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2012-07-31 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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2012-07-31 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: severity 683336 wishlist Bug #683336 [sponsorship-requests] RFS: ninja-build/120508+git638b033 [ITP] Severity set to 'wishlist' from 'normal' End of message, stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. -- 683336:

Re: modifications by sponsors

2012-07-31 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Bart Martens ba...@debian.org, 2012-07-11, 11:34: I have the following questions about sponsorship. I would like to welcome answers from sponsors and from people maintaining packages via sponsorship. Is it OK that a sponsor adds modifications to a sponsored package ? Sometimes. Adding

Re: Bug#683336: RFS: ninja-build/120508+git638b033

2012-07-31 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Gary, Thanks for packaging ninja. Here are a few comments: - Please use format 1.0 [1] for copyright. Do not forget to list your own copyright (debian/* files). - You are missing proper version check in d/control. On my stable system I get: g++-4.4.real: no input files [10/24] CXX

Re: Backporting a multi-arched package

2012-07-31 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Joachim Wiedorn ad_deb...@joonet.de, 2012-07-24, 20:43: debian/control: * remove lines with Multi-Arch: You only need to remove only Mutli-Arch field which would become incorrect after demultiarchification. In usually means that you should drop Multi-Arch: same, but you can keep foreign or

Re: Determine DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH without requiring dpkg-dev

2012-07-31 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Michael Wild them...@gmail.com, 2012-07-25, 11:50: How can I reliably (from a user-program) determine the multiarch-triplet/quadlet without depending on dpkg-dev? I found some talk of a lsb_architecture utility, but so far have found no trace of it... # gcc -print-multiarch

Bug#682454: RFS: cows-and-bulls/1.0-1 [ITP] - Words-based cows and bulls guessing game

2012-07-31 Thread Jakub Wilk
(I don't intend to sponsor this package.) * Guruprasad lgp171...@gmail.com, 2012-07-23, 02:46: dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/cows-and-bulls/cows-and-bulls_1.0-1.dsc It doesn't work in a minimal environment: | $ cows-and-bulls | Unable to open the dictionary file

Re: Determine DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH without requiring dpkg-dev

2012-07-31 Thread Michael Wild
On 07/31/2012 10:06 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote: * Michael Wild them...@gmail.com, 2012-07-25, 11:50: How can I reliably (from a user-program) determine the multiarch-triplet/quadlet without depending on dpkg-dev? I found some talk of a lsb_architecture utility, but so far have found no trace of

Bug#682454: RFS: cows-and-bulls/1.0-1 [ITP] - Words-based cows and bulls guessing game

2012-07-31 Thread Guruprasad
Hi Jakub, Thank you for reviewing this. On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org wrote: (I don't intend to sponsor this package.) It doesn't work in a minimal environment: | $ cows-and-bulls | Unable to open the dictionary file The default dictionary file used by this

Bug#665354: RFS: viennacl/1.3.0-1 (for experimental)

2012-07-31 Thread Michael Wild
I rebased the packaging for viennacl/1.3.0-1 onto the work I have done for 1.2.0-2 and uploaded the result to debian.mentors.net. As usual, you can find more info here: http://mentors.debian.net/package/viennacl And download the package with dget from this URL:

Bug#682454: RFS: cows-and-bulls/1.0-1 [ITP] - Words-based cows and bulls guessing game

2012-07-31 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Guruprasad lgp171...@gmail.com, 2012-07-31, 17:06: The default dictionary file used by this game is /usr/share/dict/words which is installed by the package wamerican. In fact, if dictionaries-common is installed, /usr/share/dict/words is managed using a mechanisms simliar to alternatives.

Bug#682454: RFS: cows-and-bulls/1.0-1 [ITP] - Words-based cows and bulls guessing game

2012-07-31 Thread Guruprasad
Hi Jakub, On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org wrote: * Guruprasad lgp171...@gmail.com, 2012-07-31, 17:06: The default dictionary file used by this game is /usr/share/dict/words which is installed by the package wamerican. In fact, if dictionaries-common is

Bug#682454: RFS: cows-and-bulls/1.0-1 [ITP] - Words-based cows and bulls guessing game

2012-07-31 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Guruprasad lgp171...@gmail.com, 2012-07-31, 18:43: I don't know if or not the file will be present in non-English locale environments and even if it is there, it might contain non-ascii characters in words. Should I list 'wamerican' package as a dependency? Yes. Even better, make it:

Re: Bug#682454: RFS: cows-and-bulls/1.0-1 [ITP] - Words-based cows and bulls guessing game

2012-07-31 Thread Stefano Rivera
Hi Guruprasad (2012.07.31_15:13:01_+0200) Yes. Even better, make it: wamerican | wordlist Assuming that I want this game to run only on English locale, should wamerican be sufficient? What if some other language package provides that language's version of words? There are other english

Minutes from Getting your packages into Debian

2012-07-31 Thread David Bremner
Hi all; Here are the minutes from the (apparently) annual mentors-bof, thanks to Didier Raboud for taking them. It turned into a bit more of a tutorial session than last year, which I don't think is necessarily a bad thing. I also attach the LaTeX source for the slides; a pdf is available

Re: Bug#682454: RFS: cows-and-bulls/1.0-1 [ITP] - Words-based cows and bulls guessing game

2012-07-31 Thread Guruprasad
Hi Stefano, On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Stefano Rivera stefa...@debian.org wrote: Hi Guruprasad (2012.07.31_15:13:01_+0200) Yes. Even better, make it: wamerican | wordlist Assuming that I want this game to run only on English locale, should wamerican be sufficient? What if some other

Re: Backporting a multi-arched package

2012-07-31 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
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Bug#683473: RFS: podget/0.6.7-1

2012-07-31 Thread Dave Vehrs
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for updates to my package podget. It's been a few years and updates since the version in the Debian repositories has been updated. (Ver. 0.5.8 is in the repositories, this is for version