Re: Debian package without released upstream source

2006-06-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jörg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hallo Nelson,
>
> Nelson A. de Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> On 6/4/06, Jörg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Now, my question is: Can I release a package that bases on not-released
>>> sources? If so, I request for an sponsor. Otherwise, what should I do?
>>> Wait?
>>
>> Well... you can.
>>
>> I saw on 
>> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10646&release_id=241671
>> that it's a release candidate version, right?
>
> No. The source is here: http://dev.atmarama.org/xindy-2.2-beta2.tar.gz
> It's really outside of sourceforge. I've got it told here in the second
> mail:
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9429234&forum_id=41680
>
>> There is no problem that the version is a release candidate or a beta
>> version or something else. You can release a package based on those
>> versions.
>
> Good to know.

Just make sure to use a version that sorts lower than a future actual
2.2 release. Optimaly 2.2~beta2 would be used but I think the DAK
still doesn't accept those. 2.1.99+2.2-beta might be a good choice.

MfG
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[RFS] museek+: file-sharing application for the SoulSeek peer-to-peer network

2006-06-05 Thread Adam Cécile (Le_Vert)

Hi,

I'm looking for a sponsor to upload museek+. Museek+ is a client for the 
SoulSeek network (like Nicotine, already in Debian) but it's in 
client/server mode.


Museek+ provides 5 packages :
* museekd : the daemon, written in C++
* museeq : A C++/Qt GUI
* mucous : A Python/Curses GUI for console
* museek-python-bindings : Python bindings for the C++ daemon
* museekd-tools : A few tools to manage a remote museekd

This software is very active and I'm really interrested in it. I'm 
working with the upstream author, as I provide a Trac for development : 
http://museekplus.le-vert.net/


http://www.le-vert.net/divers/debian-packages/museek+/
http://www.le-vert.net/divers/debian-packages/museek+/museek+_0.1.9-1.dsc

Thanks !


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RFS: hearts-0.1-1 -- The classic Hearts card game for the GNOME desktop

2006-06-05 Thread Sander Marechal

Hello,

I am the developer of Hearts for GNOME (http://www.gnome-hearts.org) and 
I just packaged the upcoming 0.1 release for Debian. I am looking for a 
sponsor who is willing to check and upload the package for me.


Hearts is an implementation of the classic card game for the GNOME 
desktop, featuring configurable rulesets and editable computer opponents 
to satisfy widely diverging playing styles. Hearts is Free Software, 
released under the GNU General Public License  and should be able to run 
on any computer that can run the GNOME desktop.


Features:

* Various rulesets with configurable options
* Multiple computer opponents with differing styles of play
* Drag & drop adding of new opponents
* Easy creation and modification of opponents through Lua scripting

Known bugs and missing features:

* Undo/redo not implemented yet (the buttons are greyed out)
* I haven't tested it in pbuilder on sid yet. debootstrapping sid is 
broken at the moment (see #369928). Other people have tested it with a 
version of sid that was a few days older and that worked. pbuilding it 
in ubuntu dapper also works correctly.


Download:

http://www.jejik.com/files/hearts/temp/hearts_0.1.orig.tar.gz
http://www.jejik.com/files/hearts/temp/hearts_0.1-1.dsc
http://www.jejik.com/files/hearts/temp/hearts_0.1-1.diff.gz
http://www.jejik.com/files/hearts/temp/hearts_0.1-1_source.build
http://www.jejik.com/files/hearts/temp/hearts_0.1-1_source.changes

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Re: optional building of a package

2006-06-05 Thread Florent Rougon
Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I have made /usr/share/doc/probcons-extra a symlink to
> /usr/share/doc/probcons (probcons-extra depends on probcons). Is it OK
> to do such things?   ^^
   this is important

Yes, this is written in Policy.

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Re: [RFS] museek+: file-sharing application for the SoulSeek peer-to-peer network

2006-06-05 Thread Lukáš Lalinský
Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) wrote:
> * museek-python-bindings : Python bindings for the C++ daemon

I think the name of this package should be "python-museek".

http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/python-policy/ch-module_packages.html#s-package_names

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Re: RFS: hearts-0.1-1 -- The classic Hearts card game for the GNOME desktop

2006-06-05 Thread Eddy Petrişor

On 6/5/06, Sander Marechal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hello,

I am the developer of Hearts for GNOME (http://www.gnome-hearts.org) and
I just packaged the upcoming 0.1 release for Debian. I am looking for a
sponsor who is willing to check and upload the package for me.


You could take care of this warning, first thing (just looked over the
build log)

"W: hearts source: newer-standards-version 3.7.2.0"

Generally that would mean just bumping the standards version, but you
should check.


http://www.jejik.com/files/hearts/temp/hearts_0.1-1_source.build



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Re: RFS: hearts-0.1-1 -- The classic Hearts card game for the GNOME desktop

2006-06-05 Thread James Westby
On (05/06/06 14:10), Eddy Petri??or wrote:
> You could take care of this warning, first thing (just looked over the
> build log)
> 
> "W: hearts source: newer-standards-version 3.7.2.0"
> 
> Generally that would mean just bumping the standards version, but you
> should check.

That warning is the other way round, the standards version defined in
debian/control is newer that the latest lintian knows about. It is a
false positive in this case, as Lintian has not been updated to
recognise the latest version.

I would say remove

DEB_TAR_SRCDIR  := hearts-0.1
DEB_AUTO_CLEANUP_RCS:= yes

from debian/rules. (I think the second is unecessary). You could also
put a statement something like 

The Debian packaging is (C) 2006, Sander Marechal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
and is licensed under the GPL version 2 or later, see above.

in debian/copyright.

[To the rest of the list, I was one of the people that built the package
in pbuilder and it worked fine]

James

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Re: optional building of a package

2006-06-05 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 01:04:37PM +0200, Florent Rougon a écrit :
> Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > I have made /usr/share/doc/probcons-extra a symlink to
> > /usr/share/doc/probcons (probcons-extra depends on probcons). Is it OK
> > to do such things?   ^^
>this is important
> 
> Yes, this is written in Policy.

Dear Florent,

Thanks for the hint.

As the policy says:

"Please note that this does not override the section on changelog files
below, so the file /usr/share/package/changelog.Debian.gz must refer to
the changelog for the current version of package in question. In
practice, this means that the sources of the target and the destination
of the symlink must be the same (same source package and version)."

Is there a way to make sure that probcons-extra will depend on the
probcons package with the same version as itself?

Have a nice day,

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Re: optional building of a package

2006-06-05 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira

Hi!

On 6/5/06, Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Is there a way to make sure that probcons-extra will depend on the
probcons package with the same version as itself?


Yes.
Just use

Depends: probcons (= ${Source-Version})

inside the probcons-extra section.

Best regards,
Nelson


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Re: [RFS] museek+: file-sharing application for the SoulSeek peer-to-peer network

2006-06-05 Thread Le_Vert

Lukáš Lalinský a écrit :

Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) wrote:
  

* museek-python-bindings : Python bindings for the C++ daemon



I think the name of this package should be "python-museek".

http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/python-policy/ch-module_packages.html#s-package_names

  

Package updated :)

http://www.le-vert.net/divers/debian-packages/museek+/
http://www.le-vert.net/divers/debian-packages/museek+/museek+_0.1.9-1.dsc


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Re: RFS: hearts-0.1-1 -- The classic Hearts card game for the GNOME desktop

2006-06-05 Thread Sander Marechal

James Westby wrote:

On (05/06/06 14:10), Eddy Petri??or wrote:

You could take care of this warning, first thing (just looked over the
build log)

"W: hearts source: newer-standards-version 3.7.2.0"

Generally that would mean just bumping the standards version, but you
should check.


That warning is the other way round, the standards version defined in
debian/control is newer that the latest lintian knows about. It is a
false positive in this case, as Lintian has not been updated to
recognise the latest version.


Yes, I have the same thing. Unfortunately I cannot update lintian or 
linda. I built the source package on ubuntu dapper. Lintian/linda 
ultimately depend on glibc and I get a version conflict between debian's 
glibc and ubuntu's glibc if I try installing them manually.



I would say remove

DEB_TAR_SRCDIR  := hearts-0.1
DEB_AUTO_CLEANUP_RCS:= yes


Done.


from debian/rules. (I think the second is unecessary). You could also
put a statement something like 

The Debian packaging is (C) 2006, Sander Marechal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
and is licensed under the GPL version 2 or later, see above.


in debian/copyright.


Done. The files on my website have been re-uploaded. Thanks for the 
suggestions.


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RFS: geany

2006-06-05 Thread Enrico Tröger
Hi,

I'm looking for a sponsor for my program Geany.

  Package name: geany
  Version : 0.7
  Upstream Author : Enrico Tröger (me ;-))
  URL : http://geany.uvena.de/
  License : GPL
  Programming Lang: C, C++
  Description : A fast and lightweight IDE using GTK2

Geany is a small and fast editor with basic features of an integrated
development environment. It has some nice features like code
completion, call tips, code folding and symbol/tag lists. Geany
supports 19 different filetypes. It is actively developed (by me) and
it aims to be small and fast.

Download:
http://debian.uvena.de/unstable/geany_0.7-1.diff.gz
http://debian.uvena.de/unstable/geany_0.7-1.dsc
http://debian.uvena.de/unstable/geany_0.7-1_i386.changes
http://debian.uvena.de/unstable/geany_0.7-1_i386.deb
http://debian.uvena.de/unstable/geany_0.7.orig.tar.gz

or just use
deb http://debian.uvena.de/ ./unstable/

This is my first RFS and the first Debian package which is not only
built for me.

Could there be any problems because I'm the maintainer and upstream?

regards,
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RFS: collectd - statistics collection daemon

2006-06-05 Thread Sebastian Harl
Hi,

I'm looking for a sponsor for my collectd package. collectd is a small daemon
that collects various system statistics and saves them to RRD files. Since it
is written in C and stays in memory it is very fast and easy on the system.
The statistics are very fine grained since the files are updated every 10
seconds.

The package is linda and lintian clean and builds with pbuilder.

The source package is available from
http://debian.tokkee.org/debian.org/collectd/

Thanks a lot in advance.

Cheers,
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2006-06-05 Thread Székelyi Szabolcs
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Hi,

I've sent an ITP on libvrb last night (at about 23:19 CET), but I cannot
see it on d-d and in the BTS. However, I got the copy to my personal
inbox. I saw ITPs on d-d and in the BTS posted this afternoon.

Is it possible that the ITPs are not processed in FIFO-style?

Or should I forward the ITP from my inbox to somewhere?

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Re: optional building of a package

2006-06-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 09:29 -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote:

> Just use
> Depends: probcons (= ${Source-Version})

Please don't use Source-Version - from the dpkg-gencontrol manual:

"The source package version (from the changelog file). This variable is
now deprecated as its meaning is different from its function, please use
the source:Version or binary:Version as appropriate."

The reason that this is depreciated is that it was causing packages to
be inappropriately not binNMUable, which is annoying for the release
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Re: RFS: geany

2006-06-05 Thread Laszlo Boszormenyi
On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 16:26 +0200, Enrico Tröger wrote:
> Geany is a small and fast editor with basic features of an integrated
> development environment. It has some nice features like code
> completion, call tips, code folding and symbol/tag lists. Geany
> supports 19 different filetypes. It is actively developed (by me) and
> it aims to be small and fast.
 I was checking, but could not figure out how it is different to the
very similar looking Anjuta?

> Could there be any problems because I'm the maintainer and upstream?
 None. It's even better.

Regards,
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Re: RFS: geany

2006-06-05 Thread Enrico Tröger
On Mon, 05 Jun 2006 20:12:51 +0200, Laszlo Boszormenyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 16:26 +0200, Enrico Tröger wrote:
> > Geany is a small and fast editor with basic features of an
> > integrated development environment. It has some nice features like
> > code completion, call tips, code folding and symbol/tag lists. Geany
> > supports 19 different filetypes. It is actively developed (by me)
> > and it aims to be small and fast.
>  I was checking, but could not figure out how it is different to the
> very similar looking Anjuta?
Geany is smaller and has less features but therefore it is faster and
doesn't blow up the user with unneeded, complicated things. Another
important point is, that Geany _only_ depends on GTK2(and its
dependencies), Anjuta need a lot of gnome libraries. This is one of the
most important reasons I wrote Geany and why people use it.
I think Geany is easier to use but this is very subjective because I'm
the developer ;-).

> > Could there be any problems because I'm the maintainer and upstream?
>  None. It's even better.
Good. Nice to hear.


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Re: RFC/RFS: bfilter, aspell-hr, myspell-hr

2006-06-05 Thread Vedran Furač
Thanks for uploading. I see that parser at NEW didn't catch the "Closes:"
line. I will close that bug once it's accepted.

Two more questions.
What is the default procedure after I make a new revision or new upstream
release arrives? Upload to mentors and inform you?
What if I receive a bugreport which I don't know how to solve? For
example, a FTBFS on some "exotic architecture"?

Regards,

Vedran Furač



Re: RFC/RFS: bfilter, aspell-hr, myspell-hr

2006-06-05 Thread Florent Rougon
Vedran Furaè <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Thanks for uploading. I see that parser at NEW didn't catch the "Closes:"
> line. I will close that bug once it's accepted.

If you used the right syntax, that probably happened because it wasn't
part of the last changelog entry, in which case dpkg-buildpackage's -v
option should have been used for the upload. Otherwise, it's a bug and
should be reported.

> What if I receive a bugreport which I don't know how to solve? For
> example, a FTBFS on some "exotic architecture"?

For this specific example, you should look for appropriate mailing-lists
(the porters for that architecture / buildd admins, or a list for Debian
users of that architecture). You should be able to find these lists on
http://www.debian.org/ports/ (otherwise, Google and file a bug report to
get www.debian.org updated).

More generally, if there is a bug you really don't know how to solve,
you can file an RFH bug on wnpp (Request For Help) to tell the world
about it. See:

  http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2004/08/msg0.html

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Re: optional building of a package

2006-06-05 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira

Hi!

On 6/5/06, Paul Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 09:29 -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote:

> Just use
> Depends: probcons (= ${Source-Version})

Please don't use Source-Version - from the dpkg-gencontrol manual:

"The source package version (from the changelog file). This variable is
now deprecated as its meaning is different from its function, please use
the source:Version or binary:Version as appropriate."

The reason that this is depreciated is that it was causing packages to
be inappropriately not binNMUable, which is annoying for the release
managers.


Hmm... good to learn this!

Thank you very much!

All the best,
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Avoiding the Linux version of "DLL Hell"...

2006-06-05 Thread Redefined Horizons
I'm a realtively new user of Linux and Debian. It took me a while to get used to the way software is installed on Linux, although I think I'm finally getting the hang of it.
 
I've got some limited programming experience, and I'd like to take my experience with Debian's packaging system to the next level by creating my own packages. I've downloaded the Debian Mantainer's Guide, but I've got a question about Debian packages and dependencies. The question stems from a problem I seem to run into a lot with my Debian box.

 
I want to install a Debian package named "Package A".
Package A lists as a dependency another Debian package named "Library A".
However, if Package A requires version 2.0 of "Library A", while another Debian package I have installed on my system, named "Package B" requires version 1.0 of Library A that I already have installed.

 
Here is my question. Can I create a custom Debian package for Library A that satisfies the dependency requirements of Package A, but still keep the older version of Library A required by my other programs?
 
In essence, I want to create my own custom Debian Packages to avoid conflicts in package dependencies. Is this plausible?
 
Thanks for the advice. I look forward to being able to contribute useful packages to the Debian Community.
 
Scott Huey


Re: Avoiding the Linux version of "DLL Hell"...

2006-06-05 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Redefined Horizons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I want to install a Debian package named "Package A".
> Package A lists as a dependency another Debian package named "Library A".
> However, if Package A requires version 2.0 of "Library A", while another
> Debian package I have installed on my system, named "Package B" requires
> version 1.0 of Library A that I already have installed.

In an ideal world, this wouldn't happen;

- Library packages should be named not only after the library they
provide, but the ABI version of that library as well. (eg; libgnutls11,
libgnutls12, libgnutls13).

- Binaries depend on the package that contains the version of the
library they were compiled against.

- These libraries have unique sonames (the stuff that comes after
the ".so" in the filename; libgnutls.so.11, etc)

- These libraries should never conflict, *however* in most cases
their -dev packages probably should (because the -dev package provides the
root ".so" that ld/libtool looks for, as well as header files specific to
that ABI/API).

Of course, not every library comes out in such an "ideal" way, but
those that don't are a pain to properly link against anyway. :-)

> Here is my question. Can I create a custom Debian package for Library A
> that satisfies the dependency requirements of Package A, but still keep
> the older version of Library A required by my other programs?
> 
> In essence, I want to create my own custom Debian Packages to avoid
> conflicts in package dependencies. Is this plausible?

Definately, although building such a package sounds a little bit
convoluted. If you actually *need* this, then it probably means that said
library was either improperly packaged or improperly developed, so maybe a
bug should be raised against the offending package(s) too. :-)

> Thanks for the advice. I look forward to being able to contribute useful
> packages to the Debian Community.

Me too!

Cheers,
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Re: Avoiding the Linux version of "DLL Hell"...

2006-06-05 Thread Florent Rougon
"Redefined Horizons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Here is my question. Can I create a custom Debian package for Library A that
> satisfies the dependency requirements of Package A, but still keep the older
> version of Library A required by my other programs?

Of course. Look for example at the GTK+ library. In both sarge and sid,
you'll find GTK+ 1.2 and GTK+ 2 (packages libgtk*), as well as packages
using GTK+ 1.2, and packages using GTK+ 2.

> In essence, I want to create my own custom Debian Packages to avoid
> conflicts in package dependencies. Is this plausible?

Yes, dpkg allows you to express dependencies in a comfortable way.
Besides the New Maintainer's Guide, which you've already found, you
should really read the Debian Policy to get a better understanding of
these things.

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Re: Avoiding the Linux version of "DLL Hell"...

2006-06-05 Thread Redefined Horizons
Thank you Florent and Tyler.
 
You have answered my questions.
 
Tyler,
 
What is the proper procedure for notifying the maintainer of a package about the dependency problem?
 
Florent,
 
Where do I find the "Policy" that you speak of?
 
Scott Huey 
On 6/5/06, Florent Rougon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Redefined Horizons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:> Here is my question. Can I create a custom Debian package for Library A that> satisfies the dependency requirements of Package A, but still keep the older> version of Library A required by my other programs?
Of course. Look for example at the GTK+ library. In both sarge and sid,you'll find GTK+ 1.2 and GTK+ 2 (packages libgtk*), as well as packagesusing GTK+ 1.2, and packages using GTK+ 2.> In essence, I want to create my own custom Debian Packages to avoid
> conflicts in package dependencies. Is this plausible?Yes, dpkg allows you to express dependencies in a comfortable way.Besides the New Maintainer's Guide, which you've already found, youshould really read the Debian Policy to get a better understanding of
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Re: Avoiding the Linux version of "DLL Hell"...

2006-06-05 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Redefined Horizons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tyler,
> What is the proper procedure for notifying the maintainer of a package about
> the dependency problem?

A good way is to use the "reportbug" utility that comes with debian;
"reportbug ".

Cheers,
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Re: Avoiding the Linux version of "DLL Hell"...

2006-06-05 Thread Lucas Wall
On 06/05/2006 07:42 PM, Redefined Horizons wrote:

> Where do I find the "Policy" that you speak of?

Check the Developers' Corner[1], you'll find lots of links to relevant
documentation.

Please do not top post[2].

K.-

[1] http://www.debian.org/devel/
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_posting

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Re: Debian package without released upstream source

2006-06-05 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hallo Goswin,

Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just make sure to use a version that sorts lower than a future actual
> 2.2 release. Optimaly 2.2~beta2 would be used but I think the DAK
> still doesn't accept those. 2.1.99+2.2-beta might be a good choice.

Good objection. I've changed this.

In a PM, someone raised the objection that the source tar.gz might be a
temporary file. I assume this, too. But I expect when upstream removes
this file, it places a new one at sourceforge. Does anyone share this
objection? Should I not use this tar ball?

BTW: What can I do, if I can't run pbuilder? Exist an open pbuilder
network? I've split the package in a architecture dependent and
independent package, because lintian complained about a huge /usr/share.
Now I need to verify if my split build dependencies are correct.

Bye, Jörg.
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