Re: Bug#749152: RFS: top/2.2.3-1 [ITP]

2014-05-24 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 04:54:40PM +0200, Hugo Lefeuvre wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "top" > > Package name: top > Version : 2.2.3-1 > Upstream Author : Hugo Pereira Da Costa > URL : http://hugo.pereira.free.fr/software/ > License

Re: how do I upload a package where the last changelog entry is by a co-maintainer?

2014-01-20 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 12:42:26PM +0100, Dennis van Dok wrote: > Hi, > > my colleague has updated some of the packages for which I am the > maintainer, and he is an uploader. The last changelog entry is by him. > > When I tried to upload to mentors, the package was refused and my > colleague got

Re: [SOLVED] Uploading to mentors.debian.net without a signed key

2013-08-11 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 04:16:31PM +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > > > Thanks Kumar - the "-k " did it! I saw it in --help, but I > > > > didn't think I would need it if I only had the one key. Why didn't I > > > > try it?!? > > > You don't need to pass -k or similar options to any Debian tool

Re: [SOLVED] Uploading to mentors.debian.net without a signed key

2013-08-10 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 02:41:02AM +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > > Personally, I use debsign -k to ensure > > > that my package is signed. Following this, you can open the > > > changes file and the dsc file to see that they have been > > > clearsigned. > > > > Thanks Kumar - the "-k " d

Re: [SOLVED] Uploading to mentors.debian.net without a signed key

2013-08-10 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 08:23:06PM +0200, Ross Gammon wrote: > On 08/10/2013 06:17 PM, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > Personally, I use debsign -k to ensure > > that my package is signed. Following this, you can open the > > changes file and the dsc file to see that they have

Re: Uploading to mentors.debian.net without a signed key

2013-08-10 Thread Kumar Appaiah
dillo3 Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1:3.900.2+dfsg-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Science Maintainers Changed-By: Kumar Appaiah Description: libarmadillo-dev - streamlined C++ linear algebra library - Headers libarmadillo3 - streamlined C++ linear algebra library

Re: Bug#668455: RFS: apt-build/0.12.43 QA - frontend to apt to build, optimize and install packages

2012-04-11 Thread Kumar Appaiah
oad. > * Upload to unstable > * Patch from Kumar Appaiah: Fix compiler links with host names. > Closes: #502377 > * Patch from Kumar Appaiah: Add gfortran support. Closes: #502379 I just wanted to point out that there is an extraneous "755" directory. Probably a re

Re: Fix FSF address in copyright notices?

2011-05-10 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:20:29PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Kumar Appaiah writes: > > > Pardon me if I miss something, but is it prudent to alter upstream's > > license without their permission in the source? Granted, it's just an > > address change which

Re: Fix FSF address in copyright notices?

2011-05-10 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 02:57:18PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Matt Kraai writes: > > > Some of the copyright notices in a package I'm trying to create refer > > to the old address of the FSF and lintian warns about it. Should I > > fix this address? If so, should I fix it in both the copyright

Re: On format upgrade during freeze time

2010-10-22 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 12:08:02PM +0100, Tim Retout wrote: > On 22 October 2010 10:32, Mats Erik Andersson > wrote: > > However, and this is my present question to you, > > would the release team decline the package due > > a decision to migrate to format 3.0 already now? > > Possibly, at this s

Re: RFS: roxterm (updated package) [highly configurable terminal emulator]

2010-10-12 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Tony, On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 03:34:38PM +0100, Tony Houghton wrote: > On 12/10/10 00:50, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > > > I'll take this. The change seems minimal, so I'll sponsor it. Please > > be sure to request the release team for a freeze exception. >

Re: RFS: roxterm (updated package) [highly configurable terminal emulator]

2010-10-11 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Hi! On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 06:37:49PM +0100, Tony Houghton wrote: > The upload would fix these bugs: 598971 > > The bug can affect which environment variables roxterm decides to set or > change in its child shells. The specific problem experienced in Ubuntu > Maverick (not setting TERM correctly

Re: RFS: ooo-thumbnailer

2010-02-06 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 03:48:08PM -0500, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > (Other Debian mentors -- is it okay to upload a package whose version is > 0.2-3 or 0.2-4 as the first Debian upload? Or should we instead rewrite > history and pretend this is 0.2-1 when it's ready to go?) The short answer is,

Re: help with BTS mail interface

2010-01-29 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 08:34:49AM -0600, Kumar Appaiah wrote: [snipped OP's exampl > Won't work. :-) Check one of the several bugs which were just "closed" > from the BTS. Randomly, I'll point you to this one: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi

Re: help with BTS mail interface

2010-01-29 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Hi! Let me address each point separately. On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 02:22:03PM +0100, Ersek, Laszlo wrote: > Rogério Brito has submitted a wishlist bug report for lbzip2 [3]. As > Rogério has accepted my proposal to use an external tool for his > need, I'd like to close the bug with a wontfix tag.

Re: RFS: ripit (updated package)

2009-10-10 Thread Kumar Appaiah
uploaded this package for me. > Done. But please mail debian-mentors again for the next sponsorship request, since I may not be a regular sponsor. Thanks a lot! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFS: pyrex 0.9.8.5-1 (or RFS: fftw3 3.2.1-1)

2009-04-03 Thread Kumar Appaiah
de > > How'd you get those mixed up!? Copy pasting error? In any case, I have uploaded this as well. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFS: fftw3 3.2.1-1

2009-04-03 Thread Kumar Appaiah
rust your judgement, so I have uploaded it to unstable. I hope your key is updated real soon! Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Building localy

2009-03-23 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: >> > That is absolutely what I was looking for ... > > http://wiki.debian.org/PbuilderTricks > > Sorry , but one think I don't understand: > > HOOKDIR="/path/to/hook/dir" This has to be set in your pbuilderrc. I have a ~/.pbuilderrc in my home,

Re: Building localy

2009-03-23 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: >> > If I will install newer perl from sid it will probably break my ubuntu >> > here. >> > I can't build in pbuilder coz missining dependencies. >> > Can I somehow install manually dependencies to pbuilder chroot? >> >> The first section here

Re: Building localy

2009-03-23 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Chow Loong Jin wrote: >> > If I will install newer perl from sid it will probably break my ubuntu >> > here. >> > I can't build in pbuilder coz missining dependencies. >> > Can I somehow install manually dependencies to pbuilder chroot? >> >> The first section here

Re: Building localy

2009-03-23 Thread Kumar Appaiah
2009/3/23 Jaromír Mikeš: > If I will install newer perl from sid it will probably break my ubuntu here. > I can't build in pbuilder coz missining dependencies. > Can I somehow install manually dependencies to pbuilder chroot? The first section here might help: http://wiki.debian.org/PbuilderTricks

Re: substvar-source-version-is-deprecated

2009-03-17 Thread Kumar Appaiah
ors, warnings etc. being reported. The second way is to run lintian-info --tags substvar-source-version-is-deprecated which gives the necessary information. HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Using pbuilder to test packages with gcc-snapshot

2008-11-14 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:25:16PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 08:19:38PM -0600, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > I was wondering if you could suggest a nice way to use pbuilder to > > test package builds with gcc-snapshot. > > Just a note to point out that sb

Re: Using pbuilder to test packages with gcc-snapshot

2008-11-13 Thread Kumar Appaiah
/people.debian.org/~pabs/tmp/pbuilder.tar.gz Thanks, but I really want it to be automated for gcc-snapshot, so the solution you suggest with the original trick on the Wiki works perfectly for me. Thanks for the information. I have updated the Wiki as well. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Using pbuilder to test packages with gcc-snapshot

2008-11-13 Thread Kumar Appaiah
ng gcc-snapshot testing with pbuilder? Either way, I promise to update the wiki page with the solution I get, and will then request the person filing the gcc-snapshot FTBFS bugs to point to that page, if possible. Thanks in advance. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Please clarify: to bugreport or not bugreport

2008-11-11 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:54:41AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (01/11/2008): > > The most foolproof way of testing whether the package in question > > builds in pbuilder. pbuilder starts with a clean chroot, downloads the > > build

Re: Please clarify: to bugreport or not bugreport

2008-11-01 Thread Kumar Appaiah
that most likely points to a serious bug. You can find the documentation of pbuilder here: http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/software/pbuilder-doc/pbuilder-doc.html Hope this helps; else please tell me if I have misunderstood something. Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Query about Debian

2008-05-06 Thread Kumar Appaiah
bian.org/debian/sid main The entries you want would be: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian sid main deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian sid main HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: buildd analog for new maintainters

2008-05-05 Thread Kumar Appaiah
only Debian developers have access to such machines, and you may have to directo your architecture spcific queries and requests to debian-@lists.debian.org. HTH. Kumar P.S. Please don't recycle threads. -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 03

Re: foo.diff.gz "difficult to read"

2008-04-25 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 02:59:12PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > When I look at a diff.gz, I use "zgrep '^+++ ' foo.diff.gz". If the > > zcat foo.diff.gz | diffstat Just for the record, diffstat foo.diff.gz would do. :-) Kumar -- Kumar App

Re: BTS Command to get messages to a BUG#

2008-03-17 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 10:40:51PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hello Mentors, > > Please can you tell me the BTS/PTS command (and the E-Mail) > which I must use to get all messages to a Bug#. If you need an mbox: bts --mbox show HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Ho

Re: What is the urgency field (in debian/changelog) for?

2008-02-21 Thread Kumar Appaiah
You give Britney 5 days for a transition attempt. urgency=high: For fixing critical bugs (esp. security). 2 days for transition. Please see: http://www.debian.org/devel/testing HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: How uploaded zerofree?

2008-02-14 Thread Kumar Appaiah
nsor it. (but as I saw now, I forgot to CC > him, so he doesn't get that email, since he wasn't subscribed.). Argh! Yes, I am sorry. The first package on that list, which is yorick-spydr, was uploaded by Christoph. The second one, naturally, says winnie. :-) Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah,

Re: How uploaded zerofree?

2008-02-14 Thread Kumar Appaiah
t was Christoph Haas. You can find out by going to your QA page, and putting the mouse over the NEW link: http://qa.debian.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Once uploaded, you may wish to use the who-uploads package in devscripts. HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Techno

Re: List of out-of-date packages on a given architecture.

2008-02-04 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 06:21:24AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > On 05/02/2008, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > (Removing CC to debian-mips, as your last mail got the point across). > > Well, that was on purpose... I know, and that was the right thing. > > > Enjoy 4.3 serie

Re: List of out-of-date packages on a given architecture.

2008-02-04 Thread Kumar Appaiah
(Removing CC to debian-mips, as your last mail got the point across). On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 06:01:55AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > On 05/02/2008, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > lam FTBFSing on mipsel due to a gcc bug: > > http://experimental.ftbfs.de/fetch.php?&pkg=lam&ve

Re: List of out-of-date packages on a given architecture.

2008-02-04 Thread Kumar Appaiah
and doing a dput/dupload of packages built on them. Would look awesome to stand apart with a mips(el) or s390 upload, when others are doing only source+{i386,amd64}. :-) Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFS: localizator

2007-12-29 Thread Kumar Appaiah
ail. It doesn't seem to build if I do dpkg-buildpackage;dpkg-buildpackage. Am I doing something wrong? 2. Priority should be `optional', not extra. 3. Please don't use smileys in the description. :-) There may be a few more issues, I'll let a DD suggest these, as I also have s

Re: RFS: localizator

2007-12-28 Thread Kumar Appaiah
intian -i -I on the changes file, and observe the warnings and advice to correct them. If you go through these steps carefully once, it'll be very easy to do them the next time onwards. I'll check your package again tomorrow, but if someone else (preferably a DD) comes up for checking

Re: RFS: localizator

2007-12-27 Thread Kumar Appaiah
ea; here are a few: http://qa.debian.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course, consider joining the Python Application Team as well. Hope the input is useful. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Finding out why a Build-Dependency is fetched.

2007-12-20 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 12:23:49PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > Well, I've filed one already with a patch and severity serious! It > does affect common behaviour from earlier though. Let me downgrade it > if it comes to that, or the maintainer objects. OK, the verdict from #

Re: Finding out why a Build-Dependency is fetched.

2007-12-19 Thread Kumar Appaiah
dev, and not one of them. I don't want atlas3 coming in. Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Finding out why a Build-Dependency is fetched.

2007-12-19 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 11:49:53AM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > See this old log. The apt-get command follows the same order as > specified in the package's Build-Depends: > http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?&pkg=octave2.9&ver=1%3A2.9.17-1&arch=sparc&stamp=1195174

Re: Finding out why a Build-Dependency is fetched.

2007-12-19 Thread Kumar Appaiah
w, if apt-get is called faithfully in this order, atlas does not come in. But if it is reordered, the lapack3-dev dependencies are honoured first, and that pulls in atlas3-base, which is the first alternate dependency, and is satisfiable. Now, the question is, where is the reordering

Re: Finding out why a Build-Dependency is fetched.

2007-12-19 Thread Kumar Appaiah
(Annotation at the end) On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 10:30:14AM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > Dear Debian Mentors, > > This is with reference to a package of mine, libitpp, whose latest > version I have packaged and it is available at: > > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/p

Finding out why a Build-Dependency is fetched.

2007-12-19 Thread Kumar Appaiah
= 5), autotools-dev, doxygen (>= 1.5.1-1), refblas3-dev, libfftw3-dev, texlive-latex-base, gs, lapack3-dev Clearly, refblas3-dev is provided, so lapack3-dev shouldn't need atlas3-base-dev, right? What am I missing? Thanks! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of

Re: RFS: mustang

2007-12-13 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 11:18:30AM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > - dget > > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/mustang/mustang_3.0-1.dsc > > > > I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. > > I am not a DD, but want to just make some mino

Re: RFS: mustang

2007-12-13 Thread Kumar Appaiah
es enter sid (unstable). Otherwise, I think it's fine. A DD's eye can spot further problems. :-) All the best! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFS: colordiff

2007-12-13 Thread Kumar Appaiah
of them) enter , and are meant for, sid. :-) Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Packages getting created without signature

2007-12-12 Thread Kumar Appaiah
owto.html HTH. Look forward to your contributions to Debian! :-) Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: file encoding and eol marker in orig.tar.gz

2007-11-08 Thread Kumar Appaiah
oing anything except removing > files when repackaging. If this is the case, I shall try to avoid it in the next revision. Thanks for pointing this out. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: file encoding and eol marker in orig.tar.gz

2007-11-08 Thread Kumar Appaiah
r changes, > and that's in the .diff.gz (directly or through a patch system, whatever > you prefer). I agree on this, and you are very correct. But my mentor recommended the change, as we were repackaging it anyway. Besides, noting whatever I've done in README.Debian-source does alle

Re: file encoding and eol marker in orig.tar.gz

2007-11-08 Thread Kumar Appaiah
aused some build failed for some reason (I don't recall, but my mentor asked me to do it). Also, my patches looked too ugly. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: file encoding and eol marker in orig.tar.gz

2007-11-08 Thread Kumar Appaiah
hat it was > 'backported' from svn? Again, this is also a debatable one. But since you are repackaging, you might want to merge these changes from upstream, or patch them, without hurting anyone's sentiments. But I think more knowledgeable persons should answer this. :-) Kumar

Re: Doubt about a java version of a package

2007-10-24 Thread Kumar Appaiah
ou just can't build it using GCJ, then you may try kaffe or jikes, but I don't know too much about them. See any of the packages maintained by pkg-java-maintainers. For example, commons-io is a simple one. They all use cdbs for building, and it should be quite simple to adapt the a

Re: Doubt about a java version of a package

2007-10-24 Thread Kumar Appaiah
, you could see jftp, except that it's in contrib, but you may be able to get it into main if you get it to build it with a free Java compiler like gcj. Or, see the pkg-java list for a bigger list. > I hope you can help me. Come to debian-java for more. :-) Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Ja

Re: Bug#444514: marked as done (gpredict: FTBFS: error: 'GtkTooltips' undeclared)

2007-10-15 Thread Kumar Appaiah
there are two other ways: 1. Systematic: ITA+Upload. 2. Not recommended: Hijack+Upload. :-) 3. Plain NMU. This is just to make the point clear... Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: New packaging advice, manpages and binary additions

2007-10-15 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 03:59:46PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > Put a file called manpages in the Debian directory (or > /manpages, in case you use multiple packages). The contents Sorry, it should be .manpages. > of this file should be: > > debian/qavimator.6 > > Tha

Re: New packaging advice, manpages and binary additions

2007-10-15 Thread Kumar Appaiah
rk?" No issue. Just ensure that you version your tarballs with epoch etc. For example, foo-1.2.3+svn20071015-1 could be the version. If they don't have any version (like 1.2.3), you may artifically add 0 and make the Debian version foo-0+svn20071015-1. Ensure you name your orig.tar.gz

Re: RFS: xmms-pulse

2007-09-27 Thread Kumar Appaiah
ice comparison: http://gmane.org/plot-rate.php?group=gmane.linux.debian.user http://gmane.org/plot-rate.php?group=gmane.linux.debian.devel.general -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: Menu transition - status of doc-base?

2007-09-25 Thread Kumar Appaiah
in /usr/share/doc-base, that uses the new sections defined in the latest > menu policy. I agree with you on this one. Only meny issues are flagged by lintian, and I am not aware of doc-base files. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai

Re: Menu transition - status of doc-base?

2007-09-25 Thread Kumar Appaiah
> of Apps, ...) in .doc-base files? I checked the Wiki and the original > thread about the transition but didn't find an answer to this question. My lintian 1.23.34 already complains for "Apps" etc. So, I guess you should use "Applications/...". Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah,

Re: RFS: daloRADIUS - Advanced RADIUS Web Management Application

2007-09-25 Thread Kumar Appaiah
re/foo Or if you want to copy the directory foo-1.2/common-files to /usr/share/foo/common-files, you can add an entry like: common-files usr/share/foo etc. Read man dh_install for details. Also dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples and dh_install for more nie stuff. HTH. Kumar --

Re: RFS: daloRADIUS - Advanced RADIUS Web Management Application

2007-09-25 Thread Kumar Appaiah
ad it to Debian's repositories. If you are intent on being the Debian package maintainer, thisis the right place and people will guide you here. All the best! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: debian/watch, sf.net and -dev versions

2007-09-21 Thread Kumar Appaiah
inelegant, but should work. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian/watch, sf.net and -dev versions

2007-09-21 Thread Kumar Appaiah
, try http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/, for example: http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/maxima/ -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFS: libj2ssh-java

2007-09-06 Thread Kumar Appaiah
suggest the -doc package. We shall get down to this this evening. I have two questions: 1. Could you please consider adding kumanna-guest and varun-guest to pkg-java? I have already mailed there in this regard. 2. Could I mail you in off-list, when I upload the revised package? Thanks a lot! Kum

Re: Help with -dbg packages for a library

2007-09-01 Thread Kumar Appaiah
ripping and no debug+no stripping. Thanks! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

RFS: libj2ssh-java

2007-08-30 Thread Kumar Appaiah
back to us with suggestions. Thanks! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Help with -dbg packages for a library

2007-08-29 Thread Kumar Appaiah
stripping them may result in a slightly reduced performance (it's a numerical computation library). While I am going to run some tests myself to verify this, I just wanted to ask the mentors here about their knowledge of this issue. Thanks! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Inst

Re: Help with a debian/watch file (getting tarball via websvn)

2007-08-26 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 03:24:58AM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: > Hi, > > I could need some help with a debian/watch file :) In this special case > I would like to create a debian/watch file for molekel > (http://bioinformatics.org/molekel). Unfortunately upstream doesn't > provide tarballs. So I

Re: RFS: logapp

2007-08-16 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 02:20:09PM +0200, Mario Iseli wrote: > My education was: Every difference from the dh_make templates are bad, > except if you have good reasons for it. But hmm, ok... I agree, but I thought was a placeholder meant to be replaced with just the URL. :-) Kumar --

Re: RFS: logapp

2007-08-16 Thread Kumar Appaiah
the package is, as such, quite small. But I also like the separate file way for the reason that if upstream adds another file later, I just append it there rather than look for it in rules... Anyway, the latest one is available at: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/logapp/logapp_0.

Re: RFS: logapp

2007-08-16 Thread Kumar Appaiah
I just thought it was a good practice. But, I have now added these things to rules and removed the separate files. > debian/rules: > Again two useless whitespaces behind the dh_clean lines... Done. > Regards and thanks for your work, Thanks for your quick review! :-) I have uplo

RFS: logapp

2007-08-16 Thread Kumar Appaiah
necessary amount, and all important lines are easy to identify. . Homepage: http://logapp.sourceforge.net/ Note that this package does not have anything to do with GNUstep, though it ends with "app". :-) Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technol

Re: RFS: flickcurl

2007-08-05 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 11:16:12PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > Oops! One more miss! getopt.c is also public domain! > > find |egrep "\.(h|c)$"|xargs grep -L "(GPL)" gives getopt.c, > flickcurl_getopt.h and example.c > > I am reuploading with the modificati

Re: RFS: flickcurl

2007-08-05 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 11:08:49PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > debian/copyright: > > You have some useless whitespaces mostly at the end of the lines. Then > > ehm: License: LGPL 2.1 / GPL 2 / Apache 2.0 > > What should that mean? If you have several licenses in your

Re: RFS: flickcurl

2007-08-05 Thread Kumar Appaiah
on sponsors.debian.net, I use that to track my sponsoring > and get in contact with me if you have fixed the things from above. Well, thanks a lot! I have registered the package on Sponsors.d.net. Please check it out, and many thanks for the review and upload offer! :-) Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

RFS: flickcurl

2007-08-05 Thread Kumar Appaiah
description, uploading photos, changing tags and comments. Thanks in advance. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Sponsor Checklist

2007-07-31 Thread Kumar Appaiah
u say, the quality of the package in Debian is also a function of the maintainer's familiarity with the package. Thanks for the clarifications! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Sponsor Checklist

2007-07-30 Thread Kumar Appaiah
> Therefore I actually am only insistent on the sources being available, > since I usually discard the pre-build .debs anyway. True, but I thought that if the maintainer discovers the problems himself, it'd just save time for the sponsor. :-) Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Ho

RFS: elfrc

2007-07-30 Thread Kumar Appaiah
n constant time without making the compiler or linker eat loads of memory. Please do send me your comments, if you find something lacking. I shall make the corrections and make a new upload later. Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai

Re: Sponsor Checklist

2007-07-30 Thread Kumar Appaiah
t to be sure that the packages are build on a clean, sid chroot. Thanks a lot! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Sponsor Checklist

2007-07-30 Thread Kumar Appaiah
or non-executable scripts etc. So, how do you propose to evaluate people? Though evaluation is necessary, isn't it tough for people who don't really have a "FOSS contributor" background? Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFS: harvestman (updated package)

2007-07-30 Thread Kumar Appaiah
ed? Thanks! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFS: harvestman (updated package)

2007-07-30 Thread Kumar Appaiah
t; > Because Python itself provides a XML implementation, in this case > /usr/lib/python2.4/xml/parsers/expat.py. That I realized after a relook. I guess performance is the criterion for this choice, after reading up a bit. Thanks for the suggestion! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, J

Re: RFS: harvestman (updated package) - uploaded

2007-07-30 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 04:13:18PM +0200, Piotr Ozarowski wrote: > thanks Thanks from me too! :-) Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFS: harvestman (updated package)

2007-07-30 Thread Kumar Appaiah
man.1 - escape hyphen ("\-") in line 116, 122, 126, 890, 921 Done. Since a version bump is not necessary, please find the updated package here: dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/h/harvestman/harvestman_1.4.6-4.dsc And thanks a lot for the quick response and sugge

RFS: harvestman (updated package)

2007-07-30 Thread Kumar Appaiah
e wondering what has suddenly rekindled my interest in the package. It's just that upstream is developing a new version, and I wanted to see what shape the package is in well before the next upstream release. -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai

Re: Creating /usr/bin/ entries to scripts the right way

2007-07-29 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 11:27:35AM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > echo -e "#!/bin/sh\nexec /usr/bin/python2.4 \ > /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/HarvestMan/harvestman.py \"[EMAIL > PROTECTED]"" > harvestman OK, so it's actually this: echo -

Re: Creating /usr/bin/ entries to scripts the right way

2007-07-29 Thread Kumar Appaiah
make another upload with Python 2.5 as current. Is that correct? Thanks! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Creating /usr/bin/ entries to scripts the right way

2007-07-29 Thread Kumar Appaiah
, if I run a wrapper installer they provide, and I don't do that. Or should I just create such a file of that type using dpatch? That way, I keep the diff clean. Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc

Re: RFS: kplayer

2007-07-29 Thread Kumar Appaiah
_ playing spoilsport), so it's great that you have packaged it. All the best in finding a sponsor! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Creating /usr/bin/ entries to scripts the right way

2007-07-29 Thread Kumar Appaiah
then copy it and set the permissions for it using install? Or is there a more elegant way of getting over this? Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFS: kplayer

2007-07-29 Thread Kumar Appaiah
yer Priority: optional Section: kde Installed-Size: 2312 Maintainer: Debian KDE Extras Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 1:0.9.4a-2 [snip] Description: media player for KDE KMPlayer is a simple frontend for MPlayer/Xine/ffmpeg/ffserver/VDR. [snip] Is it different?

Re: RFS: pkpgcounter

2007-07-28 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 10:31:16PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > Sponsored. Thanks a lot, Christoph! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

RFS: pkpgcounter

2007-07-28 Thread Kumar Appaiah
wondering if someone would be interested in packaging it. It is available at: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/pkpgcounter/pkpgcounter_2.18-1.dsc It's lintian clean (I guess :-), but if you have suggestions for improving or correcting the package, please do tell me. Thanks! Kumar --

Re: List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-26 Thread Kumar Appaiah
by the modified script: > http://files.myopera.com/atomo64/files/output.test.html Very nice! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-26 Thread Kumar Appaiah
ptions to check this are available (courtesy this thread). So, don't bother too much; that page is going away in a while! :-) Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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