new Audacity packages

2004-03-13 Thread Matt Brubeck
I am one of the upstream authors of Audacity (a free cross-platform sound editor). Another upstream author, Josh Haberman, is the current Debian maintainer of audacity. Josh is no longer as active in Debian as he used to be, and is planning to sponsor me as a new maintainer for audacity. I have

new Audacity packages

2004-03-13 Thread Matt Brubeck
I am one of the upstream authors of Audacity (a free cross-platform sound editor). Another upstream author, Josh Haberman, is the current Debian maintainer of audacity. Josh is no longer as active in Debian as he used to be, and is planning to sponsor me as a new maintainer for audacity. I have

RFS: xerces -- or -- request for NMU

2004-03-13 Thread Jay Berkenbilt
I am interested in possibly co-maintaining the xerces packages or in taking them over. Ivo Timmermans, the current maintainer of the xerces packages, indicated on [1]debian-devel that he is "looking for people interested in working on the xerces packages, as a comaintainer or maybe to take it ove

RFS: xerces -- or -- request for NMU

2004-03-13 Thread Jay Berkenbilt
I am interested in possibly co-maintaining the xerces packages or in taking them over. Ivo Timmermans, the current maintainer of the xerces packages, indicated on [1]debian-devel that he is "looking for people interested in working on the xerces packages, as a comaintainer or maybe to take it ove

silly questions about devel machines

2004-03-13 Thread Magosányi Árpád
Hi! I am trying to check if I could fix an arch-dependent bug, so I have to compile my package on an arm, powerpc or s390. Picked bruckner from the list, done a dchroot sid. Now I would need tla to get the source (I could work around it), and several build dependencies. Is it true that I have to

Re: If you have a second, help me test these source/binary debs I made

2004-03-13 Thread Bruno Barrera C.
On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 16:04, Number Six wrote: > On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 11:05:32AM -0300, Bruno Barrera C. wrote: > > > > Well, actually there's a bit of things that you must change. > > > > - Please remove all the .ex files of the debian/ directory, that you're > > not using. > > > > - You mus

silly questions about devel machines

2004-03-13 Thread Magosányi Árpád
Hi! I am trying to check if I could fix an arch-dependent bug, so I have to compile my package on an arm, powerpc or s390. Picked bruckner from the list, done a dchroot sid. Now I would need tla to get the source (I could work around it), and several build dependencies. Is it true that I have to

Re: If you have a second, help me test these source/binary debs I made

2004-03-13 Thread Bruno Barrera C.
On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 16:04, Number Six wrote: > On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 11:05:32AM -0300, Bruno Barrera C. wrote: > > > > Well, actually there's a bit of things that you must change. > > > > - Please remove all the .ex files of the debian/ directory, that you're > > not using. > > > > - You mus

Re: If you have a second, help me test these source/binary debs I made

2004-03-13 Thread Number Six
On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 11:05:32AM -0300, Bruno Barrera C. wrote: > > Well, actually there's a bit of things that you must change. > > - Please remove all the .ex files of the debian/ directory, that you're > not using. > > - You must create a manpage for this program. > > - The README.Debian i

Re: [i18n-trans] create our forum

2004-03-13 Thread QiuShi
引用前几天我发的一封信的部分内容: 首先有一点需要明确,那就是我们的工作目的是什么?我们是为少数技术迷服务,还是为最广大的普通用户服务?我们仅仅是在为一种信仰而奋斗,还是实实在在为使所有人都用上 GNU/linux 而努力?这一点我们一直认识不清。这一点一天搞不清,linuxer 之间的口水战就一天也停息不了。但很明显,一部分 linuxer 是持前一种态度的。每天在 BBS 上看到的都是这些无为的争论,另人沮丧、厌恶。每个人都站在自己的角度考虑问题,有没有替别人想想?为什么中国这么大,真正属于我们的开源项目寥寥无几?直到现在居然有人还在谈论有没有必要开发 magicli

Re: If you have a second, help me test these source/binary debs I made

2004-03-13 Thread Number Six
On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 11:05:32AM -0300, Bruno Barrera C. wrote: > > Well, actually there's a bit of things that you must change. > > - Please remove all the .ex files of the debian/ directory, that you're > not using. > > - You must create a manpage for this program. > > - The README.Debian i

Re: [i18n-trans] create our forum

2004-03-13 Thread QiuShi
引用前几天我发的一封信的部分内容: 首先有一点需要明确,那就是我们的工作目的是什么?我们是为少数技术迷服务,还是为最广大的普通用户服务?我们仅仅是在为一种信仰而奋斗,还是实实在在为使所有人都用上 GNU/linux 而努力?这一点我们一直认识不清。这一点一天搞不清,linuxer 之间的口水战就一天也停息不了。但很明显,一部分 linuxer 是持前一种态度的。每天在 BBS 上看到的都是这些无为的争论,另人沮丧、厌恶。每个人都站在自己的角度考虑问题,有没有替别人想想?为什么中国这么大,真正属于我们的开源项目寥寥无几?直到现在居然有人还在谈论有没有必要开发 magicli

Re: If you have a second, help me test these source/binary debs I made

2004-03-13 Thread Bruno Barrera C.
On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 09:09, Number Six wrote: > On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 04:08:43AM -0800, Number Six wrote: > > Back in December, I tried to have a few people test this little app I > > wrote: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200312/msg07834.html > > > > It wasn't too suc

Re: If you have a second, help me test these source/binary debs I made

2004-03-13 Thread Number Six
On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 04:08:43AM -0800, Number Six wrote: > Back in December, I tried to have a few people test this little app I > wrote: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200312/msg07834.html > > It wasn't too successful as a first effort. I think I've made it more > "n

If you have a second, help me test these source/binary debs I made

2004-03-13 Thread Number Six
Back in December, I tried to have a few people test this little app I wrote: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200312/msg07834.html It wasn't too successful as a first effort. I think I've made it more "normal" now. I've created Sid source and binary debs of it with debuild

Re: If you have a second, help me test these source/binary debs I made

2004-03-13 Thread Bruno Barrera C.
On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 09:09, Number Six wrote: > On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 04:08:43AM -0800, Number Six wrote: > > Back in December, I tried to have a few people test this little app I > > wrote: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200312/msg07834.html > > > > It wasn't too suc

Re: Request for sponorship.

2004-03-13 Thread ANDREW OKIROR
Dear sir / madam   i humbly submitte in my request as stated above. Am a Ugandan by nationality aged 19 in my advanced level of learning. Am staying with my uncle but his now not in position to fainace my education due to termination from work and the big number of his childern in the fami

Re: If you have a second, help me test these source/binary debs I made

2004-03-13 Thread Number Six
On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 04:08:43AM -0800, Number Six wrote: > Back in December, I tried to have a few people test this little app I > wrote: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200312/msg07834.html > > It wasn't too successful as a first effort. I think I've made it more > "n

If you have a second, help me test these source/binary debs I made

2004-03-13 Thread Number Six
Back in December, I tried to have a few people test this little app I wrote: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200312/msg07834.html It wasn't too successful as a first effort. I think I've made it more "normal" now. I've created Sid source and binary debs of it with debuild

Re: Can I autogen Build-Depends like I can Depends, with shlibs?

2004-03-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 12:43:00AM -0800, Number Six wrote: > This is more of a -user question, but only devs would know: That means it's for debian-mentors. Redirecting. > My dh_make -generated debian/control and debian/rules uses dh_shlibdeps > to automatically generate the Depends: line, whic

Re: Request for sponorship.

2004-03-13 Thread ANDREW OKIROR
Dear sir / madam   i humbly submitte in my request as stated above. Am a Ugandan by nationality aged 19 in my advanced level of learning. Am staying with my uncle but his now not in position to fainace my education due to termination from work and the big number of his childern in the fami

Re: Can I autogen Build-Depends like I can Depends, with shlibs?

2004-03-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 12:43:00AM -0800, Number Six wrote: > This is more of a -user question, but only devs would know: That means it's for debian-mentors. Redirecting. > My dh_make -generated debian/control and debian/rules uses dh_shlibdeps > to automatically generate the Depends: line, whic

Re: Why Katie thinks it's an NMU?

2004-03-13 Thread Andreas Barth
* Roger Leigh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040313 01:10]: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Magosányi Árpád <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > But Katie thinks that my latest two uploads were NMU. > > The same is the case with zorp. > > > > What did I do wrong? > What was the version

Summary: Why Katie thinks it's an NMU?

2004-03-13 Thread Magosányi Árpád
Hi! The following possible problems have been identified: -The uploaders field is not bit-by-bit the same as the uploader's name in the changes file. -This can come from the fact that one is UTF8 encoded, the other is not -The number of digits in the debian version can be of relevance. In my case