Re: RFS: krecipes (updated package)

2009-06-02 Thread Matthias Julius
Matthias Julius m...@julius-net.net writes: Matthias Julius m...@julius-net.net writes: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.0~beta2-1 of my package krecipes. It builds these binary packages: krecipes - recipes manager for KDE krecipes-data - recipes manager for KDE - data

Re: RFS: krecipes (updated package)

2009-05-19 Thread Matthias Julius
Matthias Julius m...@julius-net.net writes: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.0~beta2-1 of my package krecipes. It builds these binary packages: krecipes - recipes manager for KDE krecipes-data - recipes manager for KDE - data files krecipes-doc - recipes manager for KDE

Re: RFS: krecipes (updated package)

2009-05-19 Thread Matthias Julius
Sune Vuorela nos...@vuorela.dk writes: On 2009-05-19, Matthias Julius m...@julius-net.net wrote: I would really appreciate if someone could either help me to get my krecipes package into Debian. I am just not quite sure whether it is OK to hijack a package like that from an unresponsive

Re: RFS: krecipes (updated package)

2009-05-19 Thread Matthias Julius
Barry deFreese bdefre...@verizon.net writes: Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: I'm not a DD, but I think the correct way is to ping MIA team about it and then after 2 weeks time you ping them again and they do a little chat and come up with a solutions usally in your favor. Try that, cause they record

Re: RFS: krecipes (updated package)

2009-05-19 Thread Matthias Julius
Sune Vuorela nos...@vuorela.dk writes: On 2009-05-19, Matthias Julius m...@julius-net.net wrote: I just noticed that he actually cross-posted his messages to pkg-kde-talk. There seems to be a little more human presence. Next time I'll post there. That's *NOT* a sponsering list

Re: RFS: krecipes (updated package)

2009-05-19 Thread Matthias Julius
José Manuel Santamaría Lema panfa...@gmail.com writes: On Martes, 19 de Mayo de 2009 23:43:50 Sune Vuorela escribió: I don't know how close you follow debian development, but many members of the debian kde people have been quite busy over the last month trying to get kde in testing updated.

Re: RFS: libmemcached

2009-05-14 Thread Matthias Julius
LI Daobing lidaob...@gmail.com writes: 3. consider remove the .la file if you already have a .pc file. Is that a policy/best practice for library packages? ok, consider there is no conclusion here. you can keep this file there. :) But there seems to be a preference to remove it if rdepends

RFS: krecipes (updated package)

2009-05-14 Thread Matthias Julius
, dh_shlibdeps is complaining about a ton of unnecessary dependencies. I have not yet tried to investigate where those are coming from. Kind regards Matthias Julius -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

2009-05-01 Thread Matthias Julius
Here we go ... Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Matthias Julius m...@julius-net.net wrote: I would really be grateful if someone could take a look at this package and possibly upload it for me. You build-depend on libdb-dev, in sid that depends on libdb4.7

Re: RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

2009-05-01 Thread Matthias Julius
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Matthias Julius m...@julius-net.net wrote: As explained in another post this should not affect the user since the database format has not changed. Please investigate the DB-upgrade thing Clint mentioned and forward

Re: RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

2009-04-30 Thread Matthias Julius
Matthias Julius m...@julius-net.net writes: Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: I don't see anything in the maintainer scripts that would migrate the db files. Does dnshistory or libdb handle upgrading the on-disk db format? Or can libdb handle older versions of the on-disk db format? I

Re: RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

2009-04-30 Thread Matthias Julius
Clint Adams sch...@debian.org writes: Typically the fear which motivates this type of question is unfounded. Looking at the dnshistory source code, it appears that the use of BDB is trivial. Generally when the feature set you require could just as easily have been satisfied by GDBM, there

Re: RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

2009-04-28 Thread Matthias Julius
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: You build-depend on libdb-dev, in sid that depends on libdb4.7-dev but the current dnshistory package is built against libdb4.6. Should you add another debian/NEWS entry about this? I'm not sure what to do in this situation, could you investigate? I am not

Re: RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

2009-04-28 Thread Matthias Julius
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: I don't see anything in the maintainer scripts that would migrate the db files. Does dnshistory or libdb handle upgrading the on-disk db format? Or can libdb handle older versions of the on-disk db format? I was assuming the latter. But, reading

Re: RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

2009-04-27 Thread Matthias Julius
Matthias Julius li...@julius-net.net writes: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.3-2 of my package dnshistory. It builds these binary packages: dnshistory - Translating and storing of IP addresses from log files The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix

RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

2009-04-16 Thread Matthias Julius
sponsor twice in the last couple of weeks. He did not respond to my emails. I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Matthias Julius -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

debian/copyright verbosity

2009-04-13 Thread Matthias Julius
In the light of the recent discussion about debian/copyright on -devel I am wondering how verbose it actually needs to be. Given the following files: Files: foo.c Copyright: 2006 Mr. X License: GPL2+ Files: bar.c Copyright: 2008 Mr. X License: GPL2+ Files: baz.c Copyright: 2005 Mr. Y

Re: debian/copyright verbosity

2009-04-13 Thread Matthias Julius
Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org writes: On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:24:51 -0400 Matthias Julius li...@julius-net.net wrote: I'd say condense all those down so that you only mention the one licence once. There's no harm in collating copyright as long as the licences are consistent (licence

Re: [Fwd: Re: [jack-mixer]bin/sh: no: command not found]]

2009-04-06 Thread Matthias Julius
Jonathan Wiltshire deb...@jwiltshire.org.uk writes: On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 12:09:50PM +0200, Grammostola Rosea wrote: make[3]: Entering directory `/tmp/buildd/jack-mixer-6' GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE= no --makefile-install-rule ./jack_mixer.schemas ^^ It's still that space

Re: ITR: varkon (updated package)

2008-01-18 Thread Matthias Julius
Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Better to run a test suite or otherwise cause an FTBFS on architectures where it is known to build broken or unusable binaries. Not being fully portable isn't an RC bug and will not block testing migration unless it is a regression and there is no good

Re: ITR: varkon (updated package)

2008-01-17 Thread Matthias Julius
Matthias Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Matthias Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I will address the other points you mentioned earlier and also the issues Erik mentioned tonight (hopefully, maybe tomorrow) when I get home. OK, it took a little longer than two days, but I had a lot

Re: ITR: varkon (updated package)

2008-01-17 Thread Matthias Julius
Erik Schanze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: IMO excluding of architectures is good if the program makes no sense on it, e.g. because of missing hardware. In your case it is a problem of unportable code, you should fix it before. Yes, generally I agree with you. But properly fixing the code

Re: RFS: varkon (updated package)

2007-12-26 Thread Matthias Julius
Matthias Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.19B-1 of my package varkon. [...] The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/v/varkon - Source repository: deb-src http

Re: ITR: varkon (updated package)

2007-12-26 Thread Matthias Julius
Neil Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Try with: 1. Wrong directory for manual: ./usr/share/varkon/man/ should be ./usr/share/doc/varkon-user-manual/ i.e usr/share/doc/$package_name/ Same for varkon-programmer-manual Modify the doc-base files accordingly and change the symlink to the

Re: I'm sorry

2007-12-20 Thread Matthias Julius
Ricardo Mones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can start reading the New Maintainer Guide [0], which will point you to the Work-Needing and Prospective Packages [1], where you can look for some orphaned package you may take care of. [0]

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

2007-12-18 Thread Matthias Julius
Leo \costela\ Antunes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andreas Hoenen wrote: I have just uploaded dblatex 0.2.8-2 to mentors.debian.net [1]. Regarding the new lintian warning 'spelling-error-in-changelog' I have opened a bug report [2]. [1] dget

RFS: varkon (updated package)

2007-12-17 Thread Matthias Julius
a large /usr/share. For the next release I will confirm with upstream that the files there are really architecture independent and split it into a -data package if appropriate or move the files into /usr/lib/varkon. Kind regards Matthias Julius -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: yes, GPL means GPL3 today... (Re: RFS: gnome-color-chooser)

2007-12-14 Thread Matthias Julius
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Agreed. I think debian/copyright should always refer to the exact version of the GPL that the package says it's covered under and then document whether only that version is permissable or whether the or later part is available. (The exception is GPL

Re: RFS: colordiff

2007-12-14 Thread Matthias Julius
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dave Ewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, I do run lintian (and linda), but the spare machine I used to build the packages was running Lenny at the time I built them. It's now Sid ;-) You can also pin lintian in particular to unstable on a system

Re: changelog-should-mention-nmu

2007-12-12 Thread Matthias Julius
chaica [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: W: yougrabber source: changelog-should-mention-nmu N: N: When you NMU a package, that fact should be mentioned on the first N: line in the changelog entry. Use the words NMU or Non-maintainer N: upload (case insensitive). N: N: Maybe you didn't

Re: RFS: gnome-color-chooser

2007-12-12 Thread Matthias Julius
Holger Levsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ./src/gnome-color-chooser.1 says the licence is GPL, which means GPL3, while debian/copyright says the software is GPL2+... please fix. Does it really mean GPL3? Do I have to compare the release date of a software with the publishing date of the various

Re: When should versionned dependancies be dropped ?

2007-04-25 Thread Matthias Julius
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am preparing a package using the makefile include for quilt, which appeared in the quilt package starting from version 0.40. Only oldstable has an inferior version. Would there be any benefit to remove the

Re: RFS: A very special package

2007-04-03 Thread Matthias Julius
Pierre THIERRY [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Scribit Michael M. dies 02/04/2007 hora 07:48: This sounds great, but could you please advice which brand of popcorn meets the DFSG? I wouldn't want to violate the spirit of the endeavor. Probably only the one with traceability information, so you

Re: quilt, cdbs, dpatch, but is there even simpler ?

2007-03-27 Thread Matthias Julius
Romain Beauxis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As far as I know it is not. A native debian package can have a single tar.gz but not a package with upstream releases.. This is also handy when uploading new debian releases since you don't have to upload the orig tarball at each time.. How would

Re: quilt, cdbs, dpatch, but is there even simpler ?

2007-03-26 Thread Matthias Julius
Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Having a simple and straghtforward patch system would lower the bar for new packagers, as well as open the way to have .diff.gz files which would only touch the debian directory, instead of containing a mixture of packaging instructions, code changes,

Re: The GIMP plugins for refocussing blurred images

2007-03-06 Thread Matthias Julius
This question is better placed on [EMAIL PROTECTED] So, I am crossposting it there Bernd Zeimetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, since I'm not only a geek but also a photographer and GIMP user I've decided to have a look at wnpp bug #398765 [1] and package the plugin [2]. While packaging

Re: Translations of the menu system.

2007-02-01 Thread Matthias Julius
Linas Žvirblis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Charles Plessy wrote: I was kindly pointed out on -devel that the Debian menu system can handle translations in its files. No, it cannot. Not only that, but there also is no clear idea on HOW and WHAT exactly it should do. There are simply way too

Re: RFS: dnshistory

2006-11-26 Thread Matthias Julius
Daniel Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Matthias Julius wrote: - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/dnshistory/dnshistory_1.2-1.dsc please fix the following things: [...] if you fix above things, i'm happy to sponsor it. And I am happy that you are willing to do so

Re: RFS: dnshistory

2006-11-26 Thread Matthias Julius
Daniel Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Matthias Julius wrote: This list was longer than I expected, but I appreciate that you took the time to generate it. I hope I have fixed all the issues you have pointed out. everything, except: * debian/copyright has a useless empty line

Re: RFS: dnshistory

2006-11-26 Thread Matthias Julius
Daniel Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Matthias Julius wrote: Hmm, the opinion on this matter seems to be somwhat devided. Some people suggest the revision should be increased every time an upload is made to a public place like mentors.d.n. if you insist on having it bumped, do it. i

Re: RFS: dnshistory

2006-11-26 Thread Matthias Julius
Daniel Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Matthias Julius wrote: Sorry, my bad. I forgot to sign it and didn't wait for dupload to finish. no problem. checked again and uploaded it. Thanks a lot. if you need further sponsoring, contact me off-list http://people.debian.org/~daniel

Re: proper way to package mozilla extensions

2006-04-25 Thread Matthias Julius
Yaroslav Halchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: xpi and jar is the source -- it is just packaged with the other than tar/gzip archiver and nested in each other to make our life fun ;-) That is why there is no alternative tarball with the true source is often provided (even if the license is GPL)

Re: Doing RFS on -mentors

2006-04-10 Thread Matthias Julius
Panu Kalliokoski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I understand this, but it was exactly the same situation as with my software packages -- they didn't have separate packaging and upstream changes. There have been two times in their history when only packaging information has been changed: when I