Bug#567603: ITP: libextutils-cchecker-perl -- helper module for handling C headers and libraries

2010-01-29 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Owner: Jonathan Yu Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libextutils-cchecker-perl Version : 0.02 Upstream Author : Paul Evans * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/ExtUtils-CChecker/ *

Bug#567602: ITP: libtie-encryptedhash-perl -- module for encrypted hashes and objects based on hashes

2010-01-29 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Owner: Jonathan Yu Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libtie-encryptedhash-perl Version : 1.24 Upstream Author : Vipul Ved Prakash * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Tie-EncryptedH

Bug#567601: ITP: libconvert-ascii-armour-perl -- module to convert binary into ASCII-armoured messages

2010-01-29 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Owner: Jonathan Yu Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libconvert-ascii-armour-perl Version : 1.4 Upstream Author : Vipul Ved Prakash * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Convert-ASCI

Bug#567594: ITP: libclass-loader-perl -- module to load modules and create objects on command

2010-01-29 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Owner: Jonathan Yu Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libclass-loader-perl Version : 2.03 Upstream Author : Vipul Ved Prakash, * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Class-Loader/ * Li

Re: Package upgrade in Debian without corresponding changelog entry

2010-01-29 Thread Ben Finney
"Adam D. Barratt" writes: > On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 10:20 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > = > > $ PACKAGE=mercurial > > > > $ dpkg-query -W -f 'Version: ${Version}\n' $PACKAGE > > Version: 1.4.1-1+b1 > > > > $ zcat /usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE/changelog.Debian.gz | dpkg-parsechangelog > > -l- | grep

Re: Package upgrade in Debian without corresponding changelog entry

2010-01-29 Thread Stefan Fritsch
On Saturday 30 January 2010, Ben Finney wrote: > So, the version was upgraded to ‘1.2.1-1+b1’, but there latest > entry in the changelog is still only ‘1.4.1-1’. There is no entry > describing the changes in the latest release of the package, as > specified in policy §4.4. > > How does this occ

Re: Package upgrade in Debian without corresponding changelog entry

2010-01-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Goswin von Brederlow writes: > The +b suffix on the version is indeed a binNMU. That means that the > source was recompiled without any changes to the source. The changelog > is the one from the source so it only has the source version as top > entry. binNMUs also modify the changelog in the pac

Re: Package upgrade in Debian without corresponding changelog entry

2010-01-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ben Finney writes: > Howdy all, > > Occasionally I notice a package upgrade on a host, but the Debian > changelog for the package has no corresponding changelog entry for the > new release. > > The most recent example is ‘mercurial’: > > = > $ PACKAGE=mercurial > > $ dpkg-query -W -f 'Ver

Re: Package upgrade in Debian without corresponding changelog entry

2010-01-29 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 10:20 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Occasionally I notice a package upgrade on a host, but the Debian > changelog for the package has no corresponding changelog entry for the > new release. > > The most recent example is ‘mercurial’: > > = > $ PACKAGE=mercurial > > $ dpkg-

Package upgrade in Debian without corresponding changelog entry

2010-01-29 Thread Ben Finney
Howdy all, Occasionally I notice a package upgrade on a host, but the Debian changelog for the package has no corresponding changelog entry for the new release. The most recent example is ‘mercurial’: = $ PACKAGE=mercurial $ dpkg-query -W -f 'Version: ${Version}\n' $PACKAGE Version: 1.4.1-1

Bug#567552: ITP: python-html2text -- A Python Script which converts HTML to Markdown

2010-01-29 Thread Stefano Rivera
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stefano Rivera * Package name: python-html2text Version : 2.37 Upstream Author : Aaron Swartz * URL : http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/html2text/ * License : GPL3 Programming Lang: Python Description : A Python Scrip

Re: Debian policy update (3.8.4.0)

2010-01-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Simon McVittie writes: > Since libdbus appears in ia32-libs and isn't particularly large, and I > wanted to make an experimental upload anyway (to add a -dbg package > while avoiding the NEW queue blocking unstable), I've prepared a > hopefully multiarch-compatible version of it, which uses > /li

Re: RFS: miredo

2010-01-29 Thread Rémi Denis-Courmont
Hello, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, Remi Denis-Courmont wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: normal > > > > > > Hello, > > > > I request assistance with maintaining the miredo package. > > > > The last update has unfortunately introduced a severe regression. That > > b