Re: Re: RFS: bluemindo

2008-08-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 3:22 AM, Thibaut GIRKA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package looks good otherwise. Thanks :) One more thing: the package is arch any, but there don't seem to be any architecture-specific files in it. I guess this is a mistake? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: Re: RFS: bluemindo

2008-08-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Thibaut GIRKA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One more thing: the package is arch any, but there don't seem to be any architecture-specific files in it. I guess this is a mistake? Yes, it was. The change to arch all added some lintian info messages, please setup

Re: Re: RFS: bluemindo

2008-08-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 18:14 +0200, Thibaut GIRKA wrote: The change to arch all added some lintian info messages, please setup your build environment to always run lintian -i -I on successful builds or on dupload/dput. Sorry. It's now ok. Just noticed that the copyright file is missing

Re: Re: RFS: bluemindo

2008-08-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Thibaut GIRKA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just noticed that the copyright file is missing information for one of the .po files and at least one of the python files, please check all the files for differing copyright information and document them in

Re: Re: RFS: bluemindo

2008-08-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You seem to be missing Ľubomír Remák from src/plugins/gajim/__init__.py Correction: you are misspelling his/her name. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: Re: RFS: bluemindo

2008-08-07 Thread Paul Wise
Uploaded, thanks for your contribution :) For the next upstream version, there appear to be several typos in the manual page, including a couple in the command-line options. In addition, the lauch script appears to contain no bashisms, so it should use /bin/sh instead of /bin/bash, please get

Re: Re: RFS: bluemindo

2008-08-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uploaded, thanks for your contribution :) Forgot to say: for future uploads, please contact this list and I'll upload if I have time, or someone else will. Hopefully Patrick will soon be a DD so he can do the same. -- bye

Re: I want to contribute to Debian

2008-08-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 2:36 AM, Vincent Bernat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nobody will assign you tasks. I disagree, getting people to ask you to do stuff is easy (world peace please), deciding which task(s) to do is the hard part. You need to find in what area you will be able to help

Re: WNPP #495959 : dhcp_probe software

2008-08-29 Thread Paul Wise
Another hacky solution would be to get the Debian libnet maintainer to build two variants of libnet, one with the patch (for dhcp-probe) and one without (for everyone else). Ultimately the proper solution is for libnet to get a new upstream release; please work with libnet upstream to make this

Re: WNPP #495959 : dhcp_probe software

2008-08-31 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Laurent Guignard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw that libnet has no official maintainer so i think i will download upstream code (RC version) and i will package it (even if it's my first package and it isn't recommended). Actually David Paleino intends to adopt

Re: Need help writing watch file for unusual, troublesome case.

2008-09-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 4:30 AM, Brandon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, xevil is a dead project. The latest release was years ago, and Satan doesn't respond to email. Would you guys recommend not having a watch file? Even if so, I would really like to know how I would solve this problem, if it

Re: Need a DD with some experiencie with 3.0 (quilt) package format

2008-09-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Noel David Torres Taño [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just want somebody to revise the new version of my package, which I've moved from the traditional version 1.0 to the new 3.0 (quilt) one since it is better for the sources I have to work with. I've posted an

Re: Determining native or non-native package inside pbuilder

2008-09-07 Thread Paul Wise
Usually this warning is produced because of an incorrectly named orig.tar.gz - foo-1.2.orig.tar.gz (bad) vs foo_1.2.orig.tar.gz (good). Perhaps that is the issue? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Determining native or non-native package inside pbuilder

2008-09-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should I expect it to be found at '../tarballs/foo_1.2.3.orig.tar.gz'? That's where 'dpkg-buildpackage' and other tools seem to expect it. Is 'pbuilder' different in this regard? I'd rather not have the same file needing to

Re: Need informations about BTS

2008-09-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 4:05 AM, Laurent Guignard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The bug i need to declare is a dependency of a specific patched version of libnet0 package that is under an ITA procedure ? I have found a block command of the BTS but i don't know where to find the bug number of ITA of

Re: RFS: vbackup

2008-09-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Stefanos Harhalakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've sent the 3rd version to mentors but it didn't show at the web interface. Looking at ftp://mentors.debian.net/ I see that there are other packages left in the same condition too. Is this expected behaviour ?

Re: How to remove package completely?

2008-09-17 Thread Paul Wise
IIRC the removals from testing should happen automatically or semi-automatically. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: quick-lounge-applet, must I contact debian-release?

2008-09-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 8:17 PM, Diego Fernández Durán [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quick-lounge-applet is in freeze, the version in testing is 2.12.1 and in unstable 2.12.5. The new version doesn't fix any major bug. Must I contact debian-relase to request the package update? They are

Re: Need advice about my first package

2008-09-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 12:46 AM, Fabian Pucciarelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have never built a package in my life, I'm trying to build a package called dcc (anti spam software http://www.rhyolite.com/dcc/INSTALL.html#envtbl). Does anyone know of a guide that I can use, the new maintainers

Re: building for 'any' architecture?

2008-09-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 7:58 PM, Michael Renner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Architecture: any Use 'all' not 'any'. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: scim-waitzar

2008-09-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 1:49 PM, S'orlok Reaves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good afternoon everyone, I am writing this email to request a sponsor for the brand new package, scim-waitzar. The scim-waitzar project provides an IMEngine for SCIM that supports the Burmese language. In

Re: RFS: scim-waitzar

2008-09-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 3:21 PM, S'orlok Reaves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd suggest that you CC the Debian SCIM packaging list for future RFS mails. Absolutely. I couldn't find any SCIM-related lists on lists.debian.org... could you point me to the Debian SCIM packaging list archives, or

Re: Compilation options.

2008-09-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Alessio Giovanni Baroni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a base question: when one compile a package, often are enabled the debug and low level optimiziation. For Debian, how must I to do it? -g/none -O1/-O2/-O3 ? Always enable -g and use -O2 unless noopt is set in

Re: RFS: scim-waitzar

2008-09-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 1:14 PM, S'orlok Reaves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/scim-waitzar/ Some comments: debian/rules contains lots of commented out stuff and other unnessecary parts. debian/docs shouldn't distribute the NEWS file until it contains

Re: RFS: scim-waitzar

2008-09-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: please read the best practicies for package descriptions Here are the URLs for that: http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#bpp-debian-control http://web.archive.org/web/20070915131707/http

Re: how to install package using apt-get in folder other than /usr

2008-09-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Kruti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone help me regarding how to install a package in any user defined folder other than /usr using apt-get? Your question lacks detail, can you please give some more infomation so it can be answered correctly? -- bye, pabs

Re: how to install package using apt-get in folder other than /usr

2008-09-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Kruti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i mean when you do apt-get install package, all the files of the package are installed in /usr.for eg: packge binary in /usr/bin. but if i want the package n all its files to be installed in a directory other than /usr for eg in

Re: Global environment variable.

2008-09-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Alessio Giovanni Baroni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where are stored the global variables? I must always add it to /etc/profile and /etc/bash.bashrc. There is a global location? This is not the appropriate list, please contact debian-user or one that is specific

Re: Unheeded warnings from build tools (was: Building package,)

2008-10-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The correct solution is for the warning to go away. Either this *is* something that needs attention, or it is not. In the former case, what is the problem and what is the solution? In the latter case, why is the warning there

Re: Problem with dpkg-buildpackage

2008-10-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 1:16 AM, Jann Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've got a problem with dpkg-buildpackage and get the following error when I start it (sorry, it's German): Please run this: export LANG=C Then rerun the command and paste the english output. -- bye, pabs

Re: RFS: tnef -- Tool to unpack MIME application/ms-tnef attachments

2006-04-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 12:12 -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the package 'tnef'. Thanks for adopting this. Thank you in advance for reviewing this package Some comments: * debian/control: need an extra space before Homepage (see the devref 6.2.4), may

Re: RFS: gaupol -- Subtitle editor for text-based subtitle files

2006-04-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 21:55 +0200, Piotr Ozarowski wrote: I think gaupol is popular enough to be included in Debian. Thanks for packaging this. BTW, once it is uploaded, check out the popcon results for the package: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?popcon=gaupol I'm confused because I

Re: RFS: gaupol -- Subtitle editor for text-based subtitle files

2006-04-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 10:53 +0200, Piotr Ozarowski wrote: I registered a weeks ago but... I didn't receive confirmation mail yet (sic!) I have even send a bug report to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but no reply till today :( Hopefully he will fix this soon. Believe me, I was searching for it in

Re: RFC: swfmill

2006-04-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 03:34 +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: swfmill is an xml2swf and swf2xml processor with import functionalities Some comments: * debian/watch: only needs 2 lines - version and url. may want to allow uscan to auto-run uupdate - add debian uupdate to the end

Re: RFC: swfmill

2006-04-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 15:19 +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: W: libswfmill0: package-name-doesnt-match-sonames libswfmillxslt0 libswft0 What's the standard way of solving this? It was suggested to me that the lintian warning should be overridden. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: RFC/RFS: rhinote -- virtual sticky-notes for your desktop

2006-04-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 23:43 +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: * Package: rhinote Some comments: * debian/control: add a Homepage as per devref 6.2.4 * debian/copyright: misses the years in which the copyright applies

Re: RFC: gnash (FSF Free Flash Player)

2006-04-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 13:02 +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: Gnash is not ready for uploading to SID yet, I'm considering putting it into experimental. Please do! Thanks for taking on this package. The last packages I've made are available at http://baby.yi.org/packages/gnash/ Some comments:

Re: RFC: gnash (FSF Free Flash Player)

2006-04-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 02:31 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: Some comments: * debian/copyright: I forgot to point out this mail: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/03/msg00023.html -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: RFC: gnash (FSF Free Flash Player)

2006-04-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 00:49 +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: * debian/control: gnash is not binNMUable due to libgnash-dev strictly depending on libgnash0 (= ${Source-Version}). What should I do in this case? just depend on libgnash0 without the version? wasn't they going to solve

Re: RFS: python-urwid - Console UI Library for Python

2006-04-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 15:59 -0400, Ian Ward wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the python-urwid debian packages I have created. WNPP submitted on November 30, 2005: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=341344 You will notice that I retitled that RFP bug to ITP. I've created

Re: RFS: python-urwid - Console UI Library for Python

2006-04-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 15:58 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: I have packaged versions for python2.1, 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4, and I've made them available in an apt repository on excess.org. I think a better option would be to use python-support to make a single deb that supports all python

Re: RFS: python-urwid - Console UI Library for Python

2006-04-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 12:03 -0400, Ian Ward wrote: The tutorial.html file has been restored to urwid-0.9.3.tar.gz I know this might not be good form (I imagine I could have made a new release), but it was just a build problem that caused it to appear as a zero length file, and the file is

Re: RFS: python-urwid - Console UI Library for Python

2006-04-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 11:28 -0400, Ian Ward wrote: I've never tried using setup.py to generate documentation. Could you point me to an example of a module that does this? I don't really know enough about distutils or of any modules that do this. I think it would be fine to distribute both

Re: spcaview : package review needed

2006-04-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 23:48 +0200, Le_Vert wrote: spcaview : package review needed The convention is RFC: package -- package description http://www.le-vert.net/divers/debian-package/spcaview/spcaview_20051212-1.dsc Best to just specify the dsc/diff so we can go dget -x url.dsc for a more

Re: spcaview : package review needed

2006-04-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 16:14 -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: I'm using dpatch right now, pretty nice, thanks :-) FYI many people are now starting to use quilt. For good reason, it rocks! * debian/watch: please add one (read uscan(1) for more info) Added. Looks great but is it usefull

Re: optional building of a package

2006-06-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 09:29 -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: Just use Depends: probcons (= ${Source-Version}) Please don't use Source-Version - from the dpkg-gencontrol manual: The source package version (from the changelog file). This variable is now deprecated as its meaning is different

Re: Homepage-field in description

2006-06-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 08:27 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Thus proving that the real solution is to get rid of the Homepage bit completely and instead add a real field to dpkg, since people won't even agree on and follow the syntax for the hack of putting it in the long description so that

Re: Who should be listed in Uploaders ?

2006-06-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 02:36 -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: only linda is unhappy about non-free font in the upstream tarball If linda is correct about there being a non-free font in the upstream tarball, then you will need to repack the upstream tarball and document that you have done so.

Re: Who should be listed in Uploaders ?

2006-06-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 13:31 -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: I kept the same version. You should instead change the upstream version to 1.0.14.dfsg.1, the other option is to rename the source package to pyepl-dfsg, but that is generally not preferred, since renaming source packages can be

RFS: templayer -- layered template library for Python

2006-06-27 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, Would anyone be able to sponsor templayer? It is a python module that I need for urwid in order to be able to generate the tutorial. It uses cdbs and python-support for building at the moment. dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/t/templayer/templayer_1.2-2-1.dsc

Re: Packaging non-compiled files

2006-08-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 11:13 -0400, Kit Peters wrote: At my job, we would like to use apt to distribute certain packages, such as WWW applications written in PHP, to certain other of our machines. Your question has been answered by others, but I would like to suggest that you join the

Re: Where to host a native package as a non-DD

2006-08-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 22:57 +0300, George Danchev wrote: An URL to *.dsc file will suffice and is actually more suitable to grab (i.e. dget) debian source packages from sites, then dpkg-source -x .dsc. Agreed. Extra tip for dget users: dget -x http://foo.bar.com/foo_1.0-1.dsc -- bye, pabs

Re: RFS: queuegraph

2006-08-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 12:27 +0100, Conall O'Brien wrote: - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/q/queuegraph/queuegraph_1.1.0-1.dsc There is a strange error in your diff.gz: $ dget -x

Re: RFS: advanced PNG (Portable Network Graphics) optimizer

2006-08-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 04:57 -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: I am searching for a sponsor for OptiPNG. Hmm, I thought you would have a permanent sponsor by now. It's an updated package (new upstream release). Linda and lintian clean and builds OK on pbuilder.

Re: RFS: bottlerocket

2006-08-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 13:49 -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.05b3-7 of my package bottlerocket. It was recently orphaned and since I use the package in my home to control lights, I filed an ITA in order to keep it in Debian. Excellent, always good

Re: RFS: queuegraph

2006-08-06 Thread Paul Wise
No need to CC me, I'm subscribed. You should assume that people don't want a CC unless they indicate that they do in some way. On Sun, 2006-08-06 at 22:00 +0100, Conall O'Brien wrote: dpkg-source: failure: patch gave error exit status 1 Hmmm, I'm not sure how to investigate this. All I did

Re: RFS: queuegraph

2006-08-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 02:58 +0100, Conall O'Brien wrote: I've rebuild my package now (and it seems to be 3.7.2 complient). I've uploaded it to mentors.debian.net again. Hopefully the updated packages will be moved from incoming/ to the pool soon. I tried to do your dget -x test and I'm

Re: Huge private Debian repository...

2006-08-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 14:08 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: Curently I have over 480 packages to custom applications to maintain... If any of them are free software, please consider uploading them to Debian or filing bugs in the BTS for customised versions of existing packages. Not sure if you

Re: A problem with dh_strip

2007-02-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 22:33 +0100, Matej Kosik wrote: SPECULATION Major part of the orignal binary is compiled from OCAML sources so maybe there is some specific error behavior of dh_strip related to these kind of binaries. /SPECULATION Read the ocaml policy, but you are correct, dh_strip

Re: RFS: php-ffmpeg

2007-05-02 Thread Paul Wise
On 5/3/07, Raphael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: php4-ffmpeg - ffmpeg support for php4 php4 will be removed from sid soon, please remove this package: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/04/msg00816.html -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: need review for new split of libcomplearn package

2007-05-21 Thread Paul Wise
On 5/18/07, Rudi Cilibrasi, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for somebody willing to have a look for problems in a new version of my biggest package that I split up recently. Please post a URL to your split package. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To

Re: LBAdmin package

2007-05-28 Thread Paul Wise
On 5/26/07, John Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All problems solved, except the following when running lintian: E: lbadmin: package-contains-xvpics-dir var/www/lbadmin-1.0/images/.xvpics/ Get upstream to make sure it won't be put into future tarballs they release and change debian/rules to

Re: Advice on packaging SAGE

2007-05-29 Thread Paul Wise
On 5/29/07, Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, packaging it for Debian looks like a momentuous task. SAGE, as it stands right now, distributes its own versions of a number of other free software packages that are already in Debian I'd suggest finding out what

Re: RFS: prolog-el

2007-06-13 Thread Paul Wise
On 6/13/07, Philipp Benner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: prolog-el http://www-lehre.inf.uos.de/~pbenner/debian/prolog-el_1.14-1.dsc Some comments: * You might want consider configuring your server (if you are the sysadmin) to allow people to view the diff.gz in their browser (or switch

Re: RFS: kopete-otr

2007-06-13 Thread Paul Wise
On 6/13/07, Francesco Cecconi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Package name : kopete-otr Some comments: - yr upstream probably shouldn't be including a debian/ dir, if only for the reason that it results in incomplete reviews by drive-by reviewers such as myself. - why is the library installed

Re: RFS: Xnee (updated) Thrid try

2007-06-13 Thread Paul Wise
On 6/13/07, Jeremiah Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: xnee - an X evironment emulator and recorder Some comments: - xnee is already in Debian and has a maintainer. There are no RFA or O bugs either. - you didn't preserve the debian/changelog history from the existing xnee package -

Re: RFS: wackamole (updated package)

2007-06-13 Thread Paul Wise
On 6/11/07, Michael Mende [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wackamole - Daemon to make a cluster highly available Some comments: - Why do you need to add /usr/lib and /usr/include to the configure arguments? Those are standard dirs. - May want to use debhelper compat level 5 - May want to contribute

Re: RFS: Xnee (updated) Third try

2007-06-14 Thread Paul Wise
On 6/14/07, Jeremiah Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been requested to maintain this package by the developer - the DD he was working with has stopped all work on the package and is not answering emails. Furthermore the version in debian is 1.8x and the new version is 2.06 with lots of

Re: RFS: kicad (updated package)

2007-06-14 Thread Paul Wise
On 6/14/07, Richard A Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: kicad - Electronic schematic and PCB design software A drive-by diff review: Perhaps add descriptions and your name to the dpatches. Have you sent the patches and the .desktop file upstream? is 02_debpaths.dpatch really needed? Might

Re: RFS: kicad (updated package)

2007-06-15 Thread Paul Wise
On 6/15/07, Richard A Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As of last week I now have write access to the kicad dev svn repository (in fact it's only as of about 2 weeks ago that there was an upstream dev repo at all). So patches have gone upstream, except the debpatchs one (see below). Excellent.

Re: RFS: kicad (updated package)

2007-06-15 Thread Paul Wise
On 6/15/07, Richard Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No problem, thanks for your time. If you know anyone that would be able to help please point them in my direction. There are some tips for this sort of thing in the mentors FAQ. Perhaps someone on debian-science might be interested. -- bye,

Re: RFS: kde-icons-crystalproject

2007-07-01 Thread Paul Wise
On 6/28/07, Raphael Geissert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using a datestamp because that seems to be the best way to handle the 'version' of the icons pack. To prevent the need for an epoch if upstream decides to use versions, you might want to go with something like 0.0.20070625-1 or

Re: ampache sponsor

2007-07-03 Thread Paul Wise
On 7/1/07, Charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ampache- A web based audio file management system written in PHP I attended the debian-security talk at debconf. Lets just say that PHP isn't popular with them :) Have you audited the code so that the security team don't have to do it when you

Re: RFS: inferno

2007-07-07 Thread Paul Wise
On 7/7/07, Nicholas Jefferson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/i/inferno/inferno_0.0.20070510-2.diff.gz No time to sponsor, but some comments: * consider putting the patches into quilt (or maybe dpatch) * that is a lot of patches to the font stuff, what are

Re: RFS: unalz

2007-07-07 Thread Paul Wise
On 7/6/07, LIU Qi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/u/unalz/unalz_0.61-1.diff.gz No time for sponsoring, some comments: Send manpages, patches upstream if you haven't already. Might want to convert the patches to quilt (or dpatch/cdbs-simple-patchsys) In

Re: RFS: thwab-lib

2007-07-07 Thread Paul Wise
On 7/7/07, Ahmed El-Mahmoudy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/t/thwab-lib/thwab-lib_1.1.2-1.diff.gz No time for sponsoring, some comments: New upstream release for a package not yet in debian? Please file an ITP and close it in the changelog What happens

Re: RFS: ninja

2007-07-07 Thread Paul Wise
On 7/5/07, William Vera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/n/ninja/ninja_0.1.2-1.diff.gz No time for sponsoring, some comments: I see the security issues mentioned in the ITP have been fixed, am I correct? debian/rules contains unused configure target,

Re: RFS: secpanel (updated package)

2007-07-07 Thread Paul Wise
On 7/4/07, Bruno Costacurta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/secpanel/secpanel_0.5.2-1.diff.gz No time for sponsoring, some comments: Why the changes from /bin/sh to /usr/bin/wish? The wish manpage says using what upstream has is better. Might want to

Re: RFS: secpanel (updated package)

2007-07-08 Thread Paul Wise
On 7/8/07, Bruno Costacurta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any reason for using debhelper 4 instead of 5? I used dpkg-buildpackage to build package secpanel 0.5.2-1 Should I avoid dpkg-xxx and prefer debhelper tools ? By debhelper 5, I mean debian/compat 5 and debian/control Build-Depends:

Re: RFS: secpanel (updated package)

2007-07-09 Thread Paul Wise
On 7/10/07, Bruno Costacurta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a newbie as maintainer : I suppose I can close this bug #305135 once this package is uploaded to Debian repos by a mentor ? Usually one would put something like this in the changelog: * New upstream release (Closes: #305135) If it

Re: RFS: hfsprogs - mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems

2007-07-17 Thread Paul Wise
On 7/18/07, Rogério Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I made a package for creating and checking HFS(+) filesystems. The basic information about this package is here What is the relationship between hfsprogs and the existing hfsplus and hfsutils packages? Perhaps all three could be consolidated

Re: RFS: hfsprogs - mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems

2007-07-20 Thread Paul Wise
On 7/20/07, Rogério Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is quite nice that you have shown some interest in hfsprogs. I will explain what you have asked. I don't really have any interest in them (don't interact with Macs at the moment), my motivation for the question was to perhaps get those

Re: Sponsorship guidelines for codehelp - now online.

2007-07-24 Thread Paul Wise
On 7/25/07, Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://people.debian.org/~codehelp/#sponsor Content seems to be missing? ? I see alot of content. In galeon I am unable to scroll down and see the sponsoring guidelines, which are clearly there when looking at the source code. Probably

Re: Sponsorship guidelines for codehelp - now online.

2007-07-25 Thread Paul Wise
On 7/25/07, Neil Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In galeon I am unable to scroll down and see the sponsoring guidelines, which are clearly there when looking at the source code. Nothing wrong with galeon at this end - it is my default browser! H, perhaps some of my settings broke it.

Re: List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-27 Thread Paul Wise
On 7/27/07, Neil Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There needs to be some way of indicating which packages have been reviewed but which are not ready for upload. Maybe mentors.debian.net could have some kind of wiki (or links to pages on wiki.debian.org) to track the status of such packages

Re: List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-27 Thread Paul Wise
On 7/27/07, Christoph Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So if anyone could tell me what features REVU has that m.d.n is lacking then I'll consider adding them in the next release. I'm not active in Ubuntu so I can't tell how things work there. I just see the commenting feature and colorful icons

Re: List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-27 Thread Paul Wise
On 7/28/07, Rogério Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you happen to have the link to this video? I would love to watch it and learn more about the process of packaging programs. My memory is sketchy, but I think it was the debconf7 debian-games BoF:

Re: List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-27 Thread Paul Wise
On 7/28/07, Christoph Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wish there were an easy way to parse the NEW queue. Perhaps I'll need to use BeautifulSoup and just parse that page. Perhaps the links on this page can help? http://ftp-master.debian.org/~ajt/new/ Otherwise BeautifulSoup looks like a good

Re: package that depends from non-free package

2007-08-04 Thread Paul Wise
On 8/4/07, Francesco Namuri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to make a package that depends on xmame that is in non-free, the program under GPL and so I think it can uploaded to main, but how to manage the dependency on xmame? Packages in main cannot depend on things outside main. If it is

Re: RFS: nikto (updated package)

2007-08-04 Thread Paul Wise
On 8/4/07, Deepak Tripathi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/n/nikto/nikto_1.36-1.dsc I don't do any sponsoring, but I have some comments: You should close #410495, probably on the New upstream release. line #383050 is trivial to fix, perhaps you could

Re: RFS: nuvolaplayer -- cloud music integration for Linux desktop

2012-01-01 Thread Paul Wise
I am subscribed, no need to CC me. 2012/1/1 Jiří Janoušek: I forgot to mention I am the upstream author and all patches will be included in the next release. I see, that makes some things easier. Done. I've added also optional header Forwarded: Author of this patch is the upstream author.,

Re: RFS: Code Browser

2012-01-01 Thread Paul Wise
One more thing that I noted but completely forgot to mention: docs/code-browser.chm is a documentation file that cannot be built without proprietary, Windows-specific software. It is not acceptable to have it in the source package or upstream VCS really. Please ask upstream to create it at build

Re: RFS: xiterm+thai

2012-01-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Neutron Soutmun wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for new version 1.10-1 (new upstream release) of my package xiterm+thai. Uploaded, thanks for your contribution. Some things you might want to look at: The package isn't particularly popular according to

Re: RFS: xiterm+thai

2012-01-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Neutron Soutmun wrote: It's not popular as it's still used by some group of users only. The xiterm+thai provides the TIS-620 encoding which now rarely used by Thai users, mostly superseded by UTF-8 but it's good as the later is the international standard. I

Re: How to bring life into a (Tk) package?

2012-01-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Olе Streicher wrote: I want to adopt the package tktable2.9 but I found me confronted with some problems: 1. The package name contains the version, and since the upstream version is now 2.10, I would need to give a new name. I'd suggest removing the version

Re: RFS: screenkey - utility to display pressed keys in screencasts

2012-01-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote: - s/remove threading, to fix these/remove threading to fix these/, - s/problems with the threading/problems with threading/. (Though I'm not sure about the last two. Can a native speaker of English confirm?) I confirm this. -- bye, pabs

Re: RFS: drwright - aka typing break in GNOME 2

2012-01-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 10:02 PM, Savvas Radevic wrote: drwright   - Known as typing break in GNOME 2 No need to mention GNOME 2 in the short description, since the package is unrelated to GNOME 2. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: New version of autoconf-archive

2012-01-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 4:17 AM, bastien ROUCARIES wrote: A new version of autoconf-archive. At the very least you should be linking to the dsc file. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Gettext and $DESTDIR$prefix

2012-01-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Andreas Rönnquist mailingli...@gusnan.se wrote: I am making a package (which I am upstream of) translatable using gettext - It is using a simple Makefile as build system, no autotools. Is there a way to come around the necessity to get LOCALEDIR (Which is

Re: RFS: nbc (2.5 th try)

2012-01-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 4:46 AM, Slavko li...@slavino.sk wrote:   Upstream Author : [fill in name and email of upstream]  * URL             : [fill in URL of upstreams web site]  * License         : [fill in] Try reading your emails before you send them. -- bye, pabs

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