Re: creating an orig.tar.gz from a CVS

2012-02-08 Thread Boris Pek
Hi Jerome, > does someone know Debian packages using get-orig-source in d/rules ? For example you can look at my package: https://github.com/tehnick/libterm-shellui-perl-debian/blob/master/debian/rules Nothing difficult. You can add any script or list of commands to get-orig-source section of m

Bug#659207: RFS: tth [ITA] -- TeX/LaTeX to HTML converter

2012-02-08 Thread Jerome Benoit
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "tth". * Package name: tth Version : 4.03-1 Upstream Author : Ian Hutchinson * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/tth/ * License : GPL-2+ Section

Re: Providing a non-free alternative to a free package

2012-02-08 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 10:32:16AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Wed, 08 Feb 2012, Olе Streicher wrote: > > This is something I have to discuss with the upstream author (who > > also sells the unobfuscated version). He probably would then make a > > specific license which would allow its distrib

Re: creating an orig.tar.gz from a CVS

2012-02-08 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List On 06/02/12 15:00, Xavier Grave wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 02/02/2012 22:43, Jerome BENOIT a écrit : In short, I have to do it by hand. You can still add a target in your debian/rules file to avoid doing it too many times :). See [1] for explanation fo

Processed: retitle 659120 to RFS: mha4mysql-manager/0.53-1 [ITP] -- Master High Availability Manager and Tools for MySQL ...

2012-02-08 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > retitle 659120 RFS: mha4mysql-manager/0.53-1 [ITP] -- Master High > Availability Manager and Tools for MySQL Bug #659120 [sponsorship-requests] RFS: mha4mysql-manager -- Master High Availability Manager and Tools for MySQL [ITP] Changed Bug titl

Re: RFS: dmaths

2012-02-08 Thread Jakub Wilk
I finally found time to actually install the software and play a bit with it. I have to admit that I am deeply disappointed. I spent maybe 5 minutes and I saw: - tooltips in French; - tooltips in German; - dialog boxes in French; - *lots* of error messages in French; - an error box with no messa

Re: Providing a non-free alternative to a free package

2012-02-08 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 08 Feb 2012, Olе Streicher wrote: > This is something I have to discuss with the upstream author (who > also sells the unobfuscated version). He probably would then make a > specific license which would allow its distribution, but he is not > willing to put the original source code under GP

RFS: nautilus-clamscan

2012-02-08 Thread Ludwin Alduvi Hernández Vásquez
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "nautilus-clamscan". * Package name: nautilus-clamscan Version : 0.2.2+dfsg-1 Upstream Author : Clement Lorteau * URL : http://launchpad.net/nautilus-clamscan * License : GPL-3 Section : u

Processed: retitle 658204 RFS: bibtool [ITA] -- tool for BibTeX database manipulation

2012-02-08 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > retitle 658204 RFS: bibtool [ITA] -- tool for BibTeX database manipulation Bug #658204 [sponsorship-requests] RFS: bibtool -- tool for BibTeX database manipulation Changed Bug title to 'RFS: bibtool [ITA] -- tool for BibTeX database manipulation

Bug#659121: RFS: mha4mysql-node -- Master High Availability Manager and Tools for MySQL [ITP]

2012-02-08 Thread KURASHIKI Satoru
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "mha4mysql-node". * Package name: mha4mysql-node Version : 0.53-1 Upstream Author : Yoshinori Matsunobu * URL : http://code.google.com/p/mysql-master-ha/ * Lic

Bug#659120: RFS: mha4mysql-manager -- Master High Availability Manager and Tools for MySQL [ITP]

2012-02-08 Thread KURASHIKI Satoru
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "mha4mysql-manager". * Package name: mha4mysql-manager Version : 0.53-1 Upstream Author : Yoshinori Matsunobu * URL : http://code.google.com/p/mysql-master-ha/

Re: RFS: vera++

2012-02-08 Thread Vincent Hobeïka
On Wednesday 08 February 2012 14:00:36 you wrote: > 1.1.1-1 Thanks! -- Vincent Hobeïka signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: RFS: vera++

2012-02-08 Thread Vincent Hobeïka
Thank you both for your very precise remarks. I'm going to fix this. Regarding the changelog, if I keep only one entry, I suppose I should update the version number according to this. Should I use 1.1.1-4 or 1.1.1-1? Again, thanks for your time and precious help. Best regards, -- Vincent Hobeï

Re: Providing a non-free alternative to a free package

2012-02-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Gergely Nagy wrote: > Aha, I see. In this case... well, I don't think there's a solution > that's entirely satisfactory. > > The closest thing I can think of, is that one is called libfooN, while > the other libfooN-nonfree, they conflict & replace each other, and b

Re: Providing a non-free alternative to a free package

2012-02-08 Thread Gergely Nagy
debian-de...@liska.ath.cx (Olе Streicher) writes: > Gergely Nagy writes: >> debian-de...@liska.ath.cx (Olе Streicher) writes: >>> For example "saods9" would use slalib as a shared library, and I want to >>> git the user a choide to run it either with the free, or with the >>> non-free version. >

Re: RFS: vera++

2012-02-08 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hi, > As a side note I see ref to tcl8.4 which is about to be removed Agree on this point. Please make use of version-less tcl/tcl-dev packages. -- WBR, Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lis

Re: Providing a non-free alternative to a free package

2012-02-08 Thread Olе Streicher
Gergely Nagy writes: > debian-de...@liska.ath.cx (Olе Streicher) writes: >> For example "saods9" would use slalib as a shared library, and I want to >> git the user a choide to run it either with the free, or with the >> non-free version. > Are the two libraries actually ABI compatible? Somehow I

Re: RFS: policyd-weight

2012-02-08 Thread Werner Detter
Hi everybody I've received an email from Thomas. He proposed that it would make sense to have not only one sponsor for my package but maybe two So if one is busy the other one can do the sponsoring. Thomas had no time to upload my package which I've uploaded on Januar 24th. But he suggested to a

Re: RFS: vera++

2012-02-08 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
2012/2/7 Vincent Hobeïka : > - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/v/vera++/vera++_1.1.1-3.dsc Looks good. However I would 1. Simplify d/changelog. No-one cares I did work on this package initially. Redo d/changelog with only one entry. 2. remove quilt reference from d/rules this is u

Re: Providing a non-free alternative to a free package

2012-02-08 Thread Gergely Nagy
debian-de...@liska.ath.cx (Olе Streicher) writes: > Björn Esser writes: >> So I'd suggest name the free one slalib and the other one >> slalib-nonfree or vice versa (like the unrar example). > > The problem is that I want the dependent programs to be linked against > any of them. > > For example

Re: Providing a non-free alternative to a free package

2012-02-08 Thread Olе Streicher
Gergely Nagy writes: > If it is obfuscated, then it is most probably not the preferred form of > modification (and not the real source, but something derived from that), > thus, them being GPL'd is invalid, and it's not even fit for non-free, > as far as I see. This is something I have to discuss

Bug#659078: marked as done (RFS: auralquiz/0.8-1 [NEW] -- simple music quiz game using your own music files)

2012-02-08 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 8 Feb 2012 23:36:00 +1300 with message-id <20120208233600.4e5125fe@sidspace> and subject line RFS: auralquiz/0.8-1 [NEW] -- simple music quiz game using your own music files has caused the Debian Bug report #659078, regarding RFS: auralquiz/0.8-1 [NEW] -- simple music quiz

Re: Providing a non-free alternative to a free package

2012-02-08 Thread Gergely Nagy
debian-de...@liska.ath.cx (Olе Streicher) writes: > There is another version of this library available, where the (C) > sources are available (and put under GPL), but obfuscated, so that they > cannot go into "main" but would have to go into "non-free". However, I > am thinking about packaging thi

Re: Providing a non-free alternative to a free package

2012-02-08 Thread Björn Esser
How about doing it like it's done with the unrar package: According to packages.debian.org there are two pkgs. unrar unrar-free So I'd suggest name the free one slalib and the other one slalib-nonfree or vice versa (like the unrar example). Cheers, Björn 2012/2/8 Olе Streicher : > Hi, > > the

Re: sponsorship-requests and status

2012-02-08 Thread Simon Chopin
On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 03:28:03AM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List: Hi, > > I understand that it can take some time to get a package sponsored. > > Nevertheless, when the involved package is orphaned, > it would be a good idea to change its status to reflect the fact > it is indeed orph

Bug#658782: RFS: libapr-memcache0 -- apr_memcache is a client for memcached

2012-02-08 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, [ I have no intention to sponsor this package. ] > libapr-memcache0 (0.7.0-3) stable; urgency=low > > * Switched to stable release No, please read about the use of the different suites in Debian and how packages migrate between them. [1] has a short description in the second half of the

Processed: retitle 659047 to RFS: rpg/1.0.0-1 [NEW] -- Readable Password Generator ...

2012-02-08 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > retitle 659047 RFS: rpg/1.0.0-1 [NEW] -- Readable Password Generator Bug #659047 [sponsorship-requests] RFS: rpg - Readable Password Generator Changed Bug title to 'RFS: rpg/1.0.0-1 [NEW] -- Readable Password Generator' from 'RFS: rpg - Readable