Re: Request a Sponsor for Typus Pocus

2010-03-27 Thread Paul Wise
I'd suggest joining the Debian Games Team, you will find sponsors and "testers" there. In exchange, we would hope you could help maintain other games in Debian. I looked at your tarball and have the following comments: A normal tarball would contain a typuspocus-1.2.3 directory, but yours contain

RFS: canto (updated package, QA upload)

2010-03-27 Thread Vincent Legout
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.7.6-1 of my package "canto". It builds these binary packages: canto - flexible ncurses Atom/RSS newsreader for the console The package appears to be lintian clean. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://m

Re: RFS: totem-plugin-arte

2010-03-27 Thread Nicolas Delvaux
Dear mentors, Thanks to some feedbacks on IRC, I updated my package to sort out some copyright issues. (upstream will release 0.8.3 if this is confirmed to be solved) I also simplified the rules file. I am looking for a sponsor for my package "totem-plugin-arte". * Package name: totem-plug

Re: RFS: mednafen (adoption, updated package)

2010-03-27 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Stephen Kitt, 2010-03-07] > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/mednafen/mednafen_0.8.C-1.dsc * dh_installdocs was the one which installed debian/copyright file so by removing it you triggered this lintian error: E: mednafen: no-copyright-file * manpage refers to /usr/share/doc/med

Re: RFS: aaphoto

2010-03-27 Thread Horvath Andras
Hi Joachim, > everything is fine now. I've uploaded your package. Thanks for your help. Andras signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Shared library packaging question

2010-03-27 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 08:24:05PM +0100, Wuttke, Joachim wrote: > Thank you, Stanislav, for your helpful explanations. > > Regarding the name of the package: > For many years the upstream project has been called "lmfit" > (since the main application is curve fitting), but the shared > library has

RE: Shared library packaging question

2010-03-27 Thread Wuttke, Joachim
Thank you, Stanislav, for your helpful explanations. Regarding the name of the package: For many years the upstream project has been called "lmfit" (since the main application is curve fitting), but the shared library has been called "lmmin.so" (since the fundamental mathematical operation is mini

Re: Shared library packaging question

2010-03-27 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 06:57:03PM +0100, Wuttke, Joachim wrote: > One more question (which possibly elucidates my previous questions): > > The upstream project is structured as follows: > > lmfit/configure.ac > lmfit/Makefile.am > # ... and all the resulting autotools stuff > > lmfit/lib/ # con

Re: Shared library packaging question

2010-03-27 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 06:35:42PM +0100, Wuttke, Joachim wrote: > Dear specialists, > > I need more help. Specifically, I am going to ask 3 questions. > > My debian directory is still messed up, as it has been from the beginning: > either the automatic scripts are not ready to assist in generat

Re: migration to testing

2010-03-27 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Mike Hommey] > There is a general problem with fuse, actually. fuse-utils is needed by > any program using libfuse and allowing users (i.e not root) to mount a > filesystem: In this case, libfuse uses fusemount to do the mount, since > mount(2) is unfortunately a CAP_SYS_ADMIN syscall, and fusemo

Re: RFS: aaphoto

2010-03-27 Thread Joachim Reichel
Hi Andras, > I've already changed that in the next upstream version. > > I updated the package on mentors too. > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/aaphoto/aaphoto_0.36-1.dsc everything is fine now. I've uploaded your package. Joachim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ

RE: Shared library packaging question

2010-03-27 Thread Wuttke, Joachim
One more question (which possibly elucidates my previous questions): The upstream project is structured as follows: lmfit/configure.ac lmfit/Makefile.am # ... and all the resulting autotools stuff lmfit/lib/ # contains library sources and the include file lmmin.h lmfit/demo/ # contains applicat

RFS: pulseaudio (updated package)

2010-03-27 Thread Michael Gilbert
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.9.21-1+nmu1 of my package "pulseaudio", which fixes CVE-2009-1299 (bug #573615). The package can be found at: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/pulseaudio I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind rega

Shared library packaging question

2010-03-27 Thread Wuttke, Joachim
Dear specialists, I need more help. Specifically, I am going to ask 3 questions. My debian directory is still messed up, as it has been from the beginning: either the automatic scripts are not ready to assist in generating a shared-library package, or I used them in wrong way. Here my control

Re: RFS: lmfit - Levenberg-Marquardt least squares fitting

2010-03-27 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 06:12:48PM +0300, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > If you want to install some more files into /usr/share/doc/ of _every_ > package, list them in debian/docs. Actually, I was incorrect with this claim: files listed in debian/docs will be installed only to the first package acte

Re: RFS: lmfit - Levenberg-Marquardt least squares fitting

2010-03-27 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 01:46:30PM +0100, Wuttke, Joachim wrote: > Dear Stanislav: > > as I am not (yet?) a Debian specialist, your remarks are arcane for me. > > When I run > > $ lintian lmfit_3.1-1_i386.deb > > then I get one single warning: > > W: lmfit: new-package-should-close-itp-bug >

RFS: sunpinyin -- An input method engine for Simplified Chinese

2010-03-27 Thread Kov Chai
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "sunpinyin". * Package name: sunpinyin Version : 2.0-3 Upstream Author : Lei Zhang and others * URL : http://sunpinyin.googlecode.com/ * License : LGPL/CDDL Dual license Programming Lang: C++ Descript

Re: migration to testing

2010-03-27 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 01:05:37PM +0100, Simon Paillard wrote: > On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 02:16:58PM +0300, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > > One of my packages, fuse-convmvfs (uploaded by a sponsor), cannot > > migrate to testing. The migration is blocked by kfreebsd: > > > > * fuse-convmvfs/kfreebs

RE: RFS: lmfit - Levenberg-Marquardt least squares fitting

2010-03-27 Thread Wuttke, Joachim
Dear Stanislav: as I am not (yet?) a Debian specialist, your remarks are arcane for me. When I run $ lintian lmfit_3.1-1_i386.deb then I get one single warning: W: lmfit: new-package-should-close-itp-bug though the ITP "bug" exists: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=573584 Th

Re: migration to testing

2010-03-27 Thread Mike Hommey
Cc'ing to -devel, as it is a more general problem and I'd like to hear feedback from other fellow developers. On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 01:05:37PM +0100, Simon Paillard wrote: > On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 02:16:58PM +0300, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > > One of my packages, fuse-convmvfs (uploaded by a

Re: RFS: lmfit - Levenberg-Marquardt least squares fitting

2010-03-27 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 11:14:39AM +0100, Wuttke, Joachim wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am writing again to ask for a sponsor for my package "lmfit". > > * Package name: lmfit > Version : 3.1-1 > Upstream Author : myself > * URL : http://www.messen-und-deuten.de/lmfit/l

Re: migration to testing

2010-03-27 Thread Simon Paillard
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 02:16:58PM +0300, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > One of my packages, fuse-convmvfs (uploaded by a sponsor), cannot > migrate to testing. The migration is blocked by kfreebsd: > > * fuse-convmvfs/kfreebsd-amd64 unsatisfiable Depends: fuse-utils > * fuse-convmvfs/kfreebsd-i386

migration to testing

2010-03-27 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
Hi, One of my packages, fuse-convmvfs (uploaded by a sponsor), cannot migrate to testing. The migration is blocked by kfreebsd: * fuse-convmvfs/kfreebsd-amd64 unsatisfiable Depends: fuse-utils * fuse-convmvfs/kfreebsd-i386 unsatisfiable Depends: fuse-utils What is the recommended way of solving

RFS: lmfit - Levenberg-Marquardt least squares fitting

2010-03-27 Thread Wuttke, Joachim
Dear mentors, I am writing again to ask for a sponsor for my package "lmfit". * Package name: lmfit Version : 3.1-1 Upstream Author : myself * URL : http://www.messen-und-deuten.de/lmfit/lmfit.html * License : public domain Section : libs It builds t

RFS: gtk2-engines-cleanice: adopted, ITA #553506

2010-03-27 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
Dear mentors, I have adopted gtk2-engines-cleanice (ITA bug #553506). The package source format has been changed to 3.0 (quilt). The orig.tar.gz has not been changed. I am asking for a review and an upload if everything looks ok. The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix thes

Re: RFS: picard (updated package)

2010-03-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > I'm not doing any additional sponsoring at the moment, but here is a review: In addition, the package FTBFS for me, looks like you are missing some build-dependencies: dh_installdirs # Let's create some icons mkdir -p /tmp/buildd/picard-0.12.1

Re: RFS: picard (updated package)

2010-03-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 6:23 PM, "Adam Cécile (Le_Vert)" wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.12.1-1 > of my package "picard". I'm not doing any additional sponsoring at the moment, but here is a review: Please send the manual page upstream if you haven't already. resource