Re: RFS: googlecl (now uploaded to mentors repo)

2010-06-15 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hello Jason, On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 02:56, Jason Holt credential...@gmail.com wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package googlecl. i'm going to give it a look. In the meantime, could you please evaluate to maintain this package under the Debian Python Apps umbrella [1] ?

Re: RFS: googlecl (now uploaded to mentors repo)

2010-06-15 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 08:21, Jason Holt credential...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you!  Obey Arthur Liu graciously offered to sponsor the package.  But I'm always happy to have more feedback :) Obey, next time please alert the mailing list you're already working on it. it will help not wasting

Re: RFS: googlecl (now uploaded to mentors repo)

2010-06-15 Thread Jason Holt
Thank you! Obey Arthur Liu graciously offered to sponsor the package. But I'm always happy to have more feedback :) On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Sandro Tosi mo...@debian.org wrote: Hello Jason, On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 02:56, Jason Holt credential...@gmail.com wrote: Dear mentors,

Re: RFS: googlecl (now uploaded to mentors repo)

2010-06-15 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hello Jason, here's my comments On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 08:15, Sandro Tosi mo...@debian.org wrote: Hello Jason, On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 02:56, Jason Holt credential...@gmail.com wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package googlecl. debian/changelog - given it's a NEW

Re: RFS: rush

2010-06-15 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
söndag den 13 juni 2010 klockan 01:46 skrev Tim Retout detta: On 4 June 2010 10:45, Mats Erik Andersson mats.anders...@gisladisker.se wrote: I am seeking an __active__ sponsor for this package. I'm afraid it seems you're stuck with me. ;) At DebConf we (the This pleases me! project)

Re: RFS: tina (adopted, updated a lot, turned non-native)

2010-06-15 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 03:21:20AM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.1.11-1 of the package tina. And here goes my second attempt to adopt tina - nothing changed since the first one, just resending the RFS :) This is an adoption

Re: Asking for DMUA: Yes while seeking first sponsor

2010-06-15 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Paul Wise p...@debian.org, 2010-06-15, 10:14: I'd personally like to see DMUA move from source packages to a mail bot or LDAP or something else. Same here. While I endorse the concept of Debian Maintainers, I am very unhappy with the way it is currently implemented. -- Jakub Wilk

Re: RFS: googlecl (now uploaded to mentors repo)

2010-06-15 Thread Umang Varma
On 06/15/2010 12:46 PM, Sandro Tosi wrote: debian/googlecl.manpages - why manpage is called so generically 'google.1' and not googlecl.1' given it's for the executable 'googlecl' In fact the package installs /usr/bin/google not /usr/bin/googlecl. As a not-so-experienced person, I shouldn't

Re: RFS: googlecl (now uploaded to mentors repo)

2010-06-15 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:00, Umang Varma umang...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/15/2010 12:46 PM, Sandro Tosi wrote: debian/googlecl.manpages - why manpage is called so generically 'google.1' and not googlecl.1' given it's for the executable 'googlecl' In fact the package installs /usr/bin/google

Re: Asking for DMUA: Yes while seeking first sponsor

2010-06-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:57:57AM +0200, Jakub Wilk a écrit : * Paul Wise p...@debian.org, 2010-06-15, 10:14: I'd personally like to see DMUA move from source packages to a mail bot or LDAP or something else. Same here. While I endorse the concept of Debian Maintainers, I am very unhappy

Re: Asking for DMUA: Yes while seeking first sponsor

2010-06-15 Thread Ben Finney
Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org writes: * Paul Wise p...@debian.org, 2010-06-15, 10:14: I'd personally like to see DMUA move from source packages to a mail bot or LDAP or something else. Same here. While I endorse the concept of Debian Maintainers, I am very unhappy with the way it is

Re: RFS: tina (adopted, updated a lot, turned non-native)

2010-06-15 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2010/6/15 Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.1.11-1 of the package tina. And here goes my second attempt to adopt tina - nothing changed since the first one, just resending the RFS :) Thanks for the reminder! :-) Of course, I realize

RFS: n2n Peer-to-Peer VPN network daemon (Updated package)

2010-06-15 Thread cristian paul peñaranda rojas
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.0.0~svn4035-1 of my package n2n. It build these binary package: n2n- Peer-to-Peer VPN network daemon The package appears to be lintian clean. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL:

Re: Asking for DMUA: Yes while seeking first sponsor

2010-06-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: The field should go away and be replaced with an out-of-band setting that only a sponsor can change. Looks like there is the possibility of changing this: Ganneff feel free to give us dak patches making DM saner.

Re: Asking for DMUA: Yes while seeking first sponsor

2010-06-15 Thread David Paleino
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:14:54 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl toli...@debian.org wrote: I noticed that recently some people seem to seek first time sponsors while asking for setting the DM-Upload-Allowed: yes flag at the very same time.

Re: Asking for DMUA: Yes while seeking first sponsor

2010-06-15 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
[I am a DM] Hi there, Even this is against the spirit of Debian Maintainer Concept, I believe this is because people are pragmatic. Speaking of experience I had to re-upload 5 times the exact same packages (GDCM) because in between each upload: - HPPA uploaded a Java package with dangling

Re: Asking for DMUA: Yes while seeking first sponsor

2010-06-15 Thread Hector Oron
Hello Alexander, 2010/6/14 Alexander Reichle-Schmehl toli...@debian.org: So I think asking for DMUA:Yes while seeking an initial sponsor is just plain wrong, as convincing a DD shouldn't be a one timer.  I therefore ask DMs not to ask to set this flag on the first upload, and DDs not to do

Re: Asking for DMUA: Yes while seeking first sponsor

2010-06-15 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:14:54AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: This isn't the only misuse of DMUA that exists, some people set it in their package instead of asking the sponsor to set it. Others go further and do not mention that in debian/changelog nor in their RFS mail. That is generally

Re: Asking for DMUA: Yes while seeking first sponsor

2010-06-15 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Am 15.06.2010 12:16, schrieb Mathieu Malaterre: [..] [ uploading a package multiple times without DMUA:Yes] Thankfully I was under the debian-med umbrella, otherwise I would have gone mad, if every time I would have had to search for a DD. [..] Uhm... Why? I guess it's more the rule

Re: Asking for DMUA: Yes while seeking first sponsor

2010-06-15 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Am 15.06.2010 12:16, schrieb Mathieu Malaterre: Speaking of experience I had to re-upload 5 times the exact same packages (GDCM) because in between each upload: Why 5 times? - HPPA uploaded a Java package with dangling symnlink, - arm/armel updated the java package and libraries

RFS: projectcenter.app (RC bugfix)

2010-06-15 Thread Yavor Doganov
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.5.3~20100601-2 of my package projectcenter.app. It builds these binary packages: projectcenter.app - IDE for GNUstep Development The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 585978 The package can be

Re: Asking for DMUA: Yes while seeking first sponsor

2010-06-15 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2010-06-15, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: This isn't the only misuse of DMUA that exists, some people set it in their package instead of asking the sponsor to set it. Others go I guess it is unimportant who exactly writes the lines to debian/control. But the sponsor should definately

Re: Asking for DMUA: Yes while seeking first sponsor

2010-06-15 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Mathieu Malaterre, 2010-06-15] Thankfully I was under the debian-med umbrella, otherwise I would have gone mad, if every time I would have had to search for a DD. well, it is hard indeed (if you want a new DD for every upload). Hint: try to ask previous sponsor first! I completely

Re: Asking for DMUA: Yes while seeking first sponsor

2010-06-15 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Simon Richter, 2010-06-15] I don't think it needs to be reflected in the changelog either, as it doesn't really concern the packaging as such, but only upload permissions (also, if I should set it, then I'd have to write the changelog entry, no?). what about other DDs? I want to have a

RFS: snap2 rsync-based backup program with GUI (with Debian source)

2010-06-15 Thread Lloyd Standish
Hello All, My previous RFS for this package was premature because I had not prepared the Debian source files. Even though the package contains no compiled code, this was a gross omission, for which I apologize. I have carefully built the Debian source files according to the documentation.

Re: RFS: snap2 rsync-based backup program with GUI (with Debian source)

2010-06-15 Thread Norbert Preining
On Di, 15 Jun 2010, Lloyd Standish wrote: Debian source: http://files.lstandish.com/snap2-source The package appears to be lintian-clean. How do you come to that idea? I unpacked your package, built it with dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot, and run lintian on the resulting package: $ ls

Re: RFS: snap2 rsync-based backup program with GUI (with Debian source)

2010-06-15 Thread Lloyd Standish
Dear Norbert, Thank you for your help with my snap2 project. The package appears to be lintian-clean. How do you come to that idea? Of course I came to that idea by running lintian (Lintian v1.24.2.1+lenny1) against the binary deb. It reported nothing (clean). I think the problem is

Re: Asking for DMUA: Yes while seeking first sponsor

2010-06-15 Thread Christoph Egger
David Paleino da...@debian.org writes: On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:14:54 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl toli...@debian.org wrote: I noticed that recently some people seem to seek first time sponsors while asking for setting the

Re: Asking for DMUA: Yes while seeking first sponsor

2010-06-15 Thread Christoph Egger
Alexander Reichle-Schmehl toli...@debian.org writes: [..] [ uploading a package multiple times without DMUA:Yes] Thankfully I was under the debian-med umbrella, otherwise I would have gone mad, if every time I would have had to search for a DD. [..] Uhm... Why? I guess it's more the

Re: RFS: snap2 rsync-based backup program with GUI (with Debian source)

2010-06-15 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2010-06-15, Lloyd Standish ll...@crnatural.net wrote: It did not occur to me to check for gtkdialog in Sid (it is available in Lenny http://packages.debian.org/lenny/gtkdialog). So, until there is a gtkdialog package in Sid, snap2 cannot run. This is a great disappointment - I put a lot

Re: Asking for DMUA: Yes while seeking first sponsor

2010-06-15 Thread Andres Mejia
On Tuesday 15 June 2010 05:42:43 Paul Wise wrote: On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: The field should go away and be replaced with an out-of-band setting that only a sponsor can change. Looks like there is the possibility of changing this:

Re: Asking for DMUA: Yes while seeking first sponsor

2010-06-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: The field should go away and be replaced with an out-of-band setting that only a sponsor can change. Looks like there is the possibility of changing this: Ganneff feel free to give us dak patches making DM

RFS: qhimdtransfer - transfer software for MiniDisc

2010-06-15 Thread Adrian Glaubitz
Dear mentors, I have already posted this earlier but since I haven't yet found a sponsor for my package, I'll give it another try since I think that this software will proof very useful for a lot of users. qhimdtransfer is part of the software developed by a couple of people around me within the

Re: RFS: marave - 2nd Attempt (Question: Royalty Free License)

2010-06-15 Thread Chris
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:55:00 -0500 Chris rac...@makeworld.com wrote: Hi folks - Per the inspection from Paul, I mailed the folks at Partners In Rhyme about the use of the audio files from the email titled: Re: RFS: marave - 2nd Attempt There was some questioning about the copyrights

Re: RFS: snap2 rsync-based backup program with GUI (with Debian source)

2010-06-15 Thread Norbert Preining
On Di, 15 Jun 2010, Lloyd Standish wrote: Of course I came to that idea by running lintian (Lintian v1.24.2.1+lenny1) against the binary deb. It reported nothing (clean). I think the problem is that I am running the Debian stable (Lenny) version of dpkg-dev, and you are probably running

Re: RFS: snap2 rsync-based backup program with GUI (with Debian source)

2010-06-15 Thread Lloyd Standish
Norbert, Thanks very much for pointing out how lintian is used to check a source package. I would have seen this if I had read the lintian man page carefully. I looked at zenity. From the man page which describes the command line options, I don't think it is capable of a complex dialog with

Re: RFS: qhimdtransfer - transfer software for MiniDisc

2010-06-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 5:09 AM, Adrian Glaubitz glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de wrote: qhimdtransfer is part of the software developed by a couple of people around me within the linux-minidisc project [1]. You might want to join the multimedia team: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia --