RFS: tupi -- 2D Animation design and authoring tool

2012-01-17 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Dear mentors, I'm still looking for a sponsor for package tupi. # Tupi: 2D Magic is a design and authoring tool for digital artists interested in 2D Animation, offering an interface experience focused on 8-100 years old kids. It's source code is based on the KTooN project. . Some of its

Re: RFS: tupi -- 2D Animation design and authoring tool

2012-01-18 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Thank you for advice, Paul. Upstream is very responsive and helpful. I gave this link to him. Cheers, Dmitry. On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:38:52 Paul Wise wrote: If you contact upstream, please mention our upstream guide too: http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: RFS: ipset

2012-01-18 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Neutron, You effort is appreciated but ipset already provided by xtables-addons. http://xtables-addons.sourceforge.net/ xtables-addons is already in debian, if need ipset compatible with recent linux kernels. Regards, Dmitry. On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 05:18:29 Neutron Soutmun wrote: Dear

Re: RFS: ipset

2012-01-18 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Yes, I'm using xtables-addons until now and I learn to package from your work :) But found this commit: Thank you for kind words. :) A real pleasure. build: deactivate build of ipset-genl by default == 8 == Changes: +- Deactivate build of ipset-genl by default. + I think the original

Re: RFS: ipset

2012-01-18 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Neutron, Is ipset6 means ipset for IPv6 ? or ipset (6.x) ? I'm interested in the IPv6 with ipset but not tested yet. The IPv6 is not widely used in Thailand yet. I meant ipset v6.* as this is the only one which works with up-to-date kernels. (I didn't try it with IPv6) I reckon

Re: RFS: git2cl

2012-01-20 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Paul, My apologies, I didn't mean to be rude for not replyng - I only noticed this email of yours just now. Sorry for missing it. On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:56:55 Paul Wise wrote: On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: However you failed to clearly articulate the requirements

Re: RFS: git2cl

2012-01-20 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:27:08 Jakub Wilk wrote: * Dmitry Smirnov only...@member.fsf.org, 2012-01-20, 23:49: But how much time and effort one can afford in order to regenerate single HTML file? Surely it wouldn't cost you more time than arguing about the issue takes. True, especially if you

Re: RFS: git2cl

2012-01-20 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:27:08 Jakub Wilk wrote: * Dmitry Smirnov only...@member.fsf.org, 2012-01-20, 23:49: But how much time and effort one can afford in order to regenerate single HTML file? Surely it wouldn't cost you more time than arguing about the issue takes. Another argument

Re: RFS: git2cl

2012-01-21 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Paul, On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:36:45 Paul Wise wrote: On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: This wouldn't be a problem with responsive upstream. I already tried to contact him but he is not answering to emails. This was also confirmed by other people who tried to reach

Re: RFS: tupi -- 2D Animation design and authoring tool

2012-01-21 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:40:03 Paul Wise wrote: You might want to get involved in the multimedia team: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianMultimedia https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/Join https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/FAQ Thank you, I'll consider this. Frankly this idea

Re: Flash in debian

2012-01-28 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Paul, On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:13:34 Paul Wise wrote: I say Flash needs to die in a fire. If you have upstreams who have Flash components, please spend your time working on transitioning them to JavaScript, the new HTML5 tags (audio, video, canvas etc) and other new web technologies (like

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: 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 case

Re: RFS: git2cl

2012-02-04 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Wise wrote: On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/git2cl/git2cl_2.0+git200808271242-1.dsc Apologies for not getting to this sooner. The source package you uploaded does not have a ChangeLog file in it, IIRC you were going to add

Re: RFS: git2cl

2012-02-04 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Wise wrote: On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/git2cl/git2cl_2.0+git200808271242-1.dsc Apologies for not getting to this sooner. The source package you uploaded does not have a ChangeLog file in it, IIRC you were going to add

Re: ipset/xtables-addons

2012-02-04 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Neutron, On 04/02/12 19:16, Neutron Soutmun wrote: Now when I had a look at your package I feel convinced that everybody will benefit from ipset separation. :) :) You did a good work. In the recent xtables-addons changelog for release v1.41 (2012-01-04) upstream states:

Bug#659045: RFS: goplay (NMU)

2012-02-07 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
: ++ updated list of contributors ++ little correction for DEP-5 compliance + + -- Dmitry Smirnov only...@member.fsf.org Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:08:17 +1100 + goplay (0.4-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low [ Peter De Wachter ] diff -Nru goplay-0.4/debian/clean goplay-0.4/debian/clean --- goplay-0.4/debian

Re: Bug#659045: RFS: goplay (NMU)

2012-02-07 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Arno, On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 04:10:48 Arno Töll wrote: + compat and debhelper to version 9 + default hardening (with the exception of fortify) + standards to 3.9.2 + ept-cache replaced with apt-xapian-index in Depends We don't do such things in NMUs. *Sometimes* we do. The options

Bug#659045: RFS: goplay (NMU)

2012-02-07 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Charles, have you actually tried to contact the team ? I do not see messages from you in January or February on their mailing list. I did just before I noticed this message of yours, but I wrote to them after I placed the sponsorship request. :( Probably that's wasn't the best choice

Bug#659045: RFS: goplay (NMU)

2012-02-07 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Charles, On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 12:51:19 Charles Plessy wrote: have you actually tried to contact the team ? I do not see messages from you in January or February on their mailing list. How could I forget, I did contact them thought the Alioth request to join the team, where I mention the

Bug#659045: RFS: goplay (NMU)

2012-02-07 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Charles, On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 13:51:42 Charles Plessy wrote: Alioth requests are a mess: when one admin answers, there is no notification to the other admins. As a consequence, it can happen that everyone expects the others to have answered. I recommend to contact the team on its mailing

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

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

2012-02-10 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:15:22 Bernhard R. Link wrote: I personally strongly recommend against using --as-needed unless you understand very well what it does. It may change the runtime behaviour of a program without any signs at link time. Surely it's a powerful thing which should be used with

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

2012-02-10 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:38:23 Paul Wise wrote: The --as-needed flag is a workaround for buggy upstream build systems, IMO it should not be used unless the relevant build systems will not be fixed any time soon. Seems like a typical case with GNOME project stuff. Do you know if there are

Bug#659947: RFS: portabase

2012-02-15 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, New package portabase is looking for sponsor. Portabase is a modern alternative to MobileDB (and to Jfile). Use case: you're taking water samples and analyse them on spot with portable colorimeter. Then you enter results to mobile

Bug#660014: RFS: portabase

2012-02-15 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, New package git-ftp is looking for sponsor. Package name: git-ftp Version: 0.6.0+git20110923-1 Upstream Author: René Moser m...@renemoser.net URL: https://github.com/resmo/git-ftp License: GPL-3

Bug#660175: RFS: fcgi-daemon

2012-02-16 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
scripts written in Perl with persistent interpreter for acceleration. Additionally it uses RLIMITs, and check for memory leaks on Linux. Package name: fcgi-daemon Version: 0.2021-1 Upstream Author: Dmitry Smirnov only...@cpan.org Homepage: http://search.cpan.org/dist/FCGI

Re: Explain to me any all

2012-02-26 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Fantastic, thanks very much Bernhard, I think that's the explanation we're all needed. Regards, Dmitry. On Sunday 26 February 2012 22:02:15 Bernhard R. Link wrote: * Paul Elliott pelli...@blackpatchpanel.com [120226 02:03]: The new standard allows any all in the Architecture field.

Re: Announcing Debexpo v2

2012-02-26 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
I just wanted to thank you sincerely for all the hard work of yours which is so very useful for all of us. Thank you, Arno and Nicolas! Good work. Cheers, Dmitry. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

build server at home?

2012-02-26 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Dear mentors, Could any of you share experience of having your own private build server? I'm thinking of something which could build uploaded source for as many architectures as possible on amd64 host, and ideally put the results to 'reprepro'-managed tree. The goal is to simplify package

optional package in Build-Depends (how?)

2012-02-26 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Dear mentors, I have an interesting problem on my hands: The package I need to build have optional build dependency (libgpm-dev) which is not available on all platforms. If I just put it to Build-Depends, package will FTBFS on some platforms. So idea is to specify an optional (soft)

Re: optional package in Build-Depends (how?)

2012-02-26 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Paul, Thanks for quick reply. On Monday 27 February 2012 13:00:32 Paul Wise wrote: See section 7.1 of debian-policy for examples on how to do that (you probably want linux-any for the arch): http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html Indeed it probably could be

Re: optional package in Build-Depends (how?)

2012-02-26 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Craig, Thak you for sharing your experience. On Monday 27 February 2012 14:09:21 Craig Small wrote: That's the problem I have with mudlet. libluajit-5.1-dev [amd64 armel i386 kfreebsd-i386], liblua5.1-0-dev [!amd64 !armel !i386 !kfreebsd-i386], Very interesting and

Re: optional package in Build-Depends (how?)

2012-02-26 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Russ, On Monday 27 February 2012 15:28:51 Russ Allbery wrote: Even with valgrind, personally I'd just list a specific set of architectures on which valgrind is required, even if you also opportunistically test for its existence. There's no reason to allow *not* running valgrind tests on

Re: optional package in Build-Depends (how?)

2012-02-27 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Russ, On Monday 27 February 2012 17:59:28 Russ Allbery wrote: Another package I was recently testing on GNU Hurd where some tests were failing (even though the package is working). A bug in the test suite? It's worth being careful about assuming that the package is working when the

Re: build server at home?

2012-02-27 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Gergely, Thank you for sharing your experience - very interesting. Regards, Dmitry. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: optional package in Build-Depends (how?)

2012-02-27 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
In case someone is tempted to try Build-Depends like check | dpkg, it doesn't work at all in pbuilder which is smart enough to notice that dpkg is already installed so it never pulls 'check'. (Anyway particular example with check is silly because check is available on all architectures) Apart

Re: RFS: ipset

2012-02-27 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Nikolai, Basically what you're talking about is just happened - some hours ago 'ipset' was accepted to unstable, see http://packages.qa.debian.org/i/ipset.html When credits for preparing standalone 'ipset' package goes to Neutron Soutmun, yours truly played a key role in coordinating

Re: Bug#661568: RFS: ipset/6.11-2

2012-02-27 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Neutron, Just one little suggestion if you excuse me: Could you please put a short description of bugs you're closing to changelog? This would be very helpful. Cheers, Dmitry. On Tuesday 28 February 2012 14:28:25 Neutron Soutmun wrote: * Close bugs that have been reintroduced again since

Re: sponsorship-requests mails should not go to debian-mentors

2012-03-06 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
We already tried to discuss the issue in Bug#658498: sponsorship-requests and debian-mentors mailing list but I have a feeling our argument hasn't been heard. Regards, Dmitry. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Making packages available to Debian users (was: Bug#659047: RFS: rpg - Readable Password Generator)

2012-04-08 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Sunday 08 April 2012 12:58:08 Vladimir Stavrinov wrote: The problem is that I don't see this review process here. Instead, all of You are explaining what Debian is and what is not. But I've got no much new. You are trying to breach into opened door. But point is that all this discussion

how to adopt a non-orphaned package?

2012-04-25 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Dear mentors, What would be the best practice to adopt a package which was not properly orphaned? My particular concern is about 'autofs5' package which was not updated for years since squeeze release due to maintainer inactivity. I'd like to adopt this package but it wasn't properly orphaned

Re: how to adopt a non-orphaned package?

2012-04-25 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Paul, On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:39:58 Paul Wise wrote: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/beyond-pkging.html#mia-qa Thank you for reminding me about this link. (I already asked MIA team today). Sadly this is exactly the case when inactive maintainer had his packages

Bug#671701: RFS: autofs/5.0.6-1 [ITA] -- kernel-based automounter for Linux

2012-05-05 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for package autofs * Package name: autofs Version : 5.0.6-1 Upstream Author : Transmeta corporation * URL : http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v5/ * License

Bug#671701: RFS: autofs/5.0.6-1 [ITA] -- kernel-based automounter for Linux

2012-05-05 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Michael, Thank you for quick reply. On Sun, 6 May 2012 15:01:42 Michael Tokarev wrote: I'm very much interested in this package myself, and wanted to do some packaging as well, but got distracted by other things, and especially by the famous 32/64bit user=kernel space interface issues we

Bug#671701: RFS: autofs/5.0.6-1 [ITA] -- kernel-based automounter for Linux

2012-05-05 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
There's one more issue with the new package. I already told Ian about it, but apparently he ignored it. This new code being added as a patch to debian package, originally from upstream author: ++static inline unsigned int linux_version_code(void) ++{ ++struct utsname my_utsname;

Bug#671701: RFS: autofs/5.0.6-1 [ITA] -- kernel-based automounter for Linux

2012-05-06 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Sun, 6 May 2012 15:24:10 Michael Tokarev wrote: And note that whole 5.0.6-allow-for-kernel-packet-size-change.patch is NOT NEEDED, it should be reverted upstream. *SIGH*, we spent a ton of time and emails discussing this matter, please find the recent LWN feature article about it (a good

Bug#671701: RFS: autofs/5.0.6-1 [ITA] -- kernel-based automounter for Linux

2012-05-08 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Dear William, Since you're on board with us may I suggest that you'll close your RFS bug yourself? (I'm a bit overwhelmed with work at the moment) Michael, I set up package repository at collab-maint: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/autofs.git All the best, Dmitry. On 9

Bug#672394: RFS: ipset/6.12-1 -- administration tool for kernel IP sets

2012-05-16 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Arno, On 15 May 2012 08:51, Arno Töll a...@debian.org wrote: * You declare the debhelper compat[ibility] to be 9, but you build depend on debhelper (= 9). Please use a version which actually supports the finalized level 9. That is 9.20120115. No need to impose this requirement because

Bug#659947: Bug #659947: RFS: portabase/2.0+git20110117-1 [ITP] -- Easy-to-use personal database application

2012-05-30 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
This is fixed, thank you very much. http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/portabase/portabase_2.0+git20110117-1.dsc Cheers, Dmitry. On 31/05/12 04:01, Aron Xu wrote: Hi, The packaging of this package is almost fine, but there is a problem in DEP5 copyright file: W: portabase

Re: Need help for watch file

2012-08-28 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 19:27:28 Andreas Tille wrote: Hmmm, I tried this opts=dversionmangle=s/([\d.]+)\.(\d+)/$1-r$2/,downloadurlmangle=s/MRIConver t_.*/mriconvert_sources.zip/ \ http://lcni.uoregon.edu/~jolinda/MRIConvert/MRIConvert_x86-([\d\.]+-r\d+)\ .tar\.gz which ends up with version

Bug#688111: RFS: git2cl/2.0+git200808271242-2

2012-09-19 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
. - removed '©' characters (not needed according to specification). -- Dmitry Smirnov only...@member.fsf.org Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:57:33 +1000 I think it is safe to upload to unstable as the probability of discovering a RC bug in git2cl/testing is quite low. (IMHO it doesn't worth troubles

Bug#688111: RFS: git2cl/2.0+git200808271242-2

2012-09-19 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 00:10:31 Arno Töll wrote: I didn't look at your package, but at a first glimpse while looking through my mailbox, this came to my attention: Yesterday a new policy version was released, making this standards version outdated. I thought I'd have more time to absorb policy

Bug#688184: RFS: redmine-plugin-markdown/2.0.1+git20120821-1

2012-09-19 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my new package redmine-plugin-markdown * Package name: redmine-plugin-markdown Version : 2.0.1+git20120821-1 Upstream Author : Takashi Okamoto toran...@gmail.com * URL :

Bug#688185: RFS: winswitch/0.12.16+svn20120916-1

2012-09-19 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my new package winswitch. * Package name: winswitch Version : 0.12.16+svn20120916-1 Upstream Author : Antoine Martin anto...@nagafix.co.uk * URL : http://winswitch.org/ *

uploaded package as if it belong to someone else

2011-11-10 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Mentors, Just wanted to share a peculiar situation with package upload: Recently I uploaded a package to mentors for review, but it didn't show in http://mentors.debian.net/packages/my (Fortunately I could get a URL for .dsc file from confirmation email so it wasn't much of a problem apart

RFS: dvbackup

2011-11-25 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Mentors, dvbackup is orphaned (#573466) and outdated for a while. I prepared NMU with some improvements (below) so I hope it can be uploaded. Regards, Dmitry. - -- * debian/control - (Closes: #488559) thanks to Justin B Rye

RFS: abiword

2011-11-25 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Mentors, abiword is orphaned (#648341) so for a time being I can look after it. (Since I'm not a DM shall I put Debian QA Group packa...@qa.debian.org to Maintainer field?) I've made some changes to simplify packaging and adoption of future

Re: RFS: abiword

2011-11-25 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Dear Arno, Thank you very much for your advices, always so useful. Regards, Dmitry. On 26/11/11 12:50, Arno Töll wrote: Hello again, On 26.11.2011 02:26, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: (Since I'm not a DM shall I put Debian QA Group packa...@qa.debian.org to Maintainer field?) this is up

Re: RFS: dvbackup

2011-11-25 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
-dev to take care of outdated config.(sub|guess) + * debian/watch: updated (related to #449933) + * debian/rules: added support for buildflags + * debian/compat: to 8 + * debian/copyright: minor update + + -- Dmitry Smirnov only...@member.fsf.org Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:02:15 +1100 + dvbackup

RFS: git2cl

2011-11-25 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Mentors, I'm looking for sponsor for my package git2cl Package name: git2cl URL : http://josefsson.org/git2cl/ License : GPL-2+ Section : utils It is a simple tool to convert git logs to GNU ChangeLog format

Re: RFS: git2cl

2011-11-26 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Luca, I'm not affiliated with upstream in any way... I can integrate your patch for you and hopefully forward it upstream eventually. Regards, Dmitry. On 26/11/11 20:59, Luca BRUNO wrote: Dmitry Smirnov scrisse: I'm looking for sponsor for my package git2cl On a sidenote, are you

Re: RFS: dvbackup

2011-11-26 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I updated http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/dvbackup/dvbackup_0.0.4rj1-7.dsc with sort of elegant solution for regeneration of man pages. I added 'clean' target to debian/rules, which wipes *.1 pages so docbook-to-man regenerates them.

Re: RFS: dvbackup

2011-11-26 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Thank you, well spotted. On 27/11/11 00:53, Benoît Knecht wrote: Your debian/control file is invalid (see debian policy 5.6.23 [1]), and you left over some text at the end of the description. [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Homepage I removed

Re: RFS: dvbackup

2011-11-26 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
I see... Well, the proper solution would be to separate both packages; right now, the .orig.tar.bz2 file is not at all an upstream archive (it's not even the concatenation of both upstream archives), so of course it makes it impossible to comply with the policy. Yes, orig.tar is such a

Re: RFS: dvbackup

2011-11-27 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Interesting, I was able to reproduce the problem when I downloaded my own package and run 'debian/rules clean' this puzzled me for an hour but then I found the problem. Somehow a broken source package has been uploaded - it did not applied patches I wrote to fix broke upstream makefiles. My

RFS: timebrowse -- NILFS Snapshot Manager/Windows VSS like Nautilus extension

2011-11-30 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package timebrowse. It would be great is someone could review and uploaded it for me. * Package name : timebrowse * Version : 0.6-1 * Upstream Author : Jiro SEKIBA j...@unicus.jp * Homepage :

RFS: fcgi-daemon -- Perl-aware FastCGI daemon

2011-11-30 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Dear mentors, I'm looking for a sponsor for my new package fcgi-daemon. It would be great is someone could review and upload it for me. * Package name: fcgi-daemon * Version : 0.2021-1 * Upstream Author : Dmitry Smirnov only...@cpan.org * Homepage

Re: RFS: git2cl

2011-11-30 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
: On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 16:30:31 +1100 Dmitry Smirnov only...@member.fsf.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Mentors, I'm looking for sponsor for my package git2cl Package name: git2cl URL : http://josefsson.org/git2cl/ License

Re: RFS: git2cl

2011-12-02 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Dear Paul, Thank you very much for taking your time to review. Please find updated package on the following URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/git2cl/git2cl_2.0+git200808271242-1.dsc git repository is updated as well. I'm looking for sponsor for my package git2cl Since I use

Re: RFS: git2cl

2011-12-02 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
There is no reason to have +git200808271242 in the upstream version number since you are packaging a tagged version. I would suggest using `git describe | sed s/git2cl-//` to get a useful version number. This works nicely even when you are packaging a non-tagged version. Thanks for handy

Re: RFS: git2cl

2011-12-02 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Friday 02 December 2011 19:48:27 Paul Wise wrote: On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Paul Wise wrote: Please add a debian/watch file explaining that upstream does not release tarballs and that the gitweb server used does not have the ability to export tarballs. Actually this is better:

RFS: tupi -- 2D Animation design and authoring tool

2011-12-02 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Dear mentors, I'm looking for a sponsor for my new package tupi. It would be great is someone could review and upload it for me. * Package name: tupi * Version : 0.1+git11-1 * Upstream Author : Gustav Gonzalez i...@maefloresta.com * Homepage:

Re: RFS: git2cl

2011-12-02 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/git2cl/git2cl_2.0+git200808271242-1.dsc for about 10 hours. Correct upload has been done minutes ago (verified). Regards, Dmitry. On Friday 02 December 2011 22:42:10 Dmitry Smirnov wrote: I incorporated it into updated release available from same sources (git repo

Re: RFS: git2cl

2011-12-02 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Saturday 03 December 2011 15:58:21 Paul Wise wrote: On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: Thanks for handy advice. It may be nice to use tags for versioning, but I'd like to keep translated-to-date version because it is human-readable and meaningful. 2.0 doesn't say

RFS: portabase - easy-to-use personal database application

2011-12-02 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Dear mentors, I'm looking for a sponsor for my new package portabase. It would be great is someone could review and upload it for me. * Package name: portabase * Version : 2.0-1-1 * Upstream Author : Jeremy Bowman jmbow...@alum.mit.edu * Homepage:

Re: RFS: git2cl

2011-12-03 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Saturday 03 December 2011 16:52:03 Paul Wise wrote: One more thing that I missed, sorry about this :( README.html is actually generated from README. Please delete that in get-orig-source, build-dep on asciidoc, run asciidoc at build time to generate it and (optionally) send upstream a

Re: RFS: portabase - easy-to-use personal database application

2011-12-03 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Saturday 03 December 2011 21:52:24 Arno Töll wrote: Hello Dmitry, On 03.12.2011 08:55, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: * RFS (new package): fcgi-daemon http://mentors.debian.net/package/fcgi-daemon Could you please ask md whether he is interested to sponsor it? He said, he would use

Re: RFS: Planner (orphan package)

2011-12-03 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Josue, I think the package is not ready yet. I just tried to build it and got error: planner-python-plugin.c:26:23: fatal error: pygobject.h: No such file or directory pygobject.h provided by python-gi-dev python-gobject-dev python-gobject-2-dev I have python-gobject-dev from stable. I

Re: RFS: Planner (orphan package)

2011-12-04 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Why are you using python-gobject-dev from stable?, are you trying to make a backport for stable?. As always the distribution for new (and new versions of) packages should be unstable (or even experimental), but of course I am willing to help if you are trying to make a backport. Wait a

Re: RFS: Planner (orphan package)

2011-12-05 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Josue, and I can not reproduce the bug. Strange, it was annoying me for a while so I could only build using pbuilder (slow) but not using debuild. It was failing with python-gtk2-dev 2.17.0 and installation of 2.24.0 fixed the problem for me. Dmitry could you provide more

Re: RFS: git2cl

2011-12-05 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
original work merely because you can. Regards, Dmitry. On Tuesday 06 December 2011 11:25:38 Arno Töll wrote: Hello Dmitry, On 03.12.2011 09:23, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: However I'm not too sure if introdicing another build-dependency worth regenerating single file merely to get almost the same

Re: RFS: git2cl

2011-12-05 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Tuesday 06 December 2011 14:54:41 Paul Wise wrote: I withdraw my intention to sponsor git2cl. No worries, Paul, I'm sincerely grateful to you for your time and help. Thank you. Would you please explain you decision? Obviously you disagree with something I sad, so I would appreciate if you

Re: RFS: git2cl

2011-12-06 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Benoît, I appreciate your detailed explanation. I agree with everything you've sad regarding general terms. All your points are valid and well-explained. I think this discussion drifted away from particular situation. Specifically to git2cl there are still number of questions left: -- Is

Re: RFS: dvbackup

2011-12-06 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Dear Benoît, I'm applauding to your extensive review and attention to details. Thank you. I don't know if I should have ever brought something so non-perfect to your pedantic attention. :) I just want to remind that I never intended to make the perfect package out of it. I merely fix some

Re: RFS: git2cl

2011-12-06 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Wednesday 07 December 2011 13:56:44 Paul Wise wrote: On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: Would you please explain you decision? I think my position has been adequately explained by myself and others in this thread, but in short: Debian has made various promises

Bug#696385: RFS: astromenace/1.3.1+ds-1 [ITP] -- hardcore 3D space shooter with spaceship upgrade possibilities

2012-12-25 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
. :) This warning doesn't make sense for Debain any more. I completely agree with Boris on this. - Dmitry Smirnov is listed as an Uploader for astromenace but not for astromenace-data; is this intended? I am not sure that he want to co-maintain it. But he could add or remove himself from uploaders

Re: Bug#700233: Subject: RFS: libre-jigsaw/2012.09.09-1 [ITP]

2013-02-10 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
necessary? Cheers, Dmitry Smirnov GPG key : 4096R/53968D1B --- Good luck happens when preparedness meets opportunity. -- 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

Bug#700233: Subject: RFS: libre-jigsaw/2012.09.09-1 [ITP]

2013-02-10 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
... By the way what's the point installing that many (14) icons to /usr/share/icons/hicolor? Is it really necessary? Probably not - I'm learning. Thank you for your effort. It is appreciated despite some criticism that you may feel. :) Regards, Dmitry Smirnov GPG key : 4096R/53968D1B

Bug#706361: gti review

2013-05-01 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
build flags which makes unnecessary to include /usr/share/dpkg/buildflags.mk or set DPKG_EXPORT_BUILDFLAGS as we used to do with dh 8 to import hardening flags. Best wishes, Dmitry Smirnov GPG key : 4096R/53968D1B --- Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough

Re: Bug#706361: gti review

2013-05-01 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
, Dmitry Smirnov GPG key : 4096R/53968D1B -- 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/201305011908.26555.only...@member.fsf.org

Bug#706361: gti review

2013-05-23 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
this is not a problem, just feedback. All the best, Dmitry Smirnov GPG key : 4096R/53968D1B --- I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense. -- H. L. Mencken -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Bug#712056: RFS: scantailor [ITP] -- interactive post-processing tool for scanned document pages

2013-06-12 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
-clause(modified) and/or add a comment. All the best, Dmitry Smirnov GPG key : 4096R/53968D1B --- No person, no idea, and no religion deserves to be illegal to insult, not even the Church of Emacs. -- Richard Stallman signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Bug#712056: RFS: scantailor [ITP] -- interactive post-processing tool for scanned document pages

2013-06-15 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
). Hopefully it will be ready for upload by then. ;) Mucht thanks also for the other comments! No worries, you're very welcome. :) Cheers, Dmitry Smirnov GPG key : 4096R/53968D1B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#712056: RFS: scantailor [ITP] -- interactive post-processing tool for scanned document pages

2013-06-17 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
and apply it if appropriate. Regards, Dmitry Smirnov. --- Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true. -- H. L. Mencken Last-Update: 2013-06-18 Forwarded: no Author: Dmitry Smirnov only...@member.fsf.org Description: fix FLAGS override due

Bug#712056: RFS: scantailor [ITP] -- interactive post-processing tool for scanned document pages

2013-06-19 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
just wondering if should not is a little bit too strong to express new recommended practice... If package builds according to expectations with RelWithDebInfo then perhaps it might be safe to keep as is... Best wishes, Dmitry Smirnov. --- Good luck happens when preparedness meets opportunity

Bug#712056: RFS: scantailor [ITP] -- interactive post-processing tool for scanned document pages

2013-06-19 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
/options by adding compression = xz .DEB file compression can be set in debian/rules by adding override_dh_builddeb: dh_builddeb -- -Zxz I'll have yet another look at the package tonight. Thanks. Cheers, Dmitry Smirnov. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ

Bug#712056: RFS: scantailor [ITP] -- interactive post-processing tool for scanned document pages

2013-06-19 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
. * Generated man page is not removed on clean. Probably you don't need this reminder but when convenient please forward patch and man pages to upstream. Thanks for your patience. Correcting the above issues will increase our chances to pass ftp-master's review. Cheers, Dmitry Smirnov

Bug#712056: RFS: scantailor [ITP] -- interactive post-processing tool for scanned document pages

2013-06-20 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Daniel, One more thing: please install desktop icon. At the moment it is mentioned in .desktop file but not yet shipped by the package. Regards, Dmitry. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#714947: RFS: djvusmooth/0.2.14-1 -- graphical editor for DjVu

2013-07-04 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
. Cheers, Dmitry Smirnov GPG key : 4096R/53968D1B -- 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/201307050806.30878.only...@member.fsf.org

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