pbuilder/chroot problems

2008-11-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
I'm trying to set up a pbuilder environment on my laptop, and it's failing with this error: W: Failure trying to run: chroot /home/bss/debootstrap-test dpkg --force-depends --install var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.7-16_amd64.deb I tried etch instead of sid, thinking it might be some unstable bre

RFS: mandos (updated package)

2008-11-08 Thread Teddy Hogeborn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.0.2-1 of my package "mandos". * Package name: mandos Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Björn Påhlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Teddy Hogeborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL

Re: licencing doubts about APT

2008-11-08 Thread Andre Felipe Machado
Hello, Sorry for my limited English skill. I will try to explain better. I am not a licensing expert, so I _guess_ that as the source code was licensed under a different one some years ago, it may "carry" some kind of potential liability from that date, in an theoric situation of a fork, for examp

RFS: premake

2008-11-08 Thread Kaido Kert
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "premake". * Package name: premake Version : 3.7-1.1 Upstream Author : Jason Perkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://premake.sourceforge.net * License : GPL Section : devel It builds these bi

Re: licencing doubts about APT

2008-11-08 Thread Jens Peter Secher
2008/11/8 Andre Felipe Machado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > From 15 November 2000, the Qt licensing was not used anymore, but should > it be left there from a potential liability for an old version? Could you elborate on why you think that "it [should] be left there from a potential liability for an old

Re: RFS: cppcheck (3rd attempt)

2008-11-08 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 06 November 2008 17:31:29 Reijo Tomperi wrote: --cut-- > What about the cppcheck package, you didn't give any comments about it, > does that mean it is now perfect? ;) Package looks fine to me, although I can't figure out why xsltproc warns like that [0] when -nonet option were passed

licencing doubts about APT

2008-11-08 Thread Andre Felipe Machado
Hello, Please, help me to understand the bug report [0]. From 15 November 2000, the Qt licensing was not used anymore, but should it be left there from a potential liability for an old version? I guess that the copyright file should be left as is, registering the conditions at time line. What is th

Re: Question regarding package dependance

2008-11-08 Thread Stefanos Harhalakis
On Saturday 08 November 2008, Adeodato Simó wrote: > In my opinion, you should just invoke the configure script with the > paths of all programs as they are found in Debian, eg.: > > % ./configure --with-tar=/bin/tar --with-postgresql=/foo After accepting the parameters it verifies their validit

Re: Question regarding package dependance

2008-11-08 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Stefanos Harhalakis [Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:51:28 +0200]: > On Saturday 08 November 2008, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > In my opinion, you should just invoke the configure script with the > > paths of all programs as they are found in Debian, eg.: > > % ./configure --with-tar=/bin/tar --with-postgres

RFS: latexdiff

2008-11-08 Thread Pietro Abate
Hello dear mentors. I've packaged latexdiff (ITP:#469460), a small utilty to generate friendly latex file that contains the annotated diff of the versions of the same document. Very useful for non technical ppl. You can access the git repo here: http://git.debian.org/?p=users/munga-guest/latexdif

Re: Question regarding package dependance

2008-11-08 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Stefanos Harhalakis [Sat, 08 Nov 2008 12:10:49 +0200]: > Dear mentors, > I've come up to a situation that I'm not sure how to handle. A package that > I created and packaged, named 'vbackup', is included in debian unstable [1] > under the sponsoring of Vincent Bernat (hi Vincent). After get

Question regarding package dependance

2008-11-08 Thread Stefanos Harhalakis
Dear mentors, I've come up to a situation that I'm not sure how to handle. A package that I created and packaged, named 'vbackup', is included in debian unstable [1] under the sponsoring of Vincent Bernat (hi Vincent). After getting it from the unstable repository I realised that it doesn't w

Re: Question regarding package dependance

2008-11-08 Thread Stefanos Harhalakis
On Saturday 08 November 2008, Stefanos Harhalakis wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I've come up to a situation that I'm not sure how to handle. A package [...] Sorry for replying to self. I forgot something important: Please CC me in replies! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a