Re: RFS: Scid and TeXSkak
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 06:10:01PM +0200, W. van den Akker wrote: > Hi mentors, > > I would like to be a future maintainer for serveral packages. > Two packages which I use are rather out-dated in the Debian distribution. > > The previous owner of the Scid package has stopped the development. Scid is > now being developed by other people. However the current version in Debian is > not updated. Is scid not already replaced by chessdb[1] [1] I'm running etch so don't know exact name, but search packages.debian.org for chess, I'm sure there's already a replacement. There was a request for a sponsor for it, hopefully it got through. :-) -- Chris. == -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RFS: uvccapture (2nd try)
Dear mentors, 2008/3/28, Krzysztof Burghardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "uvccapture". > > * Package name: uvccapture > Version : 0.4-1 > Upstream Author : Gabriel A. Devenyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://staticwave.ca/source/uvccapture/ > * License : GPL (version 2 or newer) > Section : graphics > > It builds these binary packages: > uvccapture - USB UVC Video Class snapshot software > > The package appears to be lintian clean. > > The upload would fix these bugs: 473153 > > The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: > - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/u/uvccapture > - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable > main contrib non-free > - dget > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/u/uvccapture/uvccapture_0.4-1.dsc > > I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards, -- Krzysztof Burghardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.burghardt.pl/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RFS: liblunar and lunar-applet
Hi, On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 10:31:40PM +0800, LI Daobing wrote: > lunar-applet is chinese calendar applet for gnome environment. it's > version is 2.0-1 in this upload(in sid it's 1.8) > > in lunar-applet 2.0, the library part is separated to liblunar by upstream. I'll look at lunar-applet after the library is through new, otherwise it becomes uninstallable until the library gets in the archive. > PS. I have set DM-Upload-Allowed in these two packages. I don't think this is a good idea, for two reasons: - You're not a DM, so it's removing a safety check without any current need. That means that when/if you would become a DM, this check would be skipped, possibly unnoticed. It's better if this would be done explicitly when there is an actual intention of uploading this package as a DM (so after you are a DM at least). - This flag should IMO only be added when the uploader has shown that he or she can maintain this package well. This means that the sponsor must have done a few uploads of this package for this maintainer already. (Only when using the DM status as a workaround for the slow account creation, can this be skipped, IMO, but you're not at that stage yet. ;-) ). Some comments about the package itself: - The library version is complex. This is probably upstream's choice, in which case it's fine. Libraries normally have a [base]-[version] and [base]-dev package. That means the base name of this library is liblunar-1. Gtk+ uses a similar naming, but personally I don't think it's needed to do this until version 2 is needed *and* it is such a big change that porting old applications is not reasonable, *and* there are enough old applications to keep providing the old version as a -dev package next to the new version. Most libraries don't ever get in that state, so they don't need such a complex version. - Packages containing functionality for use in a script language should be named lib-, in this case liblunar-python instead of python-lunar. - In the copyright file you use (C). This is said to be legally meaningless, you should use the complete word "Copyright" instead (which means it's on some lines twice). Also, it needs a time indication (years are good enough). You have that for your packaging, but not for the main program. Summary: for every copyright holder, you need a line of they type "Copyright [year] [name] [email]". The email can be omitted. For every piece of code you also need a license, but you have that already. :-) Thanks, Bas -- I encourage people to send encrypted e-mail (see http://www.gnupg.org). If you have problems reading my e-mail, use a better reader. Please send the central message of e-mails as plain text in the message body, not as HTML and definitely not as MS Word. Please do not use the MS Word format for attachments either. For more information, see http://pcbcn10.phys.rug.nl/e-mail.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: RFS: Scid and TeXSkak
On Wednesday 02 April 2008, W. van den Akker wrote: > On Wednesday 02 April 2008, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 06:10:01PM +0200, W. van den Akker wrote: > > > Hi mentors, > > > > > > I would like to be a future maintainer for serveral packages. > > > Two packages which I use are rather out-dated in the Debian > > > distribution. > > > > > > The previous owner of the Scid package has stopped the development. > > > Scid is now being developed by other people. However the current > > > version in Debian is not updated. > > > > Is scid not already replaced by chessdb[1] > > > > [1] I'm running etch so don't know exact name, but search > > packages.debian.org for chess, I'm sure there's already a replacement. > > > > There was a request for a sponsor for it, hopefully it got through. :-) > > > > -- > ChessDB is not included in any distribution. Scid is included but not updated after Scid was forked. No other replacement exists. The package it rather straight forward. I have only a few licenced components stripped. gr, Willem. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RFS: lynis (updated package)
Hi Helmut, please, send me your package, or give me a link to it, in mentors.debian.net there is no longer. I would like to take a look at it to see if I could improve my package with your work. Thank you. El mar, 01-04-2008 a las 09:27 +0200, Helmut Grohne escribió: > > lynis - security auditing tool for Unix based > > systems > > Please see my other recent mail on lynis: Some issues are still not > fixed. > > Another thing is patching. I think like 90% DDs would use a patch system > instead of patching the tarball using the .diff.gz. A potential sponsor > may require you to use dpatch or quilt (or eventually cdbs). > > Helmut > > Francisco M. García Claramonte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG: public key ID 556ABA51 __ Enviado desde Correo Yahoo! Disfruta de una bandeja de entrada más inteligente. http://es.docs.yahoo.com/mail/overview/index.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RFS: v86d
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "v86d". It is needed by the uvesafb kernel module to create a userspace framebuffer (e.g. when you want a 1400x1050 framebuffer, but vesafb does not support it). * Package name: v86d Version : 0.1.3-1 Upstream Author : Michał Januszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/ * License : GPL-2 Section : utils It builds these binary packages: v86d - daemon to run x86 code in an emulated environment Long description: v86d provides a backend for kernel drivers that need to execute x86 BIOS code. The code is executed in a controlled environment and the results are passed back to the kernel via the netlink interface. . v86d is needed by the uvesafb kernel module. . This package is built against glibc, as Debian's klibc does not have proper uvesafb support yet. The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 473176 The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.workaround.org/debian/pool/main/v/v86d - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.workaround.org/debian/pool/main/v/v86d/v86d_0.1.3-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Evgeni Golov pgpkn6DPJSuD7.pgp Description: PGP signature
RFS: NMU: cgiwrap -- allows ordinary users to run their own CGI scripts
Hello, If someone has time could you please review and/or upload this NMU for cgiwrap. If fixes RC bug #424814. BTW this package should also probably be orphaned. http://mentors.workaround.org/debian/pool/main/c/cgiwrap/cgiwrap_3.9-3.2.dsc Description: allows ordinary users to run their own CGI scripts a gateway that allows more secure user access to CGI programs on an HTTPd server than is provided by the http server itself. The primary function of CGIwrap is to make certain that any CGI script runs with the permissions of the user who installed it, and not those of the server. Thanks, Barry deFreese -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
