Re: How mature is Pkg-format 3.0 (git), yet?

2012-01-17 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Mon, January 16, 2012 23:26, Paul Wise wrote: I just wanted to ask how mature Package-format 3.0 (git) became until now. It is not currently accepted by the Debian archive: http://bugs.debian.org/642801 My experience until now is that it's mature in dpkg. It does the job just like other

Re: RFS: subnetcalc

2009-06-08 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On snein 7 Juny 2009, Thomas Dreibholz wrote: thank you for your review of the SubNetCalc package. The updated package at http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/subnetcalc/ should fix the problems. I have removed the duplicate entries in changelog as well as the temporary file

Re: Added requirement for translation of debconf templates

2009-01-19 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Sun, January 18, 2009 20:04, Mark Brown wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 05:24:05PM +, Neil Williams wrote: using debconf that requires sponsorship, that debconf translations are requested and updated by the maintainer on an ongoing basis. You mean that requires [my] sponsorship ?

Re: RFS: whohas (new upstream)

2009-01-08 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi Jonathan, On Thu, January 8, 2009 07:26, Paul Wise wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Jonathan Wiltshire deb...@jwiltshire.org.uk wrote: I have uploaded whohas 0.22-1 to m.d.n, which is a new upstream integrating a lot of the bugs, and some tweaks to the packaging because of his

Re: RFS: whohas (new upstream)

2009-01-08 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Thu, January 8, 2009 11:19, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: Devref mentions NEWS.Debian as a changelog supplement: This is the preferred means to let the user know [...] changes in a package [1]. I didn't use README.Debian as the same paragraph seems to discourage this, but if you think it would

Re: apt-proxy, apt-cacher approx

2008-09-22 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Mon, September 22, 2008 08:11, Kel Modderman wrote: On Monday 22 September 2008 15:20:20 Cameron Dale wrote: On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 10:14 PM, Thomas Goirand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've been using apt-proxy for about a year, and then found it quite buggy. So we moved to using

Re: No sponsor found for weeks, what to do now?

2008-08-27 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Wednesday 27 August 2008 20:23, Neil Williams wrote: Plus, I've surely not seen anyone being flamed [...] by the security team, let alone to crisp, (Some of that happened off-list and one of the people involved is well-known to me due to interests outside Debian. I can vouch that some

Re: Lintian warning messages

2008-08-05 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi Richard, On Tuesday 5 August 2008 14:02, Richard Hurt wrote: I am getting quite a few lintian warnings that I would like to quell. Do we have any best practices on how to deal with these messages? W: package: debian-copyright-line-too-long -- As I understand it long lines are now OK. I

Re: Developer names within debian/changelog

2008-05-13 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Tuesday 13 May 2008 13:24, Ben Finney wrote: I'm less interested in strictness in Policy than I am in finding out how this is *specified* for all consumers, rather than merely *implemented* in specific programs. Maybe you can specify what problem you are trying to solve. Thijs -- To

Re: Developer names within debian/changelog

2008-05-13 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Tuesday 13 May 2008 16:28, Ben Finney wrote: All the answers I've had so far indicate that there *is* no specification for developer names within a changelog entry, and that any format at all is allowed so long as the loose definition in Policy is followed. My issue with that is that it

Re: Developer names within debian/changelog

2008-05-12 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Monday 12 May 2008 06:17, Ben Finney wrote: In recent years I've seen entries in 'debian/changelog' that are broken up into sections by developer name. I'm referring to entries like this: The Policy section above is silent on this extension to the format, though I've seen Joey Hess

Re: Version number in rules

2008-05-06 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Tuesday 6 May 2008 12:45, Sveinung Kvilhaugsvik wrote: Is there a way to get the Debian version as a variable in the rules file? Is there a standard way to remove the .dsfg from it? The following works well for me. I'm not sure but I don't believe there's a more 'standard' way. To remove the

Re: RFS: remaining packages

2008-03-18 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi J.L., On Tuesday 18 March 2008 02:53, José Luis Tallón wrote: - Couriergraph - Bindgraph You got a sponsorship offer for these here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=468134#15 Thijs pgpxdDBKoKrLS.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS: tcpser (updated package) (try 5)

2008-03-10 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi Peter, On Monday 10 March 2008 15:25, Peter Collingbourne wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my updated package tcpser. I've uploaded this package for you now. Thanks for your work, and sorry that it took so long for someone to pick it up. One point: upstream has included all .svn dirs

Re: RFS: some long-due updates

2008-03-10 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Sunday 9 March 2008 13:14, José Luis Tallón wrote: * You accidentally left out the -10.2 NMU changelog entry. Please reinclude it so that an accurate overview of package history remains. You can see this when you do a debdiff between the archive version of imapproxy (apt-get source) and

Re: RFS: some long-due updates

2008-03-09 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi J.L., On Sunday 9 March 2008 01:57, José Luis Tallón wrote: * imapproxy 1.2.6-1 http://devel.adv-solutions.net/debian/pool/main/mail/imapproxy/up-imapproxy _1.2.6-1.dsc I've taken a look at this one. It looks good in general, thanks for your work on this! There's just a couple of minor

Re: RFS: some long-due updates

2008-03-09 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Sunday 9 March 2008 13:14, José Luis Tallón wrote: Indeed. Make clean (as shipped by upstream) always fails, and so the error needs to be ignored for the build to succeed --- what it does is however needed for a package build to complete. I don't normally like lintian overrides, but this

Re: Tests that take more than ten times build time.

2008-02-13 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Wed, February 13, 2008 07:24, Charles Plessy wrote: Test time on arch (build time) 1h05 on sparc (3 min), 37 min on mipsel (2 min), 39 min on mips (3 min), 37 min on powerpc (2 min), 19 min on hppa (2 min), 6 min on amd64 (1 min)… Of course, if this is an exception, there is no need

Re: Tests that take more than ten times build time.

2008-02-13 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Wed, February 13, 2008 11:34, Charles Plessy wrote: And another one, who was never built in mips, is number 509 in the queue (glam2). For njplot, the waiting time is already 29 days. Therefore, I am a bit doubtful that we have enough build power. Would we have, my original question would

Re: RFS: many packages

2008-02-04 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Mon, February 4, 2008 14:21, José Luis Tallón wrote: Any of you with upload powers has some time left to sign and upload some packages? I have a little too many bugs waiting for an upload to be fixed, some of them quite old already. My usual sponsors have been much too busy as of lately.

Re: RFS: workbone - QA Upload with RC bugfix

2008-02-03 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Sunday 3 February 2008 17:04, Barry deFreese wrote: I've made a QA upload for workbone that closes the RC bug if someone could review/upload I would appreciate it. http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/w/workbone/workbone_2.40-8.dsc Thanks - I'm building this now and will upload it if

Re: RFS: hashalot (updated)

2008-01-24 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Thursday 24 January 2008 04:40, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: * Vcs-Svn and Vcs-Browser. Shouldn't the Vcs-Svn entry start with svn: instead of http:? SVN can be run over a variety of protocols, next to svn including ssh and http(s). Which is an excellent feature if you ask me :-) Thijs

Re: RFS: line6-usb

2008-01-19 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi Jelmer, On Saturday 19 January 2008 18:25, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package line6-usb. The package looks good, I've uploaded it. Good work! Thijs pgp0zj8VBqUoo.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: mentors.debian.net reloading

2007-10-26 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Friday 26 October 2007 15:26, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: I'm more interested in piuparts tests than in builds, actually. The point is that most DDs don't use piuparts because there's not many benefits in spending time setting it up. Having a piuparts installation working on mentors.d.n would

Re: RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-16 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Sunday 16 September 2007 01:56, Raphael Geissert wrote: I think you should talk to upstream and get them to use some other license like LGPL or BSD. The ftp-master's take a particularly hard line on this license and it may require justifying later on if they decide to get picky. I've

Re: RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-16 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi Yann, It's one of the packages suggested by the php-image-graph package which is already in Debian. Graphes can optionally have their axes graduated using roman numbers by using the Image_Graph_DataPreprocessor_RomanNumerals preprocessor. But in fact, I packaged it because it's a

Re: RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-15 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi Yann, On Saturday 15 September 2007 13:22, Yann Rouillard wrote: It builds these binary packages: php-numbers-roman - Provides methods for converting to and from Roman Numerals Are there actual use cases for this package? From the discription it seems to be a bit of a toy, if you know

Re: RFS: cvsps (updated package)

2007-09-06 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Thu, September 6, 2007 09:48, Mario Iseli wrote: - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/cvsps/cvsps_2.1-4.dsc 09:45:27 ERROR 404: Not Found. Sorry, I already uploaded this after an IRC conversation on #debian-mentors, I didn't realise that there was also a mailinglist mail

Re: Proposed copyright format

2007-09-06 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Thu, September 6, 2007 13:58, Manuel Prinz wrote: There don't seem to be any tools using it right now, and it's not policy. On the other hand, I really don't see any reason not to use it, knowing that some adjustments have to be made if the format changes. What are your thoughts on that? Is

Re: RFS: mantis (updated package)

2007-08-29 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Wednesday 29 August 2007 07:32, schönfeld / in-medias-res wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a (one-time) sponsor for the new version 1.0.8-1 of my package mantis, as it seems that the person who sponsors my uploads normally is not available. Hi Patrick, Thanks, I've uploaded it.

Re: php4 in lenny and Depends

2007-08-12 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Sunday 12 August 2007 21:33, Kevin Coyner wrote: I have a package that I maintain that has a dependency on php4-cgi or php5-cgi. If I remember correctly php4 will not be in lenny. Correct me if I was dreaming and misunderstood this. If I am correct, then in any future repackagings of my

Re: RFS: Many php-* packages to be updated: php-auth-http php-compat php-config php-crypt-cbc php-event-dispatcher php-html-common php-html-select php-image-barcode php-net-ping php-net-portscan php-x

2007-08-08 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Wednesday 8 August 2007 08:27, Thomas Goirand wrote: Why did you choose SVN? It's not any better than CVS, it has the same lacks, like not being able to manage unix rights, which is really the basic. Why don't you upgrade to Git or Mercurial which are REALLY a LOT better? Not wanting to

Re: Help with wrong upload

2007-08-08 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Wednesday 8 August 2007 12:35, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: I want to avoid over-loading the mirrors because of 20070717-1 being propagated. Searching through various documentation I couldn't figure out whether there is some way I can do this. Is it enough to upload 20070717-2? Yes, it is.

Re: RFS: Many php-* packages to be updated: php-auth-http php-compat php-config php-crypt-cbc php-event-dispatcher php-html-common php-html-select php-image-barcode php-net-ping php-net-portscan php-x

2007-08-07 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Tuesday 7 August 2007 08:41, Thomas Goirand wrote: I knew them, and used them a lot in the past, but as I am doing the packaging using pear install and some rm, I thought it would be more consistent like this. Anyway, this is changed and now using dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples

Re: RFS: php-http-upload

2007-08-07 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Monday 6 August 2007 14:04, Nico Golde wrote: Hi, * Thomas Goirand [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-08-06 13:31]: [...] Thanks for having a look and if you can sponsor the upload. I am sorry but I won't sponsor any php package, but since the package is in a good shape I hope someone else will.

Re: RFS: Many php-* packages to be updated: php-auth-http php-compat php-config php-crypt-cbc php-event-dispatcher php-html-common php-html-select php-image-barcode php-net-ping php-net-portscan php-x

2007-08-06 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Monday 6 August 2007 09:08, Thomas Goirand wrote: I would be glad if someone could uploaded these packages for me. Once again, don't get scarred by the amount of package, they are very small, and are built the same way. As I maintain a couple of PEAR modules aswell, I'll take a look at

Re: Mentors upload not showing up

2007-08-06 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Monday 6 August 2007 17:08, Jeremiah Foster wrote: u libcdk-perl_4.9.10-2.diff.gz upload.ubuntu.com Mon Aug 6 15:56:03 2007 upload.ubuntu.com? :-) Thijs pgphoRDEQ8wtG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS: Many php-* packages to be updated: php-auth-http php-compat php-config php-crypt-cbc php-event-dispatcher php-html-common php-html-select php-image-barcode php-net-ping php-net-portscan php-x

2007-08-06 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi Thomas, First of all, thanks for your work on this set of packages. In general, they look ok. There's one remark: you seem to not use all the features of the debhelper system. For example you are using 'cp' or 'mv' to install files in different places, while there is dh_install,

Re: RFS: acr38 - 1.7.9-3 (minor update)

2007-07-31 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi, Could someone review and upload acr38 1.7.9-3 Your changes look fine, I've uploaded it. Thanks! Thijs pgputMoPlzDYu.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS: bmpx (updated package)

2007-07-26 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi Thierry, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.40.0~rc3-1 of my package bmpx. Excellent work, I'm building it now and will upload it if no further problems arise. thanks, Thijs pgpsRU7kBlbxX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS: switchconf

2007-07-26 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi Jose, On Thursday 26 July 2007 01:30, Jose Manuel dos Santos Calhariz wrote: I am the upstream author of switchconf package, that is in etch, and I have prepared a new version of switchconf. This version fixes an unreported bug introduced in the last version, add tests to check if

Re: RFS: wotsap -- OpenPGP Web of Trust statistics and pathfinder

2007-07-23 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi Giovanni, I am looking for a sponsor for my package wotsap. This page looks good. I've got a few small comments: General: * Have you checked that you conform with the Debian Python Policy? debian/rules: * Why do you run dh_clean -k in the install target? I don't quite understand that.

Re: ampache security audit

2007-07-04 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Wednesday 4 July 2007 06:28, Charlie wrote: Especially for such **insert curse words here** languages like php. Why do you feel that php is a **insert curse words here** language? If PHP is such a **insert curse words here** language, then why does Debian allow apps such as roundcube and

Re: RFS: hwinfo (updated package)

2007-07-03 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi, On Tuesday 3 July 2007 10:11, William Vera wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 13.35-2 of my package hwinfo. Thanks for taking the time to adopt an orphaned package. I've checked it out and found: * You're adding a file .pc/.version, probably by accident? * There seems

Re: RFS: secpanel (updated package)

2007-07-01 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi Bruno, On Sunday 1 July 2007 18:01, Bruno Costacurta wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.41+0.4.2-4 of my package secpanel. Thanks for your effort to adopt an orphaned package. I've taken a look and have the following points: - Why the strange version

Re: RFS: secpanel (updated package)

2007-07-01 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Sunday 1 July 2007 18:12, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: Otherwise it looks fine. One more thing: there's some bugs open against the package, including a wishlist bug regarding a new upstream version. Perhaps you want to take a look at those to see whether you can address them? Thijs

Re: ampache sponsor

2007-07-01 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi Charlie, On Sunday 1 July 2007 12:43, Charlie wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package ampache. I've taken a look and have found the following remarks. * You install under /usr/share/ampache. The webapps policy (still draft, but not quite controversial) recommends

Re: how to fix nmlist.php and other error in NM webpages?

2007-06-28 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Thursday 28 June 2007 12:24, Rudi Cilibrasi, Ph.D. wrote: It seems that more should be less in the above sentence. The same error appears again on the New Maintainer's Page as well. I could not find a mailing list to report this. How do we report bugs against these pages? Best regards,

Re: RFS: mantis (updated package w/ security fix)

2007-06-20 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi, On Wednesday 20 June 2007 04:12, Kevin Coyner wrote: I believe I've prepared this appropriately. In debian/changelog I set urgency to 'high'. I know this will get it into unstable on an expedited basis, but am unsure how to get the fix into stable. It looks good, I've uploaded your

Re: Adopting boa

2007-06-15 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi François-Denis, I'm looking into adopting the small webserver boa. The package has received a number of NMU over the years and has recently been uploaded by Debian-QA. I know the proper procedure if I adopt boa would be to close the bugs fixed by NMU, but that seem as simple to me as

Re: About md5sums of debian sources

2007-06-05 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Tuesday 5 June 2007 06:54, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: Yes. But then what of projects like OpenOffice.org and gcc? No one has said that bzip2 should be *required* as a compression format, only a possibility. I see the use in that: I've seen several upstreams shifting from gzip to providing

Re: ITA or ITP, for former Debian packages?

2007-05-24 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Wednesday 23 May 2007 13:30, Neil Williams wrote: If the package is in Debian and orphaned: ITA If the package is not in Debian (whether it ever was before or not): ITP. It makes sense to base your work on the previous package anyway, since that might have solved some issues that you didn't

Re: RFS: pastebinit

2007-05-20 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi, I am looking for a sponsor for my package pastebinit. I've taken a look. pastebinit is a command-line tool to send data to a pastebin. . It can receive data from a pipe or from a file passed as argument. . It actually supports these pastebins: - http://paste.stgraber.org

Re: RFS: phpesp

2007-05-14 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi, I am looking for a sponsor for my package phpesp. I've taken a look at your package. I've got the following comments: The phpesp package uses webapps-common (and through it dbconfig-common) to configure the web server and database. Webapps-common, implementing the draft Debian web

Re: Copyright issues GPL-PHP license

2007-05-06 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Sunday 6 May 2007 17:43, David Paleino wrote: Now, as Steve Langasek pointed out in that bug report: PHP is GPL-incompatible. You cannot distribute GPL software together with GPL-incompatible software that it depends on without a license exemption from the copyright holder of the GPL

Re: Copyright issues GPL-PHP license

2007-05-06 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Sunday 6 May 2007 18:22, Alex Queiroz wrote:      This is a very sad opinion. Is Debian censoring programming languages now? Challenging whether some software would be an asset to Debian is not cersorship by any definition of the word, but voicing an opinion. I'm glad that that is possible

Re: Copyright issues GPL-PHP license

2007-05-06 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Sunday 6 May 2007 20:20, David Paleino wrote: I think the situation in Ubuntu is different because there is no real security support for universe (please correct me if I am wrong). Universe corresponds to? Contrib? There's no direct matching here. While in Debian all software in main is

Re: Copyright issues GPL-PHP license

2007-05-06 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Sunday 6 May 2007 20:23, David Paleino wrote: Why? And a web server written in awk, then? Is that of any real-world use? I've seen implementations of that on the Internet. I admit that this is not enough reason to package it though. Right. The main question for me that is not answered here

Re: RFS: php-adodb

2007-05-04 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Friday 4 May 2007 10:56, Neil McGovern wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package php-adodb. Hi there, How is this different from libphp-adodb? Have even read his message? | php5-adodb - Extension optimising ADOdb database abstraction library | * This package is the PHP

Removing an obsolete symlink

2007-04-24 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi all, I could use some advice on how to handle the following situation. I adopted a web application package that used to set a symlink under /var/www: /var/www/phpmyadmin - /usr/share/phpmyadmin. This was not good: we shouldn't touch /var/www and not enable phpmyadmin without asking. So now I

Re: RFS: avelsieve

2007-04-24 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi! I am looking for a sponsor for my package avelsieve. I've taken a look at this package. It looks very good in general! I have some comments though: * 01_foldersort_bugfix.patch: the patch does not contain a description, neither in the DP-header nor in the code itself. What does it do?

Re: RFS: avelsieve

2007-04-24 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Tue, April 24, 2007 12:40, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: * 01_foldersort_bugfix.patch: the patch does not contain a description, neither in the DP-header nor in the code itself. What does it do? Did you forward it to upstream? Well, I don't know where to describe that. The upstream author works

Re: Removing an obsolete symlink

2007-04-24 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Tue, April 24, 2007 13:10, Daniel Leidert wrote: we shouldn't touch /var/www and not enable phpmyadmin without asking. Why? What is so bad with this symlink? - It touches /var/www which is under the administrator's control; - It does not make sense, since the document root might be

Re: RFS: avelsieve

2007-04-24 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Tue, April 24, 2007 13:34, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: Okay, I changed that, too. You can find the new package again at http://downloads.jhr-online.de/avelsieve/ It looks fine, thanks for the quick response. I have one question remaining: you depend on cyrus being installed. Is it actually

Re: RFS: avelsieve

2007-04-24 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Tue, April 24, 2007 14:10, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: Thijs Kinkhorst schrieb: It looks fine, thanks for the quick response. I have one question remaining: you depend on cyrus being installed. Is it actually necessary to have cyrus on the local host, or can it also be remote? I'm not sure

Re: Searching doc about debian dir in upstream release

2007-04-18 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 08:40 +0200, Maximilian Wilhelm wrote: Hi! I was ask by a upstream author about the debian-dir in upstream (release) thing where to find documentation about this. I did not find anything on the debian pages or via google by myself. Is there any text, paper,

Re: RFS: debian-sec

2007-02-21 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi Tim, It builds these binary packages: debian-sec - debian-sec packages security-client - debian-sec protocol specific client packages security-develop - debian-sec tool and exploit development packages security-emulate - debian-sec host emulation packages security-encrypt - debian-sec

Re: RFS: roundcube

2007-02-18 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 20:20 +0100, sean finney wrote: but for clarity: are these tmpfiles left in /tmp or /var/tmp, or are they in /var/cache somewhere? there are two seperate issues here really: (1) where does the data belong and (2) how should it be managed/deleted? The answer to (1) is

Re: new package splix

2007-02-16 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 18:09 -0300, Carlos Pasqualini wrote: SpliX is a set of CUPS printer drivers for SPL (Samsung Printer Language) printers. If you have a such printer, you need to install and use SpliX. Moreover you will find documentation about this proprietary language on the splix

Re: RFS: roundcube

2007-02-16 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 21:54 +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: OoO En ce début de soirée du mardi 13 février 2007, vers 21:34, Thijs Kinkhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] disait: As for the binary package, that depends on the installed size. For both phpBB and SquirrelMail we did not split the translation

Re: RFS: roundcube

2007-02-16 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 07:23 -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Vincent Bernat dijo [Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 01:22:36PM +0100]: MAX_TMPFILE_LIFETIME=15 Do these files really need to stick around for 15 days? I don't think. But it is a safe value. Maybe you should depend on (or recommend at

Re: alioth project creation problem

2007-02-13 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 12:54 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: Am I blind and missing something real basic, or does alioth have a problem at the moment? I tried to create a new user without success too. If you have trouble with Alitoh, I find the following options to be very helpful: * Ask on

Re: RFS: roundcube

2007-02-13 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 11:31 -0800, Richard Laager wrote: Personally, I think repacking the tarball would be the lesser of two evils. I'd unpack all the language tarballs into some subdirectory, creating something like this (using two random language tarballs that I looked at as examples):

Re: RFS: videomanager

2007-02-04 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi Lionel, It builds these binary packages: videomanager - An application for managing your movie collection Thank you for your work. I've reviewed your package and it looks generally ok. I have the following comments: * The program is only in French, but your description in debian/control

Re: RFS: swftools - a collection of SWF utilities

2007-02-04 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 21:44 +0200, Simo Kauppi wrote: The new files are in http://www.mediasitomo.com/debian-swftools/ Thanks, I've uploaded it! Thijs signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: RFS: swftools - a collection of SWF utilities

2007-02-02 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi Simo, The debian package files are in http://www.mediasitomo.com/debian-swftools/ Thanks for your work! I've reviewed the package. * debian/copyright does not seem to list that most of the contents of the lib/ dir are licenced under the LGPL. * debian/compat: Since you depend on

Re: RFS: softbeep (updated package)

2007-01-27 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 00:08 +0100, Florent Rougon wrote: IMHO, this is something that makes 3.7.2.0 and 3.7.2.2 two non-equal Policy versions. I wonder why wasn't this 3.7.3.0 instead? Hmmm... maybe because the should in 3.7.2.0 was actually obviously a must for security reasons?

Re: extra-license-file best pratices

2007-01-26 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 13:56 +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote: 1. Being upstream for the software, just edit the original Makefile so the `install' target skips COPYING.gz 2. Edit the Makefile only in the Debian package, commenting out the offending lines 3. Remove the file

Re: RFS: elinks (updated package)

2007-01-26 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi Ahmed, On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 14:20 +0200, Ahmed El-Mahmoudy wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.11.1-1.3 of my package elinks. Thanks for your work. I will not upload for the following reason: you're NMU'ing a package, but not for fixing a bug that is

Re: RFS: softbeep (updated package)

2007-01-26 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi, On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 02:18:56PM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: * There are open bugs in the bts for softbeep, which have no response yet, and might have some merit. Have you looked at the bugs? Can they be fixed in this upload? If not, you could respond to the reporters why

Re: SVN snapshot versioning

2007-01-23 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 19:51 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: I disagree. How do I know that r91 was committed two days ago? This also does not hold for regular, released versions. I don't see why this should be conveyed in the version number of snapshot packages and not for regular releases:

Re: RFS: jabbin

2007-01-23 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 19:46 +1100, Andrew Donnellan wrote: I'll have a look at the patches that were suggested earlier - I may apply them upstream as I have access to their repo. I'm also going to prepare a new version very soon. Just to let you know - your package looks very good otherwise.

Re: native packages

2007-01-23 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 21:34 +1100, Andrew Donnellan wrote: What exactly are the advantages and disadvantages of making a Debian-native package, and is there any real policy or practice? I think this is a good rule: If the source is published outside of Debian, do not make a

Re: native packages

2007-01-23 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 21:45 +1100, Andrew Donnellan wrote: In this particular project I am a member of upstream (packager, proofreader and copywriter for English website) and I want to store my debian/ directory in upstream's SVN as it makes it much easier for me to manage snapshots, updates,

Re: RFS: ballview - A free molecular modeling and moleculargraphics tool

2007-01-23 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 11:52 +0100, Andreas Moll wrote: I don't think the 'deb-ball-source' dir belongs in a clean source package. I guess you are right. Could you tell how to delete it with the deb-helper tools? What created that dir originally? Thijs signature.asc Description: This

Re: RFS: ballview - A free molecular modeling and molecular graphics tool

2007-01-22 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 11:46 +0100, Andreas Moll wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package ballview. The changelog says: * Initial release (Closes: #) is the bug number of your ITP So you probably forgot to replace '' :) See also the file README.Debian, it still has possible

Re: RFS: whitedune : Graphical VRML97 viewer, editor, 3D modeller and animation tool

2007-01-20 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi Philippe, On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 00:35 +0100, Philippe Coval wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package whitedune. Thank you for your work. I've taken a look. I've got the following comments: debian/changelog: * The changelog mentions two previous versions from 2002, but I can't

Re: What to do if my package doesn't build on some architecture

2007-01-20 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi Kumar, On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 20:47 +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: Now, I would like to know how to bail the package out of this situation. Do I try to fix the problem, referring it to upstream, or is it that I should somehow block this architecture now and keep my fingers crossed hoping it

Re: RFS: sshproxy

2007-01-20 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi Bernat, On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 14:38 +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package sshproxy. There is currently one bug in the package due to a problem in cdbs : bug #386970. I don't know wthat the correct work around is. I'm sorry, I can't help you with this.

Re: Tone-of-voice used by sponsors

2007-01-14 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 16:43 +0100, Bart Martens wrote: On the other hand, the sponsor is completely free to choose which packages he wants to sponsor. And it is good that sponsors encourage new packagers to have an eye for the little things too. Let's not shoot Daniel for being just a bit

Re: Tone-of-voice used by sponsors

2007-01-14 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 15:11 -0400, Muammar Wadih El Khatib Rodriguez wrote: He imposes a high quality standard when he sponsors a package. I'm not sure about this reference to a quality standard multiple people in this thread are making. I did not question anything about the quality, just about

Re: RFS: poco

2007-01-13 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 22:12 +0100, Krzysztof Burghardt wrote: and, are you going to package the docs (assumed they are redistributable, i didn't check for that)? Yes, but if it is another upstream tarball should I make another source package? Yes, that's right. Thijs signature.asc

Re: RFS: podget

2007-01-11 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hello Dave, It builds these binary packages: podget - Podcast aggregrator/downloader optimized for cron The package is lintian clean. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/podget - Source repository: deb-src

Re: Opinions on CDBS amongst sponsors

2006-12-15 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 10:29 +0200, Jari Aalto wrote: Especially adding the EXAMPLES sections would greatly improve all the manual pages by listing the typical usage cases. Here is an exerpt. Patches are probably most welcome ;) Thijs signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: Subject: RFS: mantis (updated package)

2006-11-29 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Eric Lavarde - Debian wrote: Hi, * debian/copyright is incomplete, you need to list all copyright holders and their licenses. e.g. adodb and phpmailer is missing (and likely also others, stopped after finding these two). Hmm. Do i really need to do this? Because my debian/rules

Re: Subject: RFS: mantis (updated package)

2006-11-28 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hello Patrick, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.0.6-1 of the package mantis. Package is orphaned, i am the adopter of this package. It builds these arch-independent packages: mantis - web-based bug tracking system Good to see that Mantis is getting a new maintainer.

Re: RFS: sqwebmail-de: german templates for sqwebmail (fixes RC-bug)

2006-11-21 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 12:21 +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote: Neil Williams wrote: Why is this double space seen as mandatory? - it is not. Single spacing is fine in most cases. roumors has it that some automatic tools are in need of having two leading spaces. This is way too vague, because I

Re: Question: piuparts and mysql-server

2006-11-15 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hello Kevin, On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 16:06 -0500, Kevin Coyner wrote: Here's the catch: I presently have mysql-server listed as a Recommends: because mysql can be run on another box other than the localhost. This seems to be the approach of many similar packages like drupal, diogenes. O.k.

Re: Help with updating nco package?

2006-11-12 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 13:26 -0800, Charlie Zender wrote: Damyan Ivanov wrote: nco is currently maintained by Debian QA Group. Are you willing to take over? If so, you should tell them. Yes, I would like to take over nco maintainance, if it's OK with them. I'm not a debian developer (yet)

Re: RFS: renrot - a program to rename and rotate files according to EXIF tags [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2006-11-08 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 18:43 +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote: And it's a Perl script. The arch is all and not any, since it's not an arch specific binary. Oh, thanks. I've rebuilt the pacakge. In general it looks good, but I have the following comments: * The description can be improved.

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