Re: [Fwd] Bug#621966: hasciicam: FTBFS: hasciicam.c

2011-04-27 Thread Jaromil
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, George Danchev wrote: to make it really clear let me specify that i'm not bashing Lucas for filing a bug here, nor the maintainers of hasciicam for giving it a very low priority: i'm trying to give an account from below on how things look to an upstream author. Maybe

Re: [Fwd] Bug#621966: hasciicam: FTBFS: hasciicam.c

2011-04-27 Thread George Danchev
On Wednesday 27 April 2011 10:37:23 Jaromil wrote: On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, George Danchev wrote: to make it really clear let me specify that i'm not bashing Lucas for filing a bug here, nor the maintainers of hasciicam for giving it a very low priority: i'm trying to give an account from below

Re: [Fwd] Bug#621966: hasciicam: FTBFS: hasciicam.c

2011-04-26 Thread Jaromil
dear Mentors, first and foremost: thanks for your answers! On Mon, 25 Apr 2011, The Fungi wrote: On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 02:28:10AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: I see that one uploader of hasciicam is Debian Developer. He is the first person to contact for upload or to recommend you as

Re: [Fwd] Bug#621966: hasciicam: FTBFS: hasciicam.c

2011-04-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 09:35:51AM +0200, Jaromil a écrit : sure! and so I did, also knowing Filippo personally. In fact, despite the limited amount of time at his hands, he is doing his best to review my other upstream software package, which is arguably more urgent than hasciicam: freej,

Re: [Fwd] Bug#621966: hasciicam: FTBFS: hasciicam.c

2011-04-26 Thread George Danchev
On Tuesday 26 April 2011 10:35:51 Jaromil wrote: dear Mentors, Dear Jaromil, first and foremost: thanks for your answers! On Mon, 25 Apr 2011, The Fungi wrote: On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 02:28:10AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: I see that one uploader of hasciicam is Debian Developer. He is

Re: [Fwd] Bug#621966: hasciicam: FTBFS: hasciicam.c

2011-04-26 Thread Jaromil
dear George, On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, George Danchev wrote: priorities and procedures established by a broad agreement among the project, and if you want something to improve, try doing it yourself first as in do-ocracy, see links below of how to help. i don't exactly consider the links below

Re: [Fwd] Bug#621966: hasciicam: FTBFS: hasciicam.c

2011-04-26 Thread Stefano Rivera
Hi Jaromil (2011.04.26_10:53:58_+0200) compare that with the process of becoming an Ubuntero in launchpad, which is free software BTW, and the answers will come to surface. As a Debian and Ubuntu developer I can say that the processes are pretty similar. Both require review of uploads, and

Re: [Fwd] Bug#621966: hasciicam: FTBFS: hasciicam.c

2011-04-26 Thread George Danchev
On Tuesday 26 April 2011 11:53:58 Jaromil wrote: dear George, Dear Jaromil, Let's skip mediterranean style dramas. I had a look at it since it is a relatively simple package one can quickly learn to grasp and you fix a FTBFS, though the diff compared to what we have in sid is rather large. I

Re: [Fwd] Bug#621966: hasciicam: FTBFS: hasciicam.c

2011-04-26 Thread Jaromil
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, George Danchev wrote: I had a look at it since it is a relatively simple package one can quickly learn to grasp and you fix a FTBFS, though the diff compared to what we have in sid is rather large. you mean lots changed? well, if you have a look at the frequency of

Re: [Fwd] Bug#621966: hasciicam: FTBFS: hasciicam.c

2011-04-26 Thread Jaromil
dear Stefano, On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, Stefano Rivera wrote: Hi Jaromil (2011.04.26_10:53:58_+0200) compare that with the process of becoming an Ubuntero in launchpad, which is free software BTW, and the answers will come to surface. As a Debian and Ubuntu developer I can say that the

Re: [Fwd] Bug#621966: hasciicam: FTBFS: hasciicam.c

2011-04-26 Thread George Danchev
On Tuesday 26 April 2011 17:14:24 Jaromil wrote: On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, George Danchev wrote: I had a look at it since it is a relatively simple package one can quickly learn to grasp and you fix a FTBFS, though the diff compared to what we have in sid is rather large. you mean lots changed?

[Fwd] Bug#621966: hasciicam: FTBFS: hasciicam.c

2011-04-25 Thread Jaromil
dear Debian Mentors, I'm upstream author for 3 source uploads regularly included in Debian. I'm studying debian packaging, using it for distribution and testing as well following bugs on QA and Launchpad, so I'm taking care of fixing bugs coming my way. It's been also a while that i'm fixing

Re: [Fwd] Bug#621966: hasciicam: FTBFS: hasciicam.c

2011-04-25 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 06:47:44PM +0200, Jaromil a écrit : can i PLEASE become maintainer for my packages? can someone find the time to solve this situation please? Dear Jaromil, I see that one uploader of hasciicam is Debian Developer. He is the first person to contact for upload or to

Re: [Fwd] Bug#621966: hasciicam: FTBFS: hasciicam.c

2011-04-25 Thread The Fungi
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 02:28:10AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: I see that one uploader of hasciicam is Debian Developer. He is the first person to contact for upload or to recommend you as Debian Maintainer--that is, to give you upload privilege. Specifically, according to who-uploads, 1.0-1