Re: Question on why package was rebuilt

2024-02-16 Thread Sebastian Ramacher
Hi On 2024-02-16 21:32:49 +0100, Jérémy Lal wrote: > When a package is uploaded to NEW, you have to upload both the source > > and binary package(s) for review. After the package is accepted, the > > buildds auto-build for any other architectures that don't already have > > a binary package. Mig

Re: Question on why package was rebuilt

2024-02-16 Thread Jérémy Lal
Le ven. 16 févr. 2024 à 04:03, Mathias Gibbens a écrit : > On Thu, 2024-02-15 at 16:20 -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I recently had a package sponsors and entered into unstable called tiv. > > It can be seen here: > > > > https://packages.debian.org/sid/tiv > > > > Everything wen

Re: Question on why package was rebuilt

2024-02-15 Thread Mathias Gibbens
On Thu, 2024-02-15 at 16:20 -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote: > Hello, > > I recently had a package sponsors and entered into unstable called tiv. > It can be seen here: > > https://packages.debian.org/sid/tiv > > Everything went OK, but I see that the amd64 arch package appears to > have been re-buil

Question on why package was rebuilt

2024-02-15 Thread Loren M. Lang
Hello, I recently had a package sponsors and entered into unstable called tiv. It can be seen here: https://packages.debian.org/sid/tiv Everything went OK, but I see that the amd64 arch package appears to have been re-built for some reason. It's version is showing up with a +b1. I am curious if

Re: Why bother with ITP bugs?

2022-01-17 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 10:23:51PM -0800, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > I guess ITP bugs are common practice for new packages... but are they > *required* by anything? No. But your sponsor is likely to request you to file one before sponsoring. > It seems like fairly high-friction, low-value work - esp

Why bother with ITP bugs?

2022-01-17 Thread Ross Vandegrift
Hello, I guess ITP bugs are common practice for new packages... but are they *required* by anything? It seems like fairly high-friction, low-value work - especially if you're talking about more than a single package. So I'd like to avoid it, but I'm not sure what the costs would be. Thanks, Ros

Bug#971594: Asciidoc new package. Check why those existed

2021-06-09 Thread Tobias Frost
Control: tags -1 moreinfo  Hi Leon, I'm not sure about the status of this RFS / it seems that there is some confusion… So lets try to untangle this… What I can see from the diff is that the only package dropped is vim-ascidoc. This looks sane to me, and due to the fact that vim depends on vim-ru

Bug#971594: Asciidoc new package. Check why those existed

2021-01-24 Thread Leon Marz
Before you drop most packages I would suggest you check why they were created in the 1st place especially the bugs related to the version 8.6.9-4 of the changelog to avoid recreating the same issues over and over again. I think you are referencing this point in the changelog: * asciidoc

Bug#971594: Asciidoc new package. Check why those existed

2021-01-24 Thread Joseph H.
Hi, Before you drop most packages I would suggest you check why they were created in the 1st place especially the bugs related to the version 8.6.9-4 of the changelog to avoid recreating the same issues over and over again. Cheers, Joseph

Bug#902405: why this package was not uploaded to ftp main debain!

2018-07-11 Thread PICCORO McKAY Lenz
i dont see any mess in this packagin , please ! upload and make available for users to test!+ Lenz McKAY Gerardo (PICCORO) http://qgqlochekone.blogspot.com

Re: Why debian use postinst for declarative actions?

2018-03-05 Thread Niels Thykier
George Shuklin: > On 05/03/18 14:35, Paul Wise wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 7:08 PM, George Shuklin wrote: >> >>> There is a big question with torture me for awhile. Why some purely >>> declarative operations are performed by non-standard postinst scripts?

Re: Why debian use postinst for declarative actions?

2018-03-05 Thread George Shuklin
On 05/03/18 14:35, Paul Wise wrote: On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 7:08 PM, George Shuklin wrote: There is a big question with torture me for awhile. Why some purely declarative operations are performed by non-standard postinst scripts? Probably dpkg doesn't support declarative mechanisms for

Re: Why debian use postinst for declarative actions?

2018-03-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 7:08 PM, George Shuklin wrote: > There is a big question with torture me for awhile. Why some purely > declarative operations are performed by non-standard postinst scripts? Probably dpkg doesn't support declarative mechanisms for those things. Some o

Why debian use postinst for declarative actions?

2018-03-05 Thread George Shuklin
Hello. There is a big question with torture me for awhile. Why some purely declarative operations are performed by non-standard postinst scripts? I've checked few well-established packages (openssh, nginx, systemd, dbus, cups, etc) - each of them have slightly different code for

Re: Why is tk8.4 removal triggering autoremoval messages of not depending packages at this point in time (Was: staden is marked for autoremoval from testing)

2016-12-31 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2016-12-31 at 15:38 +0100, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > I would believe removing tk8.4 by hand from testing could fix the lot of > associated autoremovals. > > Dear release team, thoughts on that? tk8.4 and tcl8.4 were already re-removed from testing this morning. Regards, Adam

Re: Why is tk8.4 removal triggering autoremoval messages of not depending packages at this point in time (Was: staden is marked for autoremoval from testing)

2016-12-31 Thread Thibaut Paumard
on packages with these RC bugs: >> 734837: tk8.4: Time to remove from testing > > Staden Build-Depends: tk-dev (without any version) and the binary > package Depends: libtk8.6 (>= 8.6.0) so I do not understand this > autoremoval message in principle and I specifically wonder why this

Why is tk8.4 removal triggering autoremoval messages of not depending packages at this point in time (Was: staden is marked for autoremoval from testing)

2016-12-30 Thread Andreas Tille
ends: tk-dev (without any version) and the binary package Depends: libtk8.6 (>= 8.6.0) so I do not understand this autoremoval message in principle and I specifically wonder why this happens at this point in time. Staden is juat an example for a set of packages with the same problem. Kind regar

Re: Source upload of r-cran-treescape does not build on any architecture - but why?

2016-12-21 Thread Christian Seiler
On 12/21/2016 12:19 PM, Christian Seiler wrote: > On 12/21/2016 12:04 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: >> Is bach.hen...@gmail.com the correct address for "contacting wanna-build >> people"? If yesm Henrik is in CC - if not what's the proper contact? > > There's a mailing list for that: > > https://list

Re: Source upload of r-cran-treescape does not build on any architecture - but why?

2016-12-21 Thread Christian Seiler
Hi, (dropping cc) On 12/21/2016 12:04 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: > Is bach.hen...@gmail.com the correct address for "contacting wanna-build > people"? If yesm Henrik is in CC - if not what's the proper contact? There's a mailing list for that: https://lists.debian.org/debian-wb-team/ See also th

Re: Source upload of r-cran-treescape does not build on any architecture - but why?

2016-12-21 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Christian, On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 11:46:28AM +0100, Christian Seiler wrote: > On 12/21/2016 11:37 AM, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > > When looking at the build log page[1] I realise that vor some architectures > > a Build-Depends is missing but I have no idea why for inst

Re: Source upload of r-cran-treescape does not build on any architecture - but why?

2016-12-21 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 10:46:37AM +, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-Pz7ptL/116-r-base-core_3.3.2-1_amd64.deb > W: No sandbox user '_apt' on the system, can not drop privileges > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > apt-get failed. > > so, unless you

Re: Source upload of r-cran-treescape does not build on any architecture - but why?

2016-12-21 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
> > >I did a source upload of r-cran-treescape at 2016-12-19 21:51:35. > >When looking at the build log page[1] I realise that vor some architectures >a Build-Depends is missing but I have no idea why for instance amd64 is >not build after > 36 hours. clicking on &quo

Re: Source upload of r-cran-treescape does not build on any architecture - but why?

2016-12-21 Thread Christian Seiler
On 12/21/2016 11:37 AM, Andreas Tille wrote: > I did a source upload of r-cran-treescape at 2016-12-19 21:51:35. > > When looking at the build log page[1] I realise that vor some architectures > a Build-Depends is missing but I have no idea why for instance amd64 is > not build a

Source upload of r-cran-treescape does not build on any architecture - but why?

2016-12-21 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I did a source upload of r-cran-treescape at 2016-12-19 21:51:35. When looking at the build log page[1] I realise that vor some architectures a Build-Depends is missing but I have no idea why for instance amd64 is not build after > 36 hours. Any ideas? Kind regards Andreas.

Re: Any reason why sphinx does not migrate to testing?

2016-09-16 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi >22 days old (needed 5 days) >Valid candidate > > >So what might be the problem here? wild guess, many packages have a dependency on the old version. but they are arch:all, so binNMU isn't possible (or is, but nobody wants to try them). So, sourceful uploads are needed for reverse-

Re: Any reason why sphinx does not migrate to testing?

2016-09-16 Thread Sebastiaan Couwenberg
On 09/16/2016 10:01 AM, Andreas Tille wrote: > So what might be the problem here? The strict dependencies on sphinx in cdist-doc apparently. >From the britney output: Trying easy from autohinter: clustalo/1.2.3-1 sphinx/1.4.6-1 start: 57+556: a-3:i-18:a-0:a-0:a-0:m-0:m-0:p-35:p-0:s-1:m-556 or

Any reason why sphinx does not migrate to testing?

2016-09-16 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=sphinx says: 22 days old (needed 5 days) Valid candidate So what might be the problem here? Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de

Re: Why does dh_installdebconf not add translations?

2016-09-11 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 09:14:52PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > Tell us what the problem was, so that we can learn too. The text consisted of three paragraphs - one with pure code. I somehow did not minded / forgot to "translate" the code part. It seems that a missing paragraph in the translation

Re: Why does dh_installdebconf not add translations?

2016-09-11 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Andreas Tille , 2016-09-10, 07:02: Found the issue myself, sorry for the noise, Andreas. Tell us what the problem was, so that we can learn too. Remark: Enhancements / proof reading of the debconf template text are welcome as well. Due to the large data set I do not like to change the text

Re: Why does dh_installdebconf not add translations?

2016-09-09 Thread Andreas Tille
Found the issue myself, sorry for the noise, Andreas. On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 09:45:19AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to add translations to the debconf template of metaphlan2-data[1]. > Unfortunately if I call > > fakeroot dh_installdebconf > > the resulting debian/metaphl

Why does dh_installdebconf not add translations?

2016-09-09 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I tried to add translations to the debconf template of metaphlan2-data[1]. Unfortunately if I call fakeroot dh_installdebconf the resulting debian/metaphlan2-data/DEBIAN/templates is basically a copy of debian/templates: $ diff debian/metaphlan2-data/DEBIAN/templates debian/templates 4c

Re: Any idea why bitbucket watch file does not work?

2016-08-31 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 12:51:57PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 09:44:59AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > I was following the Wiki[1] to get a bitbucket watch for metaphlan2[2]. > > Unfortunately uscan does not detect any match and after starring on the > > code

Re: Any idea why bitbucket watch file does not work?

2016-08-31 Thread Christian Seiler
On 08/31/2016 09:44 AM, Andreas Tille wrote: > I was following the Wiki[1] to get a bitbucket watch for metaphlan2[2]. > Unfortunately uscan does not detect any match and after starring on the > code and trying several other regexp I failed finding the mistake. > > Any idea how to get the watch fi

Re: Any idea why bitbucket watch file does not work?

2016-08-31 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 09:44:59AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > I was following the Wiki[1] to get a bitbucket watch for metaphlan2[2]. > Unfortunately uscan does not detect any match and after starring on the > code and trying several other regexp I failed finding the mistake. There is no tarball

Any idea why bitbucket watch file does not work?

2016-08-31 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I was following the Wiki[1] to get a bitbucket watch for metaphlan2[2]. Unfortunately uscan does not detect any match and after starring on the code and trying several other regexp I failed finding the mistake. Any idea how to get the watch file working and reporting 2.6.0 as latest version?

Re: How to find out why debuild -S dislikes dpkg-source --commit ?

2015-12-06 Thread Thomas Schmitt
n-1.4.2/.pc does not exist. (It gets created in the course of "dpkg-source --commit" or "debuild -S". Sometimes it survives the run of "debuild -S". Sometimes it is gone afterwards. I fail to recognize a pattern.) This explains why my single patch for 1.4.0-{2,3} work

Re: How to find out why debuild -S dislikes dpkg-source --commit ?

2015-12-06 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Monday 30 November 2015 18:33:22 Thomas Schmitt wrote: > All is well as long as i have no debian/patches. I can build > and install the .deb files (debuild -S, debuild -b, dpkg -i). > > But if i make changes to the upstream files and run > debclean > dpkg-source --commit > then afterwards

How to find out why debuild -S dislikes dpkg-source --commit ?

2015-11-30 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, after a few weeks of other leisures i came back to Debian packaging for a new upstream release of my software. Currently i feel plain stupid because i fail to install a patch which shall silence a few lintian warnings about the man pages. I unpacked the upstream tarball, moved it to the paren

Bug#790771: why closed ?

2015-07-01 Thread Ghislain Vaillant
t...@bugs.debian.org|. (Wed, 01 Jul 2015 16:27:14 GMT) Full text <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=12;bug=790771>and rfc822 format <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=12;bug=790771;mbox=yes>available. Which still leaves my original question: why ? Try op

Bug#790771: why closed ?

2015-07-01 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
library'*Request was from |Bart Martens > |to |cont...@bugs.debian.org|. (Wed, 01 Jul 2015 > 16:27:14 GMT) Full text > <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=12;bug=790771>and rfc822 > format > <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=12;bug=7

Bug#790771: why closed ?

2015-07-01 Thread Ghislain Vaillant
tps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=12;bug=790771;mbox=yes>available. Which still leaves my original question: why ? Anyway, I'll prepare an upload to mentors for you Fred. Cheers, Ghis

Bug#790771: why closed ?

2015-07-01 Thread PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel
look at the title ;) RFS for the 2.4-1 version :) no worry upload to mentors en I will take care of the sponsoring. Cheers Fred > #790771: RFS: clblas/2.4-1 -- OpenCL BLAS library -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Bug#790771: why closed ?

2015-07-01 Thread Ghislain Vaillant
On 01/07/15 17:27, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report which was filed against the sponsorship-requests package: #790771: RFS: clblas/2.4-1 -- OpenCL BLAS library It has been closed by Bart Martens . Their explanation is attached below

Re: Pbuilder requests Build-Depends on local machine - why this?

2015-06-28 Thread Hideki Yamane
Hi, It'd be better to give pbuilder more love :) # Probably Junichi is too busy to take care of his children and work. On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 14:58:57 + Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > (btw it's not needed "a local build", `vim /usr/bin/pdebuild` is enough :P) of course, I did so ;) -- Regards,

Re: Pbuilder requests Build-Depends on local machine - why this?

2015-06-26 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
Hi *, On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 10:02:32PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 10:35:49PM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: > > > > I've changed local pdebuild as > > > > -echo "dpkg-buildpackage -S -us -uc -r${BUILDSOURCEROOTCMD} > > $DEBBUILDOPTS" | \ > > +echo "dpkg-build

Re: Pbuilder requests Build-Depends on local machine - why this?

2015-06-25 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 10:35:49PM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: > > I've changed local pdebuild as > > -echo "dpkg-buildpackage -S -us -uc -r${BUILDSOURCEROOTCMD} > $DEBBUILDOPTS" | \ > +echo "dpkg-buildpackage -S -d -us -uc -r${BUILDSOURCEROOTCMD} > $DEBBUILDOPTS" | \ Cool. Do you i

Re: Pbuilder requests Build-Depends on local machine - why this?

2015-06-25 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 22:35:49 +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: > Hm, https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=786690 Thanks! > On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 15:14:33 +0200 > gregor herrmann wrote: > > So you have to pass "-d" (for making the checks non-fatal, i.e. > > warnings, again, as they were b

Re: Pbuilder requests Build-Depends on local machine - why this?

2015-06-25 Thread Hideki Yamane
Hm, https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=786690 On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 15:14:33 +0200 gregor herrmann wrote: > So you have to pass "-d" (for making the checks non-fatal, i.e. > warnings, again, as they were before), or -nc (don't run clean) to > dpkg-buildpackage; directly or via --de

Re: Pbuilder requests Build-Depends on local machine - why this?

2015-06-25 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 14:57:18 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > since I'm back from vacation and upgraded my testing system I realised > that when using pbuilder the Build-Depends of some package seem to be > required also on the machine that is creating the pbuilder chroot > (=where you start pdebuild

Re: Pbuilder requests Build-Depends on local machine - why this?

2015-06-25 Thread Sebastiaan Couwenberg
> since I'm back from vacation and upgraded my testing system I realised > that when using pbuilder the Build-Depends of some package seem to be > required also on the machine that is creating the pbuilder chroot > (=where you start pdebuild). I regard this a bug but may be I'm missing > something

Pbuilder requests Build-Depends on local machine - why this?

2015-06-25 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, since I'm back from vacation and upgraded my testing system I realised that when using pbuilder the Build-Depends of some package seem to be required also on the machine that is creating the pbuilder chroot (=where you start pdebuild). I regard this a bug but may be I'm missing something so b

Re: Why are old bug reports left open?

2015-06-02 Thread Niels Thykier
rstand about > proper bug handling. > The package is orphaned and thus have no "actual maintainer". There are plenty of reasons why the previous maintainer might not have closed the bug. The most common/likely one being that he/she simply forgot about it (and happened to retire before

Re: Why are old bug reports left open?

2015-06-02 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 06:10:24PM +, Thaddeus H. Black wrote: > A bug is years old. It will probably not be fixed. It should probably not > be fixed. It is probably not even a bug. > > The bug's submitter is not complaining. > > Why is the bug still open? &g

Why are old bug reports left open?

2015-06-02 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
A bug is years old. It will probably not be fixed. It should probably not be fixed. It is probably not even a bug. The bug's submitter is not complaining. Why is the bug still open? Example: #619363. [1] 1: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=619363 If I wer

Re: why dpkg-buildpackage doesn't care my build targets in debian/rule

2015-05-23 Thread lumin
I got it. Thank you, Santiago, Jakub, Johannes, Mattia and Wookey ! :) -- Regards, C.D.Luminate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1432439429.714

Re: why dpkg-buildpackage doesn't care my build targets in debian/rule

2015-05-22 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Wookey , 2015-05-22, 19:08: override_dh_auto_build: # well. let's copy config back again. cp ./debian/my/Makefile.config.cpuonly ./Makefile.config debian/my/00-fix-caffe-include-path-debian.sh $(MAKE) all $(MAKE) test $(MAKE) runtest also, that

Re: why dpkg-buildpackage doesn't care my build targets in debian/rule

2015-05-22 Thread Wookey
+++ Mattia Rizzolo [2015-05-22 17:04 +0200]: > On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 6:31 AM, lumin wrote: > > override_dh_auto_build: > > # well. let's copy config back again. > > cp ./debian/my/Makefile.config.cpuonly ./Makefile.config > > debian/my/00-f

Re: why dpkg-buildpackage doesn't care my build targets in debian/rule

2015-05-22 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 6:31 AM, lumin wrote: > override_dh_auto_build: > # well. let's copy config back again. > cp ./debian/my/Makefile.config.cpuonly ./Makefile.config > debian/my/00-fix-caffe-include-path-debian.sh > $(MAK

Re: why dpkg-buildpackage doesn't care my build targets in debian/rule

2015-05-21 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting lumin (2015-05-22 06:31:34) > override_dh_auto_clean: > cp ./debian/my/Makefile.config.cpuonly ./Makefile.config > dh_auto_clean > # without following line the the source tree > # would be not clean. Hence dpkg-bu

Re: why dpkg-buildpackage doesn't care my build targets in debian/rule

2015-05-21 Thread lumin
Hi mentors, I solved this problem, after line-by-line reviewing the screen output of those commands. It turns out that, the "clean" target of Makefile needs the Makefile.config too. this rules file makes dpkg-buildpackage continue building. (I deleted some comments )

Re: why dpkg-buildpackage doesn't care my build targets in debian/rule

2015-05-21 Thread lumin
Hi, I modified the debian/rules[1] according to Santiago and Jakub (thank you both!), and tested again. The result was the same. "dh build" works while "dpkg-buildpackage" doesn't. [1] --- the whole debian/rules 1 #!/usr/bin/make -f 2 # See debhelper(7) (

Re: why dpkg-buildpackage doesn't care my build targets in debian/rule

2015-05-21 Thread Jakub Wilk
* lumin , 2015-05-21, 14:30: I'd like to take over the whole build process, so I wrote: 32 override_dh_auto_build: build_cpuonly 33 34 build_cpuonly: config_cpuonly 35 $(shell debian/my/00-fix-caffe-include-path-debian.sh) As Santiago noticed, you should alm

Re: why dpkg-buildpackage doesn't care my build targets in debian/rule

2015-05-21 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 02:30:58PM +, lumin wrote: > I'm trying to package caffe as said [1] at debian-science@ . > However I encountered a problem when writing debian/rules. > > I'd like to take over the whole build process, so I wrote: > > 32 override_dh_auto_build: build_cpuonly >

why dpkg-buildpackage doesn't care my build targets in debian/rule

2015-05-21 Thread lumin
Hi mentors, I'm trying to package caffe as said [1] at debian-science@ . However I encountered a problem when writing debian/rules. I'd like to take over the whole build process, so I wrote: 32 override_dh_auto_build: build_cpuonly 33 34 build_cpuonly: config_cpuonly

Re: Testing migragtion of beast-mcmc is blocked but I have no idea why

2014-10-25 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-10-25 13:00, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=beast-mcmc > > says: > > beast-mcmc/i386 unsatisfiable Depends: libnucleotidelikelihoodcore0 (>= > 1.8.0-1) > > but I have asked ftpmaster for removal of beast-mcmc from arch i386 and > packages.de

Testing migragtion of beast-mcmc is blocked but I have no idea why

2014-10-25 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=beast-mcmc says: beast-mcmc/i386 unsatisfiable Depends: libnucleotidelikelihoodcore0 (>= 1.8.0-1) but I have asked ftpmaster for removal of beast-mcmc from arch i386 and packages.debian.org says it is only for amd64. Any idea how to enable the

Re: Why is package libcofoja-java not in testing yet?

2014-08-14 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Andreas Tille , 2014-08-14, 10:48: I'm goggling on https://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=libcofoja-java This script might be a bit confused. so we have *both* 1.1-r150-1 and 1.1-r150-2 in unstable. I have no idea how this can happen. Any clue? libcofoja-java_1.1-r15

Why is package libcofoja-java not in testing yet?

2014-08-14 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I'm goggling on https://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=libcofoja-java and have no idea what might be wrong here. A cause for this riddle might be $ LANG=en apt-cache policy libcofoja-java libcofoja-java: Installed: (none) Candidate: 1.1-r150-2 Version table:

RE: why does gnome-based packages builds fine with cbds and not with dh7

2014-02-12 Thread Roelof Wobben
> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 22:22:47 +0600 > From: w...@wrar.name > To: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: why does gnome-based packages builds fine with cbds and not with > dh7 > > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 02:04:31PM +

Re: why does gnome-based packages builds fine with cbds and not with dh7

2014-02-12 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 02:04:31PM +, Roelof Wobben wrote: > I have tried to build 2 packages from Cinnamon ( a gnome-based DE) > > When I do debuild on the by upstream made cdbs rules file both compiles fine. > > When I try to rebuild them by using dh7 which I like more then I see a lot of

why does gnome-based packages builds fine with cbds and not with dh7

2014-02-12 Thread Roelof Wobben
Hello, I have tried to build 2 packages from Cinnamon ( a gnome-based DE) When I do debuild on the by upstream made cdbs rules file both compiles fine. When I try to rebuild them by using dh7 which I like more then I see a lot of build-problems Like a directory cannot be build because of permis

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

2013-06-18 Thread W. van den Akker
> > Why is it so hard to get sponsor and why is there nobody who tries to > > support the jabber uploads ;) > Well, as I am in the same shoes, we can make a deal. We can try to > review each other's packages, trying to fix bugs and give > recommendations supporting each

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

2013-06-18 Thread Miklos Quartus
the packages will stay in bad shape. I have got very similar experience. It is not easy to find a DD to sponsor you. Why is it so hard to get sponsor and why is there nobody who tries to support the jabber uploads ;) Well, as I am in the same shoes, we can make a deal. We can try to review each

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 rela

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

2013-06-18 Thread W. van den Akker
Hi Members, Last February I mailed the list why some packages wont get a sponsor. I got a few reactions of sponsors who helped me to get the package into decent shape. But at the end no sponsor would have time or experience with the package to upload it. The jabber packages are obvious a strange

Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsors.....?

2013-03-09 Thread Tomasz Muras
On 02/27/2013 06:41 AM, Paul Wise wrote: Bah, I need to read before sending. Very nice response Paul, I think it's worth adding to FAQ: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsFaq#Why_is_it_so_hard_to_find_sponsor.3F I've updated "What happens if I can't find a sponsor" as well. cheers, Tomek

Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsors.....?

2013-03-01 Thread PICCORO McKAY Lenz
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:21 PM, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Hi Lenz, Cheers > > > with time, DDs tend to meet loved ones, i have too, also I have a couple, just one, not several, and I am responsible .. a'n my loves use in mayority linux, not window-like over linux > > make children, be promoted

Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsors.....?

2013-02-28 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 01:04:39PM -0430, PICCORO McKAY Lenz a écrit : > > I've noticed that some reports have response as "is not critical, is still > working," or else "not reproducible", or better "u can made a patch u can > made a fix u ca... u can.. u do that" co DD/DM has no time!! NO TI

Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsors.....?

2013-02-28 Thread PICCORO McKAY Lenz
a patch u can made a fix u ca... u can.. u do that" co DD/DM has no time!! NO TIME!?? one can see that many DD have no experience in the software packages nature in charge .. l this is main reason why the quality / performance of debian packages has fallen, and because these characte

Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsors.....?

2013-02-28 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Paul, thanks for your great analysis. I might like to stress explicitly one item (even if I totally agree with all others in general) On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 01:37:10PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Specialization: > > Debian contributors generally work on stuff they use or are otherwise > are i

Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsors.....?

2013-02-27 Thread Arno Töll
On 27.02.2013 20:57, Anton Gladky wrote: >> First - a weighted sponsorship priority queue - all packages get a >> rating and higher-rated packages will get sponsored sooner than others. > > I agree with that. On my opinion the package "weight" should be > calculated, considering the following par

Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsors.....?

2013-02-27 Thread Philip Ashmore
as "please, fix it". I've seen comments about packages requesting sponsorship like "why do we need yet another foo package". Duplicating functionality already in Debian is one reason to mark down a sponsorship request - I'm sure there are others. Cheers, Anton -- To U

Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsors.....?

2013-02-27 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 02/26/2013 10:36 PM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > it is currently during freeze, most DDs are working on RC > bugs :) If only this was truth! :) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.o

Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsors.....?

2013-02-27 Thread Anton Gladky
Hi all, my 2 cts. On 02/27/2013 12:07 AM, Philip Ashmore wrote: > > First - a weighted sponsorship priority queue - all packages get a > rating and higher-rated packages will get sponsored sooner than others. I agree with that. On my opinion the package "weight" should be calculated, considerin

Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsors.....?

2013-02-26 Thread Paul Wise
I'm reminded of the metrics stuff that was discussed ages ago: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsNet#Metrics -- 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.

Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsors.....?

2013-02-26 Thread Bart Martens
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:07:11PM +, Philip Ashmore wrote: > On 26/02/13 21:51, Arno Töll wrote: > >Hi, > > > >On 26.02.2013 22:31, W. van den Akker wrote: > >>I understand [1] and [2]. I meant uploading to unstable and not testing. > >>But none of the DD was ever answering the emails.. >

Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsors.....?

2013-02-26 Thread Paul Wise
Bah, I need to read before sending. On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > Specialization: ... > Unfortunately can mean Unfortunately this can mean there are no sponsors for particular areas. > Preferences: > > Different folks have different packaging preferences, some like cdbs,

Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsors.....?

2013-02-26 Thread Paul Wise
Here is a hopefully comprehensive, general answer to this question, not specific to your situation: Freeze: During the release freeze, most Debian folks are focussed on getting the release out. Fixing RC bugs, fixing important bugs, doing upgrade testing, writing release notes, finalising the ins

Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsors.....?

2013-02-26 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 26/02/13 21:51, Arno Töll wrote: Hi, On 26.02.2013 22:31, W. van den Akker wrote: I understand [1] and [2]. I meant uploading to unstable and not testing. But none of the DD was ever answering the emails.. Be patient and don't give up. I know this can be frustrating and annoying, and w

Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsors.....?

2013-02-26 Thread Arno Töll
Hi, On 26.02.2013 22:31, W. van den Akker wrote: > I understand [1] and [2]. I meant uploading to unstable and not testing. > But none of the DD was ever answering the emails.. Be patient and don't give up. I know this can be frustrating and annoying, and we're slowly trying to improve the si

Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsors.....?

2013-02-26 Thread W. van den Akker
> If I am reading your (big) changelogs correctly, you are (amongst other > things) switching patch-system to quilt, and package new upstream > versions - This is a big no-no for the release team during the freeze > (see [1]) which we have had since June [2]. > > This might lower the chances of g

Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsors.....?

2013-02-26 Thread Willem van den Akker
> While this isn't true of the general case, which I think there's valid > concern about, it is currently during freeze, most DDs are working on RC > bugs :) Ok. > > Some sponsorship does still go on -- perhaps you could ask some of the > DDs who maintain jabber servers -- the ejabberd folks or

Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsors.....?

2013-02-26 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
d to be interested in sponsoring them. >I got messages not familiar with these packages or something like >that. > >In the past I had some other packages and also had problems to get a >sponsor. > >Why is it so hard to get a sponsor? > If I am reading your (big) change

Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsors.....?

2013-02-26 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
emed to be interested in sponsoring them. > I got messages not familiar with these packages or something like that. > > In the past I had some other packages and also had problems to get a sponsor. Yeah, me too. Even as a sponsored uploader & a DM. > > Why is it so hard

Why is it so hard to get sponsors.....?

2013-02-26 Thread Willem van den Akker
something like that. In the past I had some other packages and also had problems to get a sponsor. Why is it so hard to get a sponsor? Greetings, Willem signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#694872: Why was this bug closed?

2012-12-02 Thread Michael Gilbert
g of >> packages that have gone through tpu recently (e.g. cdbs, underscore, >> etc.). > > Sure, I'm not disputing that. I'm just saying that the bug report doesn't > really help. It helps because it has the origin, reasoning, history, and context for the move to

Bug#694872: Why was this bug closed?

2012-12-02 Thread Ivo De Decker
Mike, On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 04:36:23PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: > Yes. I don't have a link to the final decision, but you can easily > verify the veracity of that statement by looking at the versioning of > packages that have gone through tpu recently (e.g. cdbs, underscore, > etc.). Sure

Bug#694872: Why was this bug closed?

2012-12-02 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Ivo De Decker wrote: > Hi Mike, > > On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 03:20:25PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: >> > Well, I thought this was only the case when there is no other option, >> > because >> > the version has to be smaller than the one in unstable (when testing has

Bug#694872: Why was this bug closed?

2012-12-02 Thread Ivo De Decker
Hi Mike, On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 03:20:25PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: > > Well, I thought this was only the case when there is no other option, > > because > > the version has to be smaller than the one in unstable (when testing has > > 4.3.6-1 and unstable has 4.3.6-2 with unacceptable chang

Bug#694872: Why was this bug closed?

2012-12-02 Thread Michael Gilbert
> Well, I thought this was only the case when there is no other option, because > the version has to be smaller than the one in unstable (when testing has > 4.3.6-1 and unstable has 4.3.6-2 with unacceptable changes). I did a t-p-u > update like this (without the deb7u suffix) yesterday (for fossil

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