Re: RFS: trophy (Adopted and updated package)

2011-07-06 Thread Kilian Krause
Hi Andreas, On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 20:06 +0200, Andreas Moog wrote: On 07/05/2011 08:18 AM, Kilian Krause wrote: On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 17:12 +0200, Andreas Moog wrote: New version uploaded to mentors and pushed to git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-games/trophy.git (Note that I put the

Git and tarballs

2011-07-06 Thread Wolodja Wentland
Hi all, I've recently started to work on some packages and am not sure if I follow best practices when packaging software from git repositories with git-buildpackage. My main point of confusion is that I don't really see the need for tarballs and what I am doing right now feels a bit clumsy and

Re: Git and tarballs

2011-07-06 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le mercredi 6 juillet 2011 14:38:36, Wolodja Wentland a écrit : Hi all, Hi Wolodja, First, thanks for posting your git workflow. It is for me very interesting to see different ways of dealing with upstream also using git. [SNIP] I know that I could just download the tarball from github and

Re: Git and tarballs

2011-07-06 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 03:12:41PM +0200, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: Does pristine-tar work if the upstream branch contains files which have been removed during repack? Unfortunately the directory and the tarball must have identical contents. -- WBR, wRAR signature.asc Description: Digital

: RFS: autoconf-archive (updated package)

2011-07-06 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1:2011.04.12-1 of the package autoconf-archive. It builds these binary packages: autoconf-archive - Autoconf Macro Archive The upload would fix these bugs: 214089, 568413, 572669, 584180, 593838, 622369 The package can be found on

Re: Git and tarballs

2011-07-06 Thread Scott Howard
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Wolodja Wentland babi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I've recently started to work on some packages and am not sure if I follow best practices when packaging software from git repositories with git-buildpackage. My main point of confusion is that I don't really

Re: RFS: arp-scan (updated package, new maintainer)

2011-07-06 Thread Kilian Krause
Hi William, On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 18:23 -0600, René Mayorga wrote: On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 08:45:41AM +0200, Kilian Krause wrote: Tim, are you agreed that William takes over or do you want to remain as uploader/co-maintainer? Please let him a co-maint for a while, since he is active

Commit hooks for Git and no tarballs ?

2011-07-06 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, this thread reminds me of a problem I had in a similar case. When I track the upstream branch, merge it in the Debian branch, our commit hook sends one notification per upstream commit on our packagers mailing list. To reduce traffic, and to avoid confusion between changes made by the

Re: Git and tarballs

2011-07-06 Thread Wolodja Wentland
Bonjour Thomas, On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 15:12 +0200, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: Le mercredi 6 juillet 2011 14:38:36, Wolodja Wentland a écrit : First, thanks for posting your git workflow. It is for me very interesting to see different ways of dealing with upstream also using git. No

Re: RFS: hwinfo (updated package)

2011-07-06 Thread Kilian Krause
Hi William, On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 10:50:02PM -0500, William Vera wrote: On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 1:46 AM, Kilian Krause kil...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 01:34 -0500, William Vera wrote: -(snip)- I need make a package for x86emu.h or I can make some patch for this? I

Re: RFS: lebiniou, lebiniou-data

2011-07-06 Thread Olivier Girondel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/29/2011 05:12 PM, David Banks wrote: wrt to debian/copyright file there are a few issues: * You might consider using DEP-5 as a best practice, this is up to you. This has been fixed, but I'm not sure what exactly the content of the

Re: Git and tarballs

2011-07-06 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le mercredi 6 juillet 2011 17:52:31, Wolodja Wentland a écrit : Bonjour Thomas, :) [SNIP] There was a thread recently about using tarballs or tags on debian-devel@l.d.o recently. No consensus was reached as it clearly depends on your needs and probably also your tastes. Yeah,

Re: RFS: lebiniou, lebiniou-data

2011-07-06 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Oliver, On 06.07.2011 18:23, Olivier Girondel wrote: This has been fixed, but I'm not sure what exactly the content of the Format: field should be. please see [1] and that thread in general. Some people have different understandings what to put

Re: RFS: arp-scan (updated package, new maintainer)

2011-07-06 Thread William Vera
Hi 2011/7/6 Kilian Krause kil...@debian.org: Hi William, On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 18:23 -0600, René Mayorga wrote: On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 08:45:41AM +0200, Kilian Krause wrote: Tim, are you agreed that William takes over or do you want to remain as uploader/co-maintainer? Please let

RFS: libpar2 (reupload to Debian)

2011-07-06 Thread Andreas Moog
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package libpar2: * Package name: libpar2 Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Peter Brian Clements Francois Lesueur flesueur AT users.sourceforge.net * URL : http://parchive.sourceforge.net * License

Re: Git and tarballs

2011-07-06 Thread Joey Hess
Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 03:12:41PM +0200, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: Does pristine-tar work if the upstream branch contains files which have been removed during repack? Unfortunately the directory and the tarball must have identical contents. That's not true,

Re: RFS: xnoise

2011-07-06 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
shuerhaaken shuerhaa...@googlemail.com wrote on 2011-07-06 12:54: My motivation for maintaining this package is: I am the developer of this program and I'd like to see it in Debian. In the past I packaged this only for Ubuntu via ppa, but that is not the way it should go. Until now I haven't

Re: How to patch a file with changing path?

2011-07-06 Thread Christian Welzel
Am 27.06.2011 21:07, schrieb Kilian Krause: - Why you can't use the zip I don't see. You can easily repack and note that in README.source. Use the get-orig-source target in debian/rules for that and possibly use a ~debian version number. The ~debian is not neccessary though IMHO in this

Re: Git and tarballs

2011-07-06 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le mercredi 6 juillet 2011 20:31:02, Joey Hess a écrit : Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 03:12:41PM +0200, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: Does pristine-tar work if the upstream branch contains files which have been removed during repack? Unfortunately the directory and

Re: RFS: xnoise

2011-07-06 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
shuerhaaken shuerhaa...@googlemail.com wrote on 2011-07-06 12:54: The package appears to be lintian clean. Unfortunately not! Here is my logging (packaging for testing): N: Setting up lab in /tmp/sVt1potpnA ... N: N: Processing changes file xnoise_0.1.25-1_amd64 (version 0.1.25-1) ... N:

Re: Git and tarballs

2011-07-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Wolodja Wentland babi...@gmail.com writes: I've recently started to work on some packages and am not sure if I follow best practices when packaging software from git repositories with git-buildpackage. [...] I do the following for OpenAFS (see the supporting scripts in the openafs source

Re: Git and tarballs

2011-07-06 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 19:02 +0200, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: Personally I don't have any local branch, just remote branches. And when I need to do a bisect for example I will checkout temporarily one of the upstream dev branches. What I have is: origin = upstream repo alioth = alioth

RFS: pidgin-latex.

2011-07-06 Thread Elías Alejandro
I am looking for a sponsor for my package pidgin-latex. * Package name: pidgin-latex Version : 1.4.4-1 Upstream Author : Benjamin Moll q...@users.sourceforge.net * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/pidgin-latex/ * License : GPL-2 Section : net It

Re: Git and tarballs

2011-07-06 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 12:53 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Wolodja Wentland babi...@gmail.com writes: I've recently started to work on some packages and am not sure if I follow best practices when packaging software from git repositories with git-buildpackage. I do the following for

Re: Git and tarballs

2011-07-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Wolodja Wentland babi...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 12:53 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: [ ... ] but for some other packages I want to use some of the files that are generated as part of the upstream tarball release but aren't checked in. Ok, this is not necessary for me right

Re: Git and tarballs

2011-07-06 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 14:19 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Wolodja Wentland babi...@gmail.com writes: How stable is get-orig-source across releases? For a package where I was using a released tarball for the reasons described above, I would dispense with this target entirely and just use

Re: Git and tarballs

2011-07-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Wolodja Wentland babi...@gmail.com writes: Is get-orig-source called by anything or is it merely a nice target to have so life is easier for other maintainers and oneself when preparing new releases? The latter. One could replace it with a shell script, but it's a semi-standard because it's

RE : : RFS: autoconf-archive (updated package)

2011-07-06 Thread roucaries bastien
Please do not upload directly, i will upload git tree before under collab maint and postthe final ppackage here. It is more a rfc. Bastien Le 6 juil. 2011 15:14, Bastien ROUCARIES roucaries.bast...@gmail.com a écrit : Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1:2011.04.12-1