Re: RFS: bluetooth-alsa (updated package)

2007-07-15 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Krzysztof Burghardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007.07.14.2154 +0200]: Along this trivial patch as this one is not a subject of any kind of authors right (according to Polish law regulations). So it's public domain, isn't it? As Steve already wrote, it's about crediting, not law. Whenever

RFS: throttle

2007-07-15 Thread Kartik Mistry
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package throttle. * Package name: throttle Version : 1.1-1 Upstream Author : James Klicman james at klicman dot org * URL : http://klicman.org/throttle/ * License: GPL 2 or later Section : utils It

Change in my sponsorship requirements

2007-07-15 Thread Neil Williams
I think it is about time that I changed the way I handle one element of my sponsoring: I think that trying to retain the same Debian version during the entire sponsorship process is prone to error and teaches bad habits. In future, I think it is easier for everyone if every change during

Re: Broken uploads to mentors.debian.net

2007-07-15 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 15 July 2007, Kel Modderman wrote: On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 09:00:44 am Neil Williams wrote: On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 00:31:29 +0200 Christoph Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 10:42:52PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: Is this a result of the need to allow repeated

Re: Change in my sponsorship requirements

2007-07-15 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Neil Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007.07.15.1133 +0200]: I think it is about time that I changed the way I handle one element of my sponsoring: I think that trying to retain the same Debian version during the entire sponsorship process is prone to error and teaches bad habits. In

Re: include aoTuV patch

2007-07-15 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Adeodato. Thanks for your answer. On Jul 08 2007, Adeodato Simó wrote: * Rogério Brito [Sat, 07 Jul 2007 19:55:52 -0300]: Besides that, what do you mean with these characteristics? That it is an intrusive patch? Intrusive, wishlist. Would there then, be the possibility of having

Re: Change in my sponsorship requirements

2007-07-15 Thread Bart Martens
On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 10:33 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: I think it is easier for everyone if every change during sponsorship gets a new Debian version, so if you need me to sponsor packages, each upload to mentors.debian.net must use a new Debian version. That makes debian/changelog written

Re: Change in my sponsorship requirements

2007-07-15 Thread Bart Martens
On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 11:45 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: I make use of the new ~ character in version strings. Even more my own packages, I'll release 1.0-1~unreleased.1 1.0-1~unreleased.2 1.0-1~unreleased.3 until it's final and I can release 1.0-1, for which I merge the

Re: Change in my sponsorship requirements

2007-07-15 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 12:23:48 +0200 Bart Martens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 10:33 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: I think it is easier for everyone if every change during sponsorship gets a new Debian version, so if you need me to sponsor packages, each upload to

Re: Change in my sponsorship requirements

2007-07-15 Thread Francesco Cecconi
Hi, On Sunday 15 July 2007, Bart Martens wrote: Or is this over the top? Maybe it needlessly complicates things for newbie packagers... Non-DD's are also welcome to comment ! a good approach in my opinion, it's: 1.0-1~rfs.1 1.0-1~rfs.2 1.0-1 version and revision for

Re: Change in my sponsorship requirements

2007-07-15 Thread Bart Martens
On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 12:02 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 12:23:48 +0200 Bart Martens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 10:33 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: I think it is easier for everyone if every change during sponsorship gets a new Debian version, so if

Re: Change in my sponsorship requirements

2007-07-15 Thread Francesco Namuri
Hi, IMHO it's a good idea to follow the requirements of ftp-master, it's a good practice that get used the new devoloppers to made the things in the right way, I understand the issues of this in the changelogs, but I think it's funny to see after many years the mistakes made attempting to made my

Re: Change in my sponsorship requirements

2007-07-15 Thread Deepak Tripathi
Bart Martens wrote: On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 12:02 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 12:23:48 +0200 Bart Martens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 10:33 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: I think it is easier for everyone if every change during sponsorship

Re: Change in my sponsorship requirements

2007-07-15 Thread Colin Tuckley
Bart Martens wrote: It's not a huge problem, but it's not so nice to have all beginners mistakes logged forever for the whole world to see. Speaking as someone in NM, that is an important point. I don't use mentors for my uploads, I either use my own web space or a system put in place by my

Re: Change in my sponsorship requirements

2007-07-15 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 15 July 2007, Bart Martens wrote: On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 12:02 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: --cut-- Something like this ? packagename (0.1.0-8) unstable; urgency=low * Updated debian/watch to recognize both .tar.gz and .tar.bz2, now revealing the real latest upstream release.

Re: Change in my sponsorship requirements

2007-07-15 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Bart Martens [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007.07.15.1241 +0200]: When the .orig.tar.gz needs repackaging, then this happens: 1.0~rfs.2-1~rfs.1 1.0~rfs.3-1~rfs.1 This should not need to happen. The orig.tar.gz should hardly ever be repacked. -- Please do not send copies of list

Re: Change in my sponsorship requirements

2007-07-15 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Colin Tuckley [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007.07.15.1501 +0200]: 1) I don't want my failed attempts seen forever. 2) it's a lot of unneeded and irrelevant information. (it's about the packaging *attempt* not about the packaging). You may have missed my point about merging the

Re: Change in my sponsorship requirements

2007-07-15 Thread Colin Tuckley
martin f krafft wrote: You may have missed my point about merging the changelog entries when preparing the final version. Until then, having changelog entries for mentee changes is rather helpful to the sponsor, I think. No, I saw it and assumed that is what would happen in the case where

Re: Change in my sponsorship requirements

2007-07-15 Thread Bart Martens
On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 16:47 +0300, George Danchev wrote: On Sunday 15 July 2007, Bart Martens wrote: On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 12:02 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: --cut-- Something like this ? packagename (0.1.0-8) unstable; urgency=low * Updated debian/watch to recognize both .tar.gz

Re: Change in my sponsorship requirements

2007-07-15 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Colin Tuckley [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007.07.15.1618 +0200]: No, I saw it and assumed that is what would happen in the case where the uploads use ~r1 etc and the final upload to Debian by the sponsor deleted the extra part of the revision. It's having all the changelog entries for

RFS: ftpsync -- fast ftp directory synchronization

2007-07-15 Thread Julian Andres Klode
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package ftpsync. * Package name: ftpsync Version : 0.1-1 Upstream Author : me - Julian Andres Klode [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://jak-linux.org/projects/ftpsync/ * License : GPL Section : net It

Re: Change in my sponsorship requirements

2007-07-15 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 15 July 2007, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Colin Tuckley [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007.07.15.1618 +0200]: No, I saw it and assumed that is what would happen in the case where the uploads use ~r1 etc and the final upload to Debian by the sponsor deleted the extra part of the

RFS: dir2ogg -- audio file converter into ogg-vorbis format

2007-07-15 Thread Julian Andres Klode
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package dir2ogg. * Package name: dir2ogg Version : 0.10-1 Upstream Author : me - Julian Andres Klode [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://jak-linux.org/projects/dir2ogg/ * License : GPL Section : sound It

Re: Change in my sponsorship requirements

2007-07-15 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Yes, exactly. Each packaging attempt gets a separate changelog entry and when it's final, you merge them all, effectively erasing the history. If I understand you correctly you mean a progress as follows: === Day 1 === Day 1 is probably a bit confusing here. A new revision every

Re: Change in my sponsorship requirements

2007-07-15 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 18:32:23 +0300 On Sunday 15 July 2007, martin f krafft wrote: Yes, exactly. Each packaging attempt gets a separate changelog entry and when it's final, you merge them all, effectively erasing the history. Martin - my only problem with this collapsing of the changes is

Re: Change in my sponsorship requirements

2007-07-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 12:23:48PM +0200, Bart Martens wrote: On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 10:33 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: I think it is easier for everyone if every change during sponsorship gets a new Debian version, so if you need me to sponsor packages, each upload to mentors.debian.net must

Re: Change in my sponsorship requirements

2007-07-15 Thread Christoph Haas
On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 12:41:16PM +0200, Bart Martens wrote: On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 11:45 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: I make use of the new ~ character in version strings. Even more my own packages, I'll release 1.0-1~unreleased.1 1.0-1~unreleased.2 1.0-1~unreleased.3

Re: Broken uploads to mentors.debian.net

2007-07-15 Thread Christoph Haas
On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 12:31:29AM +0200, I wrote: On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 10:42:52PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: Just had a problem with a package for sponsoring that, AFAICT, could not happen with other repositories that I use, so I'm a tad concerned about how it happened on m.d.n.

Re: Broken uploads to mentors.debian.net

2007-07-15 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 22:41:57 +0200 Christoph Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 12:31:29AM +0200, I wrote: On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 10:42:52PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: However, the .dsc file uploaded to m.d.n references a different .orig.tar.gz:

Re: RFS: ftpsync -- fast ftp directory synchronization

2007-07-15 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 05:13:58PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package ftpsync. Any major feature improvements over sitecopy? - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Broken uploads to mentors.debian.net

2007-07-15 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 10:41:57PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: I have no good explanation for the situation Neil mentioned though. The package maintainer must have uploaded a package with an orig tarball. But then the orig tarball was changed and an upload without an orig tarball was done

RFS: warsow (corrected package)

2007-07-15 Thread Andres Mejia
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package warsow. These include some corrections needed in order for warsow to be accepted, as noted by this email. http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-games-devel/2007-July/003982.html * Package name: warsow Version :

RFS: funguloids

2007-07-15 Thread Andres Mejia
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package funguloids. * Package name: funguloids Version : 1.06-1 Upstream Author : Mika Halttunen [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://funguloids.sourceforge.net/ * License : zlib/libpng Section :

Re: [RFS] Looking for a sponsor for David's libsvg-perl.

2007-07-15 Thread Damyan Ivanov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -=| Charles Plessy, 14.07.2007 14:15 |=- In the meantime, the discussion continued in the BTS where I got an answer and was informed that Jose made a package which will be uploaded this week-end. How does it work with the NEW queue, will the