Re: Naming a new package for Debian

2024-01-17 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 02:27:00AM -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote: > > As another example, I did see an X11 image viewer that was just named > feh after it's executable so that might not be a big issue. > If you do call it tiv, make sure that the name is readily understood in package description.

Re: Help needed in setting up dev-environment

2023-02-10 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 06:37:31PM +0530, Ashutosh Pandey wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am Ashutosh Pandey and I want to be a part of this year's GSoC program as > a mentee. I am doing my Bachelor's in Computer Science at ABESIT Ghaziabad, > India. > > I am interested in Dev-Ops and Full-Stack s

Re: How to request a package python-pyqt6.qsci?

2023-01-02 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Jan 02, 2023 at 07:50:53AM +, Barry wrote: > > > I need to install pyqt qsci to test the built code anyway so… > > What is the stanza to get to these debs please? > deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib no

Re: lintian errors packaging Barry's Emacs

2022-12-27 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 10:57:51AM -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote: > Barry, > > Figuring out how to package for Debian has a stiff learning curve (speaking > as someone > who is going through the process myself). > > There are a couple of website that collect links to information that might be >

Re: doubts about debian/copyrights

2022-10-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Oct 22, 2022 at 03:59:01PM +0200, Fabio Fantoni wrote: > Hi, I had in several cases with difficulties with debian/copyright but in > most cases with the help of decopy plus any other manual checks and > searches, investing a little time I was able to find "the solution". > > Recently I had

Re: How to revive an abandoned package? (Qtile)

2021-11-21 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 03:51:56PM -0500, Damien Calloway wrote: > Hello! > > I am an avid Pythonista and I was disappointed to learn that > > sudo apt install qtile > > No longer works. In my research, it appears that the qtile project relies > on packagers for each distribution - they do not

Re: Bug#971594: RFS: asciidoc/9.0.2-1 [ITA] -- Highly configurable text format for writing documentation

2021-10-28 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 02:26:10PM +0200, Leon Marz wrote: > On 10/27/21 9:38 PM, Bastian Germann wrote: > > Hi Leon, > > > > The package seems to be okay except for the debian/copyright file. Just > > by looking at the debdiff (excluding the unchanged upstream sources) I > > can identify several