Re: RFS: cnet - a network simulator
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 05:56, Nick Jamieson wrote: > Hi. > > I'd be very grateful for a sponsor for my package of the cnet network > simulator. The package (compiled for sarge) is at > http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/~ncj/cnet.html You should always check your packages compile against unstable rather than testing. (Although doing both is certainly a good idea) If no one else responds to you i'll look at sponsoring you, it certainly looks interesting but i doubt i'll use it. Cheers, Rob -- Rob Bradford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: RFS2: gnochm - CHM file viewer for GNOME
Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 10:28:28PM +1200, Carlos Z.F. Liu wrote: * You don't close your WNPP bugs with changelogs entries. Uhm. No, I don't think thats right. Its a very common practices to close ITP bugs with the initial release, O/ITA bugs with the first upload by the new maintainer. Cheers, Rob -- Rob Bradford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Looking for sponsor (FWD from debian-devel)
On Fri, 2002-03-29 at 01:01, Kristis Makris wrote: > Hello, > > I've packaged tkxcd, a Tcl/Tk diff front-end which is available at: > > http://www.public.asu.edu/~makrists/debian/tkxcd > > Anyone interested in sponsoring? > > Thanks, > Kristis A more apropriate list would be the debian-mentors list. I am CCing this message there. Cheers -- Rob 'robster' Bradford http://robster.org.uk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: looking for sponsor/advocate
On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 21:01, Paul wrote: > > Mentors, > > Secondly, I have started to package the Mordor MUD engine, of which I am > one of the upstream authors. I have several questions about the proper > file system layout -- the upstream tarball assumes that you will be > installing into the home directory of a dedicated user (usually 'mordor'). > It is easy to modify the config file to point to the debianized paths, > however I am not sure if or how I should create a new user account to own > the files. Does this go in the postinst script? I currently have the > game files which need read/write access in /var/games/mordor is this > correct? Any feedback is appreciated. > Yeh, create a user with /var/games/mordor as its home directory. ident2 does this but for the ident daemon, i suggest you look at its maintainer scripts for ideas. Cheers -- Rob 'robster' Bradford Founder: http://www.debianplanet.org/ Developer: http://www.debian.org/ Monkey with keyboard: http://www.robster.org.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Rejected upload -- adacgi
On Sat, 2002-08-31 at 17:22, Phil Brooke wrote: > Hi, > > I have had a package (adacgi) rejected, with a message that the .deb has > files with `time stamp too ancient'. > > There are some files in the upstream tarball with a 1980 timestamp. I > have two (broad) questions: Ouch someone's clock is very very wrong :( > - What is the best way to avoid this timestamp problem? Simply touch the > files in DEBIAN/tmp- during package build? Yes. If its that the files in the binary package are too old that would be fine. But maybe touch them before they get moved to the install location, in the build tree instead. If its that files in the orig.tar.gz are too old you will have to break pristine source and repackage. > - There are now files in /org/ftp.debian.org/incoming/REJECT. Should I > bump the debian version from -1 to -2 (since dupload complains that -1 > is already there)? Should I delete the files in the REJECT directory by > hand or will they be reaped? (Don't really want to leave things messy.) Remove these and upload with -1. Should work i expect. Regards, Rob -- Rob 'robster' Bradford Founder: http://www.debianplanet.org/ Developer: http://www.debian.org/ Monkey with keyboard: http://www.robster.org.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
RFC: Sponsor request convention
I think it would be nice to achieve some kind of convention on the format of messages requesting sponsors for packages. I'm thinking something along the lines of the ITP format with the subject as "RFS: - description" And in the body several pseudo-headers, containing information such as a long description, the version, homepage and location of the source packages for your proposed version. Including NM status here (where applicable) would also be beneficial. I think it would also be relevent to forbid cross posting into debian-devel, specific lists such as debian-python, debian-gtk-gnome etc would work. Regards, Rob -- Rob 'robster' Bradford Founder: http://www.debianplanet.org/ Developer: http://www.debian.org/ Monkey with keyboard: http://www.robster.org.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RFS: cnet - a network simulator
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 05:56, Nick Jamieson wrote: > Hi. > > I'd be very grateful for a sponsor for my package of the cnet network > simulator. The package (compiled for sarge) is at > http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/~ncj/cnet.html You should always check your packages compile against unstable rather than testing. (Although doing both is certainly a good idea) If no one else responds to you i'll look at sponsoring you, it certainly looks interesting but i doubt i'll use it. Cheers, Rob -- Rob Bradford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Looking for sponsor (FWD from debian-devel)
On Fri, 2002-03-29 at 01:01, Kristis Makris wrote: > Hello, > > I've packaged tkxcd, a Tcl/Tk diff front-end which is available at: > > http://www.public.asu.edu/~makrists/debian/tkxcd > > Anyone interested in sponsoring? > > Thanks, > Kristis A more apropriate list would be the debian-mentors list. I am CCing this message there. Cheers -- Rob 'robster' Bradford http://robster.org.uk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: looking for sponsor/advocate
On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 21:01, Paul wrote: > > Mentors, > > Secondly, I have started to package the Mordor MUD engine, of which I am > one of the upstream authors. I have several questions about the proper > file system layout -- the upstream tarball assumes that you will be > installing into the home directory of a dedicated user (usually 'mordor'). > It is easy to modify the config file to point to the debianized paths, > however I am not sure if or how I should create a new user account to own > the files. Does this go in the postinst script? I currently have the > game files which need read/write access in /var/games/mordor is this > correct? Any feedback is appreciated. > Yeh, create a user with /var/games/mordor as its home directory. ident2 does this but for the ident daemon, i suggest you look at its maintainer scripts for ideas. Cheers -- Rob 'robster' Bradford Founder: http://www.debianplanet.org/ Developer: http://www.debian.org/ Monkey with keyboard: http://www.robster.org.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Rejected upload -- adacgi
On Sat, 2002-08-31 at 17:22, Phil Brooke wrote: > Hi, > > I have had a package (adacgi) rejected, with a message that the .deb has > files with `time stamp too ancient'. > > There are some files in the upstream tarball with a 1980 timestamp. I > have two (broad) questions: Ouch someone's clock is very very wrong :( > - What is the best way to avoid this timestamp problem? Simply touch the > files in DEBIAN/tmp- during package build? Yes. If its that the files in the binary package are too old that would be fine. But maybe touch them before they get moved to the install location, in the build tree instead. If its that files in the orig.tar.gz are too old you will have to break pristine source and repackage. > - There are now files in /org/ftp.debian.org/incoming/REJECT. Should I > bump the debian version from -1 to -2 (since dupload complains that -1 > is already there)? Should I delete the files in the REJECT directory by > hand or will they be reaped? (Don't really want to leave things messy.) Remove these and upload with -1. Should work i expect. Regards, Rob -- Rob 'robster' Bradford Founder: http://www.debianplanet.org/ Developer: http://www.debian.org/ Monkey with keyboard: http://www.robster.org.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Help!! Can't sign package: secret key not available
On Sun, 2002-09-15 at 02:07, Joe Nahmias wrote: > Hello all, > > I finally managed to sign my package, by specifying the keyid on the > command-line to dpkg-buildpackage (with the -k option). However, I am > still at a loss to explain why I needed to specify it explicitly... As > you can see below, gpg _can_ find the secret key, but dpkg seems to be > unable to... Should I file a bug against dpkg?? Try setting "default-key" in the .gnupg/options file. Regards, Rob -- Rob 'robster' Bradford Founder: http://www.debianplanet.org/ Developer: http://www.debian.org/ Monkey with keyboard: http://www.robster.org.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
RFC: Sponsor request convention
I think it would be nice to achieve some kind of convention on the format of messages requesting sponsors for packages. I'm thinking something along the lines of the ITP format with the subject as "RFS: - description" And in the body several pseudo-headers, containing information such as a long description, the version, homepage and location of the source packages for your proposed version. Including NM status here (where applicable) would also be beneficial. I think it would also be relevent to forbid cross posting into debian-devel, specific lists such as debian-python, debian-gtk-gnome etc would work. Regards, Rob -- Rob 'robster' Bradford Founder: http://www.debianplanet.org/ Developer: http://www.debian.org/ Monkey with keyboard: http://www.robster.org.uk/
