Re: Downloading of test data

2011-08-14 Thread Antonio Valentino
Il 14/08/2011 01:13, Ben Finney ha scritto: Antonio Valentino antonio.valent...@tiscali.it writes: The dataset needed for automatic testing in a satellite image. It is part of a sample/demo dataset provided by the European Space Agency. Please show us the URL to inform the discussion

Re: Downloading of test data

2011-08-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 10:26:04AM +0200, Antonio Valentino a écrit : Uhm, how much is it important to test the package at build time? Dear Antonio, I have experience distributing a completely broken package for weeks or monthes without anybody noticing, so I would recommend to run the

Re: Downloading of test data

2011-08-14 Thread Ben Finney
Antonio Valentino antonio.valent...@tiscali.it writes: the url of the product to be downloaded for test is http://earth.esa.int/services/sample_products/meris/LRC/L2/MER_LRC_2PTGMV2620_104318_0104X000_0_0_0001.N1.gz Thanks. Uhm, how much is it important to test the package

Should dh_python2 be used for single-file python applications?

2011-08-14 Thread Dmitry Shachnev
Hello! I have a question about my package retext. Upstream tarball provides executable retext.py and wpgen.py files which are currently dh_install'ed to /usr/bin/retext and /usr/bin/wpgen. - Should dh_python2 be used in this case (and how to use it)? Dependencies auto-detect is not needed since

Re: Downloading of test data

2011-08-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Don't be. That's not a reason to avoid distributing it in Debian, if it's useful overall to Debian recipients to do so. The question remains about getting a free-software license to do so, but you're aware of

Re: Should dh_python2 be used for single-file python applications?

2011-08-14 Thread Ben Finney
Dmitry Shachnev mity...@gmail.com writes: And one off-topic question: when Debian will provide Python 3 packages for modules supporting it? The question seems to have a false assumption: There's nothing preventing such packages. There are many Python 3 packages for libraries that support

Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-14 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On 13.08.2011 18:16, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: ... still points to old package! Seems like the transition to the new system was done in a hurry... One could argue, this is by design. It is not supported to re-upload a new package with the

Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-14 Thread Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
On 13.08.2011 18:16, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: ... still points to old package! One could argue, this is by design. It is not supported to re-upload a new package with the same Debian version to official archives either. That seems like a very bad design decision for a site dedicate to the

Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-14 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
On 2011-08-14 07:37, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote: That seems like a very bad design decision for a site dedicate to the iterative process of review then. I've always been told (and it has been repeatedly mentioned on this very list) that packages should only bump their version numbers for

Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-14 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14.08.2011 13:37, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote: That seems like a very bad design decision for a site dedicate to the iterative process of review then. I sort of agree, although I wasn't involved at all in this part of Expo. We certainly

Re: RFS: bmake -- NetBSD make

2011-08-14 Thread Christoph Egger
Hi! Please Cc me on answers as I only read -mentors aoccasionally, thanks! Andrew O. Shadoura bugzi...@tut.by writes: Hello, I am looking for a sponsor for my package 'bmake'. * Package name: bmake Version : 20110622-1 Upstream Author : Simon J. Gerraty

Re: Should dh_python2 be used for single-file python applications?

2011-08-14 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Dmitry Shachnev mity...@gmail.com, 2011-08-14, 13:24: I have a question about my package retext. Upstream tarball provides executable retext.py and wpgen.py files which are currently dh_install'ed to /usr/bin/retext and /usr/bin/wpgen. - Should dh_python2 be used in this case If you case

Download from mentors.debian.net?

2011-08-14 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hi! Could someone please point me to documentation that explains how to download source packages from mentors.debian.net? I've tried adding: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian/ unstable main to sources.list, but 'apt-get update' returns: W: Failed to fetch

Re: Download from mentors.debian.net?

2011-08-14 Thread Tobias Hansen
Hi, you can use dget sourcepackage.dsc Regards, Tobias Am 14.08.2011 14:30, schrieb Torquil Macdonald Sørensen: Hi! Could someone please point me to documentation that explains how to download source packages from mentors.debian.net? I've tried adding: deb-src

Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-14 Thread Ben Finney
Andrew Starr-Bochicchio a.star...@gmail.com writes: I've always been told (and it has been repeatedly mentioned on this very list) that packages should only bump their version numbers for versions that actually entered the official archives. There are some sponsors who prefer what you say

Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-14 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 01:00:50PM +0200, Arno Töll wrote: ... still points to old package! Seems like the transition to the new system was done in a hurry... One could argue, this is by design. It is not supported to re-upload a new package with the same Debian version to official

Re: Download from mentors.debian.net?

2011-08-14 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
On 14/08/11 14:30, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: Hi! Could someone please point me to documentation that explains how to download source packages from mentors.debian.net? Strangly, I seem to not be able to find any such documentation. Am I overlooking something obvious? :-) I

Re: Download from mentors.debian.net?

2011-08-14 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 14/08/11 14:40, Tobias Hansen wrote: Hi, you can use dget sourcepackage.dsc Regards, Tobias Thanks! This works when the *dsc is an internet address. Torquil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-14 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 01:51:45PM +0200, Arno Töll wrote: In fact, until very recently we had no support to upload the same source package several times at all, so the status quo is already an improvement. As far as I can tell, there are the following problems with (multiple) uploads of the

Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-14 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 10:57:30PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Andrew Starr-Bochicchio a.star...@gmail.com writes: I've always been told (and it has been repeatedly mentioned on this very list) that packages should only bump their version numbers for versions that actually entered the

Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-14 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Stanislav, On 14.08.2011 15:18, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: But *you* provided the function in the web interface to delete the uploaded package. FTR: I didn't. You shold have asked for external testing and help *BEFORE* switching

Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-14 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
Hi, On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 04:34:17PM +0200, Arno Töll wrote: On 14.08.2011 15:18, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: But *you* provided the function in the web interface to delete the uploaded package. FTR: I didn't. That you above supposed to mean people who care about debexpo and take

Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-14 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 14/08/11 at 17:07 +0400, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: Well, then it is a shame that the system has not been given even a slight test since all these years... On 14/08/11 at 17:18 +0400, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: You shold have asked for external testing and help *BEFORE* switching

Re: Download from mentors.debian.net?

2011-08-14 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Excerpts from Torquil Macdonald Sørensen's message of Sun Aug 14 08:30:18 -0400 2011: Hi! Could someone please point me to documentation that explains how to download source packages from mentors.debian.net? I've tried adding: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian/ unstable main

Re: Download from mentors.debian.net?

2011-08-14 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 14/08/11 22:58, Asheesh Laroia wrote: Excerpts from Torquil Macdonald Sørensen's message of Sun Aug 14 08:30:18 -0400 2011: Hi! Could someone please point me to documentation that explains how to download source packages from mentors.debian.net? I've tried adding: deb-src

RFS: cppcheck, new upstream version 1.50

2011-08-14 Thread Reijo Tomperi
Hi, New upstream version was released, so I made a new Debian package of it. I'm again looking for a sponsor for it. It is lintian clean and builds with cowbuilder. To access further information about this package, please visit the following URL:

mathgl build problem

2011-08-14 Thread Dimitrios Eftaxiopoulos
Hello, when I try to build mathgl in my build environment (not within a clean chroot), it fails with message checking hdf5.h usability... no checking hdf5.h presence... no checking for hdf5.h... no Please install hdf5 headers although /usr/include/hdf5.h header is present because