Bug#823187: RFS: icdiff/1.7.3-1

2016-05-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 4:35 PM, Sascha Steinbiss wrote: > https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/i/icdiff/icdiff_1.8.1-1.dsc Uploaded. Some things to fix for the next upload: debian/source/include-binaries is no longer needed debian/patches/fix_version.patch needs updating, probably upst

Re: Seek for sponsor: Systemd-swap

2016-05-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 7:10 AM, Timofey Titovets wrote: > Second, what else can i do to add this package to repos? Check out the intro: https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Bug#823187: RFS: icdiff/1.7.3-1

2016-05-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2016-05-12 at 22:37 +0100, Sascha Steinbiss wrote: > Upstream is still unsure how to address this problem properly given > that he wants to retain a specific structure to his code. There have > been a few suggestions and PRs from myself and others, but they are > apparently not quite what

Bug#815444: RFS: lzd/0.8-1

2016-05-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 11:39 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: > I don't think it's a good idea to have watch files in the package, this > should be a seperate metadata, so I prefer not using them as they're > conceptionally outdated and require uploads just for keeping them working > (circumventing this

Bug#823187: RFS: icdiff/1.7.3-1

2016-05-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2016-05-02 at 20:49 +0100, Sascha Steinbiss wrote: > ... Great! > I see. Unfortunately the copy of this file that upstream ships does > not include a license; however a newer version does. > I have excluded the old version from 1.7.6 using d/copyright's Files- > Excluded, and then patche

Re: Mass-rebuilding packages

2016-05-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 7:44 AM, Sean Whitton wrote: > Thanks for the responses, all. Another one is ratt (rebuild-all-the-things). I wonder if some of these should be merged together or removed. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Bug#823187: RFS: icdiff/1.7.3-1

2016-05-01 Thread Paul Wise
Control: tags -1 + moreinfo On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 6:14 AM, Sascha Steinbiss wrote: > Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command: > > dget -x > https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/i/icdiff/icdiff_1.7.3-1.dsc Here is a review: These need to be fixed befor

Bug#822672: RFS: freecell-solver/4.2.0-0.1 [NMU]

2016-04-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2016-04-29 at 10:17 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Well, I think the problem I ran into was that there's a lot of other things > called "pyTAP" or something to the effect - see > https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pytap&ia=about and it's hard to know that the one > I'm > using is what I need. Perhaps

Bug#822672: RFS: freecell-solver/4.2.0-0.1 [NMU]

2016-04-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 8:41 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > I fixed most pep8 warnings there, except for some in the TAP library which was > copied from https://github.com/rjbs/pytap . Embedded code copies are discouraged in Debian, could you remove it from upstream VCS and tarballs and make it a depen

Bug#822672: RFS: freecell-solver/4.2.0-0.1 [NMU]

2016-04-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 6:19 PM, Markus Koschany wrote: > First of all thank you for updating freecell-solver. Your effort is much > appreciated. I intend to sponsor your package and to upload it to the > DELAYED/10 queue, should there be no reaction from the maintainer within > the next couple of

Re: Bug#822728: RFS: libtcod/1.6.0~pre1+dfsg-1 [ITP] -- graphics and utility library for roguelike developers

2016-04-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 6:40 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote: > And for stretch, there's "dpkg-buildpackage -Jauto" (not to be confused with > -jauto, which is evil). -jauto replaces auto with the number of processors. Why is that evil? What does -Jauto do? -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] pkg-fonts team needs help to maintain font-forge

2016-04-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 4:49 PM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > looking at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=745732 > which has been languishing for two years, it looks like the pkg-fonts > team could need some help to maintain this package. There has been some efforts around this recen

Re: scantailor maintainership and alioth

2016-04-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 4:28 PM, Jason Crain wrote: > The current maintainer of scantailor filed a RFA (bug #816504) and I > would like to take over maintainership. I have not packaged for Debian > before but I think I mostly understand the process. I still have to fix > a couple things, but I'v

Re: Package maintainers, I feel like such an outsider

2016-04-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 3:54 AM, Wayne Booth wrote: > I'm a developer of some 3rd party applications, one of which is getting some > traction with a wider audience. For some time I've looked at documentation > and articles about how to get a package into the Debian repositories. > Unfortunately, w

Re: Package maintainers, I feel like such an outsider

2016-04-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 5:23 AM, Adam Borowski wrote: > libphash was removed due to lack of maintenance in Debian, not because of > being dead in general -- at the time, it had an active upstream. I see that > the last upstream version is 3 years old now, though. This is not a > show-stopper, bu

Re: if a changelog is on a wiki, does the debian package need a local version?

2016-04-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 8:02 PM, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > If a package's changelog is published on a wiki, is it still necessary > and/or desirable to ship a changelog with the Debian package? It could be useful, yes. > is something like the following the best solution: > > curl https://btrfs

Bug#819615: RFS: spin/6.4.5-1 [ITP] -- formal software verification tool

2016-04-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Tom Lee wrote: > I added a spin-dbg binary package to the mix earlier today: -dbg packages were obsoleted by automatic debug packages, just build with a new enough debhelper and you will automatically get -dbgsym packages for each binary package. I'd suggest drop

Re: Seeking Sponsors for my package - roadfighter

2016-04-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2016-04-22 at 01:49 -0300, Carlos Donizete Froes wrote: > My problem is in upstream Makefile which causes some lintian. Generally, problems with upstream code or build systems should be fixed by sending upstream a patch and asking them for a new release. If they don't respond, then you ca

Bug#821171: RFS: growl-for-linux/0.8.1-2 [ITP]

2016-04-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 12:44 AM, HAYASHI Kentaro wrote: > 0.8.2 has been released, so I've updated to it. > > > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/growl-for-linux/growl-for-linux_0.8.2-1.dsc I don't intend to sponsor this, but here is a review. Some things that I think block the up

Re: Uncertain ABI with libags and GSequencer

2016-04-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 7:17 PM, Joël Krähemann wrote: > So libags-1.0.so would be a proper SONAME? This SONAME encodes "API number 1.0" and "no ABI number". Ideally you would have the opposite in the SONAME. You might want to read through the Debian shared library policy: https://www.debian.o

Re: Seeking Sponsors for my package - roadfighter

2016-04-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2016-04-20 at 07:19 -0300, Carlos Donizete Froes wrote: > I need to solve part of the lintian, someone help me? You will need to tell us what you need help with before we can help. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed m

Re: Seeking Sponsors for my package - roadfighter

2016-04-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2016-04-18 at 01:15 -0300, Carlos Donizete Froes wrote: > I would like to help in this case. Only make changes by sending upstream patches and getting them to release new versions. If they don't respond you can include the patches in the debian/patches/ directory. -- bye, pabs https://

Re: Review of firefox-branding-iceweasel

2016-04-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 4:46 AM, Sean Whitton wrote: > Yes, it should definitely be xul-ext-iceweasel-branding -- that's > pkg-mozext policy for anything that appears in about:addons. dh_xul-ext > assumes that your package is called xul-ext-foo, and it will generate a > Provides: entry for firefo

Bug#821270: RFS: firefox-branding-iceweasel/0.3.0 [ITP] -- Preserves Iceweasel branding for new Firefox packages

2016-04-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2016-04-18 at 14:31 +, nord-stream wrote: > Technically a Firefox extension cannot change this. It's a .desktop > file's job, I assume. But can we replace a .desktop file from another > package? Adding extra files to be installed also complicates rules a > lot. I think this would have

Bug#811393: Another try at flint-arb sponsoring

2016-04-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 4:00 AM, Julien Puydt wrote: > Uh... isn't that something more for upstream than for me? > Again, that's for upstream. Yes, however it would be great if you could file bugs/patches and or work with upstream to include those tools into their QA procedures. > See above : up

Bug#821312: RFS: classic-theme-restorer/1.5.0-1 -- customize the new Iceweasel look

2016-04-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 11:07 PM, Sean Whitton wrote: > customize the new Iceweasel look I suspect this should be s/Iceweasel/Firefox/ now? -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: Seeking guidance re assisting with existing Debian package

2016-04-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 12:53 PM, Jeremy Davis > Anyway, the version of Adminer in Jessie is really old. That is the expected situation, software in stable is almost never updated to the latest upstream version, but only gets targeted patches for security and other important issues. > there is a

Bug#821270: RFS: firefox-branding-iceweasel/0.3.0 [ITP] -- Preserves Iceweasel branding for new Firefox packages

2016-04-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 3:25 PM, nord-stream wrote: > * Package name: firefox-branding-iceweasel Thoughts: Should the vendorShortName be Debian instead of Mozilla? One thing that isn't rebranded is the window icon, when I do alt-tab I get the Firefox icon. Automatic checks: Build: ... m

Re: Seeking Sponsors for my package - roadfighter

2016-04-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2016-04-18 at 00:16 -0300, Carlos Donizete Froes wrote: > I waiting for more tips and comments, tips, advice or package approval. So far I have found 3 different upstream orig.tar.gz files all for version 1.0.1269. Neither of the upstream orig.tar.gz files you uploaded to mentors are iden

Bug#814921: RFS: sphde/1.1.0-1 [ITP] -- sphde -- Shared Persistent Heap Data Environment library

2016-04-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 8:59 PM, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > BTW one single symbol file please I recommend using the C++ support in dpkg-gensymbols to achieve this, it is better than restricting particular symbols to particular arches etc. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: Seeking Sponsors for my package - roadfighter

2016-04-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 8:39 AM, Adam Borowski wrote: > I'd upload as-is for now. Last time I looked at it, the data wasn't redistributable, let alone DFSG-free. It has been rejected from NEW once due to this. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-games/2016/04/msg1.html -- bye, pabs https

Re: Seeking Sponsors for my package - roadfighter

2016-04-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 7:44 AM, Carlos Donizete Froes wrote: > Awaiting reviews, tips, advice or approval of package. Did you see my earlier review? https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-games/2016/04/msg1.html -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Bug#820900: RFS: [ITP] python-hashids/1.1.0-1

2016-04-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 8:47 PM, Tiago Ilieve wrote: > Thank you. I didn't knew that it was available on experimental only. You can also git clone it and symlink it into your $PATH. The in-development version is usually stable and supports more stuff. > Need to get 566 MB of archives. > After th

Bug#820900: RFS: [ITP] python-hashids/1.1.0-1

2016-04-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 8:04 PM, Tiago Ilieve wrote: > What are you seeing on lintian? I hasn't showed anything besides > "debian-watch-may-check-gpg-signature" (using > display-experimental/display-info/pedantic) to me. Just that IIRC. I didn't check the binary packages though. -- bye, pabs h

Bug#820900: RFS: [ITP] python-hashids/1.1.0-1

2016-04-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 12:30 AM, Tiago Ilieve wrote: > Nice job! A simple and properly packaged Python library. I have > absolutely nothing to ask to be changed. check-all-the-things and lintian print a number of things that could be polished. > P.s.: I see that you have an "@debian.org" addres

Bug#814865: RFS: helm-synth/0.6.2-3 [ITP]

2016-04-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 7:22 AM, Matthew Tytel wrote: > Thanks for the review.. sigh... A lot to do. > > I could use a little guidance though. I'm using this library called JUCE: > https://www.juce.com/ > https://github.com/julianstorer/JUCE > > It looks like a lot of the problems are stemming from

Re: Please give me some advice.

2016-04-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 1:02 PM, 立花一樹 wrote: > 1. This source includes python script code which is named "crpp". > But this code is implemented in python2. > It goes against Debian policy. Python 2 is fine at this point in time. It would be nice if upstream could support Python 3 as well s

Bug#807432: RFS: python-jellyfish/0.5.1-1 [ITP]

2016-04-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 1:57 AM, Diego M. Rodriguez wrote: > On my earlier attempts (<=0.5.1-1) I did include some patches that were > aimed towards fixing pep8/flake8 warnings, although I dropped them on > the 0.5.3 package. The reason was that upstream has expressed his > willingness to ignore E5

Re: fed (fedit) seeking a linux home

2016-04-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 10:28 PM, Herbert Elwood Gilliland III wrote: > Ok, nearly there... thanks for the help, still struggling on one thing, here > is the term log but basically the deb sig doesn't match the other two and > i'm not sure why. i even tried replacing it: > > [10:18:21 main]$ debsi

Bug#819866: RFS: yamllint/1.2.1-1

2016-04-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 5:49 PM, Adrien Vergé wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "yamllint" BTW, some things to fix for next time: The package should probably be arch all not arch any. https://lintian.debian.org/full/adrienve...@gmail.com.html#yamllint https://debtags.debian.org/

Re: avoid/delayed service reload on upgrade

2016-03-31 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 6:03 AM, Fernando Toledo wrote: > If i use systemd (not sysvinit) for start the service, i get a kill to > xserver when upgrading the package from one version to another. The gdm3 package in Debian doesn't have this problem, perhaps you can find the solution there? -- bye

Bug#819615: RFS: spin/6.4.5-1 [ITP] -- formal software verification tool

2016-03-31 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 2:47 PM, Tom Lee wrote: > N.B. no watchfile is present due to the naming strategy of the upstream > tarball: > uscan interprets the version number as "645" when the release is actually > "6.4.5". > if there's a way to teach uscan how to figure this out, I'm all ears! I t

Re: Seeking Sponsors for my package - capitan

2016-03-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 2:17 PM, Carlos Donizete Froes wrote: > I'm looking for a sponsor my game package capitan [Capitan Sevilla - > Remake] ... > Awaiting reviews, tips, advice or approval of package. I don't intend to sponsor this but here is some advice: You may want to join the Debian game

Bug#818974: RFS: gpvdm/4.40-1 – solar cell simulation tool

2016-03-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 12:29:58 + Roderick MacKenzie wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package gpvdm.  To download the > package please visit:  http://gpvdm.com/debian.php >  > Gpvdm is a tool to design and optimize solar cells. I don't intend to sponsor this, but here are some thoughts

Bug#818184: RFS: hal-flash/0.3.3-1 [ITP]

2016-03-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 8:43 PM, HAYASHI Kentaro wrote: > If so, something like hal-compat software exists, (it also provides HAL > compatibility layer which is similar to hal-flash, but it does not > refer about flash DRM at all even though mainly used for it) - > does it acceptable for debian

Re: Proposed updates checklist (was: Re: Bug#818756: fixed in mozilla-devscripts 0.45.1)

2016-03-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 10:45 AM, Sean Whitton wrote: > I'm struggling to find much documentation on the wiki/elsewhere about > the mechanics of proposing an update to stable. FTR, this is documented in devref: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#upload-stable --

Re: Google Code and watchfiles

2016-03-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 10:43 PM, Sascha Steinbiss wrote: > I found this too but apparently -- and unfortunately -- there is no > connection to the original upstream. So the upstream project is dead, your options in descending order of desirability: Migrate the upstream project to a new location

Re: Google Code and watchfiles

2016-03-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 9:57 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 8:58 PM, Sascha Steinbiss wrote: >> Indeed I tried that [1] but I didn't get a response. >> [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2016/02/msg3.html > > Sounds like the project is dead upst

Re: Google Code and watchfiles

2016-03-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 8:58 PM, Sascha Steinbiss wrote: > I have already located the URL that is requested for the JSON via > Firebug, but it does not contain the target URLs but just metadata from > which Google's Javascript constructs the final download URLs. > I'll have to find out if that is

Re: Google Code and watchfiles

2016-03-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 7:40 PM, Sascha Steinbiss wrote: > Does anyone have any ideas? There is probably a way to do it by watching the URLs downloaded by the JavaScript using either the network tab of Firefox WebDeveloper or the equivalent tools in other browsers and using pagemangle to transfor

Bug#818184: RFS: hal-flash/0.3.3-1 [ITP]

2016-03-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 12:20 AM, HAYASHI Kentaro wrote: > libhal1-flash - Compatibility library to allow playback of Flash DRM content Since flash is dying and most of the web video has dropped it at this point I suggest not putting this in Debian, especially since it is solely for DRM, which

Re: HTTPS Only 3.1 (Request For Comment And Sponsor, Browser Security, Open Source, Python)

2016-03-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 11:49 AM, David Leo wrote: > Could you please help add this tool to Debian? You might want to read through these two pages: http://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: CloudOver - help wanted with package maintance

2016-03-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 2:09 AM, Maciej Nabożny wrote: > I'm one of CloudOver.org developers. Since over two years I'm develop this > software for Debian and share as .debs in my private repository for Debian > and Ubuntu. What shall I do to put those packages to Debian's repository? Is > there a

Bug#817245: RFS: yamllint/1.2.0-1

2016-03-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 8:14 PM, Adrien Vergé wrote: > 2016-03-09 12:43 GMT+01:00 Gianfranco Costamagna: >> +override_dh_installman: >> + dh_installman build/man/yamllint.1 > > Yes you're right, this is for man page auto-generation. Probably the upstream build system should also install the m

Bug#816611: RFS: yamllint/1.0.3-1 [ITP] -- A linter for YAML files

2016-03-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2016-03-07 at 12:16 +0100, Adrien Vergé wrote: > Good idea. I did this in my local package, should I upload it on > mentors again? Or wait for the package to be published to unstable? > (Sorry, first package on Debian.) I would suggest that you make this and other upstream changes in the

Bug#814083: RFS: kwstyle/1.0.1+git3224cf2-1 [ITA]

2016-03-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 06 Mar 2016 17:16:35 +0100 Benjamin Eikel wrote: > I had a look at check-all-the-things. I added a quite simple patch for adding  > KWStyle to it (see attachment). Unfortunately, it does not work out of the  > box. KWStyle requires a configuration file that defines the style of your > cod

Bug#816192: RFS: python-proselint/0.3.5-1 [ITP] -- A prose linter

2016-03-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 11:53 PM, Víctor Cuadrado Juan wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "python-proselint" ... > Proselint aggregates knowledge about best practices in writing from world's > greatest writers and editors, and makes it accessible by giving suggestions in > the form

Bug#816683: RFS: cloudabi-utils/0.8-1 [ITP]

2016-03-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 4:27 PM, Ed Schouten wrote: > Got it. Then I think for now the best thing to do would be to ship > this package without cloudabi-reexec until I can think of an easy way > to fully comply with that. > > I've adjusted the package to discard the cloudabi-reexec executables > th

Bug#816611: RFS: yamllint/1.0.3-1 [ITP] -- A linter for YAML files

2016-03-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 9:25 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, 2016-03-04 at 13:01 +0100, Adrien Vergé wrote: >> Thanks, fixed upstream and repackaged as 1.0.4-1. >> https://mentors.debian.net/package/yamllint > > Thanks, I'll look at this tomorrow. Looks like you released

Bug#816611: RFS: yamllint/1.0.3-1 [ITP] -- A linter for YAML files

2016-03-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2016-03-04 at 13:01 +0100, Adrien Vergé wrote: > OK. Please find 4 enhancement commits (they are signed): > > git fetch https://github.com/adrienverge/check-all-the-things.git enhancements > git log 7017206..FETCH_HEAD Merged. Modified the yamllint commit, no need to comment out apt sinc

Bug#816611: RFS: yamllint/1.0.3-1 [ITP] -- A linter for YAML files

2016-03-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 9:43 PM, Adrien Vergé wrote: > yamllint - A linter for YAML files Since I am interested in more static analysis and linting tools for check-all-the-things I'm willing to sponsor this, but only in return for a patch for check-all-the-things adding support for any one of th

Bug#816683: RFS: cloudabi-utils/0.8-1 [ITP]

2016-03-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 5:36 AM, Ed Schouten wrote: > My question is, is this all right according to Debian's project guidelines? If > not, is there anything I can do to address this? ftp-master policy is that all source code must be present in Debian and all binaries shipped by Debian must be bui

Re: how to take advantage of uscan for git upstream source with only commits (read no tags) ?

2016-03-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 8:48 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > I have just tried to download the source, I get > > Parameter ../6.10.26 does not look like a tar archive or a zip file. at > /usr/bin/mk-origtargz line 375. That happens after the download is done. > Let get more hacky: what must be added

Bug#816433: RFS: complexity/1.5+dfsg-1 ITP

2016-03-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 3:59 AM, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: > * New upstream release, which fix issues with non-Unix line endings > (Closes: #816244) > * Standards version bump -- 3.9.7 (No changes needed) Uploaded, thanks for the fix. Some things you might want to get fixed: The file src/cha

Re: how to take advantage of uscan for git upstream source with only commits (read no tags) ?

2016-03-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2016-03-01 at 17:04 +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Of course, the version is somewhere in the source: > the issue would be solved if the automates could play with the involved file. pagemangle should be able to take care of that. > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=802176

Re: how to take advantage of uscan for git upstream source with only commits (read no tags) ?

2016-02-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 1:05 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > I am on my way to package a software whose the upstream source is available > at github with only commits: > the upstream team uploads new material the last Friday of each month, but > without emitting any tags. > Can we use uscan (version 4

Bug#815791: RFS: gtranscribe/0.3-1 [ITP] -- simple GTK+ tool focussed on easy transcription of spoken words

2016-02-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 5:38 AM, Philip Rinn wrote: >> The play/pause button doesn't appear to work for me. This one is fixed in 0.5 :D >> I can fairly consistently get it to segfault in Python using this >> sequence of events: open a short ogg file, press play, press faster, >> crash. > > Sorry

Bug#815791: RFS: gtranscribe/0.3-1 [ITP] -- simple GTK+ tool focussed on easy transcription of spoken words

2016-02-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 5:38 AM, Philip Rinn wrote: > wow, thanks for your detailed review, that's verry much appreciated! Thanks for making gTranscribe :) > Sorry, I can't reproduce those bugs. It works for me - but as Giulio sees the > same > bugs I'll set up a fresh installation to test. Do

Bug#815791: RFS: gtranscribe/0.3-1 [ITP] -- simple GTK+ tool focussed on easy transcription of spoken words

2016-02-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 8:16 PM, Philip Rinn wrote: > Both points are addressed now and updated packaging is uploaded: > http://mentors.debian.net/package/gtranscribe I had a play with the app and love the simplicity, very useful for transcription of single-speaker audio. I have done a review of

Re: Generate install list during package build?

2016-02-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Mike Purvis wrote: > I have a large DSC that aggregates sources from many repos (dozens), > does a single big CMake-based build, and currently produces two debs, > bigpackage-dev (the "include" path), and bigpackage (everything else). I'm assuming that this isn't

Re: Is there a "deb bisect" to figure out when exactly a build broke?

2016-02-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 8:05 PM, Danny Edel wrote: > Is there any automated tool for the [bisect] process? I know of nothing general, but I bet you could abuse `git bisect` for this. Create an empty repo with one file containing the date of the snapshot archive with a working build and then gener

Re: Uniqueness of .deb versions/filenames over distributions

2016-02-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 4:15 AM, Tim Landscheidt wrote: > - Must .deb versions/filenames be unique over all distribu- > tions or is it sufficient if package_0.1_amd64.deb is > unique in a distribution (and thus there is an error in > aptly)? I guess by distributions you mean suites. It depe

Bug#815791: RFS: gtranscribe/0.3-1 [ITP] -- simple GTK+ tool focussed on easy transcription of spoken words

2016-02-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2016-02-25 at 09:42 +0100, Philip Rinn wrote: > I think you misunderstood the purpose of gTrcanscribe. It's not about > subtitles,  > it's about transforming spoken words (like recorded interviews) into text > files  > by transcription. I only see one other program for this purpose in De

Bug#815791: RFS: gtranscribe/0.3-1 [ITP] -- simple GTK+ tool focussed on easy transcription of spoken words

2016-02-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 9:35 PM, Philip Rinn wrote: > gTranscribe is a simple GTK+ tool to transcribe audio files and other > sources. The playback speed can be adjusted without changing the pitch of > the > voice. It supports spell checking and resuming at the last transcribed > position

Re: Bug#813813: RFS: msi-keyboard -- command line tool to change MSI steelseries keyboards color setup

2016-02-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 6:59 PM, Giulio Paci wrote: > Do you have any suggestions about where to look for sponsor (maybe a group > dedicated to hardware support or laptops or gaming)? A couple of possibilities: https://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/ https://wiki.debian.org/Games/Team -- bye,

diffoscope for reviewing changes to packages

2016-02-21 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, In case you haven't heard about it, diffoscope is a tool that came out of the reproducible builds work. It has many uses outside reproducible builds, in particular I have been using it for reviewing changes to source and binary packages. It is really quite great for doing that on the termi

Re: Looking for sponsors and packers..

2016-02-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 12:43 AM, Dirk Lindner wrote: > looking for People how can help me to bring my Debian package for > http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Kate+Perl-Plug-In?content=170611 > stable. You will need to provide a Debian source package, please read through this: http://mentors.d

Re: how to handle not much used feature which depends on a deprecated technology

2016-02-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 3:28 AM, toogley wrote: > what do you think about that? Am i missing sth? I would go with 1) or 3) add support for systemd-logind and whatever other options there are for people who don't like systemd (ConsoleKit2 etc) and send that to upstream. -- bye, pabs https://wik

Re: RFC: Packaging a toolchain for CloudABI, a new architecture/runtime

2016-02-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 12:47 AM, Alex Willmer wrote: > I'm not seeking to have a Debian port of CloudABI, but agreed. Oh, so you are only looking at packaging a cross-compilation toolchain, woops. Some more appropriate links: https://wiki.debian.org/CrossCompiling https://wiki.debian.org/Cross

Re: RFC: Packaging a toolchain for CloudABI, a new architecture/runtime

2016-02-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 7:57 AM, Alex Willmer wrote: > 1. Are there specific rules/procedures regarding adding an entry to > the ostable & tripletable files used by dpkg-architecture? Or is it > just another patch submission? Probably just a patch submission, but check the dpkg team wiki pages:

Re: Bug#810822: ITP: MooseFS

2016-01-17 Thread Paul Wise
Radical suggestion: end MooseFS development, MooseFS devs move to working in public within the LizardFS community, porting MooseFS features over. Could help repair trust. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/

Re: help with glances package

2016-01-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 12:56 PM, Daniel Echeverry wrote: > I am working in adopt glances package, This package content prebuilt > javascript object[1] and other lintian warnings, I tried fix this, > overwriting that javascript objects from d/rules and make symbol > links to the proper js pack

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

2016-01-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 5:17 AM, Piotr Robert Konopelko wrote: > I forgot to mention, that there is a fork of MooseFS in Debian repository > already, called LizardFS. Please let the security team know so that they can add the fork to their code copies metadata. https://wiki.debian.org/EmbeddedC

Re: Re: Re: mentor wanted

2016-01-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 10:53 AM, Stephan Foley wrote: > Well, I did post to debian-blends and they told me to RTFM, > which I thought was pretty funny. I guess you are referring to this mail where Andreas pointed you at the documentation that answers some of your questions. https://lists.debian

Re: Re: mentor wanted

2016-01-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 2:44 AM, Stephan Foley wrote: > Examples of issues would be: > > - getting links on blends.debian.org > > - setting up pages on blends.debian.org/fluxbox/ (I think I need a symbolic > link from > https://blend-fluxbox.alioth.debian.org/ but I don't know how to access > tha

Re: mentor wanted

2016-01-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 1:35 AM, Stephan Foley wrote: > Unfortunately, I've been made project leader on > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianFluxbox and I'm totally new to Debian > development...so I've been making a lot of public mistakes. It would > be great if someone with experience could provide a

Bug#809623: RFS: telegram-purple/1.2.3-1

2016-01-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 1:25 AM, Ben Wiederhake wrote: > How about an option that changes the following: > - Current: thousands of warning for French, because the French dict is > missing. > - Suggested: single warning, saying "French dictionary not found (expected > at /usr/share/some/where)" > >

Bug#809623: RFS: telegram-purple/1.2.3-1

2016-01-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 3:31 AM, Ben Wiederhake wrote: > - flawfinder yields too many results to be practical (~ 2460 lines). This is > mostly due to libtgl being written in a style that uses static arrays for > everything, including parsing and output. I've been thinking of making the default for

Re: su2 in debian

2016-01-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 1:42 AM, Mauro Darida wrote: > W: su2: script-with-language-extension usr/bin/compute_polar.py I guess this software is different to all other software out there and that you should discuss with upstream how to get the normal Debian filesystem layout. > I have also one unr

Bug#809623: RFS: telegram-purple/1.2.3-1

2016-01-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 12:29 AM, Ben Wiederhake wrote: > Telegram-purple is a generic purple-plugin, and also works well with Adium, > Finch, and well enough with certain libppurple-using frontends such as > telepathy-haze and Spectrum. > So including "pidgin" into the name would be highly mislead

Bug#809623: RFS: telegram-purple/1.2.3-1

2016-01-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 8:49 AM, Ben Wiederhake wrote: > * Package name: telegram-purple This should probably be named pidgin-telegram in line with the other pidgin/libpurple plugins we have in the archive already. > The package is (of course) lintian clean and passes several other tests. I

Bug#808538: RFS: corebird

2015-12-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 2:16 AM, Philip Rinn wrote: > I removed the "--parallel" now. If the upstream build system supports parallel builds, you are just wasting buildd time by removing that option, please put it back in. The only reason that it isn't the default yet is because not all upstream

Bug#808613: RFS: re2c/0.15.3-1 [ITA] -- tool for generating fast C-based recognizers

2015-12-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 12:30 AM, Adam Borowski wrote: > Debugging the failure requires access to a machine, real or emulated, of one > of architectures that fail. I suspect that you have no mips, powerpc, > s390x, hppa or sparc64 machines lying around -- and access to Debian's > porterboxes is r

Re: debian/watch - check multiple hosts?

2015-12-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 3:24 PM, Andreas Metzler wrote: > is it possible to have uscan check multiple hosts? e.g. > for GNU findutils I would like to look at both stable and unstable > releases i.e. combining these two watchfiles: uscan already supports this, add two sites in one watch file: vers

Re: Including new packages in Debian

2015-12-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 8:26 AM, Niels Thykier wrote: >> I'm looking to understand how one gets a given software package considered >> for inclusion in Debian. I have 3 software components, one of which is >> https://github.com/Zewo/libvenice , and I'm curious as to where do I even >> start for g

Bug#808461: sponsorship-requests: mdp [ITP] -- command-line based markdown presentation tool

2015-12-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 9:24 PM, Lev Lamberov wrote: > 20.12.2015 17:24, Andrew Shadura пишет: >> we need to rename yours > > I've renames source package to mdp-src. Don't know whether it's a good name. Maybe expand the 3 letters to words: markdown-presentation. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian

Bug#807763: RFS: tomahawk-player/0.8.4-1 [ITP]

2015-12-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 10:40 PM, Stefan Ahlers wrote: > How can I handle the lintian error message "source-is-missing"? > I'm unable to find the source code of this JavaScript files in the internet. data/js/cryptojs**.js are already in the archive as libjs-cryptojs. data/www/js/html5shim.js isn

Re: f.el dependency loop (was: Re: Cask & dependencies)

2015-12-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 6:09 AM, Sean Whitton wrote: > 1) Use the nocheck build profile to build and upload f-el without >running its tests. Then build and upload shut-up and undercover. >Then build and upload a full version of f-el. > > 2) Use the nocheck build profile to build and uploa

Bug#782847: endless-sky: uploaded

2015-12-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 1:24 AM, Adam Borowski wrote: > When there's a new version, there's no need to file a RFS, you can contact > me directly. It is better to file an RFS since it allows for public reviews and means that there are more people available to do the upload. If you want you can al

Bug#807310: RFS: network-manager-ssh/0.9.4-1 [ITP] - ssh vpn for network manager

2015-12-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2015-12-08 at 08:45 +, Lennart Weller wrote: > I know it's weird and somewhat unusual but all the other nm plugins do the > same. So I went with it: Hmm, ok. > So I guess the icon went x -> pptp -> openvpn -> ssh. Please do ask upstream about it. > Most of them seem alright to me

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