Re: New Maintainer Process

2003-03-03 Thread Michael Ablassmeier
hi Craig, On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 10:27:31AM +1100, Craig Small wrote: > You didn't say where you are! I assume somewhere in Germany. A key > signing pretty much guarantees you need to meet someone. You're right, i'm German. I contacted an Developer that's next to me 2 hours ago. (i missed to

Re: New Maintainer Process

2003-03-03 Thread Craig Small
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 08:57:54PM +0100, Michael Ablassmeier wrote: > I hope/think this is the right place to ask. > For 2 Days i noticed that there are no Debian Packages for the "glark" > tool, a little nice grep supplement in ruby, so i started to build one and > it works quite well. After shor

Re: Kleandisk

2003-03-03 Thread Craig Small
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 03:27:01PM -0600, John Lightsey wrote: > I've been working on the orphaned Kleandisk package in the hopes that I could > find a sponsor and take over maintaining it. I've been able to get it > compiling against the KDE3/QT3 in unstable, and I've been working on cleaning

Point releases

2003-03-03 Thread Volker Sturm
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, another thing that might influence package maintenance at least for stable are the point releases. What packages qualify for updates in a point release? What is the difference to a major release (which is more or less the same question I guess)?

Re: New Maintainer Process

2003-03-03 Thread Michael Ablassmeier
hi Craig, On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 10:27:31AM +1100, Craig Small wrote: > You didn't say where you are! I assume somewhere in Germany. A key > signing pretty much guarantees you need to meet someone. You're right, i'm German. I contacted an Developer that's next to me 2 hours ago. (i missed to

Kleandisk

2003-03-03 Thread John Lightsey
Hi there, I've been working on the orphaned Kleandisk package in the hopes that I could find a sponsor and take over maintaining it. I've been able to get it compiling against the KDE3/QT3 in unstable, and I've been working on cleaning up the remaining lintian errors. I also contacted the ups

Re: New Maintainer Process

2003-03-03 Thread Craig Small
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 08:57:54PM +0100, Michael Ablassmeier wrote: > I hope/think this is the right place to ask. > For 2 Days i noticed that there are no Debian Packages for the "glark" > tool, a little nice grep supplement in ruby, so i started to build one and > it works quite well. After shor

Re: Kleandisk

2003-03-03 Thread Craig Small
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 03:27:01PM -0600, John Lightsey wrote: > I've been working on the orphaned Kleandisk package in the hopes that I could > find a sponsor and take over maintaining it. I've been able to get it > compiling against the KDE3/QT3 in unstable, and I've been working on cleaning

Point releases

2003-03-03 Thread Volker Sturm
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, another thing that might influence package maintenance at least for stable are the point releases. What packages qualify for updates in a point release? What is the difference to a major release (which is more or less the same question I guess)?

New Maintainer Process

2003-03-03 Thread Michael Ablassmeier
hi, I hope/think this is the right place to ask. For 2 Days i noticed that there are no Debian Packages for the "glark" tool, a little nice grep supplement in ruby, so i started to build one and it works quite well. After short mailing with Jeff Pace (the developer of this tool) he said that he w

Kleandisk

2003-03-03 Thread John Lightsey
Hi there, I've been working on the orphaned Kleandisk package in the hopes that I could find a sponsor and take over maintaining it. I've been able to get it compiling against the KDE3/QT3 in unstable, and I've been working on cleaning up the remaining lintian errors. I also contacted the ups

Re: Unofficial package tips

2003-03-03 Thread Bastian Kleineidam
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 11:38:33PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Bastian Kleineidam wrote: > > > Hmm, dh_make is trying to do a similar approach. Why not use that way? > > I like to have the original .tar.gz exactly as I downloaded it. dh_make > > unpacks

New Maintainer Process

2003-03-03 Thread Michael Ablassmeier
hi, I hope/think this is the right place to ask. For 2 Days i noticed that there are no Debian Packages for the "glark" tool, a little nice grep supplement in ruby, so i started to build one and it works quite well. After short mailing with Jeff Pace (the developer of this tool) he said that he w

Re: Unofficial package tips

2003-03-03 Thread Bastian Kleineidam
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 11:38:33PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Bastian Kleineidam wrote: > > > Hmm, dh_make is trying to do a similar approach. Why not use that way? > > I like to have the original .tar.gz exactly as I downloaded it. dh_make > > unpacks

Re: How free does a non-free package have to be?

2003-03-03 Thread Johannes Rohr
Kalle Kivimaa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Johannes Rohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It seems to me that they just don't care at all about Debian. I really > > wonder _how_ they build their debs. I mean: A binary package which has a > > "Build-depends" field - wouldn't dpkg-buildpackage give

Re: How free does a non-free package have to be?

2003-03-03 Thread Johannes Rohr
Kalle Kivimaa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Johannes Rohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It seems to me that they just don't care at all about Debian. I really > > wonder _how_ they build their debs. I mean: A binary package which has a > > "Build-depends" field - wouldn't dpkg-buildpackage give

Re: How free does a non-free package have to be?

2003-03-03 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Johannes Rohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems to me that they just don't care at all about Debian. I really > wonder _how_ they build their debs. I mean: A binary package which has a > "Build-depends" field - wouldn't dpkg-buildpackage give an error message > on this? What makes you think t

Re: How free does a non-free package have to be?

2003-03-03 Thread Johannes Rohr
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 09:13:56PM +0100, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > Johannes Rohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > [...] I am examining if it is possible to replace > > the installer package with a package that contains the actual > > software. So I'm not planning to make more non-free software a

Re: How free does a non-free package have to be?

2003-03-03 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Johannes Rohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems to me that they just don't care at all about Debian. I really > wonder _how_ they build their debs. I mean: A binary package which has a > "Build-depends" field - wouldn't dpkg-buildpackage give an error message > on this? What makes you think t

Looking for sponsor: pysol

2003-03-03 Thread Yusei TAHARA
I'm looking for a sponsor for pysol, pysol-cardsets, pysol-sound-server. pysol is X11 solitaire game written in Python. these package are orphaned, I wolud like to take it and want to become a new maintainer. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no&bug=182930 Thank you. -- Yuse

Re: How free does a non-free package have to be?

2003-03-03 Thread Johannes Rohr
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 09:13:56PM +0100, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > Johannes Rohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > [...] I am examining if it is possible to replace > > the installer package with a package that contains the actual > > software. So I'm not planning to make more non-free software a

Looking for sponsor: pysol

2003-03-03 Thread Yusei TAHARA
I'm looking for a sponsor for pysol, pysol-cardsets, pysol-sound-server. pysol is X11 solitaire game written in Python. these package are orphaned, I wolud like to take it and want to become a new maintainer. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no&bug=182930 Thank you. -- Yuse