Re: getting packages into Debian

2012-05-23 Thread Fernando Lemos
Hi, On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Christopher Howard wrote: > For most of my software, I roll my own debs and make them publicly > available, including all the debian source files. I try to follow my > maintainer's guide and debian policy closely while making them, and they > are usually linti

Re: Help needed [Was: Bug#667325: plink: ftbfs with GCC-4.7]

2012-04-22 Thread Fernando Lemos
Hi, On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Dmitry Nezhevenko wrote: > As you can see, there is nested declaration here. It's wrong. Looks like > this code was working due to some GCC bug. Other compilers forbids this > too. To expand/clarify, this is not a "nested declaration", but rather a redefiniti

Re: Making packages available to Debian users

2012-04-07 Thread Fernando Lemos
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Vladimir Stavrinov wrote: > On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 11:48:27AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: >> > So I don't understand, why do You think my package is worse of those >> > garbage and how it break "coherence". >> >> I don't have a position one way or another on whether

Re: Making packages available to Debian users (was: Bug#659047: RFS: rpg - Readable Password Generator)

2012-04-07 Thread Fernando Lemos
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Vladimir Stavrinov wrote: > On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 10:08:08AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > >> barrier to entry there: Debian should be a coherent operating system > > Very good. But to keep system in "coherent" state You should not only > build barrier on entry, but

Re: Bug#659047: RFS: rpg - Readable Password Generator

2012-04-07 Thread Fernando Lemos
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Vladimir Stavrinov wrote: >> ecosystem.  Consider for instance that if one day you suddenly can not >> contribute anymore, somebody else will need to care of the package.  Summed >> together, even removals takes time. > > It would be a nice behavior, if maintainer  

Re: RFS: freefoam

2012-03-22 Thread Fernando Lemos
Hi, On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Gerber van der Graaf wrote: > During the building on my box, the packages appeared to be lintian error > free. Though, some warning / error messages showed up on the mentors > site where the packages can be found, which I have commented. The That's a lot of l

Re: Request For a Review: python-mpd2/0.4.1-1 [ITP]

2012-03-20 Thread Fernando Lemos
Hi, On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Geoffroy Youri Berret wrote: > Le 20/03/2012 17:00, Jakub Wilk a écrit : >> Your Replaces is versioned but Conflicts is not. This is awkward. >> What has changed in python-mpd 0.3.0 that Replaces is not needed >> anymore? >> >> Is the conflict with python-mpd

Re: Proper way to depend on an icon theme

2012-03-04 Thread Fernando Lemos
On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 1:46 AM, Fernando Lemos wrote: > >> That would be perfect. Any tips on how to get this started? Should >> this be discussed in debian-devel, or perhaps debian-desktop? > > The procedure

Re: Proper way to depend on an icon theme

2012-03-04 Thread Fernando Lemos
Hi, On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 4:15 AM, Fernando Lemos wrote: > >> [1]: >> http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html > > I think you want this spec instead since it specif

Re: GraphLab Project

2012-03-03 Thread Fernando Lemos
Hi, On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Mohammad Ali Rostami wrote: > Dear All > > We are a group of students developing a software called GraphLab. GraphLab > is a software framework to work on graphs and social networks. it consists > of a graph library and a graph GUI. The library part is a framew

Proper way to depend on an icon theme

2012-03-03 Thread Fernando Lemos
Hello, I failed to find any documentation on how to properly depend on icon themes. After reading the fd.o icon theme specification[1], it looks like the specification doesn't cover what "base" icons must be present in a theme. That could mean that packages that use those specific icons need to de

Re: obsolete uploads to debian stable?

2012-02-25 Thread Fernando Lemos
HI, On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Paul Elliott wrote: > > Is there any archive where I can get obsolete superseded uploads to debian > unstable? I need to get one for historical reasons. You mean something like http://snapshot.debian.org/ ? Regards, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-men

Re: RFS: v8cgi (second try)

2012-01-26 Thread Fernando Lemos
Hi, On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 5:44 AM, Ondřej Žára wrote: > v8cgi itself is implemented in C++ and has libv8 as its only > dependency. It is developed at Google Code > (http://code.google.com/p/v8cgi/) under New BSD Licence. Ubuntu > packages are available from a Launchpad PPA > (https://launchpad.

Re: RFS: suckless-tools 39-1

2012-01-25 Thread Fernando Lemos
Hello, On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Michael Stummvoll wrote: > I uploaded a new version of the suckless-tools package: >  * dropped st now, cause its maintained by the stterm-packe. >  * included sprop and lsx from the suckless-upstream into the package. >  * changed slock to not suid root b

Re: RFS: solarpowerlog (improved...)

2012-01-01 Thread Fernando Lemos
Hello, On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Tobias Frost wrote: > However, please go forward with the review of the package, and to ease > things I'd appreciate if a DD steps forward and indicated his/her will > to sponsor this package, to define clear goals and clear actions whats > needed to get thi

Re: RFS: synconv

2012-01-01 Thread Fernando Lemos
Hello again, On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Fernando Lemos wrote: > On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Fernando Lemos wrote: >> Hello, >> >> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Fernando Lemos wrote: >>> Dear mentors, >>> >>> I am looking for a spon

Re: RFS: solarpowerlog

2011-12-22 Thread Fernando Lemos
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Artur R. Czechowski wrote: > On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 12:37:36PM +0100, Tobias Frost wrote: >> The one warning -- empty-debian-diff -- is emitted as I also keep the debian >> files in the git repository I use for development of solarpowerlog. Naturally >> the diff

Re: RFS: synconv

2011-12-04 Thread Fernando Lemos
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Fernando Lemos wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Fernando Lemos wrote: >> Dear mentors, >> >> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "synconv". >> >>  * Package name    : synconv >>   Ve

Re: RFS: synconv

2011-11-20 Thread Fernando Lemos
Hello, On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Fernando Lemos wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "synconv". > >  * Package name    : synconv >   Version         : 1.1.1-1 >   Upstream Author : Fernando Tarlá Cardoso Lemos >  * UR

RFS: synconv

2011-11-04 Thread Fernando Lemos
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "synconv". * Package name: synconv Version : 1.1.1-1 Upstream Author : Fernando Tarlá Cardoso Lemos * URL : https://github.com/fernandotcl/synconv * License : GPL-3+ Section : sound It bu

Re: email rejected bugs.debian.org

2011-10-23 Thread Fernando Lemos
Paul, On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Paul Elliott wrote: > > > I tried to correct a ITP by sending email to 646...@bugs.debian.org but the > email was rejected. > >> Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently: >>      646...@bugs.debian.org >> >> Technical details of permanent failu

Re: Depends on -dev package

2011-08-21 Thread Fernando Lemos
Hi, On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Paul Elliott wrote: > > I quote from Debian Library Packaging guide >> 2. -DEV package dependencies >> >> The -DEV package would usually declare Depends: relationship on all -DEV >> packages for libraries that the library package directly depends upon, >> wit

Re: Modified tarballs [was: Re: RFS: minidlna (updated package and FTBFS fix)]

2011-07-23 Thread Fernando Lemos
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 4:46 AM, Sven Hoexter wrote: > On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 09:03:07PM -0300, Fernando Lemos wrote: >> Just to clarify, I find it concerning that we might be accepting >> source uploads that don't come straight from upstream and don't match >>

Re: RFS: minidlna (updated package and FTBFS fix)

2011-07-22 Thread Fernando Lemos
2011/7/22 Benoît Knecht : > Hi Fernando, > > Fernando Lemos wrote: >> 2011/7/22 Kilian Krause : >> > On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 12:36:51PM +0200, Benoît Knecht wrote: >> >> I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.0.21+dfsg-1 of my >> >&

Re: RFS: minidlna (updated package and FTBFS fix)

2011-07-22 Thread Fernando Lemos
2011/7/22 Kilian Krause : > On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 12:36:51PM +0200, Benoît Knecht wrote: >> I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.0.21+dfsg-1 of my >> package "minidlna". >> - dget >> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/minidlna/minidlna_1.0.21+dfsg-1.dsc > > 1. Your upoad us

Re: Request for sponsor: mactelnet

2011-05-01 Thread Fernando Lemos
2011/5/1 Håkon Nessjøen : > On 1 May 2011 03:08, Fernando Lemos wrote: >> * In debian/rules, why exactly do you export DH_OPTIONS? > > This was added by the script, not me. So I have no idea. I don't think that's required, I don't remember dh_make ever doing tha

Re: Request for sponsor: mactelnet

2011-04-30 Thread Fernando Lemos
> On 01.05.2011 02:06, Håkon Nessjøen wrote: >> I would really like for a DD to look at my package, and be my sponsor, >> as I am eager to begin as an active package maintainer. This is >> hopefully the first of many to come. > > I am no DD, so feel free to ignore my advises but I really like the i

Re: help creating a package (splitting a package and publishing it)

2011-04-18 Thread Fernando Lemos
Hi, On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Reece Dunn wrote: > The project builds a shared library, two executables and provides > development API headers. At the moment, the output is all built into > one deb file. I want to break this up so that it complies with debian > packaging rules but I am not

Re: RFS: udisks-glue

2011-03-30 Thread Fernando Lemos
Hi, 2011/3/30 Benoît Knecht : [...] > I had a look at your package, and here are the small issues I noticed: > >  - In debian/copyright, the Format header should contain the versioned >   DEP5 URL [1]. And you could avoid repeating the BSD-2-clause license >   text by using a standalone license pa

Re: RFS: udisks-glue

2011-03-29 Thread Fernando Lemos
r mounting with udisks as non-root with the default configuration). TIA, On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Fernando Lemos wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "udisks-glue". > > * Package name    : udisks-glue >  Version         : 1.3.0

Re: Packaging Arbitrary Files

2011-03-29 Thread Fernando Lemos
Hi, On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Aaron Todd wrote: > Thanks for responding!  I've tried the conf.d file as well and it give me > the same errors.  In any case, I've have other custom config files that I am > going to need to overwrite/customize so my main question still applies.  How > do I g

RFS: udisks-glue

2011-03-11 Thread Fernando Lemos
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "udisks-glue". * Package name: udisks-glue Version : 1.3.0-1 Upstream Author : Fernando Tarlá Cardoso Lemos * URL : https://github.com/fernandotcl/udisks-glue * License : 2-clause BSD Section :

Re: RFS: aescrypt

2011-01-16 Thread Fernando Lemos
2011/1/16 mezgani ali : > > What about README.Debian and README.source can i keep them empty and in the > case when the tools comes with a > readme.txt file ? [snip] Please make sure you read this (read it all if you haven't yet): http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ The things you are asking

Re: Package with complex dependencies -- where to start, where to end?

2010-12-21 Thread Fernando Lemos
Hi Dave, On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Dave Mateer wrote: >  - The application will have very limited appeal -- it is implementing a > specific workflow for our organization, whose users are spread out across the > world. Most of the documentation I am reading assumes you are putting > some

Re: RFS: i2p

2010-11-21 Thread Fernando Lemos
Hi, On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 7:20 PM, hungryh...@i2pmail.org wrote: [...] > Note: There is one lintian warning: > "W: i2p source: native-package-with-dash-version" > I think this warning appears because the .tar.gz doesn't have ".orig" in > its name. I haven't been able to figure out how to get dp

Re: Dshield webhoneypot

2010-11-16 Thread Fernando Lemos
Hi, Christian, On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 9:35 AM, wrote: [...] > I already finished the package and tested it on my system. > > Now I'm in need of a sponsor to also test it, check it and upload it. Cool, please upload to http://mentors.debian.net/ or somewhere else and post the link so that other

Re: RFS: wicd-client-kde

2010-11-04 Thread Fernando Lemos
Hi, 2010/11/4 Iker Salmón San Millán : > first i have to rename the ITP and i've been looking how to do it but i > haven't found. Please read: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control In short, write something like this to cont...@b.d.o: retitle 1234 RFP: My package here thanks You might wan

Re: Bug#602358: ITP: rtl8192ce-dkms -- Realtek RTL8192CE driver in DKMS format.

2010-11-04 Thread Fernando Lemos
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > is the fact that the package uses dkms relevant for the end user? it > seems as an implementation detail of the package to me, so I'd suggest > to drop that suffix. Not a good idea, seems like most (or all) DKMS packages current have the -

Re: RFS: wicd-client-kde

2010-11-03 Thread Fernando Lemos
Hi, 2010/11/3 Iker Salmón San Millán : > I also have a question.  If we (me, mentors, sponsors, DD, upstream...) > finally decide to change the name i guess i should send a new itp bug with > the new name and close this one,  shouldn't I? I believe you can just rename the ITP. Regards, -- To U

Re: RFS: mediadownloader

2010-11-03 Thread Fernando Lemos
Hey, On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Marco Bavagnoli wrote: > the url on sf.net is this: > http://sourceforge.net/projects/googleimagedown/files/ > > and source is named like mediadownloader_v1.4.2-src.tar.gz > Is the watch file content correct ? Take a look at uscan(1), there are examples for S

Re: RFS: mediadownloader

2010-11-02 Thread Fernando Lemos
Hi, On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Marco Bavagnoli wrote: > I fixed most of the warning, but 1 of them and 1 information with a spelling > error are still there. > > I run lintian -Ii on the .deb, as result I got this: > > W: mediadownloader: new-package-should-close-itp-bug Please fix this, it

Re: RFS: mediadownloader

2010-11-01 Thread Fernando Lemos
Hey, On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Marco Bavagnoli wrote: > One question: when and if the package will be clear, will I need to delete > the old package ? Or just make version 1.4.2-2 ? Keep the version intact (1.4.2-1) and just dput it again. It'll overwrite the old package. Regards, -- T

Re: RFS: fritzing

2010-10-31 Thread Fernando Lemos
Hi, 2010/10/31 Enrique Hernández Bello : >> This is your first release, and version 0.4.3b-1 makes sense to me as >> the first debian packaging released. >> > > If I don't increment the release number, I can't upload it to mentors > repository. What do you suggest? What is the common way to versio

Re: RF[CS]: ubiquity (mozilla extension) in Debian

2010-10-30 Thread Fernando Lemos
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Gabriele Giacone <1o5g4...@gmail.com> wrote: > Given that you're interested in ubuntu packages, you could have learnt > what happens if source package name already exists and how to manage > that on ubuntu side: I guess blacklisting as requested by Luca then > proba

Re: RF[CS]: ubiquity (mozilla extension) in Debian

2010-10-26 Thread Fernando Lemos
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Luca Falavigna wrote: > Il 26/10/2010 17.49, Gabriele Giacone ha scritto: >> I'd like to keep ubiquity, name chosen by upstream. >> And it's good because there are no packages named ubiquity in Debian. >> >> Derivatives can choose their own package names. > > Just

Re: RFS: minidlna

2010-10-18 Thread Fernando Lemos
Hi, 2010/10/15 Benoît Knecht : > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "minidlna". > I'm not a DD or a DM, but here's my (very superficial) review, as I'm mildly interested in this package. * It seems that you are missing Build-Depends on libavcodec-dev and libavutil-dev.

Re: Seeking advice on automounter-like daemon starting at boot

2010-10-18 Thread Fernando Lemos
Hi Gustavo, On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:19 AM, gustavo panizzo wrote: >> > d) Create an user "udisks", add a PolicyKit rule to allow it to mount >> > device files, use that for the init script (not even sure it's >> > possible) >> how would it leave the file permissions on the mounted filesystems

Seeking advice on automounter-like daemon starting at boot

2010-10-16 Thread Fernando Lemos
Hello, mentors I'm looking for some advice on my ITP[1]. udisks-glue[2] is a replacement to some of the functionality provided by halevt/ivman, but it uses udisks instead of HAL (HAL is not actively maintained anymore). So I'm trying to package it the same way halevt does it: providing simple auto

Re: RFS: btag -- interactive command-line based multimedia tag editor

2010-10-05 Thread Fernando Lemos
Hey David, On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 2:10 PM, David Bremner wrote: > I'm not a DD, but hopefully this review can make it easier to sponsor > your package. Thanks for your input, it's really appreciated. > - It should be documented what extensions/formats are supported.  I >  tried some m4a's and i

RFS: btag -- interactive command-line based multimedia tag editor

2010-09-30 Thread Fernando Lemos
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "btag". * Package name: btag Version : 1.0.0-1 Upstream Author : Fernando Tarlá Cardoso Lemos * URL : http://github.com/fernandotcl/btag * License : BSD Section : sound It builds these binary p

Re: mounting cdrom by ordinary program

2010-09-12 Thread Fernando Lemos
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Paul Gevers wrote: > Hi all, > > With upstream of daisy-player (ITP: #595292) I am working on getting a > Daisy player for Daisy talking books into good shape. I am having > concerns about the current "hack" of upstream to ensure the program is > able to read from