Re: How to use multiple upstream tarballs in Debian source packages: quid GIT ?

2014-11-13 Thread Vincent Cheng
Hi, On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello Forum, > > in order to add some missing sample material, I add a second source to the > upstream source tarball, > then I followed the multiple upstream tarballs in Debian source packages > approach [1]. > This approach is curren

How to use multiple upstream tarballs in Debian source packages: quid GIT ?

2014-11-13 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello Forum, in order to add some missing sample material, I add a second source to the upstream source tarball, then I followed the multiple upstream tarballs in Debian source packages approach [1]. This approach is currently used for spamassassin [2]. What is the GIT part of this approach ?

Re: Making "entry-point" nee "gift" a real BTS tag

2014-11-13 Thread Don Armstrong
To avoid devolving in a naming the bike-shed discussion, anyone who has a strong opinion, please manually vote in https://debian.titanpad.com/24 and I'll tabulate them 24 hours from now. If you want a different option than the two I've listed, please add it at the top with a new letter. [Hopef

Bug#769487: RFS: docbook-to-man/1:2.0.0-33 [ITA, upload to experimental]

2014-11-13 Thread Maxime Chatelle
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "docbook-to-man" * Package name: docbook-to-man Version : 1:2.0.0-33 Upstream Author : Fred Dalrymple * URL : http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/tools/dtm/

Re: Depends on exact version

2014-11-13 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi Daniel, On 13.11.2014 11:29, Daniel Lintott wrote: On 12/11/14 22:40, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: What should work better is '>= ${source:Upstream-Version}'. However, that is not enough to guarantee that the upstream versions always match. One could then have e.g.: gns3= 1.1-1 gns3-gui

Re: Making "entry-point" nee "gift" a real BTS tag [Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers]

2014-11-13 Thread David
On 14 November 2014 00:59, Stéphane Aulery wrote: > Le mercredi 12 novembre 2014 à 03:54:05, Don Armstrong a écrit : >> >> This is the last chance for someone to object to entry-point as the tag >> name. If I hear no objections, I'll put this in place on Friday, around >> 18:00 UTC. > >apprent

[Fwd: Re: ITP? Sponsors of eudev, consolekit2, uselessd?]

2014-11-13 Thread Svante Signell
Hi, Seems like I sent my question to the wrong list. Please Cc: replies, I'm not subscribed (yet) --- Begin Message --- Am 13.11.2014 um 19:17 schrieb Svante Signell: Hi, Hi, I'm currently looking into packaging eudev, consolekit2, uselessd for Debian. If doing so, is anybody interested in

Bug#769445: RFS: berkeley-abc/1.01+20141105hg5b5af75+dfsg-1

2014-11-13 Thread Ruben Undheim
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "berkeley-abc" * Package name: berkeley-abc Version : 1.01+20141105hg5b5af75+dfsg-1 Upstream Author : Berkeley Logic Synthesis and Verification Group * URL :

Re: Making "entry-point" nee "gift" a real BTS tag [Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers]

2014-11-13 Thread Stéphane Aulery
Le mercredi 12 novembre 2014 à 03:54:05, Don Armstrong a écrit : > > This is the last chance for someone to object to entry-point as the tag > name. If I hear no objections, I'll put this in place on Friday, around > 18:00 UTC. I am looking for an idea in a nutshell. I'm not English so it's hard

Re: Making "entry-point" nee "gift" a real BTS tag [Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers]

2014-11-13 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-11-13 12:43, Stéphane Aulery wrote: > I'm sorry my English is poor and I can hardly do better. I wanted to > summarize the main ideas of the second paragraph on page [1] which I > find very good. The maintainer should know the first glance by reading > the description if it can offer the b

Re: Making "entry-point" nee "gift" a real BTS tag [Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers]

2014-11-13 Thread Stéphane Aulery
Le jeudi 13 novembre 2014 à 11:51:51, Christian Kastner a écrit : > On 2014-11-13 09:42, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > > > I don't think we should include the initial part about "maintainer can > > easily solve...", as it does seems a bit patronizing ("that's easy for > > me, but I won't do it bec

Re: Depends on exact version

2014-11-13 Thread Roger Light
> binNMUs will cause a few of the binary packages to have a different > debian revision than the rest of the binary packages and the source > packages. > > We have a lintian check for this, I think. Is it not-binnmuable-all-depends-any? I should've remembered that one, because I use the fix that i

Re: Depends on exact version

2014-11-13 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 12 Nov 2014, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 12 Nov 2014, Roger Light wrote: > > Could you try ${binary:Version} instead? > > (= ${binary:Version}) can break binNMUs. Be careful. binNMUs will cause a few of the binary packages to have a different debian revision than the res

Re: Making "entry-point" nee "gift" a real BTS tag [Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers]

2014-11-13 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-11-13 09:42, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 07:42:33PM +0100, Stéphane Aulery wrote: >> entry-point >> The maintainer can easily solve this bug by himself, but he >> wants to take it to new contributors who wish to get involved >> in Debian. Bugs of any diff

Re: Depends on exact version

2014-11-13 Thread Daniel Lintott
On 12/11/14 23:32, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 12 Nov 2014, Roger Light wrote: >> Could you try ${binary:Version} instead? > > (= ${binary:Version}) can break binNMUs. Be careful. > Indeed, I am keen to try and avoid any breakages like that. I also don't think the above would w

Re: Depends on exact version

2014-11-13 Thread Daniel Lintott
On 12/11/14 22:40, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: > [...] > > You require the exact upstream version (1.1). > This can't work, because there will always be the Debian revision added > (1.1-1~exp1). > I had a suspicion that this was why, but wasn't sure. > What should work better is '>= ${source:Ups

Re: Making "entry-point" nee "gift" a real BTS tag [Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers]

2014-11-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 03:54:05PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > Excellent; thanks. I'm going to make these gender-neutral, and then I'll > commit them. > > This is the last chance for someone to object to entry-point as the tag > name. If I hear no objections, I'll put this in place on Friday, ar

Re: changes file issue when packaging for backports

2014-11-13 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Thu, 13 Nov 2014, quidame wrote: > Oops, > > not Priority: but Urgency: > > quidame wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I try to backport bilibop_0.4.22 source package (native). If only changes > > from 0.4.22 to 0.4.22~bpo70+1 are copied in to the changes file, lintian > > complains with the 'backports