Re: Handling stale bug reports

2021-08-08 Thread Brian Thompson
On 0808, Paul Wise wrote: >On Sat, Aug 7, 2021 at 10:54 PM Brian Thompson wrote: > >> How should a new maintainer go about closing old bug reports? > >I noticed that you have been: > >Closing bug reports without any explanation. > >Closing what looks like legitimate f

Handling stale bug reports

2021-08-07 Thread Brian Thompson
seems to me that since I am the maintainer I can close bug reports at my discretion. Of course, I don't want to just randomly start closing old bug reports, and I think some of them are valid. What's the best way to go about handling old bug reports? - -- Best regards, Brian T.

Getting accepted changes into Salsa

2021-08-07 Thread Brian Thompson
://tracker.debian.org/pkg/apt-listchanges. However, the change hasn't been pushed to Salsa. How can I go about getting this done? - -- Best regards, Brian T. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQJHBAEBCgAxFiEE9fpVo96/flopdKOfgw2Ncu3Nhn0FAmEPB7YTHGJyaWFuQGhh c2h2YXVsdC5pbwAKCRCDDY1y7c2G

Bug#991290: RFS: apt-listchanges/3.25 [ITA] -- package change history notification tool

2021-07-19 Thread Thompson, Brian
ce stretch. . [ Brian Thompson ] * Change maintainer to myself (closes: #981890). * Fix uninitialized variable. * Add debconf as build-dep. * Automated po update. Regards, BT

Bug#990508: New RFS: 3.25 (includes NMU update and maintainer update)

2021-07-10 Thread Brian Thompson
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Bug#990508: RFS: apt-listchanges/3.24.1 [ITA] -- Proposed changes

2021-07-05 Thread Brian Thompson
ternative is to close out this bug since it is intended functionality and leave it as-is. -- Best regards, Brian T B.S. Computer Science 2014 (Truman State University) Minor Stasitics Minor Chemistry Minor Mathematics signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#990508: RFS: apt-listchanges/3.24.1 [ITA] -- Show new changelog entries from Debian package archives

2021-07-05 Thread Brian Thompson
+Tia, the bug reporter for #989496. -- Best regards, Brian T B.S. Computer Science 2014 (Truman State University) Minor Stasitics Minor Chemistry Minor Mathematics signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#990508: RFS: apt-listchanges/3.24.1 [ITA] -- Show new changelog entries from Debian package archives

2021-07-03 Thread Brian Thompson
On Sat, Jul 03, 2021 at 12:50:17PM +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: >Hi, > >On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 06:13:14PM -0500, Brian Thompson wrote: >> * Fix error message being thrown when choosing not to proceed on >> confirmation (closes: #989496). > >If I understand y

Bug#990508: RFS: apt-listchanges/3.24.1 [ITA] -- Show new changelog entries from Debian package archives

2021-06-30 Thread Brian Thompson
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for a package I made a fix for, "apt-listchanges": * Package name: apt-listchanges Version : 3.24.1 Upstream Author : Brian Thompson * URL : https://salsa.debian.org/

Re: Adopting a package

2021-06-15 Thread Brian Thompson
Thank you very much, both of you.  I've been reading up on a lot of the documentation, but still have a ways to go.  Links are always helpful. :) Best regards, Brian On June 14, 2021, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 03:30:41AM -0500, Brian Thompson wrote: > &g

Adopting a package

2021-06-15 Thread Brian Thompson
What is the typical way one would go about adopting a package?  I've heard that writing a patch and proposing it might be a good starting point.  Specifically, I am looking at apt-listchanges. Best regards, Brian

Re: Package upload not processed?

2020-11-02 Thread Brian Smith
age. The > > email "Processing of proftpd-mod-proxy_0.7-1_source.changes" came in, > > nothing else: neither rejected nor accepted. > > > > Re-upload or still wait? Thanks! > > Hi Hilmar, > > If possible, try to re-upload it. > > Regards, > > Eriber

Re: error with dput

2018-05-19 Thread Brian Smith
the build the package? The default behavior of debuild signs the package with your configured gpg key. -- Brian T. Smith System Fabric Works Senior Technical Staff bsm...@systemfabricworks.com GPG Key: B3C2C7B73BA3CD7F

Re: how get refference

2018-05-18 Thread Brian Smith
rg/ox16-guest/fonts-labiryntowy > Please review https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/distribute-deb/distribute-deb.html#adding-packages-to-debian and section 5.1 of https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html. -- Brian T. Smith System Fabric Works Senior Technical Staff bs

Re: Re: Where is templato to create package?

2018-05-18 Thread Brian Smith
A few more thoughts came to me... On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 11:10 AM, Brian Smith wrote: > re: review https://salsa.debian.org/ox16-guest/fonts-labiryntowy > > Two things up front... > > The repository isn't constructed with pristine-tar, so I don't have a way > to get

Re: Re: Where is templato to create package?

2018-05-18 Thread Brian Smith
xperienced with Debian packaging has a different idea for getting past this. d/control Upstream-Contact specifies your information. This directive should identify the upstream author. Cheers. On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 12:28 PM, Brian Smith wrote: > I was looking for the same when I start

Bug#898951: RFS: ibus-kmfl/1.0.8-1 [ITP] -- Please help me for upstream

2018-05-17 Thread Brian Smith
By the way, you should build with pbuilder to make sure all of your build dependencies are specified. On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 1:08 PM, Brian Smith wrote: > I'm not a DD or DM, but here are my comments. > > 1) d/README.source and d/README.Debian are not required and should have

Bug#898951: RFS: ibus-kmfl/1.0.8-1 [ITP] -- Please help me for upstream

2018-05-17 Thread Brian Smith
) > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-21-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), > LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > LSM: AppArmor: enabled > > -- Brian T. Smith System Fabric Works Senior Technical Staff bsm...@systemfabricworks.com GPG Key: B3C2C7B73BA3CD7F

Re: Re: Where is templato to create package?

2018-05-17 Thread Brian Smith
n.net/intro-maintainers is a good placed to start. > > > Ok, can You show me source code of package? > I'm searching but not found. > I ask about file and formats. > > I must create a package first. This is only one file. > -- Brian T. Smith System Fabric Works Se

Re: artifacts in upstream, re: pristine source

2017-05-15 Thread Brian Smith
Sounds reasonable to me. Thank you. Brian T. Smith System Fabric Works Senior Technical Staff bsm...@systemfabricworks.com (512) 293-4472 GPG Key: B3C2C7B73BA3CD7F On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 11:52 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 12:42 PM, Brian Smith wrote: > > > R

artifacts in upstream, re: pristine source

2017-05-15 Thread Brian Smith
facts) in the source archive: should the upstream tarball be imported to the upstream branch "as is", and the tar command for orig.tar.gz should be configured to omit build artifacts? Or should artifacts either be removed from or not imported to the upstream branch? Thanks. Brian T. Sm

Bug#862374: RFS: hfi1-firmware/0.9-50-2

2017-05-11 Thread Brian Smith
github.com/SystemFabricWorks/hfi1-firmware. Changes since the last upload: * Changed section from misc to non-free/misc. * Corrected name of copyright file in package description. Regards, Brian T. Smith Brian T. Smith System Fabric Works Senior Technical Staff bsm...@systemfabricworks.com

Infrastructure Inquiry -- please advise

2016-04-14 Thread Brian M Hamlin
welcome. thanks in advance -- Brian M Hamlin OSGeo California Chapter blog.light42.com  

Bug#773861: Signify - OpenBSD's cryptographic signing tool

2015-01-11 Thread Brian White
I don't maintain Signify it any longer (or even use it) so feel free to do with it whatever you like. -- Brian On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 12:31 AM, Riley Baird < bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj246s4...@bitmessage.ch> wrote: > Thanks for the review > > >> > http://mentor

Re: Bug#765390: sponsorship-requests: RFS: cfengine3/3.6.2-0

2014-10-16 Thread Brian Bennett
Thomas, Thanks for the feedback. We'll fix it ASAP. Can you give me the exact steps you used to build? I've had several different build methods recommended to me. Currently we're just using git-buildpackage. I didn't know about mentors.debian.net. I'll sign up today

Bug#765390: sponsorship-requests: RFS: cfengine3/3.6.2-0

2014-10-14 Thread Brian Bennett
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal I'm looking for new sponsorship for cfengine3, a package which I believe to be orphaned. I've reached out to Antonio Radici (the currently listed maintainer) several times and only had a little contact with him over a year ago. I've been working

Bug#738191: RFS: klein/0.2.3-2 [ITP]

2014-02-08 Thread Brian Campbell
* Tweaks based on lintian complaints: - Capitalization of Python in description - Add Homepage - Close ITP bug - Add debian/watch * Closes: #738156 -- Brian Campbell Sat, 08 Feb 2014 03:24:38 -0500 klein (0.2.3-1) unstable; urgency=low * source package automatically create

Bug#702469: RFS: crosslibs/2.8-1 ITP

2013-03-06 Thread Brian Bosak
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "crosslibs" * Package name: crosslibs Version : 2.8-1 Upstream Author : Brian Bosak * URL : https://launchpad.net/crosslibs * License

Bug#702137: RFS: crosslibs/2.5-2 ITP

2013-03-02 Thread Brian Bosak
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "crosslibs" * Package name: crosslibs Version : 2.5-2 Upstream Author : Brian Bosak * URL : https://launchpad.net/crosslibs * License

Bug#700546: RFS: ad2openldap/0.10-1 [ITP] (fwd)

2013-02-14 Thread Brian Hodges
tion about ad2openldap can be obtained from https://github.com/FredHutch/IT/tree/master/general/ad2openldap. Changes since the last upload: Initial version. Regards, Brian Hodges -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

scope of variable in prerm script

2012-03-10 Thread Brian Mercer Esq
OK, probably a newb question: In Ondrej's php5-fpm.prerm script he has: [ -z "$DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_NAME" ] && DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_NAME=php5-fpm dpkg-maintscript-helper mv_conffile /etc/php5/fpm/main.conf /etc/php5/fpm/php-fpm.conf 5.3.5-1 -- "$@" but for mine I have to do: export DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_

Re: RFS: aspell-id ; second try

2010-12-06 Thread Brian Nelson
Mahyuddin Susanto writes: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "aspell-id". > > * Package name: aspell-id > Version : 1.2-0-4 > Upstream Author : Benitius Brevoort > * URL : http://translationproject.org/team/id.html > * License : GPLv

Re: RFS: aspell-id

2010-11-24 Thread Brian Nelson
pell-id_1.2-0.orig.tar.bz2 in the parent directory to your build > dir when building the package. > > Perhaps this package should Provides: aspell-dictionary? Brian Nelson > might have more advice; cc-ing him. Yes, aspell dictionary packages should Provides: aspell-dictionary. The dic

Re: creating a manpage from a GFDL text

2010-10-18 Thread Brian Ryans
Quoting Alexander Reichle-Schmehl on 2010-10-05 11:04:17: > Just for completeness: A package in main must not recommend a package > not in main. Don't know the spot in the policy about that, but it was a > release goal for Lenny. Section 2.2.1 -- _ Brian Ryans 8B2A 54C4 E275

Re: RFS: go

2010-03-18 Thread Brian Nelson
Ivan Wong writes: > Hi Dominique, > > Yes I can see the confusion. go-lang sounds good to me. But I would > like to have a little poll about which one is better, go-lang or > golang? Any other suggestions? '-lang' is commonly used in package names to refer to spoken languages (e.g. texlive-lang-

Re: RFS: aspell-hsb

2010-02-27 Thread Brian Nelson
Jan Jeroným Zvánovec writes: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "aspell-hsb", aspell dictionary for > Upper Sorbian language. > > * Package name: aspell-hsb > Version : 0.01.1-1 > Upstream Author : Eduard Werner (Edward Wornar) > > * URL :

Re: RFS: qt-program-starter

2010-02-25 Thread Brian Nelson
Christian Metscher writes: >> Brian Nelson writes: >> >> Since this is a rather similar (and also very small) tool with > identical >> build dependencies, I think you should merge these into a unified >> tarball. > > I'm not sure about this, bec

Re: RFS: qt-program-starter (new package)

2010-02-23 Thread Brian Nelson
Christian Metscher writes: > Brian Nelson writes: > >> This looks interesting for a 216-line program ;). I thought about >> writing something similar a few years back but never got around to it. >> I should be able to sponsor it if no one else has stepped up yet. > &

Re: RFS: qt-program-starter (new package)

2010-02-22 Thread Brian Nelson
Christian Metscher writes: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "qt-program-starter". > > * Package name : qt-program-starter Version : 1.2.3-1 Upstream Author : > [Christian Metscher [https://launchpad.net/~hakaishi/+archive/qt-program-starter] * License > : [GPL-3] Section : utils > > I

RFS: ganttpv

2008-12-17 Thread Brian C. Christensen
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "ganttpv". * Package name: ganttpv Version : 0.11a-1 Upstream Author : Brian C. Christensen * URL : http://www.pureviolet.net/ganttpv/ * License : GPL version 2 Section : office

RFS: kjv-bible-webapp

2008-07-12 Thread Brian
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "kjv-bible-webapp". * Package name: kjv-bible-webapp Version : 1.1-1 Upstream Author : Brian Gunlogson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/kjvbible * License : AGPL

Re: anyone give me some advice about split scim-bridge

2007-08-09 Thread Brian Nelson
ZhengPeng Hou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi all, >I've already splited scim-brodge into scom-brodge-agent >scim-brodge-client-gtk, scim-bridge-client-qt, and scim-bridge(a >dumy package for upgrade), but now the upstream has added qt4 >support, so shall I split it into five? lik

Re: aspell-uz: new upstream release

2006-01-17 Thread Brian Nelson
ar.bz2 >> >> Could anyone please upload it? > > First time Brian Nelson helped me and uploaded it. Could someone else please > do the same this time, if Brian is not available? > > Sorry for bugging, I have no idea on how to proceed. I'm having key troubles at the

Re: Debian Games Team

2006-01-13 Thread Brian Powell
I also would be interested in getting involved in this project. I believe there is much room to grow in the area of gaming, and since I am an avid gamer myself using both "Free" and "Non-Free" games on my Debian systems I would love to help out where I can. Regards, Brian Powe

Re: Please take a look over aspell-ro_0.50-2-1

2005-10-18 Thread Brian Nelson
Eddy Petrişor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 10/5/05, Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Christoph Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > you might want to use the new "Archticture: all" packaging variant, >> > see for example

Re: Please take a look over aspell-ro_0.50-2-1

2005-10-05 Thread Brian Nelson
Christoph Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Re: Eddy Petrişor in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Could somebody take a look over it and tell me if I need to make any >> changes before I list it on sponsors.d.n ? > > changelog: > remove the [ ] part > get an ITP and insert it here > > control: > old Sta

Re: Sponsor request for aspell-uz

2005-07-27 Thread Brian Nelson
Mashrab Kuvatov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thursday 28 July 2005 00:34, Brian Nelson wrote: >> Mashrab Kuvatov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > I added language name in Uzbek into Language section. Is it correct > now? >> >> Well, you shou

Re: Sponsor request for aspell-uz

2005-07-27 Thread Brian Nelson
Mashrab Kuvatov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday 27 July 2005 08:27, Brian Nelson wrote: >> * Your aspell-uz.info-aspell is not correct. See >> http://dict-common.alioth.debian.org/dsdt-policy.html#infofile for >> more info. > > I added language na

Re: Sponsor request for aspell-uz

2005-07-26 Thread Brian Nelson
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 12:19:27AM +0200, Mashrab Kuvatov wrote: > Hi Brian, > > thanks for reply. I've rebuilt aspell-uz taking into account your > feedback. Please have a look, it is at > http://www.uni-bremen.de/~kmashrab/aspell/deb/ Almost there, just a few more th

Re: Sponsor request for aspell-uz

2005-07-24 Thread Brian Nelson
Mashrab Kuvatov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > I've filed an ITP bug report #319775 for aspell-uz and uploaded the > files I've > built into http://www.uni-bremen.de/~kmashrab/aspell/deb/ > > Could anybody please sponsor it? No, this package is quite broken: debian/changelog: aspell-

Re: how use dpatch for binary files ?

2005-07-18 Thread Brian Nelson
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 07:51:18PM -0300, Jose Carlos do Nascimento wrote: > Im making one package using dpatch. > I changed some binary files (images) and created one patch in > debian/patches > > When I rum dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc > I receive message below. > > 10_testpatch.dpatc

Re: Overriding shlibs dep for some packages with higher versions

2005-06-27 Thread Brian Nelson
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 02:54:04PM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: [...] > In summary, what I want is something like: > debian/control: Depends: ${shlibs-depends}, libfoo (>= x.y) > debian/substvars: shlibs-depends: libfoo (>= x.0) > > => DEBIAN/control: Depends: libfoo (>= x.y) > > Although I did

Re: Debian QA system lecture at Haifux - help needed

2005-05-10 Thread Brian Nelson
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 09:57:17AM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: [...] > Subjects I'm going to cover are: > 1. The basics of creating a deb > 2. Standard package naming and file locations > 3. The Debian human hierchy (from the sponsored maintainers to > ftpmasters, possibly even up to DPL, if I'l

Re: RFC: cycle (calendar program for women, written in python)

2005-04-06 Thread Brian Sutherland
> /usr/share/cycle/msg/msgfmt.py:86: FutureWarning: > hex/oct constants > AFAIK these warnings are when python finds a piece of code that probably will break in a future version of python. Good idea to get it fixed now. -- Brian Sutherland It's 10 minutes, 5 if you walk fast. -

Re: Re-introduction of a package

2005-01-25 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 06:20:31PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 06:16:50PM +0100, Brian Sutherland wrote: > > I'm not sure how I should go about handling Bug# 282968 on > > ftp.debian.org. > > > > I need to re-introduce the package

Re-introduction of a package

2005-01-25 Thread Brian Sutherland
ticed? (The package seems to be in a half removed limbo.) Thanks in advance, -- Brian Sutherland It's 10 minutes, 5 if you walk fast. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New upstream packages?

2004-12-18 Thread Brian Nelson
Erinn Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Erinn Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004:12:18 18:23 -0500]: > > > Of course, just after sending this mail, I was directed to: > > http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ch-update.en.html#s-newupstream > > ...which I somehow managed to miss. It's still a b

Re: warning: menu-command-not-in-package

2004-12-13 Thread Brian Nelson
Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 01:02:29PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Jay Salzman) writes: >> > On Mon 13 Dec 04, 12:10 PM, Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> >> On Mon, Dec 13, 2

Re: warning: menu-command-not-in-package

2004-12-13 Thread Brian Nelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Jay Salzman) writes: > On Mon 13 Dec 04, 12:10 PM, Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 02:55:28PM -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: >> > My first package is ALMOST lintian clean. One warning: >> > >> &

Re: warning: menu-command-not-in-package

2004-12-13 Thread Brian Nelson
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 02:55:28PM -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > My first package is ALMOST lintian clean. One warning: > >$ lintian -i yadex_1.7.0-1_i386.deb >W: yadex: menu-command-not-in-package /usr/lib/menu/yadex:2 >x-terminal-emulator >N: >N: The menu item specifie

Re: RFS: elizatalk simple chatbot for IM

2004-12-13 Thread Brian Nelson
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 12:15:37AM -0600, David Moreno Garza wrote: > On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 20:08 +0100, Nico Golde wrote: > > You will find the files on: > > http://nico.f-451.net/debian/elizatalk/ > > Is the template from debian/rules really yours? > > It seems pretty much a debhelper template

Re: Package split/merge advice

2004-12-08 Thread Brian Nelson
Jan Alonzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi, > > (on somewhat related topic) > > I recently filed an RFP on itagalog and aspell-tl and one of the developers > said that I should consider merging both sources since they use the same word > list. > > > >

Re: [Dict-common-dev] RFS: aspell-tl - Tagalog (Filipino) dictionary for GNU Aspell

2004-12-04 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 07:41:30PM +1100, Jan Alonzo wrote: > Good Day! I would like to request for someone to sponsor my package for > aspell-tl. > apsell-tl contains the tagalog dictionary to spell check tagalog texts. > Currently it > contains more than 14,000 words (and increasing. > > Some

Advice on debconf - locales settings

2004-12-01 Thread Brian Sutherland
a multiselect doesn't provide ordering? -- Brian Sutherland That both ladies finally believed beyond any doubt something which had originally been pure conjecture is not in the least unusual. We, intelligent people though we call ourselves, behave in an almost identical fashion... - N. Gogol

Advice on debconf - locales settings

2004-12-01 Thread Brian Sutherland
a multiselect doesn't provide ordering? -- Brian Sutherland That both ladies finally believed beyond any doubt something which had originally been pure conjecture is not in the least unusual. We, intelligent people though we call ourselves, behave in an almost identical fashion... - N.

Re: Re: RFS: orphaned 'htp' package, an HTML pre-processor

2004-11-11 Thread Brian Nelson
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 05:18:22PM -0500, Jan Medlock wrote: > martin f krafft wrote: > > Do we need htp when there is wml? > > I've not looked at wml, but even if they have the same functionality, > variety has always been a strength of Debian. ...and package bloat is a weakness of Debian... --

Re: Re: RFS: orphaned 'htp' package, an HTML pre-processor

2004-11-11 Thread Brian Nelson
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 05:18:22PM -0500, Jan Medlock wrote: > martin f krafft wrote: > > Do we need htp when there is wml? > > I've not looked at wml, but even if they have the same functionality, > variety has always been a strength of Debian. ...and package bloat is a weakness of Debian... --

Re: Simple Debian Package Creation?

2004-11-03 Thread Brian Nelson
Zach Garner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > First: > 1. The sheer number of helper scripts, with layers and layers of > scripts built on top of each other is really confusing. Hm? Do you mean the debhelper scripts? Those significantly help simplify the writing of debian/rules. Of course, if

Re: Simple Debian Package Creation?

2004-11-03 Thread Brian Nelson
Zach Garner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > First: > 1. The sheer number of helper scripts, with layers and layers of > scripts built on top of each other is really confusing. Hm? Do you mean the debhelper scripts? Those significantly help simplify the writing of debian/rules. Of course, if

Merging two source packages

2004-11-02 Thread Brian Sutherland
the bug first? Any other beartraps? Thanks, -- Brian Sutherland

Merging two source packages

2004-11-02 Thread Brian Sutherland
the bug first? Any other beartraps? Thanks, -- Brian Sutherland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Remove User on Remove, or Purge?

2004-10-28 Thread Brian Sutherland
3a5.en.html There is also this reference: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/05/msg01156.html -- Brian Sutherland

Re: Remove User on Remove, or Purge?

2004-10-28 Thread Brian Sutherland
.en.html There is also this reference: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/05/msg01156.html -- Brian Sutherland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: icculus's orbital sniper game

2004-10-25 Thread Brian Nelson
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 01:59:03AM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote: > On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 22:09, Brian Nelson wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 10:00:31PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 11:59:29AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > > > > &g

Re: RFS: icculus's orbital sniper game

2004-10-25 Thread Brian Nelson
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 01:59:03AM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote: > On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 22:09, Brian Nelson wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 10:00:31PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 11:59:29AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > > > > &g

Re: RFS: icculus's orbital sniper game

2004-10-24 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 10:00:31PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote: > On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 11:59:29AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > > > Okay, I've renamed this to "orbitalsniper" and adjusted the sources to > > match. > > One thing that stood out was that the binary isn't installed > into /usr/games/

Re: RFS: icculus's orbital sniper game

2004-10-24 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 10:00:31PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote: > On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 11:59:29AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > > > Okay, I've renamed this to "orbitalsniper" and adjusted the sources to > > match. > > One thing that stood out was that the binary isn't installed > into /usr/games/

Re: transitioning from conffile to ucf

2004-10-14 Thread Brian Sutherland
ontain the file in > the lists file anymore, so dpkg does not know this file ever > existed... > > Sorry for the noise, and thanks for your answer. Ah, then I misunderstood the question sorry, -- Brian Sutherland

Re: transitioning from conffile to ucf

2004-10-14 Thread Brian Sutherland
te into /usr/share/foo and copying it to the config dir in the postinst? (Policy 10.7.3) -- Brian Sutherland

Re: transitioning from conffile to ucf

2004-10-14 Thread Brian Sutherland
ontain the file in > the lists file anymore, so dpkg does not know this file ever > existed... > > Sorry for the noise, and thanks for your answer. Ah, then I misunderstood the question sorry, -- Brian Sutherland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: transitioning from conffile to ucf

2004-10-14 Thread Brian Sutherland
te into /usr/share/foo and copying it to the config dir in the postinst? (Policy 10.7.3) -- Brian Sutherland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lintian warning bug?

2004-10-04 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 02:39:53PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 02:28:30PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote: > > Brian Sutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > No, I think it is a bug to use python in the config script. > > Hm, good catch.

Re: Lintian warning bug?

2004-10-04 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 02:39:53PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 02:28:30PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote: > > Brian Sutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > No, I think it is a bug to use python in the config script. > > Hm, good catch.

Lintian warning bug?

2004-10-04 Thread Brian Sutherland
this is a lintian bug, or something wrong with the way I import the library? Everything seems to work just fine. -- Brian Sutherland

Lintian warning bug?

2004-10-04 Thread Brian Sutherland
this is a lintian bug, or something wrong with the way I import the library? Everything seems to work just fine. -- Brian Sutherland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Suggestions On Getting A Sponsor

2004-09-30 Thread Brian Nelson
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 10:49:52PM -0400, Michael MacFadden wrote: > Brian, > > Point taken. But I happen to be the upstream author for this project. > So it's not like I just picked this out of a hat, and it's not like I am > in the position to say, "Well mayb

Re: Suggestions On Getting A Sponsor

2004-09-29 Thread Brian Nelson
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 10:49:52PM -0400, Michael MacFadden wrote: > Brian, > > Point taken. But I happen to be the upstream author for this project. > So it's not like I just picked this out of a hat, and it's not like I am > in the position to say, "Well mayb

Re: Suggestions On Getting A Sponsor

2004-09-27 Thread Brian Nelson
I think you're missing the point. It's not that developers think this should not be packaged. It's that packaging a web app is so difficult to get right that only developers with a very strong personal interest in the software would be willing to even look at it. The vast majority will consider

Re: Suggestions On Getting A Sponsor

2004-09-27 Thread Brian Nelson
I think you're missing the point. It's not that developers think this should not be packaged. It's that packaging a web app is so difficult to get right that only developers with a very strong personal interest in the software would be willing to even look at it. The vast majority will consider

Re: amarok package review and RFS (II)

2004-09-24 Thread Brian Nelson
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 04:03:09AM +0200, Adeodato Sim? wrote: > I'm looking for a sponsor for my amarok package, which as you may know > is a "new" audio player for KDE. the package is relatively simple and > contains few if not none KDE specific issues. I'm interested in seeing this packag

Re: amarok package review and RFS (II)

2004-09-24 Thread Brian Nelson
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 04:03:09AM +0200, Adeodato Sim? wrote: > I'm looking for a sponsor for my amarok package, which as you may know > is a "new" audio player for KDE. the package is relatively simple and > contains few if not none KDE specific issues. I'm interested in seeing this packag

Re: Round 2, RFS schoolbell - A calendaring server for schools

2004-09-06 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 01:26:42PM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote: > As a note for any potential sponsor I would like to say that the I would like to suspend my request as I have found a potential sponsor. -- Brian Sutherland

Re: Round 2, RFS schoolbell - A calendaring server for schools

2004-09-06 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 01:26:42PM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote: > As a note for any potential sponsor I would like to say that the I would like to suspend my request as I have found a potential sponsor. -- Brian Sutherland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Round 2, RFS schoolbell - A calendaring server for schools

2004-09-03 Thread Brian Sutherland
e the administration and management of schools, especially in poor countries, even a little bit, that would be a very good thing. [1] www.schooltool.org [2] http://www.tsf.org.za/ -- Brian Sutherland "There has got to be more to life than just being really, really, really, ridiculously go

Round 2, RFS schoolbell - A calendaring server for schools

2004-09-03 Thread Brian Sutherland
e the administration and management of schools, especially in poor countries, even a little bit, that would be a very good thing. [1] www.schooltool.org [2] http://www.tsf.org.za/ -- Brian Sutherland "There has got to be more to life than just being really, really, really, ridiculously go

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:08:48PM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote: > On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 04:48:37PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > .so files? Should it be libschoolbell and libschoolbell-dev? > > Indeed. These few .so files are imported from zope and maybe slightly modifi

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 04:48:37PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > .so files? Should it be libschoolbell and libschoolbell-dev? Indeed. -- Brian Sutherland "There has got to be more to life than just being really, really, really, ridiculously good-looking." -- Derek Zoolander

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Brian Sutherland
kage with only the architecture few dependent files? Would -dep be the right suffex? -- Brian Sutherland "There has got to be more to life than just being really, really, really, ridiculously good-looking." -- Derek Zoolander

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:08:48PM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote: > On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 04:48:37PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > .so files? Should it be libschoolbell and libschoolbell-dev? > > Indeed. These few .so files are imported from zope and maybe slightly modifi

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 04:48:37PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > .so files? Should it be libschoolbell and libschoolbell-dev? Indeed. -- Brian Sutherland "There has got to be more to life than just being really, really, really, ridiculously good-looking." -- Derek Zoola

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