Re: Providing a non-free alternative to a free package

2012-02-09 Thread Olе Streicher
Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl writes: Is slalib the contents of libraries/sla/ in the repository you linked to? Yes. If so, it appears the current upstream is not the sole copyright holder, and there are many other contributors dating from 2004 for sla, and 1989 for the project as a

Re: creating an orig.tar.gz from a CVS

2012-02-09 Thread Xavier Grave
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 09/02/2012 02:50, Jerome BENOIT a écrit : Hello List On 06/02/12 15:00, Xavier Grave wrote: Le 02/02/2012 22:43, Jerome BENOIT a écrit : In short, I have to do it by hand. You can still add a target in your debian/rules file to avoid doing

RFS: sweethome3d and sunflow [DM uploads to bpo]

2012-02-09 Thread Gabriele Giacone
[ cc'ing d-mentors for RFS and mentors.d.o problems ] Hi, following [0], first upload has to be sponsored. Could anyone please upload sweethome3d and sunflow to backports for me? http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/sunflow/sunflow_0.07.2.svn396+dfsg-9~bpo60+1.dsc [sweethome3d link is

Re: RFS: sweethome3d and sunflow [DM uploads to bpo]

2012-02-09 Thread Alexander Wirt
Gabriele Giacone schrieb am Donnerstag, den 09. Februar 2012: [ cc'ing d-mentors for RFS and mentors.d.o problems ] Hi, following [0], first upload has to be sponsored. Could anyone please upload sweethome3d and sunflow to backports for me?

Processed: Re: Bug#658835: RFS: aspsms-t (try 4) [NEW] -- sms transport for your xmpp/jabber server

2012-02-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: tag 658835 - moreinfo Bug #658835 [sponsorship-requests] RFS: aspsms-t (try 4) [NEW] -- sms transport for your xmpp/jabber server Removed tag(s) moreinfo. thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. -- 658835:

Bug#658835: RFS: aspsms-t (try 4) [NEW] -- sms transport for your xmpp/jabber server

2012-02-09 Thread Marco Balmer
tag 658835 - moreinfo thanks Dear Ansgar, Dear Mentors, On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 03:38:28PM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: Code that is not or inconsistently indented is hard to read. According to your usful remarks I decided to cleanup the whole package. dget -x

Processed: Re: Bug#658835: Info received (Bug#658835: RFS: aspsms-t (try 4) [NEW] -- sms transport for your xmpp/jabber server)

2012-02-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: tags 658835 + confirmed fixed Bug #658835 [sponsorship-requests] RFS: aspsms-t (try 4) [NEW] -- sms transport for your xmpp/jabber server Added tag(s) confirmed and fixed. thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need

Bug#659243: RFS: sweethome3d and sunflow [DM uploads to bpo]

2012-02-09 Thread Gabriele Giacone
Package: sponsorship-requests Packages available at ftp://backports-master.debian.org/pub/UploadQueue Original Message Subject: RFS: sweethome3d and sunflow [DM uploads to bpo] Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:52:39 +0100 From: Gabriele Giacone 1o5g4...@gmail.com To: Debian Backports

RFS: tth [ITA,] [upstream, zeroth] -- TeX/LaTeX to HTML converter

2012-02-09 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Dear mentors, dear TeX maintainers: I am looking for a sponsor for my package tth. * Package name: tth Version : 4.03-1 Upstream Author : Ian Hutchinson ihu...@mit.edu * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/tth/ * License : GPL-2+ Section :

How to tell users that ia32-libs will go away

2012-02-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, now that a multiarch dpkg has been uploaded to experimental it looks like we can finaly get rid of ia32-libs* for wheezy. !!!HURAY!!! The problem now is the transition: 1) multiarch and ia32-libs are incompatible Having multiarch packages and ia32-libs installed will lead to some

Bug#659243: RFS: sweethome3d and sunflow [DM uploads to bpo]

2012-02-09 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
tag 659243 + moreinfo thanks On 02/09/2012 03:15 PM, Gabriele Giacone wrote: Could anyone please upload sweethome3d and sunflow to backports for me? What about [1]? Also please don't sent both a RFS mail and a bug report -- both arrive at the same list. Regards, Ansgar [1]

Processed: Re: Bug#659243: RFS: sweethome3d and sunflow [DM uploads to bpo]

2012-02-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: tag 659243 + moreinfo Bug #659243 [sponsorship-requests] RFS: sweethome3d and sunflow [DM uploads to bpo] Added tag(s) moreinfo. thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. -- 659243:

Re: Bug#659243: RFS: sweethome3d and sunflow [DM uploads to bpo]

2012-02-09 Thread Gabriele Giacone
On 02/09/2012 04:04 PM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: tag 659243 + moreinfo thanks On 02/09/2012 03:15 PM, Gabriele Giacone wrote: Could anyone please upload sweethome3d and sunflow to backports for me? What about [1]? Feb 09 12:15:37 gg0 Ganneff: I'm a DM, we have 2 packages with DMUA set

Re: How to tell users that ia32-libs will go away

2012-02-09 Thread Jonathan Nieder
(replying on -mentors) Hi Goswin, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Having multiarch packages and ia32-libs installed will lead to some confusion. The runtime linker will not be able to differentiate between multiarch or ia32-libs libs. One of /usr/lib32/ and /usr/lib/i486-linux-gnu/ will be first

Bug#657428: marked as done (RFS: surf -- simple web browser (QA upload))

2012-02-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Thu, 9 Feb 2012 16:25:20 +0100 with message-id 20120209152520.ga3...@jwilk.net and subject line Re: Bug#657428: RFS: surf -- simple web browser (QA upload) has caused the Debian Bug report #657428, regarding RFS: surf -- simple web browser (QA upload) to be marked as done. This

Re: How to tell users that ia32-libs will go away

2012-02-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Goswin von Brederlow, le Thu 09 Feb 2012 15:53:35 +0100, a écrit : 3) What about stable users? I don't see a way to transition stable users slowly. As said above I intent to request removal of ia32-libs for wheezy. So there will be no transition period where both ia32-libs and multiarch will

Re: How to tell users that ia32-libs will go away

2012-02-09 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 09/02/12 15:53, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : Hi, now that a multiarch dpkg has been uploaded to experimental it looks like we can finaly get rid of ia32-libs* for wheezy. !!!HURAY!!! The problem now is the transition: 1) multiarch and ia32-libs are incompatible [...] What this

Re: How to tell users that ia32-libs will go away

2012-02-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org writes: Goswin von Brederlow, le Thu 09 Feb 2012 15:53:35 +0100, a écrit : 3) What about stable users? I don't see a way to transition stable users slowly. As said above I intent to request removal of ia32-libs for wheezy. So there will be no transition

Re: Re: RFS: dmaths

2012-02-09 Thread Innocent De Marchi
Hi Jakub, I finally found time to actually install the software and play a bit with it. I have to admit that I am deeply disappointed. I spent maybe 5 minutes and I saw: - tooltips in French; - tooltips in German; - dialog boxes in French; - *lots* of error messages in French; - an error box with

Re: How to tell users that ia32-libs will go away

2012-02-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 04:43:04PM +0100, Thibaut Paumard wrote: Le 09/02/12 15:53, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : now that a multiarch dpkg has been uploaded to experimental it looks like we can finaly get rid of ia32-libs* for wheezy. !!!HURAY!!! The problem now is the transition:

watch-file syntax help

2012-02-09 Thread Daniel Martí
Dear Mentors, I'm having some trouble at creating a watch file for the packace preload. The upstream tarballs are found as follows: http://sourceforge.net/projects/preload/files/preload/0.6.4/preload-0.6.4.tar.gz The problem lies where its parent folder changes at every release. Would anyone

Re: watch-file syntax help

2012-02-09 Thread Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Daniel Martí danielmarti.deb...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Mentors, I'm having some trouble at creating a watch file for the packace preload. The upstream tarballs are found as follows:

Should I split off arch independant part?

2012-02-09 Thread Paul Elliott
The untimate source of my project is a windows programer who GPLed. He thought it would be a good idea to write the documentation in windows word .doc file! Bad move. The only free program that I can find to convert this document source to a civilized format is unoconv together with

Bug#658782: RFS: libapr-memcache0 -- apr_memcache is a client for memcached

2012-02-09 Thread Bas van den Dikkenberg
HI, Op 8-2-2012 10:29, Ansgar Burchardt schreef: Hi, [ I have no intention to sponsor this package. ] libapr-memcache0 (0.7.0-3) stable; urgency=low * Switched to stable release No, please read about the use of the different suites in Debian and how packages migrate between them. [1]

Re: Should I split off arch independant part?

2012-02-09 Thread Savvas Radevic
It has been suggested that I split off the build process so that the archetecture dependant parts of the program can be built without building the documentation each time. If I were you, I'd just convert the .doc to a .pdf. Likewise, your programmer can do that in seconds with a

Re: Should I split off arch independant part?

2012-02-09 Thread Paul Elliott
On Thursday, February 09, 2012 04:37:55 PM Savvas Radevic wrote: If I were you, I'd just convert the .doc to a .pdf. Likewise, your programmer can do that in seconds with a pluginhttp://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=7(and file save as.. or export?) or a

Re: Should I split off arch independant part?

2012-02-09 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 05:21:55PM -0600, Paul Elliott wrote: Unfortunately the .doc file is the source, so everything must be rebuilt from source i.e. the .doc file as part of the build process. What kind of documentation are we talking about? If it’s just a reference manual of some sort,

Re: Should I split off arch independant part?

2012-02-09 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:00:55 -0600, Paul Elliott wrote: The untimate source of my project is a windows programer who GPLed. He thought it would be a good idea to write the documentation in windows word .doc file! Bad move. The only free program that I can find to convert this document

Re: watch-file syntax help

2012-02-09 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 08:37:58PM +0100, Daniel Martí a écrit : I'm having some trouble at creating a watch file for the packace preload. The upstream tarballs are found as follows: http://sourceforge.net/projects/preload/files/preload/0.6.4/preload-0.6.4.tar.gz Dear Daniel, I have the

Bug#659243: RFS: sweethome3d and sunflow [DM uploads to bpo]

2012-02-09 Thread Gabriele Giacone
Both links: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/sunflow/sunflow_0.07.2.svn396+dfsg-9~bpo60+1.dsc http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/sweethome3d/sweethome3d_3.4+dfsg-1~bpo60+1.dsc On 02/09/2012 04:17 PM, Gabriele Giacone wrote: On 02/09/2012 04:04 PM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:

How to convince maintainer to use --as-needed?

2012-02-09 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Dear mentors, I seek your advice regarding the best practice with using --as-needed. Recently I tried to convince two package maintainers to use --as-needed in order to reduce overlinking. Surprisingly this time this idea was opposed with great resistance as none of maintainers but me had