Re: RFS: quickrdp

2012-01-30 Thread Tony Houghton
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:42:23 +0100 Tobias Eliasson wrote: > On 01/30/2012 12:13 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > > > The default value for "Locale telnet/Perl/SSH executable" dialogs > > appears to be "gnome-terminal". (??!) > It launches a terminal for launching the actual executable. It's not > rest

Conflict between userspace driver and kernel driver module

2012-01-30 Thread Nicolas Bourdaud
Hi all, Recently I have faced a problem of conflict while packaging libfreenect which is the userspace driver using libusb-1.0 for the Microsoft Kinect. I mention the name of the package for having a real example but the problem exists for any USB userspace driver while a kernel module imp

dh-buildinfo: is it useful?

2012-01-30 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Dear mentors, Does anyone know if using dh-buildinfo is still recommended practice or is it obsolete? When dh-buildinfo is useful and what could be a typical use case? Thanks, Dmitry. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Conflict between userspace driver and kernel driver module

2012-01-30 Thread Antonio Ospite
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:55:48 +0100 Nicolas Bourdaud wrote: > Hi all, > Hi Nicolas, > Recently I have faced a problem of conflict while packaging libfreenect > which is the userspace driver using libusb-1.0 for the Microsoft Kinect. > I mention the name of the package for having a real ex

Re: Conflict between userspace driver and kernel driver module

2012-01-30 Thread Nicolas Bourdaud
Ok, I feel stupid because all the symptoms I have described about libfreenect were my mistake (I went too fast...). See later On 30/01/2012 13:49, Antonio Ospite wrote: > I'd say update libfreenect to the latest version, which as a matter of > fact is adopting solution 2, and live with the limitat

Re: RFS: qastools

2012-01-30 Thread Sebastian H.
A Debian user hinted that the painting was totally screwed in experimental ( Qt 4.8 ). That's fixed in the new package: dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/q/qastools/qastools_0.17.1-1.dsc > I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Well, still true. Btw. the ITP i

Re: [Pkg-tcltk-devel] RFS: xpa -- Seamless communication between Unix programs

2012-01-30 Thread Sergei Golovan
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Ole Streicher wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "xpa". I cannot build the package. dpkg-source throws an error: dpkg-source: error: diff `xpa-2.1.13/debian/patches/fix_manpages.patch' patches file xpa-2.1.13/man/man1/xpaset.1 t

Re: dh_gencontrol and space separated list

2012-01-30 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Mathieu Malaterre , 2012-01-30, 17:07: Hi all, I am trying to automated the list of archs from d/rules files. I am using : ... include /usr/share/mono/mono-archs.make %: dh $@ --with cli mono_archs=$(DEB_MONO_ARCHS) override_dh_gencontrol: dh_gencontrol -- -Vmono:Archs:"$(mon

Re: dh-buildinfo: is it useful?

2012-01-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:02 PM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > Does anyone know if using dh-buildinfo is still recommended practice or > is it obsolete? > > When dh-buildinfo is useful and what could be a typical use case? For packages destined for the Debian archive it doesn't have much use since we h

Re: RFS: quickrdp

2012-01-30 Thread Tobias Eliasson
On 01/30/2012 12:18 PM, Tony Houghton wrote: My 2c: a Debian package should default to x-terminal-emulator when launching a terminal if it's desktop-agnostic. Or does XDG have a standard way to find the user's favourite terminal? Ah, thank you. That's a very good option! Added it in my TODO-pile

sponsorship-requests

2012-01-30 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: where can we grab the source of the sponsorship-requests Debian package ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- 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/4f2

Re: RFS: libconfig (requires transition)

2012-01-30 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 15:00:23 +, Jonathan McCrohan wrote: > On 27/01/12 19:23, Julien Cristau wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:24:56 +, Jonathan McCrohan wrote: > > > >> Julien Cristau wrote: > >> > >>> Please don't change the -dev package name. > >> > >> All of the packages ex

Re: sponsorship-requests

2012-01-30 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List: > > where can we grab the source of the sponsorship-requests Debian package ? sponsorship-requests is a pseudo-package -- it's like a package, but it's not actually. This is so the BTS can be used for bugs, without actually havin

Re: sponsorship-requests

2012-01-30 Thread Boris Pek
>>  where can we grab the source of the sponsorship-requests Debian package ? > > sponsorship-requests is a pseudo-package -- it's like a package, but > it's not actually. This is so the BTS can be used for bugs, without > actually having a package in Debian. > > It's for use with http://mentors.de

Re: sponsorship-requests

2012-01-30 Thread Savvas Radevic
Is it active and the preferred way now? So as of now, we should file a bug with sponsorship-requests instead of sending an email directly to debian-mentors list?

Re: sponsorship-requests

2012-01-30 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > >>> >>> Is there already any howto ro document about it ? >> >> >> About what? Pseudo-packages or mentors.debian.net? >> > > I know what both are, but it is not clear to me how this pseudo-package is > involved ? > > In practice, how does a r

Re: sponsorship-requests

2012-01-30 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On 30.01.2012 20:51, Savvas Radevic wrote: > Is it active and the preferred way now? So as of now, we should file a bug > with sponsorship-requests instead of sending an email directly to > debian-mentors list? Yes. For now, mentors.debian.net is

Re: sponsorship-requests

2012-01-30 Thread Slavko
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo, Dňa Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:55:52 +0100 Arno Töll napísal: > Yes. For now, mentors.debian.net isn't updated yet, so consider ourself > being in a transitional period where both approaches are fine. That is > something coming up in a few days thou

Re: [Pkg-tcltk-devel] RFS: xpa -- Seamless communication between Unix programs

2012-01-30 Thread Ole Streicher
On 30.01.2012 15:52, Sergei Golovan wrote: > dpkg-source: error: diff > `xpa-2.1.13/debian/patches/fix_manpages.patch' patches file > xpa-2.1.13/man/man1/xpaset.1 twice This is true; however I didn't get this error. I corrected it and re-uploaded the file. Could you try to build it again? Thank

Re: sponsorship-requests

2012-01-30 Thread Boris Pek
> Is it active and the preferred way now? So as of now, we should file > a bug with sponsorship-requests instead of sending an email directly > to debian-mentors list? It generates too much noise in this mailing list I think. It will be very uncomfortable to people who did not setup mailing filter

Re: sponsorship-requests

2012-01-30 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30.01.2012 21:10, Slavko wrote: > please, will be change in mandatory way announced here? I will announce the the mentors.debian.net change, but I can't do much to get people adapting the the new workflow. - -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC:

Re: Fwd: RFS: gcc-4.5-doc-non-dfsg

2012-01-30 Thread Samuel Bronson
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Samuel Bronson > wrote: >> > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Matthias Klose > wrote: >> >> Samuel, thanks for doing this. However, I'm trying to get gcc-4.5 >> >> removed from unstable soonish, so

Re: sponsorship-requests

2012-01-30 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:51:47 -0500, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > > In practice, how does a request for sponsorship appear at > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=sponsorship-requests;dist=unstable > > ? > I'm CC'ing the list again, because I think this is worthwhile to > everyone (and

Re: sponsorship-requests

2012-01-30 Thread Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Boris Pek wrote: >> Is it active and the preferred way now? So as of now, we should file >> a bug with sponsorship-requests instead of sending an email directly >> to debian-mentors list? > > It generates too much noise in this mailing list I think. It will be very

Re: sponsorship-requests

2012-01-30 Thread Boris Pek
>>>  Is it active and the preferred way now? So as of now, we should file >>>  a bug with sponsorship-requests instead of sending an email directly >>>  to debian-mentors list? >>  It generates too much noise in this mailing list I think. It will be very >>  uncomfortable to people who did not setu

Bug#658032: sponsorship-requests: library for handling and rendering XPS documents

2012-01-30 Thread Savvas Radevic
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Subject: RFS: libgxps Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "libgxps". * Package name: libgxps Version : 0.2.1-1 Upstream Author : Carlos Garcia Campos , Jason Crain * URL : http://live.gnome.org/

Processed: your mail

2012-01-30 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > retitle 658032 RFS: libgxps/0.2.1-1 - library for handling and rendering XPS Bug #658032 [sponsorship-requests] sponsorship-requests: library for handling and rendering XPS documents Changed Bug title to 'RFS: libgxps/0.2.1-1 - library for handli

Re: sponsorship-requests

2012-01-30 Thread Savvas Radevic
1. If I have an already open bug in wnpp, do I close it or merge it with the one in s-r (=sponsorship-requests)? 2. If I have a package uploaded, which bug should I mention in debian/changelog? wnpp and/or s-r? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=654892 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/

Processed: retitle 658032 to RFS: libgxps/0.2.1-1 -- library for handling and rendering XPS documents [NEW]

2012-01-30 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > retitle 658032 RFS: libgxps/0.2.1-1 -- library for handling and rendering XPS > documents [NEW] Bug #658032 [sponsorship-requests] RFS: libgxps/0.2.1-1 - library for handling and rendering XPS Changed Bug title to 'RFS: libgxps/0.2.1-1 -- librar

Re: sponsorship-requests

2012-01-30 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Boris Pek , 2012-01-30, 23:01: But this list was quite interesting (at least for me). Sponsored maintainers can learn more not only by own mistakes but also when they are reading other emails here. System messages from the bot are not very useful. Just a noise... I am sorry that this cause

Re: sponsorship-requests

2012-01-30 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:35:53 +0100, Savvas Radevic wrote: > 1. If I have an already open bug in wnpp, do I close it or merge it with > the one in s-r (=sponsorship-requests)? No, they are independent. The WNPP bug is about the package itself, and the SR bug is about sponsoring. > 2. If I have a

Re: sponsorship-requests

2012-01-30 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:44:02 +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > We could ask listmasters to filter out BTS bot messages. Now, there > are certainly people (e.g. me) who do want to see control messages. > But they could always subscribe to sponsorship-requests via PTS. > What do others think? I'm happ to

Re: RFS: python-x2go

2012-01-30 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi Jakub, we should be nearly there... http://mentors.debian.net/package/python-x2go On Alioth: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/x2go/python-x2go.git;a=summary * Mike Gabriel , 2012-01-28, 04:11: Hi Jakub, Can you take a look again? Lintian now emits: P: python-x2go source:

Re: RFS: libconfig (requires transition)

2012-01-30 Thread Jonathan McCrohan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30/01/12 19:15, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 15:00:23 +, Jonathan McCrohan wrote: > >> On 27/01/12 19:23, Julien Cristau wrote: >>> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:24:56 +, Jonathan McCrohan >>> wrote: >>> Julien Cristau

Updated upstream source with same version

2012-01-30 Thread Daniele Tricoli
Dear mentors, I'm working on tipa (see #534384) and I want to regenerate the orig source because upstream updated PostScript Type 1 Fonts and added a reference manual. The problem is that upstream did't make a new release but updated 1.3 instead. The last packaged version of tipa in Debian is

Re: Updated upstream source with same version

2012-01-30 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Daniele Tricoli , 2012-01-31, 01:13: I'm working on tipa (see #534384) Thanks! and I want to regenerate the orig source because upstream updated PostScript Type 1 Fonts and added a reference manual. The problem is that upstream did't make a new release but updated 1.3 instead. The last

Re: Updated upstream source with same version

2012-01-30 Thread Daniele Tricoli
Hello Jakub, On Tuesday 31 January 2012 01:22:52 Jakub Wilk wrote: > Sorry, this won't work. Epoch is not included in .orig.tar name, and > dak wouldn't accept a different file with the same name. Many thanks for the explaination. > Yes, ask upstream to do a proper release with new version numb

RFS: bibtool (orphaned)

2012-01-30 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "bibtool". * Package name: bibtool Version : 2.53-1 Upstream Author : Gerd Neugebauer * URL : http://www.gerd-neugebauer.de/software/TeX/BibTool/index.en.html * License : GPL-1+ Section

Bug#658065: RFS: atlas-cpp/0.6.2-1 [ITA] -- WorldForge wire protocol library

2012-01-30 Thread Stephen M. Webb
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "atlas-cpp": dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/atlas-cpp/atlas-cpp_0.6.2-1.dsc It builds these binary packages: libatlas-cpp-0.6-1 - World Forge wire protocol library -

Processed: RFS: atlas-cpp/0.6.2-1 [ITA] -- WorldForge wire protocol library

2012-01-30 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > affects 658065 + src:wfmath Bug #658065 [sponsorship-requests] RFS: atlas-cpp/0.6.2-1 [ITA] -- WorldForge wire protocol library Added indication that 658065 affects src:wfmath > block 653950 by 658065 Bug #653950 [wnpp] ITA: atlas-cpp -- The prot

Re: dh-buildinfo: is it useful?

2012-01-30 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Thank you for confirming my suspicions. On 31/01/12 03:25, Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:02 PM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > >> Does anyone know if using dh-buildinfo is still recommended practice or >> is it obsolete? >> >> When dh-buildinfo is useful and what could be a typical use ca