Re: Writing manpages

Charles Plessy writes: > Le Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:14:10AM +1100, Ben Finney a écrit : > > Now if only we can convince more package maintainers. Hopefully the > > ability to use these source formats, with steady evangelisation > > about the available rendering tools, can lower the resistance to

Re: Writing manpages (was: Re: Man and UTF-8.)

Le Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 05:30:33AM -0200, Rogério Brito a écrit : > > But what do you people use to edit manpages that you maintain > frequently? Dear Rogério, I found jEdit (http://www.jedit.org/) quite convenient to write and modify Docbook XML manpages. It is not packaged in Debian, but Upstr

Re: Writing manpages

Le Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:14:10AM +1100, Ben Finney a écrit : > > Now if only we can convince more package maintainers. Hopefully the > ability to use these source formats, with steady evangelisation about > the available rendering tools, can lower the resistance to following > policy on providin

Re: RFS: windowlab (updated package)

Mats Erik Andersson wrote: > torsdag den 19 november 2009 klockan 10:53 skrev Barry deFreese detta: >> Mats Erik Andersson wrote: >>> onsdag den 18 november 2009 klockan 20:41 skrev Barry deFreese detta: Mats Erik Andersson wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for

Re: How to do a survey on lbzip2 as a bzip2 alternative?

ERSEK Laszlo wrote: > I'd like to ask users for their opinions about lbzip2 as a bzip2 > alternative in Debian, by requesting them to choose exactly one of the > following options, after reading my DebADay article [0]: > > > 1. I'd like to use lbzip2 as a bzip2 alternative. > > 2. I'd like to us

How to do a survey on lbzip2 as a bzip2 alternative?

Hi, I'd like to ask users for their opinions about lbzip2 as a bzip2 alternative in Debian, by requesting them to choose exactly one of the following options, after reading my DebADay article [0]: 1. I'd like to use lbzip2 as a bzip2 alternative. 2. I'd like to use lbzip2 as a bzip2 alterna

Re: RFS: windowlab (updated package)

torsdag den 19 november 2009 klockan 10:53 skrev Barry deFreese detta: > Mats Erik Andersson wrote: > > onsdag den 18 november 2009 klockan 20:41 skrev Barry deFreese detta: > >> Mats Erik Andersson wrote: > >>> Dear mentors, > >>> > >>> I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.38-1 > >>> o

RFS: ampache (updated package)

Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 3.5.2-1 of my package "ampache". It builds these binary packages: ampache- web-based audio file management system The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 552701, 553313, 554089 The package can be

RFS: ampache-themes (updated package)

Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 3.4.4-1 of my package "ampache-themes". It builds these binary packages: ampache-themes - Themes for Ampache The package appears to be lintian clean. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/deb

RFS: libaudio-nama-perl

Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "libaudio-nama-perl". * Package name: libaudio-nama-perl Version : 0.9986-1 Upstream Author : Joel Roth * URL : http://search.cpan.org/search?query=nama * License : GPL Section : audio It buil

DM-Upload-Allowed considered confusing (was: RFS: youtube-dl (updated package, support for 1080p videos))

Paul Wise writes: > During the creation of DM, the idea was that the field was supposed to > be set by sponsors only and only after enough uploads to convince the > sponsor that the maintainer is capable of properly maintaining the > package. Having it well-documented as a field in the control f

Re: RFS: trend (updated package)

> Dear mentors, Hi, > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.2-1 > of my package "trend". > > It builds these binary packages: > trend - a general-purpose, efficient trend graph > > The package appears to be lintian clean. > > The upload would fix these bugs: 556503 > > The pa

Re: RFS: avifile (QA upload)

Yavor Doganov wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1:0.7.48~20090503.ds-2 > of the orphaned package "avifile". > > It builds these binary packages: > avifile-divx-plugin - Divx4Linux video de/encoding plugin for > libavifile > avifile-mad-p

Re: RFS: windowlab (updated package)

Mats Erik Andersson wrote: > onsdag den 18 november 2009 klockan 20:41 skrev Barry deFreese detta: >> Mats Erik Andersson wrote: >>> Dear mentors, >>> >>> I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.38-1 >>> of my package "windowlab". >>> >>> >> Mats, >> >> I'm looking at this but you do know

Re: RFS: youtube-dl (updated package, support for 1080p videos)

2009/11/19 Rogério Brito : > Hi, Simon. > > On Nov 19 2009, Simon Richter wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:39:46AM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: >> > dget >> > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/y/youtube-dl/youtube-dl_2009.09.13-2.dsc >> >> |  * include the DMUA: yes field. >> >> Sneaky

Re: RFS: youtube-dl (updated package, support for 1080p videos)

Hi, On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:22:18PM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > > | * include the DMUA: yes field. > > Sneaky. :) > Oh, that was something that I talked about with some other developers. > It really seem that the opinions on this are divided... :-/ It's fine with me, otherwise I wouldn't

Re: RFS: youtube-dl (updated package, support for 1080p videos)

Hi, Simon. On Nov 19 2009, Simon Richter wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:39:46AM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > > dget > > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/y/youtube-dl/youtube-dl_2009.09.13-2.dsc > > | * include the DMUA: yes field. > > Sneaky. :) Oh, that was something that I t

RFS: avifile (QA upload)

Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1:0.7.48~20090503.ds-2 of the orphaned package "avifile". It builds these binary packages: avifile-divx-plugin - Divx4Linux video de/encoding plugin for libavifile avifile-mad-plugin - MAD - MPEG audio plugin for l

Re: RFS: youtube-dl (updated package, support for 1080p videos)

Hi, On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:39:46AM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > dget > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/y/youtube-dl/youtube-dl_2009.09.13-2.dsc | * include the DMUA: yes field. Sneaky. :) Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: RFS: youtube-dl (updated package, support for 1080p videos)

On Nov 19 2009, Simon Richter wrote: > E: youtube-dl: empty-manual-page usr/share/man/man1/youtube-dl.1.gz > W: youtube-dl: manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry usr/share/man/man1/youtube-dl.1.gz Gee. I just noticed that. :-( It was supposed to be removed to avoid bloating the diff. I think that it is fi

Re: RFS: windowlab (updated package)

onsdag den 18 november 2009 klockan 20:41 skrev Barry deFreese detta: > Mats Erik Andersson wrote: > > Dear mentors, > > > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.38-1 > > of my package "windowlab". > > > > > Mats, > > I'm looking at this but you do know that windowlab was removed fr

RFS: smplayer and smplayer-themes (updated packages)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Mentors, I am looking for sponsorship for updated versions of my packages smplayer (to version 0.6.8-2) and smplayer-themes (0.1.19.dfsg). Most of the changes concern prettifying the debian directory, and for smplayer-themes, there are no changes

Re: RFS: youtube-dl (updated package, support for 1080p videos)

Hi, On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 05:45:44AM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > |* include a better manpage. Closes: #553919. That appears to be broken. I get E: youtube-dl: empty-manual-page usr/share/man/man1/youtube-dl.1.gz W: youtube-dl: manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry usr/share/man/man1/youtube-dl.1