RFS: libitpp (updated package)

2007-07-01 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 3.99.2-1 of my package libitpp. It builds these binary packages: libitpp-dev - C++ library for signal processing and communication libitpp6 - C++ library for signal processing and communication The package is lintian clean. The

Re: ITR: libitpp (updated package)

2007-07-01 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 13:51:33 +0530 Kumar Appaiah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 3.99.2-1 of my package libitpp. http://packages.qa.debian.org/libi/libitpp.html When asking for a sponsor, please mention whether the package already exists in Debian - i.e.

Re: ITR: libitpp (updated package)

2007-07-01 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Neil Williams codehelp at debian.org writes: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 3.99.2-1 of my package libitpp. http://packages.qa.debian.org/libi/libitpp.html When asking for a sponsor, please mention whether the package already exists in Debian - i.e. whether you have had

Ampache Sponsor

2007-07-01 Thread Charlie
From: Charlie Smotherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org Subject: RFS: ampache Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package ampache. * Package name: ampache Version : 3.3.3.2-1 Upstream Author : [fill in name and email of upstream] * URL

ampache sponsor

2007-07-01 Thread Charlie
Ok let's try this one more time From: Charlie Smotherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org Subject: RFS: ampache Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package ampache. * Package name: ampache Version : 3.3.3.2-1 Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED]

sbuild and -vversion dpkg-buildpackage option

2007-07-01 Thread Daniel Leidert
Hello, I used to create one package with using the -vversion dpkg-buildpackage option. Now my sponsor uses sbuild. How can the -vversion option be passed to sbuild? I personally don't use sbuild, but took a quick look into the manpage, but didn't find anything. Or are there any workarounds?

RFS: powertop (updated package)

2007-07-01 Thread Krzysztof Burghardt
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.7~svn-r227-1 of my package powertop. It builds these binary packages: powertop - linux tool to find out what is using power on a laptop The package is lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 427345, 427548, 429305,

Re: RFS: powertop (updated package)

2007-07-01 Thread Christoph Haas
On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 05:21:03PM +0200, Krzysztof Burghardt wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.7~svn-r227-1 of my package powertop. Sponsored! Is there a reason you took the SVN version instead of 1.7 stable? Funny though that uscan found out there is a 1.17 version

RFS: secpanel (updated package)

2007-07-01 Thread Bruno Costacurta
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.41+0.4.2-4 of my package secpanel. It builds these binary packages: secpanel - A graphical user interface for SSH and SCP The upload would fix these bugs: 317063 The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL:

Re: ITS: fortunes-ru -- Russian data files for fortune

2007-07-01 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Denis V. Sirotkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-07-01 16:25]: I am looking for a sponsor for my package fortunes-ru. I will sponsor this package. Just a few notes: You use the Homepage tag in control but you just indent with· one space, please use 2 as described in 6.2.4 developers· reference.

A note on lintian clean packages and mentors.d.n

2007-07-01 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, I saw many packages using the template from mentors.debian.net which then always says: The package is lintian clean. And I saw many packages which are not lintian clean but state otherwise which really sucks. Can you change this string to something like: Please check your package for the

Re: RFS: secpanel (updated package)

2007-07-01 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi Bruno, On Sunday 1 July 2007 18:01, Bruno Costacurta wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.41+0.4.2-4 of my package secpanel. Thanks for your effort to adopt an orphaned package. I've taken a look and have the following points: - Why the strange version

Re: RFS: secpanel (updated package)

2007-07-01 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Sunday 1 July 2007 18:12, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: Otherwise it looks fine. One more thing: there's some bugs open against the package, including a wishlist bug regarding a new upstream version. Perhaps you want to take a look at those to see whether you can address them? Thijs

Re: ampache sponsor

2007-07-01 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi Charlie, On Sunday 1 July 2007 12:43, Charlie wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package ampache. I've taken a look and have found the following remarks. * You install under /usr/share/ampache. The webapps policy (still draft, but not quite controversial) recommends

Re: A note on lintian clean packages and mentors.d.n

2007-07-01 Thread Christoph Haas
On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 06:11:00PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: I saw many packages using the template from mentors.debian.net which then always says: The package is lintian clean. And I saw many packages which are not lintian clean but state otherwise which really sucks. Can you change this

Re: A note on lintian clean packages and mentors.d.n

2007-07-01 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Christoph Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-07-01 19:13]: On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 06:11:00PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: I saw many packages using the template from mentors.debian.net which then always says: The package is lintian clean. And I saw many packages which are not lintian

Re: RFS: secpanel (updated package)

2007-07-01 Thread Bruno Costacurta
On Sunday 01 July 2007 18:12, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: Hi Bruno, On Sunday 1 July 2007 18:01, Bruno Costacurta wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.41+0.4.2-4 of my package secpanel. Thanks for your effort to adopt an orphaned package. I meet few Debian

Re: RFS: powertop (updated package)

2007-07-01 Thread Ralf Meyer
On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 17:57:50 +0200 Christoph Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Funny though that uscan found out there is a 1.17 version online although the web site says 1.7 is the most current version. When I browse to: http://www.linuxpowertop.org/download/ there actually is a version

Re: RFS: secpanel (updated package)

2007-07-01 Thread Ralf Meyer
On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 18:01:39 +0200 Bruno Costacurta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.41+0.4.2-4 of my package secpanel. Small typo in debian/control: managining -- bye ranf signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS: gimmie

2007-07-01 Thread Michael Biebl
Thierry Randrianiriana schrieb: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package gimmie. * Package name: gimmie Version : 0.2.7-1 Upstream Authors: Alex Graveley [EMAIL PROTECTED] David Trowbridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Hearn [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ITR: libitpp (updated package)

2007-07-01 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 09:58:52 + (UTC) Kumar Appaiah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil Williams codehelp at debian.org writes: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 3.99.2-1 of my package libitpp. When asking for a sponsor, please mention whether the package already exists in

Re: RFS: powertop (updated package)

2007-07-01 Thread Krzysztof Burghardt
2007/7/1, Christoph Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sponsored! Is there a reason you took the SVN version instead of 1.7 stable? Just because it have been translated to Polish (in opposite to pure 1.7). Thanks for upload. Regards, -- Krzysztof Burghardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.burghardt.pl/ --

Re: A note on lintian clean packages and mentors.d.n

2007-07-01 Thread Christoph Haas
On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 07:21:51PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: Hi, * Christoph Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-07-01 19:13]: On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 06:11:00PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: I saw many packages using the template from mentors.debian.net which then always says: The package is

Request for additions to the mentors RFS template

2007-07-01 Thread Neil Williams
I'd like to ask if the template could advise/require that certain extra fields are always specified? 1. An ITP usually includes a Language: C/C++/Python/Perl etc. line, so for requests for sponsors, it would be good to carry this over so that packages that already exist in the archive also carry

Re: RFS: ntfs-config

2007-07-01 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 08:37:33PM +, Joseph Nahmias wrote: Can you please give more information about what ntfs-config actually does. Also, the URL above does not respond... Here is where the first RFS thread started: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2007/06/msg00055.html

Re: Request for additions to the mentors RFS template

2007-07-01 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Neil Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-07-01 20:29]: I'd like to ask if the template could advise/require that certain extra fields are always specified? 1. An ITP usually includes a Language: C/C++/Python/Perl etc. line, so for requests for sponsors, it would be good to carry this over

Re: A note on lintian clean packages and mentors.d.n

2007-07-01 Thread Raphael Geissert
On 01/07/07, Christoph Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 07:21:51PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: Hi, * Christoph Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-07-01 19:13]: On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 06:11:00PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: I saw many packages using the template from

Re: A note on lintian clean packages and mentors.d.n

2007-07-01 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Raphael Geissert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-07-01 21:41]: On 01/07/07, Christoph Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 07:21:51PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: [...] Lintian is now v1.23.31 instead of v1.23.28 (Etch). Hope that helps. Is lintian only checking the .deb file

Re: A note on lintian clean packages and mentors.d.n

2007-07-01 Thread Raphael Geissert
Hi, On 01/07/07, Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, * Raphael Geissert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-07-01 21:41]: On 01/07/07, Christoph Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 07:21:51PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: [...] Lintian is now v1.23.31 instead of v1.23.28 (Etch). Hope

Re: A note on lintian clean packages and mentors.d.n

2007-07-01 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Raphael Geissert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-07-01 21:51]: [...] By the way, what do you think about making linda check the package too? Linda itself is too buggy I think. Linda is not bad but when looking at the past I came to a point where I stopped using it because of its bugs. I

Re: Request for additions to the mentors RFS template

2007-07-01 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 20:54:35 +0200 Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. An ITP usually includes a Language: C/C++/Python/Perl etc. line, so for requests for sponsors, it would be good to carry this over so that packages that already exist in the archive also carry this information in the

Re: A note on lintian clean packages and mentors.d.n

2007-07-01 Thread Raphael Geissert
Hi, On 01/07/07, Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, * Raphael Geissert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-07-01 21:51]: [...] By the way, what do you think about making linda check the package too? Linda itself is too buggy I think. Linda is not bad but when looking at the past I came to a

RFS: command-not-found

2007-07-01 Thread Julian Andres Klode
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package command-not-found. * Package name: command-not-found Version : 0.2.4+debian-1 Upstream Author : Zygmunt Krynicki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael Vogt [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL :

Re: A note on lintian clean packages and mentors.d.n

2007-07-01 Thread Christoph Haas
On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 02:39:10PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: On 01/07/07, Christoph Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 07:21:51PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: Hi, * Christoph Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-07-01 19:13]: On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 06:11:00PM +0200, Nico

Re: RFS: command-not-found

2007-07-01 Thread Christoph Haas
On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 10:08:47PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package command-not-found. * Package name: command-not-found Version : 0.2.4+debian-1 Upstream Author : Zygmunt Krynicki [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RFS: app-install-data (updated package)

2007-07-01 Thread Julian Andres Klode
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.20070627 of my package app-install-data (I took it over from the previous maintainer, with permission). It builds these binary packages: app-install-data - Application Installer Data Files The package appears to be lintian clean.

Re: RFS: command-not-found

2007-07-01 Thread Julian Andres Klode
Christoph Haas wrote: On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 10:08:47PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package command-not-found. * Package name: command-not-found Version : 0.2.4+debian-1 Upstream Author : Zygmunt Krynicki [EMAIL

RFS: syck

2007-07-01 Thread Thomas Jollans
Dear mentors, I am looking for the new version 0.55+svn256-1 of the package syck which is already in Debian, maintained by Robert Jordens [EMAIL PROTECTED]. jordens doesn't use it any more and has given me permission to take it. (He isn't responding to my mail - might be on vacation) *

Re: RFS: secpanel (updated package)

2007-07-01 Thread Bruno Costacurta
On Sunday 01 July 2007 18:15, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: On Sunday 1 July 2007 18:12, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: Otherwise it looks fine. One more thing: there's some bugs open against the package, including a wishlist bug regarding a new upstream version. Perhaps you want to take a look at those

Re: A note on lintian clean packages and mentors.d.n

2007-07-01 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 15:05:54 -0500 Raphael Geissert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an alias in my .bashrc which helps me with this stuff: alias checkdeb='linda -i *.deb; linda -i *.dsc; lintian -i -I *.deb; lintian -i -I *.dsc' What's wrong with just passing the .changes? That

Re: RFS: command-not-found

2007-07-01 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 10:08:47PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package command-not-found. * Package name: command-not-found Version : 0.2.4+debian-1 Upstream Author : Zygmunt Krynicki [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A note on lintian clean packages and mentors.d.n

2007-07-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Neil Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Minor and wishlist bugs still count - particularly for things like linda and lintian, which leads to 16 outstanding. (The lintian maintainer correctly insists that lintian - and therefore linda - are only indicators of problems and cannot catch all such

Re: ITS: fortunes-ru -- Russian data files for fortune

2007-07-01 Thread DS
2007/7/1, Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, * Denis V. Sirotkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-07-01 16:25]: I am looking for a sponsor for my package fortunes-ru. I will sponsor this package. Just a few notes: You use the Homepage tag in control but you just indent with· one space, please use 2 as

Re: RFS: kde-icons-crystalproject

2007-07-01 Thread Paul Wise
On 6/28/07, Raphael Geissert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using a datestamp because that seems to be the best way to handle the 'version' of the icons pack. To prevent the need for an epoch if upstream decides to use versions, you might want to go with something like 0.0.20070625-1 or