Re: automatically parseable debian/copyright

2007-11-28 Thread Ben Finney
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bart Martens wrote: > > As far as I know, it has not yet been decided that the > > debian/copyright files must be formatted as described on the wiki > > page quoted above. Or did I miss some decision ? > > Don't confuse it being mandatory with it being allo

Re: automatically parseable debian/copyright

2007-11-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Nov 28, 2007 8:28 PM, Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IMO there's nothing wrong with suggesting to do things in a certain way, > even if there is no consensus about that (yet). Perhaps this suggestion > looked a bit too much like "this is how it should be done" and not > enough like "y

Re: RFS: envctrl

2007-11-28 Thread David Johnson
On Wednesday 28 November 2007 00:28:08 Paul Wise wrote: > > I don't have the hardware or kernel module packaging experience, but > here are a couple of things: > > Homepage is a field in the source package: > http://wiki.debian.org/HomepageFieldHOWTO OK, I've updated the control file. The Homepage

Re: automatically parseable debian/copyright

2007-11-28 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 07:45:07PM +, Joey Hess wrote: > Bart Martens wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 17:44 +0930, Paul Wise wrote: > > > I'd suggest that the copyright file > > > should be redone and done so it can be parsed automatically: > > > > > > http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/Copyrig

Re: automatically parseable debian/copyright

2007-11-28 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 10:27:21AM +0100, Bart Martens wrote: > On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 17:44 +0930, Paul Wise wrote: > > I'd suggest that the copyright file > > should be redone and done so it can be parsed automatically: > > > > http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat > > On Wed, 2007-11

Re: automatically parseable debian/copyright

2007-11-28 Thread Joey Hess
Bart Martens wrote: > On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 17:44 +0930, Paul Wise wrote: > > I'd suggest that the copyright file > > should be redone and done so it can be parsed automatically: > > > > http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat > > Hi Paul, > > As far as I know, it has not yet been decid

Re: ITA: libdbi + libdbi-drivers (updated packages) 2nd try, please consider!

2007-11-28 Thread Thomas Goirand
Paul Wise wrote: > On Nov 26, 2007 4:36 PM, Thomas Goirand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I suspect (didn't check) that you are missing some copyright info >>> since there are lots of upstream authors, but only one copyright >>> holder. >> Yes, my copyright file was really wrong, and the package

Re: service helper package

2007-11-28 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hallo C.J., C.J. Adams-Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 12:32 +, Jörg Sommer wrote: >> C.J. Adams-Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > # Fully qualified paths to required programs >> > START_STOP_DAEMON=/sbin/start-stop-daemon >> > CAT=/bin/cat >> > ECHO=/bin/echo

Re: automatically parseable debian/copyright

2007-11-28 Thread Bart Martens
On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 17:44 +0930, Paul Wise wrote: > I'd suggest that the copyright file > should be redone and done so it can be parsed automatically: > > http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 18:21 +0930, Paul Wise wrote: > On Nov 28, 2007 6:15 PM, Bart Martens

Re: service helper package

2007-11-28 Thread C.J. Adams-Collier
Great. I was hoping for this answer :) On Nov 26, 2007 5:25 PM, Raphael Geissert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 25/11/2007, C.J. Adams-Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > is there something like a service-common package that provides a helper > > script like the following for services to sou

Re: automatically parseable debian/copyright

2007-11-28 Thread Paul Wise
[I'm on the list no need to CC me] On Nov 28, 2007 6:15 PM, Bart Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As far as I know, it has not yet been decided that the debian/copyright > files must be formatted as described on the wiki page quoted above. Or > did I miss some decision ? You didn't miss any

automatically parseable debian/copyright

2007-11-28 Thread Bart Martens
On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 17:44 +0930, Paul Wise wrote: > I'd suggest that the copyright file > should be redone and done so it can be parsed automatically: > > http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat Hi Paul, As far as I know, it has not yet been decided that the debian/copyright files mus

Re: ITA: libdbi + libdbi-drivers (updated packages) 2nd try, please consider!

2007-11-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Nov 26, 2007 4:36 PM, Thomas Goirand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I suspect (didn't check) that you are missing some copyright info > > since there are lots of upstream authors, but only one copyright > > holder. > > Yes, my copyright file was really wrong, and the package was rejected by > f