Re: help with intra-package dependencies (library and binary)

2012-05-15 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 10:21:37AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > Seems the package isn't on mentors yet? I extracted the source tarball > with pristine-tar. Indeed, I later received a rejection: mentors has not updated their keyring to reflect my new PGP key yet. (I then got another rejection for

help with intra-package dependencies (library and binary)

2012-05-12 Thread Jon Dowland
Hi, I'm trying to package 'lhasa' but I'm having some trouble. There is a binary package 'lhasa' shipping a binary which depends on a library from a library package 'liblhasa0', all from the same source. (analogous to curl depending on libcurlX from the same source package) My packaging is at htt

Re: is wheezy frozen already?

2012-05-12 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 07:00:20PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > For the last few freezes, the release team accepted packages uploaded > to unstable before the freeze into testing. No idea if they will do > that again, but I imagine they will. I thought this was a concession for the last freeze, becau

Re: ITP: wolf4sdl -- SDL-Port of Wolfenstein 3-D and Spear of Destiny

2011-11-28 Thread Jon Dowland
tags 615056 pending thanks Uploaded. On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:09:21AM +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > CC:ing -mentors. > > Am 17.10.2011 11:42, schrieb Fabian Greffrath: > >I have prepared a new package of upstream SVN snapshot r262 that > >replaces the non-free MAME OPL2 emulator with a GPL'

Re: RFS: 0ad

2011-04-11 Thread Jon Dowland
V8) is the best > long-term solution? It seems to be asking a lot of upstream. Is there a likelyhood for any other package to make use of the old spidermonkey version (when it is old, that is)? I'd expect not, and so I'd think using the bundled version was the sensible choice. -- J

Re: RFS: quakespasm (2nd try)

2011-04-07 Thread Jon Dowland
Hi David, Sorry I missed your first RFP. I have now added basic quake support to game-data-packager and made an upload to experimental. I will hopefully give your package a look real soon and get it uploaded! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Re: Include 0AD, a new fancy 3D RTS

2010-09-09 Thread Jon Dowland
27;s patent license.) Actively enforced patents are forbidden, otherwise, ignored. ftpmaster make the call. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100909155429.gb16...@deckard.alcopop.org

Re: Anonymous delayed queue?

2008-02-15 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 05:41:29AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > On 14/02/2008, Charles Plessy wrote: > > If you or somebody else agree that it is of general interest (in > > private if you want to limit the traffic on this list), I can > > propose an update for the Developpers Reference. > > Is

Re: RFS: failmalloc

2008-02-14 Thread Jon Dowland
e actually do this in packages, so I'd love to hear people's opinions on the matter. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: failmalloc

2008-02-14 Thread Jon Dowland
to pristine upstream after the make clean target, which is particularly nice if you have your tree in a VCS and don't want to keep filtering the sub/guess changes out of commits. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: pidgin-rhythmbox (try 2)

2008-01-31 Thread Jon Dowland
section of the maint-guide means, by default, debian/docs is populated with README, etc. The only file that dh_installdocs will install unprompted is debian/copyright. Thanks for your comments! -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RFS: pidgin-rhythmbox (try 2)

2008-01-28 Thread Jon Dowland
package can be found here: <http://debian.halfcoded.net/source/pidgin-rhythmbox_2.0-1.diff.gz> <http://debian.halfcoded.net/source/pidgin-rhythmbox_2.0-1.dsc> <http://debian.halfcoded.net/source/pidgin-rhythmbox_2.0.orig.tar.gz> [1] <http://lists.debian.org/debian-mento

Re: Orphaned clanlib package

2007-12-05 Thread Jon Dowland
nd have to rename it to ITP: > *... I've retitled and reowned it to the Debian Games Team. If you've worked on a package please consider joining the team and working on it alongside the others. Info at <http://wiki.debian.org/Games>. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: RFS: prboom (updated package)

2007-11-01 Thread Jon Dowland
mmitted, there's no real rush on package uploads at the moment, so I'd like to wait until the next version for those, and get them into SVN first (so someone else can test them too). -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ITP bugs

2007-10-03 Thread Jon Dowland
latter? An ITP bug is a good idea to avoid duplication. I wouldn't bother with a new package just to close an ITP, though. File one and close it by hand when the package is uploaded. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Re: RFS: gnome-color-chooser

2007-09-18 Thread Jon Dowland
-color-chooser-0.2.2' make[1]: *** No rule to make target `distclean'. Stop. make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jon/wd/gnome-color-chooser-0.2.2' make: *** [clean] Error 2 debuild: fatal error at line 1237: fakeroot debian/rules clean failed -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: How to deliver an binary file

2007-08-23 Thread Jon Dowland
orm of the > work. Is this then justification for putting the sfd in the orig and repacking with a -dfsg suffix to the upstream version? -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: alien-arena [updated package]

2007-08-20 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 07:01:41PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > It would be worth providing a link to alien-arena-data, too, as this > package won't install without it. I can't find it at mentors, I assume > it's in pkg-games svn... yup, there it is: this builds fine for

Re: RFS: alien-arena [updated package]

2007-08-20 Thread Jon Dowland
It would be worth providing a link to alien-arena-data, too, as this package won't install without it. I can't find it at mentors, I assume it's in pkg-games svn... -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Svn-buildpakcage ignoring some directories.#

2007-07-19 Thread Jon Dowland
at build time, create it in the build rules. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RFS template mail and "upload fixes these bugs"

2007-07-18 Thread Jon Dowland
uot;The upload would close the ITP #X" as a distinct stanza. Or perhaps "The upload would fix these bugs: #X (ITP) #Y #Z". Thoughts? -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: dir2ogg -- audio file converter into ogg-vorbis format

2007-07-18 Thread Jon Dowland
s > software and when it is in unstable, Christian can remove > it from his archive. Is that the best solution? What about people who use his package already? I see that your package is a newer upstream version. Have you contacted Christian at all? -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Change in my sponsorship requirements

2007-07-17 Thread Jon Dowland
> This should not need to happen. The orig.tar.gz should > hardly ever be repacked. Yes I'm a bit confused by this suggestion. In what circumstances might it be repacked, excluding to meet dfsg requirements (where the correct solution would be changing the upstream version to 1.0-dfsg-1 o

Re: RFS: steam-powered

2007-06-29 Thread Jon Dowland
doom-package package. I have been offline for a while and have yet to commit my latest work on this, I will do so over the weekend. You might find it interesting. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RFS: pidgin-rhythmbox

2007-06-25 Thread Jon Dowland
but it hasn't appeared yet: I guess things have slowed down a bit since my last upload. Many thanks, -- Jon Dowland signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Building a program with the library shipped in Debian, not in orig.tar.gz

2006-09-27 Thread Jon Dowland
xternal pcre (perhaps by default) -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Reassigning Bugs

2006-09-25 Thread Jon Dowland
o,bar' trick and it works, please let me/the list know (perhaps the bts docs need a docu-bug filed:) ) -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: C Tutorial ?

2006-05-17 Thread Jon Dowland
re needed for non-trivial programs, but low-level stuff like vtables etc. are hidden from you quite well. Certainly, you do not know how you might go about implementing an OO abstraction layer in C, at least unless you want to hack on GTK+ or glib/Gobject yourself. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop

Re: PDF files and dh_compress

2006-05-08 Thread Jon Dowland
ot;threshold", bzip2 should be used instead of gzip for other things in /usr/share/doc. I think PDFs use ZIP internally. ZIP has compression ratios, perhaps PDFs can be re-packed to use a higher ratio? > Random text is just under 50% for me. ^^ How random? You can't adequately

Re: Google sumer of code, need a DD

2006-05-04 Thread Jon Dowland
initscripts-ng-devel" project of interest[2]. [1] http://blog.drinsama.de/erich/en/linux/2006050401-init-systems [2] http://alioth.debian.org/projects/initscripts-ng/ -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&q

Re: RFS: checkinstall

2006-04-10 Thread Jon Dowland
t; and the debian package puts it somewhere completely different, it doesn't make sense for the debian users to be faced with the wrong information. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Suggestion: Time limit for NM process

2006-04-05 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1144019257 past the epoch, Joe Wreschnig wrote: > Okay, I'll bite: Any company that hires 50% of its applicants is > growing damned fast. Certainly faster than is sustainable. This is a bit of a bad analogy: most companies won't have people working for them who they haven

Re: RFS: b5

2006-03-01 Thread Jon Dowland
u currently putting in ./debian/changelog vs. ./ChangeLog (or similar)? -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck interpreter

2006-03-01 Thread Jon Dowland
0.0.3-1.diff.gz ^^^ I suggest bumping the package version and making a note of your changes in debian/changelog when you make a change: the tool 'dch -i' from the package source dir will help you do this. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: RFS: b5

2006-02-28 Thread Jon Dowland
s perspective, it is often useful to see, at a glance, whether a package upgrade includes `upstream' changes, or debian native changes. The latter are described in debian/changelog (but not the former) and you can read about them by hitting e.g. C in recent versions of aptitude, for exa

Re: Menu problems

2005-11-23 Thread Jon Dowland
don't supply a menu-method. > You could have your package depend on the menu-xdg package, but I > would recommend using desktop files in addition to menu files. But only for those reasons stated above? -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Menu problems

2005-11-22 Thread Jon Dowland
on when is best to use a desktop file directly, and when it is best to use the menu-system? Or alternatively, why avoid the menu system at all? Should you ever use both? -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Menu problems

2005-11-21 Thread Jon Dowland
;Applications" to be in Categorie. Are you supplying a menu file and calling dh_installmenu, too, for those people not using a xdg-menu supporting window manager / other menu application? -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: sponsor quake3 quake3-data packages

2005-11-11 Thread Jon Dowland
a content, which would allow migration into main? (just curious) -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: question about closing bugs in changelog

2005-10-16 Thread Jon Dowland
.changes. Use -vVERsion with > dpkg-buildpackages. I was also going to ask this question, thank you! -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]