Local mentorship: Philadelphia + Boston

2010-07-26 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Hey all, I wonder -- are there any Debian mentees in the Philadelphia or Boston areas? I currently live in Philly and am moving to Somerville (near Boston) in September. I've found it difficult to consistently mentor and sponsor packages from people far away from me, but I think that if a me

Re: conflicts/replaces/provides vs. breaks/replaces/provides under policy 3.9.1

2010-07-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Osamu Aoki writes: > Under this new situation, I would like to confirm what is the best > practice for each case scenario. Please comment on my thought as below: > = > Case 1: only one package rule > install only one pa

RFS: plasma-widget-cwp (updated package)

2010-07-26 Thread Boris Pek
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.1.1-1 of my package "plasma-widget-cwp". It builds these binary packages: plasma-widget-cwp - Customizable Weather Plasmoid (CWP) The package appears to be lintian clean. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http:/

RFS: kismet (updated package)

2010-07-26 Thread gustavo panizzo
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2010-07-R1-4.2 of my package "kismet". It builds these binary packages: kismet - Wireless 802.11 monitoring tool The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 530111, 558773, 572593 The package can be

Re: RFS: twofish -- updated package

2010-07-26 Thread Christoph Egger
Mats Erik Andersson writes: > I am looking for a sponsor for a new version 0.3-2 of the package "twofish". > > It builds these binary packages: > libtwofish-dev - Niels Ferguson's Twofish cryptographic algorithm library > libtwofish0 - Niels Ferguson's Twofish cryptographic library -- runtime > p

Re: conflicts/replaces/provides vs. breaks/replaces/provides under policy 3.9.1

2010-07-26 Thread Bernhard R. Link
Not answering the Conflics/Breaks issue, but some remark about Provides. * Osamu Aoki [100726 17:27]: > = > Case 2: package transition rule > All the contents of the package foo is incorporated by bar in new 1.0 > version

conflicts/replaces/provides vs. breaks/replaces/provides under policy 3.9.1

2010-07-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi folks, Breaks field was added to policy in 3.8 and current stable dpkg supports it as I understand. So we are ready to use it, as I understand. Under this new situation, I would like to confirm what is the best practice for each case scenario. Please comment on my thought as below:

RFS: plasma-widget-adjustableclock

2010-07-26 Thread Davi Leal
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "plasma-widget-adjustableclock". * Package name: plasma-widget-adjustableclock Version : 2.2-4 Upstream Author : Michal Dutkiewicz * URL : http://www.kde- look.org/content/show.php/Adjustable+Clock?content=92825

Re: FGRun Lintian Error

2010-07-26 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 09:31:10AM +0100, Chris Baines wrote: > Hello mentors, > > I am getting a package-section-games-but-contains-no-game lintian error > on my package fgrun. FGRun is a FLightGear graphical launcher, > FlightGear is a flight simulator game. FGRun puts its binary in > the /usr/b

FGRun Lintian Error

2010-07-26 Thread Chris Baines
Hello mentors, I am getting a package-section-games-but-contains-no-game lintian error on my package fgrun. FGRun is a FLightGear graphical launcher, FlightGear is a flight simulator game. FGRun puts its binary in the /usr/bin directory. FGRun is not a game, however it depends on FlightGear and it