Re: [RFC] alpine - Friendly text-based email client (Bug #401001)

2006-12-05 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Daniel Baumann wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/alpine/alpine_0.8-0.dsc * you're modifying imap/Makefile without notice in the changelog Fixed. * it's normal to write debhelper with a version, such as debhelper (>= 4), and list it as the first bu

Re: [RFC] alpine - Friendly text-based email client (Bug #401001)

2006-12-05 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue December 5 2006 15:16, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > There's only one other significant change: The build system prompts > the user interactively if to enable IPv6 support, so I commented out > the question and enabled it. something is amiss here... ln -s ip6_unix.c ip_unix.c ln: creating symbol

Re: [RFC] alpine - Friendly text-based email client (Bug #401001)

2006-12-05 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue December 5 2006 16:08, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > Quick side question resulting from off-list discussions: > > This package conflicts with (custom-built) pine packages many people > have been using. Okay if I make alpine "Conflicts: pine" and > "Replaces: pine"? not necessarily "custom-built"

Re: RFC: id3tool (updated package - adoption)

2006-12-05 Thread Daniel Baumann
Paul Cager wrote: > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/i/id3tool/id3tool_1.2a-1.dsc generally the package is good, but there are a few glitches i would correct: you write: ---snip--- * New maintainer. (Closes: #400360 - ITA: id3tool) * New upstream release (Closes: #280180 - Option -

RFC: id3tool (updated package - adoption)

2006-12-05 Thread Paul Cager
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Mentors, Please can I have comments about my packaging of id3tools, which I intend to adopt. It is lintian clean and builds in a pbuilder environment. It fixes bugs 280180, 363953, 400360. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - - UR

Re: [RFC] alpine - Friendly text-based email client (Bug #401001)

2006-12-05 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Quick side question resulting from off-list discussions: This package conflicts with (custom-built) pine packages many people have been using. Okay if I make alpine "Conflicts: pine" and "Replaces: pine"? Also, I think it would be useful if /usr/bin/pine were a symlink to /usr/bin/alpine? O

Re: [RFC] alpine - Friendly text-based email client (Bug #401001)

2006-12-05 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue December 5 2006 15:16, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > I'm working on packaging the Alpine mail client, an Apache License > 2.0 release of the popular PINE mail and news reader. I'm very happy > to see this great (both powerful and friendly) MUA be Free. > > Upstream bundles an editor called PICO,

Re: [RFC] alpine - Friendly text-based email client (Bug #401001)

2006-12-05 Thread Daniel Baumann
Asheesh Laroia wrote: > Upstream bundles an editor called PICO, originally the PIne COmposer. I > wanted to ask for comments on the way I handled making two binary > packages: basically I do "make install" with CURDIR set to alpine, and I > just "mv" the pico binary and man page out into the CURDI

[RFC] alpine - Friendly text-based email client (Bug #401001)

2006-12-05 Thread Asheesh Laroia
I'm working on packaging the Alpine mail client, an Apache License 2.0 release of the popular PINE mail and news reader. I'm very happy to see this great (both powerful and friendly) MUA be Free. Upstream bundles an editor called PICO, originally the PIne COmposer. I wanted to ask for commen

Re: Dependency on Package where Upstream License Changed to Non-Free

2006-12-05 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 21:33:58 +0100 Benjamin Mesing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am in the process of packaging UMLet [1] which depends on the external > library EPS Graphics2d [2]. Apparantly that libray used to be available > under GPL but is now distributed on a commercial basis. h

Dependency on Package where Upstream License Changed to Non-Free

2006-12-05 Thread Benjamin Mesing
Hello, I am in the process of packaging UMLet [1] which depends on the external library EPS Graphics2d [2]. Apparantly that libray used to be available under GPL but is now distributed on a commercial basis. The source of the EPS lib is contained in the UMLet release, therefore I guess, that UMLe

Re: RFS: scim-qtimm and scim-bridge for ZhengPeng Hou

2006-12-05 Thread ZhengPeng Hou
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 08:20:25PM +, Wen-Yen Chuang wrote: > Osamu Aoki wrote: > >Also have you checked current Qt shipped with Debian is compatible with > >scim-qtimm. Last time I checked about a year or so ago, Qt nneeded > >patch to use scim-qtimm. > > Debian's Qt3 have patched the Qt imm

Debconf Trouble

2006-12-05 Thread Patrick Schönfeld
Hi, uhmm.. i know that i may be probing your patience with me, but I am new and learning ;o) Well, here is another issue, i have. Thanks to Joey, i figured how to use register to register questions for multiple use. It yet does work good for me, except that I'm having problems with boolean questio

Re: RFS: scim-qtimm and scim-bridge for ZhengPeng Hou

2006-12-05 Thread Wen-Yen Chuang
Osamu Aoki wrote: Also have you checked current Qt shipped with Debian is compatible with scim-qtimm. Last time I checked about a year or so ago, Qt nneeded patch to use scim-qtimm. Debian's Qt3 have patched the Qt immodule since version 3.3.5-4(Feb 23, 2006). All Qt3 immodules work great and

Re: RFS: scim-qtimm and scim-bridge for ZhengPeng Hou

2006-12-05 Thread ZhengPeng Hou
On 二, 12月 05, 2006 at 03:08:26上午 -0600, Ming Hua wrote: > On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 11:18:02PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > I am CCing this to debian-mentors. Can someone help him? > > I am not a DD and can't sponsor uploads, so the following are just > comments. > > > On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 03:4

Re: RFS: scim-qtimm and scim-bridge for ZhengPeng Hou

2006-12-05 Thread ZhengPeng Hou
On 二, 12月 05, 2006 at 03:49:44上午 -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >I do not think I can be technically sure to upload this with my limitted > >time too. Besides, I do not use Qt. > > > > I would like to help as I am a KDE user. I have taken ov

Re: RFS: scim-qtimm and scim-bridge for ZhengPeng Hou

2006-12-05 Thread Ming Hua
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 11:18:02PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > I am CCing this to debian-mentors. Can someone help him? I am not a DD and can't sponsor uploads, so the following are just comments. > On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 03:44:46PM +0800, ZhengPeng Hou wrote: > > scim-bridge was uploaded to d

Re: RFS: scim-qtimm and scim-bridge for ZhengPeng Hou

2006-12-05 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, I do not think I can be technically sure to upload this with my limitted time too. Besides, I do not use Qt. I would like to help as I am a KDE user. I have taken over the skim ackage but it probably needs some updating so if ZhengPeng can help wi