Bug#989536: RFS: htmldoc/1.9.11-4 -- HTML processor that generates indexed HTML, PS, and PDF

2021-06-07 Thread Neil Williams
Section : web I'll have a look at this request. -- Neil Williams = https://linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpjLPfBZ3mVi.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Arm Elf Toolchain

2010-09-22 Thread Neil Williams
/buildcross.html The correct list for these enquiries is the debian-embedded list: http://lists.debian.org/debian-embedded/ -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/ pgpgzI0dLmukZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 'gtk+extra3' uploaded to mentors.debian.net

2010-02-14 Thread Neil Williams
://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gtk+extra3/gtk+extra3_3.0.0-0.1.dsc -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/ pgpl0r5r34q5i.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [pkg-fso-maint] RFS: xf86-input-tslib

2010-01-26 Thread Neil Williams
at xf86-input-tslib, just have a look at the Ubuntu patches and see what needs to be done with those - I meant to do that before all this real life stuff came up. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms

Ceasing sponsoring and unsubscribing

2009-08-04 Thread Neil Williams
to sponsoring once the current illness is under control. Pressure to return is likely to be counter-productive. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpqm2KMYiyUe.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: looking for sponsor for a non-free package

2009-07-12 Thread Neil Williams
is not non-free, so package the game and a few new levels and invite people to contribute new levels that are under the same licence as the game itself. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk

Re: looking for sponsor for a non-free package

2009-07-12 Thread Neil Williams
, tough - press on without them, their loss. Those who wanted the levels to be non-free appear unwilling to do the work to maintain the package itself so who cares? The game is free, let it be free and those who sought to constrain it be damned. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data

Re: RFS: roxterm

2009-07-02 Thread Neil Williams
/projects/roxterm/files/. It should probably be uploaded to mentors.debian.net for sponsoring - many sponsors require the use of that site, not SF. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/ pgpxhqKw3Kp8y.pgp

Re: RFS: roxterm

2009-07-02 Thread Neil Williams
to be Architecture: all. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgp54PkNKQE8k.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS: ah

2009-06-22 Thread Neil Williams
. How does this compare with existing tools for this purpose? It builds these binary packages: ah - converts hex to decimal. Same here. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/ pgpnczlm1qcdB.pgp Description

Re: RFS: ah

2009-06-22 Thread Neil Williams
and the binary package with the same name. The name of the executable is harder to change (but can be done). Make sure you document this change in the ITP - including retitling the ITP to use the changed package name. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http

Re: RFS: ah

2009-06-22 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:19:07 +0100 Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org wrote: Make sure you document this change in the ITP - including retitling the ITP to use the changed package name. Just saw, you've already done that. #534242 - thanks. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data

Re: RFS: osgppu (3rd try)

2009-05-24 Thread Neil Williams
. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpdW4s9IYzqI.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFC: Proposal for template for uploads

2009-05-17 Thread Neil Williams
regards, Joe Doe Maintainer -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgp8jA9Lgxr85.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS (take 2): libapache2-mod-authz-unixgroup

2009-05-15 Thread Neil Williams
later and you have no way of enforcing the licence. The package cannot be sponsored in that condition. Is there no copyright information in the package at all? (I haven't looked.) -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http

Re: change glib-config to pkgconfig in configure.in

2009-05-15 Thread Neil Williams
as a result and you'll need to see what other effects re-running the autotools may cause. (autoreconf -f). You'll almost certainly have a bloated .diff.gz. What patch system are you proposing to use to implement this change to configure.in ? -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org

Re: change glib-config to pkgconfig in configure.in

2009-05-15 Thread Neil Williams
patch system can offer enhancements managing a problem like this one. It's more about how this is going to pan out in the future. Are you intending to maintain pmidi for the foreseeable future or is this a QA upload? -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http

Re: change glib-config to pkgconfig in configure.in

2009-05-15 Thread Neil Williams
On Fri, 15 May 2009 22:32:30 +0200 Francesco Namuri france...@namuri.it wrote: Il giorno ven, 15/05/2009 alle 17.37 +0100, Neil Williams ha scritto: It's more about how this is going to pan out in the future. Are you intending to maintain pmidi for the foreseeable future or is this a QA

Re: include desktop file and icon

2009-05-12 Thread Neil Williams
that... Then why should I trust that you can do a good enough job as a maintainer to consider sponsoring you? How can I be sure that you'll be able to fix bugs in the package if you refuse to read the manpages for the commands used in the package? -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org

Re: include desktop file and icon

2009-05-09 Thread Neil Williams
/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/gpe-expenses.mo But how and where do I run the dh_install command with cdbs? With a debian/$package.install file, CDBS runs dh_install for that package automatically. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e

Re: include desktop file and icon

2009-05-09 Thread Neil Williams
paths in your own files. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/ pgpn685t6RY1M.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: include desktop file and icon

2009-05-09 Thread Neil Williams
check the contents of debian/$package -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/ pgpqY4dUV8ica.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: include desktop file and icon

2009-05-08 Thread Neil Williams
dh_install where to put the file. Take a look at the source code of any package that uses CDBS and has a desktop file. gpe-expenses is one. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/ pgpr1PMscHcNh.pgp Description: PGP

Re: RFS: sigx (second attempt)

2009-05-05 Thread Neil Williams
description is necessary too. I'm not saying it will be sponsored if these are provided but it does make it less likely that the RFS will be ignored for a second time. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms

Re: On the quest for automated QA checks

2009-05-03 Thread Neil Williams
what is happening and that Debian *does* care about this. Yes. I think running licensecheck for mentors uploads would be great. 'lintian -C mentors' could do that. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http

Re: Lintian clean? (was: Re: RFS: mpview)

2009-05-03 Thread Neil Williams
and for a quick overview of not just what files are in the package but what kind of files they are and what they may contain. (I use deb-gview for that role.) As long as the binaries are never put into any apt repository, it's probably better to retain the uploaded binaries. -- Neil Williams

Re: RFS: fswebcam

2009-05-02 Thread Neil Williams
to the above, I may sponsor it - one step I would encourage for this kind of package is cross-building support but I'll provide details of whatever changes might be needed to achieve that as part of the review. http://people.debian.org/~codehelp/#lang -- Neil Williams = http://www.data

Re: RFS: gtk-theme-switch (updated package)

2009-05-02 Thread Neil Williams
are still non-native packages because they can (and do) work on other distributions. The fact that they were not originally available on anything other than Debian is irrelevant. Native packages are a special case and should not be abused. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data

Re: Tools for handling translation of documentation

2009-05-01 Thread Neil Williams
as the packaging itself is concerned. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/ pgpSD5mOXTGyN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How to give lesstif2 some attention?

2009-04-29 Thread Neil Williams
with a .dsc and .changes, lintian check results and the rest make it easier for people on this list to give you a complete review of the package. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/ pgpTxkzO1QIn1.pgp

Re: RFS: lesstif2 (updated package) [Was: Re: How to give lesstif2 some attention?]

2009-04-29 Thread Neil Williams
for me to push much further, I don't have time for that much testing. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/ pgpwLft5OmfuO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Criteria for sponsoring packages (was: RFS: ripit (updated package))

2009-04-28 Thread Neil Williams
about the limit of what the page can achieve. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/ pgpChRl2plRaP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS: ripit (updated package)

2009-04-28 Thread Neil Williams
update it. If it puts some people off, so be it. It's not up to me to create a single document that is all things to all maintainers/sponsors (even if such a document was even conceivable). -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e

Re: Criteria for sponsoring packages (was: RFS: ripit (updated package))

2009-04-28 Thread Neil Williams
for inclusion in main 17. I can't guarantee how quickly your upload will be made That last one is probably very common to all sponsors, just as an expression of the reality of typical sponsor / DD workload. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http

Re: Criteria for sponsoring packages

2009-04-28 Thread Neil Williams
. http://people.debian.org/~codehelp/#sponsors If anyone else has a similar page, let me know and I'll add it. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/ pgpuqCQ1VPCa9.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#523338: ITP: radare -- Free advanced command line hexadecimal editor

2009-04-27 Thread Neil Williams
? The devscripts package does not contain it! I fear debian/copyright needs to mention all this. Are there other opinions on that from mentors? $ licensecheck -r . (from the devscripts package) -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e

Re: RFS: ripit (updated package)

2009-04-26 Thread Neil Williams
and your RFS needs to persuade sponsors to put the upload higher in their personal priority list(s). -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/ pgpjdghze2CkU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS: ripit (updated package)

2009-04-26 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 15:08:33 +0200 Elimar Riesebieter riese...@lxtec.de wrote: * Neil Williams [090426 13:50 +0100] On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:19:15 +0200 Elimar Riesebieter riese...@lxtec.de wrote: * Elimar Riesebieter [090417 19:04 +0200] Dear mentors, I am looking

Re: RFS: ripit (updated package)

2009-04-26 Thread Neil Williams
difficult for over-committed sponsors who are trying to help you. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/ pgp3OGqEwuwr7.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Ad hominem attacks (was: Re: RFS: ripit (updated package))

2009-04-26 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:29:11 -0300 Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br wrote: Dear Neil, On Apr 26 2009, Neil Williams wrote: You're a tad lucky that you got a response at all, most such pings are silently ignored. Yes, that is pointing at you Rogério Brito, regarding ttf2pt1 (QA upload

Re: Ad hominem attacks (was: Re: RFS: ripit (updated package))

2009-04-26 Thread Neil Williams
can. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/ pgpMZm4AhzGSR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS: ripit (updated package)

2009-04-26 Thread Neil Williams
. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/ pgpTN7mM2nnyR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: New Developer Request

2009-04-22 Thread Neil Williams
to work out if something that is not directly hardware-specific is actually the problem but is just being hidden on more common hardware. e.g. this could be a race condition but as you didn't provide the bug number, no-one can help with that specific problem. -- Neil Williams = http

Re: RFS: fsprotect (try #2)

2009-04-22 Thread Neil Williams
. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpC4lFwKCM0l.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS: fsprotect (try #2)

2009-04-21 Thread Neil Williams
of ongoing case-by-case discussion. Other packages that are justifiably native include debhelper and the like. I'm not particularly interested in fsprotect per-se, but I don't see that it cannot be deemed native by those who know more about the kinds of things it needs to do. -- Neil Williams

Re: dch multi-maintainer mode

2009-04-21 Thread Neil Williams
lines are: foobar (1.5.11-1) unstable; urgency=low -- Vasja Pupkin v...@g.net Sat, 04 Apr 2009 23:09:16 -0700 -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpGue4rZwkyh.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: make in pbuilder error

2009-04-19 Thread Neil Williams
is careful to throw away old chroots and puts the fresh ones in a directory that uses the PID of the current process. That looks like a static chroot which should be deleted. Test the package with 'make distcheck' -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http

Re: make in pbuilder error

2009-04-18 Thread Neil Williams
could have found that the package built inside the chroot would actually behave differently to the one built outside. Not good. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/ pgpS2KwyVrnT5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: make in pbuilder error

2009-04-18 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:37:40 +0200 (CEST) Jaromír Mikeš mira.mi...@seznam.cz wrote: Od: Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org You need to work out which library (libfoo.so) contains the undefined references and ensure that the objects are linked against them. I've tried. Is there some good

Re: Questions about the changelog file

2009-04-17 Thread Neil Williams
-a' and so the entries are added in chronological order. - Is it better to end the sentence by a final point or not ? Personal taste. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/ pgpAgOD5ixWKK.pgp Description: PGP

Re: debian/copyright verbosity

2009-04-14 Thread Neil Williams
a false copyright statement! There is no way I'm going through my packages to separate out all the Copyright statements on a per file basis and I think it's wrong to declare that not doing such would be a false copyright claim on this list. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org

Re: debian/copyright verbosity

2009-04-14 Thread Neil Williams
, they tell what is expected for new packages. Absolutely. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpYB5A5rChJb.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: debian/copyright verbosity

2009-04-13 Thread Neil Williams
but it does need to be complete and understandable by ftpmaster. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpIxsmBN7Bqe.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ITR: xf86-input-tslib (updated package)

2009-04-12 Thread Neil Williams
#519840 crashs on rotated screen on first mouse press) Severity: serious -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpHisz4xzxli.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ITR: xf86-input-tslib (updated package)

2009-04-12 Thread Neil Williams
you! mentors.debian.net looks down from here. http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/mentors.debian.net Sun Apr 12 13:41:46 BST 2009 I'll try and start the review later. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk

Re: ITR: xf86-input-tslib (updated package)

2009-04-12 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:42:54 +0100 Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org wrote: On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:43:08 +0800 Wen-Yen Chuang ca...@calno.com wrote: The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - - - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/x/xf86-input-tslib/xf86-input

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

2009-03-31 Thread Neil Williams
? I use cdbs. \r CDBS handles GCONF properly but this line is executed long before CDBS gets any chance to use the debhelper gconf support - it looks like upstream as it is still being called by make. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http

Re: Scripts in upstream sources

2009-03-30 Thread Neil Williams
there. In the solution using patch, if upstream programmer agree the patch, a new version of package will have to be released ! It would be good to get these changes upstream, I don't see why a new version of the package is a problem. In the meantime, work on the patches in the Debian package. -- Neil

Re: Scripts in upstream sources

2009-03-30 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:47:37 +0200 Laurent Guignard lguignard.deb...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:29:14 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:09:06 +0200 Laurent Guignard lguignard.deb...@gmail.com wrote: [...] If the perl scripts are package specific

Re: why do some libs have pc file, and some don't ?

2009-03-29 Thread Neil Williams
this data - some use their own config scripts. The problem is that those rarely support situations like cross-building. pkgconfig isn't perfect (see the recent thread on spurious dependencies from Gtk) but it is a lot more portable than bespoke hacks. -- Neil Williams = http

Re: Use *.dsc files from opensuse to package?

2009-03-29 Thread Neil Williams
it right from the start instead of wasting time with someone else's mistakes. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpsYmjnqyzRT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Test-Buildd or Debian Machine?

2009-03-25 Thread Neil Williams
on those machines - replied off-list. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgprDcoioCc6T.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: translation support (was: Build reproducibility)

2009-03-25 Thread Neil Williams
/international/l10n/ http://www.uk.debian.org/international/l10n/po/ http://www.uk.debian.org/international/l10n/po/it http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/serendipity/index.php?/categories/3-i18n -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-19 Thread Neil Williams
just set out their preferences for debian/copyright. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/ pgplsgV7DQEUv.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ITS: xf86-input-tslib (updated package)

2009-03-09 Thread Neil Williams
this one. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgppLQIoJNcrC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ITS: xf86-input-tslib (updated package)

2009-03-09 Thread Neil Williams
: +If hal is not available, the following defaults may be sufficient: -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgp2zpBVgNw5F.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ITS: xf86-input-tslib (updated package)

2009-03-09 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:22:13 +0800 Wen-Yen Chuang ca...@calno.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Williams wrote: That bit is fine, I think the changes to the manpage need a tweak or two. Done. :-) Uploaded. OK, so from comments to #517131, we're expecting

Re: RFS: CLAM, C++ library for audio and music

2009-03-07 Thread Neil Williams
is the key - along with a few pings to this list once in a while. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/ pgpSimiou6kan.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS: CLAM, C++ library for audio and music

2009-03-06 Thread Neil Williams
to do now? anything else? are the packages ready be uploaded by an sponsor? Not by me. David Garcia Garzon CLAM Team. A Dimecres 24 Desembre 2008 16:02:42, Neil Williams va escriure: On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:16:15 +0100 David García Garzón dgar...@iua.upf.edu wrote: - Could you

Re: Creating a debian package for a port, from a modified existing Debian package

2009-02-28 Thread Neil Williams
to return to that nightmare. Personally, I have no desire to have any of my Debian or upstream code on win32 and I would probably not have time to fix any cygwin bugs in my packages. It just isn't important enough. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http

Re: Creating a debian package for a port, from a modified existing Debian package

2009-02-28 Thread Neil Williams
a directory within the source itself. Then your wrapper applies the patches BEFORE calling dpkg-buildpackage (so that you can patch debian/rules). Take a look at the source code of emdebian-buildsupport, especially emsource and the Emdebian::Tools module in libemdebian-tools-perl. -- Neil

Re: RFS: blueman

2009-02-28 Thread Neil Williams
you want to add yet-another. In my eyes blueman could be a real deal for lightweight desktops. gpe-bluetooth is designed for that kind of environment - how does this one differ? -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http

Re: ITR: xf86-input-tslib (updated package)

2009-02-23 Thread Neil Williams
. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/ pgpGyptKaI8sn.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS: Authomated theorem prover E (AKA eprover)

2009-02-22 Thread Neil Williams
prepare a proper manpage, and forward it to upstream... but people on mentors (CC'ing) can offer you other/better options... Regards, (and good look finding a sponsor) (your attitude to manpages just lost you this sponsor). http://people.debian.org/~codehelp/#lintian -- Neil Williams

Re: adapting a dpatch to changed source: how?

2009-02-13 Thread Neil Williams
than patch itself) and has ways of resolving many patch conflicts. Another useful tool is meld - a graphical diff viewer/editor that can show you three way diffs - the previous unpatched, the upstream and the one you want - containing the effect of the patch on the upstream. -- Neil Williams

Re: RFS: sqldeveloper-package

2009-02-04 Thread Neil Williams
, native doesn't make any difference. Regarding if it's good enough to go in the archive, that's one point of requesting sponsorship, right? :) No. The ITP is separate - it gets to a wider audience. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk

Re: RFS: sl-modem (updated package)

2009-01-26 Thread Neil Williams
fixed anyway, i.e. where lintian provides some help on how to fix the issue. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/ pgpIyIJjTBQLC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Closing bugs, incrementing release number, and uploads to mentors.debian.net

2009-01-19 Thread Neil Williams
entry in the changelog. It is simple to pass the -v option to dpkg-buildpackage and then dpkg includes all the changes since the specified -v into the .changes file and the bugs get closed just fine. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com

Re: Closing bugs, incrementing release number, and uploads to mentors.debian.net

2009-01-19 Thread Neil Williams
page later. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpD9GZB8U6OP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Added requirement for translation of debconf templates

2009-01-19 Thread Neil Williams
. The sponsor needs to do some of that but debian-l10n-engl...@lists.debian.org is a useful place to start with any debconf templates. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpglsxd3vl5y.pgp Description

Re: Closing bugs, incrementing release number, and uploads to mentors.debian.net

2009-01-19 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:54:04 +1100 Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org writes: The maintainer doesn't have to worry about -v [for ‘dpkg-genchanges’] - the sponsor does that with the final build that actually gets uploaded to Debian. Ah okay

Re: Added requirement for translation of debconf templates

2009-01-19 Thread Neil Williams
that for packages that I maintain or sponsor - that's it, there's nothing more to it, nobody has to change the way they sponsor and I'm not about to tell other sponsors how to do their work. It's me, just me and my sponsoring requirements. End of. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data

Re: Introducing spurious revisions during sponsorship considered harmful (by some of us)

2009-01-19 Thread Neil Williams
be standard practice for anyone - they are just my requirements for sponsoring and I expect them to be followed by maintainers who want me to sponsor their packages. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk

Re: RFS: ng-spice-rework (new package)

2009-01-18 Thread Neil Williams
optional. If there are bugs in lintian then *file bugs against lintian* and reference them in the override files *and* include or attach the override files to your RFS. Whether you fix these problems or not, you've lost my interest because of your attitude to lintian. -- Neil Williams

lintian and manpages - updated sponsoring requirements

2009-01-18 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 11:06:48 + Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org wrote: lintian is not a joke and -mentors is not here to be fobbed off when the real problem would appear to be a lazy maintainer. Unacceptable. Write the manpages - no excuses. Write all the missing manpages and make sure

Added requirement for translation of debconf templates

2009-01-18 Thread Neil Williams
that packages that are part of established l10n teams like GNOME or KDE can easily use that support. The extra step is intended for independent packages that would otherwise not be widely translated. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http

Re: Added requirement for translation of debconf templates

2009-01-18 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:37:20 +0100 Olivier Berger olivier.ber...@it-sudparis.eu wrote: Hi. Le dimanche 18 janvier 2009 à 12:24 +, Neil Williams a écrit : ... I'm now going to require, for any package using debconf that requires sponsorship, that debconf translations are requested

Re: Added requirement for translation of debconf templates

2009-01-18 Thread Neil Williams
primarily for the user, they do not exist to make things easy for maintainers or sponsors. These are not build tools for your convenience. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpaB0y5Hdtl5.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Added requirement for translation of debconf templates

2009-01-18 Thread Neil Williams
interest to get a translation done within 10-14 days then the maintainer and sponsor should do everything possible to present that translation to every user in the first upload that asks the question concerned and not make any upload until the deadline has passed. -- Neil Williams

Re: Arch:all package depending on package that isn't Arch:any

2009-01-12 Thread Neil Williams
of identifying what needs to change and how to get it working. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpGujPT8HK5p.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: advise needed for library packaging

2008-12-30 Thread Neil Williams
(and the source package name) is important for a small number of fundamental libraries. There is then the inevitable pain of deciding that libfoo1.2 simply has to go away at some point. :-) Where would we be without libc6-dev ? -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http

Re: Creating a deb package that would modify some config files

2008-12-29 Thread Neil Williams
know some packages in the debian tree that are already doing some similar things, that I could have a look at, to compare, or get ideas from ? http://wiki.debian.org/DebianPureBlends http://www.emdebian.org/ -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http

Re: advise needed for library packaging

2008-12-29 Thread Neil Williams
libfooN-dev when the new version of foo is uploaded. Retaining the old and new source packages is only worthwhile if migration from old to new is going to take a significant amount of effort on the part of a significant number of reverse dependencies. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data

Re: RFS: furl

2008-12-27 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 02:04:29 +0100 Patrick Matthäi patrick.matth...@web.de wrote: Jonathan Wiltshire schrieb: On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 10:37:37PM +, Neil Williams wrote: What if not? They stay open till someone else tries to package it and gets rejected? If there is no good reason

Re: RFS: furl

2008-12-26 Thread Neil Williams
else tries to package it and gets rejected? If there is no good reason to turn an RFP into an ITP and thence into an upload, there is no reason to leave the RFP open. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms

Re: RFS: CLAM, C++ library for audio and music

2008-12-24 Thread Neil Williams
./conf/distributions ... $ reprepro export $ reprepro include unstable $changesfile Simple. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpMUC4j0OzD1.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS: bfilter - unwarranted NMU

2008-12-24 Thread Neil Williams
this package for me. I doubt that Vedran would be quite so pleased. This is another upload to mentors that should be summarily removed for blatant disregard for Policy. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk

Re: RFS: bfilter - unwarranted NMU

2008-12-24 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:39:26 + Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org wrote: So, I've decided to make a NMU. This package is not marked as lowNMU threshold, the bug is not relevant to the Lenny release, the package is not orphaned, there is no indication in the bug report that you have

Re: RFS: CLAM, C++ library for audio and music

2008-12-24 Thread Neil Williams
/tarballs: $ cp qof/qof-0.8.0.tar.gz ../debian/tarballs/qof_0.8.0.orig.tar.gz $ svn-buildpackage IIRC symlinks don't work, can't remember why. (0.8.0 is the unreleased version, 0.7.5 was hosted at SF instead of Alioth so 'debcheckout' doesn't get you the right version, yet.) -- Neil Williams

Re: RFS: bfilter - unwarranted NMU

2008-12-24 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:15:36 +0100 Hámorszky Balázs balihb@gmail.com wrote: Neil Williams wrote: I doubt that Vedran would be quite so pleased. This is another upload to mentors that should be summarily removed for blatant disregard for Policy. than I misconceived the policy. i

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