doc-base and gzipped PDF files

2013-07-08 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hi! While working on the new mpich package, I am experiencing some problems related to doc-base and gzipped PDF files. There are three such files, but I'll focus on one of them to explain the problem. The mpich-doc package contains /usr/share/doc/install.pdf.gz, which is an installation

Re: doc-base and gzipped PDF files

2013-07-08 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 08/07/13 17:10, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello, On 08/07/13 17:01, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: Hi! While working on the new mpich package, I am experiencing some problems related to doc-base and gzipped PDF files. There are three such files, but I'll focus on one of them to explain

pdebuild without orig.tar.gz

2013-06-30 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hi! I'm having some problems using pdebuild recently. I'm pretty sure this command worked before, and I have updated my pbuilder chroot. I don't have a orig.tar.gz, so I ask it to build a binary package, but I get this: *** $ pdebuild --debuildopts -b dpkg-buildpackage:

Lintian false positive about virtual package depends?

2013-05-11 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hi! I'm working on a new version of the mpich2 packages. It is being renamed to mpich, so I have introduced some transitional packages. For example, the current package called libmpich2-dev will be replaced with the new package libmpich-dev. Therefore, libmpich2-dev will become a

Re: Lintian false positive about virtual package depends?

2013-05-11 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 11/05/13 20:10, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2013-05-11 19:50 +0200, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: I'm working on a new version of the mpich2 packages. It is being renamed to mpich, so I have introduced some transitional packages. For example, the current package called libmpich2-dev

RFS: python-visvis

2011-08-15 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Or alternatively, if I can get some more feedback on how to improve the package further. Kind regards, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: RFS: python-visvis

2011-08-15 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 15/08/11 13:21, Jakub Wilk wrote: Disclaimer: I don't intend to sponsor this package. The following review is *not* comprehensive: * Torquil Macdonald Sørensen torq...@gmail.com, 2011-08-15, 12:22: dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/python-visvis/python-visvis_1.5-1.dsc

Re: RFS: python-visvis

2011-08-15 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 15/08/11 13:48, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: On 15/08/11 13:21, Jakub Wilk wrote: Disclaimer: I don't intend to sponsor this package. The following review is *not* comprehensive: * Torquil Macdonald Sørensen torq...@gmail.com, 2011-08-15, 12:22: dget -x http://mentors.debian.net

Re: Download from mentors.debian.net?

2011-08-15 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 15/08/11 14:05, Asheesh Laroia wrote: Excerpts from Torquil Macdonald Sørensen's message of Sun Aug 14 08:30:18 -0400 2011: Hi! Could someone please point me to documentation that explains how to download source packages from mentors.debian.net? I've tried adding: deb-src

Download from mentors.debian.net?

2011-08-14 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hi! Could someone please point me to documentation that explains how to download source packages from mentors.debian.net? I've tried adding: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian/ unstable main to sources.list, but 'apt-get update' returns: W: Failed to fetch

Re: Download from mentors.debian.net?

2011-08-14 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 14/08/11 14:40, Tobias Hansen wrote: Hi, you can use dget sourcepackage.dsc Regards, Tobias Thanks! This works when the *dsc is an internet address. Torquil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Download from mentors.debian.net?

2011-08-14 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 14/08/11 22:58, Asheesh Laroia wrote: Excerpts from Torquil Macdonald Sørensen's message of Sun Aug 14 08:30:18 -0400 2011: Hi! Could someone please point me to documentation that explains how to download source packages from mentors.debian.net? I've tried adding: deb-src

Dependency problem

2011-08-11 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hi! Is it possible to specify the following type of package dependency? Either python-wxgtk2.8 or python-qt4 and python-qt4-gl or python-fltk or python-gtk2 and python-gtkglext1 Or would I need to create meta-packages and use something like: python-wxgtk2.8 | python-qt4-and-qt4-gl-meta

Re: Dependency problem

2011-08-11 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 11/08/11 18:23, Jakub Wilk wrote: * Torquil Macdonald Sørensen torq...@gmail.com, 2011-08-11, 17:52: Either python-wxgtk2.8 or python-qt4 and python-qt4-gl or python-fltk or python-gtk2 and python-gtkglext1 You can use something as ugly as: Depends: python-wxgtk2.8 | python-qt4

RFS: trng

2011-05-08 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hi all! TRNG (Tina's Random Number Generator) is a very nice C++ parallel pseudo-random number generator library that I use within my MPICH2 parallel computer programs on Debian Sid AMD64 on a dual-core computer. They use Monte Carlo methods, so quality random number generation is essential.

Re: RFS: trng

2011-05-08 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 08/05/11 16:31, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: Hi all! TRNG (Tina's Random Number Generator) is a very nice C++ parallel pseudo-random number generator library that I use within my MPICH2 parallel computer programs on Debian Sid AMD64 on a dual-core computer. They use Monte Carlo methods

Re: RFS: trng

2011-05-08 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 08/05/11 17:09, Alessandro Ghedini wrote: - Why are you overriding dh_compress? According to Debian Policy, additional documentation should be compressed unless it's small. Let dh_compress decide wheter it is needed or not to compress it. (also, compressed pdf.gz files are

The msrp package

2011-04-29 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hi! I'm not a Debian maintainer. However, I'd like to become one. There was a nice little program called msrp in Debian. Now it seems to have been removed. I was not successful in contancting the previous maintainer. I quite like that little program. The msrp 0.9.4-2 source package builds