Re: RFS: azureus (updated package)

2009-08-04 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Adrian Perezadrianperez@gmail.com wrote: The upload would fix these bugs: 329018, 398014, 409952, 412213, 491624, 515015, 516059 What about: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=509880 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506027

Re: [HELP] New Debian-native package

2007-10-02 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 10/1/07, David Paleino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've created a little software in Gambas which lets users query the Debian BTS via LDAP. Now, since it's a Debian-specific package (maybe some time later other BTS will be supported, but that's not for sure), I wanted to package it as a

Re: Best way to move from .diff.gz patches to dpatch

2007-10-09 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 10/9/07, Kartik Mistry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, for better maintenance and making life easy for new upstream release, I want to move to dpatch. What are best way to do it? I have done manually with xosview (15 patches scattered in .diff.gz and reading changelog carefully, putting

Re: Ubuntu-to-Debian packaging

2007-11-23 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Nov 22, 2007 2:57 PM, Giovanni Mascellani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there somewhat like a policy, best practises or similar about doing this? Not that I know of, but I've been asked this question before, so this is my answer: If the packaging licence allows it, you can take the package

Re: RFS: QA Upload -- mma - Musical Midi Accompaniment generator

2008-02-11 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Feb 10, 2008 11:57 PM, Barry deFreese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just an upload to set QA to maintainer and bring standards, et al up to date. Package should really probably be removed but we can see if someone adopts it first I suppose.

Re: RFS: hearts-0.1-1 -- The classic Hearts card game for the GNOME desktop

2006-06-08 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 6/7/06, Sander Marechal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.jejik.com/files/hearts/temp/gnome-hearts_0.1.orig.tar.gz http://www.jejik.com/files/hearts/temp/gnome-hearts_0.1-1.dsc http://www.jejik.com/files/hearts/temp/gnome-hearts_0.1-1.diff.gz

Re: [RFS] museek+: file-sharing application for the SoulSeek peer-to-peer network

2006-06-10 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 6/7/06, Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nobody is interrested in sponsoring me ? Your package does weird things, related to the fact that it uses scons for building. For example, it checks for build-dependencies at clean time: # Run scons -c for cleaning scons

Re: Homepage-field in description

2006-06-14 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 6/14/06, Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The space is necessary; it tells package front-ends to not wrap the line. See Policy 5.6.13. I guess you are referring to: Those starting with two or more spaces. These will be displayed verbatim. If the display cannot be panned horizontally,

Re: [RFS] museek+: file-sharing application for the SoulSeek peer-to-peer network

2006-06-15 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! On 6/10/06, Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Margarita Manterola wrote: Your package does weird things, related to the fact that it uses scons for building. For example, it checks for build-dependencies at clean time: # Run scons -c for cleaning scons QTDIR=/usr/share

Re: RFS: bottlerocket

2006-08-06 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 8/5/06, Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * don't forget to acknowledge the NMUs by closing the bugs fixed in NMUs with the appropriate version: This is not how it's supposed to be done now. The upload has to be done, including the changes from the NMU. This is the duty of

Re: NMU of #370144 from BSP at Mexico

2006-08-14 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 8/14/06, Thijs Kinkhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are in BSP mode at the moment - the 7 day restriction is reduced. During the BSP we should use a 0-Day NMU policy again, that means uploads that fix RC bugs that are more than a week old can be uploaded directly. --

Re: Packaging software which does not use autotools

2006-08-14 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 8/14/06, Michael Rasmussen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have some questions I hope some of you have an answer for. This question is more on-topic in the debian-mentors list. I'm replying to you, and to the debian-mentors mailing list, please follow-up there. I intend to package a peace of

Re: NMU procedures

2006-08-30 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! I'm writing mainly after the experience of doing several (more than 50, I lost count) NMUs in the past weeks. It may be a bit repetitive, but I hope you find it useful. On 8/30/06, Dominic Hargreaves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem probably doesn't qualify as more severe than normal

Re: Homepage in debian/control (was: RFS: queuegraph (take two))

2006-08-31 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 8/31/06, martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We recommend that you add the URL for the package's home page to the package description in debian/control. This information should be added at the end of description, using the following format: . Homepage:

Re: RFS: anaconda (updated: 11.1.0.50-2)

2006-09-13 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 9/13/06, Ryan Finnie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Package name: anaconda Version : 11.1.0.50-2 Upstream Author : Jeremy Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/anaconda-installer/ * License : GPLv2 Section : misc It builds

Re: RFS to fix RC bug: rssreader.app

2006-09-20 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 9/20/06, Yavor Doganov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.6.2.dfsg-1 of my package rssreader.app. I have the maintainer's blessing for the changes. I wonder how it can be your package, when you are not the maintainer. Anyway, I'm reviewing it and

Re: RFS to fix RC bug: rssreader.app

2006-09-21 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 9/20/06, Yavor Doganov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.6.2.dfsg-1 of my package rssreader.app. Ok. Some comments after having downloaded and built the -3 version (which I manually converted into -2 again, since the -2 was never in

Re: Homepage-field in description

2006-12-14 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 12/14/06, Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does the Lintian issua an information message of any kinf for the Homepage: field? If it would, the maintainers could possibly pay more attention. Not many are aware of the spcae or two space reason for long URLs. No. There's a proposed

Re: Version names if Stable = Testing = Unstable but compiled different

2007-01-12 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi Michelle, On 1/12/07, Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have for example a package-1.0.0 and it compiles fine under Stable, Testing and Unstable but the files are not binarcompatibel since they compile different under the different releases... No, in the mirror we will have a

Re: [xdialog] RFS: Urgent upload required since 2.2 is broken

2007-01-12 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! On 1/12/07, Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: since the maintainer of xdialog is MIA I have prepared a since 7 month tested version 2.3.0 and uploaded to http://mentors.debian.net/. Please sponsor the upload it solvs many bugs. Michelle, the upload might solve bugs, but none of

Re: [xdialog] RFS: Urgent upload required since 2.2 is broken

2007-01-12 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! On 1/12/07, Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that many (!!!) scripts wil break with 2.2 since boxes like --treeview are broken and do not work with more then 3 levels. Please note, that NOT ALL Bugs are registered @BTS. In this case, you should file those bugs in

Re: Version names if Stable = Testing = Unstable but compiled different

2007-01-12 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 1/12/07, Carlo Segre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will use -1+b1 sarge -1~sarge1 etch-1 This can perfectly (and more clearly, from my point of view) be achieved by: sarge: -1 etch: -1+b1 sid: -1+b2 So that when lenny is released, -1+b2 might go for lenny, and -1+b3

Re: RFS: sshproxy

2007-01-21 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 1/20/07, Vincent Bernat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that dh_python is invoked after dh_installinit and therefore, it first tries to invoke the daemon, then to place the python file in the right place. On install, the daemon cannot start since python file are not

Re: Removing self-managed configuration files?

2007-01-21 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 1/19/07, Florent Rougon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a package with a bunch of configuration files that are managed by my maintainer scripts and not by dpkg. Therefore, these configuration files are *not* conffiles. Your Subject line was misleading (especially considering we are on

Re: RFS: crotch

2007-01-23 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi Chris! On 1/23/07, Chris Amthor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package crotch. If you look up the definition of crotch (http://dict.die.net/crotch/), you come up with the fact that is not a nice word, and it can be considered offensive by a group of people.

Re: native packages

2007-01-23 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 1/23/07, George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right. Another disadvantage of making it a native package is that the orig.tar.gz (imagine monsters here, ... OpenOffice.org comes to mind ;-) has to be uploaded every time you change something in the package, even if this is a change specific

Re: broken packages?

2007-01-24 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi Székelyi, On 1/24/07, Székelyi Szabolcs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a package called morg-mailcommands that depends on Postfix. Trying to install it with aptitude gives (...) You are missing some important pieces of information: 1) How you tried to install the package 2) Where is this

Re: Linda question: Maintainer script prerm uses debhelper, but does not use #DEBHELPER#.

2007-01-29 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! On 1/28/07, Maximilian Wilhelm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I could simply include '#DEBHELPER#' in the scripts but I do not want any debhelper magic to change the scripts. dh_installinit is called with --noscripts to accomplish this. You use dh_makeshlibs, which might be adding a call to

Re: BALLView: new package version

2007-01-29 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! On 1/29/07, Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did I understand current freeze state right that uploads to unstable will not be moved to testing automatically any more only by manual intervention of ftpmaster or should we rather continue with the upload to experimental target which

Re: Multiple upstream changelog files

2007-01-29 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 1/29/07, Magnus Holmgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I maintain a package where the upstream author has two changelog files: A brief one called Changes, summarizing the changes, and a detailed one called ChangeLog, which contains a detailed list of changes made to the various source files. Which

Re: RFS: sigit - a small utility to change signatures etc.

2007-02-05 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi Rasmus On 2/5/07, Rasmus Bøg Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package name: sigit Version : 0.3.2-1 Upstream author : Kenneth Redhead Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL : http://www.redhead.dk/download/ License : GPLv2 Section : mail Some comments about

Re: RFS: roundcube

2007-02-10 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! We use roundcube as our webmail in my office, so we'll be reviewing it, and I might end up sponsoring it, I haven't yet looked at it, but I have a couple of comments: On 2/10/07, Vincent Bernat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Version : 0.099+0.1b2.2-1 The version is the 0.1-beta2.2 I

Re: .changes file over several package releases

2007-04-21 Thread Margarita Manterola
dpkg-buildpackage -v$VERSION One thing to remember about this option is that the .changes file is re-done when a sponsor rebuilds a package. So, if you want your sponsor to do this, please remind us when sending us the to-be-sponsored package. -- Besos, Marga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

RFS: astyle (previously orphaned)

2004-10-21 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! I'm making a new package for astyle, which has been orphaned in August. I need a sponsor to upload it. In the package I've made, I've updated the files so that they comply with the new policies, and I've also taken care of some fixable bugs (3 out of 7). The other 4 bugs seem quite hard to

Re: RFS: astyle (previously orphaned)

2004-10-21 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 21:14:25 +0200, Rene Engelhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] The new package (source and binary) can be found at: http://www.gnuservers.com.ar/~marga/debian/astyle/ Please do tell me what you think of it. You moved to using dpatch; please mention that in the

Re: RFS: astyle (previously orphaned)

2004-10-21 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 21:38:49 +0200, Rene Engelhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've placed the new package at the same location. Thanks for your time. Uploaded. Thanks a lot! 8) -- Besos, Marga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: debian directory included in upstream

2005-04-12 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Apr 12, 2005 4:44 PM, martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure, but there is no point in having ./debian available upstream. It's backwards. It makes sense for software developers to have their own ./debian directory so that they can use debian/rules binary to compile and test their

Re: debian directory included in upstream

2005-04-13 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 4/13/05, martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It may be of value to users of stable who want to make their own package of the latest version of the software for some reason. Then they should bug the maintainer to have it go into unstable. ??? Users of __stable__ won't ever get that

Re: Display upgrade note

2005-07-25 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 7/25/05, Roland Gruber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to display a message to the user via debconf. The message should only appear if the user upgrades from a version below a special value (0.5.0 in my case). Is there a standard way to get the old package version and compare it to the

RFS: linsmith

2005-11-04 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! I have prepared a package for the linsmith application. It's an application for electrical engineers that allows to create smith charts, and it's much better than the one already in Debian (xsmc-calc). The packages are located at: http://www.marga.com.ar/~marga/debian/linsmith/ They are

Re: RFS: linsmith

2005-11-04 Thread Margarita Manterola
They are lintian clean, and they build fine inside a pbuilder. I'd need someone to please sponsor the upload. Thank you. Your .diff is 844K, for a 1.4MB .orig. Surely this is a mistake. I'm retrieving a copy now for further inspection. No, unfortunately, it's not a mistake. The package

Re: RFS: linsmith

2005-11-04 Thread Margarita Manterola
Okay, its a uuencoded PDF file. Remove that and the .diff.gz is only 26KB. You'll want to generate the PDF from source, if at all possible. Where are you getting the ./debian/manual.pdf.uu? Is it an updated copy? Why isn't it distributed with upstream? I have already answered this in the

Re: possibly undefined macro: AS_FOR_TARGET

2005-12-15 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 12/15/05, Alexei Chetroi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Googling, I found that AS_FOR_TARGET must be changed to GAS_FOR_TARGET, in configure.in but that raise another question. I cannot use dpatch to fix configure.in and changing it from $(PACKAGE).diff.gz is not recommended. How it is

[OT] Keysigning in Bariloche?

2006-01-13 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, sorry for the OT, but I didn't know where it would be on-topic. I'll be in Bariloche, Patagonia, Argentina during the next week (till January 21st). If there's someone that's travelling there and is interested in keysigning, please send me a mail and we'll arrange it. -- Love, Marga

Re: RFS: sdljump

2006-02-12 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 2/12/06, Bas Wijnen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The package can be found at http://pcbcn10.phys.rug.nl/~shevek/sdljump/. It's actually at http://pcbcn10.phys.rug.nl/~shevek/debian/sdljump/ The package is in very good state, it's lintian clean (although linda issues a warning). I have some

Re: RFS: sdljump

2006-02-13 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 2/13/06, Bas Wijnen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A small problem with it though: When I put all architecture independant data in its own package, lintian starts complaining that the binary lacks a manpage. For the moment, I moved the manpage back in the arch:any package (it's small anyway),

Re: RFS: python-harvestman

2006-02-16 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 2/15/06, Kumar Appaiah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please send in your comments, so that I can improve it. There's a small typo in the README.Debian file: you can also sue the ... it should be you can also use the ... :) Also, it seems you've written quite a long manpage... It would be nice

Re: RFS: python-harvestman

2006-02-16 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 2/16/06, Kumar Appaiah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, is this a python module or a python program ? It looks like a python program to me, and therefore it does not need to be called python2.3-harvestman but rather harvestman -1.0 and harvestman-1.1 or something like that. The

Re: RFS: python-harvestman

2006-02-17 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 2/17/06, Kumar Appaiah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, since the code is written in DOS mode, can I run dos2unix on the code? Otherwise, python2.4 seems to give some warnings: /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/HarvestMan/connector.py:72: DeprecationWarning: Non-ASCII character '\xe5' in file

Re: Build/test environment

2006-02-17 Thread Margarita Manterola
In 2/17/06, Jonathan Niehof [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Since updated packages go into unstable, presumably they should be tested in an unstable environment. But they also want to percolate into testing, so they shouldn't break or be broken by testing. So I presume it's best to have an

Re: RFS: ElementTree, ElementTidy, cElementTree

2006-02-18 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 2/17/06, Torsten Marek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm searching for sponsors for the above-mentioned packages. ElementTree and cElementTree are already in Debian and just have new versions/revisions. All the packages are missing the stupid space befor the homepage, as documented in:

Re: RFS: python-harvestman

2006-02-18 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 2/18/06, Kumar Appaiah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have uploaded the new package, renamed as harvestman, to http://www.ee.iitm.ac.in/~ee03b091/debpkgs/ Now, the bug I have filed (#352012) calls the package as python-harvestman; what do I do about the bug report? Also, do the mentors need

Re: RFS: python-harvestman

2006-02-18 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 2/18/06, Kumar Appaiah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess it is there! However, I have not generated the link: http://www.ee.iitm.ac.in/~ee03b091/debpkgs/harvestman_1.4.6.orig.tar.gz Well, I'm looking at it. I see that you decided to stay with the 2.3 version, but the description is not

Re: RFS: python-harvestman

2006-02-20 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 2/18/06, Kumar Appaiah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.ee.iitm.ac.in/~ee03b091/debpkgs As they are built using pdebuild, I guess this would be really all right. Ok, it had only a very small problem: it used DH_COMPAT=5, and the debhelper dependecy said = 4, I bumped this to 5 and

Re: RFS: xshisen_1.51-2 --- Shisen-sho game for X11

2006-02-20 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 2/10/06, Zak B. Elep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As usual the source package can be found at mentors.debian.net .[1] [1] http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/x/xshisen/ Zak, I've been looking at the package. It looks quite good. However, I found that at the changelog you close many

Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck interpreter

2006-03-03 Thread Margarita Manterola
Some comments about beef: * E: There's no ITP. According to [1], you should submit your ITP and then close the bug in the Initial Release line of the changelog. Please do that. [1]: http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-pkgs.en.html#s-newpackage * W: You are using compat with

RFS: astyle (previously orphaned)

2004-10-21 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! I'm making a new package for astyle, which has been orphaned in August. I need a sponsor to upload it. In the package I've made, I've updated the files so that they comply with the new policies, and I've also taken care of some fixable bugs (3 out of 7). The other 4 bugs seem quite hard to

Re: RFS: astyle (previously orphaned)

2004-10-21 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 21:14:25 +0200, Rene Engelhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] The new package (source and binary) can be found at: http://www.gnuservers.com.ar/~marga/debian/astyle/ Please do tell me what you think of it. You moved to using dpatch; please mention that in the

Re: RFS: astyle (previously orphaned)

2004-10-22 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 21:38:49 +0200, Rene Engelhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've placed the new package at the same location. Thanks for your time. Uploaded. Thanks a lot! 8) -- Besos, Marga