How to deal with reviews in mentors.debian.net and repositories for new packaging work

2014-02-26 Thread Emmanuel Kasper
I have uploaded a package on mentors.debian.net, and I got some review of my package suggesting some modifications (http://mentors.debian.net/package/vmtouch) Now that I have done the suggested changes, should I rather: A) delete the old package, upload a new one with same version number (and

Re: How to deal with reviews in mentors.debian.net and repositories for new packaging work

2014-02-26 Thread Daniel Lintott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 26 February 2014 09:55:44 GMT+00:00, Emmanuel Kasper emman...@libera.cc wrote: I have uploaded a package on mentors.debian.net, and I got some review of my package suggesting some modifications (http://mentors.debian.net/package/vmtouch) Now

Re: How to deal with reviews in mentors.debian.net and repositories for new packaging work

2014-02-26 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Feb 26, 2014 10:56 AM, Emmanuel Kasper emman...@libera.cc wrote: I have also read on the list that some mentors like to have a link to a VCS to review the pacaking work. Is it possibile to host the packaging work on alioth when you're not a Debian Developper ? Sure, but you need a DD to

Re: How to deal with reviews in mentors.debian.net and repositories for new packaging work

2014-02-26 Thread Bertrand Marc
Le 26/02/2014 10:55, Emmanuel Kasper a écrit : Is it possibile to host the packaging work on alioth when you're not a Debian Developper ? You need to create a guest account on Alioth and then you will be able to use a personal git repository [1]. Joining collab-maint is also an option, but it

Re: How to deal with reviews in mentors.debian.net and repositories for new packaging work

2014-02-26 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:55:44AM +0100, Emmanuel Kasper wrote: I have also read on the list that some mentors like to have a link to a VCS to review the pacaking work. Is it possibile to host the packaging work on alioth when you're not a Debian Developper ? Yes, though you need a DD advocate

Re: How to deal with reviews in mentors.debian.net and repositories for new packaging work

2014-02-26 Thread Ross Gammon
On 02/26/2014 11:23 AM, Daniel Lintott wrote: snip I have also read on the list that some mentors like to have a link to a VCS to review the pacaking work. Is it possibile to host the packaging work on alioth when you're not a Debian Developper ? I know for instance NetBSD has an extra CVS

Re: How to deal with reviews in mentors.debian.net and repositories for new packaging work

2014-02-26 Thread Emmanuel Kasper
Le 26/02/2014 11:35, Bertrand Marc a écrit : Le 26/02/2014 10:55, Emmanuel Kasper a écrit : Is it possibile to host the packaging work on alioth when you're not a Debian Developper ? You need to create a guest account on Alioth and then you will be able to use a personal git repository [1].

Re: How to deal with reviews in mentors.debian.net and repositories for new packaging work

2014-02-26 Thread Ross Gammon
On 02/26/2014 12:03 PM, Emmanuel Kasper wrote: Le 26/02/2014 11:35, Bertrand Marc a écrit : Le 26/02/2014 10:55, Emmanuel Kasper a écrit : Is it possibile to host the packaging work on alioth when you're not a Debian Developper ? You need to create a guest account on Alioth and then you will

Re: How to deal with reviews in mentors.debian.net and repositories for new packaging work

2014-02-26 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:03:58PM +0100, Emmanuel Kasper wrote: advocate will likely accept only if package is already in debian ... Not necessarily. -- WBR, wRAR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Maintainer scripts: execute command as another user: use sudo or su?

2014-02-26 Thread Emilien Klein
Hi Mentors, TLDR: in order to execute a command as another user, should `sudo` or `su --command` be used? I'd like to get your opinion on how to best solve this issue: I've got a package [0] that uses dbconfig-common to manage its database. The database is owned by a specific user (not root).

Re: Maintainer scripts: execute command as another user: use sudo or su?

2014-02-26 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 26/02/2014 16:07, Emilien Klein a écrit : Hi Mentors, TLDR: in order to execute a command as another user, should `sudo` or `su --command` be used? I'd like to get your opinion on how to best solve this issue: I've got a package [0] that uses dbconfig-common to manage its database.

Bug#740193: RFS: haskell-setlocale/0.0.3-1 [ITP]

2014-02-26 Thread Sven Bartscher
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist * Package name: libghc-setlocale Version : 0.0.3 Upstream Author : Lukas Mai l@web.de * URL : http://hackage.haskell.org/package/setlocale * License : PublicDomain Programming Lang: haskell Description

Bug#739585: marked as done (RFS: qjoypad/4.1.0-1 ITP)

2014-02-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 26 Feb 2014 23:02:15 +0100 with message-id 20140226230215.6b979...@heffalump.sk2.org and subject line Re: Bug#739585: RFS: qjoypad/4.1.0-1 ITP has caused the Debian Bug report #739585, regarding RFS: qjoypad/4.1.0-1 ITP to be marked as done. This means that you claim that

Re: Maintainer scripts: execute command as another user: use sudo or su?

2014-02-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Emilien Klein emil...@klein.st writes: TLDR: in order to execute a command as another user, should `sudo` or `su --command` be used? su. You don't want to depend on sudo to ensure that it's available, since package users may not want sudo installed on their systems. (I tend not to install it

Bug#737493: RFS: iceowl-l10n/2.6.4-1 [NMU]

2014-02-26 Thread Vincent Cheng
Control: tag -1 + moreinfo On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Jerome Charaoui jer...@riseup.net wrote: reopen 737493 thanks Hi, I'm reopening this RFS as the maintainer has given the OK for a NMU to experimental. See : https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=693150#111 Package

Bug#737493: RFS: iceowl-l10n/2.6.4-1 [NMU]

2014-02-26 Thread Jerome Charaoui
A NMU + new upstream release should be versioned with -0.1, e.g. iceowl-l10n 2.6.4-0.1. Fixed. Some of the patches are empty; is this intentional? dpkg-source: warning: diff `iceowl-l10n-2.6.4/debian/patches/Brand-es-ES.patch' doesn't contain any patch dpkg-source: warning: diff

Bug#714087: marked as done (RFS: ipmiutil/2.9.2-1 [ITP])

2014-02-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Thu, 27 Feb 2014 04:29:19 + with message-id e1wisb1-00038d...@quantz.debian.org and subject line closing RFS: ipmiutil/2.9.2-1 [ITP] has caused the Debian Bug report #714087, regarding RFS: ipmiutil/2.9.2-1 [ITP] to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the

Bug#725862: marked as done (RFS: django-haystack/2.1.0-1 [ITP] -- database and form RGB color fields for Django)

2014-02-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Thu, 27 Feb 2014 04:29:17 + with message-id e1wisaz-00037w...@quantz.debian.org and subject line closing RFS: django-haystack/2.1.0-1 [ITP] -- database and form RGB color fields for Django has caused the Debian Bug report #725862, regarding RFS: django-haystack/2.1.0-1

Bug#733455: marked as done (RFS: grap/1.44-1 [ITA] -- program for typesetting graphs)

2014-02-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Thu, 27 Feb 2014 04:29:18 + with message-id e1wisb0-00038p...@quantz.debian.org and subject line closing RFS: grap/1.44-1 [ITA] -- program for typesetting graphs has caused the Debian Bug report #733455, regarding RFS: grap/1.44-1 [ITA] -- program for typesetting graphs to