Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsors.....?

2013-02-26 Thread Paul Wise
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Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsors.....?

2013-02-26 Thread Bart Martens
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:07:11PM +, Philip Ashmore wrote: > On 26/02/13 21:51, Arno Töll wrote: > >Hi, > > > >On 26.02.2013 22:31, W. van den Akker wrote: > >>I understand [1] and [2]. I meant uploading to unstable and not testing. > >>But none of the DD was ever answering the emails.. >

Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsors.....?

2013-02-26 Thread Paul Wise
Bah, I need to read before sending. On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > Specialization: ... > Unfortunately can mean Unfortunately this can mean there are no sponsors for particular areas. > Preferences: > > Different folks have different packaging preferences, some like cdbs,

Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsors.....?

2013-02-26 Thread Paul Wise
Here is a hopefully comprehensive, general answer to this question, not specific to your situation: Freeze: During the release freeze, most Debian folks are focussed on getting the release out. Fixing RC bugs, fixing important bugs, doing upgrade testing, writing release notes, finalising the ins

Bug#690049: marked as done (RFS: sylkserver/2.1.1-1 [ITP])

2013-02-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 27 Feb 2013 04:20:26 + with message-id and subject line closing RFS: sylkserver/2.1.1-1 [ITP] has caused the Debian Bug report #690049, regarding RFS: sylkserver/2.1.1-1 [ITP] to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this

Bug#700360: RFS: openfst/1.3.3-1 -- weighted finite-state transducers library

2013-02-26 Thread Giulio Paci
Il 25/02/2013 23:50, Jakub Wilk ha scritto: > * Giulio Paci , 2013-02-23, 19:37: >> I just sent another email further explaining the issue and pointing out it >> is a general issue. > > Thanks. > > > I think this change > * Move plugins from /usr/lib/fst/ to /usr/lib/fst/1/. > warrants updati

Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsors.....?

2013-02-26 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 26/02/13 21:51, Arno Töll wrote: Hi, On 26.02.2013 22:31, W. van den Akker wrote: I understand [1] and [2]. I meant uploading to unstable and not testing. But none of the DD was ever answering the emails.. Be patient and don't give up. I know this can be frustrating and annoying, and w

Bug#698547: Comments on package

2013-02-26 Thread Anton Gladky
Hi Willem, thanks for adopting these the package. But there are some questions/notes regarding it: 1) Remove quilt and hardening-includes from BD, they are useless there. 2) Vcs-Browser: ";a=summary" is not needed. 3) Convert copyright file into DEP-5 format. 4) debian/docs is not used? If so - r

Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsors.....?

2013-02-26 Thread Arno Töll
Hi, On 26.02.2013 22:31, W. van den Akker wrote: > I understand [1] and [2]. I meant uploading to unstable and not testing. > But none of the DD was ever answering the emails.. Be patient and don't give up. I know this can be frustrating and annoying, and we're slowly trying to improve the si

Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsors.....?

2013-02-26 Thread W. van den Akker
> If I am reading your (big) changelogs correctly, you are (amongst other > things) switching patch-system to quilt, and package new upstream > versions - This is a big no-no for the release team during the freeze > (see [1]) which we have had since June [2]. > > This might lower the chances of g

Bug#701668: marked as done (RFS: medit/1.1.1-1 [ITA] -- Useful programming and around-programming text editor)

2013-02-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:25:45 +0100 with message-id <512d2859.8040...@debian.org> and subject line Re: Bug#701668: RFS: medit/1.1.1-1 [ITA] -- Useful programming and around-programming text editor has caused the Debian Bug report #701668, regarding RFS: medit/1.1.1-1 [ITA] -- Useful

Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsors.....?

2013-02-26 Thread Willem van den Akker
> While this isn't true of the general case, which I think there's valid > concern about, it is currently during freeze, most DDs are working on RC > bugs :) Ok. > > Some sponsorship does still go on -- perhaps you could ask some of the > DDs who maintain jabber servers -- the ejabberd folks or

Bug#701668: RFS: medit/1.1.1-1 [ITA] -- Useful programming and around-programming text editor

2013-02-26 Thread Anton Gladky
Hi Jose, thanks for adopting this package. You have done a good job on packaging and I have not found there any critical errors there. So I uploaded that. But there are a couple of fix, which, please, prepare for your next upload: 1) Add CVS for packaging (preferable Alioth-services). 2) Conside

Bug#701739: RFS: rrep/1.3.4-1

2013-02-26 Thread Arno Onken
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "rrep" * Package name: rrep Version : 1.3.4-1 Upstream Author : Arno Onken * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/rrep/ * License : GPL-3.0+ Section

Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsors.....?

2013-02-26 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:09:04 +0100, Willem van den Akker wrote: >Hi, > >I have 2 packages for which I request sponsoring. >http://mentors.debian.net/package/jabberd2 Bug #698547 >http://mentors.debian.net/package/jabber-muc Bug #698548 > >But until now nobody seemed to be interested in sponsoring

Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsors.....?

2013-02-26 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 03:09:04PM +0100, Willem van den Akker wrote: > Hi, > > I have 2 packages for which I request sponsoring. > http://mentors.debian.net/package/jabberd2 Bug #698547 > http://mentors.debian.net/package/jabber-muc Bug #698548 > > But until now nobody seemed to be interested i

Why is it so hard to get sponsors.....?

2013-02-26 Thread Willem van den Akker
Hi, I have 2 packages for which I request sponsoring. http://mentors.debian.net/package/jabberd2 Bug #698547 http://mentors.debian.net/package/jabber-muc Bug #698548 But until now nobody seemed to be interested in sponsoring them. I got messages not familiar with these packages or something

Bug#701693: RFS: compton/0.0.1+git-2182505-2013-02-05-1 [ITP]

2013-02-26 Thread Scott Leggett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "compton" * Package name: compton Version : 0.0.1+git-2182505-2013-02-05-1 Upstream Author : Christopher Jeffrey * URL

Re: RFS: libengsas packages

2013-02-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 08:56:11AM +0100, Helmut Grohne a écrit : > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 06:58:22PM +0100, Anton Gladky wrote: > > On 02/25/2013 05:37 PM, Andrew Shadura wrote: > > >> 6) Copyright-file must be in DEP-5 format. > > > Please don't say 'must' when you're speaking about what's actua

Re: RFS: libengsas packages

2013-02-26 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 06:58:22PM +0100, Anton Gladky wrote: > On 02/25/2013 05:37 PM, Andrew Shadura wrote: > >> 6) Copyright-file must be in DEP-5 format. > > Please don't say 'must' when you're speaking about what's actually a > > recommendation, not a rule. Thanks. > ok, agree, my "typo". But

Re: Watch file warning from mentors website

2013-02-26 Thread Scott Leggett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26/02/13 18:56, Bart Martens wrote: > The redirector githubredir is obsolete, because github allows uscan > now. It's possible that githubredir is still documented in some > versions of "man uscan". > > You can choose to add a comments-only watch