Re: COPYING says GPL, but all headers say LGPL

2006-06-27 Thread Craig Small
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 11:02:01AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > It appears that, although the COPYING file and the website > claim that TreeView X is GPL, all the source files have Library GPL > headers (except the Nexus ones of course). Technically, what is the > licence of TreeView X? LGP

COPYING says GPL, but all headers say LGPL

2006-06-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 10:17:32PM +1000, Craig Small a écrit : > Nexus class libraries are found at http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/ncl/ > I would strongly reccomend that these were packaged separately and that > you use the ones directly from the author's site. Dear Craig, Thanks for

RFS #2 (a bit complicated): hypermail

2006-06-27 Thread Jan Nordholz
Dear list, (Resend/Update of [0]) > after Yu Guanghui had filed an RFA[1] on hypermail, I suggested to him > two weeks ago that I could shape up the package, and asked him if he > would review and upload my changes. He agreed, so I claimed the RFA > and did the packaging. However, I haven't recei

Re: RFS: gplanarity

2006-06-27 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Franz Pletz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060628 00:59]: > Well, upstream does in fact "really" release but uses the revision as > version number, so I thought I should stick with it. True, if there a > 0.x or 1.x release an epoch has to be used but I think it's nevertheless > justified. Oh, okay,

RFS: gpixpod

2006-06-27 Thread Flavio Gargiulo
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gpixpod". * Package name: gpixpod Version : 0.4.4-1 Upstream Author : Flavio Gargiulo * URL : http://www.gpixpod.org * License : GPL Section : graphics It builds these binary packages: gpixpod

Re: shc -- #335278 broken packaging -- non-DD NMU prepared

2006-06-27 Thread Alexander Schmehl
[ Cc-ing the bug report, so we have it in the bts, too ] Hi! * George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060627 21:21]: > > points mentioned in franks original bug report: > > > 1.2 debian/copyright: "This package has many utilities that are GPL > > > or close to GPL code." "close to GPL"??? > >

Re: RFS: gplanarity

2006-06-27 Thread Franz Pletz
Hi Alexander, first, thanks very much for uploading. On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 03:24:11PM +0200, Alexander Schmehl wrote: > * Franz Pletz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060625 14:36]: > > * Package name: gplanarity > > Version : 11496-1 > > Damn, forgot one remark: > You use the svn revision a

RFS: ipv6calc -- small utility for manipulating IPv6 addresses

2006-06-27 Thread Niko Tyni
Hi debian-mentors, I'm looking for a sponsor for a new version (0.60.0-1) of the package "ipv6calc": Description: small utility for manipulating IPv6 addresses The ipv6calc utility can convert between different formats of IPv4 or IPv6 addresses. It can also show information about the addresses,

Re: new package with an epoch

2006-06-27 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-27 07:12]: > I am planning ot upload a package which I have been maintaining > for a local archive for several years already. I intended to > keep the old changelogs as a record of the work that has been > done on the package, however there is one

Re: shc -- #335278 broken packaging -- non-DD NMU prepared

2006-06-27 Thread George Danchev
On Tuesday 27 June 2006 21:32, Alexander Schmehl wrote: > Hi! > > * George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060620 11:43]: > > The bug #335278 is relatively easy, but has been neglected for quite > > long time. I sent a patch to bts and contacted maintainer, but got no > > feedback after being wait

[uploaded] pngcrush - optimizes PNG (Portable Network Graphics) files

2006-06-27 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Nelson A. de Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060620 05:37]: > Kapil and I are searching for a sponsor for pngcrush. > It's a new upstream release, fixing one bug and some typos on pngcrush > manpage. Uploaded. Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.htm

Re: sch -- #335278 broken packaging -- non-DD NMU prepared

2006-06-27 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060620 11:43]: > The bug #335278 is relatively easy, but has been neglected for quite > long > time. I sent a patch to bts and contacted maintainer, but got no feedback > after being waiting for a reasonable timeframe. Thus, I prepared a non-DD >

Re: Need to include copyright for something that's only used by source?

2006-06-27 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Tyler MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060627 19:49]: > mod_bt is now bundling Nik Clayton's libtap, an excellent little unit > testing module. This module is only used by mod_bt during a "make check", > and is not installed (and not even used by the debian build process). [..] > I want to be

Need to include copyright for something that's only used by source?

2006-06-27 Thread Tyler MacDonald
mod_bt is now bundling Nik Clayton's libtap, an excellent little unit testing module. This module is only used by mod_bt during a "make check", and is not installed (and not even used by the debian build process). The conditions for redistributing libtap are, * Redistribution and use in source a

Re: RFS: gplanarity

2006-06-27 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Franz Pletz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060625 14:36]: > * Package name: gplanarity > Version : 11496-1 Damn, forgot one remark: You use the svn revision as version number. I don't think it's a good idea to use it this way: - the user can't see, that it's "just" an svn-snapshot - if

Re: new package with an epoch

2006-06-27 Thread Carlo Segre
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, martin f krafft wrote: You've just answered your own question, no? If you really think you have other users, use an epoch. It's ugly, but it works. If you don't have other users, go through the changelog and prepend 0.0. to all existing versions. :) Had to do some thin

Re: how do I send my debs to debian servers ?

2006-06-27 Thread Alec Berryman
Prasad Ramamurthy Kadambi on 2006-06-27 20:44:03 +0530: > I used $svn-inject to svn but how do I send my debs to debian servers ? Your question isn't clear to me, but I believe reading the following FAQ section will be helpful: http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html#sponsored_

how do I send my debs to debian servers ?

2006-06-27 Thread Prasad Ramamurthy Kadambi
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Re: About the libraries shipped with the sources of a package.

2006-06-27 Thread Craig Small
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 03:13:41PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > I am packaging Treeview X (GPL) and the upstream tarball contains also > the TreeLib (LGPL) and the Nexus library (GPL). For the moment, > Treeview X is statically linked to them, just as what is done when > building by ./configure &

RFS: python-stemmer

2006-06-27 Thread Franz Pletz
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "python-stemmer". * Package name: python-stemmer Version : 1.0.1-1 Upstream Author : Richard Boulton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://snowball.tartarus.org/ * License : BSD, MIT Section : pytho

Re: RFS: gtkradiant

2006-06-27 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 25 June 2006 17:11, Frits Daalmans wrote: > From: Frits Daalmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org > Subject: RFS: gtkradiant > > Dear mentors, Hi, > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gtkradiant". > > * Package name: gtkradiant > Version :

RFS: templayer -- layered template library for Python

2006-06-27 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, Would anyone be able to sponsor templayer? It is a python module that I need for urwid in order to be able to generate the tutorial. It uses cdbs and python-support for building at the moment. dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/t/templayer/templayer_1.2-2-1.dsc http://mento

Re: new package with an epoch

2006-06-27 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.06.27.0649 +0200]: > package versioning in such a way that I had to apply an epoch. Would it > be better for me to just drop the old changelogs and the eopch for the > first archive upload? I will risk breaking upgrades for the current users >

Re: RFS: gplanarity

2006-06-27 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Franz Pletz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060625 14:36]: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gplanarity". > * Package name: gplanarity > Version : 11496-1 [..] > I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. On it's way up to the archive. Yours sincerely, Alexan