Re: RFS: spim

2009-10-18 Thread Ben Finney
Mackenzie Morgan writes: > The license is as follows: […] I have followed up (with Cc to the original poster) in ‘debian-legal’ to discuss the license terms. -- \ “A celebrity is one who is known by many people he is glad he | `\ doesn't know.” —Henry

RFS: spim

2009-10-18 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
[Please CC me in replies] Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "spim". This package was removed from Debian about a year ago, citing being unmaintained and an alternative (gxemul). However, gxemul does not actually serve the same purpose as spim. At a high-level, they both

Re: RFS: aegis (updated package, NMU)

2009-10-18 Thread Walter Franzini
Reinhard Tartler writes: [...] >> Is it possible to do sponsored hijack? > > You'd need to find a sponsor that signs the hijack with his key. Given > at the history of the aegis package, I think I'd be willing to do so. [...] > For an hijack, I'd upload to 10/day-delayed, so that Christian has

Re: Copyright if package is taken over?

2009-10-18 Thread Harry Rickards
Patrick Matthäi wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Harry Rickards schrieb: Ok. I've already removed the changelog entries, and I haven't got a copy locally anywhere. I'm CC'ing this to upstream and Gurkan to see if either of them have the changelog entries. Sorry, but this i

Re: RFS: ktechlab (updated package)

2009-10-18 Thread George Danchev
> Dear mentors, Hi, > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.3.7-3 > of my package "ktechlab". > > It builds these binary packages: > ktechlab - circuit simulator for microcontrollers and electronics > > The package appears to be lintian clean. > > The upload would fix these bugs:

Re: Copyright if package is taken over?

2009-10-18 Thread Harry Rickards
Charles Plessy wrote: Le Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 03:40:54PM +0100, Harry Rickards a écrit : The Debian packaging is: Copyright (C) 2007-2009 Gürkan Sengün Copyright (C) 2009 Harry Rickards and is licensed under the GPL version 3, see `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3'. Hello, maybe y

Re: Copyright if package is taken over?

2009-10-18 Thread Patrick Matthäi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Harry Rickards schrieb: > Ok. I've already removed the changelog entries, and I haven't got a copy > locally anywhere. I'm CC'ing this to upstream and Gurkan to see if > either of them have the changelog entries. Sorry, but this is a big/epic FAIL, be

Re: Copyright if package is taken over?

2009-10-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 03:40:54PM +0100, Harry Rickards a écrit : > > The Debian packaging is: > > Copyright (C) 2007-2009 Gürkan Sengün > Copyright (C) 2009 Harry Rickards > > and is licensed under the GPL version 3, > see `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3'. Hello, maybe you can check

Re: Copyright if package is taken over?

2009-10-18 Thread Harry Rickards
Ben Finney wrote: Harry Rickards writes: When the package was first uploaded, Gerkan said I could remove all the debian/changelog entries by him. You shouldn't do that; the historical changelog entries show how the package got to its current state. Regardless of the license restrictions, thi

Re: RFS: stda

2009-10-18 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
Hi Dimitar, On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 05:22:00PM +0200, Dimitar Ivanov wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "stda". > > * Package name: stda > Version : 1.0-1 > Upstream Author : Dimitar Ivanov > * URL : http://gnu.mirendom.net/stda.html > * License

Re: RFS: texi2html (updated package) fix bug: 534127

2009-10-18 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 01:26:39PM +0200, Francesco Cecconi wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.82-1 > of my package "texi2html". > > It builds these binary packages: > texi2html - Convert Texinfo files to HTML One last thing I just noticed: at least one file is not GPLv2 b

Re: Copyright if package is taken over?

2009-10-18 Thread Ben Finney
Harry Rickards writes: > When the package was first uploaded, Gerkan said I could remove all > the debian/changelog entries by him. You shouldn't do that; the historical changelog entries show how the package got to its current state. Regardless of the license restrictions, this information is u

Re: RFS: texi2html (updated package) fix bug: 534127

2009-10-18 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
Hi Francesco, On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 01:26:39PM +0200, Francesco Cecconi wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.82-1 > of my package "texi2html". > > It builds these binary packages: > texi2html - Convert Texinfo files to HTML Your package looks pretty good! > The package a

Re: Copyright if package is taken over?

2009-10-18 Thread Patrick Matthäi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert James Clay schrieb: > > On Oct 18, 2009, at 6:39 AM, Harry Rickards wrote: >> The package I maintain (lives) is based on Gerkan Senguns package. His >> package had many lintian problems, so I removed all lintian warnings >> and got the package

Re: Copyright if package is taken over?

2009-10-18 Thread Robert James Clay
On Oct 18, 2009, at 6:39 AM, Harry Rickards wrote: The package I maintain (lives) is based on Gerkan Senguns package. His package had many lintian problems, so I removed all lintian warnings and got the package uploaded to Debian. Since then I've updated the package with new upstream versio

Copyright if package is taken over?

2009-10-18 Thread Harry Rickards
Hi, The package I maintain (lives) is based on Gerkan Senguns package. His package had many lintian problems, so I removed all lintian warnings and got the package uploaded to Debian. Since then I've updated the package with new upstream versions many times. When the package was first uploade

RFS: ktechlab (updated package)

2009-10-18 Thread Georges Khaznadar
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.3.7-3 of my package "ktechlab". It builds these binary packages: ktechlab - circuit simulator for microcontrollers and electronics The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 551324 The package can b

Re: Debhelper 7, Python package, multiple binary packages

2009-10-18 Thread Ben Finney
Ben Finney writes: > Ben Finney writes: > > > Once I learn how to make a ‘foo-dbg’ package, I can do that in the > > next release […] > > I've learned some about creating a ‘foo-dbg’ package [0]. However, I'm > ending up with a source package that installs none of the Python files > into any of

RFS: swac-get (updated package)

2009-10-18 Thread Bhavani Shankar R
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.5.1-1 of my package "swac-get". It builds these binary packages: swac-get - audio collections of words (SWAC) manager The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 505605 The package can be found on me

RFS: swac-explore (updated package)

2009-10-18 Thread Bhavani Shankar R
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.4.2-1 of my package "swac-explore". It builds these binary packages: swac-explore - audio collections of words (SWAC) explorer The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 504935, 542875 The package can