Re: RFS (resent): libdumbnet

2009-05-17 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
Hi Paul, I've uploaded a new package which should address your packaging concerns.[1] I find a symbols file a bit overkill for a library which is not going to be developed any further in the forseeable future, but I've added one anyway. - You've pointed out a few things I might discuss with upstre

Re: Dash and dot in package version

2009-05-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <7337540c0905160100g59c1a3dem9f7622da6ca42...@mail.gmail.com>, Ludovico Cavedon wrote: >I think I'll go for >2.2~rc3+hg365+dfsg1 Just, IMO: I prefer 2.2~rc3+hg365~dfsg1 so that 2.2~rc3+hg365 would be greater than it. In this way, it would allow distribution of the same upstream without repa

Re: RFC: Proposal for template for uploads

2009-05-17 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 10:33:07AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sat, 16 May 2009 21:50:10 -0300 > Rogério Brito wrote: > > > Dear mentors, > > > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "foo". > > [Include one of:] > > > problems.> > .> > > [or some other description of the kind of upl

Re: RFS: scrotwm - dynamic tiling window manager

2009-05-17 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:48:12 +0200 Andrea Bolognani wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "scrotwm". > > * Package name: scrotwm > Version : 0.9.2 > Upstream Author : Marco Peereeboom > * URL : http://www.peereeboom.us/scrotwm/html/scr

Re: RFS: udav

2009-05-17 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Hi all On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 03:26:59PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > I asked Alexey if that would be possible. I hope the point's can be > solved by using icons known to be in the public domain. So I have to > wait for his reply on this. Short note, Alexey had now most of the icons rep

Re: Bug 510765 won't appear as closed

2009-05-17 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 15 May 2009, Adeodato Simó wrote: > + Don Armstrong (Thu, 14 May 2009 13:24:29 -0700): > > a message to control with 'close ' (deprecated, because it doesn't > > tell the submitter that it was fixed, [...]) > Well, AFAIK they do get a mail that the bug has been closed, with > subject

Re: Problems pdebuilding a quilt-based package

2009-05-17 Thread Benjamin Mesing
Hello, > > fakeroot debian/rules clean > > # do not abort if quilt pop fails (this is usually if there no > > patches applied > > quilt pop -a || true > > No patch removed > > quilt push 10_addBuildInfrastructure > > No patches in series > > You p

Re: Problems pdebuilding a quilt-based package

2009-05-17 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Benjamin Mesing writes: > fakeroot debian/rules clean > # do not abort if quilt pop fails (this is usually if there no > patches applied > quilt pop -a || true > No patch removed > quilt push 10_addBuildInfrastructure > No patches in series

Problems pdebuilding a quilt-based package

2009-05-17 Thread Benjamin Mesing
Hello, I have a package which builds just fine when running debuild. It also works fine, taking the source files created by debuild run "dpkg-soruce -x" and then debuild in the resulting directory. However, I am unable to pdebuild the package from the same directory where debuild works perfectly.

Re: How to create quilt-based source packages using debuild

2009-05-17 Thread Benjamin Mesing
> Start with the unpatched upstream source. > Copy the debian dir in including debian/patches/. > echo "3.0 (quilt)" >debian/source/format > remove patch system from debian/rules if present > debuild Thanks for the pointer. However, since the archive does not support Format 3.0 (quilt) yet, I wil

Re: RFC: Proposal for template for uploads

2009-05-17 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Neil Williams, 2009-05-17] > RFS: QA: > RFS: NEW: > RFS: RC: I like this. I'd add , though (see below) > RFS: UPDATE: I ask my sponsorees to add a version in Subject field as well, this way I know if it's new upstream release or an update (so UPDATE tag is not needed) and I can distinguish

Re: RFC: Proposal for template for uploads

2009-05-17 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 16 May 2009 21:50:10 -0300 Rogério Brito wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "foo". [Include one of:] > problems.> .> [or some other description of the kind of upload required] Alternatively (or possibly additionally), some reliable method of encoding

I have created a Canadian English dictionary package

2009-05-17 Thread Daniel Dickinson
I have created a package that during the build processes uses the hunspell-tools munch utility to generate the dictionary file and on install install the required files for the dictionary as per dictionary policy. I am, however, not a Debian Developer and the package has a strict build depends on

Re: include desktop file and icon

2009-05-17 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please don't top-post. Instead, remove quoted material that you're not replying to, and reply inline to the points you're responding to.] On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:08:29AM +0200, Grammostola Rosea wrote: > I hope this doesn't seem harsh ;) But in my experience, it works the > best at start to