Taking over maintainership of gringotts

Hello, I would like to take over maintainership of gringotts. I contacted Wesley J. Landaker last week and sent him an updated packages (closing some bugs and upgrading upstream version). Here is a resume of changes I've made: libgringotts - - Call dh_autoreconf to update the build

Bug#682567: ITA: gringotts -- secure password and data storage manager

X-Debbugs-CC: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Hi, I would like to take over maintainership of gringotts. I have contacted Wesley J. Landaker, the actual maintainer, and I have his approval. He kindly pointed out the steps to follow the adoption. I've uploaded

Re: Taking over maintainership of gringotts

El 23/07/12 17:23, Bart Martens escribió: I suggest to open an ITA briefly stating that he agreed. I can upload the packages to mentors for review but I prefer to wait for instructions. I suggest to proceed without waiting. Regards, Bart Martens Thanks Bart, I did as you say but I

Re: Taking over maintainership of gringotts

Arno Töll wrote: but it certainly won't hurt. Not too many people care about that flag (you know, even less than about RFS bugs). Thanks Arno, but since Bart seems to be reviewing these packages, I suppose he will sponsor them. Bart, I made the changes requested in your comments but I'm not

Re: Taking over maintainership of gringotts

El 24/07/12 08:09, Bart Martens escribió: Other sponsors are welcome to review and upload these packages at any time without talking to me. For sure. Sorry. Bart, I made the changes requested in your comments but I'm not sure if I have to re-upload the packages bumping a new revision

Bug#689219: RFS: libcdk5/5.0.20120323-1 [ITA] -- C-based curses widget library

header_in_include_and_rm_test_h.patch * debian/copyright: rewrite to machine-readable format. * libcdk5-dev.install: add usr/bin/cdk5-config (Anthony Fok's patch). * Add debian/watch file. Regards, Jose G. López signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Bug#689219: RFS: libcdk5/5.0.20120323-1 [ITA] -- C-based curseswidget library

El dom, 30-09-2012 a las 21:30 +0200, Bart Martens escribió: Hi Jose, I had a look at libcdk5 at mentors uploaded there on 2012-09-30 12:50. The file debian/copyright is not yet complete, see for example manlinks.sed. Done (re-uploaded). I've used 'MIT-NCURSES' for license short name

Re: Bug#689219: RFS: libcdk5/5.0.20120323-1 [ITA] -- C-based curseswidget library

El lun, 01-10-2012 a las 10:50 +0200, Thomas Dickey escribió: http://invisible-island.net/cdk/cdk.html#licensing Hello Thomas, Thanks for pointing that. I already read that page before packaging and I think it's correct to use the BSD-4-clause license. You and Mike are marked as copyright

Bug#689219: RFS: libcdk5/5.0.20120323-1 [ITA] -- C-based curseswidget library

El lun, 01-10-2012 a las 10:50 +0200, Thomas Dickey escribió: http://invisible-island.net/cdk/cdk.html#licensing Hello Thomas, Thanks for pointing that. I already read that page before packaging and I think it's correct to use the BSD-4-clause license. You and Mike are marked as copyright

Bug#689219: RFS: libcdk5/5.0.20120323-1 [ITA] -- C-based curseswidget library

El mar, 02-10-2012 a las 04:44 -0400, Thomas Dickey escribió: hmm - mostly correct. The dates are an issue (I keep each file separately marked according to the last modification). The most recent years that I have marked in the sources are 2012, 2011, 2010, and 2009: [...] Hello Thomas,

Bug#689219: RFS: libcdk5

El mar, 09-10-2012 a las 16:19 +, Bart Martens escribió: Hi Jose, I had a look at libcdk5 at mentors uploaded there on 2012-10-08 19:09. The file debian/copyright is not yet complete, see for example include/button.h with Copyright 1999, Grant Edwards. The name Grant Edwards is also

Bug#695366: RFS: gringotts/1.2.10-1

to merge in README from upstream. * Add doc-base control file to register FAQ document with doc-base. Thanks in advance, Jose G. López -- Sólo aquellos que nada esperan del azar son dueños del destino. Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#695366: RFS: gringotts/1.2.10-1

El lun, 07-01-2013 a las 09:55 +0100, Helmut Grohne escribió: Please hold back new upstream releases from unstable until after the freeze and target experimental instead. This would be a small step at speeding up the wheezy release. Seems reasonable. I was worry by duplicities. Changed to

Re: Package for Seed7

El mar, 05-02-2013 a las 15:10 +0100, Thomas Mertes escribió: On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:32:29 +0800, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 9:02 PM, Thomas Mertes wrote: I am the developer of the Seed7 programming language and I need help to create a Debian package for

Bug#701668: RFS: medit/1.1.1-1 [ITA] -- Useful programming and around-programming text editor

' compilation. - Rewrite to get rid of unnecessary dependencies and add hardening flags. * Add fix_package_name.patch to change program name from medit-1 to medit. * Add doc-base control files to register documentation with doc-base. * Add a menu file. Regards, Jose G. López signature.asc

Re: retitle WNPP bug

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Bartosz Feński bart...@fenski.pl wrote: W dniu 06.03.2013 17:21, Alfonso Sabato Siciliano pisze: Ok, it is been updated http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=652580 ...ITP: beret -- A 2d puzzle platformer game but in http://wnpp.debian.net/ beret

Bug#695366: RFS: gringotts/1.2.10-1

with debian packaging. -- Jose G. López josg...@gmail.com Tue, 07 May 2013 22:24:49 +0200 Thank you and regards, signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#708284: RFS: libgringotts/1:1.2.1-2

adapted to use Multi-Arch paths. * Add 00_fix_pkgconfig_pc_file.patch to fix paths for Multi-Arch. * Add doc-base control file to register documentation with doc-base. * Upgrade upstream's GPL version to be compatible with debian packaging. -- Jose G. López josg...@gmail.com Tue, 14 May 2013

Help with bug 722794

Hello, I've received a bug in one of my packages and I want to check with you a proper solution before I make a stupid thing. The bug number is 722794. I've been investigating the problem with linkage and I see it comes from package libmcrypt-dev, more precisly from a script it installs

Help with bug #728027

Hi, I was looking for a solution and I saw that ubuntu uses build1 as version's end name [0]. Is this aproach ok in debian? Reading documentation I don't find a proper versioning scheme that fits this problem. Any help would be appreciated. Regards [0]

Bug#732234: RFS: libgringotts/1:1.2.1-13

) unstable; urgency=low * Bump Debian version to avoid getting rejected due to a previous version (1.2.1-12). (Closes: #728027). * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.5. No changes required. -- Jose G. López josg...@gmail.com Sun, 15 Dec 2013 15:37:32 +0100 Thank you and regards, Jose G

Bug#732234: RFS: libgringotts/1:1.2.1-13

Hi, Could you please help me sponsoring this upload. Because bug 728027 a reverse dependency has been also removed from testing (osmo). Thanks pgpQhYvBKJSuz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#831792: RFS: scid/1:4.6.2-0.1 [NMU]

Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "scid": * Package name: scid Version : 4.6.2-0.1 Upstream Author : Fulvio Benini * URL : http://scid.sf.net * License : GPL v2

Re: Packaging new upstream version of scid

On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 14:56:03 + (UTC) Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > > I did *two* NMU of stockfish for this maintainer, both were new upstream > release, and upstream was making pressure > about updating it. > > So, even if the maintainer is not officially MIA, I

Packaging new upstream version of scid

Hello! I have been working on packaging a new version of scid (4.6.2); the version in Debian is outdated (from 2014). I tried to contact Oliver, the actual mantainer, a month ago and haven't received response yet. I tried it twice. I did a NMU and the work can be reviewed on [0]. What should

Bug#831792: RFS: scid/1:4.6.2-0.1 [NMU]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 18:18:51 + (UTC) Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > lets see. > 1) > > The package will be probably orphaned in 10-15 days, so you might want to set > yourself > as Maintainer and adopt it > > 2) > +* Copyright (C) 2013-2015 Fulvio Benini > > >

Bug#836215: RFS: phalanx/25-1 [ITA]

Hi Gianfranco, Thanks for reviwing! I must say I've addressed most of your points but testing the new version (25), I've found that it doesn't work as expected in Scid. Scid has a feature to play versus Phalanx (tactical game) but it needs a special version. The package in sid works well while

Bug#836215: RFS: phalanx/25-1 [ITA]

On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 09:55:36 + (UTC) Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > you might even consider fixing the actual RC bug without a new upstream > release, > let the package migrate, and upload the new version (crippled) in experimental > or later in unstable. Hi

Bug#831792: RFS: scid/1:4.6.4+dfsg1-1

fsg1-1 due to repackaging of upstream sources. I've seen other examples using this versioning nomenclature. > > 2) missing newline between last entry and your signature > to make it DFSG compliant. > -- Jose G. López <josg...@gmail.com> Mon, 08 Aug 2016 11:23:07 +0200 Fixed. >

Bug#831792: RFS: scid/1:4.6.4+dfsg1-1

> Hi, can you please have a look at the build failures? > > thanks > > > g++ -MMD -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/«BUILDDIR»/scid-4.6.4+dfsg1=. -fPIE > -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time > -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -O3 -march=native -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions

Bug#866783: RFS: gigalomania/0.28+git.20170219.g08f4811-1 [ITP]

Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel-ga...@lists.debian.org Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gigalomania": * Package name: gigalomania Version : 0.28+git.20170219.g08f4811-1 Upstream Author : Mark Harman

Bug#883942: RFS: medit/1.2.0-3

Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "medit" * Package name: medit Version : 1.2.0-3 Upstream Author : Yevgen Muntyan * URL : http://mooedit.sourceforge.net * License

Bug#883945: RFS: libgringotts/1:1.2.1-16

Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "libgringotts" * Package name: libgringotts Version : 1:1.2.1-16 Upstream Author : Shlomi Fish * URL : http://gringotts.shlomifish.org

Bug#883947: RFS: gringotts/1.2.10-3

Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gringotts" * Package name: gringotts Version : 1.2.10-3 Upstream Author : Shlomi Fish * URL : http://gringotts.shlomifish.org *

Bug#890203: RFS: gigalomania/1.0-1 [ITP]

Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel-ga...@lists.debian.org Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gigalomania": * Package name: gigalomania Version : 1.0-1 Upstream Author : Mark Harman * URL

Re: Lintian warnings converting copyright to machine-readable

Hi, On Sat, 10 Feb 2018 21:16:47 +1100 Ben Finney wrote: > That specification would mean the recipient can choose to redistribute > the work under *any* of those license conditions. I think that is not > what you mean to specify. Absolutely right, it's a combining work and

Lintian warnings converting copyright to machine-readable

Hello!, I'm packaging gigalomania and want to convert copyright to machine-readable format but I'm having lintian warnings I don't know how to fix. The original copyright is here: http://gigalomania.sourceforge.net/#licences There are a lot of images with different authors embedded into single

Re: Bug#890203: RFS: gigalomania/1.0-1 [ITP]

On Sun, 11 Feb 2018 21:51:01 +0100 "Jose G. López" <josg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Package: sponsorship-requests > Severity: wishlist > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel-ga...@lists.debian.org > > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my packa

Re: Bug#890203: RFS: gigalomania/1.0-1 [ITP]

On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 15:08:58 +0800 Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 3:34 AM, Jose G. López wrote: > > > The package got rejected because I forgot to reference a copy of TinyXML. > > Please ask upstream to remove the copy from their VCS a

Bug#894307: RFS: pgn2web/0.4-2 [ITA]

On Sat, 31 Mar 2018 09:29:02 -0300 Herbert Fortes <terb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Jose G. López, > > I ran 'blhc --all' and there are some CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS and LDFLAGS > missing '-fPIE' '-fPIE -pie'. > > Can you please fix them? > Hi Herbert, Fix it. Reuploaded to

Bug#894307: RFS: pgn2web/0.4-2 [ITA]

ch: Add to track upstream releases. * Add and install a desktop file. -- Jose G. López <josg...@gmail.com> Wed, 28 Mar 2018 19:08:10 +0200 Thanks and regards, pgpUuz1GFybCv.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#917875: RFS: fathom/1.0-1 [ITP]

On Tue, 1 Jan 2019 20:06:11 +0100 Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > > Uploaded. > > Please, tag the release on your repo. Tagged. > > Also, for next time, as a nitpicking comment, think about updating the > d/changelog release date when you change files in debian/ directory. > > Cheers! >

Bug#917875: RFS: fathom/1.0-1 [ITP]

On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 23:50:46 +0100 Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > Hi, > > I suggest you rename your branch "master" to "upstream". Hi Pierre, Done it. Following DEP-14 layout. > > Regardless: > > * d/patches: why changing the .c file instead of adding -I to gcc calls? > Yea, my fault.

Bug#917875: closing RFS: fathom/1.0-1 [ITP]

On Tue, 01 Jan 2019 22:31:24 + Bart Martens wrote: > Package fathom version 1.0-1 is in NEW now, > and the package at mentors is not newer (2018-12-31) than the package in NEW > (2018-12-31), > so there is currently no package to sponsor. > >

Bug#919701: RFS: scid/1:4.6.4+dfsg1-3

an/control: - Upgrade to debhelper compat 12. - Use priority 'optional'. - Bump to Standards-Version 4.3.0 and set Vcs* fields to Salsa. * debian/changelog: - Remove trailing whitespaces. * Remove menu as menu system is deprecated (Policy >= 3.9.8) -- Jose G. López Thu, 17 Jan 2019 0

Re: RFS: ethereal-chess/11.00+ds1-1 [ITP]

On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 10:42:10 +0100 "Jose G. López" wrote: > Package: sponsorship-requests > Severity: wishlist > > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "ethereal-chess": > > ethereal-chess (11.00+ds1-1) unstable; urgency=medi

Re: Question about a file inside debian directory

On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 10:43:26 + Mo Zhou wrote: > Hi Jose, > > If you think writting a new makefile is better than patching the > upstream build system, please go ahead. However, having to write a > makefiles by oneself often signifies problematic upstream. > > On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 15:40:17

Question about a file inside debian directory

Dear mentors, Is it permitted by the Debian Policy to have a personalized makefile inside debian directory and call it from rules file? Or I should patch the upstream's makefile completly? I'm packaging fathom[0][1] and can't find an answer. Thanks and sorry if the answer is obvious. Regards,

Re: Question about a file inside debian directory

On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 16:37:27 +0500 Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 11:59:16AM +0100, Jose G. López wrote: > > Well my problem is that upstream's software is intended to build just > > an executable and I'm building a shared library. > This is even more

Bug#917875: RFS: fathom/1.0-1 [ITP]

est/fathom Changes since the last upload: fathom (1.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium * Initial release (Closes: #914595) -- Jose G. López Mon, 31 Dec 2018 10:02:17 +0100 P.D: It's a requirement for ethereal-chess (ITP #914595) and surely for other chess engines that are embedding this probe too

Bug#917876: RFS: ethereal-chess/11.00+ds1-1 [ITP]

1.00+ds1-1) unstable; urgency=medium * Initial release (Closes: #914598) -- Jose G. López Sat, 29 Dec 2018 18:43:59 +0100 P.D: It has a build dependency on libfathom1 (ITP #914595). Thanks and regards, pgpQ72vNRQ0ms.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#917875: RFS: fathom/1.0-1 [ITP]

On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 10:35:55 +0100 "Jose G. López" wrote: > P.D: It's a requirement for ethereal-chess (ITP #914595) and surely for other > chess engines that are embedding this probe tool. > Sorry ITP actually is 914598. Regards,

Bug#917876: RFS: ethereal-chess/11.25+ds1-1 [ITP]

On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 08:31:47 +0100 Adam Borowski wrote: > Hi! I'm afraid it fails to build for me: > > gcc -flto -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/<>=. > -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time > -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wl,-z,relro src/*.c -lpthread -lm -lfathom -o >

Bug#917876: RFS: ethereal-chess/11.25+ds1-1 [ITP]

Hi, Now, as fathom is building correctly [0], this package is looking for a sponsor ;-) Thanks and regards, [0] https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=fathom

Bug#920471: RFS: fathom/1.0+git.20190120.0439ca-1

url source, copyright notices and my e-mail. * debian/rules: - Add -I option to find headers. * debian/watch: - Change upstream git repo. Use Jon Dart's fork. It has some bug fixes and enhancements. -- Jose G. López Fri, 25 Jan 2019 20:39:28 +0100 Using Jon Dart's fork as it has some

Bug#933363: RFS: scid/1:4.7.0+dfsg1-1

- Use git mode to get new upstream versions. -- Jose G. López Sun, 28 Jul 2019 20:57:33 +0200 Regards, pgpQJPn64aoeU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#942462: RFS: pgn2web/0.4-3

mut Grohne. -- Jose G. López Wed, 16 Oct 2019 21:13:27 +0200 Thanks and regards, pgpKq_CeJ7lzf.pgp Description: PGP signature

Questing about packaging Julius, an open source re-implementation of Caesar III

Hi!, I'm interested in packaging Julius [0], an open source re-implementation of Caesar III. As it requires the original assets (graphics, sounds, etc) from Caesar 3 to run I want to ask if it should go in contrib archive. Another thing is it seems there's a RFP using the same name [1], what

Bug#955312: RFS: ethereal-chess/12.00+ds1-1 -- UCI-compliant chess engine

Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "ethereal-chess" * Package name: ethereal-chess Version : 12.00+ds1-1 Upstream Author : Andrew Grant * URL : https://github.com/AndyGrant/Ethereal * License

Bug#955311: RFS: fathom/1.0+git.20190811.97fb5c-1 -- Command-line for probing Syzygy tablebases

Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "fathom" * Package name: fathom Version : 1.0+git.20190811.97fb5c-1 Upstream Author : Jon Dart * URL : https://github.com/jdart1/Fathom * License : MIT

Bug#955311: RFS: fathom/1.0+git.20190811.97fb5c-1 -- Command-line for probing Syzygy tablebases

On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 00:43:23 +0200 Adam Borowski wrote: > Hi! > There's a bunch of symbols you did not include: > > --- debian/libfathom1.symbols (libfathom1_1.0_amd64) > +++ dpkg-gensymbolsmywmu5 2020-03-29 22:41:26.263845000 + > @@ -1,9 +1,20 @@ > libfathom.so.1 libfathom1 #MINVER# >

Help with python2 removal in scid package

Hello, I 'm triyng to port it to python3 (bug #938443) but I'm no sure if I'm doing it well. There's only one utility, pgnfix, that uses python at all and I've imported a patch to make it work with python3. I've build the package in a clean environment (cowbuilder) and seems to be using

Bug#977145: RFS: scid/1:4.7.0+dfsg1-2 [RC] -- chess database with play and training functionality

Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "scid": * Package name: scid Version : 1:4.7.0+dfsg1-2 Upstream Author : Fulvio Benini * URL : http://scid.sf.net * License : GPL-2.0, Tklib * Vcs

Re: Help with python2 removal in scid package

On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 00:25:26 +0500 Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Sun, Dec 06, 2020 at 07:32:13PM +0100, Jose G. López wrote: > > D: dh_python3 fs:260: package scid details = {'requires.txt': set(), > > 'egg-info': set(), 'nsp.txt': set(), 'shebangs': {/usr/bin/python2}, > &g

Bug#982263: RFS: gringotts/1.2.10-4 [RC] -- secure password and data storage manager

Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: important Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gringotts": * Package name: gringotts Version : 1.2.10-4 Upstream Author : Shlomi Fish * URL : http://gringotts.shlomifish.org * License : GPL-3+

Error when building using iconv to convert problematic encondings to UTF-8

Dear mentors, I'm working on importing a new upstream version for scid package and I want to get rid of "national-encoding" lintian warning. I'm trying to use iconv to convert problematic encondings to UTF-8 but I always get an error, no matter where I put instructions

Re: Error when building using iconv to convert problematic encondings to UTF-8

On Mon, 11 Jul 2022 23:57:21 +0500 Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > Are you sure converting that file is useful and won't break the software for > the > use cases when this file is used? You're right it breaks program menus[0]. Once I handle to use iconv properly I see it ... On Mon, 11 Jul 2022

Bug#1015247: RFS: phalanx/25-1 -- Chess playing program

Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "phalanx": * Package name: phalanx Version : 25-1 Upstream Author : Dusan Dobes * URL : https://sourceforge.net/projects/phalanx * License : GPL-2.0+,

Bug#1015248: RFS: scid/1:4.7.4+dfsg1-1 -- chess database with play and training functionality

Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "scid": * Package name: scid Version : 1:4.7.4+dfsg1-1 Upstream Author : Fulvio Benini * URL : http://scid.sf.net * License : GPL-2.0, Tklib * Vcs

Bug#1016386: RFS: scid/1:4.7.4+dfsg1-2 -- chess database with play and training functionality

Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "scid": * Package name: scid Version : 1:4.7.4+dfsg1-2 Upstream Author : Fulvio Benini * URL : http://scid.sf.net * License : Tklib, GPL-2.0 * Vcs