ITAs on packages you intend to remove

2012-04-03 Thread Adam Borowski
Hi! One of my packages, tcng, is long dead upstream, and without upstream work it goes less and less usable. Thus, a while ago I decided to RFA it, intending to ask for removal if no one steps up before Wheezy. Someone (Jakob Haufe) did in september, but I haven't heard from him since. Due to

Re: ITAs on packages you intend to remove

2012-04-03 Thread Arno Töll
Hi Adam, On 03.04.2012 11:37, Adam Borowski wrote: Should I bother you with sponsoring an upload fixing the FTBFS (with the package likely going away soon), file a RM immediately, or ignore it for now? A removal is not conclusive. A package can be reintroduced anytime if someone cares

Bug#658834: marked as done (RFS: jabber-querybot -- Modular xmpp/jabber bot)

2012-04-03 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Tue, 3 Apr 2012 16:33:15 +0200 with message-id 20120403143315.ga7...@mbalmer.nine.ch and subject line Re: RFS: jabber-querybot has caused the Debian Bug report #658834, regarding RFS: jabber-querybot -- Modular xmpp/jabber bot to be marked as done. This means that you claim

Bug#667058: RFS: libupnp/1:1.6.16~git.20120316.d3d17da6-1 (updated package, transition upload)

2012-04-03 Thread Nick Leverton
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package libupnp because my normal sponsor seems to be away or busy at the moment. I would normally wait patiently, but this release is the subject of a transition for which others are waiting. The

Bug#667088: RFS: fonts-quattrocento/1.1-1 [ITP]

2012-04-03 Thread Bernhard Reiter
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-fonts-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package fonts-quattrocento * Package name: fonts-quattrocento Version : 1.1-1 Upstream Author : Pablo Impallari

Bug#667092: RFS: tcng/10b-4 [RC, QA]

2012-04-03 Thread Adam Borowski
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: important Hi, it turns out the person who wants to adopt this package is alive after all, but won't have time soon. Thus, I'm making a last upload, orphaning the package, fixing the new FTBFS and doing some minor clean-up. The changelog entry: tcng

Re: Bug#667092: RFS: tcng/10b-4 [RC, QA]

2012-04-03 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Adam, On 04.04.2012 00:50, Adam Borowski wrote: * Orphan the package. if your intention is to orphan the package you should set the maintainer to Debian QA Group packa...@qa.debian.org, too. I didn't look any further but this was drawing my

Signing a .deb later?

2012-04-03 Thread Christopher Howard
Hi. I'm new to this list so let me give some introduction, to provide some context for my questions: To be up front, I'm not a regular Debian user... I used to be years ago, but then I fell in love with Gentoo and the whole source-based distro paradigm. However, I run Debian in a VM through

Re: Signing a .deb later?

2012-04-03 Thread Robert Collins
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Re: Bug#667092: RFS: tcng/10b-4 [RC, QA]

2012-04-03 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 01:04:28AM +0200, Arno Töll wrote: On 04.04.2012 00:50, Adam Borowski wrote: * Orphan the package. if your intention is to orphan the package you should set the maintainer to Debian QA Group packa...@qa.debian.org, too. I didn't look any further but this was

Re: Signing a .deb later?

2012-04-03 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Christopher, On 04.04.2012 01:01, Christopher Howard wrote: So, my first question: Is there some nifty command or trick to (properly) GPG sign a .deb package /after/ I've finished making it? [..] but I'm not sure what the proper procedure

Re: Bug#667092: RFS: tcng/10b-4 [RC, QA]

2012-04-03 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Adam, On 04.04.2012 01:19, Adam Borowski wrote: Lintian now complains: W: tcng source: changelog-should-mention-qa but this seems wrong -- it's this very upload that is orphaning the package; lintian has no real way to know that, though. Just

installing to the games directory

2012-04-03 Thread Christopher Howard
Thank you everyone for the help. Hopefully I can get away with asking two questions in one day: I was able to successfully package a game inside a .deb; however, lintian is giving me the error: package-section-games-but-contains-no-game and the binary is being installed to /usr/bin instead of

Re: installing to the games directory

2012-04-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Christopher Howard wrote: Thank you everyone for the help. Hopefully I can get away with asking two questions in one day: I was able to successfully package a game inside a .deb; however, lintian is giving me the error: