Re: Prune scripts for dfsg-cleanup

2008-10-19 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:06:43 +0200, Robert Wohlrab wrote: So can somebody provide some examples for such a script in a debian package or give me some informations what they should with what. I had different ideas. For example to extract the provided tar.gz, remove the non-dfsg dir and

repackaged .orig.tar.gz (was: RFS: libmsn)

2008-11-18 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:01:30 +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: Should I rename the directory in the .orig.tar and make tamper-checking more difficult, or not rename the directory in the .orig.tar and make tamper-checking easier? You should not, dpkg-source copes well enough. True, on the other

Re: repackaged .orig.tar.gz

2008-11-18 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:58:36 +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: You should not, dpkg-source copes well enough. True, on the other hand the Developer's Reference suggests in 6.7.8.2: 4. should use packagename-upstream-version.orig as the name of the top-level directory in its tarball.

Re: RFS: subnetcalc

2009-02-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:59:33 +0100, Thomas Dreibholz wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package subnetcalc. subnetcalc is a simple IPv4 subnet address calculator. For given IP address and netmask, it calculates network address, broadcast address, maximum number of hosts and host

Re: distributing precompiled binaries

2009-03-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:37:50 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: I'd personally tend to say that, doing the above and assuming my characterization is correct, it would be okay to put that in main. Another precedent (and quite similar, since it's also an application for a mobile phone, just symbian

Re: distributing precompiled binaries

2009-03-27 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:30:35 +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: AFAICS the source package contains the source for gnapplet but it's not built but the pre-compiled .sis is installed into /usr/share/doc/gammu/symbian/. I see. And gammu is in main? Yes, that's what `apt-cache policy gammu' tells

Re: distributing precompiled binaries

2009-03-27 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:54:12 +, Chow Loong Jin wrote: I suppose that's ok, but I'd check with the ftp-masters before uploading. Alright, who should I contact? ftpmas...@debian.org? Yes, that's the official address according to http://www.debian.org/intro/organization Cheers, gregor

Re: Templates for README.source

2009-04-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:45:39 +0200, Laurent Léonard wrote: I'm searching for some standard templates for README.source about: - DFSG changes - Quilt usage (reference to /usr/share/doc/quilt/README.source ?) - Other files removed from the original tarball for various reasons For packages

Re: Taking care of exising packages

2009-08-20 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:07:42 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: [Any reason why this thread happens on both -devel and -mentors?] Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes: It is never pointed out enough that the core packaging teams are seriously understaffed. Please, before uploading your pet package

Re: Taking care of exising packages

2009-08-20 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:15:00 -0700, Carl Worth wrote: The interesting question is how to encourage people to join teams; some thoughts from DebConf can be found here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2009/07/msg00083.html (especially point 3) One thought captured in those notes is to

Re: developers-reference: Improve Getting started to talk about more than New Maintainer's Guide

2009-08-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:27:05 -0700, Carl Worth wrote: Can you image to take a look at the Developers' Reference too? AFAIK the only mentioning of teams there is in 5.12. Yes, definitely. [..] I'm filing a bug against the developers-reference package for this now. Cool! Thanks for

Re: Taking care of existing packages

2009-08-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:33:54 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: The reason why I posted to both is that I see a trend in -mentors that many new contributors seem to create an artificial need as a reason to get their contributions in the distribution and choose to package a new program. I agree with

Re: RFS: evilvte (updated package)

2009-09-02 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:06:48 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: Description: an VTE based super lightweight terminal emulator Shouldn't the field start with a VTE... instead? Actually it should start without an article :) Short descriptions are supposed to work as noun phrases or is a phrase, i.e.

Re: personal debian package repository

2009-09-02 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:19:15 -0700, Don Raikes wrote: This may seem like an odd question, but I am working on some debian packages, and would like to put them onto a personal package repository so that I can include them in a liveCD I maintain. You can create your own repo with mini-dinstall

Re: [RANT] [OT] Bloating dependencies instead of using recommends (was: Re: RFS: sqlkit)

2009-09-10 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:37:34 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: I don't know how to get it on planet.d.o, http://wiki.debian.org/PlanetDebian Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ -- GPG Key IDs: 0x00F3CFE4, 0x8649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, developer -

Re: Bug#457477: devscripts: [tagpending] Did not tag the bug.

2007-12-23 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 02:13:48 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Tools like reportbug work out of the box on my machine; I suppose that it is because they recognise the DEBEMAIL environment variable, in which there is a routable email adress to use. Do you think that tagpending could use it? It

Re: RFS: libx86 (adopted package)

2008-02-08 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:38:15 +0100, David Paleino wrote: Meanwhile, could you explain the logic behind the version number 0.99-2+ds1. (I suppose one could also look up policy on this but I'm being lazy!) Well. 0.99-2 because the archive already has 0.99-1. The +ds1 part means that it has

Re: Updating a package; ediquette and procedure questions

2008-06-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:10:32 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: $ cp ggobi-2.1.7.tar.bz2 ggobi_2.1.7.orig.tar.bz2 Debian provides many facilities in the `devscripts' package. One of them is the uscan/uupdate programs. They need a special file in the source package, `debian/watch', TTBOMK uupdate

Re: RFS: audio-cd (updated package, QA upload, RC bugfix)

2008-07-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:49:26 +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Maybe someone in the Pkg-Perl group has an interest in adopting this into the group instead? Sounds like a good idea. I'll take a closer look at the package tomorrow.

Re: I want to contribute to Debian

2008-08-27 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:14:06 +0200, Fabio Balzano wrote: I want to help Debian and Great! I need some advice where I can start, and where I can find a contact to receive first job. An easy way for contributing to Debian way is to join one of the existing teams: http://wiki.debian.org/Teams

Re: RFS: pacpl (2nd attempt)

2008-09-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:55:44 +0200, Cristian Greco wrote: It builds these binary packages: pacpl - a multi-purpose audio converter/ripper/tagger script Long Description: Perl Audio Converter is a tool for converting multiple audio types from one format to another using various external

Re: RFS: pacpl (2nd attempt)

2008-09-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:49:37 +0200, Cristian Greco wrote: [ I apologize for the private mail to Gregor, it was an error of mine. ] [ No problem, actually I saw the one on -mentors before :) ] I would be glad if someone reviewed and uploaded this package for me. Just a few remarks:

Re: RFS: pacpl (2nd attempt)

2008-09-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:32:50 +0200, Cristian Greco wrote: I found two last small issues: Fixed! Thanks, downloaded, checked and uploaded. Feel free to contact me via private mail for new uploads of this package. PS: I think this package would be a good candidate for the applications

RFS: fullquottel, mailtextbody, mimetic

2006-04-08 Thread gregor herrmann
I'm looking for a sponsor to upload the three packages listed below; my last sponsor is busy at the moment (thanks for your help until now!) therefore I'm asking here. The packages are: * fullquottel fullquottel is in testing and unstable, the new version fixes a wishlist bug (#356375), the only

Re: Doing RFS on -mentors

2006-04-09 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 03:16:50PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: Normally I use wget --mirror --no-parent to get the source files. So if you do your RFS, enable directory listing on your server (or in package directory), post the exact link of every file in the mail so we can mark them

Re: Doing RFS on -mentors

2006-04-10 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 12:30:10AM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: Oh one moment you are right. I havent yet tried dget but is dget just generating the file names by itself and downloads it? No. man dget: ... it fetches the given URL and recursively any files referenced, if the URL points to a

Re: RFS: fullquottel, mailtextbody, mimetic

2006-04-15 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 09:08:38PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: One week later I would like to politely ask again for sponsors for the following 3 packages: * fullquottel * mimetic * mailtextbody All packages can be downloaded from http://www.toastfreeware.priv.at/debian/unstable

Re: RFS: fullquottel, mailtextbody, mimetic

2006-04-16 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 07:49:13PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: * fullquottel fullquottel is in testing and unstable, the new version fixes a wishlist bug (#356375), the only change in the package is the description. Uploaded. Thanks a lot! By coincidence Tony Mancill did an upload too,

Re: packaging a release

2006-04-29 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 01:27:10PM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote: I'd like to build my debian packages out of my repository, so I've added the following in my debian/rules... Is there a better, standardized way to do this? (I've already looked at cvs-buildpackage, but I want to move away from

Re: RFC/RFS: bfilter, aspell-hr, myspell-hr

2006-06-17 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 01:58:29 +0200, Vedran Fura? wrote: The upstream doesn't provide any version information so there shouldn't be any problem if I fake new upstream releases: 1.0-1 - 1.1-1 - 1.2-1 . Can't you use dates then? Like MMDD-a? No problem, but one question, just to be

Re: Access to alioth

2006-06-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 03:05:14PM +0530, Prasad Ramamurthy Kadambi wrote: I'm ready with my package festival-te. How do I send it to alioth or any other Debian server? Alioth is for (often collaboratively maintained) projects, I guess there's no registered festival-te project there. More

Re: Docs for svn-buildpackage

2006-06-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 22:36:02 +0530, Prasad Ramamurthy Kadambi wrote: How do I upload package for debian-in.alioth.debian.org ? I have an account. It would be helpful if you can point out docs for svn-buildpackage. Take a look at file:///usr/share/doc/svn-buildpackage/HOWTO.html/index.html

Re: Help with watch file

2006-08-04 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 16:45:42 -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: I have one watch file with the following lines: version=3 ftp://ftp.genetics.wustl.edu/pub/eddy/software/squid-(.*)\.tar\.gz Doing an uscan --verbose, I get: [..] What is the correct line to get versions from a FTP

Re: 2nd RFS: libmp3-tag-perl (MP3::Tag, a perl module for reading and writing ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags in mp3 files).

2006-08-04 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 05 Aug 2006 02:18:02 +0100, Ian Beckwith wrote: I'm (still) seeking a sponsor for libmp3-tag-perl (MP3::Tag, a perl module for reading and writing ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags in mp3 files). I'm not a DD, so I can't upload your package. But maybe you'd like to join the Debian Perl Group and

Re: What to do with word documents ?

2006-09-17 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 19:19:09 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: I am working on a package which contains MSWord documents. I was wondering the following questions: 1) How can I know if they are redistributable at all, for instance if they contain non-free fonts? TTBOMK MS Office files don't

Re: my projects for debian ? - Answer to Martin

2006-09-18 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 00:01:27 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, thanks. But my tool dont need pipes and my pw.txt file looks like this: password01 pass02 andmore pwgen output file looks likes: password pass02 andmore [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ pwgen -1 10 10 pwd [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat pwd

Re: RFS: malaga (updated package)

2006-09-18 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:39:34 +0300, George Danchev wrote: - convert doc-control to UTF-8 since it contains character (ö) which is not present in iso-8859-1 if I'm not mistaken about the current encoding. 'ö' is longer in iso-8859-1 than utf-8 even exists ;-) But I agree that the files in

Re: RFS: libsbml

2007-02-05 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 08:19:31 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: indeed, I just noticed the following : sorbet???~???$ apt-cache show latex2html Filename: pool/non-free/l/latex2html/latex2html_2002-2-1-20050114-5_all.deb ^ Do you think that there are other converters around

Re: Req: Info about how to build a webapp package.

2007-03-12 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:07:48 +0100, Dario Minnucci wrote: Does anybody knows where to find some guidelines to build a 'web application package'? http://webapps-common.alioth.debian.org/draft/html/ gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ | gpg key ID: 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : debian: the

Re: A french developper want help you :)

2007-03-29 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:31:28 +0200, Michel Barret wrote: Bonjour Michel, My name is Michel. I want help Debian and as I'm computer studen maybe can developpe for Debian! [..] So can I help anybody? What can I make to Debian? Thanks for your offer! For getting ideas about how to get

Re: generating patches for debian packages

2007-04-12 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:43:51 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: I am looking for some tricks for generating patches for the debian source packages. Take a look at interdiff and/or debdiff (in package devscripts). http://women.debian.org/wiki/English/AdvancedBuildingTips has some hints, too.

Re: Removing an obsolete symlink

2007-04-24 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:10:59 +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: I adopted a web application package that used to set a symlink under /var/www: /var/www/phpmyadmin - /usr/share/phpmyadmin. This was not good: we shouldn't touch /var/www and not enable phpmyadmin without asking. Why? What is so bad

Re: RFS: smc

2007-04-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:23:27 +0200, Arnaud Fontaine wrote: CEGUI::Exception: DynamicModule::DynamicModule - Failed to load module 'libCEGUIDevILImageCodec.so': libCEGUIDevILImageCodec.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory CEGUI Exception occurred :

Re: RFS: QGFE QT Gnuplot Front End

2007-04-30 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:00:40 +0200, Giorgio Pioda wrote: Download: http://web.ticino.com/gfwp/debian/qgfe-1.0/ I'm not a DD, but here go some short remarks on your package: * debian/README.Debian is an empty template and can possibly be removed. * All the debian/foo.ex files seem to be

Re: mercurial (hg) equivalent of svn-buildpackage?

2007-05-07 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 07 May 2007 17:12:33 +0200, Rudi Cilibrasi, Ph.D. wrote: I really enjoyed svn-buildpackage. Is there a similar system for hg / Mercurial? $ apt-cache search --names-only \-buildpackage [..] hg-buildpackage - Suite to help with Debian packages in Mercurial archives (Never used it.)

Re: Creating /usr/bin/ entries to scripts the right way

2007-07-30 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:17:06 +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: If the source package contains debian/bin/harvestman then debian/install can contain this line: debian/bin/harvestman usr/bin/ Unfortunately, the source package does not contain such a file. Bart was talking about the _Debian_

Re: package that depends from non-free package

2007-08-04 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 04 Aug 2007 13:25:53 +0200, Francesco Namuri 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, If it depends on a package in non-free your package has to go to contrib. Cf. Debian Policy 2.2

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

2012-01-01 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 11:19:27 +0100, Jiří Janoušek wrote: The package fails to build when built twice in a row, man/nuvolaplayer.1 needs to be removed on debian/rules clean (just add a debian/clean file). Fixed. Can be twice in a row building tested with pbuilder? man pbuilder mentions a

Re: Advice on packaging a PHP application (ITP for Shaarli)

2012-01-05 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:13:44 -0500, Emilien Klein wrote: - The current version number is 0.0.32 beta (including space) as written on the web page and in the source code, and 0.0.32beta in the zipfile. As the version number in Debian can't contain spaces, would you use 0.0.32beta, or even just

Re: Advice on packaging a PHP application (ITP for Shaarli)

2012-01-05 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:41:43 -0500, Emilien Klein wrote: I'd go with 0.0.32~beta or similar (assuming that there will be a 0.0.32 release later) since ~ sorts before everything else. The upstream author justifies the addition of beta to mean be aware, no guarantees, this could break. Until

Re: RFS: roxterm 2.4.2-1 (was 2.4.1-1)

2012-01-06 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:12:41 +0100, Tobias Frost wrote: I was told that the VCS cotnrol fields are not meant for upstream but only to point to servers on the debian infrasturcture to contain the packaging stuff. s/on the debian infrasturcture//

Re: uscan, dfsg and changelog

2012-01-16 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:12:37 +0100, Olе Streicher wrote: uscan debug: [...] -- Found the following matching hrefs: [...] http://foo.bar.edu/foo/foo-1.2.3.tar.gz Newest version on remote site is 1.2.3, local version is 1.2.3+dfsg = remote site does not even have current version --

Re: Bug#657100: Please add a sponsorship-requests pseudo-package

2012-01-25 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:24:27 +0100, Michael Stummvoll wrote: On 24.01.2012 02:55, Michael Gilbert wrote: As for the usertag names, I came up with the following when writing support for this into reportbug: [..] How would I tag a sponsorship request of an ITA-Package? It matches neither

Re: What to do if FTBFS bug is not reproducible?

2012-01-25 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:28:49 +0530, Vasudev Kamath wrote: I'm working on to prepare QA upload for surf which is orphaned by its previous maintainer. There is a FTBFS bug reported against this package [1]. But I'm not able to reproduce this bug. Package builds fine on the pbuilder clean

Re: sponsorship-requests

2012-01-30 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:51:47 -0500, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: In practice, how does a request for sponsorship appear at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=sponsorship-requests;dist=unstable ? I'm CC'ing the list again, because I think this is worthwhile to everyone (and to the

Re: sponsorship-requests

2012-01-30 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:35:53 +0100, Savvas Radevic wrote: 1. If I have an already open bug in wnpp, do I close it or merge it with the one in s-r (=sponsorship-requests)? No, they are independent. The WNPP bug is about the package itself, and the SR bug is about sponsoring. 2. If I have a

Re: sponsorship-requests

2012-01-30 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:44:02 +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: We could ask listmasters to filter out BTS bot messages. Now, there are certainly people (e.g. me) who do want to see control messages. But they could always subscribe to sponsorship-requests via PTS. What do others think? I'm happ to see

Re: Should I split off arch independant part?

2012-02-09 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:00:55 -0600, Paul Elliott wrote: The untimate source of my project is a windows programer who GPLed. He thought it would be a good idea to write the documentation in windows word .doc file! Bad move. The only free program that I can find to convert this document

Bug#659854: RFS: vpnc/0.5.3r512-1 - Cisco-compatible VPN client (new upstream snapshot)

2012-02-14 Thread gregor herrmann
tag 659854 + confirmed owner 659854 ! thanks On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:08:00 +0100, Florian Schlichting wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package vpnc: dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/v/vpnc/vpnc_0.5.3r512-1.dsc http://mentors.debian.net/package/vpnc This looks very

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

2012-02-27 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 02:45:33 +1100, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: In case someone is tempted to try Build-Depends like check | dpkg, it doesn't work at all in pbuilder which is smart enough to notice that dpkg is already installed so it never pulls 'check'. And it also doesn't work -- the other way

Re: building for more than one distribution

2012-03-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:48:18 +0100, Dennis van Dok wrote: Now I can think of several ways to fix this: - use something other than dinstall - change the .changes file before using dput (breaks signing) - use --debbuildopts=--changes-option=-Ddistribution=squeeze - change the distribution in

Re: building for more than one distribution

2012-03-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 23:29:48 +0100, Dennis van Dok wrote: - change the distribution in debian/changelog before building: debchange -D $dist maybe other options Thanks, but this complicates my procedures. After calling debchange I'm left with a modified tree and svn-buildpackage will

Re: RFS: quickrdp/1.1.6-1 or how to proceed

2012-04-04 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:14:28 +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: dget uses dscverify to check the signature. dscverify only uses the debian-keyring.gpg and debian-maintainers.gpg keyrings located in /usr/share/keyrings by default, so it will not see any keys you imported unless you tell it to use

Bug#666566: RFS: liboauth/0.9.6-1

2012-04-08 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 15:47:44 -0400, Bilal Akhtar wrote: liboauth (0.9.6-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream release (Closes: #650138) I can't confirm this. Both the bti in unstable and a bti rebuilt against 0.9.6-1 fail with liboauth0 0.9.6-1 installed with the same error as before:

Re: Help needed to fix g++ 4.7 error [Was: Bug#667120: bowtie: ftbfs with GCC-4.7]

2012-04-22 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 22:15:04 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: similarly to the plink case I can not found an easy solution for this problem. alphabet.h:48:3: error: 'reverseInPlace' was not declared in this scope, and no declarations were found by argument-dependent lookup at the point of

Re: (un)patching patched files

2012-05-10 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 10 May 2012 11:22:46 +0200, Olе Streicher wrote: 8- override_dh_autoreconf: sed s/libast/libstarlink_ast/g -i Makefile.am AUTOMAKE=automake --foreign dh_autoreconf override_dh_clean: sed

Re: (un)patching patched files

2012-05-10 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 10 May 2012 13:18:42 +0200, Olе Streicher wrote: I have the same problem in another package: here, an executable is going to be renamed, and therefore also the manpage. Additionally, the manpage needs a patch. Since the manpage is renamed, unpatching it after build fails. Not sure

Re: Can I adopt removed package?

2012-05-24 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 24 May 2012 10:27:58 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 7:58 AM, KURASHIKI Satoru wrote: I want to adopt this package because I'm planning to ITP the package (rt-extension-calendar) which depends on this library.

Re: d/copyright for mrtg-ping-probe (ITA)

2012-05-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 26 May 2012 13:48:21 -0400, Robert James Clay wrote: Then you can do also (from cdbs package): /usr/lib/cdbs/licensecheck2dep5 I don't use cdbs myself, so that's something I'm not familiar with. (Nor can I find how it's actually used, as there is no man page that I can

Re: RFS: fceu - Cross-platform Famicom/NES emulator (updated package)

2012-06-02 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 06 May 2012 23:26:43 +, Frédéric Brière wrote: On Sun, 06 May 2012 20:01:27 +0200, Alexander Toresson wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.1.5-1 of the package fceu. What a coincidence, I was just about to send you an email with various comments on your

Re: Getting rid of control messages revisited

2012-06-03 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 24 May 2012 14:39:33 +0200, Arno Töll wrote: What about creating a list as owner of the pseudo-package dedicated to BTS traffic (including control messages) named sponsorship-requests@l.d.o. Furthermore, the mentors list should still get bug traffic (only). Therefore we would

Re: [Help] New version of ImageJ does not build in pbuilder because of lacking DISPLAY variable

2012-06-04 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 12:37:45 +0200, Vincent Fourmond wrote:     [java] No protocol specified     [java] Exception in thread main java.lang.InternalError: Can't connect to X11 window server using ':0.0' as the value of the DISPLAY variable. I had similar problems that I solved using

Re: RFS: fceu - Cross-platform Famicom/NES emulator (updated package)

2012-06-10 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 14:28:39 +0200, Alexander Toresson wrote: - The changelog doesn't mention if this is a hostile takeover, a  friendly salvage or whatever of the package. I want this to be as friendly as possible, but so far Joe hasn't been very responsive at all. In fact, even this RFS

Bug#678935: RFS: coinor-ipopt/3.10.2-1.1 [NMU] [RC]

2012-06-25 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:04:13 +0200, Etienne Millon wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package coinor-ipopt. It contains a fix for #662236 which caused its removal from testing. I looked at the package now, and there's one that doesn't make me happy: The old packages has: Depends:

Re: RFS: new powertop version

2012-06-25 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:58:45 +0200, Julian Wollrath wrote: since I offered Patrick Winnertz, the maintainer, to co-maintain about two weeks ago and he was also CC'ed in parts of this thread but got no response from him, I am hoping someone could sponsor my updates to the powertop package,

Re: RFS: new powertop version

2012-06-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:29:09 +0200, Julian Wollrath wrote: thank you for your comments. I uploaded a new version of my packaging to http://rbw.goe.net/jw/ which addresses all of your comments. Thanks! - some other changes in d/control are also not mentioned If you mean the dependency

Bug#678935: RFS: coinor-ipopt/3.10.2-1.1 [NMU] [RC]

2012-06-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 23:32:35 +0200, Etienne Millon wrote: * gregor herrmann gre...@debian.org [120625 22:19]: The old packages has: Depends: libmumps-4.9.2 (= 4.9.2) | libmumps-seq-4.9.2 (= 4.9.2), ... After the changes the dependency is: Depends: ..., libmumps-4.10.0, Thanks

Re: Any script to populate debian/copyright file ?

2012-07-22 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 06:42:19 +, Bart Martens wrote: I'm personally not a fan of DEP5, because I have not yet seen any benefits, only more work for the packager, and less readable for humans than plain text. Side remark: I personally find a structured Copyright-Format 1.0 file much easier

Re: [RC bug fix] Sponsor needed

2012-08-10 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 22:05:02 +0100, Noel David Torres Taño wrote: I need a sponsor in order to upload an updated package which resolves an RC bug. I'm quite surprised nobody has stepped in before. Bug number is #681654. Why are you surprised? There's a dicsussion in the bug log that show

Bug#689041: Re: Orthanc

2012-10-05 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 05 Oct 2012 16:24:14 +0200, Sebastien Jodogne wrote: * why libcurl4-gnutls-dev | libcurl4-nss-dev | libcurl4-openssl-dev ? shouldn't that be something simplier like libcurl4-dev ? libcurl-dev ? libcurl-ssl-dev ? If I use libcurl4-dev, libcurl-dev or libcurl-ssl-dev, I obtain the

Bug#689219: RFS: libcdk5

2012-10-09 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 09 Oct 2012 20:30:22 +0200, Jose G. López wrote: I had a look at libcdk5 at mentors uploaded there on 2012-10-08 19:09. The file debian/copyright is not yet complete, see for example include/button.h with Copyright 1999, Grant Edwards. The name Grant Edwards is also mentioned

Re: uscan and git.gnome.org tags

2012-10-29 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 29 Oct 2012 23:40:30 +0100, Andreas Rönnquist wrote: I am working on the devilspie package - which has a release mentioned and linked in the last entry on Ross Burton's blog - http://www.burtonini.com/ I do however have problems getting a watch-file reading the folder where the

Bug#693613: RFS: doc-linux-fr/2005.08-1.1 [NMU] [RC] -- remove build-dep to allow removal

2012-11-18 Thread gregor herrmann
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@ +doc-linux-fr (2005.08-2) unstable; urgency=low + + * QA upload. + + [ Ivo De Decker ] + * Remove build-depends on mirror. Closes: 691570 + + [ gregor herrmann ] + * Set Maintainer to Debian QA Group packa...@qa.debian.org (cf. #637643). + + -- Ivo De Decker ivo.dedec...@ugent.be

Bug#694737: RFS: libwmf/0.2.8.4-10.2 [NMU] [indirect RC] [MultiArch]

2012-11-29 Thread gregor herrmann
Control: tag -1 + pending On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:32:46 +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: Please fix #677786 using the patch to the bug log in message #12. I suggest delayed/7 to give the maintainer some more time to react. That bug blocks RC bug #677762. Uploaded to DELAYED/7. Please close this

Bug#694872: Why was this bug closed?

2012-12-02 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 02 Dec 2012 17:08:24 +, Bart Martens wrote: lftp hasn't been uploaded or removed, so this bug shouldn't be closed. It might be a problem is some script, because mentors has 2 versions of lftp: a version for sid, and a version for testing-proposed-updates. However, are you sure

Bug#695191: RFS: xarchiver/1:0.5.2+20090319+dfsg-4.1 [RC] [NMU]

2012-12-05 Thread gregor herrmann
tag 656301 + patch tag 692261 + patch On Wed, 05 Dec 2012 17:34:59 +0530, Kartik Mistry wrote: On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Markus Koschany a...@gambaru.de wrote: thanks for your interest in xarchiver. I haven't found a sponsor yet, so please go ahead! Uploaded! Thanks for your work!

Bug#695191: RFS: xarchiver/1:0.5.2+20090319+dfsg-4.1 [RC] [NMU]

2012-12-06 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 06 Dec 2012 10:09:41 +0530, Kartik Mistry wrote: On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 12:08 AM, Markus Koschany a...@gambaru.de wrote: I think fixing the two minor bugs is covered by point 4 of the freeze policy. It's a win-win situation and it comes without altering one single line of code.

Re: RFS: slimrat

2010-01-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:51:51 +, Paul McEnery wrote: W: slimrat: manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry usr/share/man/man8/slimrat-gui.8.gz W: slimrat: manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry usr/share/man/man8/slimrat.8.gz I'll search the web, but I'm not sure how to resolve this. Hopefully someone on

Re: Pedantic Lintian complains on changelog.gz

2010-02-14 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:45:03 +0100, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: The upstream author is silent since June, 2004, and a test build using 'webfs.links' produced the silence from Lintian I was aspiring for at the moment, so I will try that in the new packaging. Thanks! `dh_installchangelogs -k

Re: RFS: parti 0.0.6-1 (new package)

2010-02-16 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:56:35 +0100, Michael Schutte wrote: I’m looking for comments on (and an upload of :-)) my parti package. dget http://alioth.debian.org/~michi-guest/packages/parti_0.0.6-1.dsc Sounds funny :) I've no experience with python package, so just a few nit-picking

Re: RFS: parti 0.0.6-1 (new package)

2010-02-17 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:07:14 +0100, Michael Schutte wrote: - d/control: Standards-Version - 3.8.4 (and update your version of lintian :)) Well, crap. That’s what I get for running testing/unstable. :) - You might want to fix the following lintian info with a patch: I: xpra:

Re: What to do if the source name of a package changes

2010-03-02 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:10:59 +0100, Gregor Jasny wrote: To be consistent with upstream I changes the package source name to v4l-utils. But what actions do I have to take to take to replace libv4l with v4l-utils in the archive? http://wiki.debian.org/Renaming_a_Package Cheers, gregor --

Re: What to do if the source name of a package changes

2010-03-02 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:57:07 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: To be consistent with upstream I changes the package source name to v4l-utils. But what actions do I have to take to take to replace libv4l with v4l-utils in the archive? http://wiki.debian.org/Renaming_a_Package I don't think

Re: RFS: svn-workbench (NMU, solves RC bug)

2010-03-10 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:52:47 +0100, Johann Felix Soden wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for a small NMU of the package svn-workbench to version 1.6.2-1.1 Uploaded to DELAYED/2, thanks for your work! Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ -- GPG Key IDs: 0x8649AA06,

Re: RFS: iptotal (updated package) (2nd try)

2010-03-30 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:30:31 +0200, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: I'm sorry, I didn't catch that earlier. But since we're still at it: why don't you use dh7 style debian/rules? I mean, you don't have to, but you can avoid the whole DEB_*_GNU_TYPE stuff and shorten your rules file to a few lines.

Re: RFS: iptotal (updated package) (2nd try)

2010-03-30 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:05:09 +0200, Ignace Mouzannar wrote: autotools-dev has debhelper helpers/addons since 20100122.1, so dh --with autotools_dev $@ (and an appropriate versioned build dep) should be enough. Wow, never saw that. Thanks for mentioning! It's rather new, and I saw it in

Re: Debian Teams

2010-05-10 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 11 May 2010 01:58:33 +0430, Sameer Rahmani wrote: i want to join the debian community . i read some article in website about it but i wonder how can i join to a debian team ? http://wiki.debian.org/Teams has a list of teams in Debian, and they also list what they are doing and how to

Re: RFS: xpdf (updated package)

2010-06-03 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:40:12 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: $ dget -u http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/x/xpdf/xpdf_3.02-3.dsc $ cd xpdf-3.02 $ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc [..] dpkg-buildpackage: failure: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2 $ apt-cache policy

Re: RFS: swftools

2010-07-18 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:43:20 +0200, Dr. Tilo Levante wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package swftools. * Package name: swftools Version : 0.9.1-1 Upstream Author : [fill in name and email of upstream] * URL : [fill in URL of upstreams web site] *

Re: dfsg bit in the package name

2010-08-18 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 22:42:09 +0100, Tomasz Muras wrote: Is there any preference/reasoning for using any particular symbol that joins dfsg bit with the package name? I can see that different packages use a different format, here are some quick stats from packages in unstable (with the counts):

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