Best practice for package synopsis (was: debian/control best practices)

2008-09-17 Thread Ben Finney
"Carlos Eduardo Sotelo Pinto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I understand that ( and one more person say me the same ) that > synposys must be on lower cases > > http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#bpp-pkg-synopsis More accurately, the synopsis should be writ

RFS: cfi (adopted package)

2008-09-17 Thread Krzysztof Burghardt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 3.0-8 of package "cfi". I have adopted this package. It builds these binary packages: cfi-en - Copyright does not exist, book about hacker culture cfi-sv - Copyright finns inte, boo

RFS: swapspace (adopted and updated package)

2008-09-17 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.10-4 of my package "swapspace". It builds these binary packages: swapspace - dynamic swap space manager The package is "lintian -ivI"-clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 499116 The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: -

Re: dbconfig-common

2008-09-17 Thread Richard Laager
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 02:40 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Why do you think no app would need it? I never claimed this. > How about something that does mysql backups, or manages MySQL accounts? > I have made 2 packages that needs that, one of them being > automysqlbackup, and I had to do hackish

Re: [Bulk] Re: Advice about first package building (from sources)

2008-09-17 Thread Laurent Guignard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric Lavarde - Debian a écrit : > Hi Laurent, > > Al Nikolov said: >> Laurent Guignard wrote: >> >>> I have read the main documentation about pbuilder but i haven't seen if >>> it is possible to build a package from upstream sources. >>> In all exampl

Re: dbconfig-common

2008-09-17 Thread Thomas Goirand
Richard Laager wrote: > On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 01:00 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: >>> dbconfig-common is documented fairly well. >> I do not agree with this statement. There are dark areas in the doc, >> particularly nowhere, it's telling how to get a root user on MySQL,

Re: dbconfig-common

2008-09-17 Thread Richard Laager
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 01:00 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: > > dbconfig-common is documented fairly well. > > I do not agree with this statement. There are dark areas in the doc, > particularly nowhere, it's telling how to get a root user on MySQL, and > some packages mig

Re: dbconfig-common

2008-09-17 Thread Thomas Goirand
Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: > dbconfig-common is documented fairly well. I do not agree with this statement. There are dark areas in the doc, particularly nowhere, it's telling how to get a root user on MySQL, and some packages might need it. Also, it's author never replied to my emails. Thomas -

Re: dbconfig-common

2008-09-17 Thread Carlos Eduardo Sotelo Pinto
2008/9/17 Michal Čihař <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dne Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:44:35 -0500 > "Carlos Eduardo Sotelo Pinto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> napsal(a): > >> 2008/9/17 Michal Čihař <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > Hi >> > >> > Dne Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:29:35 -0500 >> > "Carlos Eduardo Sotelo Pinto" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: dbconfig-common

2008-09-17 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 07:29:35AM -0500, Carlos Eduardo Sotelo Pinto wrote: > I had fixed this problem on sitebar building package changing > /usr/sbin/mysql to just mysqld but, how about the bug, itsuggest to > change to dbconfig-common, then what i must do first, just correct or > change th

Re: dbconfig-common

2008-09-17 Thread Michal Čihař
Dne Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:44:35 -0500 "Carlos Eduardo Sotelo Pinto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> napsal(a): > 2008/9/17 Michal Čihař <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi > > > > Dne Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:29:35 -0500 > > "Carlos Eduardo Sotelo Pinto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> napsal(a): > > > >> I have a question, I am buildi

Re: debian/control best practices

2008-09-17 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 07:21:03AM -0500, Carlos Eduardo Sotelo Pinto wrote: > http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#bpp-pkg-synopsis > > package-name is a synopsis. > > but all the packages that I have seen was on this way > > Package-name is a synopsis.

Re: dbconfig-common

2008-09-17 Thread Carlos Eduardo Sotelo Pinto
2008/9/17 Michal Čihař <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi > > Dne Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:29:35 -0500 > "Carlos Eduardo Sotelo Pinto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> napsal(a): > >> I have a question, I am building the sitebar package wichis on >> mentorsdebian.net, and this package has whishlist item bug #382166 who >> is

Re: debian/control best practices

2008-09-17 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Carlos Eduardo Sotelo Pinto wrote: > Hi mentors > > I have a question, I am packaginf sitebar package wichis on > mentorsdebian.net, and have gotten a suggestion, but it got confused > me in one way, debian developeres reference talks about debian control > best practices and I understand that ( a

rc bug on happydoc

2008-09-17 Thread Carlos Eduardo Sotelo Pinto
Hi mentors I have a question, I am building the python-happydoc package wichis on mentorsdebian.net, this package has a rc bug #497703, that refer an incomplete debian copyright, wel it happen on upstreamer version 2.1 but was fixed on upstreamer version 3, now I am helping on python happydoc deve

Re: dbconfig-common

2008-09-17 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi Dne Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:29:35 -0500 "Carlos Eduardo Sotelo Pinto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> napsal(a): > I have a question, I am building the sitebar package wichis on > mentorsdebian.net, and this package has whishlist item bug #382166 who > is relationed with this lintian report > http://lintian.d

Re: debian/control best practices

2008-09-17 Thread Daniel Watkins
Hi Carlos, On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 07:21 -0500, Carlos Eduardo Sotelo Pinto wrote: > I have a question, I am packaginf sitebar package wichis on > mentorsdebian.net, and have gotten a suggestion, but it got confused > me in one way, debian developeres reference talks about debian control > best prac

dbconfig-common

2008-09-17 Thread Carlos Eduardo Sotelo Pinto
Hi mentors I have a question, I am building the sitebar package wichis on mentorsdebian.net, and this package has whishlist item bug #382166 who is relationed with this lintian report http://lintian.debian.org/maintainer/[EMAIL PROTECTED] I had fixed this problem on sitebar building package chang

debian/control best practices

2008-09-17 Thread Carlos Eduardo Sotelo Pinto
Hi mentors I have a question, I am packaginf sitebar package wichis on mentorsdebian.net, and have gotten a suggestion, but it got confused me in one way, debian developeres reference talks about debian control best practices and I understand that ( and one more person say me the same ) that synpo

Re: How to remove package completely?

2008-09-17 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hello Krzysztof, On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 13:12, Krzysztof Burghardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to remove bluetooth-alsa and libsbc from Debian completely. > It was already removed (at my request) from unstable, but it is still > in Lenny. How can I remove it from Lenny? It is usually d

Re: How to remove package completely?

2008-09-17 Thread Paul Wise
IIRC the removals from testing should happen automatically or semi-automatically. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How to remove package completely?

2008-09-17 Thread Krzysztof Burghardt
Dear Mentors, I'd like to remove bluetooth-alsa and libsbc from Debian completely. It was already removed (at my request) from unstable, but it is still in Lenny. How can I remove it from Lenny? Reportbug tell me that package does not exist when trying to request removal. Should I send my request

Re: RFS: wallpaper-tray (updated package)

2008-09-17 Thread Guido Loupias
Hey Vincent, Thanks for all the advice. I'm a little busy this week, I will try to look at it in the weekend. Regards, Guido 2008/9/12 Vincent Bernat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > OoO En cette nuit nuageuse du jeudi 21 août 2008, vers 01:10, Guido > Loupias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait : > > > I am

Re: Quilt and patches directory

2008-09-17 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:28:54 +0200, Michael Biebl написа: > I didn't know that > foo: bar baz > will result in bar/baz run in parallel. I thought there is some kind of > guarantee that bar is processed first. Consider this example which illustrates that it's not a safe assumption to make always ev

Re: Advice about first package building (from sources)

2008-09-17 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Hi Laurent, Al Nikolov said: > Laurent Guignard wrote: > >> I have read the main documentation about pbuilder but i haven't seen if >> it is possible to build a package from upstream sources. >> In all examples, the command is like "pbuilder build ???.dsc" >> >> What is the correct method to build

Re: Advice about first package building (from sources)

2008-09-17 Thread Al Nikolov
Laurent Guignard wrote: > I have read the main documentation about pbuilder but i haven't seen if > it is possible to build a package from upstream sources. > In all examples, the command is like "pbuilder build ???.dsc" > > What is the correct method to build a package from upstream sources ? >

Re: CDBS duplicate docs installation

2008-09-17 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* William Vera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080917 03:57]: > 2008/9/16 Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > it is probably that debhelper installs the docs (README AUTHORS > > ChangeLog TODO) in /usr/share/docs/foo and the makefile in /usr/doc/foo > > (see Makefile.am). The file names of the docs are ge