Re: yes, GPL means GPL3 today... (Re: RFS: gnome-color-chooser)

2007-12-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 12:04:48PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >>> I think the best way is to include the license text in >>> debian/copyright just like any other license that is not in >>> common-licenses. >> We probably don't really want to include a copy

Re: Using Linda

2007-12-14 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 15 Dec 2007, David Schulberg wrote: Hi All, Posted originally to debian-user and it was suggested I post here in particular: Have just set up Linda or I thought I had. When I run 'linda package.deb' I get errors as follows: debian:/home/david/Desktop/Downloads# linda checki

Using Linda

2007-12-14 Thread David Schulberg
Hi All, Posted originally to debian-user and it was suggested I post here in particular: >> Have just set up Linda or I thought I had. When I run 'linda package.deb' I get errors as follows: debian:/home/david/Desktop/Downloads# linda checkinstall_1.6.1-1_i386.deb Linda: Running

RFS: kmfl-keyboards-mywin

2007-12-14 Thread Keith Stribley
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "kmfl-keyboards-mywin". * Package name: kmfl-keyboards-mywin Version : 2.1.1-1 Upstream Author : Keith Stribley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.thanlwinsoft.org/ThanLwinSoft/Downloads/#keyboards * License

Re: Upload to mentors.d.n stalled in incoming ?

2007-12-14 Thread Gilles Filippini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gilles Filippini a écrit : > Bas Wijnen a écrit : >> This is because dupload checks its own log, and refuses to upload the >> same file twice unless you force it with --force. You should probably >> do this, and see if you get "file already exists" er

Re: yes, GPL means GPL3 today... (Re: RFS: gnome-color-chooser)

2007-12-14 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 10:21:41PM +0100, Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote: > Bas Wijnen wrote: >> >> RMS does this, in his attempts to move people to use the newest version >> of the GPL. He has a point, but if Debian would fully agree with it, I >> suppose we would relicense all GPL works as GPL versi

Re: yes, GPL means GPL3 today... (Re: RFS: gnome-color-chooser)

2007-12-14 Thread Basile STARYNKEVITCH
Bas Wijnen wrote: RMS does this, in his attempts to move people to use the newest version of the GPL. He has a point, but if Debian would fully agree with it, I suppose we would relicense all GPL works as GPL version 3 or later when possible. I am not a lawyer (and you'll need a lawyer know

Re: Upload to mentors.d.n stalled in incoming ?

2007-12-14 Thread Bas Wijnen
Hi, On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 10:09:21PM +0100, Gilles Filippini wrote: > I've uploaded yesterday to mentors.d.n a new release of my package nted. > The upload seemed successful but I didn't received any confirmation mail > and the package doesn't show up on the mentors.d.n web site. > > Here is th

Upload to mentors.d.n stalled in incoming ?

2007-12-14 Thread Gilles Filippini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I've uploaded yesterday to mentors.d.n a new release of my package nted. The upload seemed successful but I didn't received any confirmation mail and the package doesn't show up on the mentors.d.n web site. Here is the trace of the upload acti

Re: yes, GPL means GPL3 today... (Re: RFS: gnome-color-chooser)

2007-12-14 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 12:04:48PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > I think the best way is to include the license text in debian/copyright > > just like any other license that is not in common-licenses. > > We probably don't really want to include a copy of the GPLv1 in every Perl > package. If th

Re: gcc-snapshot for testing

2007-12-14 Thread Cyril Brulebois
On 14/12/2007, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: > I needed to test the building of one of my packages with gcc4.3. > However it turns out that gcc-snapshot from unstable contains the > critical bug, which makes impossible using it. At the same time the > previous version of the gcc-snapshot deb-package ha

Re: gcc-snapshot for testing

2007-12-14 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 14 December 2007, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: Hi, > I needed to test the building of one of my packages with gcc4.3. > However it turns out that gcc-snapshot from unstable contains the critical > bug, which makes impossible using it. At the same time the previous > version of the gcc-snap

Re: gcc-snapshot for testing

2007-12-14 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 22:38:56 +0300, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: > I needed to test the building of one of my packages with gcc4.3. > However it turns out that gcc-snapshot from unstable contains the critical > bug, which makes impossible using it. At the same time the previous > version of the g

Re: yes, GPL means GPL3 today... (Re: RFS: gnome-color-chooser)

2007-12-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Matthias Julius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Agreed. I think debian/copyright should always refer to the exact >> version of the GPL that the package says it's covered under and then >> document whether only that version is permissable or whether the "

Re: RFS: colordiff

2007-12-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Matthias Julius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Dave Ewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Yes, I do run lintian (and linda), but the spare machine I used to >>> build the packages was running Lenny at the time I built them. It's >>> now Sid ;-) >> You c

gcc-snapshot for testing

2007-12-14 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
I needed to test the building of one of my packages with gcc4.3. However it turns out that gcc-snapshot from unstable contains the critical bug, which makes impossible using it. At the same time the previous version of the gcc-snapshot deb-package has been already deleted from unstable. As a resul

RFS: kmfl-keyboards-mywin

2007-12-14 Thread Keith Stribley
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "kmfl-keyboards-mywin". * Package name: kmfl-keyboards-mywin Version : 2.1.1-1 Upstream Author : Keith Stribley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.thanlwinsoft.org/ThanLwinSoft/Downloads/#keyboards * License

Re: [Pkg-ime-devel] RFS: scim-kmfl-imengine

2007-12-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 09:37:07AM -0800, Doug Rintoul wrote: > Ming Hua wrote: >> Scim package is already set up to handle all_ALL, it just doesn't set it s/Scim/im-switch/ >> to default (and it shouldn't). I believe no packages that currently use >> im-switch change all_ALL by default. > Can y

Re: a "package-all" package

2007-12-14 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hello Thibaut, Thibaut Paumard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm packaging an interpreted language, Yorick, and a bunch of add-ons > for that language. > > I'd like to provide a wrapper package that would depend on all the > packages in this family present in main and suggest the one that is

Re: yes, GPL means GPL3 today... (Re: RFS: gnome-color-chooser)

2007-12-14 Thread Matthias Julius
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Agreed. I think debian/copyright should always refer to the exact version > of the GPL that the package says it's covered under and then document > whether only that version is permissable or whether the "or later" part is > available. (The exception is

Re: RFS: colordiff

2007-12-14 Thread Matthias Julius
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dave Ewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Yes, I do run lintian (and linda), but the spare machine I used to build >> the packages was running Lenny at the time I built them. It's now Sid >> ;-) > > You can also pin lintian in particular to unstable on

Re: Packages getting created without signature

2007-12-14 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, iluvlinux wrote: > but dpkg-buildpackage command asks for passphrase just before building the > package (at dh_builddeb ). so how can i check it with lintian etc. > > Do you want that first i should build a package, check it and than use gpg > separately for signing th

Re: Packages getting created without signature

2007-12-14 Thread Colin Tuckley
iluvlinux wrote: > but dpkg-buildpackage command asks for passphrase just before building the > package (at dh_builddeb ). so how can i check it with lintian etc. You can sign it when dpkg-buildpackage asks you. Since you will have to be actually there to do that you can then run lintian to check

Re: Packages getting created without signature

2007-12-14 Thread iluvlinux
hi but dpkg-buildpackage command asks for passphrase just before building the package (at dh_builddeb ). so how can i check it with lintian etc. Do you want that first i should build a package, check it and than use gpg separately for signing the package? bye Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > >

Re: Packages getting created without signature

2007-12-14 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, iluvlinux wrote: > Storing your passphrase in a file or ENV variable is never "safe" as told in > documents and by mentors. True enough. Yet ... > than here's what i found: > gpg's default home dir is ~/.gunpg (you can change it using --homedir > option, using this op

Re: yes, GPL means GPL3 today... (Re: RFS: gnome-color-chooser)

2007-12-14 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 14 December 2007 00:37, Bas Wijnen wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 03:06:27PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > > And yes, if you refer to "the GPL" today, it certainly means GPL3. > Not at all. Well, at least not completely. ;-) GNU GPL 3 itself says > about this (section 14): Wow,

Re: Packages getting created without signature

2007-12-14 Thread iluvlinux
Storing your passphrase in a file or ENV variable is never "safe" as told in documents and by mentors. but what if you want to enter the passphrase number of times or you want a cron job or a script to do use gpg? than here's what i found: gpg's default home dir is ~/.gunpg (you can change it us