Re: RFS: aspell-id ; second try

2010-12-06 Thread Brian Nelson
Mahyuddin Susanto udi...@debian-id.org writes: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package aspell-id. * Package name: aspell-id Version : 1.2-0-4 Upstream Author : Benitius Brevoort benitius.brevo...@kapusin.org * URL :

Re: RFS: aspell-id

2010-11-24 Thread Brian Nelson
to your build dir when building the package. Perhaps this package should Provides: aspell-dictionary? Brian Nelson might have more advice; cc-ing him. Yes, aspell dictionary packages should Provides: aspell-dictionary. The dictionary packaging otherwise looks OK with a very quick glance

Re: RFS: go

2010-03-18 Thread Brian Nelson
Ivan Wong ivan...@gmail.com writes: Hi Dominique, Yes I can see the confusion. go-lang sounds good to me. But I would like to have a little poll about which one is better, go-lang or golang? Any other suggestions? '-lang' is commonly used in package names to refer to spoken languages (e.g.

Re: RFS: aspell-hsb

2010-02-27 Thread Brian Nelson
Jan Jeroným Zvánovec j...@zvano.net writes: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package aspell-hsb, aspell dictionary for Upper Sorbian language. * Package name: aspell-hsb Version : 0.01.1-1 Upstream Author : Eduard Werner (Edward Wornar)

Re: RFS: qt-program-starter (new package)

2010-02-23 Thread Brian Nelson
Christian Metscher hakai...@web.de writes: Brian Nelson p...@debian.org writes: This looks interesting for a 216-line program ;). I thought about writing something similar a few years back but never got around to it. I should be able to sponsor it if no one else has stepped up yet. I

Re: RFS: qt-program-starter (new package)

2010-02-22 Thread Brian Nelson
Christian Metscher hakai...@web.de writes: I am looking for a sponsor for my package qt-program-starter. * Package name : qt-program-starter Version : 1.2.3-1 Upstream Author : [Christian Metscher hakai...@web.de] * URL : [https://launchpad.net/~hakaishi/+archive/qt-program-starter] *

Re: anyone give me some advice about split scim-bridge

2007-08-10 Thread Brian Nelson
ZhengPeng Hou [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi all, I've already splited scim-brodge into scom-brodge-agent scim-brodge-client-gtk, scim-bridge-client-qt, and scim-bridge(a dumy package for upgrade), but now the upstream has added qt4 support, so shall I split it into five? likde

Re: aspell-uz: new upstream release

2006-01-17 Thread Brian Nelson
Brian Nelson helped me and uploaded it. Could someone else please do the same this time, if Brian is not available? Sorry for bugging, I have no idea on how to proceed. I'm having key troubles at the moment--my key expired, and for some reason keyring.debian.org seems to ignore my updated key

Re: Please take a look over aspell-ro_0.50-2-1

2005-10-18 Thread Brian Nelson
Eddy Petrişor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 10/5/05, Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christoph Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: you might want to use the new Archticture: all packaging variant, see for example #319675, otherwise you need to Provides: aspell6-dictionary aspell6a

Re: Please take a look over aspell-ro_0.50-2-1

2005-10-05 Thread Brian Nelson
Christoph Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Re: Eddy Petrişor in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Could somebody take a look over it and tell me if I need to make any changes before I list it on sponsors.d.n ? changelog: remove the [ ] part get an ITP and insert it here control: old Standards-Version

Re: Sponsor request for aspell-uz

2005-07-27 Thread Brian Nelson
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 12:19:27AM +0200, Mashrab Kuvatov wrote: Hi Brian, thanks for reply. I've rebuilt aspell-uz taking into account your feedback. Please have a look, it is at http://www.uni-bremen.de/~kmashrab/aspell/deb/ Almost there, just a few more things: * The urgency should be

Re: Sponsor request for aspell-uz

2005-07-27 Thread Brian Nelson
Mashrab Kuvatov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wednesday 27 July 2005 08:27, Brian Nelson wrote: * Your aspell-uz.info-aspell is not correct. See http://dict-common.alioth.debian.org/dsdt-policy.html#infofile for more info. I added language name in Uzbek into Language section

Re: Sponsor request for aspell-uz

2005-07-27 Thread Brian Nelson
Mashrab Kuvatov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thursday 28 July 2005 00:34, Brian Nelson wrote: Mashrab Kuvatov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I added language name in Uzbek into Language section. Is it correct now? Well, you should also specify Casechars, Not-Casechars, and They are optional

Re: Sponsor request for aspell-uz

2005-07-24 Thread Brian Nelson
Mashrab Kuvatov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, I've filed an ITP bug report #319775 for aspell-uz and uploaded the files I've built into http://www.uni-bremen.de/~kmashrab/aspell/deb/ Could anybody please sponsor it? No, this package is quite broken: debian/changelog: aspell-uz

Re: how use dpatch for binary files ?

2005-07-18 Thread Brian Nelson
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 07:51:18PM -0300, Jose Carlos do Nascimento wrote: Im making one package using dpatch. I changed some binary files (images) and created one patch in debian/patches When I rum dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc I receive message below. 10_testpatch.dpatch is a

Re: Overriding shlibs dep for some packages with higher versions

2005-06-27 Thread Brian Nelson
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 02:54:04PM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: [...] In summary, what I want is something like: debian/control: Depends: ${shlibs-depends}, libfoo (= x.y) debian/substvars: shlibs-depends: libfoo (= x.0) = DEBIAN/control: Depends: libfoo (= x.y) Although I didn't find

Re: Debian QA system lecture at Haifux - help needed

2005-05-10 Thread Brian Nelson
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 09:57:17AM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: [...] Subjects I'm going to cover are: 1. The basics of creating a deb 2. Standard package naming and file locations 3. The Debian human hierchy (from the sponsored maintainers to ftpmasters, possibly even up to DPL, if I'll

Re: New upstream packages?

2004-12-18 Thread Brian Nelson
Erinn Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Erinn Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004:12:18 18:23 -0500]: snip Of course, just after sending this mail, I was directed to: http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ch-update.en.html#s-newupstream ...which I somehow managed to miss. It's still a bit

Re: RFS: elizatalk simple chatbot for IM

2004-12-13 Thread Brian Nelson
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 12:15:37AM -0600, David Moreno Garza wrote: On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 20:08 +0100, Nico Golde wrote: You will find the files on: http://nico.f-451.net/debian/elizatalk/ Is the template from debian/rules really yours? It seems pretty much a debhelper template and you

Re: warning: menu-command-not-in-package

2004-12-13 Thread Brian Nelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Jay Salzman) writes: On Mon 13 Dec 04, 12:10 PM, Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 02:55:28PM -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: My first package is ALMOST lintian clean. One warning: $ lintian -i yadex_1.7.0-1_i386.deb W: yadex

Re: warning: menu-command-not-in-package

2004-12-13 Thread Brian Nelson
Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 01:02:29PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Jay Salzman) writes: On Mon 13 Dec 04, 12:10 PM, Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 02:55:28PM -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote

Re: warning: menu-command-not-in-package

2004-12-13 Thread Brian Nelson
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 02:55:28PM -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: My first package is ALMOST lintian clean. One warning: $ lintian -i yadex_1.7.0-1_i386.deb W: yadex: menu-command-not-in-package /usr/lib/menu/yadex:2 x-terminal-emulator N: N: The menu item specifies a

Re: Package split/merge advice

2004-12-08 Thread Brian Nelson
Jan Alonzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, (on somewhat related topic) I recently filed an RFP on itagalog and aspell-tl and one of the developers said that I should consider merging both sources since they use the same word list. snip way. I'd

Re: [Dict-common-dev] RFS: aspell-tl - Tagalog (Filipino) dictionary for GNU Aspell

2004-12-04 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 07:41:30PM +1100, Jan Alonzo wrote: Good Day! I would like to request for someone to sponsor my package for aspell-tl. apsell-tl contains the tagalog dictionary to spell check tagalog texts. Currently it contains more than 14,000 words (and increasing. Some

Re: Re: RFS: orphaned 'htp' package, an HTML pre-processor

2004-11-11 Thread Brian Nelson
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 05:18:22PM -0500, Jan Medlock wrote: martin f krafft wrote: Do we need htp when there is wml? I've not looked at wml, but even if they have the same functionality, variety has always been a strength of Debian. ...and package bloat is a weakness of Debian... -- For

Re: Re: RFS: orphaned 'htp' package, an HTML pre-processor

2004-11-11 Thread Brian Nelson
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 05:18:22PM -0500, Jan Medlock wrote: martin f krafft wrote: Do we need htp when there is wml? I've not looked at wml, but even if they have the same functionality, variety has always been a strength of Debian. ...and package bloat is a weakness of Debian... -- For

Re: Simple Debian Package Creation?

2004-11-03 Thread Brian Nelson
Zach Garner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First: 1. The sheer number of helper scripts, with layers and layers of scripts built on top of each other is really confusing. Hm? Do you mean the debhelper scripts? Those significantly help simplify the writing of debian/rules. Of course, if you

Re: Simple Debian Package Creation?

2004-11-03 Thread Brian Nelson
Zach Garner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First: 1. The sheer number of helper scripts, with layers and layers of scripts built on top of each other is really confusing. Hm? Do you mean the debhelper scripts? Those significantly help simplify the writing of debian/rules. Of course, if you

Re: RFS: icculus's orbital sniper game

2004-10-25 Thread Brian Nelson
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 01:59:03AM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote: On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 22:09, Brian Nelson wrote: On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 10:00:31PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote: On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 11:59:29AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: Okay, I've renamed this to orbitalsniper and adjusted

Re: RFS: icculus's orbital sniper game

2004-10-25 Thread Brian Nelson
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 01:59:03AM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote: On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 22:09, Brian Nelson wrote: On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 10:00:31PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote: On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 11:59:29AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: Okay, I've renamed this to orbitalsniper and adjusted

Re: RFS: icculus's orbital sniper game

2004-10-24 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 10:00:31PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote: On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 11:59:29AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: Okay, I've renamed this to orbitalsniper and adjusted the sources to match. One thing that stood out was that the binary isn't installed into /usr/games/, instead

Re: RFS: icculus's orbital sniper game

2004-10-24 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 10:00:31PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote: On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 11:59:29AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: Okay, I've renamed this to orbitalsniper and adjusted the sources to match. One thing that stood out was that the binary isn't installed into /usr/games/, instead

Re: Suggestions On Getting A Sponsor

2004-09-30 Thread Brian Nelson
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 10:49:52PM -0400, Michael MacFadden wrote: Brian, Point taken. But I happen to be the upstream author for this project. So it's not like I just picked this out of a hat, and it's not like I am in the position to say, Well maybe I should just pick something easier

Re: Suggestions On Getting A Sponsor

2004-09-29 Thread Brian Nelson
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 10:49:52PM -0400, Michael MacFadden wrote: Brian, Point taken. But I happen to be the upstream author for this project. So it's not like I just picked this out of a hat, and it's not like I am in the position to say, Well maybe I should just pick something easier

Re: Suggestions On Getting A Sponsor

2004-09-27 Thread Brian Nelson
I think you're missing the point. It's not that developers think this should not be packaged. It's that packaging a web app is so difficult to get right that only developers with a very strong personal interest in the software would be willing to even look at it. The vast majority will consider

Re: Suggestions On Getting A Sponsor

2004-09-27 Thread Brian Nelson
I think you're missing the point. It's not that developers think this should not be packaged. It's that packaging a web app is so difficult to get right that only developers with a very strong personal interest in the software would be willing to even look at it. The vast majority will consider

Re: amarok package review and RFS (II)

2004-09-24 Thread Brian Nelson
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 04:03:09AM +0200, Adeodato Sim? wrote: I'm looking for a sponsor for my amarok package, which as you may know is a new audio player for KDE. the package is relatively simple and contains few if not none KDE specific issues. I'm interested in seeing this packaged.

Re: amarok package review and RFS (II)

2004-09-24 Thread Brian Nelson
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 04:03:09AM +0200, Adeodato Sim? wrote: I'm looking for a sponsor for my amarok package, which as you may know is a new audio player for KDE. the package is relatively simple and contains few if not none KDE specific issues. I'm interested in seeing this packaged.

Re: How to get rid of an epoch?

2004-08-27 Thread Brian Nelson
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 10:38:15PM +0200, Amaya wrote: I'm doing a little houskeeping before sarge releases. Then I stumble upon this: Rejected: jail_1.6-2_i386.deb: old version (1:1.6-1) in stable = new version (1.6-2) targeted at unstable. Rejected: jail_1.6-2_i386.deb: old

Re: Package Name Choice

2004-08-08 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 01:59:33AM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: Hello Christoffer, * Christoffer Sawicki [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-08-07 01:38]: I'm packaging GTK-Qt Theme Engine [0] and have a question about the naming of the binary package. The name is currently gtk2-engines-gtk-qt which is

Re: Package Name Choice

2004-08-08 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 01:59:33AM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: Hello Christoffer, * Christoffer Sawicki [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-08-07 01:38]: I'm packaging GTK-Qt Theme Engine [0] and have a question about the naming of the binary package. The name is currently gtk2-engines-gtk-qt which

Re: How to retire a bug tagged wontfix,woody?

2004-08-03 Thread Brian Nelson
Kevin Glynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andreas Metzler writes: On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 03:03:31PM +0200, Kevin Glynn wrote: I am the (new) maintainer for mozart. I have one Serious bug outstanding: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=mozart). The bug

Re: How to retire a bug tagged wontfix,woody?

2004-08-03 Thread Brian Nelson
Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 11:42:49PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: Then downgrade it. There's a mismatch there anyway. A serious bug should *never* be tagged as wontfix. Either it needs to be fixed or it's not really serious. This is not true

Re: How to retire a bug tagged wontfix,woody?

2004-08-03 Thread Brian Nelson
Kevin Glynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andreas Metzler writes: On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 03:03:31PM +0200, Kevin Glynn wrote: I am the (new) maintainer for mozart. I have one Serious bug outstanding: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=mozart). The bug

Re: How to retire a bug tagged wontfix,woody?

2004-08-03 Thread Brian Nelson
Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 11:42:49PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: Then downgrade it. There's a mismatch there anyway. A serious bug should *never* be tagged as wontfix. Either it needs to be fixed or it's not really serious. This is not true

Re: CDBS Documentation

2004-07-25 Thread Brian Nelson
debian-devel would probably be a more appropriate place to ask this. Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, i subscibed to the cdbs mailinglist with the intention to support the project a little bit. I wrote a little german documentation for cdbs: http://www.ngolde.de/texte/cdbs.html, but

Re: CDBS Documentation

2004-07-25 Thread Brian Nelson
debian-devel would probably be a more appropriate place to ask this. Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, i subscibed to the cdbs mailinglist with the intention to support the project a little bit. I wrote a little german documentation for cdbs: http://www.ngolde.de/texte/cdbs.html, but

Re: Silly question about man page

2004-07-23 Thread Brian Nelson
Nathaniel W. Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Friday 23 July 2004 09:11 am, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 08:34:12AM -0400, Nathaniel W. Turner wrote: But why on earth would anyone use dh_make when we have cdbs? ;-) I can say only for myself, but cdbs is

Re: Silly question about man page

2004-07-23 Thread Brian Nelson
Nathaniel W. Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Friday 23 July 2004 09:11 am, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 08:34:12AM -0400, Nathaniel W. Turner wrote: But why on earth would anyone use dh_make when we have cdbs? ;-) I can say only for myself, but cdbs is

Re: RFS: netdump -- Dump kernel crash information over the network

2004-07-15 Thread Brian Nelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe Nahmias) writes: Hello Chirag, On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 05:23:14PM +0530, Chirag Kantharia wrote: Hi! I've uploaded netdump package to mentors.debian.net and am seeking for a sponsor for this package. I took a look at your package, a few issues: 0) For some

Re: RFS: netdump -- Dump kernel crash information over the network

2004-07-15 Thread Brian Nelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe Nahmias) writes: Hello Chirag, On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 05:23:14PM +0530, Chirag Kantharia wrote: Hi! I've uploaded netdump package to mentors.debian.net and am seeking for a sponsor for this package. I took a look at your package, a few issues: 0) For some

Re: debconf question

2004-07-13 Thread Brian Nelson
Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And while I'm at it: the behaviour change is not really dangerous, but can cause people to get more spam. (Background: postgrey changed from --lookup-by-host to --lookup-by-subnet in Version 1.14) So, is a debconf notice even

Re: debconf question

2004-07-13 Thread Brian Nelson
Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And while I'm at it: the behaviour change is not really dangerous, but can cause people to get more spam. (Background: postgrey changed from --lookup-by-host to --lookup-by-subnet in Version 1.14) So, is a debconf notice even

Re: RFS: amarok - versatile and easy to use audio player for KDE

2004-06-28 Thread Brian Nelson
Peter Rockai (mornfall) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote: W: amarok source: out-of-date-standards-version 3.5.8.0 W: amarok source: changelog-should-mention-nmu W: amarok source: source-nmu-has-incorrect-version-number 1.0.0-3 W: amarok source: source-contains-CVS-dir

Re: sponsor wanted for 'ketchup' package

2004-06-28 Thread Brian Nelson
Laszlo 'GCS' Boszormenyi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Anibal Monsalve Salazar [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-06-28 22:21:14 +1000]: I don't think you should create a debian package for small script, IMO. Agree. Even if I don't know where it should go, but definiately finding a backage which would

Re: RFS: amarok - versatile and easy to use audio player for KDE

2004-06-28 Thread Brian Nelson
Peter Rockai (mornfall) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote: W: amarok source: out-of-date-standards-version 3.5.8.0 W: amarok source: changelog-should-mention-nmu W: amarok source: source-nmu-has-incorrect-version-number 1.0.0-3 W: amarok source: source-contains-CVS-dir

Re: sponsor wanted for 'ketchup' package

2004-06-28 Thread Brian Nelson
Laszlo 'GCS' Boszormenyi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Anibal Monsalve Salazar [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-06-28 22:21:14 +1000]: I don't think you should create a debian package for small script, IMO. Agree. Even if I don't know where it should go, but definiately finding a backage which would

Re: RFS: PennMUSH - #3

2004-05-24 Thread Brian Nelson
Ervin Hearn III [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, It's been a month since I've last poked at this thread, but I would once more like to ask if anyone would take a look at my PennMUSH package and possibly consider sponsoring it. I have kept it up to date with upstream releases, and thanks to

Re: RFS: PennMUSH - #3

2004-05-24 Thread Brian Nelson
Ervin Hearn III [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, It's been a month since I've last poked at this thread, but I would once more like to ask if anyone would take a look at my PennMUSH package and possibly consider sponsoring it. I have kept it up to date with upstream releases, and thanks to

Re: RFS: patmv -- a bulk renaming tool

2004-04-28 Thread Brian Nelson
Jay Berkenbilt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 08:13:32PM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote: So: I suggest you submit it for addition to renameutils. As a side effect, renameutils and your package get a comaintainer. Hmmm. Maybe you should see if the renameutils

Re: RFS: patmv -- a bulk renaming tool

2004-04-28 Thread Brian Nelson
Jay Berkenbilt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 08:13:32PM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote: So: I suggest you submit it for addition to renameutils. As a side effect, renameutils and your package get a comaintainer. Hmmm. Maybe you should see if the renameutils

Re: Closing bugs.

2004-04-15 Thread Brian Nelson
Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello. I've got question related to closing bugs. Let's say I adopted some package, and with the new upstream version I should close some outstanding bugs. And I did it in 1.1-1 version. Then I ask previous maintainer to upload it, and he

Re: Closing bugs.

2004-04-15 Thread Brian Nelson
Kalle Kivimaa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This led to non-closed bugs which are fixed in fact. What now? Should I close those bugs manually, or is it correct way to upload another version (1.1-3) including changelogs from 1.1-1 to 1.1-3? Just

Re: Closing bugs.

2004-04-15 Thread Brian Nelson
Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello. I've got question related to closing bugs. Let's say I adopted some package, and with the new upstream version I should close some outstanding bugs. And I did it in 1.1-1 version. Then I ask previous maintainer to upload it, and he

Re: Closing bugs.

2004-04-15 Thread Brian Nelson
Kalle Kivimaa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This led to non-closed bugs which are fixed in fact. What now? Should I close those bugs manually, or is it correct way to upload another version (1.1-3) including changelogs from 1.1-1 to 1.1-3? Just

Re: RFS: stripclub - Online Comic Reader/Archiver

2004-04-11 Thread Brian Nelson
A few more minor problems: * In interface.fl:163: callback {system(xterm -e zless /usr/share/doc/stripclub/readme.txt.gz);} You can't rely on xterm being available unless you depend upon it, and even still, that's bad practice. Instead, you should use /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator. *

Re: CDBS and menu icons

2004-04-10 Thread Brian Nelson
Matt Brubeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am adding a menu icon to my audacity package, built with CDBS. Can anyone suggest the best way to install the icons (which are not part of the original source)? Currently I am using the following lines in debian/rules: ICONS = debian/audacity.xpm

Re: CDBS and menu icons

2004-04-10 Thread Brian Nelson
Matt Brubeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am adding a menu icon to my audacity package, built with CDBS. Can anyone suggest the best way to install the icons (which are not part of the original source)? Currently I am using the following lines in debian/rules: ICONS = debian/audacity.xpm

Re: RFS: stripclub - Online Comic Reader/Archiver

2004-04-10 Thread Brian Nelson
A few more minor problems: * In interface.fl:163: callback {system(xterm -e zless /usr/share/doc/stripclub/readme.txt.gz);} You can't rely on xterm being available unless you depend upon it, and even still, that's bad practice. Instead, you should use /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator. *

Re: RFS: stripclub - Online Comic Reader/Archiver

2004-04-09 Thread Brian Nelson
Benjamin Cutler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After dinking around with the build tools for a bit, I'm reasonably sure this is put together correctly, so here goes. I'm looking for a sponsor for my package stripclub, an online comic reader and archiver. It supports the vast majority of webcomics

Re: RFS: stripclub - Online Comic Reader/Archiver

2004-04-09 Thread Brian Nelson
Benjamin Cutler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian Nelson wrote: Benjamin Cutler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After dinking around with the build tools for a bit, I'm reasonably sure this is put together correctly, so here goes. I'm looking for a sponsor for my package stripclub, an online comic

Re: RFS: stripclub - Online Comic Reader/Archiver

2004-04-09 Thread Brian Nelson
Jepri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Benjamin Cutler wrote: Nicolas Kratz wrote: Point made. While I, personally, don't feel any regret (I've been a Premium Keenspot member for two years, have every Sluggy book). I'll be sticking a splash screen into the next build saying just that. Perhaps I

Re: RFS: stripclub - Online Comic Reader/Archiver

2004-04-09 Thread Brian Nelson
Benjamin Cutler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian Nelson wrote: Benjamin Cutler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After dinking around with the build tools for a bit, I'm reasonably sure this is put together correctly, so here goes. I'm looking for a sponsor for my package stripclub, an online comic

Re: RFS: stripclub - Online Comic Reader/Archiver

2004-04-09 Thread Brian Nelson
Jepri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Benjamin Cutler wrote: Nicolas Kratz wrote: Point made. While I, personally, don't feel any regret (I've been a Premium Keenspot member for two years, have every Sluggy book). I'll be sticking a splash screen into the next build saying just that. Perhaps I

Re: RFS: stripclub - Online Comic Reader/Archiver

2004-04-08 Thread Brian Nelson
Benjamin Cutler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After dinking around with the build tools for a bit, I'm reasonably sure this is put together correctly, so here goes. I'm looking for a sponsor for my package stripclub, an online comic reader and archiver. It supports the vast majority of webcomics

Re: How to deal with SONAME which changes very often

2004-04-03 Thread Brian Nelson
Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 11:18:11PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Please give me some hints/suggestions what should be done in such situation? Are there any packages with that situation in our archive? Since you are the only one using I

Re: Bug in New Maintainers Guide german translation

2004-04-03 Thread Brian Nelson
Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, i found a spelling mistake in the german translation of the new maintainers guide. i wrote a patch for this bug. the patch is in the attachment of this mail. please fix it. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/privat/Doku/debian/maint-guid] $ md5sum

Re: How to deal with SONAME which changes very often

2004-04-03 Thread Brian Nelson
Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 11:18:11PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Please give me some hints/suggestions what should be done in such situation? Are there any packages with that situation in our archive? Since you are the only one using I

Re: Bug in New Maintainers Guide german translation

2004-04-03 Thread Brian Nelson
Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, i found a spelling mistake in the german translation of the new maintainers guide. i wrote a patch for this bug. the patch is in the attachment of this mail. please fix it. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/privat/Doku/debian/maint-guid] $ md5sum

Re: Bengali wordlist for aspell

2004-03-19 Thread Brian Nelson
Soumyadip Modak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm packaging the bengali wordlist for aspell, for Debian. During dpkg-buildpackage i get the following errors: modak:/home/soumyadip/Debian/aspell/aspell-bn-0.50-1# dpkg-buildpackage dpkg-buildpackage: source package is aspell-bn-0.50

Re: Bengali wordlist for aspell

2004-03-19 Thread Brian Nelson
Soumyadip Modak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm packaging the bengali wordlist for aspell, for Debian. During dpkg-buildpackage i get the following errors: modak:/home/soumyadip/Debian/aspell/aspell-bn-0.50-1# dpkg-buildpackage dpkg-buildpackage: source package is aspell-bn-0.50

Re: RFS: bbppp -- PPP tool for the blackbox window manager

2004-03-09 Thread Brian Nelson
Florian Ernst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 03:52:08PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: * The patch that changes 0's to NULL's is pointless. In C++, NULL is just #define NULL 0. Definitely true. I preferred QA's patch over upstream's patch since for me 'NULL' just makes

Re: PHP/MySQL package

2004-03-09 Thread Brian Nelson
David Moreno Garza [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, I have plans for packaging a little www-based package. It uses PHP and MySQL, over Apache. In the documentation I been searching, I just can find some resources with packaging which need to be compilated or so. In the package I would

Re: RFS: bbppp -- PPP tool for the blackbox window manager

2004-03-09 Thread Brian Nelson
Florian Ernst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 03:52:08PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: * The patch that changes 0's to NULL's is pointless. In C++, NULL is just #define NULL 0. Definitely true. I preferred QA's patch over upstream's patch since for me 'NULL' just makes

Re: PHP/MySQL package

2004-03-09 Thread Brian Nelson
David Moreno Garza [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, I have plans for packaging a little www-based package. It uses PHP and MySQL, over Apache. In the documentation I been searching, I just can find some resources with packaging which need to be compilated or so. In the package I would

Re: RFS: bbppp -- PPP tool for the blackbox window manager

2004-03-08 Thread Brian Nelson
Florian Ernst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: well, OK, I take it nobody is interested in this package at all, as I haven't even recieved negative response so far... ;) I'll continue to maintain my version of the package until someone steps forward I can hand it over to who has / doesn't need a

Re: randomplay: command-line shuffle music player

2003-09-08 Thread Brian Nelson
John Buttery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Adam Kessel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-09-07 16:35:14 -0700]: It's definitely a scratch an itch type program. So's emacs. For that matter, so's the kernel itself. :) I'm wondering if something relatively simple (the script is about 340 lines of

Re: randomplay: command-line shuffle music player

2003-09-08 Thread Brian Nelson
John Buttery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Adam Kessel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-09-07 16:35:14 -0700]: It's definitely a scratch an itch type program. So's emacs. For that matter, so's the kernel itself. :) I'm wondering if something relatively simple (the script is about 340 lines of

Re: lintian error file-in-unusual-dir usr/etc/settings/ withQt3-Application

2003-08-15 Thread Brian Nelson
Dominik Stadler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I started working on a debian-package. The application uses the Qt-Library as basis (no KDE). During startup, the application looks in a directory /usr/etc/settings/ for system-wide settings for the application. This is not coded inside the

Re: lintian error file-in-unusual-dir usr/etc/settings/ with Qt3-Application

2003-08-15 Thread Brian Nelson
Dominik Stadler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I started working on a debian-package. The application uses the Qt-Library as basis (no KDE). During startup, the application looks in a directory /usr/etc/settings/ for system-wide settings for the application. This is not coded inside the

Re: lintian error file-in-unusual-dir usr/etc/settings/ with Qt3-Application

2003-08-15 Thread Brian Nelson
Dominik Stadler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why Qt should look in /usr/etc? Configure your program with --sysconfdir=/etc flag and everything should be OK. Thanks for the hints, but the problem is that the application does not use autoconf/automake/configure, but the build-tool qmake. Is

Re: [RFS] slimp3 - MPEG Layer III Streaming Server

2003-07-26 Thread Brian Nelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruno Rodrigues) writes: Anyone interested in sponsoring my slimp3[1] package and its companions, libmp3-tag-perl[2] and libaudio-wav-perl[3] ? Packages have already been scrutinized by my sponsor Salvador Abreu [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: RFS: pdsh

2003-07-02 Thread Brian Nelson
Brian Pellin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Junichi Uekawa wrote: Commercialization of this product is prohibited without notifying the Department of Energy (DOE) or Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). This seems to me to conflict with the GPL, and I'd like confirmation on

Re: RFS: pdsh

2003-07-02 Thread Brian Nelson
Brian Pellin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Junichi Uekawa wrote: Commercialization of this product is prohibited without notifying the Department of Energy (DOE) or Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). This seems to me to conflict with the GPL, and I'd like confirmation on

Re: How do I get libtool to use g++?

2003-05-31 Thread Brian Nelson
Neil Roeth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I recently had a bug (193950) filed against one of my packages because the shared libraries had undefined non-weak symbols - libstdc++ was not being linked in. I resolved it with what I consider a gruesome hack. I discovered that forcing libtool to use

Re: How do I get libtool to use g++?

2003-05-31 Thread Brian Nelson
Neil Roeth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I recently had a bug (193950) filed against one of my packages because the shared libraries had undefined non-weak symbols - libstdc++ was not being linked in. I resolved it with what I consider a gruesome hack. I discovered that forcing libtool to use

Re: advice on closing bugs

2003-05-30 Thread Brian Nelson
Neil Roeth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I recently adopted several packages (jade, openjade, opensp) and several of the open bugs were fixed by NMUs, so they have fixed tags. I think all I need to do is send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] that says, This bug was fixed in the NMU of version

Re: advice on closing bugs

2003-05-29 Thread Brian Nelson
Neil Roeth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I recently adopted several packages (jade, openjade, opensp) and several of the open bugs were fixed by NMUs, so they have fixed tags. I think all I need to do is send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] that says, This bug was fixed in the NMU of version

Re: How do you upload/build sponsored packages?

2003-05-24 Thread Brian Nelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes: Colin Watson wrote: I actually don't see how dpkg-buildpackage's sign-immediately-after-build defaults ever make sense (except when dpkg-buildpackage was originally written, when debsign didn't yet exist). Why would you want to waste time signing a

Re: Antwort: Re: new package - don't know how to compile

2003-05-14 Thread Brian Nelson
Matthias Hofer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html Please send only plain text email to the mailing list. what can I do? I think this means that you need (a more recent version of) GNU automake. What version do you have, if any? I have

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