Re: RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

2009-04-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Matthias Julius m...@julius-net.net wrote: I would really be grateful if someone could take a look at this package and possibly upload it for me. You build-depend on libdb-dev, in sid that depends on libdb4.7-dev but the current dnshistory package is built

Re: RFS: gnome-inm-forecast (updated package)

2009-04-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Gustavo Iñiguez Goya g...@kutxa.homeunix.org wrote: gnome-inm-forecast displays on the gnome-panel, the weather forecast for the following 7 days. Unlike others applets like gweather, this applet does not display the current weather for a particular location,

Re: RFS: gnome-inm-forecast (updated package)

2009-04-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs dmitrij.led...@gmail.com wrote: Is it ok to include LP: # bug numbers in changelog in packages aimed at debian? Yes, definitely. The LP bugs will be closed when the package is synced to Ubuntu. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: Criteria for sponsoring packages

2009-04-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org wrote: Brief, to the point and clear. I think I'll add that to my list of other sponsor requirements. http://people.debian.org/~codehelp/#sponsors lwall hasn't moved his sponsoring page to the new people.d.o, you might want

Re: RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

2009-04-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Matthias Julius m...@julius-net.net wrote: I am not quite sure how to deal with that one.  Since Luk Claes NMUed the package to change the Build-Depends from libdb4.4-dev to libdb-dev I don't really have control over which libdb version dnshistory is built

Re: RFS: gnome-inm-forecast (updated package)

2009-04-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Gustavo Iñiguez Goya g...@kutxa.homeunix.org wrote: The gweather team seems to have in mind a big change for the applet. Probably a whole rewrite: http://live.gnome.org/WeatherApplet I'm not sure if they would accept in the meantime such changes. Or do you

Re: RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

2009-04-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Matthias Julius m...@julius-net.net wrote: Matthias Julius m...@julius-net.net writes: Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: I don't see anything in the maintainer scripts that would migrate the db files. Does dnshistory or libdb handle upgrading the on-disk db

Re: RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

2009-05-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Matthias Julius m...@julius-net.net wrote: As explained in another post this should not affect the user since the database format has not changed. Please investigate the DB-upgrade thing Clint mentioned and forward that upstream, with a patch if you are able.

Re: RFS: elgg

2009-05-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 1:18 AM, Brett Profitt brett.prof...@gmail.com wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package elgg. * Package name    : elgg  Version         : 1.5-1  Upstream Author : Curverider LLT i...@curveriderhq.com * URL             : http://www.elgg.org *

Re: RFS: gtk-theme-switch (updated package)

2009-05-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Patrick Matthäi pmatth...@debian.org wrote: Uploaded. Don't you have some comments on the package? At the very least you could have mentioned that it should not be a native package. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: RFS: gtk-theme-switch (updated package)

2009-05-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Patrick Matthäi pmatth...@debian.org wrote: Since this release it is maintained as a Debian native package. That doesn't mean it is correct to do so :) -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: On the quest for automated QA checks (was: Re: RFS: mpview)

2009-05-02 Thread Paul Wise
2009/5/3 Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br: Maybe things that the devscripts package does could be integrated... Some facts that are not exactly errors, but that might be annoying include and could lead to a lot of false positives, but also finer points where the attention of sponsors should be

Re: RFS: udav

2009-05-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Salvatore Bonaccorso salvatore.bonacco...@gmail.com wrote: - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/u/udav/udav_0.5.1-1.dsc Some feedback based on the diff.gz: Please get your package description reviewed by the debian-l10n-englist email list, it

Re: Bug#510377: RFS: udav

2009-05-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Salvatore Bonaccorso salvatore.bonacco...@gmail.com wrote: How the above spelling-error-in-binary was done? I have a pbuilder hook that runs this lintian command and always use the latest lintian from sid: lintian --info --display-info --display-experimental

Re: Lintian clean? (was: Re: RFS: mpview)

2009-05-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 3:26 PM, George Danchev danc...@spnet.net wrote: Running just lintian on m.d.o is not enough, what is indeed needed is lintian from *sid* to be run over the package. I'm guessing that m.d.o is running lintian from stable which knows less than the lintian from sid for

Re: Still regarding the QA quest (was: Re: RFS: udav)

2009-05-03 Thread Paul Wise
2009/5/3 Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br: On May 03 2009, Paul Wise wrote: Some feedback based on the diff.gz: (...) It might be a good idea to put an icon in the menu file. From the upstream screenshots it looks like they have one you could use. This one could be automated, perhaps

Re: On the quest for automated QA checks

2009-05-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: I wonder if the easy way to do this would be to write something (this wouldn't be Lintian) that analyzes a build log for interesting issues. debexpo will probably do this. IIRC the hppa (or was it ia64) porters do this for gcc

Re: Lintian clean? (was: Re: RFS: mpview)

2009-05-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 4:25 AM, Adeodato Simó d...@net.com.org.es wrote: Will/could/should debexpo require that uploads are accompanied with binaries, even if to throw them away after running eg. lintian? Additionally, would it be useful to keep them around, but available only for sponsors? I

Re: Lintian clean? (was: Re: RFS: mpview)

2009-05-04 Thread Paul Wise
2009/5/5 Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br: Keeping the binaries is a good thing. One more point to use a virtualization solution for this. But also, is there enough space on mentors.d.n? No idea there, I assume it is OK though. I'd like a buildd network for mentors so we can check for FTBFS,

Re: RFS: udav

2009-05-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 3:20 AM, Salvatore Bonaccorso salvatore.bonacco...@gmail.com wrote: I uploaded a new fixed version to mentors.debian.net dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/u/udav/udav_0.5.1-1.dsc Some more things: Some of the images in help/pics/ contain this comment but

Re: Template for RFS messages

2009-05-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: How do we get the template, that is still being used by dozens of RFS submissions, amended with some of the fixes discussed in many threads here in recent months? The most obvious way to get this fixed would be to

Re: RFS: elgg

2009-05-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Brett Profitt brett.prof...@gmail.com wrote: I have to respectfully disagree that this is a sign of code quality. I can agree that allowing multiple sites is good practice, but it is a feature of the software, not an indication of code quality.  Many--if not

Re: Update on MyOS and scim-waitzar/libwaitzar (Attn. Paul Wise)

2009-05-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 5:49 PM, S'orlok Reaves sorlok_rea...@yahoo.com wrote:  The Burmese responded positively to the khmerOS suggestion, setting up a central wiki for translators and localization:  http://l10n.my-mm.org/doku.php  At the moment, resources are too limited to do anything

Re: RFS (resent): libdumbnet

2009-05-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 1:48 AM, Jan Christoph Nordholz he...@pool.math.tu-berlin.de wrote: Upstream is dormant since I/2007 judging from the CVS graphs over at SF.[3] In that case, please take over the upstream project: Contact the admins of the project to get them to add you as an admin.

Re: include desktop file and icon

2009-05-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 6:12 AM, Grammostola Rosea rosea.grammost...@gmail.com wrote: [Desktop Entry] Name=PHASEX Comment=Phase Harmonic Advanced Synthesis Experiment Icon=phasex-icon.png Exec=phasex Terminal=false Type=Application Encoding=UTF-8 X-Desktop-File-Install-Version=0.10

Re: RFS (resent): libdumbnet

2009-05-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Jan C. Nordholz j...@gmx.net wrote: that is a different matter that doesn't void my RFS. libdnet has quite a number of reverse dependencies in the archive and is in good shape (our bugtracker is effectively empty, and the upstream tracker doesn't contain any

Re: RFS (resent): libdumbnet

2009-05-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Jan C. Nordholz j...@gmx.net wrote: Well, nmap has applied a ton of patches on top of its libdnet copy, and I've only scrolled through the descriptions a few weeks ago - I'm not sure if I'd like to merge all of those into the library if I was

Re: RFS: udav

2009-05-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 2:15 AM, Salvatore Bonaccorso salvatore.bonacco...@gmail.com wrote: At this time I was again in contact with Alexey, the upstream author. He explained me the following regarding the icons: 8 The icon

Re: Update on MyOS and scim-waitzar/libwaitzar (Attn. Paul Wise)

2009-05-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 2:05 PM, S'orlok Reaves sorlok_rea...@yahoo.com wrote:   * Is there anyone out there who is willing to sponsor this package? It'll take some time for me to tidy up the package (and I will certainly contact the scim/ibus guys) but if there are any bilingual mentors

Re: include desktop file and icon

2009-05-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Grammostola Rosea rosea.grammost...@gmail.com wrote: my install file looks like: phasex-0.11.1/phasex.desktop  usr/share/applications phasex-0.11.1/pixmaps/* usr/share/pixmaps Comments, suggestions to solve this? phasex.desktop usr/share/applications

Re: RFS: cconv -- A iconv based simplified-traditional chinese conversion tool

2009-05-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Vern Sun s5u...@gmail.com wrote: cconv      - iconv based simplified-traditional chinese conversion tool cconv-dev  - iconv based simplified-traditional chinese conversion tool (development files) This tool is useful to convert all existing Chinese WML files

Re: RFS: cconv -- A iconv based simplified-traditional chinese conversion tool

2009-05-12 Thread Paul Wise
2009/5/12 LI Daobing lidaob...@debian.org: iconv can't cover this. It sounds like an automatic translation instead of changing encoding. i don't know how to explain this, but if you lived in Chinese culture, you should know it's true. zh-autoconvert has a similar function like this

Re: RFS (resent): libdumbnet

2009-05-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Jan C. Nordholz j...@gmx.net wrote: If you're still willing to sponsor libdnet: upstream is not very active (wrt. source changes), but responds quickly. Review below. Upstream location has changed, too. Argh, there is no indication at the sf.net page that it

Re: Should clean revert everything to pristine source?

2009-05-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Thibaut Paumard paum...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: On many of my packages, the configure phase modifies some files (e.g. Makefile). The lines which are overwritten are totally irrelevant: they reflect the particular set-up on which the upstream developer

Re: Upload just to fix a watch file?

2009-05-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Andrea Bolognani e...@kiyuko.org wrote: Since the upstream website has been redesigned, the watch file for one of my packages[1] has stopped working. The fix is a trivial one-line patch, so I was wondering if such a minor change could warrant a new upload.

Re: Upload just to fix a watch file?

2009-05-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Andrea Bolognani e...@kiyuko.org wrote: Write a test suite and send it upstream. I won't write a test suite for Beef, or otherwise improve it, since I plan to rewrite it on top of the Cattle library[1] as soon as said library is mature enough. The library,

Re: How to create quilt-based source packages using debuild

2009-05-16 Thread Paul Wise
2009/5/17 Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br: Does the archive accept 3.0 source packages already? If yes, then I think that I will migrate some of my packages. No: http://bugs.debian.org/457345 -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: architecture wildcards, type-handling, etc.

2009-05-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Laurent Guignard lguignard.deb...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 14 May 2009 19:25:46 +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: btw, what p-a-s mean in this context? p-a-s : dict say Publicly Available Specifications (ISO) I think this is the correct signification but i

Re: RFS: scid (updated package)

2009-05-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 6:04 PM, W. van den Akker list...@wilsoft.nl wrote: - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/scid/scid_3.7.3-1.dsc Here is a review: Some warnings from dpkg-shlibdeps, please investigate and forward upstream if appropriate: dpkg-shlibdeps: warning:

Re: RFS: storebackup (updated package, adoption, for experimental)

2009-05-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Ryan Niebur ryanrya...@gmail.com wrote: still no reponse from anybody, but I've reuploaded with the DM-Upload-Allowed field added. If this is a problem for somebody who wants to sponsor it, I will remove it. The DM-Upload-Allowed is for sponsors *only* to add,

Re: RFS: iguanair

2009-05-22 Thread Paul Wise
2009/5/22 Stefanos Harhalakis v...@v13.gr: iguanair   - IguanaWorks IR daemon/driver iguanair-python - IguanaWorks IR python bindings Should be python-iguanair. iguanair-reflasher - IguanaWorks IR reflasher utility libiguanair - IguanaWorks IR support library Package name should contain

Re: RFS: osgppu (3rd try)

2009-05-24 Thread Paul Wise
2009/5/25 Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br: What happened to my proposal for a new template of packages to be sponsored? The reactions seemed to be that it was an improvement over what mentors.d.n offers currently. The maintainers of mentors.d.n don't nessecarily follow this list, please

Re: Not RFS: febootstrap (ITP #530425)

2009-05-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote: This isn't (yet) a request for sponsorship.  Just hoping that someone will take a look at this package to see how I've done.  It's been quite a number of years since I did any Debian packaging, so I've probably made

Re: Not RFS: libguestfs (ITP #530427)

2009-05-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote: This package also uses febootstrap to build a Fedora appliance[0], which is then embedded in the resulting binary[1].  The Fedora appliance is of course built out of Fedora RPMs, and in the default configuration

Re: Proper dependency on essential package (dpkg) for preinst

2009-05-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 1:34 AM, Helge Kreutzmann deb...@helgefjell.de wrote: I recently got an RC bug (#530653) which turned out to be a change in dpkg's update-alternative (the string and output channel of an error message was changed which is used in the preinst). So I prepared a new

Re: RFS: skanlite

2009-05-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Kai Wasserbäch deb...@carbon-project.org wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package skanlite. * Package name    : skanlite  Version         : 0.3-1  Upstream Author : Kåre Särs kare.s...@iki.fi                    Arseniy Lartsev receive-s...@yandex.ru

Re: RFS: poco (updated package)

2009-06-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs dmitrij.led...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not a Debian Developer but I've met this one with one of my upstreams as well. The reasoning is very vague. My upstream has been keeping an ancient copy of zlib in their tree/releases just because it's

Re: Re-RFS-ing

2009-06-04 Thread Paul Wise
The FAQ covers this and other related questions: http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html In short there are no guarantees and it is up to you to motivate a DD to sponsor your package(s). -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: RFS: subnetcalc

2009-06-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 1:25 AM, Thijs Kinkhorstth...@debian.org wrote: Perhaps you can make it explicit in the description what this package offers over ipcalc which is already in the archive since a long time. And sipcalc, which does similar stuff. -- bye, pabs

Re: RFS: iulib (2nd attempt)

2009-06-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Sandro Tosimo...@debian.org wrote: Please someone sponsor it. I've already reviewed the package some time ago, but I step back since I'm not sure about this library package, in particular because it's a static lib one. Why is it a static library instead of a

Re: RFS: gvpe, the GNU Virtual Private Ethernet daemon

2009-06-12 Thread Paul Wise
Replying in this thread because I didn't receive any reply to my direct emails and couldn't contact you on IRC; what is the status of whohas? I'm especially interested in #523497 being fixed, but there are a few wishlist items that would be nice to have and would probably be easy for upstream to

Re: RFS: gvpe, the GNU Virtual Private Ethernet daemon

2009-06-12 Thread Paul Wise
I forgot to mention this PackageMap thing being developed for smolt that you might want to inform upstream about: http://blog.hartwork.org/?p=373 -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: RFS: iulib (2nd attempt)

2009-06-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Paul Wisep...@debian.org wrote: Why is it a static library instead of a shared one? PS: libpkg-guide is a good shared library packaging reference, but be aware of the two bugs filed against it. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To

Re: RFS: mupen64plus

2009-06-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 6:00 AM, Sven Eckelmannsven.eckelm...@gmx.de wrote: On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:22:21 -0700 Piotr Ożarowski wrote: * Please remove Dm-Upload-Allowed, I don't know you guys and even if I   would, I'd most probably not upload a NEW package with this flag. If it is your opinion

Re: gimp-gap needs new upstream of libmpeg3

2009-06-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Thibaut Paumard wrote: What would be the best way to proceed, so that things end up happening nicely and peacefully? The developers-reference contains information about dealing with MIA maintainers. In this case, ender appears quite MIA. -- bye, pabs

Re: Packaging data for a CGI

2009-06-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Peter Pentchevr...@ringlet.net wrote: Your package should place the files into /usr/share/hoogle/www/. After that, it should either create a file in /etc/apache2/conf.d/ containing something like this (that's what phppgadmin does):  Alias /hoogle

Re: RFS: kabikaboo

2009-06-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Dave Kerr aid...@shaw.ca wrote: I have recently added a sponsorship entry for it here: http://sponsors.debian.net/viewpkg.php?id=480 I don't think anyone uses that site any more. http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/k/kabikaboo/kabikaboo_1.1.1.dsc

Re: deal with autoreconf -i

2009-06-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Hideki Yamanehenr...@debian.or.jp wrote:  What is the smart way to deal with the package that uses autoreconf -i?  If I just package it, direct source change would be added to diff.gz,  and cannot rebuild it by error. Teach upstream to use automake's 'make

Re: RFS: xburst-tools

2009-07-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 5:29 PM, xiangfuxiangf...@gmail.com wrote: W: xburst-tools source: out-of-date-standards-version 3.8.0 (current is 3.8.2) I have update by 'sudo dpkg -i ./debian-policy_3.8.2.0_all.deb' and in the control file it's still 3.8.0 when I run 'dpkg-buildpackage

Re: RFS: bluemindo (updated package)

2009-07-03 Thread Paul Wise
2009/7/2 Thibaut GIRKA t...@sitedethib.com: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.2.1-2 of my package bluemindo. Uploaded. Please forward the manual page upstream if you haven't already. In future, please be a bit more verbose in the changelog, for example: * Fixed the watch

Re: RFS: copher 0.2.0-1 (danchev)

2009-07-04 Thread Paul Wise
2009/7/4 George Danchev danc...@spnet.net: Unfortunately, I'll be far away from my gpg key until Sunday night (UTC) and I would appreciate if another sponsor could take a look and upload before I get back... Uploaded. I hope you both don't mind, but I took the liberty of switching the urgency

Re: RFS: xburst-tools

2009-07-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 11:51 AM, xiangfuxiangf...@gmail.com wrote: 1. In my package there are two cross-compile bin file. (also source code there) can I upload a package to Debian, that include two cross-compile bin .deb file? (the cross-compile toolchain also Free Software, from openWRT)

Re: RFS: xburst-tools

2009-07-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:25 PM, xiangfuxiangf...@gmail.com wrote: is there any cross-compiler in Debian before? Yes: gcc-avr gcc-h8300-hms gcc-m68hc1x mingw32 z88dk sdcc fpc And probably more. Which cross-compiler does xburst-tools need? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise --

Re: RFS: xburst-tools

2009-07-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:44 PM, xiangfuxiangf...@gmail.com wrote: it's mipsel-linux- or mipsel-openwrt-linux- I will try to search more info about cross-compiler in Debian. Until a cross-compiler is available, since one of the Debian architectures is mipsel, you could just build the package on

Re: bug report for stable version

2009-07-08 Thread Paul Wise
2009/7/8 Stefanos Harhalakis v...@v13.gr: There is a bug report for libnet1 which I maintain (bug #536202). The bug report is for the stable version while the version in testing already fixes this bug. What is the proper handling for this bug report? Should I just close the bug as already

Re: Packaging reSIProcate (unstable API / sonames / contrib directory)

2009-07-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Gregor Jasnygja...@googlemail.com wrote: A) The API of the library is not stable. From version to version (e.g. 1.4 to 1.5) virtual functions, arguments, etc. are changing. If nothing other than repro/return-server uses the libraries, it might be a good idea to

Re: looking for sponsor for a non-free package

2009-07-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Harald Dunkelharald.dun...@t-online.de wrote: I think the real problem is mixing free and non-free sources in the same *.orig.tar.gz. What would be your recommendation to handle this? Get upstream to replace the non-free bits with free bits. Some free game

Re: looking for sponsor for a non-free package

2009-07-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Harald Dunkel harald.dun...@t-online.de wrote: Upstream doesn't support this package anymore. All too common unfortunately. In that case, I suggest a fork (since you can't hijack it). At least FreeBSD also includes blockade too BTW. The non-free part is not a

Re: RFS: iulib (5th attempt)

2009-07-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:50 PM, Bernd Zeimetz be...@bzed.de wrote: oh please don't talk new maintainers into following DEPs until they're accepted generally. Agreed. I do think it is a good idea to mention them in passing though. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To

Re: different debian/symbols for 32 and 64 bit system?

2009-07-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 5:06 AM, Jaromír Mikešmira.mi...@seznam.cz wrote: Working debian symbols files are in attachments. (they are different in the end of them) You have a lot of #MISSING: lines, did the ABI get broken without a SONAME change. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: different debian/symbols for 32 and 64 bit system?

2009-07-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Jaromír Mikešmira.mi...@seznam.cz wrote: I am not sure if I understand well your question. I've change nothing consciously I create new symbols file ... there were no one before my upgrade. Maybe you can point me somewhere to help me understand. Please read

Re: Different upstream tar.gz

2009-07-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Jeffrey Ratcliffejeffrey.ratcli...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a standard solution for this? Poke upstream until a sane tarball drops out, repack and add +dfsg1 to the upstream version until then. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To

Re: Packaging kakadu (JPEG 2000) binaries

2009-08-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 7:29 PM, mathieu.malate...@gmail.com wrote: You are free to play around with these executables and even to re-distribute them, so long as such use or re-distribution is accompanied this copyright notice and is not for commercial gain. Note: Binaries can only be used for

Re: RFS: remotetea

2009-08-03 Thread Paul Wise
2009/8/3 Picca Frédéric-Emmanuel frederic-emmanuel.pi...@synchrotron-soleil.fr: This is my first java package so I need your advices about the way to add the right dependencies and how to deal with all the java implementations in Debian. Which one is the debian default java implementation ?.

Re: RFS: remotetea

2009-08-03 Thread Paul Wise
2009/8/3 Picca Frédéric-Emmanuel frederic-emmanuel.pi...@synchrotron-soleil.fr: I already sent this message twice on the debian-java list without answer :(. Bummer :( It would be nice to have some feedback about the packaging to know if I work in the right direction. I don't know anything

Re: RFS: remotetea

2009-08-03 Thread Paul Wise
2009/8/3 Picca Frédéric-Emmanuel frederic-emmanuel.pi...@synchrotron-soleil.fr: Based on the copyright file, you've repacked the tarball, a get-orig-source target in debian/rules might be appropriate. Do you have a link to explain how to write this rule ? I forget where exactly, but

Re: RFS: yajl

2009-08-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:58 PM, John Stamp jst...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: As for applications, argyll[2] includes libyajl in its private libraries, I've added a note about this to the testing security team's embedded-code-copies file, please file a bug on argyll once yajl enters Debian

Re: Software using the RSA Data Security, Inc. implementation of MD5 algorithm.

2009-08-06 Thread Paul Wise
Here is a public-domain one: http://www.fourmilab.ch/md5/ In addition, it seems that there are 438 copies of md5.c in sid main/contrib, you might find a better license there: http://walrus.rave.org/source/search?q=defs=refs=path=md5.chist= -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise --

Re: Software using the RSA Data Security, Inc. implementation of MD5 algorithm.

2009-08-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 3:47 AM, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Can you suggest a means of searching for more occurrences of this bug (a non-free MD5 implementation in an otherwise-free work) in Debian? Hopefully one that is more automated than “manually trawl the source code”;

Re: RFS: djmount

2009-08-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Dario Minnucci (midget)deb...@midworld.net wrote: Nick Leverton wrote: The upstream package contains private copies of libtalloc and pupnp, both of which are already included in Debian in their own right (libtalloc1 and libupnp3).  Perhaps you could consider

Re: RFS: djmount

2009-08-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 4:10 AM, Dario Minnucci (midget)deb...@midworld.net wrote: PS: Shall I write back to the one who answers my questions or directly back to the list, or both? http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To

Re: How to specify a command to run if SELinux is installed subsequent to installing a package

2009-08-12 Thread Paul Wise
Probably just run chcon at install time when selinux is active? You want the maintainer scripts stuff, which is documented here: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscripts.html http://women.debian.org/wiki/English/MaintainerScripts -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: RFS: trend

2009-08-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Yuri D'Eliawav...@users.sf.net wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package trend. Which of the things I wrote in private mail did you take action on and which actions did you take for each of them? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To

Re: RFS: trend

2009-08-12 Thread Paul Wise
Good work! On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Yuri D'Eliawav...@users.sf.net wrote: qemubuilder looked promising for testing all the archs at once, but failed to work for me (bug #441043). Bummer. Apparently qemu 0.11 will be much better in terms of arch support, so you might consider

Re: RFS: trend

2009-08-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Yuri D'Elia wav...@users.sf.net wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package trend. A review of the source, binary packages and upstream code: The configure/configure-stamp targets don't do anything so they can probably be removed, unless you switch

Re: RFS: trend

2009-08-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Yuri D'Eliawav...@users.sf.net wrote: On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:38:27 +0800 Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: One more thing, is there a non-interactive test suite? This would be useful to ensure that it works on all the platforms where it builds. Unfortunately

Re: RFS: trend

2009-08-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Yuri D'Eliawav...@users.sf.net wrote: On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:00:04 +0800 Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: IIRC debian policy recommends compiling with -Wall, but trend is not compiled that way. Should I add these flags manually in debian/rules? The usual way

Re: RFS: trend

2009-08-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 3:42 AM, Yuri D'Eliawav...@users.sf.net wrote: On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:00:04 +0800 Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: debian/rules doesn't handle DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt or DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=parallel=N (see debian-policy). Fixed. I've also overridden CXXFLAGS, first

Re: Automated testing for GUI programs

2009-08-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Ben Finneyben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes: One option (which I never got around to evaluating) is Dogtail: Sadly the Debian ‘python-dogtail’ package appears to be unmaintained. Latest upload 2006-12-16, and has

Re: RFS: convert2audio

2009-08-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Ralf Elevenral...@gmx.net wrote: * Package name    : convert2audio  Version         : 0.1.1-0ubuntu2 Perhaps you meant to upload this package to Ubuntu REVU instead of Debian mentors?  Upstream Author : [fill in name and email of upstream] * URL            

Re: uscan / recent change on sf.net

2009-08-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Mathieu Malaterremathieu.malate...@gmail.com wrote:  Does anyone knows what action should be taken to solve the issue with uscan and the recent sf.net reorganization. Eg.: Nothing. The maintainers of the sf.net QA redirector have contacted sf.net to resolve the

Re: writing watch file for libproj4

2009-08-18 Thread Paul Wise
Talk to upstream and get them to fix their website. Alternatively, write a redirector website that downloads the page, parses it and regurgitates some sane HTML. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: writing watch file for libproj4

2009-08-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Mathieu Malaterre mathieu.malate...@gmail.com wrote: I thought I would be able to use the php script directly from uscan: http://dl.maptools.org/dl/libproj4/index.php Does anyone knows how to use links to download that from a simple shell script ? Please

Re: Requests to sponsor new library packages (was: why?)

2009-08-18 Thread Paul Wise
2009/8/19 Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net: I've had to do this with Perl modules once - I wanted to package a particular module, but it had a chain of dependencies that were not packaged yet.  What I did was file a series of ITP bugs, stating my intentions clearly - first for the target

Re: RFS: nsis-2.45-1 [attn: pabs]

2009-08-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Thomas Gauglertho...@dadie.net wrote: Paul Wise (also known as pabs) offered me to take over the maintenance of the Nullsoft Scriptable Install System (NSIS). Thanks a lot for accepting! Please let me know if I missed anything preventing the upload

Re: packager tools

2009-08-20 Thread Paul Wise
I think you are looking for wwwconfig-common, dbconfig-common and javascript-common. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Package uploaded with UNRELEASED distribution.

2009-08-20 Thread Paul Wise
The changes file says Distribution: unstable: http://packages.qa.debian.org/v/velvet/news/20090819T133220Z.html No idea how you did that nor what the consequences are. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: how can i become a DD?

2009-08-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 4:39 PM, tangke mumut...@gmail.com wrote: I want to become a DD ,but I need an advocate. who can help me? Please see [1] for how to join Debian. I notice that you are working for lemote.com, the OEM for several Debian-based laptops[2]. If that is the case, please

Re: Need help for xiterm+thai on s390 compilation failed

2009-08-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:17 AM, Neutron Soutmunneo.neut...@gmail.com wrote: https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=xiterm%2Bthaiver=1.09-2arch=s390stamp=1249926993file=log The issue is the link fail to the function getutmpx(), I'm not sure about the different definition about this function

Re: soundconverter: want to help, can't contact maintainer

2009-08-28 Thread Paul Wise
Best to consult the documentation: http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/beyond-pkging.html#mia-qa -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

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