Re: Splitting source package; what to do with NEWS files?

2006-07-16 Thread Rudy Godoy
El día 16/07/2006 a 14:51 Kevin B. McCarty escribió... > Hi all, > > I am intending to split the source package for "cernlib" into four new > source packages (one of which will still be called cernlib) for the > purposes of better maintainability, and making life easier on slow > buildds. I have

Splitting source package; what to do with NEWS files?

2006-07-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi all, I am intending to split the source package for "cernlib" into four new source packages (one of which will still be called cernlib) for the purposes of better maintainability, and making life easier on slow buildds. I have questions about what to do with NEWS files though. Let me give a s

Re: RFS: quilt-el

2006-07-16 Thread Satoru Takeuchi
Hi mentors, At Mon, 10 Jul 2006 01:25:03 +0900, Satoru Takeuchi wrote: > > Hi mentors, > > I'm looking for a sponsor for the "quilt-el" package. > > * Package name: quilt-el > Version : 0.4-hg20060425-1 > Upstream Author : Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : h

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

2006-07-16 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 15 July 2006 15:14, Ricardo Mones wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:49:10 +0200 > > Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So it is very well possible (but probably not a > > good idea) to perform real NMU as a maintainer. A lintian/linda check > > wouldn't give a false positive there

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

2006-07-16 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 15 July 2006 03:48, Russ Allbery wrote: > George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Friday 14 July 2006 10:08, Bas Wijnen wrote: > >> They could check that non-NMU uploads must not say "Non maintainer > >> upload" in the changelog. Appearantly they don't do that. I think a > >