Re: Trying to understand patch management - in combination with version control

2008-09-02 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-09-02, Andreas Schildbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, when I (or a co-maintainer) check out the project from SVN, I get > (as expected) a nearly empty project directory, containing just the > debian directory. But, how am I supposed to actually create the patches > that go into debian

Re: Trying to understand patch management - in combination with version control

2008-09-02 Thread Christopher Halse Rogers
On 9/3/08, Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ben, > > Le Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 01:04:12PM +1000, Ben Finney a écrit : > > > Andreas Schildbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I am maintaining a rather large package and have decided to use a > > > version control system (SVN).

Re: Trying to understand patch management - in combination with version control

2008-09-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would be especially interested by any replacement for this. I am > starting to wonder about the viability of keeping the whole upstream > sources in a VCS. If a non-redistributable file brought by a new > upstream release were accidentally commited (i

Re: Trying to understand patch management - in combination with version control

2008-09-02 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi Ben, Le Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 01:04:12PM +1000, Ben Finney a écrit : > Andreas Schildbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I am maintaining a rather large package and have decided to use a > > version control system (SVN). > > An unfortunate choice of VCS, since it is far behind more modern V

Re: Trying to understand patch management - in combination with version control

2008-09-02 Thread Ben Finney
Andreas Schildbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am maintaining a rather large package and have decided to use a > version control system (SVN). An unfortunate choice of VCS, since it is far behind more modern VCS software for flexibility of management. Any of Git, Bazaar, Darcs, or (perhaps) M

Re: Need help writing watch file for unusual, troublesome case.

2008-09-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 4:30 AM, Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, xevil is a dead project. The latest release was years ago, and > Satan doesn't respond to email. Would you guys recommend not having a > watch file? Even if so, I would really like to know how I would solve > this problem,

Re: Need help writing watch file for unusual, troublesome case.

2008-09-02 Thread Ben Finney
Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have one more question about watch files. If I were to delete the > watch file (maybe upstream website will be taken down in the future?), > is there anything special I should do to override the missing > watch file warnings? Is there a signal to sites like

Re: Trying to understand patch management - in combination with version control

2008-09-02 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi Andreas, Le Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 01:04:36AM +0200, Andreas Schildbach a écrit : > > Now, when I (or a co-maintainer) check out the project from SVN, I get > (as expected) a nearly empty project directory, containing just the > debian directory. But, how am I supposed to actually create the pat

Re: RFS: gwibber

2008-09-02 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[I just took a quick look at the package, I'm still on VAC] [Daniel Watkins, 2008-09-02 23:08] > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gwibber". PAPT is in Uploaders so you can add the package to our TODO list[1] and/or ping us on #debian-python from homepage: | Please note that this is pre

Re: Need help writing watch file for unusual, troublesome case.

2008-09-02 Thread Brandon
Creating a separate script wouldn't really make much sense in my case. I was only fixing the watch file as a formality. Upstream is dead, so I wouldn't be using it, but it would satisfy projects like dehs, and my QA page warns me about my broken watch file. I think I will just use the watch file t

Trying to understand patch management - in combination with version control

2008-09-02 Thread Andreas Schildbach
Hello everyone, I am maintaining a rather large package and have decided to use a version control system (SVN). I have already svn-inject'ed the existing package into my repository. Since the original source is (in its current form) not re-distributable (due to licensing issues), I decided to use

Re: Need help writing watch file for unusual, troublesome case.

2008-09-02 Thread Daniel Moerner
You are correct: my solution obviously doesn't work, since I didn't read carefully enough. > This would be an easy problem to solve with a script. It would just be > a few lines, and not much hassle. Russ Allbery's blog suggests a get-orig-source debian/rules target that he uses for packaging his

Re: Need help writing watch file for unusual, troublesome case.

2008-09-02 Thread Brandon
On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 14:25:04 -0700 "Daniel Moerner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think your approach to the debian/watch file is sort of off, which > explains why it isn't working. You want to point it to a webpage > where it can get hrefs that match the given regular expression, so you > want t

Re: Need help writing watch file for unusual, troublesome case.

2008-09-02 Thread Daniel Moerner
I think your approach to the debian/watch file is sort of off, which explains why it isn't working. You want to point it to a webpage where it can get hrefs that match the given regular expression, so you want the website to actually be specified as download_stable.shtml. Something like this basic

RFS: gwibber

2008-09-02 Thread Daniel Watkins
Dear mentors and Pythonistas, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gwibber". * Package name: gwibber Version : 0.1~bzr102-1 Upstream Author : Ryan Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : https://launchpad.net/gwibber * License : GPL Section : misc It

Re: Need help writing watch file for unusual, troublesome case.

2008-09-02 Thread Mauro Lizaur
On Tue, 02 Sep 2008, Brandon wrote: > The current upstream is: > http://www.xevil.com/download/stable/xevilsrc2.02r2.zip > Unfortunatley, the following watch line won't work: > http://www.xevil.com/download/stable/xevilsrc(*.).zip > because directory listings are (403) forbidden. > > Also, xevil i

Need help writing watch file for unusual, troublesome case.

2008-09-02 Thread Brandon
I am attempting to write a watch file for my debian package, xevil. Here is how I would direct a human to find the latest version: 1) Go to: http://www.xevil.com/xevil/dev/download.html 2) Click on the "Stable version" link 3) Click on the "Xevil" link Here is what I have of my watch file so far:

RFS: ssldump (updated package)

2008-09-02 Thread Juan Angulo Moreno
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.9b3-3 of my package "ssldump" (my sponsor is very busy). It builds these binary packages: ssldump- An SSLv3/TLS network protocol analyzer The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 487132 The pack

RFS: sitebar (updated package)

2008-09-02 Thread Carlos Eduardo Sotelo Pinto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 3.3.9-2 of my package "sitebar". It builds these binary packages: sitebar- A web based bookmark manager written in PHP The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix th

RFS: cmus (updated package)

2008-09-02 Thread Carlos Eduardo Sotelo Pinto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.2.0-1.1 of my package "cmus". It builds these binary packages: cmus - lightweight ncurses audio player The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 48

Re: RFS: scrot (updated package)

2008-09-02 Thread William Vera
Hi Ruben 2008/9/2 Ruben Molina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > But those files are not modified by hand, maybe autotools?, this >> > package is build with CDBS, then in the rules are 2 lines only, > > Hi William! > > Just move your debian/ dir to a fresh scrot-0.8/ dir :) > > $ mv scrot-0.8/debian/ . &&

RE: RFS: scrot (updated package)

2008-09-02 Thread Ruben Molina
> > But those files are not modified by hand, maybe autotools?, this > > package is build with CDBS, then in the rules are 2 lines only, Hi William! Just move your debian/ dir to a fresh scrot-0.8/ dir :) $ mv scrot-0.8/debian/ . && rm -rf scrot-0.8/ $ tar zxvf scrot_0.8.orig.tar.gz && mv debian

RFS: arping (updated package)

2008-09-02 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.08-1 of my package "arping". My usual sponsor is Cyril Brulebois (kibi), I've tried asking him for an upload several time, but never gotten a response It builds these binary packages: arping - sends IP and/or ARP pings (to the MA