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

2024-02-18 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2024-02-19, Elliana May wrote: > You can see a failure here: > https://launchpadlibrarian.net/714820377/buildlog_ubuntu-jammy-arm64.duckdb_0.10.0_BUILDING.txt.gz That build log is pointing to a missing debhelper build-dependency. /Sune

Re: Bug#1052597: RFS: libkysdk-base/2.2.0.1-1 -- common files for kylin sdk base library

2023-12-19 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2023-12-18, Tobias Frost wrote: > - Updating the SONAME of a library requires this procedure to be followed: > https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ReleaseTeam/Transitions > Comparing the symbols file does not make it obvious why you are > bumping SONAME, but I did not check with abi-complicance-c

Re: Help with catch2 transition needed

2023-11-07 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2023-11-07, Andreas Tille wrote: > I noticed that catch2 does not contain the header file catch.hpp any > more. There is now some catch_all.hpp. So I replaced this header file > in a patch[1] but obviously this problem can't be solved by pure wild > guessing since this has lead to > >/us

Re: Bug#1053662: RFS: qt5-ukui-platformtheme/4.1.0.1-1 -- Qt5 QPA platform theme of UKUI

2023-10-09 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2023-10-08, xibowen wrote: > * URL : https://gitee.com/openkylin/qt5-ukui-platformtheme I think we should try to not add more c++ code that forces ancient c++ standards in their build systems. /Sune

Re: How to handle breakages when the size of a class in a shared lib increases?

2023-07-11 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2023-07-11, Pierre Gruet wrote: > Unfortunately, it turns out fields were added to some class (of which > size thus increased) in the shared library, so that binaries built > against a previous version of it now segfault as they are not allocating > enough space. Either you need to do a pac

Re: Bug#923209: RFS: heaptrack/1.1.0+20180922.gitf752536-3.1 [NMU]

2019-02-26 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2019-02-25, Chris Lamb wrote: > Hi Nicholas, > >> heaptrack (1.1.0+20180922.gitf752536-3.1) unstable; urgency=medium >> >> * Non-maintainer upload. >> * Update description to make heaptrack more discoverable to users. >> (Closes: #915241) >> >> -- Nicholas D Steeves Sun, 24 Feb 201

Re: Bug#920218: RFS: webcamoid/8.5.0+dfsg-1

2019-01-22 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2019-01-22, Herbert Fortes wrote: > akqml - full featured webcam capture application - qml module shouldn't this be called qml-module-something instead ? > libavkys-dev - full featured webcam capture application - dev Who are the consumers/users of this ? > webcamoid-plugins - f

Re: cmake issue with minia: include could not find load file (GatbCore)

2019-01-21 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2019-01-21, Andreas Tille wrote: > Is there any way to make cmake more verbose where it is seeking for files > to include? cmake --trace at least give you more debugging info than you could ever wish for. /Sune

Re: Help for SIGSEGV in test suite needed when built with gcc 8.2 what works nicely with gcc 6.3

2019-01-10 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2019-01-09, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > As usual: reading the code, debugging, printfs. Address sanitizer and/or > valgrind may or may not help too. I just tried throwing some tools at it. Apparantly you need a three step thing to get to it. address-sanitizer. First issue. The command to cre

Re: Help to get Qt GUI of clonalorigin needed

2017-12-03 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2017-12-03, Andreas Tille wrote: > code from Qt4 to Qt5[2] which enabled to **build** the package. The patch looks right for a start. > $ clonalorigin-gui > QMetaObject::connectSlotsByName: No matching signal for > on_actionGelman_Rubin_test_activated() connectSlotsByName is unfortunately

Re: Bug#809768: RFS: kbibtex/0.6+git7fdc0cd97c093f-1

2016-01-03 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2016-01-03, Bastien ROUCARIÈS wrote: Hi A brief look over it: > dget -x > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/k/kbibtex/kbibtex_0.6+git7fdc0cd97c093f-1.dsc There is a patch to the desktop file. Where is it forwarded to ? Has it been merged? kdelibs5-dev is qt4 based. No need i

Re: sponsor/mentor packaging advise.

2014-07-17 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2014-07-17, Scarlett Clark wrote: > Hello! > I have been doing alot of packaging over at Kubuntu and enjoy it thoroughly. > I am seeking assistance in getting bits over into Debian as requested. With > that said I have been requested to get packaging for I've over irc adviced Scarlett to g

Re: Help with libquazip / Qt4-Qt5

2014-07-14 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2014-07-14, Eric Maeker wrote: >>> Please, Mentors, help me with these unlying questions. >>> - should libquazip be build inside debian using Qt5 and/or Qt4? >> >>Both. for now. > > Ok. How can I manage this? Is it possible inside one unique source > package? Debhelper does only have a qmake_qt

Bug#753898: RFS: Looking for sponsor for apg-gui

2014-07-06 Thread Sune Vuorela
On Saturday 05 July 2014 23:36:12 Tymon Radzik wrote: > I have just uploaded to mentors my package - it is called apg-gui and is > complex Graphical User Interface for Automated Password Generator. It > supports all it functions. I have made it in C++ Qt. I think it should be > put into Debian arch

Re: Help with libquazip / Qt4-Qt5

2014-06-14 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2014-06-13, Eric Maeker wrote: > Please, Mentors, help me with these unlying questions. > - should libquazip be build inside debian using Qt5 and/or Qt4? Both. for now. > - for Qt4 projects (as some projects still not ported to Qt5), how can > we provide a compatible Qt4 libquazip? > * Shou

Re: grokking debian symbols files

2014-04-04 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2014-04-04, Jakub Wilk wrote: > It's a pkgkde-symbolshelper(1)'s (from the pkg-kde-tools package) thing. > But AFIACS pkgkde-symbolshelper doesn't have any documentation, so the > “is not explained” still holds. :/ http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/symbolfiles.html > Hopefully it's a matter

Re: Help with d-shlibs needed

2014-04-03 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2014-04-03, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to migrate bamtools (not yet released package!) at > >git://anonscm.debian.org/debian-med/bamtools.git > > to d-shlibs but it ended up by What's d-shlibs and why do you use it? Isn't it just much easier to use a install file pointing the

Re: Solving shlibs-declares-dependency-on-other-package lintian warning

2014-03-18 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2014-03-18, Joseph Herlant wrote: > The complete version of the packages are currently available on > mentors (for those who would like to have a look a little deeper about > what's wrong): > https://mentors.debian.net/package/libnxml > and > https://mentors.debian.net/package/libmrss > > The w

Re: missing symbols for non-public functions in library?

2014-03-04 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2014-03-04, Sascha Steinbiss wrote: > developers -- of which I am one). This now leads to a discrepancy > involving missing symbols, apparently detected by comparison to the > 1.5.1 symbols file created by Andreas quite some time ago for me (thanks > btw!). According to the policy, this is a co

Re: Is this really the debian way ?

2014-02-09 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2014-02-08, Roelof Wobben wrote: > DEB_DH_MAKESHLIBS_ARGS_libcjs0c = -Xusr/lib/cjs-1.0/ -V'libcjs0c (>= > $(DEB_UPSTREAM_VERSION)), libcjs0-$(LIBMOZJS)' -- -c4 I don't see anything wrong here. It is not in the 'beginners end' of library packaging, and library packaging is not in the 'beginner

Re: Bug#736355: RFS: checkbox-ng/0.1-1 [ITP] -- Simple replacement for CheckBox

2014-01-22 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2014-01-22, Sylvain Pineau wrote: > It builds those binary packages: > > checkbox-ng - Simple replacement for CheckBox What's CheckBox? /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.or

Bug#718893: RFS: coinutils/2.9.4-1 [ITA] -- CoinOR base library

2013-08-07 Thread Sune Vuorela
On Wednesday 07 August 2013 15:45:37 Etienne Millon wrote: > There are tarballs containing the full distribution at: > http://www.coin-or.org/download/source/CoinAll/ > > It seems to be a a little older (the last release is from january > 2012), but it would be massively easier to maintain than ha

Re: I'm so frustrated trying to adopt a package, I could scream.

2013-02-12 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2013-02-12, Paul Johnson wrote: > Can I guess what's next? 664092 is a bug against the metapackage wnpp. > So my message is supposed to be: > package wnpp > retitle 664092 ITA: blt -- the BLT extension library for Tcl/Tk - > run-time package > owner 664092 pauljoh...@freefaculty.org yes. the '

Re: Maintainer address for collab-maint team maintained packages

2012-11-19 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2012-11-19, Arno Töll wrote: > That said, I'd be very glad to have some mailing list Debian service > different to lists.d.o for such lightweight list management purposes. wasn't there a teams.dn ? /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Bug#669565: RFS: gammaray/1.1.0-1 [ITP] -- Tool for examining the internals of Qt application

2012-08-12 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2012-08-10, Felix Geyer wrote: > On 10.08.2012 16:47, Jakub Adam wrote: >>> debian/patches/gammaray-probe-versioned-soname.patch: >>> >>> Why do you set a SONAME for gammaray_probe? >>> When gammaray changes the ABI custom plugins will break anyway >>> since you can't install different versions

Re: Bug#674717: RFS: qpdfview/0.2.2-1 [ITP]

2012-05-26 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2012-05-26, Benjamin Eltzner wrote: > Package: sponsorship-requests > Severity: wishlist > > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "qpdfview" > > * Package name: qpdfview >Version : 0.2.2-1 >Upstream Author : Adam Reichold > * URL : https

Re: Bug#672268: RFS: kde-gtk-config/2.0-1 [ITP] -- KDE configuration module for GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3.x style selection

2012-05-11 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2012-05-11, Boris Pek wrote: > kde-config-gtk-style does not allow to: > * select themes for Gtk 3.x applications > * preview available themes for Gtk 2.x and Gtk 3.x applications > * custmize toolbars and menus for Gtk applications > * select icon themes for Gtk applications > * download and a

Re: Bug#672268: RFS: kde-gtk-config/2.0-1 [ITP] -- KDE configuration module for GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3.x style selection

2012-05-11 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2012-05-09, Boris Pek wrote: > My regular sponsor is very busy now and I am looking for a sponsor for my new > package "kde-gtk-config". > Description : KDE configuration module for GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3.x style > selection first, kde configuration modules are packaged as kde-config-foo

Re: Help needed to fix gcc 4.7 bug in jellyfish package

2012-05-02 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2012-05-02, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to fix the problem in the jellyfish package but the general > hints given did not helped me really. Any more precise help to fix > this problem: > > parse_dna.cc:97:3: error: narrowing conversion of '-3' from 'int' to 'const > uint_t {aka con

Re: RFS: owncloud 2.0.1

2012-01-01 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2012-01-01, Thomas Müller wrote: [about a non-free file] > Or wget'ing it within postinst? erm ?!? /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/slrnj

Re: RFS: qastools

2011-12-14 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2011-12-14, Sebastian H. wrote: > I've made a quick build. > > qastools-common_0.16.1-1_all.deb 23988 bytes > qastools-qasconfig_0.16.1-1_amd64.deb 61768 bytes > qastools-qashctl_0.16.1-1_amd64.deb 274986 bytes > qastools-qasmixer_0.16.1-1_amd64.deb 309520 bytes > > versus > > qastool

Re: RFS: qastools

2011-12-14 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2011-12-13, Benoît Knecht wrote: > So? It's difficult for me to get your point when you're asking questions > without making any statement. I'd be grateful if you could clarify. Hi Depending on the answers, my statements would be different. In general, I see to 'primary' reasons for a package

Re: RFS: qastools

2011-12-13 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2011-12-13, Benoît Knecht wrote: > Sebastian H. wrote: >> > Why regroup qasmixer and qasconfig into one package? Wouldn't it be >> > better having them Recommend each other? It doesn't seem like an >> > improvement forcing users to install both tools instead of giving them >> > the choice. But

Re: Overriding .desktop file with localized version (QasMixer)

2011-11-01 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2011-11-01, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > Hi! > > Am 01.11.2011 14:14, schrieb Sebastian H.: > >> In the progress of separating localizations for QasMixer into a separate >> package qasmixer-l10n I've stumbled over the following linitan warning: >> >> W: qasmixer-l10n: desktop-command-not

Re: flashcache - call for resolution / seeking for a mentor

2011-09-21 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2011-09-21, onlyjob wrote: > * Is it true that whoever happen to create an ITP first gets the > monopoly for packaging? > * If ITP always have priority, aren't we sending a wrong message > for ambitious maintainers who might be tempted to create ITP early in > order >to secure

Re: RFS: gentoo (New upstream version: package already in Debian).

2011-09-13 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2011-09-13, Marc Haber wrote: > On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 04:17:12PM +0200, Innocent De Marchi wrote: >> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gentoo". >> >> * Package name: gentoo >>Version : 0.19.11-1 >>Upstream Author : Emil Brink >> * URL : http://www.

Re: Depends on -dev package

2011-08-23 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2011-08-22, Russ Allbery wrote: > "Bernhard R. Link" writes: >> * Russ Allbery [110822 19:59]: > >>> That's a fascinating point. I have never done that with any -dev >>> package, since essentially every -dev package would require that, which >>> seems rather silly. (There are almost no non-

Re: Compiling Qt translation files

2011-06-29 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2011-06-29, Dmitry Shachnev wrote: > Will it be better if I provide .ts text-format source for translations > and compile them during build? This will add a big build-dependency on > Qt. the Qt linguist tools have recently been split out from the qt dev tools to make it easier to just require

Re: RFS: kst (updated package)

2011-06-28 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2011-06-28, David Kalnischkies wrote: > btw: Without looking at the source: Architecture dependent symbols are e.g. > all methods with size_t (or its sibling ssize_t) or va_list as parameter. and qreal if kst is what I think it is. /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@l

Re: RFS: undo-closed-tabs-button

2011-05-26 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2011-05-26, Arno Töll wrote: > a) Without haing further looked on your package you may want to > reconsider package name and description to something more useful. There might actaully be a naming policy for such addons that one should adhere to. /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-men

Re: RFS: haskell-qt

2011-05-26 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2011-05-26, Filip Brcic wrote: > On Wednesday, 25. May 2011. 0.29.07 Sune Vuorela wrote: >> On 2011-05-24, Filip Brcic wrote: >> > libghc6-qt-dev - Haskell bindings for Qt GUI library for GHC >> Is it only bindings for QtGui, or for other parts as well ? > >

Re: RFS: undo-closed-tabs-button

2011-05-26 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2011-05-26, Ludwin Alduvi Hernández Vásquez wrote: > It builds these binary packages: > undo-closed-tabs-button - This add-on allows you to undo closed tabs via a > toolbar button addon to ? /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: RFS: haskell-qt

2011-05-24 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2011-05-24, Filip Brcic wrote: > It builds these binary packages: > libghc6-qt-dev - Haskell bindings for Qt GUI library for GHC Is it only bindings for QtGui, or for other parts as well ? > libqws - Haskell bindings for Qt GUI library for GHC Is this thing actually called libqws? QWS i

Re: RFS: libiwtan and iwtan-gui (3rd try)

2011-05-18 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2011-05-18, Marco Cornolti wrote: > It builds these binary packages: > libiwtan - meta-package for the IWTAN Wireless Topology Analyzer library I think I asked it before: whath's the prupose of this binary package? /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: what if upstream provides debian build directory

2011-03-18 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2011-03-18, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Is upstream always right? The general answer here is 'no, upstream is never right, but often they can be educated' (when coming to packaging ideas and such) /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsu

Re: Build-Dep: libqtwebkit-dev

2011-03-16 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2011-03-16, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > http://packages.debian.org/sid/libqtwebkit-dev > > It is only available in: > - unstable > - on amd64/i386 well... that's just a matter of time. > > I need to specify something like: B-D on libqtwebkit-dev only if > libQt4-dev does not provide libqtwebki

Re: RFS: libiwtan

2011-02-27 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2011-02-23, Marco Cornolti wrote: > Dunno actually. Mainly because dh_make made it for me, so I thought it > was the way things are done. Isn't it needed to keep libiwtan up to date > even when libiwtan0 moves to libiwtan1? well.. who needs a library? the apps dependencies should be enough to

Re: RFS: libmk4-2

2011-02-24 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2011-02-24, roucaries bastien wrote: >> Do you intend to maintain this library in Debian if/after this fix for >> akregator is uploaded? > > I will made the fix myself. It is a medium term fix. Long term fix it > to reimplement akregator using akonadi but it a huge work (see kmail). > I plan to

Re: RFS: libiwtan

2011-02-23 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2011-02-23, Marco Cornolti wrote: > * URL : http://iwtan.sourceforge.net > * License : GPL v3 hmm.. gplv3 for a library. kind of aggressive. but well. > It builds these binary packages: > libiwtan - meta-package for the IWTAN Wireless Topology Analyzer library why such

Re: packaging a new qt application with 2 components

2011-02-21 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2011-02-21, Steven wrote: > What would be the best approach to deal with this? > Note that I'm fairly new at creating Debian packages and developing qt > applications (I do have experience in Java, but not with Debian in > mind). two tarballs is a v3 source format? There is nothing special ab

Re: RFS: faenza-icon-theme

2011-01-25 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2011-01-24, Adnan Hodzic wrote: >> btw is this theme specific to GNOME or can it be used with other desktop >> environments? > > Specific for GNOME. Last I looked, it was following the FDO icon spec, so theoretically it would work anywhere that supports that spec. Practically, last I looked, f

Re: RFS: muon

2010-12-09 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2010-12-08, Paul Rufos wrote: > muon - package manager for KDE > muon-dbg - Muon debugging symbols > muon-installer - Utility for browsing, installing, and removing applications > muon-notifier - update notifier for KDE > muon-updater - update manager for KDE > qapt-batch - Batch packag

Re: RF[CS]: ubiquity (mozilla extension) in Debian

2010-10-26 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2010-10-26, Gabriele Giacone <1o5g4...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/26/2010 04:53 PM, Michael Shuler wrote: >> An existing source name conflict example I found: >> >> libsage2 - Source: sage >> xul-ext-sage - Source: sage-extension >> >> -extension sounds a little cleaner to me. ;) > > I'd like

Re: shlibs and lintian

2010-10-11 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2010-10-11, Zvi Dubitzky wrote: > I am having a package for libraries (several) Speaking as a maintainer who has been having library packages that contained several libraries (Qt, kdelibs, kde4libs, kdepimlibs, kdebase-workspace and ) - we have ended up splitting everything so that 1 libra

Re: RFS: wacom-source

2010-07-13 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2010-07-13, Taylor LeMasurier-Wren wrote: > --0016364ecb64f571dd048b48701a > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "wacom-source". > > Package name: wacom-source > Version : 0.8.8-1 > Upstream Author : Ping

Re: RFS: snap2 rsync-based backup program with GUI (with Debian source)

2010-06-15 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2010-06-15, Lloyd Standish wrote: > It did not occur to me to check for gtkdialog in Sid (it is available > in Lenny http://packages.debian.org/lenny/gtkdialog). So, until > there is a gtkdialog package in Sid, snap2 cannot run. This is a > great disappointment - I put a lot of effort into

Re: Asking for DMUA: Yes while seeking first sponsor

2010-06-15 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2010-06-15, Paul Wise wrote: > This isn't the only misuse of DMUA that exists, some people set it in > their package instead of asking the sponsor to set it. Others go I guess it is unimportant who exactly writes the lines to debian/control. But the sponsor should definately agree on it being

Re: A lot of pending packages

2010-06-09 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2010-06-09, Lorenzo De Liso wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm a simple debian contributor: I'm trying to get my work in debian > through a sponsor [1] [2]. The problem is that I'm waiting for a sponsor > since 7 days+ (and not only me, in mentors.debian.net there are 20+ > pending packages) [3]. Why are

Re: desktopnova (rename packages or change dependencies?)

2010-06-09 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2010-06-09, Daniel Leidert wrote: > b) Let both modules packages provide desktopnova-module and conflict > with each other. Then let desktopnova depend on desktopnova-module. So > the user will have to choose the module package to install. IMO this is > a common solution. This is definately no

Re: RFS: lmfit

2010-03-14 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2010-03-12, j.wuttke wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "lmfit". > > * Package name: lmfit >Version : 3.1-1 >Upstream Author : myself (Joachim Wuttke > * URL : http://www.messen-und-deuten.de/lmfit/lmfit.html > * License

Re: RFS: libqt4pas

2010-01-12 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2010-01-12, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > This package is necessary to build FPC/LCL Pascal applications against Qt4. > It would make lots of FPC apps able to be compiled for the KDE/Qt platform > and fix some bugs depending on this. > The package was previously known as "libqtintf4" and had some pr

Re: RFS: libqtintf4 (ping)

2009-12-19 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-12-18, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > The package is lintian-clean. There were some concerns about the > build-script, but because it's a really small lib there should be no > problem in building this. The way it is built, it takes around 1G of memory to build. This *needs* to be fixed. it mig

Re: New developer.

2009-11-26 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-11-26, George Danchev wrote: > * start with learning how Debian Bug Tracking System is manipulated > (which is one of the most valuable Debian assets) > * look for neglected bug reports, eventually in packages you are using > * try to submit patches and/or helpful comments to these bug r

Re: RFS: libqtintf4

2009-11-10 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-11-10, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > Makefiles just serve to finally create calls to gcc, And I think the way the gcc calls are made requires a amazing amount of RAM for no apparant reason. > these calls I wrote by hand (there was no qmake in qt2) > to more easily configure which Qt to use o

Re: new-maintai...@debian.org dead?

2009-11-07 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-11-07, Harry Rickards wrote: > 2009/11/7 Sune Vuorela : >> On 2009-11-07, Harry Rickards wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I sent an email to new-maintai...@debian.org about a week ago, and >>> haven't received a response yet. It's only b

Re: new-maintai...@debian.org dead?

2009-11-07 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-11-07, Harry Rickards wrote: > Hi, > > I sent an email to new-maintai...@debian.org about a week ago, and > haven't received a response yet. It's only been a week, so I'm still > hoping to get a reply soon. However, I just found > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1999/07/msg01270.html,

Re: RFS: libqtintf4

2009-11-07 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-11-07, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > http://users.telenet.be/Jan.Van.hijfte/qtforfpc/fpcqt4.html > * License : GPL Looks like lgpl > It builds these binary packages: > libqt4intf-dev - Qt4 interface bindings > libqt4intf5 - Qt4 interface bindings For which language? > - dget > http:

Re: RFS: pidgin-skype

2009-11-03 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-11-03, Don Armstrong wrote: > It's fairly rare for someone to laboriously create multiple versions > of icons at different resolutions in PNG. [I know I certainly haven't > done it since about 1992.] Yes and no. Some icon artists create it in svg and then export to png and does pixelmanip

Re: RFS: kwin-style-aurorae

2009-11-01 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-10-31, Lukasz Janyst wrote: > Hi there, > > I have been using Debian for a couple of years now. I really > appreciate the great work you're doing and I would like to help. I > have read some docs and faqs on contributing to the project and > decided to start with this simple package that I

Re: RFS: qemu-kvm (kvm)

2009-10-16 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-10-16, Felipe Sateler wrote: > On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 21:36 +0200, Giuseppe Iuculano wrote: >> Michael Tokarev ha scritto: >> >> You are trying to hijack kvm, this is not the way to do it appropriately. >> > >> > I'm trying to make it to work. >> > And to my shame, I don't know how to do t

Re: script-with-language-extension

2009-10-05 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-10-05, Charles Plessy wrote: > I have repened the Policy bug where the renaming policy was decided, and hope > to get it reverted. Don't expect it to happen, but you are free to hope. /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: RFS: libv8

2009-09-06 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-09-06, Rogério Brito wrote: >> - I doubt that many sponsors will be happy DM-Upload-Allowed: yes >>on a NEW package. > > While I understand that you mentioned this regarding a NEW package, I'm > a slightly bit confused about the "best current practices" of the DMUA > field. I

Re: Requests to sponsor new library packages

2009-08-19 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-08-19, Ben Finney wrote: > Sune Vuorela writes: > >> On 2009-08-19, Ben Finney wrote: >> > That's interesting, thank you for that perspective. What do you >> > propose, then, for a maintainer who wants to get a new package into >> > D

Re: Requests to sponsor new library packages (was: why?)

2009-08-18 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-08-19, Ben Finney wrote: > Sune Vuorela writes: > >> For example, I would be very reluctant to sponsor a first package of a >> person that was a new library without any application using it, >> whereas a interesting kde application might easier catch my eye. >

Re: why?

2009-08-18 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-08-18, Leinier Cruz Salfran wrote: > > --=-+HFkoxaqb4DFPsQ5uB2y > Content-Type: text/plain > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > why is so hard to find a sponsor? > > I have a package online since 2 weeks ago, I sent 3 RFS and I have found > no sponsor yet. > > why It depe

Re: rules file and missing dh_shlibdeps

2009-07-10 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-07-10, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > > --ibTvN161/egqYuK8 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:26:04AM +0200, Adrian Stel wrote: >> And my question is: can i remove from rules f

Re: Packaging:library packaging stuff

2009-06-08 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-06-08, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > * how can I build the dependencies of the -dev package in a sane way? I'm= >=20 > sure creating them by hand is not optimal. (And I'm sure I've read at some= You need to create it by hand by looking at what includes is in *your* public headers. > time

Re: RFS: concordance

2009-06-04 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-06-04, Ben Finney wrote: > Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre writes: > >> I've applied the suggested changes to the files, and pushed it back on >> mentors.debian.net. It's using the same version number as before, just >> overwrote the files. Not sure if this is the preferred way to do this. >> I'm

Re: RFS: agedu

2009-05-29 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-05-29, Alexander Prinsier wrote: > PS2: for DD's, is it customary to upload a new version to unstable even > if it only fixes a small issue? Or should small issues be batched into > one update? Couldn't find an answer on this in the Debian policy. It depends. Especially it depends on the

Re: how to check for binary compability?

2009-05-25 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-05-25, Russ Allbery wrote: > The new version of the library is no longer exporting its internal > portability functions. This is good -- libraries should not export Only lurker is using this library. /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Re: Confused by .dirs, .install etc

2009-05-24 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-05-24, Jack Kelly wrote: > On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Sune Vuorela wrote: >> On 2009-05-24, Jack Kelly wrote: >>> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Richard W.M. Jones >>> wrote: >>>> I have a problem building a library, starting with a d

Re: Confused by .dirs, .install etc

2009-05-24 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-05-24, Jack Kelly wrote: > On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >> I have a problem building a library, starting with a dh_make template. >> The basic problem seems to boil down to files don't get moved from >> DESTDIR (debian/tmp) into the actual packages, so the fi

Re: Updated packge on m.d.n (was: RFS: kde-plasmoid-yawp)

2009-05-23 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-05-22, John Stamp wrote: > On Friday 22 May 2009 11:12:36 am Kai Wasserbäch wrote: >> Dear mentors, >> an updated package of kde-plasmoid-yawp has been uploaded to >> mentors.debian.net, the new dgetable URL is: >> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/k/kde-plasmoid-yawp/kde-pl >>a

Re: RFS: krecipes (updated package)

2009-05-19 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-05-19, Matthias Julius wrote: > Barry deFreese 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 favo

Re: RFS: krecipes (updated package)

2009-05-19 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-05-19, Matthias Julius 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, but sending sponsoring requests there is the straight road into getti

Re: RFS: krecipes (updated package)

2009-05-19 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-05-19, Matthias Julius 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 packaging team. Should I ask QA to orphan > the package?

Re: RFS: valkyrie

2009-05-09 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-05-08, LI Daobing wrote: > there is a proposed copyright format in [2], you also can use that format. > > [2] http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/ Note that this is just a proposal and many people don't like it, so please don't take it too serious. And some people won't sponsor packages with

Re: questions regarding libmimelib1 as seperate source package

2009-04-26 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-04-25, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 3:02 AM, Jonas Meurer wrote: > >> I intend to maintain libmimelib1 as a seperate source package now that >> kdepim 3.5.9 has been removed from debian/unstable. > > What does lurker link against on other distros that have moved to KDE4? Ub

Re: RFS: katimon

2009-04-16 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-04-17, Stefanos Harhalakis wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "katimon". > > * Package name: katimon > Version : 1.0.2-2 > Upstream Author : me > * URL : http://www.v13.gr/proj/katimon/ > : also available from

Re: RFS: kita2

2009-04-06 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-03-21, Hideki Yamane wrote: > On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 12:42:43 +0900 > Junichi Uekawa wrote: >> > So instead of adding a package to be removed soon after it is clear of >> > NEW, I suggest not adding it at all. >> >> So, it's been two weeks, is there a working kde4? > > How's about korundum

Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-19 Thread Sune Vuorela
Hi! After a discussion on #debian-mentors and other places, I will not sponsor packages using the copyright file format described on http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat It is a too complex, overengineered solution to a very minor issue. It is not easy readables for humans It is ugl

Re: debian/control

2009-03-15 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-03-15, Laurent Guignard wrote: > On dim, 15 mar 2009 13:57:40 +0100, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: >> Hello, > > Hello, > >> >> I am not sure what to fill to "Section" in control file for my new package I >> am building. >> Program is small easy CLI utility generating sound (pink and white noise)

Re: libv8: library without SONAME

2009-02-09 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-02-09, Antonio Radici wrote: > Hi, > as part of ITP #497701 I'm packaging libv8, a high-performance > java script library written by Google and used in Chrominum, the > open source version of the Chrome browser. > > The source code is taken directly from the SVN tags here: > http://v8.goog

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

2009-01-18 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-01-19, Ben Finney wrote: > * When fixing bugs that prevented a previous release (e.g. one made to > mentors.debian.net) from making it into Debian (e.g. because the > sponsor requires further changes), recommended practice is to > increment the release number and make a new changelog

Re: RFS: kita2

2008-12-29 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-12-29, Junichi Uekawa wrote: >> It needs more work than just change the dependencies to make it work >> with korundum4 > > Are we talking about a package which only exists in experimental > replacing the version in sid? Yes. and the replacement is planned ASAP. > Let the version which

Re: RFS: kita2

2008-12-28 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-12-28, Hiroyuki Yamamoto wrote: >>> How about kde4? >> >> KDE4 has nice ruby bindings, currently available in experimental. > > Oh, thanks. > When kde4 has entered in sid, kita2 should depend on korundum4 package. > http://packages.debian.org/experimental/korundum4 It needs more work tha

Re: RFS: kita2

2008-12-28 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-12-28, Hiroyuki Yamamoto wrote: > Hi, > > Sune Vuorela wrote: >> On 2008-12-27, Hiroyuki Yamamoto wrote: >>> Upstream Author: Hideki Ikemoto >>> * URL: http://kita.sourceforge.jp/ >> >> Looking at this page, without much japanese k

Re: RFS: kita2

2008-12-27 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-12-27, Hiroyuki Yamamoto wrote: > > Upstream Author: Hideki Ikemoto > * URL: http://kita.sourceforge.jp/ Looking at this page, without much japanese knowledge, it looks like a kde3 application > * License: The MIT License > Section: net > Language: Ruby > Description: Ruby based

Re: Listing dependencies with specific versions

2008-12-09 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-12-09, Paul Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I doubt that - merely adding a new symbol is NOT a bug, let alone >> release-critical. > > Right, but not bumping shlibs at the same time is an RC bug AFAIK. I agree. /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: Preferred version format for svn revisions?

2008-11-09 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-11-09, Guido Loupias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Could someone tell me if there is a preferred version format for svn > revisions? > Right now I have something like +svn. If it is a snapshot after a release, I also do that. If it is a snapshot leading up to a release, I would

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