Re: A question about adopting a package

2008-04-24 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:25:11PM +0400, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: As I have never worked with the BTS control bot, I am asking for directions. Shall this mail sent from my own address to [EMAIL PROTECTED] suffice for setting an ITA? === 8

Re: Lintian: outdated-autotools-helper-file

2008-02-10 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 08:27:52PM +0100, David Paleino wrote: Hi *, I'm packaging gnome-translate (ITP #292909), and everything builds fine. A lintian check on the .changes file throws: E: gnome-translate source: outdated-autotools-helper-file config.guess 2003-07-02 What am I supposed

Re: RFS: gthumb (updated and adopted package)

2007-12-28 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 11:59:37PM +0100, David Paleino wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 3:2.10.7-1 of the package gthumb, which I'm adopting. The package is not lintian clean, it has 3 overrides: - gthumb: no-shlibs-control-file and

ITU: wmanager (update, adopt, fix bugs)

2007-12-23 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 05:11:35PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 07:04:25PM -0600, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 02:02:06PM -0600, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 06:44:23PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: Dear

Re: How to get an issue resolved

2007-12-21 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 12:35:43PM +1100, David Schulberg wrote: Hi, I have an issue in that my Debian Linux browsers are unable to connect to our server via SSL through stunnel. Windows browsers, both IE and Firefox, connect fine. I read again your post to stunnel-users. Given that your

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

2007-12-19 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 10:12:03PM +0100, Andreas Hoenen wrote: I don't know if there's anything on mentors.d.o that stops you from doing this, but I'd personally say you don't need to bump versions before the package actually gets into the archive, so you could just stick with '-1' for a

Re: ITR: wmanager (update, adopt, fix bugs)

2007-12-19 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 02:02:06PM -0600, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 06:44:23PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.2.1-3 of the wmanager package; I am hereby attempting to adopt it, fix its two bugs

ITR: wmanager (update, adopt, fix bugs)

2007-12-17 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 06:44:23PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.2.1-3 of the wmanager package; I am hereby attempting to adopt it, fix its two bugs, and bring it up-to-date with the Debian policy and the modern world in general

Re: ITR: blam 1.8.4-3

2007-12-11 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 07:29:39PM +0100, Carlos Martín Nieto wrote: On lun, 2007-12-10 at 11:35 -0600, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote: On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 06:25:34PM +0100, Carlos Martín Nieto wrote: On dom, 2007-12-09 at 16:52 -0600, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote: You

Re: ITR: blam 1.8.4-3

2007-12-11 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 07:21:23PM +0100, Carlos Martín Nieto wrote: On mar, 2007-12-11 at 08:52 -0600, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote: (BTW. Always use the lintian from unstable to check your packages.) I do. I've just updated lintian but it won't give me those errors even with -i. Do

Uploaded: blam 1.8.4-3

2007-12-11 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 12:49:22PM -0600, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote: The new package is at the same place as before. It shouldn't have any problems now. I'll check it tonight. Good work. I've uploaded the package. You should receive confirmations for the upload shortly. Please

Re: ITR: blam 1.8.4-3

2007-12-10 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 06:25:34PM +0100, Carlos Martín Nieto wrote: On dom, 2007-12-09 at 16:52 -0600, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote: You can find it at http://www.cmartin.tk/blam/blam_1.8.4-3.dsc I will review your package for upload. It will take a little while, since you

ITR: blam 1.8.4-3

2007-12-09 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 11:24:41PM +0100, Carlos Martín Nieto wrote: My usual sponsor (Amaya) is away for a while and so I've been orphaned :( ... Blam is a news feed reader written in C# which supports Atom and RSS. It is already in Debian but I need a new sponsor. You can find it at

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol ... found in none of the libraries

2007-12-06 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 02:09:48PM +0100, Cesare Tirabassi wrote: On Thursday 06 December 2007 03:39:38 Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote: The new dpkg-shlibdeps is giving me tons of messages of the form dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol ui_node_remove_node used by debian/liferea/usr/lib

dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol ... found in none of the libraries

2007-12-05 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
The new dpkg-shlibdeps is giving me tons of messages of the form dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol ui_node_remove_node used by debian/liferea/usr/lib/liferea/libliscrlua.so found in none of the libraries The .so in question is a plugin meant to be dlopened by the main program. The symbols

Re: alguien que me ayude

2007-10-30 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
[English reply at the end] On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 01:48:02AM +0100, kingworld360 wrote: OLA si hay alguien que no le importe ayudar soi nuevo con este sistema operativo cuando sepa are programas y mantendre los paquetes Hola. Esta lista a la que escribiste se maneja en inglés y está

Re: RFS: grun -- GTK based Run dialog [delayed-7 NMU]

2007-10-16 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
Bas Wijnen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 10:20:06AM -0500, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote: Bas Wijnen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why do you need to #define this? Just because I dislike using magic constants. But looking at the rest of the code, I would just use

Re: RFS: grun -- GTK based Run dialog [delayed-7 NMU]

2007-10-16 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 04:02:28PM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 07:52:33AM -0500, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote: Bas Wijnen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it ok with you if I upload it with a string literal instead of a define? Yes, no problem. Thanks

Re: [Uploaded] Re: RFS: grun -- GTK based Run dialog [delayed-7 NMU]

2007-10-16 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 09:08:12PM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: Hi, I've uploaded the package with those changes to the 7-day delayed queue. Please let me know if there are any problems (I'll subscribe to the PTS, but I don't get the reply e-mails from the upload). Tks. -- Rodrigo Gallardo

Re: RFS: grun -- GTK based Run dialog [delayed-7 NMU]

2007-10-15 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
Bas Wijnen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have just one question about this part: @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ #include grun2.xpm #if defined (HAVE_GETTEXT) || defined (HAVE_CATGETS) #include libintl.h +#define UTF8 UTF-8 #else #include intl/libintl.h #endif @@ -1107,6 +1108,7 @@ int PASCAL

RFS: grun -- GTK based Run dialog [delayed-7 NMU]

2007-09-24 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for a 7 days delayed NMU of package grun. The upload would fix these bugs: 438704 This is a long standing (but recently reported, sadly) bug that has just become grave, because with gtk 2.12 it now results on inmediate segfaults when using grun. The

Re: daemon stop and start during upgrade

2007-09-13 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 08:33:16AM +0200, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: Felipe Sateler wrote: - Behave sensibly when invoked with 'start' and already running - Behave sensibly when invoked with 'stop' and not running So in the end I agree that would be sensible to exit with 0, if the

Re: [RFS] stunnel4 (updated package, adoption, RFS repost)

2007-08-27 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 06:37:36AM +0530, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: Hello, On Sun, 26 Aug 2007, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote: Should I upload with just the change from (1)? Yes. I agree with your reasoning. Ready. The new package at http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s

Re: [RFS] stunnel4 (updated package, adoption, RFS repost)

2007-08-26 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 11:11:05AM +0530, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: Hello, On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: Package looks fine. I'm currently updating my local pbuilder base and will upload when that is done. Unfortunately, I just realised that there are a few more

Skipping version numbers in adopted packages

2007-08-22 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
So far, all discussion I've seen about whether to collapse changes made during sponsorship review into a single debian revision for upload have focused in the case of an initial package upload. Does anyone have any special arguments for doing it one way or another in the case of an upgrade?

Re: [RFS] stunnel4 (updated package, adoption, RFS repost)

2007-08-22 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 08:03:04PM +0530, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 3:4.20-3 of my package stunnel4. I have some fixes/suggestions for you. Since this would be the first package that I

FSF old address in coyright statements

2007-08-18 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
My upstream's copyright statements in source files contain the old FSF mailing address. I will contact them about this problem but, while they react should I a) Faithfully reproduce their copyright statement in the package's debian/copyright and give wrong information to users, or b) Use the

[RFS] stunnel4 (updated package, adoption, RFS repost)

2007-08-10 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 3:4.20-3 of my package stunnel4. It builds these binary packages: stunnel- dummy upgrade package stunnel4 - Universal SSL tunnel for network daemons The package is lintian/linda clean. It is not piuparts clean because it does

Re: RFS: ntfs-3g (updated package)

2007-08-08 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 07:57:18PM +0200, Piotr O??arowski wrote: [Adam Cécile (Le_Vert), 08.08.2007] Could your remind me which packages have you sponsored ? for i in list of your source packages; do who-uploads $i|grep naoliv echo $i done But, where do we find this who-uploads? If

Re: RFS: ntfs-3g (updated package)

2007-08-08 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 08:08:49PM +0200, Piotr O??arowski wrote: [Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz, 08.08.2007] But, where do we find this who-uploads? If it's in some debian machine, it's useless to us nonDDs. $ apt-file search bin/who-uploads devscripts: usr/bin/who-uploads Duh. Sorry

[RFS] stunnel4 (updated package)

2007-08-02 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 3:4.20-3 of my package stunnel4. It builds these binary packages: stunnel- dummy upgrade package stunnel4 - Universal SSL tunnel for network daemons The package is lintian/linda clean. It is not piuparts clean because it does

Re: Sponsor Checklist

2007-07-31 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 01:21:23PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 05:53:49PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:40:26 -0500 Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm. Since the DD/sponsor is the one who creates the uploaded packages,

Re: [RFS] stunnel -- Universal SSL tunnel for network daemons

2007-07-28 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 08:55:01PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 05:51:18PM -0500, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2:4.20-1 of the package stunnel, which I'm adpoting. The syntax in the debian/changelog is not correct

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

2007-07-27 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 03:03:22PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: Can mark comments as 'advocating an upload' By the way, is there any way to make sure that the person marking a comment as 'advocating an upload' is really a DD Why this? If someone is a DD, and they advocate uploading a

[RFS] stunnel -- Universal SSL tunnel for network daemons

2007-07-26 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2:4.20-1 of the package stunnel, which I'm adpoting. It builds these binary packages: stunnel- Universal SSL tunnel for network daemons The package is lintian/linda/piuparts clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 382099, 416955

Re: RFS: python-plastex

2007-07-23 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 11:47:25PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: * debian/docs: what about the documentation in Doc? You want to add it to the pacakge, if the license allows it. Please note that latex2html is in non-free. You may not use it or the results form it. But using latex to create

Re: dpatch or quilt? in maintainer guide

2007-07-21 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 05:59:20AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: If someone makes checking on the archive how many packages build depends on dpatch and quit $ grep-dctrl -FBuild-Depends dpatch -sPackage /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.mx.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_source_Sources|wc -l 1461 $

Re: Svn-buildpakcage ignoring some directories.

2007-07-19 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 06:27:10PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 10:07:28AM +0100, Jon Dowland a écrit : Why do you want the directory in the diff.gz? If you need it at build time, create it in the build rules. I just thought it was simpler if there were no build

Re: How much free must a package be to be included in non-free (was: Re: CC by-SA 3.0 is DFSG-free?)

2007-07-02 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 10:43:05PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: Can anybody explain how packages go into non-free? I mean: how much free the package has to be to be considered to non-free and which issues are blocker that would forbid the package into entering non-free? A package can go into

Merging packages

2007-05-09 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
stunnel (which I'm adpoting) has two mutually incompatible major upstream versions, 3 and 4. Back when 4 was first released, the maintainer packaged it separately, as stunnel4, to avoid the major grief of forcing such an update on users. Since then, stunnel4 has grown a compatibility wrapper

Re: request for sponsoring = RFS, intent to sponsor = ITS ?

2007-05-06 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 12:20:10PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: If not, could ITS = intent to sponsor work? Would a 'review without ITS' be done by a simple reply to the RFS without a subject marking? signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFS: brightd

2007-04-26 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 02:55:35PM +0200, Evgeni Golov wrote: * Do not change file permissions in postinst, unless you do it with dpkg-statoverride. In this case, given that what you want are standard execute permissions for a binary, you just need to do it when packaging. Which is

Re: RFS: brightd

2007-04-26 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 08:46:09PM +0200, Evgeni Golov wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:38:49 -0500 Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote: Hm, could you explain that a bit more? I need the binary setuid-root, so $USER is able to write to /sys/class/backlight/ I previously used install -M 4755

Re: RFS: brightd

2007-04-25 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 07:47:51PM +0200, Evgeni Golov wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:57:45 +0200 Evgeni Golov wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package brightd. IANADD, so I can't sponsor you. I can, however, offer you some comments: * Your watch file is wrong, the line should be

Re: RFS: MMS - My Media System

2007-03-13 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 12:51:17AM +0100, Ricardo Mones wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:58:15 +0100 Roman Müllenschläder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Sonntag, 11. März 2007 schrieb Ricardo Mones: and, also an informative hint about splitting the (large) arch-independent portion in

Re: packages for netcdf 3.6.2 (released today)

2007-03-07 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 02:51:06PM -0700, Warren Turkal wrote: * I'm not sure the BTS is smart enough to close #278739 that appears with a newline between it and closes:. (If I'm wrong, someone please correct me.) Done, but does anyone know if BTS is smart enough to handle this? No.

Re: new package splix

2007-02-16 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 09:41:50AM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 18:09 -0300, Carlos Pasqualini wrote: [ slightly confusing description ] I do not understand the situation with this package. You do claim to support some SPL printers, but the last sentence asks for

Re: RFS: liferea 1.0.27-2 [Uploaded]

2007-02-15 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 06:44:58PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: New, working, package at the same URL. I ended up removing the patch from the last update, as the poster wrote later saying it didn't solve the problems after all. Took us a while, but it's now sorted and I've just uploaded

Re: RFS: liferea 1.0.27-2 [Upgrading problems]

2007-02-11 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 01:43:52PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 10:39:28PM -0600, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# apt-get dist-upgrade [...] The following packages have been kept back: liferea I've got a question on your transition

Re: RFS: liferea 1.0.27-2 [Upgrading problems]

2007-02-09 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 05:08:36PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 01:33:54PM -0600, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote: On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 06:37:28PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: I suspect you need the third horseman of the package apocalypse, Replaces

Re: RFS: liferea 1.0.27-2 [Upgrading problems]

2007-02-08 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 06:37:28PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 10:22:41PM -0600, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote: What happens is that liferea is held-back. I've tried adding or taking out a Provides: liferea-gtkhtml to the liferea package, with no results

RFS: liferea 1.0.27-2

2007-02-07 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
My regular sponsor for this package has been busy lately. Could someone review and do a one time sponsoring of this? http://www.nul-unu.com/quien/rodrigo/debian/liferea/liferea_1.0.27-2.dsc I do have an issue I need help testing before upload. If I install etch/sid liferea + liferea-gtkhtml in a

Re: RFS: NMU for mrd6 package

2007-02-03 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:23:33 +0100 Laurent Bigonville [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've opened bug #394590 for about 100 days now and got no answer from the maintainer (Anand Kumria [EMAIL PROTECTED]). The maintainer is known to be MIA. I have sent him an email today to explain my intent to do a

Re: Linda question: Maintainer script prerm uses debhelper, but does not use #DEBHELPER#.

2007-01-28 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 08:46:57PM +0100, Maximilian Wilhelm wrote: | $ linda -i *.dsc | W: conntrackd; Maintainer script postinst uses debhelper, but does not use #DEBHELPER#. I do not use any debhelper-magic in the scripts and do not understand what linda wants me to do. I could simply

Re: RFS: ballview : new package version

2007-01-24 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 12:37:24AM +0100, Andreas Moll wrote: make: execvp: debian/debian-ball-install: Permission denied make: *** [clean] Error 127 Hi, I dont have any clue what went wrong with the permissions of this file since I have tested the package multiple times on several

How to drop a package from some architectures?

2007-01-23 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
Upstream's response to #361376 is to recommend the dropping of liferea-gtkhtml from 64bit arches. How does one go about that? -- Rodrigo Gallardo GPG-Fingerprint: 7C81 E60C 442E 8FBC D975 2F49 0199 8318 ADC9 BC28 Zenophobia: the irrational fear of convergent sequences. signature.asc

Can liferea-gtkhtml be removed from etch?

2007-01-23 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
[Summary for -release: Is removing liferea-gtkhtml too disruptive for etch?] On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 03:04:29PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 04:36:20PM -0600, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote: Upstream's response to #361376 is to recommend the dropping of liferea

Re: RFS: Need help packaging MMS (My Media System) and get it into Debian

2007-01-16 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 09:27:27AM +0100, Roman Müllenschläder wrote: For over 3 years now I help out on a multimedia-project named MMS ... we realy would like to see it as part of debian, as we think it's stable, tested and well documented. I started packaging (with the help of the web

Re: RFS: LiE computer algebra for Lie groups

2006-12-12 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 10:35:00PM +0100, Kasper Peeters wrote: Please post the complete URL to your .dsc file, it's easier for potential sponsors to grab it. http://www.aei.mpg.de/~peekas/debian/lie_2.2.2-1.dsc FWIW: Dear DD's, pending minor comments below, I believe this package is

Re: RFS: LiE computer algebra for Lie groups

2006-12-11 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 12:32:06AM +0100, Kasper Peeters wrote: Once you make these changes, repost your sponsor request. I have made all the changes you mentioned in your two previous emails. New files are at http://www.aei.mpg.de/~peekas/debian/ Please post the complete URL to your

Re: RFS: LiE computer algebra for Lie groups

2006-12-07 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 11:03:11PM +0100, Kasper Peeters wrote: We need to see your source package to comment. Please post an URL to the .dsc .dsc:http://www.aei.mpg.de/~peekas/lie_2.2.2-1.dsc .tar.gz: http://www.aei.mpg.de/~peekas/lie_2.2.2-1.tar.gz You should not be making a native

Re: RFS: LiE computer algebra for Lie groups

2006-12-07 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
Ok. Further comment: debian/dirs is not needed, the build system creates the dirs anyways. You should ship manual.dvi in /usr/share/doc/lie Read about doc-base and register it there, too. Upstream's readme contains only compilation instructions. These are not needed in a debian package, and

Re: RFS: harminv

2006-11-14 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:04:49PM +, Loic Le Guyader wrote: Ok, I fixed the manpage with a patch applied with dpatch. The update version is available on http://mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/sponsor-pkglist?action=details;package=harminv One minor nitpick: Your .diff.gz contains

Re: RFS: harminv

2006-11-11 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 07:36:42PM +0100, Loïc Le Guyader wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package harminv. IANADD, so I can't sponsor, but I have reviewed your package and have the following comments: $ lintian -I W: libharminv: non-dev-pkg-with-shlib-symlink

Handling bugs

2006-10-11 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
What does one do with an inactive unreproducible important bug? (#368546) Close it? After how long? Last mail from submitter was four months ago. No one else has ever seen it, either in Debian or in upstream mailing list. -- Rodrigo Gallardo GPG-Fingerprint: 7C81 E60C 442E 8FBC D975 2F49

Re: Overriding linda source package warnings

2006-10-10 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 03:05:21PM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 03:36:41PM +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote: The check is done on the source package - .orig.tar.gz+diff. The problem is in the .orig.tar.gz, so clean target has no chance to correct it. Yes, that's what I was

Overriding linda source package warnings

2006-10-09 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
I'm getting the following linda error: linda -i ../result/keytouch_2.2.2-1_i386.changes E: keytouch; Package contains autoconf-generated files. The package contains the file shown above, which is generated by autoconf. This may confuse the buildd's, and should be removed by the clean target of

Re: RFS: drapes (updated)

2006-09-27 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 10:42:21AM +0200, Francesco Namuri wrote: On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 07:41:06PM +0100, James Westby wrote: On (25/09/06 01:48), Francesco Namuri wrote: On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 11:15:22PM +0100, James Westby wrote: If copyright has been asserted on the file then it

Re: RFS: personalbackup

2006-09-25 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 10:32:29PM +0100, James Westby wrote: * You ship an empty /tmp/ in the deb, please drop this. Personalbackup depends on the existence of the /tmp folder...so is it ok to just assume that it is always there ? Other packages assume it is there I guess, but I

Licence issues

2006-09-14 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
I'm making a package for internal use, but want to get it right in case I decide to try to get it uploaded. Some of the upstream code has the license quoted at the end. That license IMHO makes the code not only non-free but actually not source-distributable. However, that code is unmaintained

Re: Re: RFS: personalbackup

2006-09-07 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 08:27:43PM +0200, kku wrote: You are programaticaly managing a configuration file in /etc. You should look into using ucf, that already handles this. I've had a look at ucf, but I do not think it fits my need (unless I have overlooked something). I have a template

Re: RFS: personalbackup

2006-09-07 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 10:01:47AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 05:26:53PM -0500, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 08:27:43PM +0200, kku wrote: Now to detect that the user did (not) change the conf file, I check the md5sum of the content

Re: RFS: personalbackup

2006-09-06 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package personalbackup. IANADD, so I can't sponsor. But my comments, anyways: You should not depend in postgresql, since that is just a transitional package. Depend on an specific version, or on several. In a related note, should you depend on

Re: piuparts and sarge

2006-08-02 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 06:40:23PM +0200, Thibaut Paumard wrote: I have split my package since the last upload. Therefore two of the packages I have to test are not known to apt-get, only one is. Therefore, piuparts won't do the upgrade test. Is there a way I can get it to do this test? (I can

Is leaving files on purge a bug?

2006-07-19 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
Upon completing a piuparts run I get 7m19.8s ERROR: Package purging left files on system: /etc/xml /usr/share/applications owned by: gnome-terminal-data, gnome-menus, desktop-file-utils, capplets-data /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache /var/log/scrollkeeper.log None of those

Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath documentation

2006-07-12 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 09:58:25PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: Charles Fry wrote: A package I am creating from scratch is giving me the lintian warning binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath. I've looked for this kind of answer before - it's not as simple as it appears. rpath arises from

Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath documentation

2006-07-12 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 05:05:36PM -0400, Charles Fry wrote: So, my questions are: Have I succesfully identified the currently accepted ways of fixing this warning? Depends. Does it actually fix the warning? Yes, but it also broke my binary, which can no longer find the needed

Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath documentation

2006-07-12 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 05:32:12PM -0400, Charles Fry wrote: So is the lintian test wrong? Should it only be checking for rpaths that aren't system directories? good question! -- Rodrigo Gallardo GPG-Fingerprint: 7C81 E60C 442E 8FBC D975 2F49 0199 8318 ADC9 BC28 signature.asc Description:

When to split a package?

2006-07-03 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
Having recently taken over maintaining sawfish, I ran lintian -I on it and got I: sawfish: arch-dep-package-has-big-usr-share 4848kB 90% which refers me to http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices#s-bpp-archindepdata ... However, if the size of the data is

How to split a package?

2006-07-03 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
I another thread I said: Having recently taken over maintaining sawfish, I ran lintian -I on it and got I: sawfish: arch-dep-package-has-big-usr-share 4848kB 90% and said also that I'll work on splitting that off. So ... do I just move /usr/share/* to the _all.deb package? Obviously not, since

RFS sawfish

2006-06-20 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 07:07:10PM +1000, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 12:46:37AM -0500, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote: sawfish, a window manager implemented in lisp, has been orphaned by its previous maintainer (#373702) I would like to adopt it, I may help

ITA and RFH for sawfish

2006-06-18 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
sawfish, a window manager implemented in lisp, has been orphaned by its previous maintainer (#373702) I would like to adopt it, but I would require help and an sponsor. sawfish does not appear to be heavy on maintenance (upstream CVS shows 37 commits over the last year, there are 26 normal and 20

Re: RFS: urw-garamond-no8

2006-06-18 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 09:09:04PM +0200, Florent Rougon wrote: Kevin Bube [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I uploaded a new package version to mentors.debian.net. The changelog file lists all changes done. I think I addressed all problems which still remained.