Scott Howard wrote:
> From the debhelper manpage
>
> "Unless otherwise indicated, all debhelper documentation assumes that
> you are using the most recent compatibility level, and in most cases
> does not indicate if the behavior is different in an earlier
> compatibility level, so if you are not
On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 11:32:20 +0200
"Thomas Preud'homme" wrote:
> Le vendredi 8 juillet 2011 11:13:53, Arno Töll a écrit :
> > Hi Karl,
> >
> > On 08.07.2011 05:49, Karl Goetz wrote:
> > >> - The -I and --pedantic options should always be used.
> > >
> > > Why is that? the manual entry for --pe
On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 04:23:05AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 07/08/2011 08:47 PM, Scott Howard wrote:
> > Right now, the general consensus is the dh and cdbs produce
> > debian packages that are easier to maintain in the long run (if the
> > sponsor has to take over maintenance of the packa
On Saturday, July 09, 2011 12:41:09 AM Leo "costela" Antunes wrote:
> On 08/07/11 22:23, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> > On 07/08/2011 08:47 PM, Scott Howard wrote:
> >> Right now, the general consensus is the dh and cdbs produce
> >> debian packages that are easier to maintain in the long run (if the
>
On 07/08/2011 09:31 PM, Kilian Krause wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 07:35:41PM +0200, Andreas Moog wrote:
>> On 07/07/2011 10:43 PM, Paul Wise wrote:
>>
>>> There is one lintian warning:
>>>
>>> I: libpar2-0: no-symbols-control-file usr/lib/libpar2.so.0.0.1
>>
>> Ups, yes. Symbo
On 07/08/2011 12:29 PM, Arno Töll wrote:
> On 08.07.2011 18:24, Adam Borowski wrote:
>> If you don't make use of newest shiniest features, higher debhelper
levels
>> just make backporting harder for no gain.
>
> There is debhelper 8 in both, lenny-backports as well as in
> squeeze-backports.
There
On 08/07/11 22:23, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 07/08/2011 08:47 PM, Scott Howard wrote:
>> Right now, the general consensus is the dh and cdbs produce
>> debian packages that are easier to maintain in the long run (if the
>> sponsor has to take over maintenance of the package or if NMUs are
>> requi
Thomas Goirand writes:
>> On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 12:55 +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
>>
>> [...] but should be made explicit as the reasons not to use dh, for
>> example, might mean that the helper is lacking functionality or
>> behaves buggy in certain situations.
>
> I don't get it here...
>
> D
> Hi Adam,
>
> On 08.07.2011 18:24, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > If you don't make use of newest shiniest features, higher debhelper
> levels
> > just make backporting harder for no gain.
>
> There is debhelper 8 in both, lenny-backports as well as in
> squeeze-backports.
>
> Moreover Debian packages t
>
> On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 12:55 +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
>
> [...] but should be made explicit as the reasons not to use dh, for
> example, might mean that the helper is lacking functionality or
> behaves buggy in certain situations.
I don't get it here...
Do you think that debian/rules call
Hi,
Nice topic, thanks to Jakub for having the good idea to have started it.
On 07/08/2011 08:47 PM, Scott Howard wrote:
> Right now, the general consensus is the dh and cdbs produce
> debian packages that are easier to maintain in the long run (if the
> sponsor has to take over maintenance of th
Hello Jörn,
I have packaged xnoise without any lintian errors/warnings. Very good
work. Unfortunately I am not a DD. So you must search further for an
sponsor.
One tip: Instead of using in debian/rules:
override_dh_installman:
dh_installman debian/xnoise.1
it is better creating a file d
Hi Andreas,
On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 07:35:41PM +0200, Andreas Moog wrote:
> On 07/07/2011 10:43 PM, Paul Wise wrote:
>
> > There is one lintian warning:
> >
> > I: libpar2-0: no-symbols-control-file usr/lib/libpar2.so.0.0.1
>
> Ups, yes. Symbols file added.
[...]
> Thanks for checking the packa
Hi Jakub, hi all,
[...] (whether or not to request bumping debhelper compat; I do agree with the
technical arguments put forward by Jakub, but that's not the focus of my reply)
The obvious provocative answer is: Nitpicking is the way to go. As always,
however, there's more than black and white ou
Hi,
Kilian Krause writes:
> Having a look at your package I find:
Ok, so I re-worked the package and uploaded a new version into mentors:
dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/x/xxxterm/xxxterm_1.399-1.dsc
I tried to follow all the advices, a few comments follow.
> 1. You're using d
Hi Sebastian,
On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 02:05:05PM +0200, Sebastian H. wrote:
[...]
> >2. Your debian/watch doesn't work. Yield remote version -0.12.0
[...]
> The whole point for the 0.12.1 release was to make Debian
> integration smoother. Since most things seem to work now I've
> uploaded the tarb
On 07/07/2011 10:43 PM, Paul Wise wrote:
> There is one lintian warning:
>
> I: libpar2-0: no-symbols-control-file usr/lib/libpar2.so.0.0.1
Ups, yes. Symbols file added.
> Two cppcheck warnings:
>
> [libpar2.h:29]: (error) Memory leak: LibPar2::par1Repairer
> [libpar2.h:30]: (error) Memory leak
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Hi Adam,
On 08.07.2011 18:24, Adam Borowski wrote:
> If you don't make use of newest shiniest features, higher debhelper levels
> just make backporting harder for no gain.
There is debhelper 8 in both, lenny-backports as well as in
squeeze-backports.
On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 04:31:49PM +0200, Arno Töll wrote:
> On 08.07.2011 15:56, Wolodja Wentland wrote:
> > I can understand how this applies to older packages that have been created
> > in
> > the past and just don't use some of the new functionality, but I guess that
> > the points are valid f
Scott Howard writes:
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote:
>> - debian/copyright not in DEP-5 format;
> This is accepted and will be policy soon [3]. "What should be done
> eventually must be done immediately."
It will be in Policy and maintained via the Policy process, but it's
On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:40:46 +0200, Jeroen Schot wrote:
> Here is the ‘lintian’ commandline I ran, and its output:
Thank you for providing this information!
> $ lintian -IE --pedantic
> I: nullidentd source: quilt-patch-missing-description 01_random_usernames.diff
> I: nullidentd source: quilt-
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On 08.07.2011 15:56, Wolodja Wentland wrote:
>>> 1. You're using debhelper compat 7 and also only debhelper >=
>>> 7.0.50~ as Build-Depends. Please bump that to 8
>>
>> Seriously? Is the sponsor suggesting that one should be
>> build-depending on a new
On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 12:55 +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> (I'm creating a new thread rather than replying to a particular
> message, because my mail is not at all personal. It's a general
> tendency amongst many debian-mentors reviewers that I'm going to
> rant about.)
>
> A sponsor on 2011-07-08,
On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 08:47:31 -0400, Scott Howard wrote:
>
> > - debian/copyright not in DEP-5 format;
>
> This is accepted and will be policy soon [3]. "What should be done
> eventually must be done immediately."
>
I think you might misunderstand the DEP process, which is easy to
do. The follow
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> Don't get me wrong, in my opinion (some of) these things are "good". But
> making a big fuss about them is not helping anybody. It only distracts
> attention from things that are important, and creates false impression that
> they are somehow cru
Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.0-5
of my package "nullidentd".
It builds these binary packages:
nullidentd - small, fast identd daemon
Here is the ‘lintian’ commandline I ran, and its output:
$ lintian -IE --pedantic
I: nullidentd source: quilt-patch-missing-desc
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> Dear reviewers, next time if you are going to complain about:
> - debian/compat being "too low";
There are cases where it should be bumped [1], support for old
versions gets removed. Many sponsors take the approach "What should be
done eventuall
Hello Kilian
Also thanks to you for taking the time to review this package.
The new package source is uploaded.
looking closer at your package I find the following:
1. It's an intial upload to Debian AFAICT. Yet your debian/changelog is
cluttered with a number of entries already. For an
Le vendredi 8 juillet 2011 12:55:52, Jakub Wilk a écrit :
[SNIP]
>
>
> Don't get me wrong, in my opinion (some of) these things are "good". But
> making a big fuss about them is not helping anybody. It only distracts
> attention from things that are important, and creates false impression
> that
On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 13:03 +0200, Fabrizio Regalli wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 12:58 +0200, Fabrizio Regalli wrote:
> > Dear mentors,
> >
> > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "usb-imagewriter".
> >
> > * Package name: usb-imagewriter
> > Version : 0.1.3-1
> > Upstream
Hi Kilian,
Kilian Krause writes:
>
> Having a look at your package I find:
First of all, thanks a lot for looking at the package! Later today I
will go through your comments, make all the changes your suggesting and
update the package at mentors.
A few comments below.
> 1. You're using debhe
On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 12:58 +0200, Fabrizio Regalli wrote:
> Dear mentors,
>
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "usb-imagewriter".
>
> * Package name: usb-imagewriter
> Version : 0.1.3-1
> Upstream Author : Oliver Grawert
> * URL : https://launchpad.net/usb-i
Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for my package "usb-imagewriter".
* Package name: usb-imagewriter
Version : 0.1.3-1
Upstream Author : Oliver Grawert
* URL : https://launchpad.net/usb-imagewriter
* License : GPL-1
Section : misc
It builds th
(I'm creating a new thread rather than replying to a particular message,
because my mail is not at all personal. It's a general tendency amongst
many debian-mentors reviewers that I'm going to rant about.)
A sponsor on 2011-07-08, 11:22 wrote:
1. You're using debhelper compat 7 and also only de
* Fabrizio Regalli [110707 21:22]:
> > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.9.10-1
> > > of my package "flush".
> >
> > Some 'LDFLAGS += -Wl,-z,defs -Wl,--as-needed' should help to get
> > the depedency list a bit shortened.
>
> Ok, I can add this flags.
Please do not add -Wl,--as-n
Hi!
While I'm not looking for a sponsor for my package, git-flow, I would
appreciate any comments regarding the packaging, and all ideas for
improvement.
* Package name: git-flow
Version : 0.4.1-1~preview0
Upstream Author : Vincent Driessen ,
Kate Ward,
Le vendredi 8 juillet 2011 11:13:53, Arno Töll a écrit :
> Hi Karl,
>
> On 08.07.2011 05:49, Karl Goetz wrote:
> >> - The -I and --pedantic options should always be used.
> >
> > Why is that? the manual entry for --pedantic says
> >
> >> Pedantic tags are Lintian at its most pick
Luis,
On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 23:12 +0100, Luis Henriques wrote:
> Dear mentors,
>
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "xxxterm".
>
> * Package name: xxxterm
> Version : 1.399-1
> Upstream Author : Marco Peereboom , Stevan Andjelkovic
> , Edd Barrett , Todd T. Fries
>
>
Le Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 11:13:53AM +0200, Arno Töll a écrit :
>
> That said, some pedantic tags can probably be ignored but most are
> nonetheless still a very helpful addition one better should consider
> when packaging software.
Hello everybody,
I would like to add that in my experience, an in
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Hi Karl,
On 08.07.2011 05:49, Karl Goetz wrote:
>> - The -I and --pedantic options should always be used.
>
> Why is that? the manual entry for --pedantic says
>> Pedantic tags are Lintian at its most pickiest and
>> include checks fo
Reuploaded a new version comments online
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Kilian Krause wrote:
> Hi Bastien,
>
> On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 07:50 +0200, roucaries bastien wrote:
>> Please do not upload directly, i will upload git tree before under
>> collab maint and postthe final ppackage here.
>>
>> I
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