Upload just to fix a watch file?

2009-05-14 Thread Andrea Bolognani
Hi mentors. Since the upstream website has been redesigned, the watch file for one of my packages[1] has stopped working. The fix is a trivial one-line patch, so I was wondering if such a minor change could warrant a new upload. Thanks in advance. [1]

Re: Upload just to fix a watch file?

2009-05-14 Thread Ben Finney
Andrea Bolognani e...@kiyuko.org writes: Since the upstream website has been redesigned, the watch file for one of my packages[1] has stopped working. Which leaves your package with a new bug: a ‘debian/watch’ file that no longer works. Right? The fix is a trivial one-line patch, so I was

Re: Upload just to fix a watch file?

2009-05-14 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Andrea Bolognani schrieb: Since the upstream website has been redesigned, the watch file for one of my packages[1] has stopped working. The fix is a trivial one-line patch, so I was wondering if such a minor change could warrant a new upload. IMHO this doesn't warrant an upload; but

Re: Upload just to fix a watch file?

2009-05-14 Thread Felipe Sateler
Ben Finney wrote: Andrea Bolognani e...@kiyuko.org writes: Since the upstream website has been redesigned, the watch file for one of my packages[1] has stopped working. Which leaves your package with a new bug: a ‘debian/watch’ file that no longer works. Right? The fix is a trivial

Re: Upload just to fix a watch file?

2009-05-14 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Felipe Sateler schrieb: No. The cost of wasting buildd and user time has to be factored in. Not any bug is worth of making a new release for. Not to forget bandwidth / transfer volume for our mirror network. Even for arch: all packages uploads are not always justified. Best Regards,

Re: Upload just to fix a watch file?

2009-05-14 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Thu, 14 May 2009 18:11:38 +1000 Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Andrea Bolognani e...@kiyuko.org writes: Since the upstream website has been redesigned, the watch file for one of my packages[1] has stopped working. Which leaves your package with a new bug: a

Re: Upload just to fix a watch file?

2009-05-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Andrea Bolognani e...@kiyuko.org wrote: Since the upstream website has been redesigned, the watch file for one of my packages[1] has stopped working. The fix is a trivial one-line patch, so I was wondering if such a minor change could warrant a new upload.

Re: Upload just to fix a watch file?

2009-05-14 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Thu, 14 May 2009 17:22:06 +0800 Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Andrea Bolognani e...@kiyuko.org wrote: Since the upstream website has been redesigned, the watch file for one of my packages[1] has stopped working. The fix is a trivial one-line

Re: Upload just to fix a watch file?

2009-05-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Andrea Bolognani e...@kiyuko.org wrote: Write a test suite and send it upstream. I won't write a test suite for Beef, or otherwise improve it, since I plan to rewrite it on top of the Cattle library[1] as soon as said library is mature enough. The library,

Re: RFS: cconv -- A iconv based simplified-traditional chinese conversion tool

2009-05-14 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi Dne Tue, 12 May 2009 23:26:40 +0800 Vern Sun s5u...@gmail.com napsal(a): on 二, 2009-05-12 at 17:02 +0800, Michal Čihař wrote: - you should split the library to libcconv0 and rename devel package to libcconv-dev - please write useful description, pointing user to url is not a useful

RFS: fpm2 (updated package)

2009-05-14 Thread Wen-Yen Chuang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.75-1 of my package fpm2. The upload would fix those bugs: #516196 Blowfish selftest failed: At startup password prompt. Please try again. Severity: important #493317 DEFAULTS is

Re: RFS: hwinfo (updated package)

2009-05-14 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! William Vera schrieb: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 15.3-2 of my package hwinfo. Uploaded; many thanks for your contribution! Best regards, Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: RFS: cconv -- A iconv based simplified-traditional chinese conversion tool

2009-05-14 Thread Vern Sun
on 四, 2009-05-14 at 18:11 +0800, Michal Čihař wrote: - are all those versioned build depends really needed? as you said cconv man page is obviously generated, you should include it's sources and generate it during build. most of the depends are used for generate man page. - there is no need

Re: RFS: cconv -- A iconv based simplified-traditional chinese conversion tool

2009-05-14 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi Dne Thu, 14 May 2009 19:19:19 +0800 Vern Sun s5u...@gmail.com napsal(a): on 四, 2009-05-14 at 18:11 +0800, Michal Čihař wrote: - are all those versioned build depends really needed? as you said cconv man page is obviously generated, you should include it's sources and generate it during

Re: RFS: macchanger-gtk (updated package) -- fixed URL in watch file

2009-05-14 Thread LI Daobing
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 22:47, Alejandro Garrido Mota garridom...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/5/13 LI Daobing lidaob...@gmail.com: Hello, On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:09, Alejandro Garrido Mota garridom...@gmail.com wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.1-4 of my

Re: RFS: libmemcached

2009-05-14 Thread LI Daobing
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 02:35, Monty Taylor mord...@inaugust.com wrote: LI Daobing wrote: 2. /usr/bin/memstat in libmemcached-tools is conflict with the same file in memstat package[1], one solution is install it as memstat.libmemcached and document this in README.Debian

Re: RFS: cconv -- A iconv based simplified-traditional chinese conversion tool

2009-05-14 Thread Vern Sun
on 四, 2009-05-14 at 19:54 +0800, Michal Čihař wrote: I'm talking about versions, not about dependencies. sorry about my poor english. - are all those versioned build depends really needed? i am not sure about this, but i have removed the versions. - static library and libtool script should

RFS: drgeo (updated package)

2009-05-14 Thread Francisco M.
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.1.0-3 of my package drgeo. It builds these binary packages: drgeo - An interactive geometry software This is the Gtk interactive geometry software. It allows one to create geometric figure plus the interactive manipulation of

RFS: ampache (updated package)

2009-05-14 Thread Charlie Smotherman
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 3.5+svn2078-1 of my package ampache. I have contacted my usual sponsor and he is unable to sponsor ampache at this time due to other commitments. Here is a summary of some of the new features. - Video Streaming Support -

Re: RFS: cconv -- A iconv based simplified-traditional chinese conversion tool

2009-05-14 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi Dne Thu, 14 May 2009 21:09:03 +0800 Vern Sun s5u...@gmail.com napsal(a): reuploaded. the package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/cconv/cconv_0.5.2-1.dsc Uploaded, thanks. -- Michal Čihař | http://cihar.com |

Re: RFS: libmemcached

2009-05-14 Thread Monty Taylor
LI Daobing wrote: On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 02:35, Monty Taylor mord...@inaugust.com wrote: LI Daobing wrote: 2. /usr/bin/memstat in libmemcached-tools is conflict with the same file in memstat package[1], one solution is install it as memstat.libmemcached and document this in README.Debian

Re: RFS: libmemcached

2009-05-14 Thread Matthias Julius
LI Daobing lidaob...@gmail.com writes: 3. consider remove the .la file if you already have a .pc file. Is that a policy/best practice for library packages? ok, consider there is no conclusion here. you can keep this file there. :) But there seems to be a preference to remove it if rdepends

Re: architecture wildcards, type-handling, etc.

2009-05-14 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Dear reader of debian-mentors, I read the following, following a discussion on debian-devel, which I do not understand. On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 04:26:56PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: brian m. carlson sand...@crustytoothpaste.ath.cx (14/05/2009): I've worked on FTBFS-with-new-GCC bugs

RFS: krecipes (updated package)

2009-05-14 Thread Matthias Julius
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.0~beta2-1 of my package krecipes. It builds these binary packages: krecipes - recipes manager for KDE krecipes-data - recipes manager for KDE - data files krecipes-doc - recipes manager for KDE - documentation Krecipes is a KDE

Bug 510765 won't appear as closed

2009-05-14 Thread Rodrigo Gallardo
Can someone help me understand why 510765 keeps on appearing on liferea's bug page? It's been closed in all the relevant versions, and the little graph on the left shows nothing but green boxes, but everything (the bts, the pts, my qa page) show liferea as having 1 open rc bug. -- To

Re: Bug 510765 won't appear as closed

2009-05-14 Thread Didier Raboud
Rodrigo Gallardo wrote: Can someone help me understand why 510765 keeps on appearing on liferea's bug page? It's been closed in all the relevant versions, and the little graph on the left shows nothing but green boxes, but everything (the bts, the pts, my qa page) show liferea as having 1

Re: Bug 510765 won't appear as closed

2009-05-14 Thread Don Armstrong
found 510765 1.4.1-1 found 510765 1.4.23-1 close 510765 thanks On Thu, 14 May 2009, Rodrigo Gallardo wrote: Can someone help me understand why 510765 keeps on appearing on liferea's bug page? It's been closed in all the relevant versions, and the little graph on the left shows nothing but

Re: Bug 510765 won't appear as closed

2009-05-14 Thread Paul Gevers
Rodrigo Gallardo wrote: Can someone help me understand why 510765 keeps on appearing on liferea's bug page? It's been closed in all the relevant versions, and the little graph on the left shows nothing but green boxes, but everything (the bts, the pts, my qa page) show liferea as having 1

Re: Bug 510765 won't appear as closed

2009-05-14 Thread Rodrigo Gallardo
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 01:24:29PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: On Thu, 14 May 2009, Rodrigo Gallardo wrote: Can someone help me understand why 510765 keeps on appearing on liferea's bug page? Because it's not -done. Thanks, I get it now. Finally, if you don't know why it's not being

Re: Bug 510765 won't appear as closed

2009-05-14 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 14 May 2009, Rodrigo Gallardo wrote: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 01:24:29PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: Finally, if you don't know why it's not being fixed, feel free to ask here or in #debbugs on irc.debian.org; mucking with the found/fixed versions when the bug was actually found in

Re: Upload just to fix a watch file?

2009-05-14 Thread Ben Finney
Andrea Bolognani e...@kiyuko.org writes: On Thu, 14 May 2009 18:11:38 +1000 Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Andrea Bolognani e...@kiyuko.org writes: The fix is a trivial one-line patch, so I was wondering if such a minor change could warrant a new upload. Many critical

Re: Error when intend update libnet0-dev to libnet1-dev (nemesis package)

2009-05-14 Thread William Vera
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Barry deFreese bdefre...@debian.org wrote: William Vera wrote: Hi mentors some clue about this error? Thanks 2008/7/11 William Vera bi...@billy.com.mx: Hello Mentors I intend update the Build-Depends at nemesis package,  libnet0-dev to libnet1-dev (just