ITAs on packages you intend to remove
Hi! One of my packages, tcng, is long dead upstream, and without upstream work it goes less and less usable. Thus, a while ago I decided to RFA it, intending to ask for removal if no one steps up before Wheezy. Someone (Jakob Haufe) did in september, but I haven't heard from him since. Due to an recent change in TeX, tcng started to FTBFS (#666336). The fix here is trivial, but I don't know whether it wouldn't be better to just proceed with asking for removal instead. I asked the ITPer (bug trace: ##612930) whether he'll take it over soon, take it over later but before Wheezy or not at all; I didn't get an answer. It's been only five days, though. Should I bother you with sponsoring an upload fixing the FTBFS (with the package likely going away soon), file a RM immediately, or ignore it for now? There's a yet another option, fixing the FTBFS and doing other minimal life support so the few remaining users (32 popcon votes) can have it in wheezy (tcng can't use any new improvements to netfilter, but old ways still work) -- perhaps I could make a final upload now and not remove it until after wheezy, looking if Jakob comes back? Meow! -- // If you believe in so-called intellectual property, please immediately // cease using counterfeit alphabets. Instead, contact the nearest temple // of Amon, whose priests will provide you with scribal services for all // your writing needs, for Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory prices. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: ITAs on packages you intend to remove
Hi Adam, On 03.04.2012 11:37, Adam Borowski wrote: Should I bother you with sponsoring an upload fixing the FTBFS (with the package likely going away soon), file a RM immediately, or ignore it for now? A removal is not conclusive. A package can be reintroduced anytime if someone cares enough for it. Thus I'd suggest you to file a RM bug, point out reasons why the package should be removed and stop bother (don't forget to update the WNPP bug). If someone cares enough he can re-upload the package later as said. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f7acbdd.7060...@debian.org
Bug#658834: marked as done (RFS: jabber-querybot -- Modular xmpp/jabber bot)
Your message dated Tue, 3 Apr 2012 16:33:15 +0200 with message-id 20120403143315.ga7...@mbalmer.nine.ch and subject line Re: RFS: jabber-querybot has caused the Debian Bug report #658834, regarding RFS: jabber-querybot -- Modular xmpp/jabber bot to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact ow...@bugs.debian.org immediately.) -- 658834: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=658834 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems ---BeginMessage--- Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package jabber-querybot. * Package name: jabber-querybot Version : 0.1.0-1 Upstream Author : Marco Balmer ma...@balmer.name * URL : https://github.com/micressor/jabber-querybot * License : GPL-3+ Section : net Changes since the last upload: jabber-querybot (0.1.0-1) unstable; urgency=low * New 0.1.0 upstream files * d/dirs: Remove usr/share/jabber-querybot/lib * d/jabber-querybot.install: Removed files which are installed with Makefile.PL * d/preinst: Exec only during upgrade case * d/watch: Update watch file according to new tags -- Marco Balmer ma...@balmer.name Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:26:46 +0100 It builds those binary packages: jabber-querybot - Modular xmpp/jabber bot To access further information about this package, please visit the following URL: http://mentors.debian.net/package/jabber-querybot Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command: dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/j/jabber-querybot/jabber-querybot_0.1.0-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards, Marco Balmer ---End Message--- ---BeginMessage--- Thanks for uploading. Marco On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 04:20:38PM +0100, Didier Raboud wrote: Le dimanche, 5 février 2012 17.33:31, vous avez écrit : I am looking for a sponsor for my package jabber-querybot. Uploaded. Thanks for your time and patience and sorry for my delay in answering. signature.asc Description: GnuPG Signature ---End Message---
Bug#667058: RFS: libupnp/1:1.6.16~git.20120316.d3d17da6-1 (updated package, transition upload)
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package libupnp because my normal sponsor seems to be away or busy at the moment. I would normally wait patiently, but this release is the subject of a transition for which others are waiting. The upload has been OK'd by ftpmasters, please see transition bug #655912. Package name: libupnp Version : 1:1.6.16~git.20120316.d3d17da6-1 Upstream Author : Marcelo Roberto Jimenez mrobe...@users.sourceforge.net URL : http://pupnp.sourceforge.net/ License : BSD-like Section : net It builds those binary packages: libupnp-dev - Portable SDK for UPnP Devices (development files) libupnp6 - Portable SDK for UPnP Devices, version 1.6 (shared libraries) libupnp6-dbg - debugging symbols for libupnp6 libupnp6-dev - Portable SDK for UPnP Devices, version 1.6 (development files) libupnp6-doc - Documentation for the Portable SDK for UPnP Devices, version 1.6 To access further information about this package, please visit the following URL: http://mentors.debian.net/package/libupnp Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command: dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/libu/libupnp/libupnp_1.6.16~git.20120316.d3d17da6-1.dsc The changelog since the last release for this package is: libupnp (1:1.6.16~git.20120316.d3d17da6-1) unstable; urgency=low * Ack NMU, thankyou for your work on this package. * New upstream release, rename to libupnp6 for upstream's soname bump. (LP: #855339, LP: #648506). Now includes IPv6 support. * Update from upstream git to get reinstated UpnpSetVirtualDirCallbacks API. * Remove all patches that are now in upstream. * Update remaining patches (01,07,12) for new upstream coding standards. * Remove fixed-length URLs from upnpapi (patch 18 19, Closes: #353169). * Update to debhelper v9 to get multi-arch and build-hardening in dh. * Update to Policy 3.9.3, and note that we are discouraged from shipping three libraries in this package but live with it for now. * Convert to multiarch. * libupnp-dev metapackage is now Arch: all. * Override lintian about versioned Conflicts and dupe files in docs. * Update debian/copyright to DEP-5 v1.0. * Generate up-to-date docs for the current API and ship a -doc package. -- Nick Leverton n...@leverton.org Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:30:04 +0100 Thankyou for looking at this package, Nick Leverton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120403190140.ga5...@leverton.org
Bug#667088: RFS: fonts-quattrocento/1.1-1 [ITP]
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-fonts-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package fonts-quattrocento * Package name: fonts-quattrocento Version : 1.1-1 Upstream Author : Pablo Impallari impall...@gmail.com * URL : http://www.impallari.com/quattrocento * License : OFL 1.1 Section : fonts It builds those binary packages: fonts-quattrocento - classic, elegant, sober and strong Roman typeface To access further information about this package, please visit the following URL: http://mentors.debian.net/package/fonts-quattrocento Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command: dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/fonts-quattrocento/fonts-quattrocento_1.1-1.dsc Regards, Bernhard Reiter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1333493032.2452.7.camel@razor
Bug#667092: RFS: tcng/10b-4 [RC, QA]
Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: important
Hi, it turns out the person who wants to adopt this package is alive after
all, but won't have time soon. Thus, I'm making a last upload, orphaning
the package, fixing the new FTBFS and doing some minor clean-up.
The changelog entry:
tcng (10b-4) unstable; urgency=low
* Add textlive-latex-recommended to Build-Depends, needed for url.sty
(Closes: #666336).
* Bump standards to 3.9.3 (no changes), debhelper to 8 (dh_prep).
* Fix CFLAGS and LDFLAGS being ignored, get them from dpkg-buildflags.
* Implement missing build-{arch,indep}.
* Orphan the package.
Dgettable URL:
dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/t/tcng/tcng_10b-4.dsc
Popcon: 235 inst, 32 vote.
If someone could sponsor this, it'd be nice.
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Re: Bug#667092: RFS: tcng/10b-4 [RC, QA]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Adam, On 04.04.2012 00:50, Adam Borowski wrote: * Orphan the package. if your intention is to orphan the package you should set the maintainer to Debian QA Group packa...@qa.debian.org, too. I didn't look any further but this was drawing my attention. - -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJPe4H8AAoJEMcrUe6dgPNtAjQP/14wpz+D/ErD7WOPdFwmIsCe dQuYmtPOTeSKIuzyt5hR14tl8+fI0FRNVEqLhhlqSryB5wefCNbH/xLEYcKlIi8X G8PnxIwV2zLcQmiWoGg4ntv/D6or2sWXWO0UTcAhWbQTzKxhOmT0bae7O9YFD0uv /A5C/a9k84164f/zRutWTSWuqd2tSHHGhohsg64/CGJhFoaWgPmTGezici9Z6dFO eM8X7rXwk3rSaX99yfOCalCDQxdHI4HTtMmVrudJ0QXpNsgaUb5fKdZkPFVwRxsl 90p4Ircl0xUDlcxAVFA1xgWlUogIIYuuLv8CztC9TtsSAtNM5sLI9XbKdKsjYroT 62CE7WXMCOscbyQ8111F9xFDfBY++cKwkARP/ywekU/k2D5Dc8Dou5r0cXVMmWDr lX5UexLkXx09nZFTOxLq9DPQHjUZ7E8mAnI9ImtZ5XYWeDLFcEmILdACLyeBfBSn QDBmWFiClbLDAosWP0EocsEbFwPAkHY/qabIqsLXb74u+OXR2MrxqR5cMqVNUrOw mbiWMk2IBgzfru1A6Xq0Dk7KoMM/hDWZM8GergFMD1+azDiCaXEeOaPaO4gUtJkX O1PObH+z5Ul9cSzvDKkD7TUqLS9DWw3lr6FNasjPd5pEGWVeC6YlGvEhXz3sRZ3c SsaHcbBBCTJWa2xdu/CM =cTJ+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f7b81fc.2040...@debian.org
Signing a .deb later?
Hi. I'm new to this list so let me give some introduction, to provide some context for my questions: To be up front, I'm not a regular Debian user... I used to be years ago, but then I fell in love with Gentoo and the whole source-based distro paradigm. However, I run Debian in a VM through qemu-kvm, which I am using to learn how to make .deb packages and also to test them. In the short term, I'm simply concerned about being able to create good .deb packages which I can upload to my Web site, though eventually I'll trying getting some of my packages put into Debian proper. Hopefully this is the right list for me... there are so many Debian lists that I wasn't sure, but a Debian user directed me here. So, my first question: Is there some nifty command or trick to (properly) GPG sign a .deb package /after/ I've finished making it? I've been following the Debian New Maintainers' Guide PDF, which seems to be working out for me; however, I don't actually keep my code signing keys inside the virtual machine, so when I run dpkg-buildpackage certain files in the package don't get signed. I was hoping I could do the signing on my own system after I had moved the package out of the virtual machine, but I'm not sure what the proper procedure would be. -- frigidcode.com indicium.us signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Signing a .deb later?
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Re: Bug#667092: RFS: tcng/10b-4 [RC, QA]
On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 01:04:28AM +0200, Arno Töll wrote: On 04.04.2012 00:50, Adam Borowski wrote: * Orphan the package. if your intention is to orphan the package you should set the maintainer to Debian QA Group packa...@qa.debian.org, too. I didn't look any further but this was drawing my attention. Fixed, re-uploaded, thanks for noticing. Lintian now complains: W: tcng source: changelog-should-mention-qa but this seems wrong -- it's this very upload that is orphaning the package; lintian has no real way to know that, though. -- // If you believe in so-called intellectual property, please immediately // cease using counterfeit alphabets. Instead, contact the nearest temple // of Amon, whose priests will provide you with scribal services for all // your writing needs, for Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory prices. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Signing a .deb later?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Christopher, On 04.04.2012 01:01, Christopher Howard wrote: So, my first question: Is there some nifty command or trick to (properly) GPG sign a .deb package /after/ I've finished making it? [..] but I'm not sure what the proper procedure would be. you can use debsign(1) to sign packages. However, you seem to misunderstand some concepts. .debs aren't signed, the meta-data is (e.g. the .dsc and .changes files). If you want to publish these to a private repository you offer, this signature is irrelevant to apt and such, instead the archive-wide meta-data needs to be signed (there are tools like reprepro which can help you to achieve that). This can, but does not need to be same key. - -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJPe4XOAAoJEMcrUe6dgPNtlacQAJBdfRGIf/rPtoiYn84LJ6Nu niEE+a/PO8FHCPEMYqT7M2lnV3u2G6+cIS1/mKrBzkaws0aGxeeh319BH2jiSYHb SyV9nqRaO29HGGLJJJQ/Bb23CiF0CiH1V7Rpcwuk7X5/rDsgEyplQB2jGjTyD0mt AIHn94EQmNKbaMotdv5wVB40s4z5ZgNjAFc6KHpeR9H/FMEi2SHowLo1VW0K/Col zy6IKZim0wNuQRT+yhsu6OIMzjLNk/P6xCLWUEhAFoXAxs5gl42Y40p61SioFVqt FFSVJoj5aazqLnTiH70Sai76IzYE/bFNHqDwlIlFzlJIuYg3q5z8fFuZoEOyNc8q JitPJGJFCysxXNVfE0IJr5Cy1dtl9hwKqBYCkRiqPnctgjiHeIXV64hUQDnqYJHA R1nUigNXmNwxVnjrvhPo5K3BO3Cz7KOwkQvTMF887iPg6cQW0WzNzYbi85aHW9s4 +ZRYhBCvWFbuLHAHGffDEn3StbNAZAilstii0MVX725VcaJucGdRGaDSwAlnBvQ3 WjZNHcSNdHCCJ62/vwoNQbod32zMa4x7eiGemCxqyyof5Q5boAUOwgRi3S6Rec5e m7kmX8DmALvvkF81E95HwaObfemMRZNn0HMcAKUPbZBA60FK6WWqntVUi3uw3K/r w4fQG76+nXobDRFp/G5N =U9Sb -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f7b85ce.1060...@debian.org
Re: Bug#667092: RFS: tcng/10b-4 [RC, QA]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Adam, On 04.04.2012 01:19, Adam Borowski wrote: Lintian now complains: W: tcng source: changelog-should-mention-qa but this seems wrong -- it's this very upload that is orphaning the package; lintian has no real way to know that, though. Just add * QA Upload to the changelog entry to make Lintian shut up. - -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJPe4YTAAoJEMcrUe6dgPNth/0P/2oUrjlQtuuag25fBYB5nz4g hzcU3CV9ruyY6zs5xPf9IMHYxSBfrE81T4wXijp4X8KlHriqgDzlMNtcF87cxsC7 d6AzxSEbtHIfVZdV5zY/VcFccoOAuQIXdISsOtdh75OjZ2DYMDHCOmOskg26o/i8 83zvQKjxBwnnkud9ODLhRa6L8B8zgMXPcbHKfGMTAvpafINyLaqcpKoAmnFa3vLE CCbmSUOFFQC22ryaH70CHprTWHTxYoAmHEPFzZVqi39TvfXHUX3NxSew0+tHKQ+f InqDls/KTn0/kIkSqfIfL0G8ovDHt7cyU0CCaaAz6JtLg58gibGa3fLlZVM/d+7H +AWP4iMHHurdaJI7jx8+wAfy+x1nR4TMEq58/5b+drIWSN+fR+Do4LFKhoG0YE7r rMrUFmkVs1o5QAh/zRHP9mUu3polGGZkDYSr2GIj5tUZWOEpMx6f4aKX7URynDnZ x9GCnNCMEuN18FagdQoM1KK15Jhh4UMzziwUa6SYYTi9G6FdtVQQpXXPOjxbKI/o oRROGjG+lQEgugN9ICCB6S5/8CPg/PTekJG0KdBuweWCthSRAWY4/aUSpZhBiCh5 UD2CGU7yGro6z/LuSGul+8PS2hLXNta3b6ZBMx4PVMtqrO7+x4AnKJy3RvNRkPyK 4ivO1QhF5iXxq3Yve2nM =heWQ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f7b8613.1070...@debian.org
installing to the games directory
Thank you everyone for the help. Hopefully I can get away with asking two questions in one day: I was able to successfully package a game inside a .deb; however, lintian is giving me the error: package-section-games-but-contains-no-game and the binary is being installed to /usr/bin instead of /usr/games. Is there some one-liner that I am supposed to put in one of the debian/* files so the .deb is built to install stuff to the games directory? The software is properly wrapped with autoconf/automake so it should be simply a matter of having it pass in the correct --bindir value. -- frigidcode.com indicium.us signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: installing to the games directory
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Christopher Howard wrote: Thank you everyone for the help. Hopefully I can get away with asking two questions in one day: I was able to successfully package a game inside a .deb; however, lintian is giving me the error: package-section-games-but-contains-no-game and the binary is being installed to /usr/bin instead of /usr/games. Is there some one-liner that I am supposed to put in one of the debian/* files so the .deb is built to install stuff to the games directory? The software is properly wrapped with autoconf/automake so it should be simply a matter of having it pass in the correct --bindir value. If you are using dh then something like this: %: dh --with autotools_dev $@ --parallel override_dh_auto_configure: dh_auto_configure -- --bindir=/usr/games --datadir=/usr/share/games If you are packaging games, you might want to join the games team: http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Team -- 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.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caktje6e9ouot+6w+f2uz4kgvmaw+3vzp85aoh1aq+1ds0h1...@mail.gmail.com
