Re: One noob, 3 orphan source packages, 14 .deb, looking for a sponsor

2015-08-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > > debian-ment...@lists.debian.org. Dominique Dumont wrote: > ok. I'll follow up on that mailing list. Start: https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2015/08/msg00320.html Latest state: https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2015/08/msg00377.html I meanwhile uploaded to http://mento

Re: One noob, 3 orphan source packages, 14 .deb, looking for a sponsor

2015-08-22 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Friday 21 August 2015 12:37:44 Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > > "All packages must be signed with the GnuPG key" > > > > Either "dpkg-buildpackage without -us -uc" or debsign applied to > > the changes file. > > Will try. And also the proposal to use debuild instead of > dpkg-buildpackage, wh

Re: One noob, 3 orphan source packages, 14 .deb, looking for a sponsor

2015-08-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Dominique Dumon wrote: > https://ddumont.wordpress.com/2015/05/31/improving-update-of-existing-debian copyright-file/ This will be of help when i expand my work to packages where i am not the upstream. For my own ones i rather seem to know too much about the license situation of their various

Re: One noob, 3 orphan source packages, 14 .deb, looking for a sponsor

2015-08-20 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Thursday 20 August 2015 01:02:32 Thomas Schmitt wrote: > If it is not too daring, then i would propose this roadmap > for refurbishing the burner corner of Debian: > > - I learn what kind of signing is meant with > http://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers > "All packages must be sign

Re: One noob, 3 orphan source packages, 14 .deb, looking for a sponsor

2015-08-20 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Wednesday 19 August 2015 19:38:16 Thomas Schmitt wrote: > I see. The man page effect again. > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/dreq.en.html#copyright You can also use "cme update dpkg-copyright" to update debian/copyright file. See [1] for more details. [1] https://ddumont.wor

Re: One noob, 3 orphan source packages, 14 .deb, looking for a sponsor

2015-08-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, George Danchev wrote: > I just orphaned the three packages: libburn, libisofs, libisoburn. > The team has been mostly one-man for a couple of years, but eventually I run > out of time, energy, and burning hardware to properly maintain these > packages. I thought you did this already. Else i w

Re: One noob, 3 orphan source packages, 14 .deb, looking for a sponsor

2015-08-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
Thomas Schmitt wrote: >Hi, > >assumed i can build Debian package files of three existing >orphaned Debian packages with current upstream release on >Debian 8.1 - where to ask the following questions: > >- What more do i have to set up for making them ready > for submission to a sponsor ? Sid ? > >

Re: One noob, 3 orphan source packages, 14 .deb, looking for a sponsor

2015-08-19 Thread George Danchev
On Wednesday 19 August 2015 19:54:11 Dominique Dumont wrote: > On Tuesday 18 August 2015 19:58:21 Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > assumed i can build Debian package files of three existing > > orphaned Debian packages with current upstream release on > > Debian 8.1 - where to ask the following questions:

Re: One noob, 3 orphan source packages, 14 .deb, looking for a sponsor

2015-08-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, David Wright wrote: > Why would I want a character that doesn't behave as a space to be > displayed as a normal space? That's the question about the use case. I don't have one. So i made Alt+Spacebar behave like Spacebar. But the typographical purpose of NO-BREAK SPACE is to look like space

Re: One noob, 3 orphan source packages, 14 .deb, looking for a sponsor

2015-08-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Dominique Dumont wrote: > Hmm, libburn is marked as "help wanted" [1]. I could not find any bug in > wnpp [2] marking is as orphan. Where did you get the info that this > package is orphaned ? Sorry for the lack of proper Debian terminology. My upstream packages are de facto unmaintained bec

Re: One noob, 3 orphan source packages, 14 .deb, looking for a sponsor

2015-08-19 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Tuesday 18 August 2015 19:58:21 Thomas Schmitt wrote: > assumed i can build Debian package files of three existing > orphaned Debian packages with current upstream release on > Debian 8.1 - where to ask the following questions: > > i fetched the Debian source and ran dch > > apt-get source l

Re: One noob, 3 orphan source packages, 14 .deb, looking for a sponsor

2015-08-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > License: GPL-3 > >The source code is GPL-2-or-later. By linking with GPL-3 licensed > >libreadline.so.6 the resulting binaries become GPL-3 licensed, too. Don Armstrong wrote: > debian/copyright documents the license of the source code, not license > the resultant binar

Re: One noob, 3 orphan source packages, 14 .deb, looking for a sponsor

2015-08-19 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 19 Aug 2015, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Don Armstrong wrote: > > Regardless, you just express the full set of licenses in > > debian/copyright. The effective set of licenses of the binary isn't > > something you have to deal with (luckily). > > The FSF would contradict. If Debian links GPLv2+

Re: One noob, 3 orphan source packages, 14 .deb, looking for a sponsor

2015-08-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Don Armstrong wrote: > You can also use mentors.debian.net to upload fixed > versions of these packages so that people can review them. I am exploring it ... while trying to silence warnings from dh_shlibdeps about useless dependencies, and from dpkg-gencontrol about "unknown substitution var

Re: One noob, 3 orphan source packages, 14 .deb, looking for a sponsor

2015-08-19 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 18 Aug 2015, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > assumed i can build Debian package files of three existing > orphaned Debian packages with current upstream release on > Debian 8.1 - where to ask the following questions: > > - What more do i have to set up for making them ready > for submission to a

Re: One noob, 3 orphan source packages, 14 .deb, looking for a sponsor

2015-08-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Brian wrote: > debian-mentors looks good enough. https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/ says: "This list is not meant for users' questions, but for new maintainers'!" Looking into the recent archives i get the impression that i lack a glossary of debian-speak. Especially the word "maintai

Re: One noob, 3 orphan source packages, 14 .deb, looking for a sponsor

2015-08-18 Thread Brian
On Tue 18 Aug 2015 at 19:58:21 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > assumed i can build Debian package files of three existing > orphaned Debian packages with current upstream release on > Debian 8.1 - where to ask the following questions: > > - What more do i have to set up for making them re

One noob, 3 orphan source packages, 14 .deb, looking for a sponsor

2015-08-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, assumed i can build Debian package files of three existing orphaned Debian packages with current upstream release on Debian 8.1 - where to ask the following questions: - What more do i have to set up for making them ready for submission to a sponsor ? Sid ? - Is an experienced packager aro