Debexpo is online: testing period information

Hey all, As promised ([0] and [1]), I put debexpo on the web by November 5. It's online at http://expo.debian.net/. Here's what I'm thinking: It looks nice, and some features work - Wow, http://expo.debian.net/ has some nice color, and a pretty cool

On the pruning of Build-Depends

Dear Mentors, I am about to package a graphical software, and I must properly design a Build-Depends stanza in the control file. My concern right now is whether I am allowed to prune the enumeration so hard that the primary dependencies pull in all secondary and tertiary ones, thus circumventing

RFS: libmatheval (updated package)

Dear mentors, debian-science I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.1.7-2 of my package libmatheval. It builds these binary packages: libmatheval1 - GNU library for evaluating symbolic mathematical expressions (run libmatheval1-dev - GNU library for evaluating symbolic mathematical

Re: On the pruning of Build-Depends

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Mats Erik Andersson mats.anders...@gisladisker.se wrote: Dear Mentors, I am about to package a graphical software, and I must properly design a Build-Depends stanza in the control file. My concern right now is whether I am allowed to prune the enumeration so

Re: RFS: libmatheval (updated package)

* Julian Taylor jtaylor.deb...@googlemail.com [101109 18:15]: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.1.7-2 of my package libmatheval. As this is clearly not targeted at squeeze (you did almost repackaged it, it seems), this should not go to unstable but to experimental. - integer

Re: RFS: libmatheval (updated package)

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org wrote: As this is clearly not targeted at squeeze (you did almost repackaged it, it seems), this should not go to unstable but to experimental. fixed - integer truncation in fortran interface on 64 bit (forwarded

RFS: bluecove, bluecove-gpl

Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my packages bluecove and bluecove-gpl. Package name: bluecove Version : 2.1.0-1 Upstream Author : Many URL : http://bluecove.org License : LGPL and GPL Section : java and libs Bluecove builds these

Re: How to add dependencies that exist in another repository

On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 09:14 -0800, Reza Alemi wrote: Hello all, I don't seem to be able to find my answer searching the net, so please forgive me if my question is too trivial. I am packaging a product which is dependent on sun-java6-sdk (upstream says it won't work with openjdk). in

Re: How to add dependencies that exist in another repository

On Tue, 09 Nov 2010, PJ Weisberg wrote: - It *is* possible to add repositories when you install your package. I'm pretty sure we probably wouldn't want any package in Debian do that tho. -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The

Re: How to add dependencies that exist in another repository

On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 14:48 -0800, PJ Weisberg wrote: [...] - It *is* possible to add repositories when you install your package. Google does this in the *.deb files it distributes so that the package manager can find newer versions. If you have a reason to do this (which you almost certainly

Re: How to add dependencies that exist in another repository

On 11/9/10, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: Don't even think of doing this in a package uploaded to Debian. Right. I mentioned it mostly for completness, since it's the answer to the question that was actually asked. I almost added, I don't think any Debian packages actually do

Re: RFS: wine (updated package)

On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 23:08:50 -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: Would anyone be willing to sponsor an RC-fix upload? This new wine package fixes bug #602872: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/w/wine Uploaded to DELAYED/7. Thanks for your work. Cheers, gregor -- .''`.