Re: RFS: lebiniou, lebiniou-data

2011-07-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Olivier Girondel wrote: > I included the FreeMono.sfd, COPYING and README files from the freefont > package in the source tarball. I don't think that was needed. Really you only need them in any non-Debian binary packages that you make (for Windows/MacOS etc). Even

Re: RFS: arp-scan (updated package, new maintainer)

2011-07-06 Thread Kilian Krause
Hi William, On Wed, 2011-07-06 at 12:43 -0500, William Vera wrote: > 2011/7/6 Kilian Krause : > > On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 18:23 -0600, René Mayorga wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 08:45:41AM +0200, Kilian Krause wrote: > >> > > >> > > >> > Tim, are you agreed that William takes over or do you wa

Re: RFS: john (updated package)

2011-07-06 Thread Ruben Molina
(seems like my previous message didn't hit d-mentors) El mié, 06-07-2011 a las 10:19 +0900, Charles Plessy escribió: > I have uploaded john 1.7.8-1. I will send you the build log in private. Thank you very much! > Would you consider applying as DM or resuming your DD application ? It think > th

Re: RFS: xnoise

2011-07-06 Thread shuerhaaken
Hello Joachim Sorry for this. I will try to fix all this stuff as soon as possible. I ran lintian --pedantic xnoise_0.1.25-1_source.changes and it didn't give me errors or warnings for the final version, which I then uploaded. I must have done something very wrong, but I don't know yet what it w

RE : : RFS: autoconf-archive (updated package)

2011-07-06 Thread roucaries bastien
Please do not upload directly, i will upload git tree before under collab maint and postthe final ppackage here. It is more a rfc. Bastien Le 6 juil. 2011 15:14, "Bastien ROUCARIES" a écrit : Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1:2011.04.12-1 of the package "autoconf-

Re: Git and tarballs

2011-07-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Wolodja Wentland writes: > Is get-orig-source called by anything or is it "merely" a nice target to > have so life is easier for other maintainers and oneself when preparing > new releases? The latter. One could replace it with a shell script, but it's a semi-standard because it's mentioned in

Re: Git and tarballs

2011-07-06 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 14:19 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Wolodja Wentland writes: > > How stable is get-orig-source across releases? > For a package where I was using a released tarball for the reasons described > above, I would dispense with this target entirely and just use uscan to > downl

Re: Git and tarballs

2011-07-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Wolodja Wentland writes: > On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 12:53 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > [ ... ] >> but for some other packages I want to use some of the files that are >> generated as part of the upstream tarball release but aren't checked in. > Ok, this is not necessary for me right now. Do you k

Re: Git and tarballs

2011-07-06 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 12:53 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Wolodja Wentland writes: > > > I've recently started to work on some packages and am not sure if I > > follow best practices when packaging software from git repositories with > > git-buildpackage. > I do the following for OpenAFS (see t

RFS: pidgin-latex.

2011-07-06 Thread Elías Alejandro
I am looking for a sponsor for my package "pidgin-latex". * Package name: pidgin-latex Version : 1.4.4-1 Upstream Author : Benjamin Moll * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/pidgin-latex/ * License : GPL-2 Section : net It builds these binary pack

Re: Git and tarballs

2011-07-06 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 19:02 +0200, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: > Personally I don't have any local branch, just remote branches. And when I > need to do a bisect for example I will checkout temporarily one of the > upstream dev branches. What I have is: > > origin => upstream repo > alioth => a

Re: Git and tarballs

2011-07-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Wolodja Wentland writes: > I've recently started to work on some packages and am not sure if I > follow best practices when packaging software from git repositories with > git-buildpackage. [...] I do the following for OpenAFS (see the supporting scripts in the openafs source package) based on

Re: RFS: xnoise

2011-07-06 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
shuerhaaken wrote on 2011-07-06 12:54: > The package appears to be lintian clean. Unfortunately not! Here is my logging (packaging for testing): N: Setting up lab in /tmp/sVt1potpnA ... N: N: Processing changes file xnoise_0.1.25-1_amd64 (version 0.1.25-1) ... N: N: Processing source

Re: Git and tarballs

2011-07-06 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le mercredi 6 juillet 2011 20:31:02, Joey Hess a écrit : > Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 03:12:41PM +0200, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: > > > Does pristine-tar work if the upstream branch contains files which have > > > been removed during repack? > > > > Unfortunately the dir

Re: How to patch a file with changing path?

2011-07-06 Thread Christian Welzel
Am 27.06.2011 21:07, schrieb Kilian Krause: > - Why you can't use the zip I don't see. You can easily repack and note that > in README.source. Use the get-orig-source target in debian/rules for that > and possibly use a ~debian version number. The ~debian is not neccessary > though IMHO in t

Re: RFS: xnoise

2011-07-06 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
shuerhaaken wrote on 2011-07-06 12:54: > My motivation for maintaining this package is: I am the developer of > this program and I'd like to see it in Debian. In the past I packaged > this only for Ubuntu via ppa, but that is not the way it should go. Until now I haven't seen any ITP "bug report

Re: Git and tarballs

2011-07-06 Thread Joey Hess
Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 03:12:41PM +0200, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: > > Does pristine-tar work if the upstream branch contains files which have > > been > > removed during repack? > Unfortunately the directory and the tarball must have identical contents. That's not t

RFS: libpar2 (reupload to Debian)

2011-07-06 Thread Andreas Moog
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package libpar2: * Package name: libpar2 Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Peter Brian Clements Francois Lesueur * URL : http://parchive.sourceforge.net * License : GPL-2+ Description : Li

Re: RFS: arp-scan (updated package, new maintainer)

2011-07-06 Thread William Vera
Hi 2011/7/6 Kilian Krause : > Hi William, > > On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 18:23 -0600, René Mayorga wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 08:45:41AM +0200, Kilian Krause wrote: >> > >> > >> > Tim, are you agreed that William takes over or do you want to remain as >> > uploader/co-maintainer? >> >> Please le

Re: RFS: lebiniou, lebiniou-data

2011-07-06 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Oliver, On 06.07.2011 18:23, Olivier Girondel wrote: > This has been fixed, but I'm not sure what exactly the content of the > Format: field should be. please see [1] and that thread in general. Some people have different understandings what to pu

Re: Git and tarballs

2011-07-06 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le mercredi 6 juillet 2011 17:52:31, Wolodja Wentland a écrit : > Bonjour Thomas, :) [SNIP] > > > > There was a thread recently about using tarballs or tags on > > debian-devel@l.d.o recently. No consensus was reached as it clearly > > depends on your needs and probably also your tastes. > > Ye

Re: RFS: lebiniou, lebiniou-data

2011-07-06 Thread Olivier Girondel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/29/2011 05:12 PM, David Banks wrote: > > wrt to debian/copyright file there are a few issues: > > * You might consider using DEP-5 as a best practice, this is up to you. This has been fixed, but I'm not sure what exactly the content of the For

Re: RFS: hwinfo (updated package)

2011-07-06 Thread Kilian Krause
Hi William, On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 10:50:02PM -0500, William Vera wrote: > On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 1:46 AM, Kilian Krause wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 01:34 -0500, William Vera wrote: > > -(snip)- > >> I need make a package for x86emu.h or I can make some patch for this? > >> > >> I would ap

Re: Git and tarballs

2011-07-06 Thread Wolodja Wentland
Bonjour Thomas, On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 15:12 +0200, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: > Le mercredi 6 juillet 2011 14:38:36, Wolodja Wentland a écrit : > > First, thanks for posting your git workflow. It is for me very interesting to > see different ways of dealing with upstream also using git. No pro

Commit hooks for Git and no tarballs ?

2011-07-06 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, this thread reminds me of a problem I had in a similar case. When I track the upstream branch, merge it in the Debian branch, our commit hook sends one notification per upstream commit on our packagers mailing list. To reduce traffic, and to avoid confusion between changes made by the

Re: RFS: arp-scan (updated package, new maintainer)

2011-07-06 Thread Kilian Krause
Hi William, On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 18:23 -0600, René Mayorga wrote: > On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 08:45:41AM +0200, Kilian Krause wrote: > > > > > > Tim, are you agreed that William takes over or do you want to remain as > > uploader/co-maintainer? > > Please let him a co-maint for a while, since he

Re: Git and tarballs

2011-07-06 Thread Scott Howard
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > Hi all, > > I've recently started to work on some packages and am not sure if I follow > best practices when packaging software from git repositories with > git-buildpackage. > > My main point of confusion is that I don't really see the nee

: RFS: autoconf-archive (updated package)

2011-07-06 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1:2011.04.12-1 of the package "autoconf-archive". It builds these binary packages: autoconf-archive - Autoconf Macro Archive The upload would fix these bugs: 214089, 568413, 572669, 584180, 593838, 622369 The package can be found on m

Re: Git and tarballs

2011-07-06 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 03:12:41PM +0200, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: > Does pristine-tar work if the upstream branch contains files which have been > removed during repack? Unfortunately the directory and the tarball must have identical contents. -- WBR, wRAR signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Git and tarballs

2011-07-06 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le mercredi 6 juillet 2011 14:38:36, Wolodja Wentland a écrit : > Hi all, Hi Wolodja, First, thanks for posting your git workflow. It is for me very interesting to see different ways of dealing with upstream also using git. [SNIP] > > I know that I could just download the tarball from github an

Git and tarballs

2011-07-06 Thread Wolodja Wentland
Hi all, I've recently started to work on some packages and am not sure if I follow best practices when packaging software from git repositories with git-buildpackage. My main point of confusion is that I don't really see the need for tarballs and what I am doing right now feels a bit clumsy and w

RFS: xnoise

2011-07-06 Thread shuerhaaken
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "xnoise". * Package name: xnoise Version : 0.1.25-1 Upstream Author : Jörn Magens * URL : http://code.google.com/p/xnoise/ * License : GPLv2+ Section : x11 It builds these binary packages: xnois