Bug#948260: RFS: golang-github-russellhaering-gosaml2/0.3.1-1 [ITP] -- Pure Go implementation of SAML 2.0 (library)

2020-01-08 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
sing). [1]: https://opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0 -- Regards, Dmitry Smirnov. --- Good luck happens when preparedness meets opportunity. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Bug#948260: RFS: golang-github-russellhaering-gosaml2/0.3.1-1 [ITP] -- Pure Go implementation of SAML 2.0 (library)

2020-01-08 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
source of information about upstream copyright as I could not find copyright statement anywhere. Thanks. -- Regards, Dmitry Smirnov. --- No person, no idea, and no religion deserves to be illegal to insult, not even the Church of Emacs. -- Richard Stallman signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Bug#847350: RFS: golang-github-minio-minio-go/2.0.2+dfsg-1

2016-12-12 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
s important because one can't build package with default settings. It is always easier to change existing settings than try to find which parameter should be added. > Does this address your concerns? Nope. :) But those concerns wasn't really mine as it is all about helping those who bui

Bug#847350: RFS: golang-github-minio-minio-go/2.0.2+dfsg-1

2016-12-07 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
package with GBP when upstream sources are not merged in "master": overlay = True export-dir = ../build-area/ tarball-dir = ../ Basically it instructs GBP to generate/use tarball and it might be useful for "debian"-only master repository layout. Thanks. -- All the best,

Bug#847350: RFS: golang-github-minio-minio-go/2.0.2+dfsg-1

2016-12-07 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
r tell me what to do with this > upload) Thank for your help, Gianfranco. I did not have a chance to look at the current state of the package yet. I'll see if I can have a look later today. -- All the best, Dmitry Smirnov. --- Good luck happens when preparedness meets opportunity. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Bug#847350: RFS: golang-github-minio-minio-go/2.0.2+dfsg-1

2016-12-07 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
mmon to incorporate all dependency libraries into tarball. Throwing away private copies of those libraries is important to avoid using 'em accidentally, reduce burden and also to avoid tedious copyright review and documentation. -- Cheers, Dmitry Smirnov. --- The more false we des

Bug#810853: RFS: moosefs/2.0.83-1 [ITP] -- fault tolerant, reliable, highly available, highly performing, scaling-out network distributed file system

2016-05-23 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
e storage system which may have benefits like availability of different MySQL/MariaDB flavours... [1]: https://github.com/moosefs/moosefs/issues/5 -- Cheers, Dmitry Smirnov. --- Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations. -- Geor

Bug#817281: closed by Dmitry Smirnov <only...@debian.org> (Re: [pkg-go] Bug#817281: RFS: golang-gopkg-hlandau-easyconfig.v1/1.0.13 [ITP] -- Go package with easy bindings for configurable)

2016-04-02 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Saturday, 2 April 2016 11:37:47 PM AEST Peter Colberg wrote: > Could you push the release tag to the git repository? Did I forget to push? It should be OK now. -- Best wishes, Dmitry Smirnov. --- The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishon

Bug#817283: RFS: golang-gopkg-hlandau-service.v2/2.0.15 [ITP] -- Go package for writing services

2016-03-28 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
SED" in changelogs of packages seeking sponsorship -- one little thing less to do for your sponsor. ;) -- Best wishes, Dmitry Smirnov. --- "All government, of course, is against liberty. -- H. L. Mencken signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Bug#817218: [pkg-go] Bug#817218: RFS: golang-github-hlandau-xlog/0.0~git20160208.0.c18de57 -- logging library for Go

2016-03-27 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Wednesday, 9 March 2016 12:39:27 AM AEDT Peter Colberg wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for the package "golang-github-hlandau-xlog": Uploaded, thank you. :) -- Cheers, Dmitry Smirnov. --- If any remedy is tested under controlled scientific conditions and proved to

Bug#817215: [pkg-go] Bug#817215: RFS: golang-github-alecthomas-template/0.0~git20151201.0.14fd436 -- text templates with newline elision for Go

2016-03-27 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
thing in the modified package that refer to text of BSD-3-Clause license... -- Regards, Dmitry Smirnov. --- Truth — Something somehow discreditable to someone. -- H. L. Mencken, 1949 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Bug#817215: [pkg-go] Bug#817215: RFS: golang-github-alecthomas-template/0.0~git20151201.0.14fd436 -- text templates with newline elision for Go

2016-03-27 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
xt_and_spaces [2]: https://github.com/alecthomas/template/issues/3#issuecomment-188537775 -- Cheers, Dmitry Smirnov. --- Truth — Something somehow discreditable to someone. -- H. L. Mencken, 1949 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Bug#817829: [pkg-go] Bug#817829: RFS: golang-github-cheggaaa-pb/0.0~git20160304.0.a75ad33 [ITP] -- simple console progress bar for Go

2016-03-25 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
you worry about that. Upstream kindly tagged new releases https://github.com/cheggaaa/pb/releases so "watch" file is useful now. -- Regards, Dmitry Smirnov. --- A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. -- Friedrich Nietzs

Bug#817226: [pkg-go] Bug#817226: RFS: golang-gopkg-hlandau-svcutils.v1/1.0.7 -- utilities for writing services in Go

2016-03-25 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
ssues/1 -- All the best, Dmitry Smirnov. --- It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail. -- Sam Harris signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Bug#817865: RFS: acmetool/0.0.49 [ITP] -- automatic certificate acquisition tool for Let's Encrypt

2016-03-19 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
an. Thank you for your help and hard work. -- Cheers, Dmitry Smirnov. --- Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Bug#817829: [pkg-go] Bug#817829: RFS: golang-github-cheggaaa-pb/0.0~git20160304.0.a75ad33 [ITP] -- simple console progress bar for Go

2016-03-19 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
ve this with you. Please remember that package is already uploaded with this change. Perhaps we could give upstream some time to respond to bug before deciding whether to keep this change or not. -- All the best, Dmitry Smirnov. --- All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that goo

Bug#817829: [pkg-go] Bug#817829: RFS: golang-github-cheggaaa-pb/0.0~git20160304.0.a75ad33 [ITP] -- simple console progress bar for Go

2016-03-18 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
for these, but again outdated and not indicative of regular > releases. Therefore I think it’s best to ignore these stray tags. I see, thank you. Alternatively we can bug upstream in order to convince him to tag properly... Please feel free to disable my watch file if you think it is not useful...

Bug#817829: [pkg-go] Bug#817829: RFS: golang-github-cheggaaa-pb/0.0~git20160304.0.a75ad33 [ITP] -- simple console progress bar for Go

2016-03-18 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
new tag/release made 10 days ago. Tagged version is quite different from yours -- please check with upstream if necessary. I've also reported the following bug: https://github.com/cheggaaa/pb/issues/73 Thank you for your work. -- Cheers, Dmitry Smirnov. --- Faith: not wanting

Bug#810853: RFS: moosefs/2.0.83-1 [ITP] -- fault tolerant, reliable, highly available, highly performing, scaling-out network distributed file system

2016-01-18 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Mon, 18 Jan 2016 07:23:30 AM Jakub Kruszona-Zawadzki wrote: > On 15 Jan, 2016, at 15:10, Dmitry Smirnov <only...@debian.org> wrote: > > I had a glimpse at the packaging in the source archive 3.0.69 and I think > > it needs much more work before it could be uploaded (let al

Bug#810853: RFS: moosefs/2.0.83-1 [ITP] -- fault tolerant, reliable, highly available, highly performing, scaling-out network distributed file system

2016-01-15 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
nst introducing MooseFS to Debian). There are too many issues to list... -- All the best, Dmitry Smirnov. --- However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. -- Winston Churchill signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Bug#810853: RFS: moosefs/2.0.83-1 [ITP] -- fault tolerant, reliable, highly available, highly performing, scaling-out network distributed file system

2016-01-15 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
uot;replace" > LizardFS with MooseFS. That is correct. However I would replace MooseFS with LizardFS without hesitation. -- Best wishes, Dmitry Smirnov. --- You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that

Re: Bug#810853: RFS: moosefs/2.0.83-1 [ITP] -- fault tolerant, reliable, highly available, highly performing, scaling-out network distributed file system

2016-01-15 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
p. I suppose MooseFS might be using similar failover mechanism which leaves particularities of HA implementation to sysadmin. -- Cheers, Dmitry Smirnov GPG key : 4096R/53968D1B --- Truth — Something somehow discreditable to someone. -- H. L. Mencken, 1949 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Bug#810822: ITP: MooseFS

2016-01-15 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
igible overhead. With all due respect to MooseFS's former innovations and legacy I think for now it would be best to refrain from debianising MooseFS and re-evaluate situation in the future if there will be any development. -- Cheers, Dmitry Smirnov. --- We often refuse to accept an idea merel

Bug#789712: RFS: pylint-celery/0.3-1 [ITP]

2015-06-23 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
- wide -- if it is only used by Pylint then perhaps it could be installed privately? Isn't that what Python team policy says? -- Regards, Dmitry Smirnov GPG key : 4096R/53968D1B --- Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential. -- Winston

Bug#784854: MIA for Karolina Kalic karol...@resenje.org

2015-05-19 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
that someone wants to continue the work on unico. I don't have any objections. Thanks for your reply. I hope one day you will be able to contribute to Debian again. -- Best wishes, Dmitry Smirnov. --- The more false we destroy the more room there will be for the true. -- Robert G

Bug#784854: RFS: gtk3-engines-unico/1.0.3+14.04.20140109+repack1-1 [ITA] [RC]

2015-05-17 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
. :) I just wanted to mention another approach to friendly takeover for unmaintained packages... As I recall it was discussed in debian-devel (and/or debian-qa) a while ago and I've seen it in practice. Of course contacting MIA team won't hurt. Thanks for reminding about it. -- Regards, Dmitry

Bug#784854: RFS: gtk3-engines-unico/1.0.3+14.04.20140109+repack1-1 [ITA] [RC]

2015-05-17 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
on this conversation now. I'm not sure what has been done already, and what still has to be done. Good. -- Cheers, Dmitry Smirnov. --- Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. -- H. L. Mencken signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Bug#784854: RFS: gtk3-engines-unico/1.0.3+14.04.20140109+repack1-1 [ITA] [RC]

2015-05-09 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
repacking? What does it have to do with quilt? Thanks. -- Best wishes, Dmitry Smirnov signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Bug#784854: RFS: gtk3-engines-unico/1.0.3+14.04.20140109+repack1-1 [ITA] [RC]

2015-05-09 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
and install original file? Or replace symlink from override_dh_install? Repacking orig.tar to drop symlink in unnecessary... -- Cheers, Dmitry Smirnov. --- Not a lack of belief, but adherence to false knowledge is the enemy of progress. And certain that we have found everything worth searching

Bug#781927: RFS: qemuctl - control gui for qemu / 0.3.1-4 [ITA]

2015-04-04 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
-maint it may be better to put packaging repository to our infrastructure. -- Regards, Dmitry Smirnov GPG key : 4096R/53968D1B --- The persistence of erroneous beliefs exacerbates the widespread anachronistic failure to recognize the urgent problems that face humanity on this planet

Bug#781622: RFS: opentyrian/2.1.20130907-1 [ITP]

2015-04-02 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
a look soon. Thanks. -- Best wishes, Dmitry Smirnov. --- Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential. -- Winston Churchill signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Bug#781622: RFS: opentyrian/2.1.20130907-1 [ITP]

2015-04-01 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Wed, 1 Apr 2015 20:38:30 Dmitry Smirnov wrote: Hmm, how about doing it gnu-make-style? Just kidding, your way is OK, just please pass --mode=644 --preserve-timestamps to install (taking care of reproducible build etc.). Also you can replace `mkdir` with `-D` option to `install`. -- Cheers

Bug#781622: RFS: opentyrian/2.1.20130907-1 [ITP]

2015-04-01 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
) dh_install Please note that in make files make is usually spelled as $(MAKE). -- Regards, Dmitry Smirnov. --- Perhaps is is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong. -- Winston Churchill signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Self-maintained Debian packages best practice

2015-04-01 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
. -- Cheers, Dmitry Smirnov. --- If you travel the earth, you will find it is largely divided into two classes of people - people who say I wonder why such and such is not done and people who say Now who is going to prevent me from doing that thing? -- Winston Churchill signature.asc Description

Bug#781622: RFS: opentyrian/2.1.20130907-1 [ITP]

2015-04-01 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
it too please? I'll have a look again once those changes are done and hopefully we'll upload it. -- Cheers, Dmitry Smirnov. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Bug#781622: RFS: opentyrian/2.1.20130907-1 [ITP]

2015-03-31 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
good. Also, please note that I'm a Debian Maintainer, so once this clears NEW I'm interested in uploading the next revisions myself. Thanks! Great attitude. :) [1]: http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/ -- Cheers, Dmitry Smirnov GPG key : 4096R/53968D1B --- The truth is incontrovertible

Bug#754202: Gamera/3.4.1-1

2014-07-22 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Tue, 15 Jul 2014 19:21:35 Jakub Wilk wrote: As the bug says, there is no wxPython 3.0 in Debian yet... True, but the following bug was just filed: transition: wxpython3.0 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=755757 -- Regards, Dmitry Smirnov GPG key : 4096R/53968D1B

Bug#754202: Gamera/3.4.1-1

2014-07-14 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
(if uploaded as is) and therefore it will be affected by yet-to-be- filed serious bug. IMHO it will be ideal to migrate to wxwidgets3.0 before upload. -- Regards, Dmitry Smirnov. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Bug#732084: RFS: slowhttptest/1.6-1 [ITP] -- Application layer Denial of Service attacks simulation tool

2013-12-14 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
, Dmitry Smirnov GPG key : 4096R/53968D1B signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Bug#732084: RFS: slowhttptest/1.6-1 [ITP] -- Application layer Denial of Service attacks simulation tool

2013-12-14 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Sun, 15 Dec 2013 14:38:48 Prach Pongpanich wrote: It's missing '/gitweb' in Vcs-Browser field. Yeah, well spotted, it is a broken URL indeed. It should be Vcs-Browser: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/slowhttptest.git -- All the best, Dmitry Smirnov

Re: Gitorious and debian/watch file

2013-11-27 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
|tar\.bz2|tbz2|tar\.gz|tgz) Thanks Bart, it works perfectly. I owe you for this advise. -- Cheers, Dmitry Smirnov GPG key : 4096R/53968D1B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Bug#714947: RFS: djvusmooth/0.2.14-1 -- graphical editor for DjVu

2013-07-05 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
three packages from depends while you merely removed obsolete versioning... Could you re-phrase it please? That's my only concern -- otherwise I'm ready to upload. Also latest changes not yet committed to repository, right? All the best, Dmitry Smirnov GPG key : 4096R/53968D1B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#714947: RFS: djvusmooth/0.2.14-1 -- graphical editor for DjVu

2013-07-04 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
. Cheers, Dmitry Smirnov GPG key : 4096R/53968D1B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201307050806.30878.only...@member.fsf.org

Bug#712056: RFS: scantailor [ITP] -- interactive post-processing tool for scanned document pages

2013-06-20 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Daniel, One more thing: please install desktop icon. At the moment it is mentioned in .desktop file but not yet shipped by the package. Regards, Dmitry. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#712056: RFS: scantailor [ITP] -- interactive post-processing tool for scanned document pages

2013-06-19 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
just wondering if should not is a little bit too strong to express new recommended practice... If package builds according to expectations with RelWithDebInfo then perhaps it might be safe to keep as is... Best wishes, Dmitry Smirnov. --- Good luck happens when preparedness meets opportunity

Bug#712056: RFS: scantailor [ITP] -- interactive post-processing tool for scanned document pages

2013-06-19 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
/options by adding compression = xz .DEB file compression can be set in debian/rules by adding override_dh_builddeb: dh_builddeb -- -Zxz I'll have yet another look at the package tonight. Thanks. Cheers, Dmitry Smirnov. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ

Bug#712056: RFS: scantailor [ITP] -- interactive post-processing tool for scanned document pages

2013-06-19 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
. * Generated man page is not removed on clean. Probably you don't need this reminder but when convenient please forward patch and man pages to upstream. Thanks for your patience. Correcting the above issues will increase our chances to pass ftp-master's review. Cheers, Dmitry Smirnov

Bug#712056: RFS: scantailor [ITP] -- interactive post-processing tool for scanned document pages

2013-06-17 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
and apply it if appropriate. Regards, Dmitry Smirnov. --- Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true. -- H. L. Mencken Last-Update: 2013-06-18 Forwarded: no Author: Dmitry Smirnov only...@member.fsf.org Description: fix FLAGS override due

Bug#712056: RFS: scantailor [ITP] -- interactive post-processing tool for scanned document pages

2013-06-15 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
). Hopefully it will be ready for upload by then. ;) Mucht thanks also for the other comments! No worries, you're very welcome. :) Cheers, Dmitry Smirnov GPG key : 4096R/53968D1B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#712056: RFS: scantailor [ITP] -- interactive post-processing tool for scanned document pages

2013-06-12 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
-clause(modified) and/or add a comment. All the best, Dmitry Smirnov GPG key : 4096R/53968D1B --- No person, no idea, and no religion deserves to be illegal to insult, not even the Church of Emacs. -- Richard Stallman signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Bug#706361: gti review

2013-05-23 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
this is not a problem, just feedback. All the best, Dmitry Smirnov GPG key : 4096R/53968D1B --- I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense. -- H. L. Mencken -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Bug#706361: gti review

2013-05-01 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
build flags which makes unnecessary to include /usr/share/dpkg/buildflags.mk or set DPKG_EXPORT_BUILDFLAGS as we used to do with dh 8 to import hardening flags. Best wishes, Dmitry Smirnov GPG key : 4096R/53968D1B --- Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough

Re: Bug#706361: gti review

2013-05-01 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
, Dmitry Smirnov GPG key : 4096R/53968D1B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201305011908.26555.only...@member.fsf.org

Re: Bug#700233: Subject: RFS: libre-jigsaw/2012.09.09-1 [ITP]

2013-02-10 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
necessary? Cheers, Dmitry Smirnov GPG key : 4096R/53968D1B --- Good luck happens when preparedness meets opportunity. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Bug#700233: Subject: RFS: libre-jigsaw/2012.09.09-1 [ITP]

2013-02-10 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
... By the way what's the point installing that many (14) icons to /usr/share/icons/hicolor? Is it really necessary? Probably not - I'm learning. Thank you for your effort. It is appreciated despite some criticism that you may feel. :) Regards, Dmitry Smirnov GPG key : 4096R/53968D1B

Bug#696385: RFS: astromenace/1.3.1+ds-1 [ITP] -- hardcore 3D space shooter with spaceship upgrade possibilities

2012-12-25 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
. :) This warning doesn't make sense for Debain any more. I completely agree with Boris on this. - Dmitry Smirnov is listed as an Uploader for astromenace but not for astromenace-data; is this intended? I am not sure that he want to co-maintain it. But he could add or remove himself from uploaders

Bug#688111: RFS: git2cl/2.0+git200808271242-2

2012-09-19 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
. - removed '©' characters (not needed according to specification). -- Dmitry Smirnov only...@member.fsf.org Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:57:33 +1000 I think it is safe to upload to unstable as the probability of discovering a RC bug in git2cl/testing is quite low. (IMHO it doesn't worth troubles

Bug#688111: RFS: git2cl/2.0+git200808271242-2

2012-09-19 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 00:10:31 Arno Töll wrote: I didn't look at your package, but at a first glimpse while looking through my mailbox, this came to my attention: Yesterday a new policy version was released, making this standards version outdated. I thought I'd have more time to absorb policy

Bug#688184: RFS: redmine-plugin-markdown/2.0.1+git20120821-1

2012-09-19 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my new package redmine-plugin-markdown * Package name: redmine-plugin-markdown Version : 2.0.1+git20120821-1 Upstream Author : Takashi Okamoto toran...@gmail.com * URL :

Bug#688185: RFS: winswitch/0.12.16+svn20120916-1

2012-09-19 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my new package winswitch. * Package name: winswitch Version : 0.12.16+svn20120916-1 Upstream Author : Antoine Martin anto...@nagafix.co.uk * URL : http://winswitch.org/ *

Re: Need help for watch file

2012-08-28 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 19:27:28 Andreas Tille wrote: Hmmm, I tried this opts=dversionmangle=s/([\d.]+)\.(\d+)/$1-r$2/,downloadurlmangle=s/MRIConver t_.*/mriconvert_sources.zip/ \ http://lcni.uoregon.edu/~jolinda/MRIConvert/MRIConvert_x86-([\d\.]+-r\d+)\ .tar\.gz which ends up with version

Bug#659947: Bug #659947: RFS: portabase/2.0+git20110117-1 [ITP] -- Easy-to-use personal database application

2012-05-30 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
This is fixed, thank you very much. http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/portabase/portabase_2.0+git20110117-1.dsc Cheers, Dmitry. On 31/05/12 04:01, Aron Xu wrote: Hi, The packaging of this package is almost fine, but there is a problem in DEP5 copyright file: W: portabase

Bug#672394: RFS: ipset/6.12-1 -- administration tool for kernel IP sets

2012-05-16 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Arno, On 15 May 2012 08:51, Arno Töll a...@debian.org wrote: * You declare the debhelper compat[ibility] to be 9, but you build depend on debhelper (= 9). Please use a version which actually supports the finalized level 9. That is 9.20120115. No need to impose this requirement because

Bug#671701: RFS: autofs/5.0.6-1 [ITA] -- kernel-based automounter for Linux

2012-05-08 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Dear William, Since you're on board with us may I suggest that you'll close your RFS bug yourself? (I'm a bit overwhelmed with work at the moment) Michael, I set up package repository at collab-maint: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/autofs.git All the best, Dmitry. On 9

Bug#671701: RFS: autofs/5.0.6-1 [ITA] -- kernel-based automounter for Linux

2012-05-06 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Sun, 6 May 2012 15:24:10 Michael Tokarev wrote: And note that whole 5.0.6-allow-for-kernel-packet-size-change.patch is NOT NEEDED, it should be reverted upstream. *SIGH*, we spent a ton of time and emails discussing this matter, please find the recent LWN feature article about it (a good

Bug#671701: RFS: autofs/5.0.6-1 [ITA] -- kernel-based automounter for Linux

2012-05-05 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for package autofs * Package name: autofs Version : 5.0.6-1 Upstream Author : Transmeta corporation * URL : http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v5/ * License

Bug#671701: RFS: autofs/5.0.6-1 [ITA] -- kernel-based automounter for Linux

2012-05-05 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Michael, Thank you for quick reply. On Sun, 6 May 2012 15:01:42 Michael Tokarev wrote: I'm very much interested in this package myself, and wanted to do some packaging as well, but got distracted by other things, and especially by the famous 32/64bit user=kernel space interface issues we

Bug#671701: RFS: autofs/5.0.6-1 [ITA] -- kernel-based automounter for Linux

2012-05-05 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
There's one more issue with the new package. I already told Ian about it, but apparently he ignored it. This new code being added as a patch to debian package, originally from upstream author: ++static inline unsigned int linux_version_code(void) ++{ ++struct utsname my_utsname;

how to adopt a non-orphaned package?

2012-04-25 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Dear mentors, What would be the best practice to adopt a package which was not properly orphaned? My particular concern is about 'autofs5' package which was not updated for years since squeeze release due to maintainer inactivity. I'd like to adopt this package but it wasn't properly orphaned

Re: how to adopt a non-orphaned package?

2012-04-25 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Paul, On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:39:58 Paul Wise wrote: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/beyond-pkging.html#mia-qa Thank you for reminding me about this link. (I already asked MIA team today). Sadly this is exactly the case when inactive maintainer had his packages

Re: Making packages available to Debian users (was: Bug#659047: RFS: rpg - Readable Password Generator)

2012-04-08 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Sunday 08 April 2012 12:58:08 Vladimir Stavrinov wrote: The problem is that I don't see this review process here. Instead, all of You are explaining what Debian is and what is not. But I've got no much new. You are trying to breach into opened door. But point is that all this discussion

Re: sponsorship-requests mails should not go to debian-mentors

2012-03-06 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
We already tried to discuss the issue in Bug#658498: sponsorship-requests and debian-mentors mailing list but I have a feeling our argument hasn't been heard. Regards, Dmitry. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: optional package in Build-Depends (how?)

2012-02-27 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Russ, On Monday 27 February 2012 17:59:28 Russ Allbery wrote: Another package I was recently testing on GNU Hurd where some tests were failing (even though the package is working). A bug in the test suite? It's worth being careful about assuming that the package is working when the

Re: build server at home?

2012-02-27 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Gergely, Thank you for sharing your experience - very interesting. Regards, Dmitry. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: optional package in Build-Depends (how?)

2012-02-27 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
In case someone is tempted to try Build-Depends like check | dpkg, it doesn't work at all in pbuilder which is smart enough to notice that dpkg is already installed so it never pulls 'check'. (Anyway particular example with check is silly because check is available on all architectures) Apart

Re: RFS: ipset

2012-02-27 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Nikolai, Basically what you're talking about is just happened - some hours ago 'ipset' was accepted to unstable, see http://packages.qa.debian.org/i/ipset.html When credits for preparing standalone 'ipset' package goes to Neutron Soutmun, yours truly played a key role in coordinating

Re: Bug#661568: RFS: ipset/6.11-2

2012-02-27 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Neutron, Just one little suggestion if you excuse me: Could you please put a short description of bugs you're closing to changelog? This would be very helpful. Cheers, Dmitry. On Tuesday 28 February 2012 14:28:25 Neutron Soutmun wrote: * Close bugs that have been reintroduced again since

Re: Explain to me any all

2012-02-26 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Fantastic, thanks very much Bernhard, I think that's the explanation we're all needed. Regards, Dmitry. On Sunday 26 February 2012 22:02:15 Bernhard R. Link wrote: * Paul Elliott pelli...@blackpatchpanel.com [120226 02:03]: The new standard allows any all in the Architecture field.

Re: Announcing Debexpo v2

2012-02-26 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
I just wanted to thank you sincerely for all the hard work of yours which is so very useful for all of us. Thank you, Arno and Nicolas! Good work. Cheers, Dmitry. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

build server at home?

2012-02-26 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Dear mentors, Could any of you share experience of having your own private build server? I'm thinking of something which could build uploaded source for as many architectures as possible on amd64 host, and ideally put the results to 'reprepro'-managed tree. The goal is to simplify package

optional package in Build-Depends (how?)

2012-02-26 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Dear mentors, I have an interesting problem on my hands: The package I need to build have optional build dependency (libgpm-dev) which is not available on all platforms. If I just put it to Build-Depends, package will FTBFS on some platforms. So idea is to specify an optional (soft)

Re: optional package in Build-Depends (how?)

2012-02-26 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Paul, Thanks for quick reply. On Monday 27 February 2012 13:00:32 Paul Wise wrote: See section 7.1 of debian-policy for examples on how to do that (you probably want linux-any for the arch): http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html Indeed it probably could be

Re: optional package in Build-Depends (how?)

2012-02-26 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Craig, Thak you for sharing your experience. On Monday 27 February 2012 14:09:21 Craig Small wrote: That's the problem I have with mudlet. libluajit-5.1-dev [amd64 armel i386 kfreebsd-i386], liblua5.1-0-dev [!amd64 !armel !i386 !kfreebsd-i386], Very interesting and

Re: optional package in Build-Depends (how?)

2012-02-26 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Russ, On Monday 27 February 2012 15:28:51 Russ Allbery wrote: Even with valgrind, personally I'd just list a specific set of architectures on which valgrind is required, even if you also opportunistically test for its existence. There's no reason to allow *not* running valgrind tests on

Bug#660175: RFS: fcgi-daemon

2012-02-16 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
scripts written in Perl with persistent interpreter for acceleration. Additionally it uses RLIMITs, and check for memory leaks on Linux. Package name: fcgi-daemon Version: 0.2021-1 Upstream Author: Dmitry Smirnov only...@cpan.org Homepage: http://search.cpan.org/dist/FCGI

Bug#659947: RFS: portabase

2012-02-15 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, New package portabase is looking for sponsor. Portabase is a modern alternative to MobileDB (and to Jfile). Use case: you're taking water samples and analyse them on spot with portable colorimeter. Then you enter results to mobile

Bug#660014: RFS: portabase

2012-02-15 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, New package git-ftp is looking for sponsor. Package name: git-ftp Version: 0.6.0+git20110923-1 Upstream Author: René Moser m...@renemoser.net URL: https://github.com/resmo/git-ftp License: GPL-3

Re: How to convince maintainer to use --as-needed?

2012-02-10 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:15:22 Bernhard R. Link wrote: I personally strongly recommend against using --as-needed unless you understand very well what it does. It may change the runtime behaviour of a program without any signs at link time. Surely it's a powerful thing which should be used with

Re: How to convince maintainer to use --as-needed?

2012-02-10 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:38:23 Paul Wise wrote: The --as-needed flag is a workaround for buggy upstream build systems, IMO it should not be used unless the relevant build systems will not be fixed any time soon. Seems like a typical case with GNOME project stuff. Do you know if there are

How to convince maintainer to use --as-needed?

2012-02-09 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Dear mentors, I seek your advice regarding the best practice with using --as-needed. Recently I tried to convince two package maintainers to use --as-needed in order to reduce overlinking. Surprisingly this time this idea was opposed with great resistance as none of maintainers but me had

Bug#659045: RFS: goplay (NMU)

2012-02-07 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
: ++ updated list of contributors ++ little correction for DEP-5 compliance + + -- Dmitry Smirnov only...@member.fsf.org Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:08:17 +1100 + goplay (0.4-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low [ Peter De Wachter ] diff -Nru goplay-0.4/debian/clean goplay-0.4/debian/clean --- goplay-0.4/debian

Re: Bug#659045: RFS: goplay (NMU)

2012-02-07 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Arno, On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 04:10:48 Arno Töll wrote: + compat and debhelper to version 9 + default hardening (with the exception of fortify) + standards to 3.9.2 + ept-cache replaced with apt-xapian-index in Depends We don't do such things in NMUs. *Sometimes* we do. The options

Bug#659045: RFS: goplay (NMU)

2012-02-07 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Charles, have you actually tried to contact the team ? I do not see messages from you in January or February on their mailing list. I did just before I noticed this message of yours, but I wrote to them after I placed the sponsorship request. :( Probably that's wasn't the best choice

Bug#659045: RFS: goplay (NMU)

2012-02-07 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Charles, On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 12:51:19 Charles Plessy wrote: have you actually tried to contact the team ? I do not see messages from you in January or February on their mailing list. How could I forget, I did contact them thought the Alioth request to join the team, where I mention the

Bug#659045: RFS: goplay (NMU)

2012-02-07 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Charles, On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 13:51:42 Charles Plessy wrote: Alioth requests are a mess: when one admin answers, there is no notification to the other admins. As a consequence, it can happen that everyone expects the others to have answered. I recommend to contact the team on its mailing

Re: RFS: git2cl

2012-02-04 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Wise wrote: On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/git2cl/git2cl_2.0+git200808271242-1.dsc Apologies for not getting to this sooner. The source package you uploaded does not have a ChangeLog file in it, IIRC you were going to add

Re: RFS: git2cl

2012-02-04 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Wise wrote: On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/git2cl/git2cl_2.0+git200808271242-1.dsc Apologies for not getting to this sooner. The source package you uploaded does not have a ChangeLog file in it, IIRC you were going to add

Re: ipset/xtables-addons

2012-02-04 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Neutron, On 04/02/12 19:16, Neutron Soutmun wrote: Now when I had a look at your package I feel convinced that everybody will benefit from ipset separation. :) :) You did a good work. In the recent xtables-addons changelog for release v1.41 (2012-01-04) upstream states:

dh-buildinfo: is it useful?

2012-01-30 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Dear mentors, Does anyone know if using dh-buildinfo is still recommended practice or is it obsolete? When dh-buildinfo is useful and what could be a typical use case? Thanks, Dmitry. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: dh-buildinfo: is it useful?

2012-01-30 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Thank you for confirming my suspicions. On 31/01/12 03:25, Paul Wise wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:02 PM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: Does anyone know if using dh-buildinfo is still recommended practice or is it obsolete? When dh-buildinfo is useful and what could be a typical use case

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