-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 salsa...@xs4all.nl wrote: > On Sun, July 26, 2009 20:04, Harry Rickards wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Dear mentors, >> >> I am looking for a sponsor for the package "lives" which I updated and >> removed lintian warnings and errors. This is not a non-maintainer upload >> as the upstream author Gabriel Finch <salsa...@xs4all.nl> has agreed to >> list me as an 'uploader' in debian/control. The original maintainer was >> Gürkan Sengün <gur...@phys.ethz.ch>. >> >> I think the original maintainer Gürkan Sengün <gur...@phys.ethz.ch> is a >> Debian Developer as although I can't find him using db.debian.org, a >> random one of his packages I chose ttf-jura has been uploaded to the >> repository, but I can't find an RFS for it, only an ITP. Gürkan, if you >> want to upload lives that's great, but if not don't worry. >> >> The package requires libweed0, which is available from >> debian-multimedia.org >> (http://www.debian-multimedia.org/pool/main/l/lives/). However, only >> binary packages exist. Does this need to be uploaded before lives can (a >> source package would have to be made)? >> Also, would a postinst script that downloaded and installed libweed0 be >> acceptable? If not, is it unacceptable to add an override to suppress >> lintian warning about symlinks to shared libraries in the main packages? >> > > I don't like this at all. Why are there only binary packages of libweed ? > Is there a problem with making a source package of libweed ? > > Why are you talking about downloading and installing libweed0 ? What if > debian-multimedia is down, or Marillat pulls the package ? > > I really dont think the debain maintainers would like LiVES to be > dependant on a binary only package. I don't like it either. It stinks. > > Please make a source package for it as we discussed. > > Cheers, > Gabriel. > >
Okay. There are only binary packages of libweed0 because (if I understand correctly), Christian Marillat created just binary packages. As you suggest, I'll create a source package for libweed, so while I'm doing it, please could everyone ignore the RFS. - -- Thanks Harry Rickards <hricka...@l33tmyst.com> GPG Key Info: pub 1024R/58449F6F 2009-06-12 uid Harry Rickards (OpenPGP Card) <hricka...@l33tmyst.com> sub 1024R/D775CCEE 2009-06-12 sub 1024R/9394048C 2009-06-12 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iJwEAQECAAYFAkpspHwACgkQ+9DWHFhEn2/v0gQAwpEXBib/pKI+ZT3HgtCBIU9k oKFOkCOIRWR/3C7lIVeQxipGlycObnpyWBX9WiGulE5NO9zn9rNfzSVi46tvPxPe cch17m1xaHnQGwJn/l8kJbyy5eqbu23ykto40tPew+k1TDgnvumPOWy+0PGQp8SQ Y/kziYXeY/Q1GHX1JXU= =3/Sf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
