Re: RFS: bzr-avahi

2008-07-17 Thread James Henstridge
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:40 PM, Jelmer Vernooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "bzr-avahi". > > * Package name: bzr-avahi > Version : 0.1~bzr17-1 Is there any reason you're packaging such an old version? I put out a 0.2.0 ta

Re: How to not break dependant packages

2008-07-17 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Stefan Potyra wrote: > On Thursday 17 July 2008 15:15:25 Sean McE wrote: > > On current packaging there is no way to express the dependency on > > upstream version only, > [..] > > actually, there is: > Depends: foo (>= 1.2.1), foo (<< 1.2.1+) You generally want Package: ba

Re: RFS: dkms

2008-07-17 Thread Kel Modderman
Hi, On Monday 09 June 2008 01:55:51 David Paleino wrote: > > > DKMS is a framework designed to allow individual kernel modules to be > > > upgraded without changing the whole kernel. It is also very easy to > > > rebuild > > > modules as you upgrade kernels. > > > > please elaborate on the adva

Re: RFS: libnanoxml2-java

2008-07-17 Thread Sveinung Kvilhaugsvik
>> The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: >> - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libnanoxml2-java >> - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable >> main contrib non-free >> - dget >> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libnanoxml2-java/l

Re: RFS: bzr-search

2008-07-17 Thread Ben Finney
Jelmer Vernooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > bzr-search - Search plugin for Bazaar Thanks for packaging so many useful things for Bazaar. However, please re-work the synopsis for this (and any other packages) so that it is an appositiv clause, as described in http://www.debian.org/doc/developer

Re: packaging for wine

2008-07-17 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
Am Donnerstag, den 10.07.2008, 08:52 +0200 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > i'd like to package (separately) some windows applications that run > nice under wine. > > does anybody know if exists a similar package (to steal ideas from)? > > i don't know where to install files, how to control which use

Re: RFS: xaos (updated package)

2008-07-17 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 12:51:30AM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: > The upload would fix these bugs: 244490, 478993 > > The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: > - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/x/xaos > - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable > m

Re: RFS: xaos (updated package)

2008-07-17 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 01:25, Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you sure this change is safe? > > * debian/menu > - added explicitly the binary program instead of using sh to launch it > > Maybe there was a reason this made sure that the program was called > with HOME as the work

RFS: xaos (updated package)

2008-07-17 Thread Sandro Tosi
Dear mentors/QA team, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 3.4-1 of package "xaos" (QA upload). It builds these binary packages: xaos - real-time interactive fractal zoomer The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 244490, 478993 The package can

Re: RFS: libnanoxml2-java

2008-07-17 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Thu Jul 17 17:31, Sveinung Kvilhaugsvik wrote: > Hello! Hi! > The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: > - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libnanoxml2-java > - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable > main contrib non-free > - dget > http

Re: packaging for wine

2008-07-17 Thread Patrick Matthäi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > hello, > > i'd like to package (separately) some windows applications that run nice > under wine. Hello, first thanks for trying to make Debian better and better. But I've to say that I disagree with the idea to package applications which need wine to run, so on pure

Re: packaging for wine

2008-07-17 Thread Patrick Matthäi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > hello, > > i'd like to package (separately) some windows applications that run nice > under wine. Hello, first thanks for trying to make Debian better and better. But I've to say that I disagree with the idea to package applications which need wine to run, so on pure

Re: packaging for wine

2008-07-17 Thread Patrick Matthäi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > hello, > > i'd like to package (separately) some windows applications that run nice > under wine. Hello, first thanks for trying to make Debian better and better. But I've to say that I disagree with the idea to package applications which need wine to run, so on pure

Re: How to not break dependant packages

2008-07-17 Thread Hubert Chathi
Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-07-17 20:59 +0200, Hubert Chathi wrote: >> Stefan Potyra wrote: >> >> Hi, >> On Thursday 17 July 2008 15:15:25 Sean McE wrote: >>> >>> On current packaging there is no way to express the dependency on >>> upstream version only, >> [...] >> >>> actually, there is: >>

Re: How to not break dependant packages

2008-07-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-07-17 20:59 +0200, Hubert Chathi wrote: > Stefan Potyra wrote: > >> Hi, >> On Thursday 17 July 2008 15:15:25 Sean McE wrote: >>> >> On current packaging there is no way to express the dependency on >> upstream version only, > [...] > >> actually, there is: >> Depends: foo (>= 1.2.1), foo

Re: How to not break dependant packages

2008-07-17 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hubert Chathi wrote: > Stefan Potyra wrote: > >> Hi, >> On Thursday 17 July 2008 15:15:25 Sean McE wrote: >> On current packaging there is no way to express the dependency on >> upstream version only, > [...] > >> actually, there is: >> Depends: foo

Re: How to not break dependant packages

2008-07-17 Thread Hubert Chathi
Stefan Potyra wrote: > Hi, > On Thursday 17 July 2008 15:15:25 Sean McE wrote: >> > On current packaging there is no way to express the dependency on > upstream version only, [...] > actually, there is: > Depends: foo (>= 1.2.1), foo (<< 1.2.1+) This wouldn't work for binNMU'ed packages (in wh

Re: Changing of behavior: How to tell the user?

2008-07-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-07-17 17:56 +0200, Justin Pryzby wrote: > Another option is to create (only if it doesn't exist, and after doing > a version number comparison with dpkg --compare-versions to see if > this is a version where it should be created) /etc/defaults/cvsnt as a > non-conffile configuration file,

Re: RFS: dante - fix RC bugs, adopt, update

2008-07-17 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 17 July 2008 17:47:51 Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 05:19:37PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.1.19.dfsg-1 > > of the "dante" package - I'm adopting it, fixing three RC bugs > > (dante does not currently hav

Re: Changing of behavior: How to tell the user?

2008-07-17 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 06:14:51PM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Andreas Tscharner wrote: > > Dear Mentors, > > cvslockd is started every time. So I created a configuration file > > /etc/defaults/cvsnt where an environment variable defines whether or not > > the daemon gets started. I figure

RFS: libnanoxml2-java

2008-07-17 Thread Sveinung Kvilhaugsvik
Hello! I am looking for a sponsor for my package "libnanoxml2-java", a small XML parser for Java. * Package name: libnanoxml2-java Version : 2.2.3.dfsg-4 Upstream Author : Marc De Scheemaecker * URL : http://nanoxml.cyberelf.be/ * License : zlib Section

RE: font policy changes

2008-07-17 Thread unifoundry
> Original Message > Subject: Re: font policy changes > From: Julien Cristau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, July 17, 2008 1:38 am > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-mentors@lists.debian.org > > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 00:19:39 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrot

Re: Changing of behavior: How to tell the user?

2008-07-17 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andreas Tscharner wrote: > Dear Mentors, > > I'm the maintainer of the CVSNT package. This is a better replacement > for CVS and just like CVS it can work as server or client. > > One of the enhancements (on the server side) was replacing the old > d

Changing of behavior: How to tell the user?

2008-07-17 Thread Andreas Tscharner
Dear Mentors, I'm the maintainer of the CVSNT package. This is a better replacement for CVS and just like CVS it can work as server or client. One of the enhancements (on the server side) was replacing the old directory based file locks with a so-called lock server, which handled all the loc

Re: RFS: dante - fix RC bugs, adopt, update

2008-07-17 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 05:19:37PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.1.19.dfsg-1 > of the "dante" package - I'm adopting it, fixing three RC bugs > (dante does not currently have a version in testing), updating it > to the new upstream release,

RFS: bzr-avahi

2008-07-17 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "bzr-avahi". * Package name: bzr-avahi Version : 0.1~bzr17-1 Upstream Author : James Henstridge * URL : http://launchpad.net/bzr-avahi * License : GPL Section : devel It builds these binary pack

RFS: bzr-upload

2008-07-17 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "bzr-upload". * Package name: bzr-upload Version : 0.1.0~bzr44-1 Upstream Author : Vincent Ladeuil Martin Albisetti * URL : http://launchpad.net/bzr-upload * License : GPL Section

RFS: bzr-stats

2008-07-17 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "bzr-stats". * Package name: bzr-stats Version : 0.0.1~bzr23-1 Upstream Author : John Arbash Meinel Jelmer Vernooij * URL : http://launchpad.net/bzr-stats * License : GPL Section

Re: How to not break dependant packages

2008-07-17 Thread Stefan Potyra
Hi, On Thursday 17 July 2008 16:17:09 Thibaut Paumard wrote: [..] > > Then I believe the maintainer could do something with the > dependencies, but I'm not sure what. Setting Conflicts in claws-mail > on the previous version of the plug-ins would ensure that you don't > keep installed plug-in that

RFS: bzr-search

2008-07-17 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "bzr-search". * Package name: bzr-search Version : 1.6.0~bzr49-1 Upstream Author : Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : https://launchpad.net/bzr-search * License : GPL Section : devel It

Re: How to not break dependant packages

2008-07-17 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 17 juil. 08 à 16:19, Thibaut Paumard a écrit : Le 17 juil. 08 à 15:38, Pietro Battiston a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thibaut Paumard ha scritto: I guess you are running unstable: you have to expect those glitches. It should not happen in testing or stable.

RFS: dante - fix RC bugs, adopt, update

2008-07-17 Thread Peter Pentchev
Hi, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.1.19.dfsg-1 of the "dante" package - I'm adopting it, fixing three RC bugs (dante does not currently have a version in testing), updating it to the new upstream release, and updating the Debian packaging a lot. It builds these binary packages:

Re: How to not break dependant packages

2008-07-17 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 17 juil. 08 à 15:38, Pietro Battiston a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thibaut Paumard ha scritto: I guess you are running unstable: you have to expect those glitches. It should not happen in testing or stable. Please forgive my ignorance: why shouldn't it happen

Re: How to not break dependant packages

2008-07-17 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 17 juil. 08 à 15:58, Sean McE a écrit : On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:30:08 +0200 Thibaut Paumard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I guess you are running unstable: you have to expect those glitches. It should not happen in testing or stable. It should not happen in unstable very often either: apparent

Re: How to not break dependant packages

2008-07-17 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 IANADD Sean McE wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:30:08 +0200 > Thibaut Paumard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I guess you are running unstable: you have to expect those glitches. >> It should not happen in testing or stable. It should not happen in

Re: How to not break dependant packages

2008-07-17 Thread Pietro Battiston
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thibaut Paumard ha scritto: > I guess you are running unstable: you have to expect those > glitches. It should not happen in testing or stable. Please forgive my ignorance: why shouldn't it happen in testing? (I mean: by what control mechanism?) Pi

Re: How to not break dependant packages

2008-07-17 Thread Sean McE
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:30:08 +0200 Thibaut Paumard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess you are running unstable: you have to expect those glitches. > It should not happen in testing or stable. It should not happen in > unstable very often either: apparently it's only for new upstream > vers

Re: How to not break dependant packages

2008-07-17 Thread Stefan Potyra
Hi, On Thursday 17 July 2008 15:15:25 Sean McE wrote: > > On current packaging there is no way to express the dependency on > upstream version only, [..] actually, there is: Depends: foo (>= 1.2.1), foo (<< 1.2.1+) > [..] > by the current Depends/Conflicts pair may be wider than [..] This sou

Re: How to not break dependant packages

2008-07-17 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 17 juil. 08 à 15:15, Sean McE a écrit : First, I'm a user, not a maintainer. I'm in a debate with a package maintainer that could be endless and so I'd like a your expertise to help end it. The maintainer is breaking his own dependant packages with every version change, and he says that's t

How to not break dependant packages

2008-07-17 Thread Sean McE
First, I'm a user, not a maintainer. I'm in a debate with a package maintainer that could be endless and so I'd like a your expertise to help end it. The maintainer is breaking his own dependant packages with every version change, and he says that's the only way to do it. His reason for this is in

Re: font policy changes

2008-07-17 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 00:19:39 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What I meant by "don't work" is that, as you mention, these two options > are no-ops. > > According to the update-fonts-dir(1) man page, these options should not > be no-ops: > === > update-fonts-dir creates a fonts.di

RE: font policy changes

2008-07-17 Thread unifoundry
> Original Message > Subject: Re: font policy changes > From: Julien Cristau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, July 16, 2008 8:47 am > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-mentors@lists.debian.org > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 08:37:12 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrot