Re: adapting a dpatch to changed source: how?

2009-02-16 Thread Andreas Schildbach
On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 20:50 +, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > So take it out of place. A dpatch is two things: the patch file, and its > entry in debian/patches/00list. Take its entry out, and > dpatch-edit-patch won't try to apply it. > > rm it, and remove its entry in 00list. Ok, dpatch-edit-

Re: adapting a dpatch to changed source: how?

2009-02-15 Thread Andreas Schildbach
On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 20:07 +, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > > So am I really supposed to create that patch file by hand in this case? > > If you can reconstruct the patched source, then: > > - apply the patch series as far as possible The patch in question is the first in the series. Maybe l

Re: adapting a dpatch to changed source: how?

2009-02-15 Thread Andreas Schildbach
On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 19:59 +, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > > dpatch-edit-patch does not allow editing a corrupt patch. Unfortunately, > > dpatch-edit-patch is the only way I know how to create a dpatch patch > > (besides writing it by hand). > > A dpatch patch is just a normal patch file (wit

Re: adapting a dpatch to changed source: how?

2009-02-15 Thread Andreas Schildbach
On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 16:54 +, Neil Williams wrote: > > > I wonder what's the best workflow to adapt a patch to a changed > > > source. > > > [...] > > > Even finding out the cause of the failure by examining the .rej file > > > has > > > been no success. > > You have to know what the chan

adapting a dpatch to changed source: how?

2009-02-13 Thread Andreas Schildbach
Hi, I wonder what's the best workflow to adapt a patch to a changed source. In a sid package using dpatch, I have updated the source to the latest upstream tarball. Unfortunately, one of my patches does not apply any more. I expected dpatch-edit-patch to offer some workflow for this, but could n

Trying to understand patch management - in combination with version control

2008-09-02 Thread Andreas Schildbach
Hello everyone, I am maintaining a rather large package and have decided to use a version control system (SVN). I have already svn-inject'ed the existing package into my repository. Since the original source is (in its current form) not re-distributable (due to licensing issues), I decided to use

Re: RFS: phpmyid

2008-08-29 Thread Andreas Schildbach
On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 10:35 +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > The default configuration of Apache does not allow to put rewrite rules > in .htaccess files. In post-lenny, nothing will be authorized by default > in .htaccess. Therefore, a user modifying .htaccess will get a non > working config

RFS: wordpress-openid [was: Re: No sponsor found for weeks, what to do now?]

2008-08-28 Thread Andreas Schildbach
Hi Raphael, On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 19:23 -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Andreas, please don't take these wrong but your packages really need a lot > of changes and reading the documentation and looking at different packages > and even reading the reviews posted for other packages could help you

Re: RFS: phpmyid

2008-08-28 Thread Andreas Schildbach
On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 00:03 +0200, Noel David Torres Taño wrote: > Unless you have explicit permission to use GPL version 1 _or any later > version_ which menas you can use GPL-2. If you can do that, please do. He is including a LICENSE file that says GPL v2 and includes a complete copy of the l

Re: RFS: phpmyid

2008-08-28 Thread Andreas Schildbach
Hello Michal, On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 22:07 +0200, Michal Čihař wrote: > > > - also license information in debian/copyright does not seem to be > > > sufficient, you should be more detailed (or use new machine readable > > > format, see http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat) > > > > Tha

Re: RFS: phpmyid

2008-08-28 Thread Andreas Schildbach
Hi Vincent, hello Michal, thanks for helping me with the package. I have uploaded a fixed package to mentors.debian.net. On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 19:02 +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > In debian/changelog, remove the mention about this package being your > first. Most users are not interested in thi

No sponsor found for weeks, what to do now?

2008-08-27 Thread Andreas Schildbach
Hello everyone, I have created and uploaded (to mentors.debian.net) two Debian packages some weeks ago, and have advertized them on this group. However, until now, no sponsor was looking after the packages. I'd like to know what to do now? Just wait? Starting to personally e-mail Debian developer

RFS: wordpress-openid

2008-08-06 Thread Andreas Schildbach
d this package for me. Kind regards Andreas Schildbach P.S. there is also phpmyid, an OpenID identity provider, still waiting to be sponsored: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/phpmyid -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Building a build environment

2008-07-29 Thread Andreas Schildbach
Hi Richard, > I am just getting started in Debian package building and I need to > know if this idea is valid or if there is a better way. It's my > understanding that building Debian packages is best done in a Sid > environment. Since I'm not running Sid on any of my machines, I had > t

RFS: phpmyid

2008-07-26 Thread Andreas Schildbach
net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/phpmyid - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/phpmyid/phpmyid_0.9-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind

mentors.debian.net SSL certificate under Ubuntu?

2008-07-25 Thread Andreas Schildbach
Hi there, Surfing to on my Ubuntu Hardy machine https://mentors.debian.net/ gives me the error mentors.debian.net uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate is unknown. (Error code: sec_error_unknown_issuer) What is the recommended and m

new maintainer questions

2008-07-22 Thread Andreas Schildbach
Hi there, being a long time Debian (and derivatives) user, I am thinking about starting to package for Debian. First, I'd like to try my luck on phpMyID, a very simple single-user OpenID identity provider. This isn't available as a Debian package yet, and there is no intent that I am aware of. I