Re: What the proper way to update debian/changelog

2013-05-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, May 24, 2013 at 02:14:39AM +, T o n g a écrit : > > Not complaining, Debian has lot of good documents. Just that they are not > to my taste. :-) They are written in the reference book style, whereas I > more prefer a cook book style. :-) Still not complaining -- We've got to > appr

Re: What's the proper way to build from debian dsc

2013-05-23 Thread Russ Allbery
T o n g writes: > So I found the glimpse dsc file at > ftp://ftp.cstone.net/debian/pool/non-free/g/glimpse/glimpse_4.18.5-1.dsc > Can anyone explain me in simple commands how I can build and test upload > this glimpse package please? Of course, starting from to get it, and then > properly upda

Re: What's the proper way to build from debian dsc

2013-05-23 Thread Vincent Cheng
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 8:59 PM, T o n g wrote: > On Fri, 24 May 2013 02:14:39 +, T o n g wrote: > >> I'm a system learner. I.e., I learn through build up my overall >> knowledge first, before rolling up my sleeves and dive in. While trying >> to learn to maintain debian packages, I realized t

Re: What's the proper way to build from debian dsc

2013-05-23 Thread T o n g
On Fri, 24 May 2013 02:14:39 +, T o n g wrote: > I'm a system learner. I.e., I learn through build up my overall > knowledge first, before rolling up my sleeves and dive in. While trying > to learn to maintain debian packages, I realized that there are A LOT to > learn, which is hard. And I fo

Bug#709564: RFS: irssi-scripts/20130508

2013-05-23 Thread Daniel Echeverry
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "irssi-scripts" * Package name: irssi-scripts * Version : 20130508 * URL: http://scripts.irssi.org/ * License : GPL-2.0+ Section

Re: What the proper way to update debian/changelog

2013-05-23 Thread T o n g
On Thu, 23 May 2013 09:55:06 -0300, Eriberto wrote: > You can try make a test, put your package in mentors.debian.net and send > us the link, asking for a revision. I and others can help you to > understand the process. I really appreciate the mentoring, and understand that each case would be di

Re: What the proper way to update debian/changelog

2013-05-23 Thread T o n g
On Thu, 23 May 2013 09:55:06 -0300, Eriberto wrote: > You should do what Prach Pongpanich said. And you can see what other > people done in their packages. A tip: . . . Thanks Prach & Eriberto for your answers. I posted my OP, then I thought, since this is the first time I'm posting here, bett

Bug#709547: RFS: mapcatcher/0.8.0.0-1 [put in ITP, ITA, RC, NMU if applicable]

2013-05-23 Thread D Haley
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal [important for RC bugs, wishlist for new packages] Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "mapcatcher", ITP: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=589254

Bug#706361: gti review

2013-05-23 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hello Felix, Thank you for your corrections. We're almost there, but I hope that few more pedantic issues could be fixed... :) > I take it it is not customary to provide overrides for "pedantic" > warnings? You can do it and on some occasions I overridden some pedantic warnings to acknowledge t

Please help with Java issue where it seems to make a difference where JAR is installed

2013-05-23 Thread Andreas Tille
tags 697604 help thanks Hi, I'm a bit lost with my bit of Java knowledge if it comes to internals. I can only confirm that I can perfectly reproduce the problem using the data file submitted in [1] for testing and one reporter states in [2]: I downloaded upstream FastQC and there was no such p

Re: What the proper way to update debian/changelog

2013-05-23 Thread Eriberto
Hi Tong, You can try make a test, put your package in mentors.debian.net and send us the link, asking for a revision. I and others can help you to understand the process. You should do what Prach Pongpanich said. And you can see what other people done in their packages. A tip: $ find /usr/share/

Bug#701706: RFS: ocamlrss/2.0-1 [ITP] -- RSS 2.0 parser and printer for OCaml

2013-05-23 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Le 23/05/2013 05:45, Prach Pongpanich a écrit : > Packaging a new upstream 2.2.0: Sorry for taking so long, but I wanted to look at the whole thread first... which I haven't done so far. Anyway, since you've been waiting for some time now, I've just directly looked at your package without looking