Re: RFS: gnome-inm-forecast (updated package)

2009-04-28 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
2009/4/28 Ryan Niebur ryanrya...@gmail.com Hi, I am about to leave again, so haven't looked much more, but... On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 02:03:58AM +0200, Gustavo Iñiguez Goya wrote: By the technical side, an important bug has been fixed, which caused to not work on GNOME 2.26:

Re: Criteria for sponsoring packages (was: RFS: ripit (updated package))

2009-04-28 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Ben Finney (Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:25:57 +1000): Note that not everything in Neil's guidelines are appropriate to *every* package. Well, not even that, many of them are a pure matter of personal preference, or apply directly only to him: 1. Use mentors.debian.net 2. Increment the package

Re: Criteria for sponsoring packages (was: RFS: ripit (updated package))

2009-04-28 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Adeodato Simó (Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:09:31 +0200): + Ben Finney (Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:25:57 +1000): Note that not everything in Neil's guidelines are appropriate to *every* package. Well, not even that, many of them are a pure matter of personal preference, or apply directly only to him:

Re: Documenting new upstream ver sion in ‘debian/changelog’ (was: Uploaded)

2009-04-28 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Ben Finney wrote: Adeodato Simó d...@net.com.org.es writes: I hope you’ll agree that’s more useful for the person reading the changelog, and it only takes a bit more effort. No need to retroactively edit the changelog, though. The main reason to do this is

Re: Criteria for sponsoring packages (was: RFS: ripit (updated package))

2009-04-28 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:13:09 +0200 Adeodato Simó d...@net.com.org.es wrote: Note that not everything in Neil's guidelines are appropriate to *every* package. Well, not even that, many of them are a pure matter of personal preference, or apply directly only to him: Forgot to add, I

Re: RFS: ripit (updated package)

2009-04-28 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 03:07:04 +0300 Marius Vollmer marius.voll...@gmail.com wrote: I understand that you want people to come to you with a very good package already, and that you don't want to waste time on a hopeless case. Some prepared documents and checklists are certainly useful for

Re: Criteria for sponsoring packages

2009-04-28 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Adeodato Simó, 2009-04-28] + Adeodato Simó (Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:09:31 +0200): + Ben Finney (Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:25:57 +1000): Note that not everything in Neil's guidelines are appropriate to *every* package. Well, not even that, many of them are a pure matter of personal

Re: Criteria for sponsoring packages (was: RFS: ripit (updated package))

2009-04-28 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:09:31 +0200 Adeodato Simó d...@net.com.org.es wrote: + Ben Finney (Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:25:57 +1000): Note that not everything in Neil's guidelines are appropriate to *every* package. Well, not even that, many of them are a pure matter of personal preference, or

Re: RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

2009-04-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Matthias Julius m...@julius-net.net wrote: I would really be grateful if someone could take a look at this package and possibly upload it for me. You build-depend on libdb-dev, in sid that depends on libdb4.7-dev but the current dnshistory package is built

Re: Criteria for sponsoring packages

2009-04-28 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:43:17 +0200 Piotr Ożarowski pi...@debian.org wrote: PS I would love to see tags that would allow me to give higher priority to some RFS mails (like: [Python] in Subject or X-debexpo-lang: Python in mails generated by debexpo) and discard some others (like Perl or JAVA

Re: RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

2009-04-28 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-04-28 12:45 +0200, Paul Wise wrote: For some reason the mktime test in ./configure takes ages and a lot of CPU in pbuilder and then fails. This means that `configure' needs to be regenerated with a newer version of autoconf (2.61-7 or better). See

Re: RFS: gnome-inm-forecast (updated package)

2009-04-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Gustavo Iñiguez Goya g...@kutxa.homeunix.org wrote: gnome-inm-forecast displays on the gnome-panel, the weather forecast for the following 7 days. Unlike others applets like gweather, this applet does not display the current weather for a particular location,

Re: RFS: gnome-inm-forecast (updated package)

2009-04-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs dmitrij.led...@gmail.com wrote: Is it ok to include LP: # bug numbers in changelog in packages aimed at debian? Yes, definitely. The LP bugs will be closed when the package is synced to Ubuntu. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: RFS: shutter

2009-04-28 Thread LI Daobing
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 23:09, Ryan Niebur ryanrya...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 07:22:45PM +0800, LI Daobing wrote: sounds OK for me, but a few question: 1. why it build depends on debhelper = 7.2 (instead of = 7) sorry, it should have been 7.0.50, but out of habbit I

Re: RFS: boats

2009-04-28 Thread LI Daobing
Hello, On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 06:00, Thibaut GRIDEL tgri...@free.fr wrote: Hello again, * LI Daobing [2009-04-27 13:34]: Hello, On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 07:31, Thibaut GRIDEL tgri...@free.fr wrote: Dear mentors, It builds these binary packages: boats      - a race scenario drawing

Re: RFS: fsprotect (try #3)

2009-04-28 Thread LI Daobing
Hello, 2009/4/28 Stefanos Harhalakis v...@v13.gr: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package fsprotect. In this message there is also a summary of everything that was discussed in this list. * Package name    : fsprotect  Version         : 1.0.2  Upstream Author : Stefanos

Re: Criteria for sponsoring packages

2009-04-28 Thread Ben Finney
Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org writes: I really cannot support Ben's sweeping generalisation that my page is suitable for every package prepared for Debian. Er, that's not what I stated. Indeed, I said exactly the opposite in another message. What I'm saying here is: Rather, it's best

Re: Criteria for sponsoring packages

2009-04-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org wrote: Brief, to the point and clear. I think I'll add that to my list of other sponsor requirements. http://people.debian.org/~codehelp/#sponsors lwall hasn't moved his sponsoring page to the new people.d.o, you might want

Re: RFS: gnome-inm-forecast (updated package)

2009-04-28 Thread Gustavo Iñiguez Goya
Hi Ryan, On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 07:02:01PM -0700, Ryan Niebur wrote: Hi, I am about to leave again, so haven't looked much more, but... On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 02:03:58AM +0200, Gustavo Iñiguez Goya wrote: By the technical side, an important bug has been fixed, which caused to not

Re: RFS: gnome-inm-forecast (updated package)

2009-04-28 Thread Gustavo Iñiguez Goya
Hi, On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 07:24:39PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs dmitrij.led...@gmail.com wrote: Is it ok to include LP: # bug numbers in changelog in packages aimed at debian? Yes, definitely. The LP bugs will be closed when the package

Re: Criteria for sponsoring packages

2009-04-28 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Ben Finney (Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:19:33 +1000): Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org writes: I really cannot support Ben's sweeping generalisation that my page is suitable for every package prepared for Debian. Er, that's not what I stated. Indeed, I said exactly the opposite in another

Re: RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

2009-04-28 Thread Matthias Julius
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: You build-depend on libdb-dev, in sid that depends on libdb4.7-dev but the current dnshistory package is built against libdb4.6. Should you add another debian/NEWS entry about this? I'm not sure what to do in this situation, could you investigate? I am not

Re: RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

2009-04-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Matthias Julius m...@julius-net.net wrote: I am not quite sure how to deal with that one.  Since Luk Claes NMUed the package to change the Build-Depends from libdb4.4-dev to libdb-dev I don't really have control over which libdb version dnshistory is built

Re: RFS: gnome-inm-forecast (updated package)

2009-04-28 Thread Gustavo Iñiguez Goya
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 07:23:16PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Gustavo Iñiguez Goya g...@kutxa.homeunix.org wrote: gnome-inm-forecast displays on the gnome-panel, the weather forecast for the following 7 days. Unlike others applets like gweather, this applet

Re: RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

2009-04-28 Thread Matthias Julius
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: I don't see anything in the maintainer scripts that would migrate the db files. Does dnshistory or libdb handle upgrading the on-disk db format? Or can libdb handle older versions of the on-disk db format? I was assuming the latter. But, reading

Re: RFS: gnome-inm-forecast (updated package)

2009-04-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Gustavo Iñiguez Goya g...@kutxa.homeunix.org wrote: The gweather team seems to have in mind a big change for the applet. Probably a whole rewrite: http://live.gnome.org/WeatherApplet I'm not sure if they would accept in the meantime such changes. Or do you

Re: RFS: boats

2009-04-28 Thread Thibaut GRIDEL
Hello, * LI Daobing [2009-04-28 14:05]: Hello, Dear mentors, It builds these binary packages: boats      - a race scenario drawing tool The package appears to be lintian clean. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL:

Re: RFS: gnome-inm-forecast (updated package)

2009-04-28 Thread Gustavo Iñiguez Goya
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 02:25:01AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Gustavo Iñiguez Goya g...@kutxa.homeunix.org wrote: The gweather team seems to have in mind a big change for the applet. Probably a whole rewrite: http://live.gnome.org/WeatherApplet I'm not