Delaying an RFS: Close or Leave Open?

2013-06-18 Thread Bill Blough
I have two ITA packages, both with RFS bugs created. Based on the review and comments on one package, I realized that the other package needs a lot more work before uploading it. So, in hindsight, I shouldn't have opened an RFS for it yet. But since I did, what is the preferred way to handle th

Bug#712734: RFS: cloudprint/0.10-3 [ITP]

2013-06-18 Thread Dave Steele
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my new package "cloudprint" Package name: cloudprint Version: 0.10-3 Upstream Author: Jason Michalski URL: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cloudprint License: GPL3 Section: net It

Re: RFS: s3cmd python module

2013-06-18 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Robinson Sathaseevan , 2013-06-18, 13:41: When I re-build, should it still be -1 until it actually gets uploaded or should I increment to -2, -3, etc. each time? The former. -- Jakub Wilk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: RFS: s3cmd python module

2013-06-18 Thread Robinson Sathaseevan
Wow! Thanks for the detailed analysis. I will have a look through all the findings and fix as you listed. I did not know there were python specific tests and packager available for me to use. To answer your question: I don't know if the original manpage typos patch was sent upstream but I will sen

Bug#712056: RFS: scantailor [ITP] -- interactive post-processing tool for scanned document pages

2013-06-18 Thread Daniel Stender
1) buildflags.patch / build type First of all, the patch works fine. Actually, after removing the forced variable overrides Cmake recognizes already the standard environment build flags. I've came across that Debhelper 20130504 was set to always switch to RelWithDebInfo build type (#701233), wh

Re: Enabling flags depending on buildd gcc version

2013-06-18 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 18 June 2013 15:29, Franz Schrober wrote: > Hi, > > > is it possible with dh/debhelper to enabling specific compiler flags easily > depending on the gcc-defaults package/gcc version? Problem is the GCC 4.8 > version which currently needs -fno-aggressive-loop-optimizations until some > source co

Re: How to handle a package requiring external test data for its test suite?

2013-06-18 Thread Thomas Moulard
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Charles Plessy , 2013-06-18, 08:33: > >> Have you considered running the tests with autopkgtest ? >> >>http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep8/ >> >> Then, you can either download the data or install it from a separate data >> package. > > > No, y

Enabling flags depending on buildd gcc version

2013-06-18 Thread Franz Schrober
Hi, is it possible with dh/debhelper to enabling specific compiler flags easily depending on the gcc-defaults package/gcc version? Problem is the GCC 4.8 version which currently needs -fno-aggressive-loop-optimizations until some source code depending on some non-standard compliant behaviour are

Re: libraries compiled with clang

2013-06-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 9:42 PM, Jeroen Massar wrote: > Please see: > http://clang.debian.net/ Also: http://buildd-clang.debian.net/package.php -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: libraries compiled with clang

2013-06-18 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2013-06-18 12:05 , Richi Lists wrote: > Hi everybody, > > gcc is the default compiler for debian, and all the libraries in the > repository are compiled with gcc. > clang is also in the repository. But if I want to compile anything other > than the simplest toy program, I also need libraries. M

Bug#712056: RFS: scantailor [ITP] -- interactive post-processing tool for scanned document pages

2013-06-18 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > Build type is better to leave as "RELWITHDEBINFO". This might be > useful if you decide to provide -dbg package or just to (re-)build > with debugging info with command like Technically RelWithDebInfo should not be used anymore with cmake

Re: How to handle a package requiring external test data for its test suite?

2013-06-18 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Charles Plessy , 2013-06-18, 08:33: Have you considered running the tests with autopkgtest ? http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep8/ Then, you can either download the data or install it from a separate data package. No, you can't assume that Internet connectivity will be available to your tes

Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsor (Part 2, was: RFS Jabberd2 / Jabber-muc)

2013-06-18 Thread W. van den Akker
> > Why is it so hard to get sponsor and why is there nobody who tries to > > support the jabber uploads ;) > Well, as I am in the same shoes, we can make a deal. We can try to > review each other's packages, trying to fix bugs and give > recommendations supporting each other. This way, we could

Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsor (Part 2, was: RFS Jabberd2 / Jabber-muc)

2013-06-18 Thread Miklos Quartus
Hi Willem On 18/06/13 07:56, W. van den Akker wrote: I find it very disappointing that for the second time I cannot manage to get some packages in. I read a lot mailings about the bad shape some packages are in. But if newcomers dont have a chance (well not everyone ;)) to adopt packages then th

Re: libraries compiled with clang

2013-06-18 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 18 June 2013 11:05, Richi Lists wrote: > Hi everybody, > > gcc is the default compiler for debian, and all the libraries in the > repository are compiled with gcc. > clang is also in the repository. But if I want to compile anything other > than the simplest toy program, I also need libraries.

libraries compiled with clang

2013-06-18 Thread Richi Lists
Hi everybody, gcc is the default compiler for debian, and all the libraries in the repository are compiled with gcc. clang is also in the repository. But if I want to compile anything other than the simplest toy program, I also need libraries. Maintaining them by hand is a nightmare if you're used

Bug#712544: RFS: xalan/1.11-1 [ITA]

2013-06-18 Thread Bill Blough
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 09:18:25AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Package looks pretty good. However I cannot build it a second time. > Looks like the clean rule is missing something: It looks like that problem is a result of the switch from using the shipped configure script to regenerating i

Re: RFS: xinetd

2013-06-18 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 15 June 2013 13:43, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: > Hello, > > I've just uploaded the new version of xinetd on mentors and it needs a > sponsor. > > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/x/xinetd/xinetd_2.3.15-1.dsc > > it finally uses the latest upstream available version and closes 2 bugs with

Re: Why is it so hard to get sponsor (Part 2, was: RFS Jabberd2 / Jabber-muc)

2013-06-18 Thread Paul Wise
My guess is that the intersection between people who have upload access, experience, time, interest in running an XMPP server, aren't already running other XMPP server software and are reading this list is close to zero. Daniel Pocock has been blogging about XMPP, federated services and other rela

Bug#712544: RFS: xalan/1.11-1 [ITA]

2013-06-18 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 8:36 AM, Bill Blough wrote: > > > Thanks Jakub! > > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:40:44PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote >> X: libxalan111: binary-file-built-without-LFS-support >> usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libxalan-c.so.111.0 >> (It might be worth fixing upstream, but I'm not sure if

Why is it so hard to get sponsor (Part 2, was: RFS Jabberd2 / Jabber-muc)

2013-06-18 Thread W. van den Akker
Hi Members, Last February I mailed the list why some packages wont get a sponsor. I got a few reactions of sponsors who helped me to get the package into decent shape. But at the end no sponsor would have time or experience with the package to upload it. The jabber packages are obvious a strange t