Bug#959013: RFS: gnome-maps/3.30.3.1-0+deb10u1 [NMU] -- map application for GNOME

2020-09-12 Thread Richard Laager
FWIW, this looks good to me. This is a new upstream release, but it's a bug-fix only (adding a translation update at the same time seems fine). Is there a particular reason this should NOT be uploaded? -- Richard signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#659047: RFS: rpg - Readable Password Generator

2012-02-07 Thread Richard Laager
What advantages does this program have over pwgen (which has been around for a long time and is already package)? -- Richard signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Bug#658959: RFS: phpvirtualbox-4.1

2012-02-06 Thread Richard Laager
On Tue, 2012-02-07 at 01:12 +0200, Alexey Eromenko wrote: To minimize confusion, I think it might be better to keep only one version in Debian main -- the one that matches VirtualBox. It might be worthwhile to have a phpvirtualbox meta package which Depends: phpvirtualbox-4.1, Recommends:

Re: RFS: rudeconfig

2012-02-05 Thread Richard Laager
On Sun, 2012-02-05 at 20:59 +0530, Medhamsh wrote: I have submitted an ITP for rudecgi parser lib for C++ and uploaded the package to mentors(#658347). After that found all the components of http://rudeserver.com to be interesting. Are you actually using these components in an application? If

Re: Moving cron job from daily to weekly

2011-12-02 Thread Richard Laager
Perhaps you should use a cron.d file instead, as the admin could edit that. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: package maintainer question

2010-09-08 Thread Richard Laager
On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 02:50 +0200, Harald Jenny wrote: I'm facing the problem that a package I maintain depends on a library whose maintainer is either to busy or not interested providing a deb for the new upstream version which would (hopefully) fix a serious bug in the library. IANADD,

Re: RFS: libaosd (updated package)

2010-07-28 Thread Richard Laager
On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 02:36 +0300, Eugene Paskevich wrote: On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:11:47 +0300, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: Why did you drop this line from debian/rules? rm -f config.sub config.guess I'm not sure why they are there to begin with. These files are in orig tarball

Re: The use of epoch in version

2010-01-28 Thread Richard Laager
On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 23:04 +0100, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: Abondoning the tarball-in-tarball form of the orig.tar-file would change the upstream tarball that comes with the repackaged debian source, without changes to the upstream version IANADD (and I don't know what you're packaging), but

Re: RFS: pidgin-mikroblog

2009-12-14 Thread Richard Laager
On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 21:18 +0100, Karolina Kalic wrote: It is a plugin for any libpurple based client and I wrote that in long description of the package. But, there is no plugin which name starts with purple-, so it may be difficult to find it. Also, there are other packages in Debian

Re: RFS: pidgin-skype

2009-11-03 Thread Richard Laager
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 01:15 +, Sune Vuorela wrote: Yes and no. Some icon artists create it in svg and then export to png and does pixelmanipulations of each size. What's the source here ? Theoretical discussions aside, in this case, I'd distribute both. If the SVG no longer exists, I'd

Re: RFS: pidgin-skype

2009-11-03 Thread Richard Laager
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 18:27 +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: * You should probably not depend on pidgin, I guess the plugin is also useable from finch (the console version). You would want to depend on libpurple0, but that should be happening automatically. (I haven't tried building this

Re: Bug#505633: RFS: gnome-keyring-query

2008-11-19 Thread Richard Laager
On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 22:15 +0100, Michal Čihař wrote: Dne Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:46:30 -0600 Richard Laager [EMAIL PROTECTED] napsal(a): Do you think I should file a bug report on the gnome-keyring package in Debian to see if the maintainer would include this as a patch? I think

RFS: gnome-keyring-query

2008-11-13 Thread Richard Laager
I am looking for a sponsor for my package gnome-keyring-query. * Package name: gnome-keyring-query Version : 0.0.0.20070709-3 Upstream Author : Koster * URL : http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_Use_gnome-keyring_to_store_SSH_passphrases * License : Public

Re: Different suggests/recomends according to architecture

2008-10-31 Thread Richard Laager
On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 18:35 +0100, Julien Valroff wrote: Le vendredi 31 octobre 2008 à 18:24 +0100, Siegfried-Angel a écrit : If I remember correctly, you can use the following syntax: python-psyco [i386]. This is only for build-depends. I think that can also be used for arch:any

Re: dbconfig-common

2008-09-17 Thread Richard Laager
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 01:00 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: dbconfig-common is documented fairly well. I do not agree with this statement. There are dark areas in the doc, particularly nowhere, it's telling how to get a root user on MySQL, and some packages might

Re: dbconfig-common

2008-09-17 Thread Richard Laager
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 02:40 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: Why do you think no app would need it? I never claimed this. How about something that does mysql backups, or manages MySQL accounts? I have made 2 packages that needs that, one of them being automysqlbackup, and I had to do hackish

Re: Factorised code for adding a file in /etc/apache2/conf.d/ and restarting apache ?

2008-07-07 Thread Richard Laager
On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 22:51 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: How can this conflict of interest be solved? I would start with the assumption that people installing your package actually want it. Then I'd look at the most common use case in such a scenario and make that the default answer in debconf.

Re: Some license issues (Was Re: RFS: unionfs-fuse)

2008-06-25 Thread Richard Laager
On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 14:02 +0530, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: I have enclosed a sample debian/copyright file for your package. You might wish to edit it before including it. This looks like it's supposed to be the machine-readable format, but it doesn't seem to comply with that spec. The

Re: RFS: pidgin-privacy-please

2008-06-25 Thread Richard Laager
On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 09:52 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Stefan Ott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package pidgin-privacy-please. The upstream website says this requires pidgin itself to be patched, has the Debian pidgin package

Re: RFS: fpm2 - a password manager

2008-05-09 Thread Richard Laager
On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 20:19 +0800, Wen-Yen Chuang wrote: Aleš Koval (author of fpm2) wrote: FPM2 data file is 100% compatible with his old version. I port FPM2 as drop-in replacement old FPM in mind. In this case, why is it necessary to create an fpm2 package at all? Why not just do a new

Re: iolanguage packaging

2008-01-05 Thread Richard Laager
I'm not a Debian developer, so take this all with a large grain of salt. On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 15:03 +0100, Jonas Eschenburg wrote: 1. Some addons' shared libraries have dependencies to other addons. Do you have an example here? It seems like this is violating the addon abstraction, though I

Re: RFS: libccc

2007-12-01 Thread Richard Laager
On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 00:21 +, Pedro Fragoso wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package libccc. * Package name: libccc Version : 0.0.5 Upstream Author : [fill in name and email of upstream] * URL : [fill in URL of upstreams web site] * License

Re: Ubuntu-to-Debian packaging

2007-11-23 Thread Richard Laager
On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 22:47 +, James Westby wrote: On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 18:23 -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: You need a new changelog for Debian starting from scratch and you could adapt the copyright (if the license allow it) or just make one new. I'm not so sure. Likewise,

Re: Advice on packaging SAGE

2007-05-29 Thread Richard Laager
On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 13:48 -0500, Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso wrote: On 29/05/07, Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Find out if the SAGE developers changes to octave/etc are useful to people who use octave/etc without using SAGE, if so, go the first route. According to William Stein

Fwd: Re: gbonds_2.0.2-7_i386.changes REJECTED

2007-03-14 Thread Richard Laager
this: - This package was debianized by Richard Laager [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 10 Apr 2006 23:34:33 -0500. It was downloaded from http://gbonds.sourceforge.net/download/ Copyright Holder: Jim Evins [EMAIL PROTECTED] License: This package is free software; you can redistribute

Re: Bug#414477: dtc config ask for mysql login/pass, and it's useless on debian

2007-03-12 Thread Richard Laager
On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 18:24 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: P.S: dbconfig-common is too much Debian specific and it wont be an available package on other Unix systems like FreeBSD or OSX, so we can't really use it. dbconfig-common solves all of this stuff for you. It is the right solution.

Re: RFS: roundcube

2007-02-13 Thread Richard Laager
On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 21:19 +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: OoO En cette matinée pluvieuse du lundi 12 février 2007, vers 10:11, sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] disait: MAX_TMPFILE_LIFETIME=15 Do these files really need to stick around for 15 days? OK, I have included your snippet of

Re: RFS: roundcube

2007-02-13 Thread Richard Laager
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 13:22 +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:42:22 -0800, Richard Laager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 21:19 +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: OoO En cette matinée pluvieuse du lundi 12 février 2007, vers 10:11, sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: RFS: roundcube

2007-02-13 Thread Richard Laager
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 21:34 +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: As for the binary package, that depends on the installed size. For both phpBB and SquirrelMail we did not split the translation up, because each translation is quite small sized. How much space would it cost to install all translations?

Re: RFS: roundcube

2007-02-10 Thread Richard Laager
On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 23:21 +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: First off, I'm not a Debian developer. My advice could be wrong, so be cautious about following it. I do have a strong interest in seeing Roundcube packaged for Debian. This is still a beta quality software but I use it happily

Re: Required package in build-deps?

2007-01-29 Thread Richard Laager
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 19:17 +0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote: On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:39:28 -0600 Richard Laager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 18:18 +0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote: My package (pam-keyring) FTBFS on some buildd[1] because 'kill' is missing. /bin/kill

Re: BALLView - a molecular viewer and modeling tool

2007-01-28 Thread Richard Laager
On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 09:45 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: I'm replying to the reply, since I can't find a copy of the original message in my MUA. Sorry for the sub-optimal threading. On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, Andreas wrote: 4. debian/compat The current debhelper version is 5.x. So if

Re: Re: RFS: ballview : new package version

2007-01-25 Thread Richard Laager
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 14:17 +0100, Andreas Moll wrote: If the scripts are intended to be used on other platforms, how about moving them out of the debian directory, in the upstream sources? Well these scripts are in the upstream sources (see debian-upstream dir) and when I want to create a

Re: RFS: pam-keyring -- PAM module that unlock gnome-keyring at login (new package)

2006-12-22 Thread Richard Laager
On Sat, 2006-12-23 at 02:29 +0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote: It's a PAM module that unlock the gnome-keyring at login. Useful with network-manager for example. I'm not sure where pam-keyring-tool must go (/bin or /usr/bin) since it is needed by the pam library. Full informations on the

Re: Bug#398486: RFC: teamspeak-server -- VoIP chat for online gaming (server)

2006-11-17 Thread Richard Laager
I hereby grant both the Debian and Ubuntu teams, and their associated mirrors, permission to distribute the TeamSpeak Version 2.x, and ONLY Version 2.x, software package FREE of charge, and without any fee requirements, for the sole purpose of facilitating the installation

Re: Using the user nobody in my package

2006-11-17 Thread Richard Laager
On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 12:59 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: Also, I wanted to have your opinion. Is it ok to use dtc:nogroup, or should I also generate a group name and use it? I think the same arguments apply for the group. Richard signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: debianizing directories?

2006-11-07 Thread Richard Laager
On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 16:35 -0500, Kit Peters wrote: The boxen out in the field run apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade once a night. I don't know much about anything, but I do know this is dangerous. dist-upgrade removes packages as necessary. Sometimes, due to the archive being partially

Linking with --as-needed in Debian Packages (Was: Re: RFS: flamerobin (updated package))

2006-10-30 Thread Richard Laager
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 14:31 +0200, Damyan Ivanov wrote: * Added --as-needed to LDFLAGS to avoid unnecessary NEEDED entries. Thanks to Christian 'Greek0' Aichinger. Is the use of --as-needed encouraged/discouraged in Debian? Is there a reason this isn't used system-wide? (I'm aware some

Re: Linking with --as-needed in Debian Packages (Was: Re: RFS: flamerobin (updated package))

2006-10-30 Thread Richard Laager
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 19:30 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/11/msg00016.html In short: - First try the relibtoolize approach. I'll start by admitting I don't know much about the autotools. I took a look at this URL:

Re: RFS: zeroinstall-injector

2006-10-27 Thread Richard Laager
On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 11:10 +, Thomas Leonard wrote: ... Thanks for your explanation. ... http://0install.net/matrix.html The one thing I found particularly interesting is: Conflict-free If program A requires an old version of a library, and program B requires a new version, A and B can

Re: RFS: zeroinstall-injector

2006-10-26 Thread Richard Laager
On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 14:39 +, Thomas Leonard wrote: It builds these binary packages: zeroinstall-injector - run programs by URL This probably isn't related to getting your package in Debian, so if this gets to be a larger discussion, we might need to take it off list, but... This looks

Re: How can I contribute??

2006-10-24 Thread Richard Laager
On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 13:08 -0200, eduardo.oliva barruzi wrote: Hi mentor, I joined this list to make some needed work to the project. If any of you knows something that I can help, please let me know, cause I really want to join. I'm not sure what to suggest for Debian specifically, but for

Re: [RFS]: jsMath:TeX equations in HTML documents

2006-10-24 Thread Richard Laager
On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 14:08 -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: 2. only iff conf.d is not included (may be older config files were preserved during upgrades or explicitely removed by sysadmin), then it adds that explicit rule. I haven't really been following this, so I'm not sure if you're

RFS: scrdec -- Windows Script Decoder

2006-10-24 Thread Richard Laager
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package scrdec. * Package name: scrdec Version : 1.8-5 Upstream Author : Mr Brownstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.virtualconspiracy.com/index.php?page=scrdec/download * License : BSD Section

RFS: gbonds

2006-10-11 Thread Richard Laager
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package gbonds. * Package name: gbonds Version : 2.0.2-6 Upstream Author : Jim Evins [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://gbonds.sourceforge.net/download/ * License : GPL Section : gnome It builds these