Bug#661633: RFS: mercurial-buildpackage

Package: sponsorship-requests I'm looking for a sponsor for mercurial-buildpackage, which I'm taking over. (Co-maintainers would be appreciated.) * Package name: mercurial-buildpackage Version : 0.10 Upstream Author : Jens Peter Secher jpsec...@gmail.com, Darren Salt li

RFS: mercurial-buildpackage

I'm looking for a sponsor for mercurial-buildpackage, which I'm taking over. (Co-maintainers would be appreciated.) * Package name: mercurial-buildpackage Version : 0.10 Upstream Author : Jens Peter Secher jpsec...@gmail.com, Darren Salt li...@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk

Re: RFS: gnome-media-player

stand, just dh_xine will do; after the next xine-lib upload, dh_xine x ffmpeg will generate the substvars referenced above (for all packages created from your source package; debhelper's -p option applies). (Don't ask me about how to do this with cdbs...) -- | Darren Salt| linux

Re: Use of DM-Upload-Allowed field

I demand that Sandro Tosi may or may not have written... [snip] the DMUA flag should be set by the sponsor (or by the sponsoree after a request for the sponsor), At the request of the sponsor, surely. [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Doon

Re: RFS: evilvte (updated package)

I demand that gregor herrmann may or may not have written... [snip] In this case VTE based super lightweight terminal emulator or maybe lightweight terminal emulator based on VTE might work. The latter's fine, IMO, but the former should be VTE-based [snip] -- | Darren Salt

Re: RFS: ljcrop

I demand that Tristan Greaves may or may not have written... Darren Salt wrote: The package would be lintian-clean but for what I think is a false positive. lintian (in testing) complains about a dependency on wish, but that can't be right: Depends: wish | tk8.5, libtk-img, libjpeg-progs

RFS: ljcrop

be right: Depends: wish | tk8.5, libtk-img, libjpeg-progs The package can be found in http://tartarus.org/~ds/pkg/. -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | Let's keep the pound sterling I

Re: RFS: gremind -- Simple reminder program for GNOME

appropriately will help: # update-alternatives --config wish [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Use more efficient products. Use less. BE MORE ENERGY EFFICIENT. I

Re: RFS: uniconvertor

is released) kill the symlink and have the package break or conflict with older (presently current) inkscape. I'd probably go with what a DD says, though. :-) [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland

Re: RFS: Kenta Cho's games

the two which I've had a quick look at, use GL_LINE_SMOOTH which, for r300, is currently implemented in software. This causes these games to be unplayably slow due to their reliance on line graphics. Currently, the solution is to use driconf to globally disable low-impact fallbacks. -- | Darren Salt

Re: unable to build gdb from source

) will be enough to work around the problem. -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | Let's keep the pound sterling Take my advice, I'm not using it right now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: generating patches for debian packages

(hard-linking files is good, so long as your text editor breaks links when saving). Diffing is suddenly easier. -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Lobby friends, family, business

Re: Newbie question about compiler warnings.

leaving them in - you may be grateful for the evidence in times to come. Warnings are issued for a reason - until upstream fix the code, I'd always recommend to leave the warning in place. Certain ones should be left in anyway, IMO. -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington

Re: Build-Depends-Indep and build target

. [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Output less CO2 = avoid boiling weather. TIME IS RUNNING OUT *FAST*. Mind your own business, Spock. I'm sick of your halfbreed

Re: binary files in diff

I demand that Frank Gevaerts may or may not have written... I need to add a binary file (a png icon) to my package. What is the best way to do this, since the normal .diff generation does not support this ? UUcode seems to be the usual way (needs sharutils). -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds

Re: mini-dinstall, repository signing and apt-get authentication

then signing the Release file to create Release.gpg What I use for my repository is attached. (Licence is GPL = v2.) -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | Say NO to UK ID cards. http

Re: How to build packages from tarballs without makefiles

, a library package may not be the best thing to learn packaging. A package which produces a single executable is much easier. ... and, since it's a library, you *must* add -fPIC to CFLAGS. -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking

Re: question about CFLAGS modifiers to ./configure

flags. It belongs in LDFLAGS. [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + At least 4000 million too many people. POPULATION LEVEL IS UNSUSTAINABLE. Power corrupts, and absolute power

Re: Native package or not?

$ patch -p0 -i test2.diff # -1,1 +0,0 $ ls -l test ls: test: No such file or directory $ diff -N treats empty as non-existent, and patch may fail to ask about -R. [snip] -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | sarge,| Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS

Re: [gmail] Re: sponsor quake3 quake3-data packages

/, because information isn't lost if it gets deleted? /var/cache/install/$PACKAGE? -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | sarge,| youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | URL:http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk

Re: dpatch upstream source

, and have also accidentally let patches through...) -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | sarge,| Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk | Retrocomputing: a PC card in a Risc PC Wishful thinking on your part doesn't constitute

Re: Putting accented characters in manpages?

this works in KDE's man viewer. For character 243, you want \['o] or \('o. -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | sarge,| Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk Say NO to UK ID cards

Re: new upstream Cogito conflicts with GNU Interactive Tools

I demand that Junichi Uekawa may or may not have written... [snip] My recommended action is: 1. tell them /usr/bin/git name is already taken, and we're renaming it to piggy I'd say sum, but that's already taken too. ;-) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | sarge

Re: debian architectures

I demand that Mauro Darida may or may not have written... On Monday 23 May 2005 19:30, Darren Salt wrote: RiscStation machine (memory says that they all use the ARM7500FE), I can't say the same for the Risc PC kernel - is it built for ARM610, ARM700/ARM710 or SA110? (I'd guess SA110.) So

Re: debian architectures

I demand that Mauro Darida may or may not have written... On Saturday 21 May 2005 16:21, Darren Salt wrote: Hmm...  arm      PDA (Sharp Zaurus), Acorn Archimedes (What are those hard spaces doing there? I didn't put them there...) For the Archimedes, that'd be arm26. Thank you for your

Re: performance tip for the package development stage

. [... summary: use ccache] Alternatively, try to alter the source so that you don't need multiple compilations. (This worked for vdr.) -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | sarge,| Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk | We've

Re: latex2html makes twice table captions

Zaurus), Acorn Archimedes For the Archimedes, that'd be arm26. You mean Acorn Risc PC and Iyonix - and, at least on Acorn hardware, StrongARM is required, or at least it was when I last checked. -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | sarge,| Northumberland | youmustbejoking

Re: How to deal with #307726 ?

is in sarge. -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | sarge,| youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | Let's keep the pound sterling A clean, neat, desk is a sign of a very sick mind. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: RFS: z80asm, assembler for the Zilog Z80 microprocessor

image (TAP or TZX) files for use with an emulator? (I could also add ZX80, ZX81, TS1000, TS1500, TS2068, TC2048, TC2068...) And, AFAIK, the Gameboy's CPU isn't exactly Z80 - it's missing at least the IX and IY registers and the corresponding instructions. [snip] -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington

Re: splay upload anyone?

I demand that John Hedges may or may not have written... [snip] I'd appreciate an upload ... are you willing, despite my stubborness? Good luck with it. Nobody bothered to upload gxine before the freeze... I propose that the next release is called hell rather than etch ;-\ -- | Darren Salt

RFS: gxine 0.4.4 (source NMU)

, libxine-dev) if it would help. An upload is needed to close a security hole (see URL:http://xinehq.de/index.php/security/XSA-2004-8; bug 305343). -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | sarge,| Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk

Re: RFS: gxine 0.4.4 (source NMU)

I demand that Matthew Palmer may or may not have written... On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 10:28:03PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote: Re. http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=11562029, I've prepared an NMU of gxine which fixes the RC bug and several other bugs which are present in 0.4.1

Re: debian directory included in upstream

software *for* *Debian* (native), there is no reason why you should bother with ./debian at all. That's a matter for the Debian maintainer and upstream. All that I can say is that I've marked bugs as fixed in the Debian changelog without there being any complaint... -- | Darren Salt | nr

Re: Reorganizando el wiki y la lista de blogs

I demand that Adrian von Bidder may or may not have written... On Tuesday 25 January 2005 20.00, Antonio Ognio wrote: Saludos, Please respect that debian-mentors is an english mailing list. babelfishized: Er... turned into a Babel fish? ;-) [snip] -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington

Re: Advice sought regarding binaries in upstream source

source in the orig.tar.gz file, I would also very much like to know whether my current approach of appending a sub-version to the upstream version number is approriate (example: 2.03 - 2.03.1). Bad idea. What if there's an upstream 2.03.1? -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds

Re: Advice sought regarding binaries in upstream source

source in the orig.tar.gz file, I would also very much like to know whether my current approach of appending a sub-version to the upstream version number is approriate (example: 2.03 - 2.03.1). Bad idea. What if there's an upstream 2.03.1? -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds

Re: packaging newbie...: .svn directories / perldoc -- manpage

DEBUILD_DPKG_BUILDPACKAGE_OPTS .devscripts DEBUILD_DPKG_BUILDPACKAGE_OPTS=-i'(?:^|/).*~$|(?:^|/)\..*\.swp|DEADJOE|(?:/CVS|/RCS|/\.svn|/\.deps)(?:$|/)' -ICVS -I.svn -uc -us Hmm, extra bits... autom4te.cache? [snip] -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking

Re: packaging newbie...: .svn directories / perldoc -- manpage

DEBUILD_DPKG_BUILDPACKAGE_OPTS .devscripts DEBUILD_DPKG_BUILDPACKAGE_OPTS=-i'(?:^|/).*~$|(?:^|/)\..*\.swp|DEADJOE|(?:/CVS|/RCS|/\.svn|/\.deps)(?:$|/)' -ICVS -I.svn -uc -us Hmm, extra bits... autom4te.cache? [snip] -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking

lxmusserv, yadex: current maintainers still interested in these packages?

versions in my apt archive (see .sig) which deal with all of the bugs except for no. 199282. If the maintainers don't respond, then I'll adjust my packages for NMU or take-over, filing bugs as appropriate. (Sponsorship will be needed.) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody

lxmusserv, yadex: current maintainers still interested in these packages?

versions in my apt archive (see .sig) which deal with all of the bugs except for no. 199282. If the maintainers don't respond, then I'll adjust my packages for NMU or take-over, filing bugs as appropriate. (Sponsorship will be needed.) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody

Re: Development packages.

drive (which is removable) with the computer. [snip] -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk | Oh, sarge too... You are standing on my toes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Development packages.

drive (which is removable) with the computer. [snip] -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk | Oh, sarge too... You are standing on my toes.

Re: [debian-mentors] config.sub and config.guess | .diff.gz bloat

exists. My message is: avoid surprises from find. :-) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | I don't ask for much, just untold riches... Proposals, as understood

Re: [debian-mentors] config.sub and config.guess | .diff.gz bloat

exists. My message is: avoid surprises from find. :-) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | I don't ask for much, just untold riches... Proposals, as understood

Re: RFS: playmidi

prepared to wait; I'm told that a new release is planned for next month. Would either of you be prepared to sponsor it? :-) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | Let's keep

RFS: playmidi

- or would it be better to just forget that question and ask afresh? -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | URL:http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/progs.packages.html Many pages make

Re: RFS: playmidi

I demand that Brian Nelson may or may not have written... Darren Salt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm looking for a sponsor for playmidi. I've fixed some of the reported bugs and applied an extra patch or two of my own. The diff and dsc files aren't available for download but I'll send them

Re: RFS: playmidi

I demand that nil may or may not have written... What the hell? It's taken this long to contact the actual maintainer of playmidi (me)? (Taken to private mail.) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon

Re: out-of-date-standards-version 3.5.6

see that... -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | Debian woody, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | URL:http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/progs.packages.html If you didn't get caught, did you really do

Re: out-of-date-standards-version 3.5.6

I demand that Thomas Viehmann may or may not have written... Darren Salt wrote: License : GNU Public Licence You *could* of course spell that correctly... There are no _spelling_ errors there. While there are no words mispelled, What? There's one, right there :-) the *name

Re: out-of-date-standards-version 3.5.6

see that... -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | Debian woody, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | URL:http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/progs.packages.html If you didn't get caught, did you really do it?

Re: out-of-date-standards-version 3.5.6

I demand that Thomas Viehmann may or may not have written... Darren Salt wrote: License : GNU Public Licence You *could* of course spell that correctly... There are no _spelling_ errors there. While there are no words mispelled, What? There's one, right there :-) the *name

Re: How to obtain current package version number?

? -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | Debian woody, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk | This space reserved for future expansion The following statement is not true. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

RFS: lib765{,-dev}, libdsk{,-dev}, FUSE (xfuse-*)

welcome... -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | Linux PC, Risc PC | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | No Wodniws here | Toon Army | demon co uk | This space reserved for future expansion To catch intelligent fish, you use a neural net. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

RFS: lib765{,-dev}, libdsk{,-dev}, FUSE (xfuse-*)

welcome... -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | Linux PC, Risc PC | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | No Wodniws here | Toon Army | demon co uk | This space reserved for future expansion To catch intelligent fish, you use a neural net. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: HELP!!! New Maint App Process

, or at least distributed-with-Debian packages. None have sponsors as yet... [snip] -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | Linux PC, Risc PC | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | No Wodniws here | demon co uk | Toon Army | URL:http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk

Re: HELP!!! New Maint App Process

Debian packages, or at least distributed-with-Debian packages. None have sponsors as yet... [snip] -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | Linux PC, Risc PC | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | No Wodniws here | demon co uk | Toon Army | URL:http