Re: dput failure to mentors.debian.net

2011-10-13 Thread Liang Guo
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Arno Töll deb...@toell.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Paul, On 10.10.2011 09:26, Paul Elliott wrote: Because of previous difficulty dput'ing swe-standard-data with http I decided to upload it with ftp. Here is the console

Re: dput failure to mentors.debian.net

2011-10-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Liang Guo bluestonech...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Arno Töll deb...@toell.net wrote: 01:10:08,161 ERROR [debexpo.importer.3192] Rejected: You are not uploading to one of those Debian distributions: oldstable stable unstable experimental

request for a rebuild

2011-10-13 Thread Francesco Namuri
Hi to all the list, I'm back after a long idle period :) I'm trying to fix bug 627267 [¹], but I can't reproduce it, all the tries on a amd64 system are going successfully, So I'm thinking to request a rebuild to release team. My doubt: is it a good approach? Thank you. Francesco Namuri

Re: syntax-error-in-dep5-copyright syntax error in section 4 after the tag license

2011-10-13 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Wednesday 12 October 2011 08:17:39 Jan-Pascal van Best wrote: This hit me also and it took some time to figure out. - indent multi-line fields with a space - use 'space dot' - ' .' for empty lines in a multi-line field. This formatting is also taken care of by DEP-5 parser/editor mentioned

Re: request for a rebuild

2011-10-13 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Francesco Namuri france...@namuri.it, 2011-10-13, 11:44: I'm trying to fix bug 627267 [¹], but I can't reproduce it, all the tries on a amd64 system are going successfully, Indeed, this FTBFS cannot be currently reproduced in unstable, thanks to a bug/misfeature in the linker:

RFS: flex-sdk-4.5

2011-10-13 Thread Joey Parrish
Dear mentors (and those BCC'd whom I've been speaking to about flex-sdk), I am looking for a sponsor for my package flex-sdk-4.5. Bugs #591969 (package typo3-src) and #632478 (package nicofox) are both waiting on this package so that these packages can build their swf files from source. I've

Re: RFS: qdbm (updated package)

2011-10-13 Thread KURASHIKI Satoru
hi, At Thu, 6 Oct 2011 09:58:54 +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote: in debian/control... Homepage: http://fallabs.com/qdbm/ Standards-Version: 3.9.1 Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/collab-maint/qdbm.git Standards-Version was set to 3.9.1. But debian/changelog has New Standards-Version:

Anybody to package new Bitten version?

2011-10-13 Thread anatoly techtonik
It's 9 months since the patch to upgrade trac-bitten was committed to Debian repository and it's not packaged yet. Can anybody release it? http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/python-apps/packages/trac-bitten/trunk/debian/changelog?r1=6417r2=6416pathrev=6417 -- anatoly t. On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at

Re: RFS: flex-sdk-4.5

2011-10-13 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Thu, 13 Oct 2011, Joey Parrish wrote: Dear mentors (and those BCC'd whom I've been speaking to about flex-sdk), I am looking for a sponsor for my package flex-sdk-4.5. I'm on it. Expect an upload later today. This is the latest released version of Flex from Adobe, but if either of

Re: syntax-error-in-dep5-copyright syntax error in section 4 after the tag license

2011-10-13 Thread Guido van Steen
You never need to duplicate license text in a DEP 5 document URL:http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/#stand-alone-license-paragraph. Thank you, Ben! I have updated my copyright file one more time, although Lintian did not complain about the remaining mistakes in the previous version. -- To

Re: syntax-error-in-dep5-copyright syntax error in section 4 after the tag license

2011-10-13 Thread Guido van Steen
http://ddumont.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/debian-copyright-dep5-parsereditorvalidatormigrator-is-released/ It seems a good idea to me to integrate a recent version of this libconfig-model-perl with lintian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Seeking for advice: Circular Build Dependencies.

2011-10-13 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Hi, I'm seeking for advice for how to handle this rather complicated solution. I'm packaging a large software base that builds a number of libraries and applications. In order to simplify things: - foo (source package) builds: - libfoo-dev, libfoo0, libfoo0-bin, ... - and build depends on

Re: Seeking for advice: Circular Build Dependencies.

2011-10-13 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 15:26, Reinhard Tartler siret...@debian.org wrote: In my tests, it *seems* that apt indeed prefers a real package over a virtual package. I'm aware of the following drawbacks: It does, but you are better of handling this as an internal detail - because it is

Re: RFS: flex-sdk-4.5

2011-10-13 Thread Joey Parrish
On 2011-10-13, Jaldhar H. Vyas jald...@debian.org wrote: However this seems like something that's eminently fixable. Your first order of business should be to set up a public git repository on alioth so that you can get the wider Debian community to help. Does the Debian community standardize

Re: Seeking for advice: Circular Build Dependencies.

2011-10-13 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Hi, Le 13/10/11 15:26, Reinhard Tartler a écrit : One solution would be to throw all sources into a big source package and build everything from that. Looks like the sane solution to me. Another would be to, on the contrary, split the source packages, if possible, to completely break the

Re: RFS: ESO Common Pipeline Library

2011-10-13 Thread Ole Streicher
Am 12.10.2011 20:20, schrieb Julian Taylor: Else the package looks nice, good work. I implemented all changes from you and Sylvestre and re-uploaded the package: * Package name: cpl Version : 5.3.1-1 Upstream Author : ESO Project Team cpl-h...@eso.org * URL :

Re: RFS: EsoRex - - Execution Tool for European Southern Observatory pipelines

2011-10-13 Thread Ole Streicher
Am 12.10.2011 21:10, schrieb Julian Taylor: Its missing a bunch of links: [...] as with cpl there are a couple of file from the FSF in the source not mentioned in debian/copyright [...] you use dh-autoreconf so you don't need to depend on autotools-dev. I added the needed library, changed the

RFS: gogglesmm

2011-10-13 Thread Hendrik Rittich
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package gogglesmm. * Package name: gogglesmm Version : 0.12.4-3 Upstream Author : Sander Jansen s.jan...@gmail.com * URL : http://code.google.com/p/gogglesmm/ * License : GPLv3 Section : sound It

Re: RFS: flex-sdk-4.5

2011-10-13 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Thu, 13 Oct 2011, Joey Parrish wrote: Does the Debian community standardize on git, or is an svn repo also acceptable? I don't have any experience with git yet, but I'm a frequent user of svn. Git is definitely more popular (and my preference) but there's nothing wrong with svn. --

Re: Anybody to package new Bitten version?

2011-10-13 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Quoting anatoly techtonik techto...@gmail.com: It's 9 months since the patch to upgrade trac-bitten was committed to Debian repository and it's not packaged yet. Can anybody release it? Problem is: I can't (currently) test new versions properly - no time. Second issue: I really want to have

Re: RFS: ESO Common Pipeline Library

2011-10-13 Thread Julian Taylor
On 10/13/2011 06:04 PM, Ole Streicher wrote: Am 12.10.2011 20:20, schrieb Julian Taylor: Else the package looks nice, good work. I implemented all changes from you and Sylvestre and re-uploaded the package: it still does not build. Its missing a dependency on libltdl-dev for ltdl.m4 as

advice on package replacement - qemulator -- virtualbricks

2011-10-13 Thread Francesco Namuri
Hi, I'm the maintainer of the qemulator package, months ago I was contacted by Daniele Lacamera, Daniele is the upstream author of virtualbricks a fork/replacement of qemulator, he asked me about the possibility of the substitution of qemulator with Virtualbricks. Qemulator is not longer

Re: RFS: flex-sdk-4.5

2011-10-13 Thread David Given
On 13/10/11 16:13, Joey Parrish wrote: [...] Does the Debian community standardize on git, or is an svn repo also acceptable? I don't have any experience with git yet, but I'm a frequent user of svn. If you like SVN you may be interested in checking out Mercurial; it speaks git, so you can hg

Re: syntax-error-in-dep5-copyright syntax error in section 4 after the tag license

2011-10-13 Thread Ben Finney
Guido van Steen vanst...@users.sourceforge.net writes: You never need to duplicate license text in a DEP 5 document URL:http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/#stand-alone-license-paragraph. Thank you, Ben! I have updated my copyright file one more time, although Lintian did not complain about

Re: syntax-error-in-dep5-copyright syntax error in section 4 after the tag license

2011-10-13 Thread Guido van Steen
Stupid fools who depend on Lintian :-) Isn't there enough for them to learn!? On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:21 PM, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Guido van Steen vanst...@users.sourceforge.net writes: You never need to duplicate license text in a DEP 5 document

Remove self from Alioth

2011-10-13 Thread Jason Heeris
I have an account on Alioth, but I'm no longer using or contributing to Debian. Can I remove or deactivate my account, or should I just abandon it? — Jason Heeris