Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsors.....?

2013-03-09 Thread Tomasz Muras
On 02/27/2013 06:41 AM, Paul Wise wrote: Bah, I need to read before sending. Very nice response Paul, I think it's worth adding to FAQ: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsFaq#Why_is_it_so_hard_to_find_sponsor.3F I've updated What happens if I can't find a sponsor as well. cheers, Tomek

Re: Remove old Changelog

2013-03-08 Thread Tomasz Muras
On 03/07/2013 11:11 PM, Bas van den Dikkenberg wrote: Hi. Is it allowed to remove old changelog entry’s ? http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsFaq#Is_it_OK_to_edit_old_changelog_entries.3F Tomek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Bug#694459: Ping about #694352 and the proposed sponsored package in #694459

2013-01-01 Thread Tomasz Muras
On 01/01/2013 07:54 PM, Bas van den Dikkenberg wrote: Why do i get this mail ? I guess it's because you're subscribed to debian-mentors@lists.debian.org and bug #694459 is against sponsorship-requests where the maintainer is debian-mentors@lists.debian.org. Tomek -Oorspronkelijk

Bug#697142: RFS: libgetoptionkit-php/1.2.1-1 [ITP] - CLI option parser for PHP

2013-01-01 Thread Tomasz Muras
it as a dependency for other PHP package. I am a DM and would like to get the appropriate DM upload permission set at some point. Regards, Tomasz Muras -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: content of a package on repo

2012-12-22 Thread Tomasz Muras
On 12/22/2012 02:38 PM, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 05:24:50PM +0400, Игорь Пашев wrote: 2012/12/22 Vincent Cheng vincentc1...@gmail.com: dpkg-deb -x systemtap-sdt-dev_1.7-1+b1_amd64.deb . This only lists the contents without unpacking: deb -I

Packaging bundled library

2012-12-12 Thread Tomasz Muras
Dear Mentors, I'd like to package a small PHP utility that embeds a library. Should I package the library separately straight away? I know this is the way to go but on the other hand it seems like unnecessary overhead to package a library when it's used by only one other package. What would

DM upload permission help

2012-12-07 Thread Tomasz Muras
of the links related to my work: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=nexor1...@gmail.com http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/moodle.html http://wiki.debian.org/Moodle cheers, Tomasz Muras -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: dm upload permissions

2012-12-07 Thread Tomasz Muras
dm: not allowed to upload source package 'moodle' I'm wondering if it's because of the new DM permission or are DMs not allowed to upload into testing-proposed-updates in general? cheers, Tomasz Muras -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Debian mailing list search

2012-07-25 Thread Tomasz Muras
Hello, Does anyone know how to limit search on [1] to one list only? Syntax help page [2] refers to List selection, Language chooser and Author but I understand that those fields are gone after moving to xapian search? cheers, Tomek [1] http://lists.debian.org/search.html [2]

Re: Correct way to copy files to /home/$user?

2012-07-25 Thread Tomasz Muras
On 07/25/2012 05:21 PM, adrelanos wrote: Hi, I want to create a new package xchat-privacy. Actually no binary files need to be installed/replaced. Only a few configuration files have to be replaced, such as ~/xchat2/xchat.conf, ~/xchat2/ignore.conf, etc. What is the correct way to copy files

Re: Modifications of the changelog.

2012-04-22 Thread Tomasz Muras
On 04/22/2012 02:48 PM, Bernhard R. Link wrote: * Arno Tölla...@debian.org [120421 11:51]: The whole point of a changelog is a time dependent frozen point of view at your package. Once you released a version of a package, you should consider it untouchable I strongly disagree. First of all,

Re: NMU and delayed

2012-04-19 Thread Tomasz Muras
On 04/13/2012 08:00 AM, Tobias Frost wrote: Am Freitag, den 13.04.2012, 01:39 +0400 schrieb Michael Tokarev: On 13.04.2012 01:08, Tomasz Muras wrote: Hello, A Debian developer has uploaded a NMU (moodle 1.9.9.dfsg2-5.1) to DELAYED/7-DAY [1]. I have incorporated his changes, and added a new

NMU and delayed

2012-04-12 Thread Tomasz Muras
Hello, A Debian developer has uploaded a NMU (moodle 1.9.9.dfsg2-5.1) to DELAYED/7-DAY [1]. I have incorporated his changes, and added a new release (moodle 1.9.9.dfsg2-6) - the changelog now looks like [2]. Is there any reason I should wait for that NMU to get processed in DELAYED queue? Or

Re: Google Code and debian/watch

2012-03-14 Thread Tomasz Muras
On 03/05/2012 12:39 PM, Paul Wise wrote: Here is an example: version=3 http://code.google.com/p/bullet/downloads/list?can=1 \ .*/bullet-(\d[\d\.]+)\.(?:tgz|tbz|txz|(?:tar\.(?:gz|bz2|xz))|zip) I think this is worth adding to the mentors FAQ:

Moving cron job from daily to weekly

2011-12-02 Thread Tomasz Muras
Hello, If a package installs cronjob in (say) /etc/cron.daily but administrator wants to move that into weekly job - would it be OK for him to simply move the configuration file from /etc/cron.daily to /etc/cron.weekly? Or do you think it may cause the problems for the package upgrade - and if

Re: Upload to stable-security

2011-11-09 Thread Tomasz Muras
On 31/10/11 19:42, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: Hi, Tomasz Muras nexor1...@gmail.com writes: I need to upload my package [1] from unstable (version 1.9.9.dfsg2-4) to stable-security (yes, it's already agreed with the Security Team). How do I name it for security upload? Should I make a new entry

Upload to stable-security

2011-10-31 Thread Tomasz Muras
Hello, I need to upload my package [1] from unstable (version 1.9.9.dfsg2-4) to stable-security (yes, it's already agreed with the Security Team). How do I name it for security upload? Should I make a new entry in changelog and with version like 1.9.9.dfsg2-4+squeeze1? Thanks, Tomek [1]

Re: RFS: pmatch

2011-07-03 Thread Tomasz Muras
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Antonio Terceiro terce...@softwarelivre.org wrote: (I am not subcribed to -mentors) Hello Tomasz, Tomasz Muras escreveu isso aí: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package pmatch. * Package name    : pmatch   Version         : 0.4.0-1

Re: Hello

2011-04-14 Thread Tomasz Muras
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Kyriakos kyriakosbrastia...@gmail.com wrote: I have available time and because I love using debian I would like to contribute in the packaging so updates can come quicker. Is there a mentor that can mentor me? I use debian sid with kde but sometimes I use e17

Adding a symlink to a library in postinst

2011-02-06 Thread Tomasz Muras
Dear Mentors, The package I'm maintaining (moodle) is handling embedded libraries by not shipping them in a binary package and then replacing them with a symlink. Adding symlink is done in postinst, e.g.: [ ! -h /usr/share/moodle/lib/yui ] ln -s /usr/share/javascript/yui

Re: postinst script

2010-09-07 Thread Tomasz Muras
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Zvi Dubitzky d...@il.ibm.com wrote: Hi I have a command line in postinst script of a package that works ok outside a package install context . one line is causing an error : cat  /proc/file  | grep XY   file without the grep - no error with the grep the

Re: dfsg bit in the package name

2010-08-24 Thread Tomasz Muras
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 2:53 AM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 1:00 AM, Ludovico Cavedon cave...@debian.org wrote: On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 1:39 AM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: I personally can't think of any situation where ~dfsg is useful. If I want to rebuild

Re: RFS: marave

2010-08-24 Thread Tomasz Muras
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 5:18 AM, Romain Beauxis to...@rastageeks.org wrote: Le jeudi 19 août 2010 22:39:40, Chris a écrit :  * If you are repacking the sources, the convention is usually to rename it with dfsg in its version and to document the changes in a debian/README.Debian file (in

dfsg bit in the package name

2010-08-18 Thread Tomasz Muras
Hi Mentors, Is there any preference/reasoning for using any particular symbol that joins dfsg bit with the package name? I can see that different packages use a different format, here are some quick stats from packages in unstable (with the counts): 1179 +dfsg 1119 .dfsg 233 ~dfsg

Moodle, swf files, main vs contrib

2010-08-10 Thread Tomasz Muras
Hi Mentors, I'm writing in regard to a bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=591201 Please see my note: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=591201#18 Am I correct with the options I have? I have a problem deciding which way should I go, would you have any advice

RFS: gnome-screensaver-flags (new package)

2010-07-12 Thread Tomasz Muras
be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gnome-screensaver-flags - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gnome-screensaver-flags/gnome-screensaver-flags_0.1.dsc Kind regards Tomasz Muras -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ