do a 1.3.21-2 package with any necessary changes and upload that (instead of removing the existing 1.3.21 package on mentors and uploading a new version of it after any neccessary corrections). Doing it that way

Bug#684106: New LedgerSMB Debian package, v1.3.21-1

Hi, On Mon, 06 Aug 2012, Robert James Clay wrote: Besides uploading the new package version to the Mentors site, I went ahead submitted a Request for Sponsor bug as well (#684106 [1]) Here's my review of your package: In control: Recommends: default-mta | mail-transport-agent,

Bug#684106: Bug#682274: New LedgerSMB Debian package, v1.3.21-1

Hi, On Tue, 07 Aug 2012, Christian PERRIER wrote: Just in case Raphaël can't upload, I can do it. But I'd prefer doing so as a backup only and keep Raphaël as main sponsor (because he is, IIRC, a user of LedgerSMB in hiw own business). I'll try to take care of it but I'm not using LedgerSMB,

Re: dpkg-buildpackage and debhelper: removed debian/tmp

Hello, On Fri, 13 Jul 2012, Michael Gissing wrote: Hi all, I'm not sure whether that's the suitable mailing list, so if theres a better one I would really appreciate a hint. The correct list is debian-mentors@lists.debian.org. debian-dpkg is to discuss the development of dpkg itself.

Re: Getting rid of control messages revisited

Hi, On Thu, 24 May 2012, Arno Töll wrote: [*] jwilk looked into the code and it /seems/ to me, the bts subscription does not contain control messages, whereas bts-control control does. Can anyone verify this? I confirm this. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Get the Debian

Re: build-indep and buildd

On Wed, 01 Feb 2012, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: In summary, before upload 1. run dpkg-buildpackage -b to reproduce buildd behavior Looks like buildd are using `dpkg-buildpackage -B` by the way Yes, -b would not help, you need -B. But as has been said, you must wait for the next dpkg

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, Adam Borowski wrote: Anyway, I don't think closing RFS bugs manually would be big hassle to sponsors. An additional manual step that takes time, is error-prone and brings nothing new: if the upload fails somehow, the sponsor will be the first to get notified.

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

Hi, On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: We plan to ask for the creation of a new pseudo-package debian-mentors or mentors.debian.org [3] (contact: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org) in Debian's bug tracking system (the name is still subject to change). A workflow for handling

Re: Remove self from Alioth

Hello, On Fri, 14 Oct 2011, Jason Heeris wrote: I have an account on Alioth, but I'm no longer using or contributing to Debian. Can I remove or deactivate my account, or should I just abandon it? You should file a support request to get it removed, see

Re: Fwd: dpkg-source: error: expected [ +-] at start of line

On Sat, 08 Oct 2011, Rodolfo kix Garcia wrote: But, IMHO, this is a bug. Because I can patch using quilt but not with dpkg-buildpackage. Same code, different behavior. It's not a bug. This patch has probably been badly hand-edited or something similar. diff would never generate such a patch.

Re: debconf scripts

Hello, On Mon, 03 Oct 2011, kuLa wrote: On 03/10/11 12:56, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: Suppose i download a *.deb from internet or packages.debian.org, How i can find out it has prerm, postrm, postinst...preinst and so on? which command? Can i find out? just unpack it and voila :-)

Re: Adding symbols files to the tango package.

On Wed, 03 Aug 2011, Picca Frédéric-Emmanuel wrote: What do your mean exactly by sorted ? sorted using the 'sort' program ? sorted like the un-mangled symbols ? IIRC it's sorted alphabetically on the string that appears in the symbols file (i.e. un-mangeld symbol in your case). The tags are

Re: Adding symbols files to the tango package.

On Mon, 01 Aug 2011, Michael Tautschnig wrote: Indeed symbol ordering may vary, but also there is no reason for dpkg-gensymbols to guarantee a particular ordering. Well, dpkg-gensymbols does sort the symbols files. Precisely so that diff are meaningful. Otherwise they would be useless. Code

Re: RFS: smarty

Hi, thanks for your interest in smarty. On Mon, 01 Aug 2011, Wojciech Szaranski wrote: The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 514305 Have you read http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=514305#10 ? Because: 1/ you have not taken care of the case

Re: RFS: smarty

On Wed, 03 Aug 2011, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Because: 1/ you have not taken care of the case where other packages install files in /usr/share/php/smarty/libs/plugins (i.e. no preinst, no conflicts, nothing for this) Just to clarify, you should add versioned conflicts on all those

Re: RFS: smarty

Hi, On Wed, 03 Aug 2011, Thierry Randrianiriana wrote: On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Wojciech Szaranski loq...@gmail.com wrote: * Package name    : smarty  Version         : 3.0.8-5 There is a smarty3 package with the same version http://packages.debian.org/sid/smarty3 . And you are

Re: Nitpicking: you are doing it wrong

On Sat, 09 Jul 2011, Thomas Goirand wrote: My point to give arguments about not using dh was *not* to start a troll thread about what is best practices. It was simply to tell that there are some arguments for and against using dh, and as a consequence, I found very bad to write in this list

Re: Git and tarballs

On Wed, 06 Jul 2011, Wolodja Wentland wrote: Tarball only Branches NameLocal/RemoteMerges From Tracks - master local n/a

Re: what happens if DM annual ping is late ? removed from keyring ?

Hi, On Mon, 30 May 2011, Jérémy Lal wrote: Hi, i reported my DM annual ping at the anniversary date, and now i can't upload : Reject Reasons: kapo...@melix.org is not in Maintainer or Uploaders of source package redmine is this expected until the bug report has been processed, or am i

Bug#628285: RFP: xul-ext-pencil -- GUI prototyping and diagram tool

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: xul-ext-pencil Version : 1.2 Upstream Author : Nguyen Tien Dung dung.ngu...@evolus.vn * URL : http://pencil.evolus.vn * License : GPL2+ Programming Lang: Javascript / Xulrunner app Description : The

Re: Cannot push changes to git repo

On Tue, 24 May 2011, Steffen Möller wrote: On 05/24/2011 10:43 AM, Dimitrios Eftaxiopoulos wrote: $ssh eftaxiop-gu...@git.debian.org I get the same rejection. The same here. The public key is rejected and no password asked (run with -v). I presume the folks are aware of it all. Verify

Re: Bizzar error with dpkg-buildpackages

On Tue, 05 Apr 2011, Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello Mentors, I am not compiling the package the first time, but today I got an error on Squeeze which could be lead to the yesterdays upgrade: No, not related. Ehm, on the top, dpkg-deb say signfile xmem_1.20-29+b1.dsc and then at

Re: dpkg-buildpackage -A vs make -f ./debian/rules build-indep

On Mon, 04 Apr 2011, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Dear all, I am trying to understand why dpkg-buildpackage -A is not simply calling make -f ./debian/rules build-indep. I tried turning DH_VERBOSE=1 but I do not see which rules imply runing the build-arch while I specifically tell

Re: Packaging Arbitrary Files

Hi, On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, Russ Allbery wrote: 1. dpkg-divert the configuration file before replacing it with yours. This sort of works and sort of doesn't. dpkg doesn't deal well with diverted configuration files in all cases, and you'll get odd problems. Whether those odd problems

Re: pbuilder and ${shlibs:Depends}

On Fri, 18 Mar 2011, Paul Gevers wrote: Unfortunately this is wrong, at least for ELF binaries. Usually if you don't have all the dependencies that you expect, it's because they are optional and are disabled when they are not found during ./configure. Although I am just a simple DM, I

Re: pbuilder and ${shlibs:Depends}

On Sat, 19 Mar 2011, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: So, to summarize: If: a) /usr/bin/foo of package foo needs at RUN-TIME /usr/lib/libbar.so b) /usr/lib/libbar.so is packaged under package libbar then I need to: c) add package libbar-dev as a BUILD dependency of foo. And dh_shlibdeps

Re: pbuilder and ${shlibs:Depends}

On Fri, 18 Mar 2011, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: I am still a little confused about this. Could you provide an example/documentation to clarify this? From experience, I believe that it WILL expand to LIBRARIES (not executables) that the program needs to run, if said libraries are installed at

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps error

Hi, On Sun, 13 Mar 2011, fre...@free.fr wrote: And dpkg-dev 1.16.0 is Ubuntu-only at this point... might be a multi-arch related bug. Yes, Ubuntu natty in a pbuilder environment. So this is a bug specific to Ubuntu natty at this point and it will be fixed by the next dpkg upload to come in

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps error

On Sun, 13 Mar 2011, Paul Wise wrote: On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 5:38 AM, fre...@free.fr wrote: I got this message while building a package : dpkg-shlibdeps: error: no dependency information found for /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0 (used by foo). Sounds like the code is using gio but not

Re: RFS: libapache2-mod-qos (updated package)

Hello Sergey, On Sun, 13 Mar 2011, Sergey B Kirpichev wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 9.54-1 of my package libapache2-mod-qos. Sorry for the delay, I had not forgotten you (otherwise I would have told you that I can't do the upload). I have uploaded the package but: The

Re: Struggling to remove old config files.

On Tue, 01 Mar 2011, Michael Lustfield wrote: I know the correct way to remove these files is with dpkg-maintscript-helper. I tried my hardest to use this correctly. I had a few incorrect uses pointed out to me that have since been corrected. However, I am still unable to remove these

Re: Struggling to remove old config files.

Please keep the discussion on debian-mentors. On Wed, 02 Mar 2011, Michael Lustfield wrote: The reason I put it in nginx-common was because nginx-{full,light,extras} are interchangeable packages. Someone could remove one and add another. An example would be the upgrade made them install

Re: Conflicts or Breaks when there is no version number?

On Mon, 21 Feb 2011, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote: [Conflicts should be used] [...] in other cases where one must prevent simultaneous installation of two packages for reasons that are ongoing (not fixed in a later version of one of the packages) I'm just trying to get a good understanding

Re: RFS: Dropbox

On Sat, 19 Feb 2011, Vincent Cheng wrote: I admit that I have no idea whether this will work, and if it is safe to package Dropbox like this. However, since it seems that Dropbox is unlikely to ever make it into the Debian archives if it still contained pre-compiled libraries, this was the

Re: RFS: Dropbox

On Sun, 20 Feb 2011, Vincent Cheng wrote: Fix the legal problems and have Dropbox provide the sources for the binaries provided by Dropbox. Thanks; I didn't think of that. However, I still haven't received any reply from upstream for my initial e-mail. If Dropbox replies to my e-mail, then

Re: Transition from oldpackagename to newpackagename

Hi, On Mon, 21 Feb 2011, Ben Finney wrote: When making a new release of a source package that renames one of its binary packages, at URL:http://wiki.debian.org/Renaming_a_Package it is asserted “most package managers (including AFAIK apt) do not know to replace the old with the new one”.

Re: RFS: dropbox

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011, Vincent Cheng wrote: Thank you for pointing that out; I'll make sure that is fixed in my next upload to Debian mentors. Would it be all right if I simply included rsync as one of Dropbox's dependencies, instead of including rsync binaries directly in the source tarball?

Re: RFS: dropbox

Hi, On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Vincent Cheng wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package dropbox. This package was previously in Debian's repositories (its former maintainer was Ivan Borzenkov ivan1...@list.ru), but it was removed due to unresolved issues with licensing. I

Re: common source package for use in Debian and Ubuntu

On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Joachim Wiedorn wrote: I want to realize the idea of a debian directory usable for Debian *and* Ubuntu. It works with a switch in the clean target of debian/rules: Great! ifeq ($(shell dpkg-vendor --is Ubuntu echo yes),yes) @echo modify changelog and control file

Re: common source package for use in Debian and Ubuntu

On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Joachim Wiedorn wrote: Ok, but how should I manage the last changelog entry (in time frame and in handling)? Debian should have e.g: lilo (1:23.1-1) unstable; urgency=low and then Ubuntu should have e.g: lilo (1:23.1-1ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low lilo

Re: HOWTO: Source a common shell script between DEBIAN/config and DEBIAN/preinst

Hi, your questions are probably better answered on debian-mentors@lists.debian.org. On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, harish badrinath wrote: Given that i was told that you can deterministically determine which file would run first DEBIAN/control _or_ DEBIAN/preinst, I have this following query. You

Re: Conf files and static files in a deb package

Hi, On Sun, 16 Jan 2011, pablo platt wrote: I'm using dh_help to build a package template and trying to follow the debian packaging guide for creating a binary package. Please ask your packaging questions on debian-mentors@lists.debian.org. This list is for developing dpkg. Just a quick hint

Re: .changes files without source packages

On Sun, 05 Dec 2010, Paul Wise wrote: On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 5:03 AM, Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org wrote: Using dpkg -b directly is still not the right way to build a package. If you don't want to distribute a source package, that's fine don't distribute it. But a debian binary

Re: .changes files without source packages

Hi, On Fri, 03 Dec 2010, Daniel Lazzari wrote: I have a collection of SDK packages we are building using dpkg -b that we need to distribute to our external developers. Because some of the libraries come from proprietary code, and others from assets, they should only be binary packages, not

Re: Debconf in non-interactive mode

On Sat, 20 Nov 2010, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 20101120223808.ga15...@mea.homelinux.org, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: Question: Is there some mechanism I can use in the postinst script that lets me determine whether the upgrade is being conducted in non-interactive

Re: RFS: clipit

On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Cristian Henzel wrote: dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on libpthread.so.0 could be avoided if debian/clipit/usr/bin/clipit were not uselessly linked against it (they use none of its symbols). but this last one is unnecessary, because my program actually uses

Re: RFS: clipit

Hi, On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Cristian Henzel wrote: thanks for your reply! I have also tried removing the reference to pthread.h in my program, hoping that it would take the symbols from libc, but I still got the same warning from dpkg-shlibdeps. So, should I put the reference to pthread back in

Re: RFS: clipit

Hi, On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Cristian Henzel wrote: P.S. I find it odd that it includes the package even if there's no referece to it and I also use -Wl,--as-needed... Maybe -Wl,--as-needed is not smart enough to cover this case. Entirely dropping the -lpthread is the only way to fix this

Re: RFS: clipit

On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Cristian Henzel wrote: If it's a harmless warning and the rest of it is fine, could it get in the repos like this? Sure, this warning is not a reason to block an upload. Many packages in the archive have this kind of warnings. They are not bugs but things that can be

Re: RFS: clipit

Hi, On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Cristian Henzel wrote: Sure, this warning is not a reason to block an upload. Many packages in the archive have this kind of warnings. They are not bugs but things that can be improved. ok, so is there anything else that I need to do, or will you upload it? I

Re: RFS: taskcoach - useful task manager - new - python app

On Mon, 08 Nov 2010, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Sun, 07 Nov 2010, Alejandro Garrido Mota wrote: My motivation for maintaining this package is: I use this application like my personal task manager,. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian

Re: RFS: taskcoach - useful task manager - new - python app

On Sun, 07 Nov 2010, Alejandro Garrido Mota wrote: My motivation for maintaining this package is: I use this application like my personal task manager,. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/t/taskcoach - Source repository: deb-src

Indicator applets and related packages

[ Bcc debian-mentors as some prospective DD might be interested in packaging those ] Hello, I would like to be able to use ubuntu's indicator applets in Debian but very few of the required packages are in Debian (only libindicator is available). Here are some of the design pages if you don't

Re: flow of things rules/debhelper

Hi, On Mon, 05 Apr 2010, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 03:30:50PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: The commands listed below are run twice, once with the -a option (in binary-arch) and once with the -i option (in binary-indep): Actually, it doesn't. dh binary just runs whatever

Re: flow of things rules/debhelper

On Wed, 07 Apr 2010, Osamu Aoki wrote: What is needed is documentation on dh_listpackages and its usage to sort out binary-indep and binary-arch difference for override commands. Otherwise, buildd may fail if they only install Build-Depends: (I vaguely remember, they install

Re: flow of things rules/debhelper

On Wed, 07 Apr 2010, Osamu Aoki wrote: But are you sure this holds for dh_auto_build. If buildd only install Build-Depends and dh_auto_build initiate doc building using latex listed in -indep, then we are in trouble. As I understand, it usually run $(MAKE) for any case. So if doc package

Re: DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=parallel=n work not as expected

On Sun, 06 Dec 2009, Erik Schanze wrote: Hi, [Sorry for crossposting to debian-dpkg, but perhaps they could clarify this. Orig. post was: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2009/12/msg00075.html] dpkg plays zero role in that problem, -devel would have been more appropriate. As far as I

Re: (debian control) error with dpkg-gencontrol

On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, xiangfu wrote: Hi I want to be a New Maintainer, so I follow Debian New Maintainers' Guide but when a use dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot Please use debian-mentors@lists.debian.org for your packaging questions. dpkg-gencontrol: error: must specify package since control

Re: UNable to configure my package

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, varun_shrivastava wrote: i have made a package which is a simple gtk application. it depends on gtk-directfb-2.0.so.0 , i included this library in the depends field in control file. Please ask on debian-mentors, it's made for people who learn packaging. after creating

Re: Question about linux-wlan-ng-firmware in main

On Thu, 08 Jun 2006, Bas Wijnen wrote: Because the package (as I understood it, I don't actually know the package) doesn't actually function at all for some people. That's not because they aren't interested in it, it's because they need non-free stuff to make it work. Indeed and our job is

Re: Question about linux-wlan-ng-firmware in main

On Tue, 30 May 2006, Bas Wijnen wrote: Packages containing some contrib material, without which the package functions well, can indeed go in main AFAIK. Yes. That's enough. If you agree on that why do you need after that to find a complicated explication on why finally this is not OK ?

Re: Question about linux-wlan-ng-firmware in main

On Tue, 30 May 2006, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: A downloader package is a bit of grey area; much like a typical contrib package, it has some more-or-less hardcoded string that points to non-free data; it does not, however, depend on anything outside of main to function (since main is

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