RFS: inosync

2009-05-02 Thread Ryan Niebur
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "inosync". * Package name: inosync Version : 0.2-1 Upstream Author : Benedikt Böhm * URL : http://bb.xnull.de/projects/inosync/ * License : BSD Section : utils It builds these binary packages:

Re: Bug#510377: RFS: udav

2009-05-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > How the above spelling-error-in-binary was done? I have a pbuilder hook that runs this lintian command and always use the latest lintian from sid: lintian --info --display-info --display-experimental --pedantic --show-overrides --che

Re: Bug#510377: RFS: udav

2009-05-02 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Hi Paul Thanks a lot for your feedback on the packaging for udav. On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 11:45:21AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Some feedback based on the diff.gz: > > Please get your package description reviewed by the > debian-l10n-englist email list, it contains some gramatical errors. I sent

How to create quilt-based source packages using debuild

2009-05-02 Thread Benjamin Mesing
Hi, I am having trouble understanding how to build a quilt based source-package. My packaging is based on quilt, but when running debuild, debuild creates a traditional style source package. I've tried to add "Format: 3.0 (quilt)" to the control file and a Format 3 source package is correctly cre

Re: RFS: udav

2009-05-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/u/udav/udav_0.5.1-1.dsc Some feedback based on the diff.gz: Please get your package description reviewed by the debian-l10n-englist email list, it contains some gramatical errors. Is

Re: RFS: boats

2009-05-02 Thread LI Daobing
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 05:48, Thibaut GRIDEL wrote: > Hello, > > * LI Daobing [2009-04-28 14:05]: >> Hello, >> >> >> > Dear mentors, >> >> > >> >> > It builds these binary packages: >> >> > boats      - a race scenario drawing tool >> >> > >> >> > The package appears to be lintian clean. >> >> >

Re: RFS: fsprotect (try #3)

2009-05-02 Thread LI Daobing
Hello, On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 20:18, LI Daobing wrote: > Hello, > > 2009/4/28 Stefanos Harhalakis : >> Dear mentors, >> >> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "fsprotect". In this message there >> is also a summary of everything that was discussed in this list. >> >> * Package name    : fs

Re: On the quest for automated QA checks (was: Re: RFS: mpview)

2009-05-02 Thread Paul Wise
2009/5/3 Rogério Brito : > Maybe things that the devscripts package does could be integrated... > Some facts that are not exactly errors, but that might be annoying > include and could lead to a lot of false positives, but also finer > points where the attention of sponsors should be checked: For

Re: RFS: gtk-theme-switch (updated package)

2009-05-02 Thread Ben Finney
Patrick Matthäi writes: > gtk-theme-switch (2.0.1) unstable; urgency=low > >* New upstream (me) release. Becomes Debian native. >.. > -- Joshua Kwan Wed, 16 Jun 2004 00:31:55 -0700 > > Since this release it is maintained as a Debian native package. That's inappropriate for packag

Re: On the quest for automated QA checks

2009-05-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Rogério Brito writes: > * for instance deprecated debhelper programs should generate a big fat > warning and, while they don't do that, detecting them. Lintian should catch this already, although we may not have the most recent ones. If you know which are missing, please file a wishlist linti

RFS: udav

2009-05-02 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "udav". * Package name: udav Version : 0.5.1-1 Upstream Author : Alexey Balakin * URL : http://udav.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Section : math It builds these binary packages: udav -

Re: On the quest for automated QA checks

2009-05-02 Thread Paul Gevers
> Well, more tests could be included (suggestions), but something along > the lines of the package "elida" would be nice to have (disclaimer: I > still don't have used this package). I think most tests could be included in Lintian. Please file a wishlist bug against Lintian. Paul signature.asc

Re: dh_installdirs?

2009-05-02 Thread Rogério Brito
On Mar 24 2009, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: > > Od: Paul Wise > > > I didn't see any problem/question in your message. If any problem > > exists, I suggest reading the dh_install and dh_installdirs manual > > pages to solve it. > > Yes ;) I am too hurry ... sorry Is what you are packaging *that* neces

On the quest for automated QA checks (was: Re: RFS: mpview)

2009-05-02 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi. I think that this discussion is a nice opportunity to view a bigger picture on what the best practices mentors use in a way to automate things. On May 02 2009, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > I think it's not running lintian at all, that text is just boilerplate > which assumes mentees did run lint

Lintian clean? (was: Re: RFS: mpview)

2009-05-02 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On lördagen den 2 maj 2009, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > 2009/5/2 Magnus Holmgren : > > On torsdagen den 26 mars 2009, Michal Čihař wrote: > >> Dne Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:21:29 +0100 > >> > >> Adam Ziaja napsal(a): > >> > The package appears to be lintian clean. > >> > >> It does not: > >> > >> I: mpvie

Re: RFS: mpview

2009-05-02 Thread Andrew
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > 2009/5/2 Magnus Holmgren : >> On torsdagen den 26 mars 2009, Michal Čihař wrote: >>> Dne Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:21:29 +0100 >>> >>> Adam Ziaja napsal(a): >>> > The package appears to be lintian clean. >>> >>> It does not: >>> >>> I: mpview so

Re: RFS: gtk-theme-switch (updated package)

2009-05-02 Thread Patrick Matthäi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Williams schrieb: > On Sat, 2 May 2009 12:57:33 +0200 > Denis Briand wrote: > >> On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 06:35:14PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >>> On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Patrick Matthäi >>> wrote: >>> Since this release it is mainta

Re: RFS: gtk-theme-switch (updated package)

2009-05-02 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 2 May 2009 12:57:33 +0200 Denis Briand wrote: > On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 06:35:14PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Patrick Matthäi > > wrote: > > > > > Since this release it is maintained as a Debian native package. > > > > That doesn't mean it is correct t

Re: RFS: mpview

2009-05-02 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
2009/5/2 Magnus Holmgren : > On torsdagen den 26 mars 2009, Michal Čihař wrote: >> Dne Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:21:29 +0100 >> >> Adam Ziaja napsal(a): >> > The package appears to be lintian clean. >> >> It does not: >> >> I: mpview source: debian-watch-file-is-missing >> W: mpview source: dh-clean-k-i

Re: RFS: fswebcam

2009-05-02 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 2 May 2009 17:40:19 +0200 Luca Niccoli wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "fswebcam", a command line > program to take pictures from a webcam. One important fact missing from your RFS: what programming language(s) is/are in use in the package? No need to specify the build

Re: RFS: fswebcam

2009-05-02 Thread Luca Niccoli
2009/5/2 Patrick Matthäi : > * debian/changelog: > It is the initial release in Debian but it is containing some more > versions and builds, also the initial debian revision starts with -2, > please bump it to -1. Upstream had its own debian sudirectory with a debian changelog, I thought about ke

Re: RFS: mpview

2009-05-02 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On torsdagen den 26 mars 2009, Michal Čihař wrote: > Dne Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:21:29 +0100 > > Adam Ziaja napsal(a): > > The package appears to be lintian clean. > > It does not: > > I: mpview source: debian-watch-file-is-missing > W: mpview source: dh-clean-k-is-deprecated > W: mpview source: out-o

Re: Building localy

2009-05-02 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On måndagen den 23 mars 2009, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: > > Od: tony mancill > > > > > Can somebody help me with this error please? > > > > > > $ sudo dpkg-buildpackage -S > > > is runnig fine... > > > > > > $ sudo dpkg-buildpackage -nc > > > giving me this error > > > > Any reason you're using sudo in

Re: RFS: fswebcam

2009-05-02 Thread Patrick Matthäi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Luca Niccoli schrieb: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "fswebcam", a command line > program to take pictures from a webcam. > It's a small package, so it shouldn't take long to check (grin) > I find the program really hand

RFS: fswebcam

2009-05-02 Thread Luca Niccoli
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "fswebcam", a command line program to take pictures from a webcam. It's a small package, so it shouldn't take long to check (grin) I find the program really handy, taking pictures from a webcam is easier, neater than ever, and most importantl

Re: RFS: gtk-theme-switch (updated package)

2009-05-02 Thread Denis Briand
On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 06:35:14PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Patrick Matthäi wrote: > > > Since this release it is maintained as a Debian native package. > > That doesn't mean it is correct to do so :) Hello, Thank you for the upload. I can put it in non-native p

Re: RFS: bosh

2009-05-02 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Hi On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 11:11:00AM +0200, Patrick Matthäi wrote: > Salvatore Bonaccorso schrieb: > > The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: > > - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/b/bosh > > - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main > >

Re: RFS: gtk-theme-switch (updated package)

2009-05-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Patrick Matthäi wrote: > Since this release it is maintained as a Debian native package. That doesn't mean it is correct to do so :) -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subjec

Re: RFS: gtk-theme-switch (updated package)

2009-05-02 Thread Patrick Matthäi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Wise schrieb: > On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Patrick Matthäi wrote: > >> Uploaded. > > Don't you have some comments on the package? At the very least you > could have mentioned that it should not be a native package. > - From the changelog

Re: RFS: gtk-theme-switch (updated package)

2009-05-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Patrick Matthäi wrote: > Uploaded. Don't you have some comments on the package? At the very least you could have mentioned that it should not be a native package. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@

Re: RFS: gtk-theme-switch (updated package)

2009-05-02 Thread Patrick Matthäi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Denis Briand schrieb: > nobody interesting in this package to upload it? > > best regards > > Denis Briand > > > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 08:21:57PM +0200, Denis Briand wrote: >> Dear mentors, >> >> I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.0

Re: RFS: gtk-theme-switch (updated package)

2009-05-02 Thread Denis Briand
nobody interesting in this package to upload it? best regards Denis Briand On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 08:21:57PM +0200, Denis Briand wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.0.6 > of package "gtk-theme-switch". > It's an orphaned package and I intend to adopt i

Re: RFS: bosh

2009-05-02 Thread Patrick Matthäi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Salvatore Bonaccorso schrieb: > The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: > - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/b/bosh > - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main > contrib non-free > - dge