Re: RFS: xxxterm

2011-09-05 Thread Michael Tautschnig
Hi, [...] I've just uploaded a new package containing a rule that converts the icon into an xpm file. It removes the lintian error, making the package lintian clean. Here's the link to the package: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/x/xxxterm/xxxterm_1.518-1.dsc [...] Built,

Re: RFS: xxxterm

2011-09-05 Thread Luis Henriques
Hi Michael, On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 11:28:48AM +0100, Michael Tautschnig wrote: [...] Built, signed, and uploaded. Great! Thank you Cheers, -- Luis Henriques -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: RFS: getstream

2011-09-05 Thread Christoph Egger
Hi! Hervé Rousseau he...@moulticast.net writes: On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 14:17, Christoph Egger christ...@debian.org wrote: The orig.tar.gz downloaded from the website differs from the orig.tar.gz in your package: 1144dc0180cedb494f6c7826e994fc3bcf7eebe4

Tracking RFSs as bugs

2011-09-05 Thread Michael Gilbert
Hi, I've been thinking about how mentors works lately (after watching Asheesh's debconf11 talk). It seems like the 4 day response effort worked somewhat well for a while, but kind of tailed off, and I've been pondering what could be done instead that would have some staying power. I've noticed

RFS: roxterm (updated package)

2011-09-05 Thread Tony Houghton
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package roxterm. * Package name: roxterm Version : 2.1.1-1 Upstream Author : Tony Houghton * URL : http://roxterm.sourceforge.net * License : GPL-3+ Section : x11 It builds these binary packages:

Re: Tracking RFSs as bugs

2011-09-05 Thread Michael Tautschnig
Hi Michael, hi all, (keeping Don CC'ed) [...] I've noticed that the release team has a lot of success addressing their issues in a rather timely manner. I think that this success comes from the fact that they treat all of the items they need to accomplish as bugs [0]. So, as requests get

Re: RFS: cppcheck, new upstream version 1.50

2011-09-05 Thread Joachim Reichel
Hi, On 08/31/2011 10:22 PM, Reijo Tomperi wrote: George Danchev wrote: On Monday, August 15, 2011 12:41:29 AM Reijo Tomperi wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/package/cppcheck Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command: dget -x

RFS: libpam-tacplus

2011-09-05 Thread Jeroen Nijhof
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package libpam-tacplus. * Package name: libpam-tacplus Version : 1.3.5-1 Upstream Author : Jeroen Nijhof jer...@nijhofnet.nl * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/tacplus * License : GPLv2 Section

Packaging php app/scripts

2011-09-05 Thread kuLa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I have simple app in php and would like to package it. Source is in git (2 branches; upstream and debian, gbp.conf is pointing into these branches). I used dh_make to debianised package, relevant packages has been edited. When running git

Re: Tracking RFSs as bugs

2011-09-05 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Michael Tautschnig m...@debian.org, 2011-09-05, 20:51: I've noticed that the release team has a lot of success addressing their issues in a rather timely manner. I think that this success comes from the fact that they treat all of the items they need to accomplish as bugs [0]. So, as

Re: Tracking RFSs as bugs

2011-09-05 Thread Chris Carr
On 05/09/2011 20:51, Michael Tautschnig wrote: Oh, and with all this moaning about RFS not being dealt with in a timely manner: true, we don't manage to get packages reviewed and sponsored within 4 days, but is the situation really that bad at the moment? Are there any packages older than one

Re: Tracking RFSs as bugs

2011-09-05 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Mon, 5 Sep 2011 20:51:47 +0100 Michael Tautschnig wrote: I'm all for tracking RFS in some more formal way, it would quite a bit reduce the load on my inbox (which I'm currently using for tracking). There is one fundamental difference, however, to, e.g, the release team: there is no

Re: Tracking RFSs as bugs

2011-09-05 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 05 Sep 2011, Michael Gilbert wrote: I was wondering if there were any thoughts on setting up a mentors.debian.net pseudo-package [1]? The real question is whether a number of people who are responding to RFS are willing to participate in a pseudopackage like that. I personally don't

Becoming DM [was: Re: Tracking RFSs as bugs]

2011-09-05 Thread Michael Tautschnig
Hi, [...] No moaning from me btw - I am sure there are many more RFSs than there are sponsors. I just wish it wasn't so hard to reach DM. [...] Could you please be more precise about that last bit? What exactly is hard about becoming DM? I really wish more people applied for DM. Sponsoring

Re: Tracking RFSs as bugs

2011-09-05 Thread Michael Tautschnig
Hi, [...] This is not a new idea: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2002/08/msg00262.html Thanks a lot for the pointer, indeed this is an interesting read (well, the technical part of that). [...] I can't talk to debexpo using my MUA. This is a big no-go for me. Fully agreed.

Re: Packaging php app/scripts

2011-09-05 Thread Igor Pashev
06.09.2011 00:44, kuLa пишет: Hi all, I have simple app in php and would like to package it. Source is in git (2 branches; upstream and debian, gbp.conf is pointing into these branches). I used dh_make to debianised package, relevant packages has been edited. When running git buildpackage

Re: Tracking RFSs as bugs

2011-09-05 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello everyone, as I see this discussion going on, I think I should inform you about some things going on on mentors.d.n right now: * Asheesh and we are steadily improving features on Debexpo (the software behind mentors.d.n). Its not finished yet,

Re: Tracking RFSs as bugs

2011-09-05 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 10:46:11PM +0200, Jakub Wilk a écrit : * Michael Tautschnig m...@debian.org, 2011-09-05, 20:51: I've noticed that the release team has a lot of success addressing their issues in a rather timely manner. I think that this success comes from the fact that they treat all

RFS: django-autoslug

2011-09-05 Thread Jocelyn Delalande
Dear mentors ( padawans) , First of all, as it's my initial post here ; so I just wanted to say Hi to you all, I hope we'll happy-hack together :-). I'll mainly work with Python packaging, as it's a language I know well, love fairly. I use some nice pieces of python software missing just the

Re: Tracking RFSs as bugs

2011-09-05 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Mon, 5 Sep 2011 22:46:11 +0200 Jakub Wilk wrote: This is not a new idea: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2002/08/msg00262.html After reading through that old discussion, I conclude that the highly confrontational approach chosen by Raphael at that time lead to people basically tuning