Looking for a sponsor, adopting an orphan

2006-12-15 Thread Brandon Barnes
I would like to adopt the package, xevil. It is a side-scrolling, evil, bloody, kill them before they kill you game. It is GPL software. It's upstream site is xevil.com . This package has been orphaned since February 2006. It's ITA Bug # is 353389. I have some experience packaging software for a de

RFS: mailscanner (updated package, willing to adopt)

2006-12-15 Thread Simon Walter
Dear mentors, I am looking for a comments and a sponsor for the new version 4.55.10-4 of the package "mailscanner". I am willing to adopt this package. It builds these binary packages: mailscanner - email virus scanner and spam tagger The package is lintian clean. The upload would fix these bu

Re: netcdf packages

2006-12-15 Thread Warren Turkal
On Friday 15 December 2006 16:40, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > Warren Turkal wrote: > > On Thursday 14 December 2006 11:09, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > >> 1) Why did you make the libnetcdf++3 package into a dummy package and > >> move the C++ bindings into the libnetcdf3 package? ÂIf the soname of the >

Re: netcdf packages

2006-12-15 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Warren Turkal wrote: > On Thursday 14 December 2006 11:09, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: >> 1) Why did you make the libnetcdf++3 package into a dummy package and >> move the C++ bindings into the libnetcdf3 package? ÂIf the soname of the >> C++ package needs to evolve faster than that of the C/FORTRAN b

Re: netcdf packages

2006-12-15 Thread Warren Turkal
On Friday 15 December 2006 16:20, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > Another thing I noticed is that the old .debs have a single file > libnetcdf.so.3.6.1 including both C and FORTRAN code, while your new > .debs have separated it out into two files, libnetcdf.so.3.6.2 and > libnetcdff.so.3.6.2.  This is go

Re: netcdf packages

2006-12-15 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Warren Turkal wrote: > On Thursday 14 December 2006 11:09, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: >> This is weird: if you install your new packages of netcdf, the existing >> kst-plugins package (from Sid) on your system should automatically pick >> up the new libnetcdf_c++.so.3 library and function properly,

Re: RFS: array-info

2006-12-15 Thread Daniel Baumann
Raphaël Pinson wrote: > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/array-info/array-info_0.12-1.dsc please build-depend on the linux-headers package, and do not include them into your orig.tar.gz. do strip of the CVS dirs from orig.tar.gz and ask upstream to remove them in the next release. ar

Re: RFS: gambas2 (updated packages)

2006-12-15 Thread Andreas Barth
* Daniel Baumann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061215 18:37]: > Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > I don't think now is a good time to upload anything new to sid at all. > > Etch has been frozen, and every attempt should be made to make sure that > > Sid remains in a state where updates can be pushed from it to Etc

Re: RFS: gambas2 (updated packages)

2006-12-15 Thread Daniel Baumann
Shachar Shemesh wrote: > I don't think now is a good time to upload anything new to sid at all. > Etch has been frozen, and every attempt should be made to make sure that > Sid remains in a state where updates can be pushed from it to Etch, if > necessary. This means that Sid should only contains c

RFS: array-info

2006-12-15 Thread Raphaël Pinson
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "array-info". * Package name: array-info Version : 0.12-1 Upstream Author : Benoit Gaussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=58067 * License : GPL Section

Re: RFS: gambas2 (updated packages)

2006-12-15 Thread L. Redrejo
El vie, 15-12-2006 a las 16:45 +0200, Shachar Shemesh escribió: > José L. Redrejo Rodríguez wrote: > > Dear mentors, > > > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.9.46-1 > > of my package "gambas2". There is a previous version uploaded to > > experimental. > > After the upstream author

Re: RFS: gambas2 (updated packages)

2006-12-15 Thread Shachar Shemesh
José L. Redrejo Rodríguez wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.9.46-1 > of my package "gambas2". There is a previous version uploaded to experimental. > After the upstream author has frozen the gambas2 byte code and Debian has > frozen etch, > I think it's al

RFS: gambas2 (updated packages)

2006-12-15 Thread L. Redrejo
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.9.46-1 of my package "gambas2". There is a previous version uploaded to experimental. After the upstream author has frozen the gambas2 byte code and Debian has frozen etch, I think it's already time to upload gambas2 to sid. It buil

Re: Help regarding package with shared objects

2006-12-15 Thread Paul Cager
"Andreas Fester" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Paul, > > you should definitely read > > http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html > > It should answer most of your questions, including package layout and > the role of -dev packages. Thanks - this is exactly the sort

Re: Opinions on CDBS amongst sponsors

2006-12-15 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 10:29 +0200, Jari Aalto wrote: > Especially adding the EXAMPLES sections would greatly improve all the > manual pages by listing the typical usage cases. Here is an exerpt. Patches are probably most welcome ;) Thijs signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed me