Re: Library packaging and missing .a file

2014-04-24 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-04-25 07:58, Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote: >> On 24.04.14 10:23:23, Christian Kastner wrote: > I have got another problem. Libstrophe only provides .a file, no .so, > so basically it should provide only a -dev package. Is it ok to > package only -dev, or is it agains policies? Not that I'm a

Re: Library packaging and missing .a file

2014-04-24 Thread Dariusz Dwornikowski
>On 24.04.14 10:23:23, Christian Kastner wrote: > > It is sufficient to change these to eg: > >usr/lib/*/lib*.a Thanks for this. I have got another problem. Libstrophe only provides .a file, no .so, so basically it should provide only a -dev package. Is it ok to package only -dev, or is it

Bug#745777: RFS: ipad-charge/0~20131118.c82b032-1 [ITP] -- USB charging control utility to charge an Apple device

2014-04-24 Thread Benjamin Donald-Wilson
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "ipad-charge" * Package name: ipad-charge Version : 0~20131118.c82b032-1 Upstream Author : Max Korenkov * URL : https://github.com/mkorenkov/ipad_charge

Re: argument against splitting packages

2014-04-24 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 24 Apr 2014, Paul Gevers wrote: > The one argument that I can come up with is that adding a package also > adds about 1kB to the data that everybody in Debian has to download > (on every update), also the people that are not interested in the > package (which may be many). It also increase

Bug#745609: RFS: eso-midas/13.09pl1.2-1 [ITP] -- European Southern Observatory Munich Image Data Analysis System

2014-04-24 Thread Thorsten Alteholz
Hi Ole, your debian/copyright needs some additions: install/unix/systems/Cygwin/values.h is LGPL gui/GraphLib/libsrc/uimxR5/include/msg.h is some Apple license libsrc/readline/* is GPL1+ gui/GraphLib/DESCRIPTION has some additional license information Most important install/unix/systems/Li

argument against splitting packages

2014-04-24 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi all, In the last couple of days, the following came up multiple times. Splitting binary packages adds to the total amount of packages in Debian. I have heard that (some) people are very careful before they decide to do that. What is the argument? I can come up with one, but I wonder if there is

Bug#734308: marked as done (RFS: notion/3+2014010901-1 -- tiling tabbed window manager designed for keyboard users)

2014-04-24 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Thu, 24 Apr 2014 16:23:37 + with message-id and subject line closing RFS: notion/3+2014010901-1 -- tiling tabbed window manager designed for keyboard users has caused the Debian Bug report #734308, regarding RFS: notion/3+2014010901-1 -- tiling tabbed window manager designe

Bug#743950: Updated download URL for python-ebooklib source package

2014-04-24 Thread Daniel James
Hi mentors, Following feedback I have fixed some issues with the source package and re-uploaded it with a -1 suffix. It can downloaded with dget using this command: dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/python-ebooklib/python-ebooklib_0.15-1.dsc Changes since the last upload:

Bug#745721: [Pkg-ime-devel] Bug#745721: RFS: libzhuyin/0.9.93-1

2014-04-24 Thread 陳侃如
ChangZhuo Chen (陳昌倬) writes: > Package: sponsorship-requests > Severity: wishlist > > Hi All, > > I am looking for a sponsor for libzhuyin: > > * Package name: libzhuyin > Version : 0.9.93 > Upstream Author : Peng Wu > * URL : https://github.com/libzhuyin/libzhuyin >

Re: watch file help needed: Download page of mkgmap changed and is now hiding download files behind JavaScript code

2014-04-24 Thread Daniel Lintott
On 24/04/14 12:32, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > thanks for your continuous trials to help me. :-) > No problem! I enjoy a good bit of problem solving! > On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:22:22AM +0100, Daniel Lintott wrote: >> >> Hope that helps... > > Not really since I can not confirm that

Bug#745721: RFS: libzhuyin/0.9.93-1

2014-04-24 Thread 陳昌倬
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Hi All, I am looking for a sponsor for libzhuyin: * Package name: libzhuyin Version : 0.9.93 Upstream Author : Peng Wu * URL : https://github.com/libzhuyin/libzhuyin * License : GPL2 Programming Lang: C++ D

Re: No upstream versioning

2014-04-24 Thread Craig Small
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 09:14:08PM +1000, Benjamin Donald-Wilson wrote: >Thanks for the advice. Just one more quick question, should I use date of >the commit I'm using or the date that I package it? (last commit was >roughly 5 months ago) Their commit date. The reason is there is at le

Re: watch file help needed: Download page of mkgmap changed and is now hiding download files behind JavaScript code

2014-04-24 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Daniel, thanks for your continuous trials to help me. :-) On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:22:22AM +0100, Daniel Lintott wrote: > On 24/04/14 10:32, Daniel Lintott wrote: > > On 24/04/14 09:44, Daniel Lintott wrote: > >> On 24/04/14 09:04, Andreas Tille wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> if you look at th

Re: No upstream versioning

2014-04-24 Thread Benjamin Donald-Wilson
Thanks for the advice. Just one more quick question, should I use date of the commit I'm using or the date that I package it? (last commit was roughly 5 months ago) On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Apr 24, 2014 1:00 PM, "Benjamin Donald-Wilson" > wrote: > > > > On Th

Re: No upstream versioning

2014-04-24 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Apr 24, 2014 1:00 PM, "Benjamin Donald-Wilson" wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 8:49 PM, Christian Kastner wrote: >> If that doesn't work, another possibility would be to create a mock >> version number based on the date, for example MMDD.{7-digit-commit-ID}. >> > ​So I will most likely

Re: No upstream versioning

2014-04-24 Thread Alessio Treglia
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Christian Kastner wrote: > If that doesn't work, another possibility would be to create a mock > version number based on the date, for example MMDD.{7-digit-commit-ID}. ...and possibly prepending it with 0~ in order to avoid you to introduce an epoch in the f

Re: No upstream versioning

2014-04-24 Thread Benjamin Donald-Wilson
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 8:49 PM, Christian Kastner wrote: > On 2014-04-24 12:45, Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote: > > On 24.04.14 20:12:12, Benjamin Donald-Wilson wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I'm wishing to package ipad-charge[0] for Debian.[1] The only problem I > >> appear to be having is that the u

Re: No upstream versioning

2014-04-24 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-04-24 12:45, Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote: > On 24.04.14 20:12:12, Benjamin Donald-Wilson wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm wishing to package ipad-charge[0] for Debian.[1] The only problem I >> appear to be having is that the upstream don't version their uploads. I've >> emailed the developer a few

Re: No upstream versioning

2014-04-24 Thread Dariusz Dwornikowski
On 24.04.14 20:12:12, Benjamin Donald-Wilson wrote: > Hello, > > I'm wishing to package ipad-charge[0] for Debian.[1] The only problem I > appear to be having is that the upstream don't version their uploads. I've > emailed the developer a few days ago but haven't received a response so far. > I'm

No upstream versioning

2014-04-24 Thread Benjamin Donald-Wilson
Hello, I'm wishing to package ipad-charge[0] for Debian.[1] The only problem I appear to be having is that the upstream don't version their uploads. I've emailed the developer a few days ago but haven't received a response so far. I'm wondering what I should version it as if I do not receive a rep

Re: watch file help needed: Download page of mkgmap changed and is now hiding download files behind JavaScript code

2014-04-24 Thread Daniel Lintott
On 24/04/14 10:32, Daniel Lintott wrote: > On 24/04/14 09:44, Daniel Lintott wrote: >> On 24/04/14 09:04, Andreas Tille wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> if you look at the HTML code of >>> >>>http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/download/ >>> >>> you see strings like: >>> >>> \"mkgmap-r3226-src.tar.gz\": 1555754

Re: watch file help needed: Download page of mkgmap changed and is now hiding download files behind JavaScript code

2014-04-24 Thread Daniel Lintott
On 24/04/14 09:44, Daniel Lintott wrote: > On 24/04/14 09:04, Andreas Tille wrote: >> Hi, >> >> if you look at the HTML code of >> >>http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/download/ >> >> you see strings like: >> >> \"mkgmap-r3226-src.tar.gz\": 1555754, \"mkgmap-r3226-src.zip\": 2194070, >> >> and thus u

Re: watch file help needed: Download page of mkgmap changed and is now hiding download files behind JavaScript code

2014-04-24 Thread Daniel Lintott
On 24/04/14 09:04, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > if you look at the HTML code of > >http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/download/ > > you see strings like: > > \"mkgmap-r3226-src.tar.gz\": 1555754, \"mkgmap-r3226-src.zip\": 2194070, > > and thus uscan stopped working. I guess it will be hard to

Re: watch file help needed: Download page of mkgmap changed and is now hiding download files behind JavaScript code

2014-04-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: > Any idea how we could make uscan capable to detect and download the latest > source anyway? Use a match based on the zip download and downloadurlmangle to transform that to a src tarball. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -

Re: Library packaging and missing .a file

2014-04-24 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-04-24 08:16, Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote: > dh_install: libstrophe-dev missing files (usr/lib/lib*.a), aborting > > The libstrophe.a file is installed into /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu, > instead of /usr/lib. When should the .a file be installed into > /usr/lib and when into x86... ? The new

watch file help needed: Download page of mkgmap changed and is now hiding download files behind JavaScript code

2014-04-24 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, if you look at the HTML code of http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/download/ you see strings like: \"mkgmap-r3226-src.tar.gz\": 1555754, \"mkgmap-r3226-src.zip\": 2194070, and thus uscan stopped working. I guess it will be hard to convince upstream that their new shiny page is a bad idea for