Re: NEED MENTOR- HELP ME!!!!!!
On Sunday 13 May 2007 10:31:11 bharath kumar gopalan wrote: > I would like to get involved myself in the debian development especially > in the areas of kernel developent and device drivers development. I know > quite some c,c++ since I am very new to this I would like to know if > anyone is intrested in guiding me. This list is focused on mentoring people to assist them in packaging software for Debian, not for general free software development. If you are interested in packaging software for Debian, I suggest you give it a try, and ask on this list whenever you run into trouble——we will be more than happy to help. However, if you are more interested in actually doing programming for a OS kernel (e.g. Linux), you'd be better off asking in lists specific to those areas. If you still feel like you need some specific guidance on where to start or who to talk to, you can also feel free to contact me personally and I would be happy to help guide you to the right places. =) -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpywD4NWvwwy.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: New Package PVFS
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 19:04:05 David Brown wrote: > I was developing a set of debian packages for pvfs > (http://www.pvfs.org/) and was wondering if anyone could take a look > at it and see if I'm missing anything important. Attached is the > gziped diff to create the debian directory and the tarball is located > at http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/pvfs2/pvfs-2.6.3.tar.gz. I normally would be interested to help you with this, as I'm interested in pvfs2 and similar filesystems, but I'm going to be swamped for the next few weeks. If you don't get any help, e-mail me privately and I can probably help you get this into debian. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgplL6Snhlk6X.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: RFS: funguloids - space-flying-mushroom-picking-simulator game
On Sunday 26 August 2007 21:37:19 Andres Mejia wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "funguloids". This is > actually a new package that has never been uploaded to Debian. > > * Package name: funguloids [...] > I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. I would be happy to sponsor this, but I can't get it to build currently at the moment. This doesn't look like your bug, but a transitional bug with libogre. I'm guessing this will go away once all the correct dependencies make it into sid. I'll try again tomorrow and upload if it works. (Except from pbuilder failure:) -> Considering build-dep libogre-dev (>= 1.4) -> Trying libogre-dev -> Cannot install libogre-dev; apt errors follow: Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libogre-dev: Depends: libogre14 (= 1.4.3-1+b1) but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages E: Could not satisfy build-dependency. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: RFS: funguloids - space-flying-mushroom-picking-simulator game
On Monday 27 August 2007 19:09:59 Wesley J. Landaker wrote: > I would be happy to sponsor this, but I can't get it to build currently > at the moment. This doesn't look like your bug, but a transitional bug > with libogre. I'm guessing this will go away once all the correct > dependencies make it into sid. I'll try again tomorrow and upload if it > works. It's actually a bug in libogre14, where it's still depending on a version of libzzip that's not in the archive. I will sponsor your package as soon as libogre is installable. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: RFS: alien-arena [updated package]
On Sunday 26 August 2007 21:35:41 Andres Mejia wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 6.05-4 > of my package "alien-arena". Uploaded. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: RFS: funguloids - space-flying-mushroom-picking-simulator game
On Monday 27 August 2007 19:09:59 Wesley J. Landaker wrote: > I would be happy to sponsor this, but I can't get it to build currently > at the moment. This doesn't look like your bug, but a transitional bug > with libogre. I'm guessing this will go away once all the correct > dependencies make it into sid. I'll try again tomorrow and upload if it > works. Uploaded. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: RFS: funguloids - space-flying-mushroom-picking-simulator game
On Wednesday 29 August 2007 17:33:00 Cyril Brulebois wrote: > "Wesley J. Landaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (29/08/2007): > > Uploaded. > > looks like using -sa would be needed, upload REJECTED due to the absence > of .orig.tar.gz. Whoops, missed that. Fixed in the next upload hopefully. ;) -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Hello Sirs
On Tuesday 06 November 2007 04:22:46 Omkar Raut wrote: > Its my pleasure to be part of Debian community. I joined this list > recently. I started using debian one year back. It has been a great > experience! I wish to extend my relationship with debian. Till now I > have been using this OS as a normal user. There are two basic ways to help with Debian. One is to directly help Debian itself, by packaging and/or maintaining software for Debian, or by writing Debian-specific documentation, doing Debian-specific translation, or by doing Debian-specific bug triaging and fixing. If you want to get started doing these kinds of things within the Debian organization, a good place to start is <http://www.debian.org/devel/>. In particular, you'll want to read <http://www.debian.org/devel/join/> to get an overview, and then start with <http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/> if you want to package software. Honestly, being an amazing programmer isn't critical for contributing to Debian. But with few exceptions, Debian is almost completely composed of software written not by Debian Developers themselves but by the large Free Software community, composed of numerous individuals and groups. Debian is an important part of this overall community, because Debian contributors help and improves software by packaging, bug reporting, bug fixing, etc. Given that most of Debian's software exists as it's own project, the other way to help--indirectly--with Debian is by contributing to the development of the software that Debian contains. See below for more. > I am a good C and C++ > programmer. I wrote small programs under gcc which were part of my > academic course. I am conversant with linux shell. Learning curve in > linux is very steep and I consider myself stuck in the midway. I have > no clues about how development of sophisticated softwares takes place, > especially using GUI(Qt,gtk etc.). I seek guidance from you on how to > start off with the development. Please advice me. Any suggestions for > using particular books, online tutorials, tools will greatly help me! Programming is an art. It takes knowledge, skill, creativity, and good taste. Knowing a language is part of programming, but becoming a good programmer takes a lot of time, practice, and usually a lot of slowly-assimilated niche knowledge about particular fields, protocols, methods, etc. Everyone learns best in different ways, but one good way to get started is to just start contributing: find a program that you use and like and are interesting in, and start contributing. Fix a minor bug that has been annoying you. Add a simple new feature that would be helpful. To get your fix to others, work directly with the community of whatever program you are focusing on, or--if you prefer--just submit your fixes through the normal Debian bug reporting channels. If you are interested in particular technologies maybe you just need to play and practice by writing some fun program on your own. Often you just need to do a little research to find out what software libraries or programs are out there that do what you want, then you need to go learn about them either so you can use them, or do something similar. For instance you mentioned GUI toolkits. Okay, for example, install Qt4 (libqt4-dev), and then head to <http://doc.trolltech.com/4.3/tutorial.html> and you'll be walked through how to make a simple game using C++ and Qt4. (Or better, use Python (python-qt4) <http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/Docs/PyQt4/pyqt4ref.html>.) Anyway, there is no "catch-all" way to go about starting, but if you are interested in some particular software, it's easier to give advice about where to start. The links about are one way to start learning Qt4, which is in my opinion one of the very best GUI toolkit in existance. There are lots of other good and popular GUI toolkits, however. Here is a list of a few: Qt4 -- http://trolltech.com/products/qt (e.g. used by KDE) GTK+ -- http://www.gtk.org/ (e.g. used by GNOME) FOX -- http://www.fox-toolkit.org/ Wx -- http://www.wxwidgets.org/ However, keep in mind that--like programming languages--the important thing about GUI programming is not just to learn one specific toolkit, but to learn the principles of GUI applications, which includes branching off into understanding other topics and concepts such as event-driven programming, callbacks, polymorphism, human-interface style, etc. Anyway, hope this gives you some good ideas. I'm sure others will chip in with more advice, especially if you ask some more specific questions. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: how to compare versions
On Thursday 04 February 2010 10:49:28 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Hideki Yamane writes: > > And I have a question - why should we avoid using pre-depends? > > What kind of problem would it cause? > > (it doesn't mean I want to use pre-depends, just curious) > > It adds additional strong restrictions on the order in which packages > must be upgraded. Too many such restrictions and there might not be a > way to upgrade at all. Somewhere before that you (via apt/aptitutde/...) > get the effect that you have to temporarily remove packages to upgrade. > > The less restrictions there are on the order the easier it is to > upgrade. This is true in general, although it's perhaps worth noting that a rare pre- depends on a priority required package like debconf by a priority optional or extra package isn't likely to cause any trouble. For reference, the policy manual has this to say: """ Pre-Depends should be used sparingly, preferably only by packages whose premature upgrade or installation would hamper the ability of the system to continue with any upgrade that might be in progress. Pre-Depends are also required if the preinst script depends on the named package. It is best to avoid this situation if possible. """ So, it's certainly better to avoid a pre-depends if possible, but if it's the best technical solution, there is no reason not to use it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: how to compare versions
On Friday 05 February 2010 04:43:05 Hideki Yamane wrote: > > This is true in general, although it's perhaps worth noting that a rare > > pre- depends on a priority required package like debconf by a priority > > optional or extra package isn't likely to cause any trouble. > > Yes, it is true in general but I want to know the example for that :) > For example, if I have foobar package and it says "Pre-Depends: > debconf", what would happen? Short answer: nothing, it would work fine in practice. Long answer: Debconf would be required to be fully unpacked and configured before foobar could even be unpacked. But, since debconf is priority "required", and is already depended on by so many other packages that it's infeasible that it won't already be completely installed, the pre-depends would be a no-op. In the rare case that debconf wasn't already installed, it would simply be unpacked and configured first, which might slow down the resolver (and hence installation) but otherwise would be no problem. However, it is possible that you can dream up a bizarre corner case where you are pre-depending on a specific version, your doing a big dist-upgrade, the foobar package has a pre-depends and so do a bunch of other packages that are intertwined in foobar's dependency graph, and the whole thing explodes in a big unresolvable mess. The last paragraph is incredibly unlikely for just foobar pre-depending on debconf that's you'd have to come up with some silly scenerio to show it breaking, but if pre-depends were used all over the place on lots of packages, that kind of scenerio could happen really quickly, which is why they are generally to be avoided. I think the general idea is: 1) Don't use pre-depends. 2) No, really, don't use pre-depends. 2) Don't use pre-depends unless it's the best technical solution. =) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: RFS: sslh (updated package)
On 09/01/2010 03:52 PM, Guillaume Delacour wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.7a-1 > of my package "sslh". I just uploaded this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c86f752.2050...@icecavern.net
Re: RFS: sslh (updated package)
On 12/13/2010 03:00 PM, Guillaume Delacour wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.7a-3 > of my package "sslh". I will take care of this. Thank you for your work on this package! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d0708fe.7040...@icecavern.net
RFS: sng - a specialized markup language for representing PNG contents
Hi folks, I've packaged up SNG, and I'm looking for a sponser. The files can be found at: http://www.icecavern.net/~wjl/debian/sng/ It passes both lintian and linda. From ITP Bug #218489: * Package name: sng Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Eric S. Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sng.sourceforge.net * License : libpng/zlib Description : a markup language for expressing the contents of a PNG in an editable, all-text form. "SNG is a specialized markup language for expressing the contents of a PNG (Portable Network Graphics) in an editable, all-text form. The project supports the sng compiler, which can translate between SNG and PNG." -- from http://sourceforge.net/projects/sng/ "SNG (Scriptable Network Graphics) is a minilanguage designed specifically to represent the entire contents of a PNG (Portable Network Graphics) file in an editable form. Thus, SNGs representing elaborate graphics images and ancillary chunk data can be readily generated or modified using only text tools. SNG is implemented by a compiler/decompiler called sng that losslessly translates between SNG and PNG." -- from http://sng.sourceforge.net As you might guess from the descriptions quoted above, SNG is a very useful program--allowing the manipulation of PNGs using text mode tools. The upstream author provides RPM-based source and binary packages, but no one has a debian package available either in debian or anywhere listed at apt-get.org. -- Wesley J. Landaker - [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2
RFS: mimms - MMS (mms://) streaming media download utility
Hi folks, I'm looking for a sponsor for the mimms package. This upload would close ITP bug #221806. MiMMS is a fork of the "mmsclient" streaming media download utility originally from <http://www.geocities.com/majormms/> ... this utility is very handy at saving mms:// streams (usually from .asx files) so that they can be watched later (as opposed to in real-time). The "mmsclient" package is included in many GNU/Linux distributions, but isn't available in Debian. Since "mmsclient" is not maintained upstream and is also the name of a completely unrelated project, I've taken over upstream maintainence with this new name. (As packaged, this is more or less the vanilla original mmsclient source). MiMMS aliases itself as "mmsclient" for backwards compatibility. Anyway, here are it's vitals: Package: mimms (formerly known as mmsclient, forked for maintainence) Description: MMS (mms://) streaming media download utility MiMMS, formerly called "mmsclient", is a simple client to download streaming audio and/or video media from the internet using the MMS protocol (i.e. from mms:// type URLs, generally found in asx files). Downloaded streams can then be replayed offline at your leisure, using any compatible media player of your choice. License: GPL The package is lintian and linda clean and builds cleanly in pbuilder. Source and binary packages can be downloaded from: <http://www.icecavern.net/~wjl/debian/mimms/> -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgp66Sf66V9PW.pgp Description: signature
Re: RFS: mimms - MMS (mms://) streaming media download utility
On Sunday 07 March 2004 9:59 pm, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm looking for a sponsor for the mimms package. This upload would > close ITP bug #221806. [ ... ] > Anyway, here are it's vitals: > > Package: mimms (formerly known as mmsclient, forked for maintainence) > Description: MMS (mms://) streaming media download utility > MiMMS, formerly called "mmsclient", is a simple client to download > streaming audio and/or video media from the internet using the MMS > protocol (i.e. from mms:// type URLs, generally found in asx files). > Downloaded streams can then be replayed offline at your leisure, > using any compatible media player of your choice. > License: GPL > > The package is lintian and linda clean and builds cleanly in > pbuilder. > > Source and binary packages can be downloaded from: > <http://www.icecavern.net/~wjl/debian/mimms/> It's been more than a week so I guess I'll ping again: any interest in sponsoring this package? =) -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpzfw67svGSu.pgp Description: signature
Re: RFS: mimms - MMS (mms://) streaming media download utility
On Monday 15 March 2004 11:03 pm, Joe Wreschnig wrote: > On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 22:24, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > > On Sunday 07 March 2004 9:59 pm, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > I'm looking for a sponsor for the mimms package. This upload > > > would close ITP bug #221806. > > > > > > Source and binary packages can be downloaded from: > > > <http://www.icecavern.net/~wjl/debian/mimms/> > > > > It's been more than a week so I guess I'll ping again: any interest > > in sponsoring this package? =) > > I'm interested, but I won't be able to get around to it until this > weekend at the earliest, probably. Okay, great; I appreciate your willingness to sponsor. There's no big rush, I just want to make sure that it doesn't get forgotten about. Feel free to send any suggestions/corrections my way when you get a chance to check it over, but I'm pretty confident that the packaging is sound. =) -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgp0x5To1dtoo.pgp Description: signature
Re: RFS: mimms - MMS (mms://) streaming media download utility
On Sunday 07 March 2004 9:59 pm, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm looking for a sponsor for the mimms package. This upload would > close ITP bug #221806. I've gettextized mimms, so now have a new version available that has i18n support for all of it's messages. > Source and binary packages can be downloaded from: > <http://www.icecavern.net/~wjl/debian/mimms/> The original package and this new revision are both available here. =) -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpAGbzmkJxyn.pgp Description: signature
Re: RFS: stripclub - Online Comic Reader/Archiver
On Friday 09 April 2004 2:15 pm, elijah wright wrote: > > For the C programming language, this means the following > > compilation parameters should be used: > > > > CC = gcc > > CFLAGS = -O2 -g -Wall > > > > though -O3 is probably OK in most cases. You should keep the > > optimizations options as conservative as possible, unless you > > really > > in my experience compiling stuff with -O3 just means that people on > other architectures (where GCC may do odd things) will eventually > probably file bugs on your package that can be fixed by moving back > to -O2. > > I've seen this happen on alpha repeatedly, and i seem to recall that > sparc and powerpc occasionally have this issue as well. Not to disagree--sometimes the optimizations -O3 does have problems on some architectures either because it exposes bugs in the software or because of compiler problems--but it would be more helpful in general to find why -O3 is causing a problem and either 1) fix the offending code if it's the packages problem, or 2) file a bug against GCC so that it can actually get fixed instead of just worked around and ignored. =) Granted, if you're not willing to go through the extra effort to do that, -O2 might be a better choice... -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpZkBpO7zJPy.pgp Description: signature
Re: RFS: PennMUSH #4
On Friday 06 August 2004 23:31, Ervin Hearn III wrote: > I'd like to make a request for a sponsor for my PennMUSH packages. > I've received some very helpful input from a few members of the > community, but haven't had a potential sponsor for a few months now. > I've continued to keep the package up to date, with improvments when > possible. I would probably be able to sponsor you if you haven't already found somebody -- I sent you a e-mail off-list with some issues & I should be able to look over the package more this afternoon. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpb6R286u2lE.pgp Description: signature
Re: RFS: imgvtopgm (was orphaned, now updated, man pages translated)
On Saturday 31 July 2004 06:51, Erik Schanze wrote: > Hi! > > I have adopted imgvtopgm (Bug #261584). > Since previous maintainer isn't able to do an upload for me, so I'd > like to ask here for a sponsor, because I'm not a DD yet. > Perhaps it could also be an one-time-sponsorship, because I still > have a sponsor for my another Palm related package, but he is > actually very busy. Are you still looking for a sponsor? If so, I may be able to help. Either way, I'm going to go take a peek at the package now and I'll give you some feedback... -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpG9yFydf2wL.pgp Description: signature
Re: RFS: LSongs? :)
On Friday 13 August 2004 10:00, Lawrence Williams wrote: > .. I knew I forgot something :P > > Would anyone here be interested in sponsoring an LSongs package for > unstable? For the umfamiliar, LSongs is the Linspire created > multimedia app for their Debian-based offering. Have you filed an ITP? I didn't see it listed. > More information can > be found here: http://info.linspire.com/lsongs/ That page gives the impression that LSongs is not free software, but is only available for purchace or bundled with Linspire. Is this true? If not, what license is it available under, and where could one download it? -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgprL9hsHwo1W.pgp Description: signature
Re: RFS: LSongs? :)
On Friday 13 August 2004 13:02, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > That page gives the impression that LSongs is not free software, but > is only available for purchace or bundled with Linspire. Is this > true? If not, what license is it available under, and where could one > download it? Well, to answer one of my own questions: I poked around a little more and finally found a like to the source under "Technical Specifications" <http://www.linspire.com/lindows_products_details.php?id=12329&pg=specs>. It's GPL-licensed. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpG4YkH994Q7.pgp Description: signature
Re: RFS: motion - please upload new revision with debconf fix
On Friday 13 August 2004 11:42, Frederik Dannemare wrote: > Hi, > > I was hoping that my sponsor of motion would have the time this week > to do a new upload which has a couple of very small fixes, but > unfortunately I haven't heard from him yet, so I'm really, really > hoping for a kind DD to notice this mail and sponsor the upload. I can sponsor you, but give me a little bit to look over the package. I'll e-mail you privately if there are problems. =) -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpbvRa8tPTBJ.pgp Description: signature
Re: motion - please do a sponsored upload for me (new revision with debconf fix)
On Friday 13 August 2004 19:06, Adam Majer wrote: > Frederik Dannemare wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I was hoping that my previous sponsor of motion would have the time > > this week to do a new upload which has a couple of very small > > fixes, but unfortunately I haven't heard from him yet, so I'm > > really, really > > I'll look at it and upload within an hour or so (unless there are > problems). I saw a copy of Frederik's same e-mail in debian-mentors earlier today and already checked it over and uploaded. My only concern was that it's not quite up-to-date with the latest upstream (3.1.14 vs 3.1.16), but since it's a bugfix, I went ahead and sponsored. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpDV6BXWm8fx.pgp Description: signature
Re: RFS: LSongs? :)
On Friday 13 August 2004 20:30, Lawrence Williams wrote: > Hey guys, > > Just a quick update before i head to bed: I have filed an ITP for > lsongs and been in touch with the maintainer for python-kde3 and > things are looking good. He is planning on doing an upload in the > next day or so. All that leaves for me to do, is find a sponsor for > lsongs and clean up any remaining lint in the packaging. I may be willing to help look over your packaging, but after this weekend my time may be limited for a little while. I would suggest re-posting an RFS message when python-kde3 is in and your lsongs package can be [more easily] built and tested. =) -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgptv5RuKLKS2.pgp Description: signature
Re: RFS: wmnetmon - new maintainer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 15 August 2004 11:11, Rolandas Juodzbalis wrote: > Andreas Metzler wrote: > > On 2004-08-15 Rolandas Juodzbalis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I taked maintenance of this package from Søren Boll Overgaard, who > >> has no time for it. > >>And he has no time for sponsoring this package. If someone can, > >> please sponsorship. > >>New package is located at > >> ftp://ftp.home.lt/pub/debian/packages/wmnetmon > > > > debian/copyright needs to be fixed to implement > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/12/msg7.html > > > > It should also list the previous maintainer. > > cu andreas > > Thanks for reviewing it. I readed that announce about bad copyright > files. But there is no such info who has copyrigth on wmnetmon. > Especially years. Will be enough to add copyright to author without > year? > And where previous maintainer should be listed in copyright file? Look a little closer. At the top of wmnetmon.c it says: /* wmnetmon - A network ICMP ping host monitoring tool. Copyright (C) 1999 Alvaro Lopes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA */ - -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBH59A8KmKTEzW49IRAoEeAJ9pEIYNgn9VhOrax3Xs1AblhFrkEACcDdz7 9chfPjYAsRP9D0OlvawMg0k= =w2gV -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: RFS: LSongs? :)
On Tuesday 17 August 2004 15:48, Lawrence Williams wrote: > Lawrence Williams wrote: > I'm starting working on my lsongs package again, now that all the > required dependencies are in unstable :) I would be happy to look your package over and provide comments/suggestions if you post a link to them when you're ready. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpr9KyP0eX9d.pgp Description: signature
Re: seeking a "temp" sponsor
On Tuesday 17 August 2004 17:32, Jacob Luna Lundberg wrote: > Howdy, > > I maintain the xscorch package and my usual sponsor isn't responding > (I think he's just too busy). I have a new debian version which > fixes a bug with 64-bit platforms and updates standards compliance > just a tad. I'm looking for somebody to upload for me, hopefully in > time to get it into testing. :) I'm looking at it now and will upload within the hour if there are no problems. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpJDp4eDXC1n.pgp Description: signature
Re: seeking a "temp" sponsor
On Tuesday 17 August 2004 17:32, Jacob Luna Lundberg wrote: > Howdy, > > I maintain the xscorch package and my usual sponsor isn't responding > (I think he's just too busy). I have a new debian version which > fixes a bug with 64-bit platforms and updates standards compliance > just a tad. I'm looking for somebody to upload for me, hopefully in > time to get it into testing. :) The package looks like it's in pretty good shape, but I have one issue I'd like resolved before I upload (perhaps kind of pedantic, maybe I've been reading too much debian-legal): debian/copyright names the principal upstream authors and the license, but doesn't contain the actual copyright "statement". From what I could glean from the AUTHORS file and the headers from the source, you'd probably want something like: Copyright © 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Justin David Smith Copyright © 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Jacob Luna Lundberg Copyright © 2000 Matti Hänninen Copyright © 2003 Jason House Copyright © 2000, 2001Jake Post Copyright © 2000 Nickolai Zeldovich This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 2 of the License ONLY. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpPWDWDxD5WC.pgp Description: signature
Re: RFS: LSongs? :)
On Tuesday 17 August 2004 20:20, Lawrence Williams wrote: > haha now i've discovered another problem. python2.3-kde3 works only > up to KDE 3.2.3 by the looks of things. So, me, using KDE 3.3, can't > use it at the moment. I can build LSongs and all, but it won't run > because python2.3-kde3 is incompatible with KDE 3.3 ( a problem with > the upstream itself, not the package or even KDE ). > > Right now, the most I can do is get everything else ready ( any > missing dependencies for lsongs sponsored into unstable ), wait for > upstream to update PyKDE for KDE 3.3 support ( aka python2.3-kde3 as > the package is called ), get Ricardo to do another upload, and then > put the final touches on LSongs itself. I'm willing to help you out when you have everything in a state where it looks like it's working if I still have the time. My schedule may be a little in flux in the next few weeks, however, so I'd continue to ask on the list for assistance. =) -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpBlhUICltxD.pgp Description: signature
Re: seeking a "temp" sponsor
On Wednesday 18 August 2004 00:52, Jacob Luna Lundberg wrote: > Ok, I'd like to make this 0.2.0-3 since -2 has been published on my > archive for a while now. I've created -3 with hopefully the needed > amendment, available at (http://www.gnifty.net/code/xscorch/). Looks good, I've uploaded it. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpRCNsz8Sibp.pgp Description: signature
Re: RFS: LSongs? :)
On Tuesday 17 August 2004 21:27, Lawrence Williams wrote: > That would be great. For now, I'd just like some help with the two > dependencies i need for my lsongs package. Both are only small > packages and should be fairly easy to clean up. They are mostly clean > now as I've inherited the work of a previous maintainer. I'll upload > them to mentors later and send you the info. I'd send an RFS to debian-mentors for each package separately, even if you think they're all related--some mentor may be interested in sponsoring one but not the other. Feel free to CC me when you post them, and I will try to help if I have the time, but I can't guarantee it at this point. > P.S. you are a DD? :P Yes. (= -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpdXdYKDdXRA.pgp Description: signature
Re: Bug#265762: ITP: tpop3d -- tpop3d is a fast, extensible, secure UNIX POP3 server
On Wednesday 18 August 2004 15:56, Rolandas Juodzbalis wrote: > I already found big (?) bug with Debian all versions probably, but [ . . . ] > helping me to correct mistakes. But what is interesting in all this - > nobody answered with "yes, I will sponsor you". Of course, it is only > four days past my request, but who can guarantee that answer will be? I just skimmed the threads on both wmnetmon and tpop3d; it seems like one reason nobody has stepped up and offered to sponsor is that it sounded like you still had work to do on both of those packages. Perhaps this was a misconception, but it was my at-a-glance impression. It may help to read through the debian-mentors FAQ, if you haven't already: <http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html>, especially the section, "How do I get a sponsor for my package?", "But why should I waste time packaging if there's no guarantee it's going to be uploaded?", and "Where else can I get a sponsor?". If you feel that the packages are ready to be reviewed again, please post links to both of your packages (wmnetmon and tpop3d) and I will try to give you feedback. I am willing to sponsor your packages if/when they are in good shape. > And it is up to Debian community to > choose if I will be passive user or will start to do something really > useful. Well, really, it's up to you; you're the only one who can take responsibility for your choices! =) But if you're willing to be a active and reliable maintainer, I am willing to sponsor your packages. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpDDnAgefH5U.pgp Description: signature
Re: RFS: kst: A KDE data analysis program
On Saturday 21 August 2004 19:06, Mark Hymers wrote: > * Package name: kst > Version : 0.9.9 > Upstream Author : C. Barth Netterfield > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : > http://omega.astro.utoronto.ca/kst/ > * License : GPL > Description : A KDE application used for displaying scientific > data A couple copyright things: The debian/copyright lists the upstream authors, but doesn't give any copyright declaration: Also, AUTHORS also includes "Rick Chern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>", which is not listed in debian/copyright. Also, there are quite a few other copyright holders not listed: $ grep -ih copyright kst/kst/* | sort | uniq | wc -l 38 Anyway, not that you probably need to list them all, but I might suggest listing at least all those in the AUTHORS file, and then noting that there are others besides those listed--this seems to be the common practice for packages that have many authors. =) -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpgFdnwNAb0g.pgp Description: signature
Re: RFS: kst: A KDE data analysis program
On Sunday 22 August 2004 09:45, Mark Hymers wrote: > On Sun, 22, Aug, 2004 at 09:17:09AM -0600, Wesley J Landaker spoke > thus.. > > > A couple copyright things: > > > > The debian/copyright lists the upstream authors, but doesn't give > > any copyright declaration: > > OK. I've added this to the file (based on a grep of the source): > will it do? > > Copyright (C) 1999-2004 C. Barth Netterfield and others Yes, that seems reasonable to me. =) > > Also, AUTHORS also includes "Rick Chern > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>", which is not listed in > > debian/copyright. > > Whoops - that must have been added between 0.97 and 0.99. Added to > debian/copyright. Okay, great. > > Anyway, not that you probably need to list them all, but I might > > suggest listing at least all those in the AUTHORS file, and then > > noting that there are others besides those listed--this seems to be > > the common practice for packages that have many authors. =) > > I've added this to the copyright file: > > === > As well as these principle authors, there have been contributions > from several other people and organisations. These are listed in the > source files. > === Sounds good to me! > Thanks for your comments. Would you be willing and able to sponsor > the package? I didn't immediately see anything else wrong with the package. Of course I'd like to be able to build and test it in sid. ;) I'm willing to sponsor it once I can get it to build cleanly. That might mean waiting a bit for some of the kde dependancies to trickle into unstable, but if you drop me a reminder to try again, I'll give it another look over and help you get it uploaded. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpmF90aeBREa.pgp Description: signature
Re: RFS: kst: A KDE data analysis program
On Friday 27 August 2004 06:35, Mark Hymers wrote: > On Sun, 22, Aug, 2004 at 09:48:17AM -0600, Wesley J Landaker spoke > thus.. > > > I'm willing to sponsor it once I can get it to build cleanly. That > > might mean waiting a bit for some of the kde dependancies to > > trickle into unstable, but if you drop me a reminder to try again, > > I'll give it another look over and help you get it uploaded. > There is a KDE NMU in incoming at the moment which fixes the > libopenexr issue. Could you offer me one piece of advice? Should I > make the Build-Depends on kdelibs4 versioned (i.e. kdelibs4 (>> > 3.3.0-1.1)) to make sure buildds don't waste time trying to do it > with 3.3.0-1? According to my reading of policy 7.1, this is allowed > [the parentheses should contain a relation from the list below > followed by a version number, in the format described in Version, > Section 5.6.11.]. I wasn't sure whether I could include a debian > revision in the versioned depends but it looks like it to me (looking > at 5.6.11). I'm pretty sure you can, but do you really need to? I would think this would only be necessary if kdelibs4 3.3.0-1 and 3.3.0-1.1 are binary incompatible. If you know or believe that they are, go ahead and add the dependancy for 3.3.0-1.1 or greater, but that's not necessary in general. > Once I've done that and tested, I'll upload final versions of the > package. Sounds good; posts the links to your packages when you feel that they're ready and I'll take a look at them. Unfortunately, like a quantum particle, I'll be popping in and out of existance this week, but I should have time to look over your package and sponsor the upload if there are no problems in the next day or two. =) -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpalqfxNxrXR.pgp Description: signature
Re: Sponsor for a new package
On Thursday 26 August 2004 23:43, Jesus Climent wrote: > On the other hand, as a comment, if the package has never been > uploaded, it does not make sense to have several changelog entries > (2.7c-1 and 2.7c-2). They should be put together, to avoid > dpkg-buildpackage to build a .changes which will not upload the > complete sources (orig.tar.gz). While this is a good idea in general, if there is some good reason to make new revisions (i.e. for uploading different versions to mentors, for local use before a package gets into debian, etc) this can be easily handled with -sa (to always upload source) and -v (to get all necessary changelog entries) to dpkg-genchanges. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpjsLiL3tTXo.pgp Description: signature
Re: How to remove ITP from debian.org?
On Thursday 26 August 2004 22:11, Lawrence Williams wrote: > John Buttery wrote: > >* Lawrence Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-08-26 23:26:25 -0230]: > >>It is pointless to leave them open, since neither package can ever > >> be released. > > > > Am I missing something here...couldn't these packages be in > > contrib if they themselves are free, even if their dependencies > > aren't? > > python2.3-lame Depends on LAME being available ( due to patent > issues, it isn't in Debian ). And LSongs is shot, since it depends on > python2.3-lame. I think what John was saying is that both python2.3-lame and LSongs, assuming they both are free on their own, could go probably go in contrib. Users could then install those packages, but would have to get lame from somewhere else (i.e. non-free, some other repository, etc). OTOH, if getting LSongs in main was important to you (or somebody) it might make sense to strip lame support out of LSongs, and either have the features that use it disabled (probably used for ripping CD's?) or simple replace that support with support for encoding to a patent-free format like Ogg/Vorbis. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpepvrwkVSSS.pgp Description: signature
Re: RFH Re: conglomerate_0.7.14-2_powerpc.changes REJECTED
On Tuesday 17 August 2004 04:09, Geert Stappers wrote:
> I'm surprised that your lintian procedures more information then
> mine. According to packages.qa.debian.org is the most recent version
> 1.23.2, I use that version also. The linda program does report also
> the missing manpage, but not the permissions on directories warning.
>
> Which tool do I have to use to make these warnings visible?
I don't know if this is related to what happened in this case, but often
running lintian against the binary package (*.deb) will give different
results than running lintian against the source package (*.dsc) and
changes file (*.changes).
I generally use
$ lintian *.{deb,dsc,changes}
for normal checking, or
$ lintian -Iv *.{deb,dsc,changes}
if I want it to be more verbose. =)
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Re: RFH Re: conglomerate_0.7.14-2_powerpc.changes REJECTED
On Sunday 29 August 2004 11:50, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 11:44:57AM -0600, Wesley J Landaker wrote:
> > I generally use
> >
> > $ lintian *.{deb,dsc,changes}
> Running lintian on a .changes file will simply run in on those files
> named in it, it isn't needed to also seperately list the .deb and
> .dsc's if they are already also in the .changes.
You're right; thanks for the clairification. In that case, it might make
sense to change my habit to "lintian *.changes" and save a few
keystrokes. =)
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Re: RFH Re: conglomerate_0.7.14-2_powerpc.changes REJECTED
On Sunday 29 August 2004 12:11, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > You're right; thanks for the clairification. In that case, it might > > make sense to change my habit to "lintian *.changes" and save a few > > keystrokes. =) > > Which is exactly what debuild by default does for you. In addition, > it will also add the proper fakeroot magic to dpkg-buildpackage, and, > eh, it's shorter to type than dpkg-buildpackage, so I prefer this > one-in-all script for building my stuff :) Actually, I like debuild, but since I use subversion to manage all of my packages, I generally just use svn-buildpackage, which does some of what debuild does... In fact, now that you got me thinking about it, I just checked the man page and realized I can add a "builder=debuild" and/or "svn-lintian" in my ~/.svn-buildpackage.conf, and have either have debuild used instead of dpkg-buildpackage, or have the lintian checks run automatically without giving a bunch of long flags on the command line... Well, that's handy! Thanks for getting me thinking this morning. ;) -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpzS9Ztt0VFR.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: RFS: kst: A KDE data analysis program
On Sunday 29 August 2004 14:37, Mark Hymers wrote: > I think the package is ready for upload now. I've made a few changes > since the last version you saw. > Also, our local server at work has died (and I haven't had a chance > to look at it yet as it's the weekend) so I've uploaded the source > package to my University webspace. It can be found at: > > http://www.students.ncl.ac.uk/mark.hymers/kst/ > > (kst_0.99-1.diff.gz, kst_0.99-1.dsc and kst_0.99.orig.tar.gz). > > Both the source packages and the .deb packages which build from this > are lintian -Ii clean and work well. I'll will look these over this afternoon. If there are any concerns, I'll e-mail you privately and we can work out the details to get it finished off and uploaded. =) -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpqusjpqRZcG.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: RFS: qtorrent - PyQT BitTorrent client
On Monday, 06 September 2004 17:17, Lawrence Williams wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for QTorrent. It is a PyQt GUI for > BitTorrent and allows easy configuration and allows multiple torrents > to be open from within a single application. I will help you out; give me a few hours to look over the package and I'll get back to you with comments in private e-mail. =) -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpS19MPHOLky.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: problems with first package
On Sunday, 14 November 2004 09:13, Andres Baravalle wrote: > I'm trying to finish my fist package but when I run > dpkg-checkbuilddeps it says "control file must have at least one > binary package". > my debian/control file is based on the lines: > > Package: python-pygrabcomics > Source: pygrabcomics > Standards-Version: 3.6.1.0 > Section: contrib/news > Priority: optional > Version: 0.4 > Architecture: i386 > Depends: blt (>= 2.4), curl, libc6 (>= 2.3), libgtk2.0, > libxml2-python2.3 (>= 2.6), make, python (>= 2.3), python (<< 2.4), > python2.3, python2.3-gtk2, python2.3-numeric, python2.3-tk, > python2.3-tk, tcl8.4, tk8.4, > Build-Depends: python2.3-dev (>= 2.3.4-13), python-devel (<< 2.4) > Suggests: gnome, libssl0.9.7 (>= 0.9), libx11-6 (>= 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8), > www-browser > > Any suggestion? I have tried for hours (and I have lost all my work > once because I saved it in /tmp and I had to reboot...). Looks like you're merging sections in debian/control that shouldn't be. It should look more like: Source: pygrabcomics Section: news Priority: optional Maintainer: Andres Baravalle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Build-Depends: ... Standards-Version: 3.6.1.0 Package: python-pygrabcomics Architecture: any Depends: ... Suggests: ... Description: package description one-liner ... full package description ... -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpfVK1uaRaBh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: RFS: stripclub - Online Comic Reader/Archiver
On Friday 09 April 2004 2:15 pm, elijah wright wrote: > > For the C programming language, this means the following > > compilation parameters should be used: > > > > CC = gcc > > CFLAGS = -O2 -g -Wall > > > > though -O3 is probably OK in most cases. You should keep the > > optimizations options as conservative as possible, unless you > > really > > in my experience compiling stuff with -O3 just means that people on > other architectures (where GCC may do odd things) will eventually > probably file bugs on your package that can be fixed by moving back > to -O2. > > I've seen this happen on alpha repeatedly, and i seem to recall that > sparc and powerpc occasionally have this issue as well. Not to disagree--sometimes the optimizations -O3 does have problems on some architectures either because it exposes bugs in the software or because of compiler problems--but it would be more helpful in general to find why -O3 is causing a problem and either 1) fix the offending code if it's the packages problem, or 2) file a bug against GCC so that it can actually get fixed instead of just worked around and ignored. =) Granted, if you're not willing to go through the extra effort to do that, -O2 might be a better choice... -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: RFS: PennMUSH #4
On Friday 06 August 2004 23:31, Ervin Hearn III wrote: > I'd like to make a request for a sponsor for my PennMUSH packages. > I've received some very helpful input from a few members of the > community, but haven't had a potential sponsor for a few months now. > I've continued to keep the package up to date, with improvments when > possible. I would probably be able to sponsor you if you haven't already found somebody -- I sent you a e-mail off-list with some issues & I should be able to look over the package more this afternoon. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpaFaHDpD0Ci.pgp Description: signature
Re: RFS: imgvtopgm (was orphaned, now updated, man pages translated)
On Saturday 31 July 2004 06:51, Erik Schanze wrote: > Hi! > > I have adopted imgvtopgm (Bug #261584). > Since previous maintainer isn't able to do an upload for me, so I'd > like to ask here for a sponsor, because I'm not a DD yet. > Perhaps it could also be an one-time-sponsorship, because I still > have a sponsor for my another Palm related package, but he is > actually very busy. Are you still looking for a sponsor? If so, I may be able to help. Either way, I'm going to go take a peek at the package now and I'll give you some feedback... -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpCl1fnUqQE4.pgp Description: signature
Re: RFS: LSongs? :)
On Friday 13 August 2004 10:00, Lawrence Williams wrote: > .. I knew I forgot something :P > > Would anyone here be interested in sponsoring an LSongs package for > unstable? For the umfamiliar, LSongs is the Linspire created > multimedia app for their Debian-based offering. Have you filed an ITP? I didn't see it listed. > More information can > be found here: http://info.linspire.com/lsongs/ That page gives the impression that LSongs is not free software, but is only available for purchace or bundled with Linspire. Is this true? If not, what license is it available under, and where could one download it? -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpvNfthqHc6K.pgp Description: signature
Re: RFS: LSongs? :)
On Friday 13 August 2004 13:02, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > That page gives the impression that LSongs is not free software, but > is only available for purchace or bundled with Linspire. Is this > true? If not, what license is it available under, and where could one > download it? Well, to answer one of my own questions: I poked around a little more and finally found a like to the source under "Technical Specifications" <http://www.linspire.com/lindows_products_details.php?id=12329&pg=specs>. It's GPL-licensed. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpN9Wy8O4w7h.pgp Description: signature
Re: RFS: motion - please upload new revision with debconf fix
On Friday 13 August 2004 11:42, Frederik Dannemare wrote: > Hi, > > I was hoping that my sponsor of motion would have the time this week > to do a new upload which has a couple of very small fixes, but > unfortunately I haven't heard from him yet, so I'm really, really > hoping for a kind DD to notice this mail and sponsor the upload. I can sponsor you, but give me a little bit to look over the package. I'll e-mail you privately if there are problems. =) -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgplrLNVsYUVg.pgp Description: signature
Re: motion - please do a sponsored upload for me (new revision with debconf fix)
On Friday 13 August 2004 19:06, Adam Majer wrote: > Frederik Dannemare wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I was hoping that my previous sponsor of motion would have the time > > this week to do a new upload which has a couple of very small > > fixes, but unfortunately I haven't heard from him yet, so I'm > > really, really > > I'll look at it and upload within an hour or so (unless there are > problems). I saw a copy of Frederik's same e-mail in debian-mentors earlier today and already checked it over and uploaded. My only concern was that it's not quite up-to-date with the latest upstream (3.1.14 vs 3.1.16), but since it's a bugfix, I went ahead and sponsored. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpAyxhIQB0rw.pgp Description: signature
Re: RFS: LSongs? :)
On Friday 13 August 2004 20:30, Lawrence Williams wrote: > Hey guys, > > Just a quick update before i head to bed: I have filed an ITP for > lsongs and been in touch with the maintainer for python-kde3 and > things are looking good. He is planning on doing an upload in the > next day or so. All that leaves for me to do, is find a sponsor for > lsongs and clean up any remaining lint in the packaging. I may be willing to help look over your packaging, but after this weekend my time may be limited for a little while. I would suggest re-posting an RFS message when python-kde3 is in and your lsongs package can be [more easily] built and tested. =) -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpGniuepqJtp.pgp Description: signature
Re: RFS: wmnetmon - new maintainer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 15 August 2004 11:11, Rolandas Juodzbalis wrote: > Andreas Metzler wrote: > > On 2004-08-15 Rolandas Juodzbalis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I taked maintenance of this package from SÃren Boll Overgaard, who > >> has no time for it. > >>And he has no time for sponsoring this package. If someone can, > >> please sponsorship. > >>New package is located at > >> ftp://ftp.home.lt/pub/debian/packages/wmnetmon > > > > debian/copyright needs to be fixed to implement > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/12/msg7.html > > > > It should also list the previous maintainer. > > cu andreas > > Thanks for reviewing it. I readed that announce about bad copyright > files. But there is no such info who has copyrigth on wmnetmon. > Especially years. Will be enough to add copyright to author without > year? > And where previous maintainer should be listed in copyright file? Look a little closer. At the top of wmnetmon.c it says: /* wmnetmon - A network ICMP ping host monitoring tool. Copyright (C) 1999 Alvaro Lopes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA */ - -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBH59A8KmKTEzW49IRAoEeAJ9pEIYNgn9VhOrax3Xs1AblhFrkEACcDdz7 9chfPjYAsRP9D0OlvawMg0k= =w2gV -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: RFS: LSongs? :)
On Tuesday 17 August 2004 15:48, Lawrence Williams wrote: > Lawrence Williams wrote: > I'm starting working on my lsongs package again, now that all the > required dependencies are in unstable :) I would be happy to look your package over and provide comments/suggestions if you post a link to them when you're ready. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpitKPRYDYab.pgp Description: signature
Re: seeking a "temp" sponsor
On Tuesday 17 August 2004 17:32, Jacob Luna Lundberg wrote: > Howdy, > > I maintain the xscorch package and my usual sponsor isn't responding > (I think he's just too busy). I have a new debian version which > fixes a bug with 64-bit platforms and updates standards compliance > just a tad. I'm looking for somebody to upload for me, hopefully in > time to get it into testing. :) I'm looking at it now and will upload within the hour if there are no problems. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpkm32Ur89vW.pgp Description: signature
Re: seeking a "temp" sponsor
On Tuesday 17 August 2004 17:32, Jacob Luna Lundberg wrote: > Howdy, > > I maintain the xscorch package and my usual sponsor isn't responding > (I think he's just too busy). I have a new debian version which > fixes a bug with 64-bit platforms and updates standards compliance > just a tad. I'm looking for somebody to upload for me, hopefully in > time to get it into testing. :) The package looks like it's in pretty good shape, but I have one issue I'd like resolved before I upload (perhaps kind of pedantic, maybe I've been reading too much debian-legal): debian/copyright names the principal upstream authors and the license, but doesn't contain the actual copyright "statement". From what I could glean from the AUTHORS file and the headers from the source, you'd probably want something like: Copyright  2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Justin David Smith Copyright  2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Jacob Luna Lundberg Copyright  2000 Matti HÃnninen Copyright  2003 Jason House Copyright  2000, 2001Jake Post Copyright  2000 Nickolai Zeldovich This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 2 of the License ONLY. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgp3HDubA2vzc.pgp Description: signature
Re: RFS: LSongs? :)
On Tuesday 17 August 2004 20:20, Lawrence Williams wrote: > haha now i've discovered another problem. python2.3-kde3 works only > up to KDE 3.2.3 by the looks of things. So, me, using KDE 3.3, can't > use it at the moment. I can build LSongs and all, but it won't run > because python2.3-kde3 is incompatible with KDE 3.3 ( a problem with > the upstream itself, not the package or even KDE ). > > Right now, the most I can do is get everything else ready ( any > missing dependencies for lsongs sponsored into unstable ), wait for > upstream to update PyKDE for KDE 3.3 support ( aka python2.3-kde3 as > the package is called ), get Ricardo to do another upload, and then > put the final touches on LSongs itself. I'm willing to help you out when you have everything in a state where it looks like it's working if I still have the time. My schedule may be a little in flux in the next few weeks, however, so I'd continue to ask on the list for assistance. =) -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpHerskBfqAe.pgp Description: signature
Re: seeking a "temp" sponsor
On Wednesday 18 August 2004 00:52, Jacob Luna Lundberg wrote: > Ok, I'd like to make this 0.2.0-3 since -2 has been published on my > archive for a while now. I've created -3 with hopefully the needed > amendment, available at (http://www.gnifty.net/code/xscorch/). Looks good, I've uploaded it. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpIfRgyT2m1u.pgp Description: signature
Re: RFS: LSongs? :)
On Tuesday 17 August 2004 21:27, Lawrence Williams wrote: > That would be great. For now, I'd just like some help with the two > dependencies i need for my lsongs package. Both are only small > packages and should be fairly easy to clean up. They are mostly clean > now as I've inherited the work of a previous maintainer. I'll upload > them to mentors later and send you the info. I'd send an RFS to debian-mentors for each package separately, even if you think they're all related--some mentor may be interested in sponsoring one but not the other. Feel free to CC me when you post them, and I will try to help if I have the time, but I can't guarantee it at this point. > P.S. you are a DD? :P Yes. (= -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpFX3G6D9JYj.pgp Description: signature
Re: Bug#265762: ITP: tpop3d -- tpop3d is a fast, extensible, secure UNIX POP3 server
On Wednesday 18 August 2004 15:56, Rolandas Juodzbalis wrote: > I already found big (?) bug with Debian all versions probably, but [ . . . ] > helping me to correct mistakes. But what is interesting in all this - > nobody answered with "yes, I will sponsor you". Of course, it is only > four days past my request, but who can guarantee that answer will be? I just skimmed the threads on both wmnetmon and tpop3d; it seems like one reason nobody has stepped up and offered to sponsor is that it sounded like you still had work to do on both of those packages. Perhaps this was a misconception, but it was my at-a-glance impression. It may help to read through the debian-mentors FAQ, if you haven't already: <http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html>, especially the section, "How do I get a sponsor for my package?", "But why should I waste time packaging if there's no guarantee it's going to be uploaded?", and "Where else can I get a sponsor?". If you feel that the packages are ready to be reviewed again, please post links to both of your packages (wmnetmon and tpop3d) and I will try to give you feedback. I am willing to sponsor your packages if/when they are in good shape. > And it is up to Debian community to > choose if I will be passive user or will start to do something really > useful. Well, really, it's up to you; you're the only one who can take responsibility for your choices! =) But if you're willing to be a active and reliable maintainer, I am willing to sponsor your packages. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpQZ2IFpkPvi.pgp Description: signature
Re: RFS: kst: A KDE data analysis program
On Saturday 21 August 2004 19:06, Mark Hymers wrote: > * Package name: kst > Version : 0.9.9 > Upstream Author : C. Barth Netterfield > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : > http://omega.astro.utoronto.ca/kst/ > * License : GPL > Description : A KDE application used for displaying scientific > data A couple copyright things: The debian/copyright lists the upstream authors, but doesn't give any copyright declaration: Also, AUTHORS also includes "Rick Chern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>", which is not listed in debian/copyright. Also, there are quite a few other copyright holders not listed: $ grep -ih copyright kst/kst/* | sort | uniq | wc -l 38 Anyway, not that you probably need to list them all, but I might suggest listing at least all those in the AUTHORS file, and then noting that there are others besides those listed--this seems to be the common practice for packages that have many authors. =) -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgp2WyNgAelg6.pgp Description: signature
Re: RFS: kst: A KDE data analysis program
On Sunday 22 August 2004 09:45, Mark Hymers wrote: > On Sun, 22, Aug, 2004 at 09:17:09AM -0600, Wesley J Landaker spoke > thus.. > > > A couple copyright things: > > > > The debian/copyright lists the upstream authors, but doesn't give > > any copyright declaration: > > OK. I've added this to the file (based on a grep of the source): > will it do? > > Copyright (C) 1999-2004 C. Barth Netterfield and others Yes, that seems reasonable to me. =) > > Also, AUTHORS also includes "Rick Chern > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>", which is not listed in > > debian/copyright. > > Whoops - that must have been added between 0.97 and 0.99. Added to > debian/copyright. Okay, great. > > Anyway, not that you probably need to list them all, but I might > > suggest listing at least all those in the AUTHORS file, and then > > noting that there are others besides those listed--this seems to be > > the common practice for packages that have many authors. =) > > I've added this to the copyright file: > > === > As well as these principle authors, there have been contributions > from several other people and organisations. These are listed in the > source files. > === Sounds good to me! > Thanks for your comments. Would you be willing and able to sponsor > the package? I didn't immediately see anything else wrong with the package. Of course I'd like to be able to build and test it in sid. ;) I'm willing to sponsor it once I can get it to build cleanly. That might mean waiting a bit for some of the kde dependancies to trickle into unstable, but if you drop me a reminder to try again, I'll give it another look over and help you get it uploaded. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpes7GEuosbu.pgp Description: signature
Re: RFS: kst: A KDE data analysis program
On Friday 27 August 2004 06:35, Mark Hymers wrote: > On Sun, 22, Aug, 2004 at 09:48:17AM -0600, Wesley J Landaker spoke > thus.. > > > I'm willing to sponsor it once I can get it to build cleanly. That > > might mean waiting a bit for some of the kde dependancies to > > trickle into unstable, but if you drop me a reminder to try again, > > I'll give it another look over and help you get it uploaded. > There is a KDE NMU in incoming at the moment which fixes the > libopenexr issue. Could you offer me one piece of advice? Should I > make the Build-Depends on kdelibs4 versioned (i.e. kdelibs4 (>> > 3.3.0-1.1)) to make sure buildds don't waste time trying to do it > with 3.3.0-1? According to my reading of policy 7.1, this is allowed > [the parentheses should contain a relation from the list below > followed by a version number, in the format described in Version, > Section 5.6.11.]. I wasn't sure whether I could include a debian > revision in the versioned depends but it looks like it to me (looking > at 5.6.11). I'm pretty sure you can, but do you really need to? I would think this would only be necessary if kdelibs4 3.3.0-1 and 3.3.0-1.1 are binary incompatible. If you know or believe that they are, go ahead and add the dependancy for 3.3.0-1.1 or greater, but that's not necessary in general. > Once I've done that and tested, I'll upload final versions of the > package. Sounds good; posts the links to your packages when you feel that they're ready and I'll take a look at them. Unfortunately, like a quantum particle, I'll be popping in and out of existance this week, but I should have time to look over your package and sponsor the upload if there are no problems in the next day or two. =) -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpLb7aAiQiW0.pgp Description: signature
Re: Sponsor for a new package
On Thursday 26 August 2004 23:43, Jesus Climent wrote: > On the other hand, as a comment, if the package has never been > uploaded, it does not make sense to have several changelog entries > (2.7c-1 and 2.7c-2). They should be put together, to avoid > dpkg-buildpackage to build a .changes which will not upload the > complete sources (orig.tar.gz). While this is a good idea in general, if there is some good reason to make new revisions (i.e. for uploading different versions to mentors, for local use before a package gets into debian, etc) this can be easily handled with -sa (to always upload source) and -v (to get all necessary changelog entries) to dpkg-genchanges. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgp85nXqwJO9U.pgp Description: signature
Re: How to remove ITP from debian.org?
On Thursday 26 August 2004 22:11, Lawrence Williams wrote: > John Buttery wrote: > >* Lawrence Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-08-26 23:26:25 -0230]: > >>It is pointless to leave them open, since neither package can ever > >> be released. > > > > Am I missing something here...couldn't these packages be in > > contrib if they themselves are free, even if their dependencies > > aren't? > > python2.3-lame Depends on LAME being available ( due to patent > issues, it isn't in Debian ). And LSongs is shot, since it depends on > python2.3-lame. I think what John was saying is that both python2.3-lame and LSongs, assuming they both are free on their own, could go probably go in contrib. Users could then install those packages, but would have to get lame from somewhere else (i.e. non-free, some other repository, etc). OTOH, if getting LSongs in main was important to you (or somebody) it might make sense to strip lame support out of LSongs, and either have the features that use it disabled (probably used for ripping CD's?) or simple replace that support with support for encoding to a patent-free format like Ogg/Vorbis. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpKh5EemekxL.pgp Description: signature
Re: RFH Re: conglomerate_0.7.14-2_powerpc.changes REJECTED
On Tuesday 17 August 2004 04:09, Geert Stappers wrote:
> I'm surprised that your lintian procedures more information then
> mine. According to packages.qa.debian.org is the most recent version
> 1.23.2, I use that version also. The linda program does report also
> the missing manpage, but not the permissions on directories warning.
>
> Which tool do I have to use to make these warnings visible?
I don't know if this is related to what happened in this case, but often
running lintian against the binary package (*.deb) will give different
results than running lintian against the source package (*.dsc) and
changes file (*.changes).
I generally use
$ lintian *.{deb,dsc,changes}
for normal checking, or
$ lintian -Iv *.{deb,dsc,changes}
if I want it to be more verbose. =)
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Re: RFH Re: conglomerate_0.7.14-2_powerpc.changes REJECTED
On Sunday 29 August 2004 11:50, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 11:44:57AM -0600, Wesley J Landaker wrote:
> > I generally use
> >
> > $ lintian *.{deb,dsc,changes}
> Running lintian on a .changes file will simply run in on those files
> named in it, it isn't needed to also seperately list the .deb and
> .dsc's if they are already also in the .changes.
You're right; thanks for the clairification. In that case, it might make
sense to change my habit to "lintian *.changes" and save a few
keystrokes. =)
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Re: RFH Re: conglomerate_0.7.14-2_powerpc.changes REJECTED
On Sunday 29 August 2004 12:11, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > You're right; thanks for the clairification. In that case, it might > > make sense to change my habit to "lintian *.changes" and save a few > > keystrokes. =) > > Which is exactly what debuild by default does for you. In addition, > it will also add the proper fakeroot magic to dpkg-buildpackage, and, > eh, it's shorter to type than dpkg-buildpackage, so I prefer this > one-in-all script for building my stuff :) Actually, I like debuild, but since I use subversion to manage all of my packages, I generally just use svn-buildpackage, which does some of what debuild does... In fact, now that you got me thinking about it, I just checked the man page and realized I can add a "builder=debuild" and/or "svn-lintian" in my ~/.svn-buildpackage.conf, and have either have debuild used instead of dpkg-buildpackage, or have the lintian checks run automatically without giving a bunch of long flags on the command line... Well, that's handy! Thanks for getting me thinking this morning. ;) -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpNoHyNMzRRY.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: RFS: kst: A KDE data analysis program
On Sunday 29 August 2004 14:37, Mark Hymers wrote: > I think the package is ready for upload now. I've made a few changes > since the last version you saw. > Also, our local server at work has died (and I haven't had a chance > to look at it yet as it's the weekend) so I've uploaded the source > package to my University webspace. It can be found at: > > http://www.students.ncl.ac.uk/mark.hymers/kst/ > > (kst_0.99-1.diff.gz, kst_0.99-1.dsc and kst_0.99.orig.tar.gz). > > Both the source packages and the .deb packages which build from this > are lintian -Ii clean and work well. I'll will look these over this afternoon. If there are any concerns, I'll e-mail you privately and we can work out the details to get it finished off and uploaded. =) -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpqiq4A18aNt.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: RFS: qtorrent - PyQT BitTorrent client
On Monday, 06 September 2004 17:17, Lawrence Williams wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for QTorrent. It is a PyQt GUI for > BitTorrent and allows easy configuration and allows multiple torrents > to be open from within a single application. I will help you out; give me a few hours to look over the package and I'll get back to you with comments in private e-mail. =) -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpTcWMbzUBd2.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: problems with first package
On Sunday, 14 November 2004 09:13, Andres Baravalle wrote: > I'm trying to finish my fist package but when I run > dpkg-checkbuilddeps it says "control file must have at least one > binary package". > my debian/control file is based on the lines: > > Package: python-pygrabcomics > Source: pygrabcomics > Standards-Version: 3.6.1.0 > Section: contrib/news > Priority: optional > Version: 0.4 > Architecture: i386 > Depends: blt (>= 2.4), curl, libc6 (>= 2.3), libgtk2.0, > libxml2-python2.3 (>= 2.6), make, python (>= 2.3), python (<< 2.4), > python2.3, python2.3-gtk2, python2.3-numeric, python2.3-tk, > python2.3-tk, tcl8.4, tk8.4, > Build-Depends: python2.3-dev (>= 2.3.4-13), python-devel (<< 2.4) > Suggests: gnome, libssl0.9.7 (>= 0.9), libx11-6 (>= 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8), > www-browser > > Any suggestion? I have tried for hours (and I have lost all my work > once because I saved it in /tmp and I had to reboot...). Looks like you're merging sections in debian/control that shouldn't be. It should look more like: Source: pygrabcomics Section: news Priority: optional Maintainer: Andres Baravalle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Build-Depends: ... Standards-Version: 3.6.1.0 Package: python-pygrabcomics Architecture: any Depends: ... Suggests: ... Description: package description one-liner ... full package description ... -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpTolSgJEgDT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Stupid shebang tricks & env -
On Thursday 12 May 2005 20:18, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * martin f krafft [Fri, 13 May 2005 04:10:48 +0200]: > > also sprach Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.05.13.0338 +0200]: > > > >8 /usr/bin/smartenv 8<- > > > #! /bin/sh > > > > > > sh -c "$*" > > > > > > > #!/bin/sh > > exec $* > > Uhm, nice (one fork less), but then you can "quote arguments" (and > "$*" won't help here). But "$@" will. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpKVBcae0cQ1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Stupid shebang tricks & env -
On Thursday 12 May 2005 20:43, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Wesley J. Landaker [Thu, 12 May 2005 20:41:17 -0600]: > > On Thursday 12 May 2005 20:18, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > > Uhm, nice (one fork less), but then you can "quote arguments" (and > > > "$*" won't help here). > > > > But "$@" will. > > No, sorry, it won't (I tested this stuff). At least in my system, the > kernel will pass, for a she-bang like: > > #!/foo bar "baz quux" > > the string 'bar "baz quux"' as $1. To break that into parts, you need > exactly "$*". You're absolutely right, I misread what the OP was trying to do. =) In that case, the sh -c trick is certainly better than the exec. (One of my pet peeves is scripts and programs that don't work with filenames that have spaces and shell characters in them.) -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpSKy1Z30Zas.pgp Description: PGP signature
RFS: sng - a specialized markup language for representing PNG contents
Hi folks, I've packaged up SNG, and I'm looking for a sponser. The files can be found at: http://www.icecavern.net/~wjl/debian/sng/ It passes both lintian and linda. From ITP Bug #218489: * Package name: sng Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Eric S. Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sng.sourceforge.net * License : libpng/zlib Description : a markup language for expressing the contents of a PNG in an editable, all-text form. "SNG is a specialized markup language for expressing the contents of a PNG (Portable Network Graphics) in an editable, all-text form. The project supports the sng compiler, which can translate between SNG and PNG." -- from http://sourceforge.net/projects/sng/ "SNG (Scriptable Network Graphics) is a minilanguage designed specifically to represent the entire contents of a PNG (Portable Network Graphics) file in an editable form. Thus, SNGs representing elaborate graphics images and ancillary chunk data can be readily generated or modified using only text tools. SNG is implemented by a compiler/decompiler called sng that losslessly translates between SNG and PNG." -- from http://sng.sourceforge.net As you might guess from the descriptions quoted above, SNG is a very useful program--allowing the manipulation of PNGs using text mode tools. The upstream author provides RPM-based source and binary packages, but no one has a debian package available either in debian or anywhere listed at apt-get.org. -- Wesley J. Landaker - [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RFS: mimms - MMS (mms://) streaming media download utility
Hi folks, I'm looking for a sponsor for the mimms package. This upload would close ITP bug #221806. MiMMS is a fork of the "mmsclient" streaming media download utility originally from <http://www.geocities.com/majormms/> ... this utility is very handy at saving mms:// streams (usually from .asx files) so that they can be watched later (as opposed to in real-time). The "mmsclient" package is included in many GNU/Linux distributions, but isn't available in Debian. Since "mmsclient" is not maintained upstream and is also the name of a completely unrelated project, I've taken over upstream maintainence with this new name. (As packaged, this is more or less the vanilla original mmsclient source). MiMMS aliases itself as "mmsclient" for backwards compatibility. Anyway, here are it's vitals: Package: mimms (formerly known as mmsclient, forked for maintainence) Description: MMS (mms://) streaming media download utility MiMMS, formerly called "mmsclient", is a simple client to download streaming audio and/or video media from the internet using the MMS protocol (i.e. from mms:// type URLs, generally found in asx files). Downloaded streams can then be replayed offline at your leisure, using any compatible media player of your choice. License: GPL The package is lintian and linda clean and builds cleanly in pbuilder. Source and binary packages can be downloaded from: <http://www.icecavern.net/~wjl/debian/mimms/> -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: RFS: mimms - MMS (mms://) streaming media download utility
On Sunday 07 March 2004 9:59 pm, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm looking for a sponsor for the mimms package. This upload would > close ITP bug #221806. [ ... ] > Anyway, here are it's vitals: > > Package: mimms (formerly known as mmsclient, forked for maintainence) > Description: MMS (mms://) streaming media download utility > MiMMS, formerly called "mmsclient", is a simple client to download > streaming audio and/or video media from the internet using the MMS > protocol (i.e. from mms:// type URLs, generally found in asx files). > Downloaded streams can then be replayed offline at your leisure, > using any compatible media player of your choice. > License: GPL > > The package is lintian and linda clean and builds cleanly in > pbuilder. > > Source and binary packages can be downloaded from: > <http://www.icecavern.net/~wjl/debian/mimms/> It's been more than a week so I guess I'll ping again: any interest in sponsoring this package? =) -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: RFS: mimms - MMS (mms://) streaming media download utility
On Monday 15 March 2004 11:03 pm, Joe Wreschnig wrote: > On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 22:24, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > > On Sunday 07 March 2004 9:59 pm, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > I'm looking for a sponsor for the mimms package. This upload > > > would close ITP bug #221806. > > > > > > Source and binary packages can be downloaded from: > > > <http://www.icecavern.net/~wjl/debian/mimms/> > > > > It's been more than a week so I guess I'll ping again: any interest > > in sponsoring this package? =) > > I'm interested, but I won't be able to get around to it until this > weekend at the earliest, probably. Okay, great; I appreciate your willingness to sponsor. There's no big rush, I just want to make sure that it doesn't get forgotten about. Feel free to send any suggestions/corrections my way when you get a chance to check it over, but I'm pretty confident that the packaging is sound. =) -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: RFS: mimms - MMS (mms://) streaming media download utility
On Sunday 07 March 2004 9:59 pm, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm looking for a sponsor for the mimms package. This upload would > close ITP bug #221806. I've gettextized mimms, so now have a new version available that has i18n support for all of it's messages. > Source and binary packages can be downloaded from: > <http://www.icecavern.net/~wjl/debian/mimms/> The original package and this new revision are both available here. =) -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgp0.pgp Description: signature
