New editor integrations for Debian packaging files (LSP support)

Hi Sent to d-devel and d-mentors, since the members of both lists are the target audience. If you reply, please consider whether both lists should see the message (and prune the recipient list accordingly as necessary). In response to a recent thread on debian-devel about editor support for

Re: dh-cmake writing to /usr instead of fakeroot?

Elliana May: Sorry, I have a few tabs open, this is the correct one: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/715071071/buildlog_ubuntu-jammy-amd64.duckdb_0.10.0-10_BUILDING.txt.gz I've tried now overriding the override_dh_auto_configure rule in the debian/rules file, but even that seems to not be

Re: Package remains in status "Uploaded"

Preuße, Hilmar: On 27.09.2023 19:07, Niels Thykier wrote: Hi, In your  case, I would start with a give back and then if this attempt fails, contact the buildd admins. AFAICT that option is limited to Debian Developers. So if anybody would be so kind Hilmar Turns out a give-back

Re: Package remains in status "Uploaded"

Preuße, Hilmar: Hi all, the package texinfo has been built successfully for architecture loong64 and is in status "Uploaded" for about a month now. I'm pretty sure there are a lot of packages in status "BD-Uninstallable" b/c it does not get installed. What can be done here? Hilmar This

Bug#1051213: RFS: debianutils/5.12 [ITA] -- Miscellaneous utilities specific to Debian

Control: owner -1 ! Ileana Dumitrescu: Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "debianutils": [..] Niels Thykier and I will be co-maintaining this package. I got this. :) Best regards, Niels

Re: Flex help needed for eegdev (Was: Re: eegdev: FTBFS: ../../lib/stdio.h:64:3: error: #error "Please include config.h first.")

Nilesh Patra: On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 05:17:47PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: [...] I had figured out this already, but conffile.lex.c does not exist in the project, it is generated as a part of the lexer output. In particular: Ok, apologies it was not clear to me from your opening email

Re: Flex help needed for eegdev (Was: Re: eegdev: FTBFS: ../../lib/stdio.h:64:3: error: #error "Please include config.h first.")

Niels Thykier: [...] Hi, [...] I believe that this is stdio.h is generated by the embedded gnulib copy and that is as far as I am willing to debug that rabbit hole. Based on the error, I assume gnulib's generated stdio.h requires the project specific "config.h" to be lo

Re: Flex help needed for eegdev (Was: Re: eegdev: FTBFS: ../../lib/stdio.h:64:3: error: #error "Please include config.h first.")

Nilesh Patra: On 25 August 2023 1:47:26 pm IST, Nilesh Patra wrote: On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 21:52:17 +0200 Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Source: eegdev Version: 0.2-6 Severity: serious In file included from conffile.lex.c:242: ../../lib/stdio.h:64:3: error: #error "Please include config.h first."

Re: dh_install by file suffix

Ole Streicher: Hi again, I think youe way could be to put the file list into a variable in d/rules, and expand the list the .install, like: -- debian/iraf.install - etc/iraf/ usr/lib/iraf/bin/ecl.e [... other fixed content] ${env:IRAF_FILES}

Re: Free component in a non-free tarball

Andrius Merkys: Hello, [...] My question: Is it OK to extract AmberTools from Amber tarball and package for Debian main? [1] https://ambermd.org/AmberTools.php [2] https://ambermd.org/GetAmber.php#ambertools Best, Andrius From the description you have provided, I would assume yes with the

Re: cmake: compat 11 vs 13 (-indep)

Niels Thykier: > Mathieu Malaterre: >> [cc me please] >> >> Symptoms: >> >> I've recently discovered the following change in behavior for >> dh_missing + cmake + -indep. Basically using compat 13 it is now an >> error when build-indep rule install

Re: cmake: compat 11 vs 13 (-indep)

Mathieu Malaterre: > [cc me please] > > Symptoms: > > I've recently discovered the following change in behavior for > dh_missing + cmake + -indep. Basically using compat 13 it is now an > error when build-indep rule install stuff other than just the -indep > files (1). > The error is not

Re: Wrestling with debconf

Kip Warner: > Hey list, > > [...] > The problem here is this re-running of the myfoo-server.config happens > before the myfoo-server.postinst. This is bad because the latter is > supposed to update the values in /etc/myfoo/server.conf to whatever the > user just entered via debconf prompts. > >

Bug#996592: RFS: workflow/0.9.8-1 [ITP] -- Parallel computing and asynchronous web server engine

Bastian Germann: > Hi Lance, > > [...] > > You should not need to build depend on dh-exec with debhelper 13. > > Cheers, > Bastian > Drive by remark/clarification: * If you use dh-exec then you need to Build-Depend on it regardless of debhelper compat level. * With compat 13, debhelper

Bug#993552: RFS: proton-caller/2.3.2-1 [ITP] -- Run any Windows program through Proton

BenTheTechGuy: >> [...] >> debian/rules is missing a lot of functionality: mandatory targets like >> {build,binary}-arch; passing build flags, handling cross builds, etc. >> All of this would be much better done with dh (like the vast majority >> of packages in Debian do) -- it does know

Re: Conflicts does not remove old package

Hilmar Preuße: > Hi, > > we got https://bugs.debian.org/978431 telling that the upgrade from > buster to sid fails. This is also visible in piuparts [1]. > >   Unpacking texlive-base (2020.20201203-2) over (2018.20190227-2) ... >   dpkg: error processing archive >

Bug#976180: RFS: libzc/0.4.3-1 -- Command line tool for the libzc library

Marc Ferland: > On Sun, Dec 6, 2020 at 6:24 AM Niels Thykier wrote: > >> Niels Thykier: >>> [...] >>> >>> Thanks, I have uploaded it to unstable. >>> >>> ~Niels >>> >> >> Hi Marc, >> >> Because this li

Bug#976180: RFS: libzc/0.4.3-1 -- Command line tool for the libzc library

Niels Thykier: > [...] > > Thanks, I have uploaded it to unstable. > > ~Niels > Hi Marc, Because this libzc renamed a binary, the upload had to go through NEW. This in turn implied that I had to do a binary upload and the upload will not migrate to testing without a new sour

Re: dh_testroot: error: Package needs targeted root but builder has not provided a gain-root command via ${DEB_GAIN_ROOT_CMD}

Andreas Tille: > Control: tags -1 pending > > Hi, > > upstream of fis-gtm package[1] confirmed that the build needs some root > permissions. Thus I've set > >Rules-Requires-Root: yes > > When trying to build with pbuilder I get: > >dh_testroot > dh_testroot: error: Package needs

Bug#976180: RFS: libzc/0.4.3-1 -- Command line tool for the libzc library

Niels Thykier: > Control: tags -1 moreinfo > > Marc Ferland: >> Package: sponsorship-requests >> Severity: normal >> >> Dear mentors, >> >> [...] >> >> Changes since the last upload: >> >> libzc (0.4.3-1) unstable; u

Bug#976180: RFS: libzc/0.4.3-1 -- Command line tool for the libzc library

Control: tags -1 moreinfo Marc Ferland: > Package: sponsorship-requests > Severity: normal > > Dear mentors, > > [...] > > Changes since the last upload: > > libzc (0.4.3-1) unstable; urgency=low > . >* New upstream release. >* New Dockerfile to simplify debian releases. >*

Re: No "linux-all" architecture wildcard

Christoph Biedl: > Hello, > > while packaging something that makes sense on Linux only, but one of the > built packages is architecture-*in*dependent while depending on some > of the linux-any ones - in other words, that arch-indep package makes > no sense on non-linux ... > > The obivous way to

Re: sbuild & cross build

Hilmar Preuße: > Am 15.04.2020 um 02:45 teilte Wookey mit: >> On 2020-04-15 00:02 +0200, Hilmar Preuße wrote: > > Hi, > > Thanks for the answer Wookey! > > [...] > Anyway: we have build failures of texlive-bin on sparch64/powerpc very > likely b/c there are too many build threads called in

Re: dh_dwz failure

PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel: > Hello, I am woriking on a new package called bornagain. > > I switched to compat level 12 and now I have this error message. > I do not know how to fix this ? > > thanks for your help. > > Frederic > >dh_dwz > install -d

Re: Elastix: dh_testroot: You must run this as root (or use fakeroot).

Andreas Tille: > Hi, > > I intend to upgrade elastix[1] but I'm running into: > > > ... > [100%] Built target itkMevisDicomTiffImageIOTest > make[2]: Leaving directory '/build/elastix-4.9.0/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu' > /usr/bin/cmake -E cmake_progress_start >

Re: nodoc solution HOWTO -- Avoid building Sphinx documentation on request (was: Bug#905750: RFS: elpy/1.23.0-1)

Nicholas D Steeves: > Hi Ben and readers of debian-mentors, > > Solution at bottom. > > [...] > > "export DEB_BUILD_PROFILES=nodoc ; gbp buildpackage" does not work, > although I expect "DEB_BUILD_PROFILES=nodoc ; export > DEB_BUILD_PROFILES ; gbp buildpackage" should. > Rather, I think there

Bug#902225: RFS: ii/1.8-1

itd: > Hi, > > thanks for the review! > > Niels Thykier: >> # The remark: > Oops! Fixed, thanks. (Updated Build-Dependency on debhelper.) > Ack. :) >> * Relicense the patches to the same as upstream (requires approval from >>the previous maintaine

Bug#902225: RFS: ii/1.8-1

Control: tags -1 moreinfo -pending On Sat, 23 Jun 2018 15:09:00 + itd wrote: > Package: sponsorship-requests > Severity: normal > > Dear mentors, > > @Nico: I added myself to Uploaders. Please shout, if that is not what > you meant in #890995 [1]. > > [...] > > Changes since the last

Re: Bug#891890: ITP: zfs-linux-git -- zfsonlinux packaging tracking git master

Antonio Russo: > On 6/22/18 4:17 AM, Fabian Grünbichler wrote: >> >> as promised, and unfortunately delayed a bit longer than I wanted. >> thanks for the initial push - some of the points are more for a >> discussion with upstream regarding their inclusion of some variant of >> this, some are for

Re: cmake packages fail to build since yesterday even if package has build before

Mattia Rizzolo: > On Sun, Apr 08, 2018 at 10:25:44AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: >> since yesterday packages using cmake are failing. >> Nothing inside libbpp-seq was changed that should affect the build >> process. I have the same problem with other cmake based packages. >> >> Any clue what

Re: Why debian use postinst for declarative actions?

George Shuklin: > On 05/03/18 14:35, Paul Wise wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 7:08 PM, George Shuklin wrote: >> >>> There is a big question with torture me for awhile. Why some purely >>> declarative operations are performed by non-standard postinst scripts? >> Probably dpkg doesn't support

Bug#881946: RFS: keychain/2.8.4+dfsg-1 [ITA]

Control: tags -1 moreinfo Paulo Ricardo Paz Vital: > Package: sponsorship-requests > Severity: normal > > Dear mentors, > > [...] Hi, I have done an initial review of the changes and I have a few remarks. Please CC me directly on any follow ups to this bug. > > Changes since the last

Bug#881946: RFS: keychain/2.8.4+dfsg-1 [ITA]

Control: owner -1 On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 18:45:58 -0200 Paulo Ricardo Paz Vital wrote: > Package: sponsorship-requests > Severity: normal > > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "keychain" > > * Package name: keychain >Version :

Re: dh_installdocs --link-doc not allowed between arch dep & arch indep?

أحمد المحمودي: > Hello > > The package pcb builds 2 arch. dependent packages (pcb-gtk & pcb-lesstif) and > an arch independent package (pcb-common) which contains data and > documentation. Hence the arch. dependent packages depend on this arch > independent package. > > Previously I ran: >

Re: Package not migrating

Ole Streicher: > Hi Nils, > Hi, > Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net> writes: >> Ole Streicher: >>> Andrey Rahmatullin <w...@debian.org> writes: >>>> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 08:42:37PM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: >> The pac

Re: Package not migrating

Ole Streicher: > Andrey Rahmatullin writes: >> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 08:42:37PM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: >>> * Not touching package due to block request by adsb (check >>> https://release.debian.org/testing/freeze_policy.html if update is >>> needed) >>

Re: HELP: Fixing a debconf bug in proftpd

Hilmar Preuße: > Hi, > > we got bug #820984 on debconf a while ago. I'm not very familiar w/ > debconf, hence I had a look into the templates/config delivered w/ > debconf itself. > I'm my eyes the code in proftpd is about a 1:1 copy of the code in > debconf, nevertheless it does not work as

Re: Backporting shibboleth-sp2 2.6.0+dfsg1-4 to jessie: dh-systemd, piuparts and lintian errors

Etienne Dysli-Metref: > On 17/01/17 18:30, Niels Thykier wrote: >>>> E: libshibsp7: postinst-must-call-ldconfig >>>> usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libshibsp.so.7.0.0 >> >> This lintian error: >> >> * is aimed at stretch or later, and >> * shou

Re: Backporting shibboleth-sp2 2.6.0+dfsg1-4 to jessie: dh-systemd, piuparts and lintian errors

Etienne Dysli-Metref: > Hello mentors, > > Since shibboleth-sp2 2.6.0+dfsg1-4 migrated to testing during the > holidays, I'm now backporting it to jessie. So far there is nothing to > change, however piuparts gives me the following error (which does not > appear on stretch): > >> [...] > > So I

Re: How to ensure GLX extension in xfvb

Andreas Tille: > Hi, > > I'd like to fix the autopkgtest of njplot. The current code in Git[1] is > executing: > > xvfb-run --auto-servernum --server-num=20 -s '-screen 0 1024x768x24 -ac > +extension GLX +render' /usr/bin/njplot -psonly example.phb > X server has no GLX extension - required

Re: Preference for build or debhelper installing systemd unit files?

J.T. Conklin: > My question, in the case where the same organization/people are > responsible for both the software and the debian packaging, is whether > there is a preference of which method is used. > > --jtc Hi, If you are (working on/with) upstream and doing the packaging, I believe

Re: Debian packaging for packages that provide the same files

J.T. Conklin: > [...] > > A complication is that each platform config package installs the same > set of files, so the normal package build technique of having all files > being installed to a common staging directory and each package's files > being selected by the debian/.install doesn't work.

Bug#841536: hdparm/9.50+ds-1

Control: tags -1 moreinfo On Fri, 21 Oct 2016 14:46:32 +0200 Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > Package: sponsorship-requests > Severity: wishlist > X-Debbugs-Cc: mailatgo...@gmail.com > > Dear mentors, > > [...] > > Best regards, > Alex Hi Alex, Thanks for your

Re: lintian: spelling

Jerome BENOIT: > Hello Forum, is there a list where we can deal on how correct spelling error > as detected by lintian ? > > For the curious. In the source, there is the sentence: > > :param int max_no_dec: number of rounds we allow to be stuck > > > and lintian complains as follows: >

Re: Bug#837798: RFS: libcgicc/3.2.16-0.1 NMU -- C++ class library for writing CGI applications

Gianfranco Costamagna: > Hi, > >> I have uploaded a new package to mentors, with the two outstanding > >> issues fixed. > > not sure... > I see you forgot to probably run dh_clean > (I see debian/autoreconf.before and debian/autoreconf.after files) > > [...] > > G. > That needs a

Re: psocksxx/1.1.0-2

Andrey Rahmatullin: > On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 10:57:07AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >>> * Set compatlevel at debian/compat to 10. >> >> Is using compat 10 already officially endorsed/allowed? > The manpage says "This compatibility level is open for beta testing; > changes may

Re: Bug#800406: RFS sayonara/0.8.2

Ross Gammon: > On 05/22/2016 10:03 AM, Ross Gammon wrote: >> The package is still building here, > > [...] > I: sayonara: hardening-no-pie usr/bin/sayonara > I: sayonara: hardening-no-bindnow usr/bin/sayonara > I: sayonara: hardening-no-bindnow usr/lib/sayonara/libsayonara_somafm.so > I:

Re: Trying to disable error=format-security for clapack

Mattia Rizzolo: > On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 11:11:54AM +0200, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: >> On 05/16/2016 11:07 AM, Andreas Tille wrote: >>> When reading the code it seems to me that actually a test whether this >>> code works or not is intended and thus fixing the format is not in the >>>

Re: package stuck in unstable after switching to AutomaticDebugPackages

James Cowgill: > Hi, > Hi, > On Sun, 2016-05-08 at 20:17 +0200, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> gearmand package has stuck in unstable due to missing -dbg packages: >> >> https://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=gearmand >> >> The debug packages were removed after

Re: Including new packages in Debian

Joseph Bell: > Howdy, > > I'm looking to understand how one gets a given software package considered > for inclusion in Debian. I have 3 software components, one of which is > https://github.com/Zewo/libvenice , and I'm curious as to where do I even > start for getting into the next release of

Re: systemd service unit causing lintian init issues

Niels Thykier: > [...] > Sorry, I somehow managed to confuse it with "--onlyscripts", which needs that treatment. Please ignore my previous mail. :) ~Niels

Re: systemd service unit causing lintian init issues

Matt Zagrabelny: > Hi Tino, > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 3:41 AM, Tino Mettler wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 16:36:42 -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: >>> Greetings, >>> >>> I'm packaging up a firewall script that ships with a systemd service >>> unit file. lintian is

Re: Suspicious file changes in -dbg between old and new packages

On 2015-09-22 08:41, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > Hi Niels, > > [...] >> As for the build-id and how it is computed. It is based on the >> internals of the ELF binary including but not limited to: >> >> * The path where the binaries were compiled >> * The options given to gcc when compiled >>

Re: Suspicious file changes in -dbg between old and new packages

On 2015-09-22 07:30, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > > >> And why does it still work when i install back 1.4.0-2 ? > > > > > well, if -2 and -3 didn't change symbols (e.g. you didn't patch the source > code), > why shouldn't it work? > > (I'm not sure to know how exactly

Re: Multi-Arch and debian/control

On 2015-09-21 12:45, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > while preparing the correction for a buildd failure on Debian > GNU/kFreeBSD i got a lintian complaint from kfreebsd-i386 7.9 > (the current "stable"): > > E: libburn4: missing-pre-dependency-on-multiarch-support > > [...] > > > Have a

Re: Access to Debian Test Farm for s390 Testing

On 2015-09-16 06:47, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I work with a free/open source project. We have a failure report from > a Debian package maintainer on an s390. > Hi Jeffrey, Thanks for your interest. :) I am directing you over to debian-mentors, since your enquiry is probably

Re: Error Lintian hardening-no-fortify-functions

On 2015-09-06 14:22, "J.S.Júnior" wrote: > Hi, > > I’m get error lintian hardening-no-fortify-functions. > > I change in Makefile to `dpkg-buildflags --get CFLAGS` `dpkg-buildflags --get > LDFLAGS` > but no resolve > > Anybody can help me? > > []`s > JJ > Hi, The "fortity-functions" is

Re: Placing code after #DEBHELPER# autogenerated code?

On 2015-09-03 15:53, Patrick Schleizer wrote: > Hi, > > are there legitimate cases, where it is okay to place code after the > #DEBHELPER# token? > > Cheers, > Patrick > Hi Patrick, Yes. There are many cases where it in fact does not matter whether your code is above or below that token.

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

On 2015-08-23 12:48, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Hi Thomas, i worked a bit more on my local libburn package. [...] The failure of debuild -b with compat 9 still riddles me. With 9 it finally complains dh_install: libburn4 missing files (debian/tmp/usr/lib/libburn.so.4*),

Re: paflib uploaded to mentors.debian.net

On 2015-08-21 17:21, Johan Van de Wauw wrote: On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 4:37 PM, tfauck tfa...@free.fr wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the package paflib I just uploaded (ITP - #781117) http://bugs.debian.org/781117 paflib debuild passes ok, but lintian -EviIL +pedantic

Re: Depend on a package from an other arch

On 2015-08-12 09:26, Bertrand Marc wrote: Dear mentors, I am trying to fix Debian bug #783875 [1]: playonlinux (which is arch independant) should depend on the 32 bits version of wine. Therefore I added a dependency on wine32|wine32-development, but it seems the package will not migrate to

Re: Depend on a package from an other arch

On 2015-08-12 09:48, Niels Thykier wrote: [...] Hi Bertrand, Neither solution will work. This is an artefact of how the testing migration code handles arch:all packages. Please file a bug against release.debian.org requesting help with this. Thanks, ~Niels Actually

Re: Granting DM rights as a sponsor

On 2015-07-15 08:45, Ole Streicher wrote: Vincent Cheng vch...@debian.org writes: There are tools available in the archive to make this entire process relatively painless (dput-ng) But dcut-ng is not in Debian? $ apt-get install dcut-ng Reading package lists... Done Building dependency

Re: blocked migration from unstable to testing: old binaries left

On 2015-07-07 14:50, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello Niels and all: As the last package of ovito, which does not depends on tachyon any more, has reached testing, I think that the tachyon package can now migrate to testing: how can we unblock its migration ? Thanks, Jerome [...] Thanks

Re: blocked migration from unstable to testing: old binaries left

On 2015-06-19 15:21, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hi Again: On 19/06/15 14:52, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hi: On 19/06/15 08:07, Niels Thykier wrote: [...] Yes, provided it depends on the correct -dev packages. Though it might have to go through NEW at this point. At this junction, it /may

Re: blocked migration from unstable to testing: old binaries left

On 2015-06-19 02:48, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello, thanks for your prompt reply. On 18/06/15 14:55, Paul Wise wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 8:22 PM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: what am I supposed to do for unblocking ? You started a (minor) transition without involving the release team,

Re: blocked migration from unstable to testing: old binaries left

On 2015-06-18 14:55, Paul Wise wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 8:22 PM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: what am I supposed to do for unblocking ? You started a (minor) transition without involving the release team, please read this: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ReleaseTeam/Transitions According

Re: Why are old bug reports left open?

On 2015-06-02 20:10, Thaddeus H. Black wrote: [...] If I were the maintainer, I believe that I would have closed a bug like this. The actual maintainer however (now emeritus) is smarter than me. He did not close it. This suggests that he knew something I do not understand about proper

Re: RC-bug listed on https://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/debian/all.html

On 2015-04-01 08:06, Werner Detter wrote: Hi folks, just a short question - a bug which has already been taken care of for wheezy and jessie is still listed as RC bug at https://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/debian/all.html Package: policyd-weight (debian/main). Maintainer:

Re: Python logo license

On 2015-02-28 16:37, Daniel Stender wrote: Hi folks, I've got the official Python logo image [1] here in a package. 1) what would be the proper license for that file in deb/copyright? 2) what's the best place in Debian to ask copyright/licensing related questions like this in the

Re: Testing migragtion of beast-mcmc is blocked but I have no idea why

On 2014-10-25 13:00, Andreas Tille wrote: Hi, https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=beast-mcmc says: beast-mcmc/i386 unsatisfiable Depends: libnucleotidelikelihoodcore0 (= 1.8.0-1) but I have asked ftpmaster for removal of beast-mcmc from arch i386 and packages.debian.org

Re: where are these lintian problems coming from

On 2014-07-12 09:36, Vincent Bernat wrote: ❦ 12 juillet 2014 05:19 GMT, T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com : Do I need to care about the lintian problems from the binary package that I maintain/build? Yes, you need to handle at least errors and warnings. For the following problems, I

Re: I would like to renew my request to delay the removal of maitreya from testing.

On 2014-06-25 07:40, Paul Elliott wrote: [...] Therefore, I would like to request additional delay to sometime after libwxsqlite3-3.0-dev reaches testing. As matters now stand there is no way I can reach the deadline of -- maitreya 7.0.5-1 is marked for autoremoval from testing on

Re: Testing excuse Section: non-free/science

On 2014-03-02 12:05, Оlе Ѕtrеісhеr wrote: Hi, after I moved one of my packages (iausofa-c) from main to non-free, I had for some time the problem that the source still appeared in main. This, however, was solved somehow without any notice. However, now I get the migration excuse [1]

Re: debian/copyright + cc-by-sa

On 2014-02-09 16:51, Felix Natter wrote: hi, I couldn't find a short version of the CC-BY-SA-3.0 license. - now I am using this: Files: ./freeplane_framework/script/freeplane.svg ./freeplane_framework/script/freeplane.png Copyright: 2013-2014 Robert Gibson License: CC-BY-SA-3.0

Re: debian/copyright + cc-by-sa

On 2014-02-09 17:29, Felix Natter wrote: Hi Niels, Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net writes: There is no short version you can use in d/copyright - you have to list the full license of CC-BY-SA-3.0 as it is not in common-licenses. Though, if you have it in a stand-alone license paragraph, you

Re: Moving a package (to non-free)

On 2014-01-30 09:33, Оlе Ѕtrеісhеr wrote: Hi, Hi, CC'ing the FTP masters. I was trying to move a package (iausofa-c) from main to non-free with a new version. In the developers reference [1], the according paragraph is 5.9.1: If you need to change the section for one of your

Re: Help: Bug#733407: maude: FTBFS: surface.yy:63:67: error: 'parseResult' was not declared in this scope

On 2014-01-27 20:30, Andreas Tille wrote: Hi, does anybody have a clue how to fix this C++ issue? Kind regards Andreas. It is not a C++ issue, but a change in bison you are looking at. I had a similar issue with mscgen not too long ago[1]. ~Niels [1]

Re: Help: Bug#733407: maude: FTBFS: surface.yy:63:67: error: 'parseResult' was not declared in this scope

On 2014-01-27 20:30, Andreas Tille wrote: Hi, does anybody have a clue how to fix this C++ issue? Kind regards Andreas. It is not a C++ issue, but a change in bison you are looking at. I had a similar issue with mscgen not too long ago[1]. ~Niels [1]

Re: Help: Bug#733407: maude: FTBFS: surface.yy:63:67: error: 'parseResult' was not declared in this scope

On 2014-01-27 22:31, Andreas Tille wrote: Hi Niels, I guess you want to tell me that I want something like http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/mscgen.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/language.y-parse-param.patch;hb=HEAD applied to maude code. I need to admit that I'm to

Re: lintian usage and inconsistence problem

On 2014-01-27 23:41, Etienne Millon wrote: * T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com [140127 23:37]: $ lintian -EviIL +pedantic --color auto --display-experimental ../*.dsc [...] I.e., when I invoke lintian manually, I didn't see problems reported by debuild. Hi Tong, Lintian can check both

Re: qiime REMOVED from testing

On 2014-01-22 00:43, Steven Chamberlain wrote: On 21/01/14 18:45, Andreas Tille wrote: However, it is kicked because of an old libffi dependency. I realised that it had in fact libffi6 (= 3.0.4) in its dependencies which was included via ${shlibs:Depends} or ${misc:Depends}

Re: qiime REMOVED from testing

On 2014-01-21 19:45, Andreas Tille wrote: Hi, Hi Andreas and d-mentors, I hope this is the correct list to ask this questions - if not please redirect me (and also please CC me in your reply). [debian-mentors in CC as well - may be some other people have a similar problem.] Seems like a

Re: dch -i injects urgency=medium

On 2014-01-05 10:06, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 01/05/2014 04:55 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: Hi, since some days I noticed that a `dch -i` creates an entry with urgency=medium instead of urgency=low. Anybody with the same observation and what might be the reason for this? Kind regards

Re: dpkg-source: version does not contain a revision

On 2014-01-03 21:28, T o n g wrote: Hi, What's the cause (and fix) of the following error? dpkg-source -b dbab-1.0.1 dpkg-source: error: can't build with source format '3.0 (quilt)': version does not contain a revision dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source -b dbab-1.0.1 gave

Bug#726791: willing to sponsor awstats

On 2013-12-28 16:20, Willi Mann wrote: Hello Sergey, Hello Niels, I'd be willing to look at awstats 7.2~dfsg-1 and upload it if it looks OK to me. Hi Willi, Thanks for considering. Is there a packaging-related reason why Niels did not upload it for you so far? Bye Willi Sadly,

Re: About the testing transition known as auto-libunwind

On 2013-12-22 03:45, T o n g wrote: Hi, I want to adopt the par2cmdline package, but on its QA page, http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/par2cmdline.html it says, ,- | This package is part of the ongoing testing transition known as | auto-libunwind. Please avoid uploads unrelated to

Re: Javahelper automatic depends

On 2013-10-07 19:37, Wookey wrote: I just packaged caveconverter (a fairly small simple command-line java package), which uses ant as a build system. (currently in new: http://ftp-master.debian.org/new/caveconverter_0~20130921-2.html ) Hi, This all worked fine, except that using Depends:

Re: Upgrading the Debian Policy

On 2013-09-24 14:38, T o n g wrote: Hi, Hi, The package that I want to pick up has a status: The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian Policy (Standards-Version 3.9.4 instead of 3.8.3). I never knew the details of Debian Policy before, but did try to read

Re: Upgrading the Debian Policy

On 2013-09-24 14:48, Dominik George wrote: If I can fix all lintian reported issues, it'll be safe to say that I've bring the package to the last version of Debian Policy, right? No. It is safe to say that if, and only if, you bump the Standards-Version field to 3.9.4 and *then* have

Re: Upgrading the Debian Policy

On 2013-09-24 16:42, Dominik George wrote: Andrew Shadura bugzi...@tut.by schrieb: Hello, On 24 September 2013 14:48, Dominik George n...@naturalnet.de wrote: lintian --color=always -I -E -i --pedantic lintian -vIiE --pedantic --color=auto Properly reads as -Evil :) Hi, please

Re: pdebuild without orig.tar.gz

On 2013-06-30 18:21, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: Hi! I'm having some problems using pdebuild recently. I'm pretty sure this command worked before, and I have updated my pbuilder chroot. I don't have a orig.tar.gz, so I ask it to build a binary package, but I get this:

Re: How to handle a package triggering ice or segv during build?

On 2013-06-17 11:59, Thomas Moulard wrote: On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: [...] So what you need to do is move the building of the documentation into the build-indep debian/rules target (instead of the build target). That way it will not be built and thrown

Re: Lintian false positive about virtual package depends?

On 2013-05-11 20:32, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2013-05-11 20:17 +0200, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: On 11/05/13 20:10, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2013-05-11 19:50 +0200, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: Does anyone know why lintian would think that libmpich-dev, which is a new package that

Re: Sponsorship

On 2013-04-20 23:56, Nathan Owens wrote: Is there a way I can find out who my previous sponsor for my package 'dwb' is? who-uploads dwb ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Build Debian packages for multiple architectures

On 2013-03-18 18:15, Adam Borowski wrote: On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 06:17:01PM +0200, Andrii Senkovych wrote: Hello, debian-mentors I'm sorry in advance if this is the wrong list to ask. TL;DR: how to build and upload properly packages that provide both arch=all and arch=any binary packages

Re: RFS: awstats/7.1~dfsg-1 (2nd try)

On 2013-02-23 12:26, Sergey B Kirpichev wrote: The reason I am asking is that if we do this upload to unstable and later we find an annoying important bug (i.e. severity important), then we can no longer fix it for Wheezy[1]. Looks like there is testing-proposed-updates for that, isn't?

Re: RFS: awstats/7.1~dfsg-1 (2nd try)

On 2013-02-22 16:59, Sergey Kirpichev wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 1:59 AM, Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net wrote: I think I could be convinced to do at least a onetime upload of the package. Thank you. Let's hope someday I can handle package myself, as before. Indeed

Bug#695991: RFS: awstats/7.1~dfsg-1 (2nd try)

On 2013-02-08 08:16, Sergey Kirpichev wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package awstats. I have problems getting in touch with the Debian Developer (Jonas Smedegaard) that I've originally worked with. Could someone else update my DM flag as per new procedure[1]? Or

Re: Hardening-check reports on hardened object

On 2013-02-20 09:56, Olе Streicher wrote: Just override lintian? Best Ole Yes. ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

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