Bug#1094183: RFS: fxtran ITP

2025-01-29 Thread Peter B
On 29/01/2025 15:05, philippe marguinaud wrote: Control: tags -1 +moreinfo Hello Phil, I have followed your advice and created a 1.0 release on github. Also added the "Control..." line at the top of my message. Tell me if everything is ok and what to do next. Cheers, Philippe Hi Philippe

Salsa repository request

2025-01-23 Thread Peter B
Hi, I would like to host packaging for my package tkinfo on Salsa in the debian namespace, but as a DM, do not have the access to create this myself. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/tkinfo My username on Salsa is PeterB Regards, Peter B P.S. I'm aware I can use   gbp import-dscs --debsna

Bug#1092597: RFS: findent/4.3.4-1 -- indents/converts Fortran sources

2025-01-09 Thread Peter B
On 09/01/2025 15:02, Willem Vermin wrote:  findent (4.3.4-1) unstable; urgency=low  .    * New upstream release Hi Willem, I suggest make this urgency=medium Hopefully the upstream release does useful stuff! No need to delay migration. Cheers, Peter

Re: Question about RC bug in 7zip

2025-01-01 Thread Peter B
On 01/01/2025 19:07, yokota wrote: And upstream will fix about "7z rn" issue, but will not fix about "7z a" issue. Because upstream said this is not a bug but a feature. Is "7z a" issue is worth to a RC bug? No. Maybe the documentation could be made clearer, but that's not RC. Regards, Pet

Re: Bug#1091541: RFS: asmc-linux/0.0~git20241215.7dbd9df-1 [ITP] -- Masm compatible assembler

2024-12-30 Thread Peter B
On 28/12/2024 12:03, Phil Wyett wrote: ??? Hi Phil, just F.Y.I, I am seeing several emails from you each week, including the one I'm replying to here, that have no body! Maybe its my email reader (Thunderbird). Is anyone else having this problem? Cheers, Peter P.S.  This mail has nothing

Re: Pristine-tar issue

2024-10-10 Thread Peter B
On 10/10/2024 15:35, Andreas Tille wrote: The problem is that it seems to happen only on my laptop. Hi Andreas, Whats the output of cat ~/.gbp.conf Regards, Peter

Re: sbuild for experimental

2024-09-05 Thread Peter B
On 05/09/2024 11:20, Lorenzo wrote: Suggestion? Is there a way to build in a sid chroot and upload to experimental? Lorenzo Yes, these are independent. The distribution you upload to, is controlled by the changelog entry. However, note that "packages in experimental can depend on packages i

duck

2024-09-03 Thread Peter B
@Phil Another test you could consider adding to your reviews is duck. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/duck Easy to run, just type duck in top of the source tree. Silence indicates success. Its prone to false positives with "parked domains" & email addresses, but works well in finding dead links,

Re: Bug#1078983: RFS: popt/1.19+dfsg-2 -- lib for parsing cmdline parameters

2024-08-30 Thread Peter B
On 19/08/2024 08:13, Phil Wyett wrote: Looks like it wants to flag one by one on different files. Best to have a review of all the *.po files and run checking. Hi Phil, That's the whole point of the --terse option. Using the -t option with lrc is a good idea for your reviews, to give a concis

Re: I would like to help

2024-08-28 Thread Peter B
On 28/08/2024 09:35, dblmr wrote: wouldn't I just find a git repository and clone it these days? You can clone the git repository from here https://salsa.debian.org/debian/png23d Regards, Peter

Re: I would like to help

2024-08-27 Thread Peter B
On 25/08/2024 16:38, dblmr wrote: My Spanish is very good, and English is my native language. I could certainly do menial programming tasks, or help with documentation or editing web pages. Hi Mark, its very likely that the Spanish translation team could do with more help. You coul

Re: Bug#1078069: RFS: fennel/1.5.1-1+dfsg [ITP] -- Lisp-based programming language for the Lua runtime

2024-08-25 Thread Peter B
On 25/08/2024 20:12, Phil Hagelberg wrote: This makes sense, but previously when I tried uploading the same version twice to mentors.debian.net, it did not accept the second attempt: Package has already been uploaded to mentors on mentors.debian.net I guess that means it's required to manual

Re: Submitters (well, for everyone) tip of the day courtesy of Sven Hartge - Debian CI and licenserecon (lrc)

2024-08-06 Thread Peter B
> In addition to the other comments, lrc is prone to a high number of false > positives.  It is helpful as a tool, but its failure often doesn’t indicate > there is an actual problem.  So, people should probably enable it manually in > their CI instead of it being automatic. Please report

Bug#1076211: RFS: msc-generator/8.6.1-1 -- Draws signalling charts from textual description

2024-07-29 Thread Peter B
On 29/07/2024 17:05, Gábor Németh wrote: + Kindly ask to change the subject to version 8.6.*2*-1 please. Thanks, Gábor Hi Gábor, You can change this yourself. It is your 'bug' after all. https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control#retitle Regards, Peter

Bug#1077306: RFS: streamripper/1.64.6-2 [RC] -- download online streams into audio files

2024-07-29 Thread Peter B
On 28/07/2024 13:08, Phil Wyett wrote: . If a DD is happy to upload the package as is, it is all good. Regards Phil Hi Phil, Michael, maybe remove the moreinfo tab then? Otherwise, potential sponsors may not look at this RFS. Regards, Peter

Re: Documenting Salsa CI for new maintainers

2024-07-15 Thread Peter B
On 15/07/2024 06:46, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: Hi! Checking with a couple of people learning to be new Debian maintainers I noticed that many were unaware of Salsa CI (https://salsa.debian.org/salsa-ci-team/pipeline) What do you recon would be a good place to document it at so new maintainers

Bug#1073207: RFS: cevomapgen/34-1 -- External Map Generator for C-Evo

2024-07-14 Thread Peter B
On 14/07/2024 10:55, Phil Wyett wrote: Hi Peter, While we are waiting for a sponsor. It seems the release tag is not signed - Regards Phil Hi Phil, Thanks for that. It seems the tag had not been pushed either!! Anyway, now fixed. Regards, Peter HEAD () refs/heads/master () uscan in

Re: Was: Im stuck

2024-07-10 Thread Peter B
On 04/07/2024 14:44, Daniel Gröber wrote: Sponsors are more likeley to pick up a package if it's personally interesting to them, Something that might help here, is for the RFS template to include the long description of the package. Otherwise, potential sponsors have to unpack the source packa

Re: Bug#1075861: RFS: c-evo-dh/2.0-1 -- Empire Building Game (data files), C-evo: Distant Horizon

2024-07-09 Thread Peter B
On 09/07/2024 10:33, Phil Wyett wrote: On Sun, 7 Jul 2024 12:19:10 +0100 Peter B wrote: On 07/07/2024 04:04, Phil Wyett wrote: Peter, Would you please update the standards version in 'debian/control' to the latest 4.7.0[1] as per current Debian policy. [1] https://www.debian.org/

Salsa repository request

2024-07-07 Thread Peter B
Dear Mentors, I would like to set up Salsa Vcs under the debian namespace for c-evo-dh [1]. Could someone create the repo and grant me maintainer access? My username on Salsa is PeterB Regards, Peter [1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/c-evo-dh P.S. I have an existing repo in my private space

Re: Bug#1075861: RFS: c-evo-dh/2.0-1 -- Empire Building Game (data files), C-evo: Distant Horizon

2024-07-07 Thread Peter B
On 07/07/2024 04:04, Phil Wyett wrote: Peter, Would you please update the standards version in 'debian/control' to the latest 4.7.0[1] as per current Debian policy. [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ Regards Phil Hi Phil, Thanks for reviewing. I've updated the control file, al

Bug#1075861: RFS: c-evo-dh/2.0-1 -- Empire Building Game (data files), C-evo: Distant Horizon

2024-07-06 Thread Peter B
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-pascal-de...@alioth-lists.debian.net X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel-ga...@lists.debian.org Dear Mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "c-evo-dh":  * Package name : c-evo-dh    Version  : 2.0-1    Upstream co

Bug#1073207: RFS: cevomapgen/34-1 -- External Map Generator for C-Evo

2024-06-22 Thread Peter B
On 22/06/2024 16:27, Phil Wyett wrote: ... 2. Lintian: Warning W: c-evo-map-gen: unknown-field Static-Built-Using N: N: See the Policy Manual for a list of the possible fields in a package N: control files. ... Hi Phil, Thanks for the review. I believe I'm using the field correctly,

Bug#1073207: Subject: RFS: cevomapgen/34-1 -- External Map Generator for C-Evo

2024-06-14 Thread Peter B
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "cevomapgen":  * Package name : cevomapgen    Version  : 34-1    Upstream contact : Peter Blackman  * URL  : https://sourceforge.net/projects/cevomapgen/  * License   

Bug#1071741: RFS: winff/1.6.4+dfsg-2 -- graphical video and audio batch converter using ffmpeg or avconv

2024-05-24 Thread Peter B
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "winff":  * Package name : winff    Version  : 1.6.4+dfsg-2    Upstream contact : Matthew Weatherford  * URL  : https://github.com/WinFF/winff  * License  : GF

Re: poblem with dh-autoreconf ?

2024-04-19 Thread Peter B
On 19/04/2024 13:27, PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel wrote: Hello, In this build, I do not see a call to dh_autoreconf_clean snip so my question is: is it normal or a bug in dh-autoreconf ? thanks for your help Frederic Checked one of my packages that uses autoreconf and is building OK. There is

Re: Bug#1067426: Package sponsorship request Qucs-S

2024-03-22 Thread Peter B
On 21/03/2024 13:56, Vadim Kuznetsov wrote: Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal I am looking for a sponsor for my package "qucs-s": * Package name : qucs-s    Version : 24.1.0-1    Upstream contact : Vadim Kuznetsov * URL : https://github.com/ra3xdh/qucs_s * License : GPL-2.0 * Vcs

Bug#1065682: RFS: c-evo-dh/1.11-1 -- Empire Building Game (data files), C-evo: Distant Horizon

2024-03-20 Thread Peter B
Changes since the last upload:  c-evo-dh (1.11-1) unstable; urgency=medium  .    * Team maintained (Debian Games team)  (1.10-1)    * Add -B (build all dependencies) to d/rules   (1.10-1)    * Add shared library linker options to d/rules (1.10-1)    * New Upstream Release    * Update d/co

Bug#1065197: RFS: cevomapgen/31-1 [ITP] -- External Map Generator for C-Evo

2024-03-18 Thread Peter B
On 17/03/2024 10:27, Tobias Frost wrote: The source builds the following binary packages:     cevomapgen - External Map Generator for C-Evo cevomapgen is a tool for use with c-evo-dh https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/c-evo-dh Would it make sense to call it also c-evo-mapgen, to use the same sc

Bug#1065682: RFS: c-evo-dh/1.11-1 -- Empire Building Game (data files), C-evo: Distant Horizon

2024-03-08 Thread Peter B
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "c-evo-dh":  * Package name : c-evo-dh    Version  : 1.11-1    Upstream contact : Peter  * URL  : https://sourceforge.net/projects/c-evo-eh/  * License  : CC0-

Re: Bug#1065078: Question about the debian group on Salsa

2024-03-05 Thread Peter B
On 01/03/2024 04:12, Soren Stoutner wrote: I have created a repository named planner under debian and have granted you Developer access. :) F.Y.I.   'Developer' access on Salsa does not allow to Manage CI/CD settings. If required, 'Maintainer' or 'Owner' is needed to do that. https://docs.g

Bug#1064287: RFS: winff/1.6.3+dfsg-1 -- graphical video and audio batch converter using ffmpeg or avconv

2024-02-19 Thread Peter B
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "winff":  * Package name : winff    Version  : 1.6.3+dfsg-1    Upstream contact : Matthew Weatherford  * URL  : https://github.com/WinFF/winff  * License  : GF

Bug#1056578: RFS: profile-cleaner/2.45-3 -- Reduces browser profile size by cleaning their sqlite

2023-11-23 Thread Peter B
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "profile-cleaner":  * Package name : profile-cleaner    Version  : 2.45-3    Upstream contact : graysky  * URL  : https://github.com/graysky2/profile-cleaner  * Licens

Bug#1056320: RFS: mp3guessenc/0.27.6~beta+dfsg-1 -- Utility for analysis of audio mpeg files

2023-11-20 Thread Peter B
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "mp3guessenc":  * Package name : mp3guessenc    Version  : 0.27.6~beta+dfsg-1    Upstream contact : eblanc...@users.sourceforge.net  * URL  : https://mp3guessenc.source

Bug#1056273: RFS: c-evo-dh/1.10-1 -- Empire Building Game (data files), C-evo: Distant Horizon

2023-11-19 Thread Peter B
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "c-evo-dh":  * Package name : c-evo-dh    Version  : 1.10-1    Upstream contact : Peter  * URL  : https://sourceforge.net/projects/c-evo-eh/  * License  : GPL-

Salsa repositories requested

2023-11-17 Thread Peter B
Hi, I'm adopting ifstat https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ifstat and would like to setup the packaging VCS under the debian group in Salsa. As a DM I don't have the access to do this myself. If its not too much extra work to set up two repositories, I would also like to have one for mp3guessenc htt

Bug#1052356: RFS: ddrescueview/0.4.5-2 -- graphical viewer for GNU ddrescue map files

2023-09-20 Thread Peter B
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "ddrescueview":  * Package name : ddrescueview    Version  : 0.4.5-2    Upstream contact : Martin Bittermann  * URL  : https://sourceforge.net/projects/ddrescueview/  

Bug#1052322: RFS: c-evo-dh/1.9-1 -- Empire Building Game (data files), C-evo: Distant Horizon

2023-09-20 Thread Peter B
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "c-evo-dh":  * Package name : c-evo-dh    Version  : 1.9-1    Upstream contact : Peter  * URL  : https://sourceforge.net/projects/c-evo-eh/  * License  : CC-BY

Bug#1052321: RFS: view3dscene/4.2.0-2 [RC] -- VRML / X3D browser, and a viewer for other 3D model formats

2023-09-20 Thread Peter B
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: important Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "view3dscene":  * Package name : view3dscene    Version  : 4.2.0-2    Upstream contact : Michalis Kamburelis  * URL  : https://castle-engine.io/view3dscene.php  * L

Bug#1052122: RFS: asunder/3.0.1+ds-1 -- Graphical audio CD ripper and encoder

2023-09-17 Thread Peter B
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "asunder": (Andreas R who kindly sponsored my adoption of this package, is sadly locked out from his gpg key.)  * Package name : asunder    Version  : 3.0.1+ds-1    Upstream conta

Bug#1040494: RFS: cevomapgen/27-1 [ITP] -- External Map Generator for C-Evo

2023-09-13 Thread Peter B
Package: sponsorship-requests Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "cevomapgen":  * Package name : cevomapgen    Version  : 27-1    Upstream contact : Peter Blackman  * URL  : https://sourceforge.net/projects/cevomapgen/  * License  : CC-BY-3.

Bug#1040494: RFS: cevomapgen/26-1 [ITP] -- External Map Generator for C-Evo

2023-07-06 Thread Peter B
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "cevomapgen":  * Package name : cevomapgen    Version  : 26-1    Upstream contact : Peter Blackman  * URL  : https://sourceforge.net/projects/cevomapgen/  * License 

Bug#1034168: RFS: profile-cleaner/2.44-1 [ITP] -- Reduces browser profile size by cleaning their sqlite databases

2023-05-29 Thread Peter B
On 26/05/2023 21:54, Tobias Frost wrote: maintainer scripts are not designed to convey messages to users. It is very liekly to be not seen at all, and the one performing the installatin might not be the user using it later or the user might not remember the warning when actually using the softwar

Bug#1034168: RFS: profile-cleaner/2.44-1 [ITP] -- Reduces browser profile size by cleaning their sqlite databases

2023-05-26 Thread Peter B
On 24/05/2023 22:04, Tobias Frost wrote: It seems that the source is missing (the input file for txt2man)? It would be nice to have this and create the manpage at build time. (Can you ask upstream to include the source file of the manpage?) Now building the man page from source text.

Bug#1034168: RFS: profile-cleaner/2.44-1 [ITP] -- Reduces browser profile size by cleaning their sqlite databases

2023-05-25 Thread Peter B
On 24/05/2023 22:04, Tobias Frost wrote: Package: sponsorship-requests Followup-For: Bug #1034168 Control: tags -1 moreinfo Hi Peter, some review: - d/postinst is not a place to post messages to users; What do you suggest then?  I could ditch the postinst and put the text into the man page, bu

Bug#1035106: grimripper

2023-05-08 Thread Peter B
I'm happy to have co-maintainers, but with less than a dozen packages in my list I would hope to be able to keep it in good shape.

Bug#1035106: grimripper

2023-05-08 Thread Peter B
Hi Matthias, I'd rather not remove asunder just yet. If I receive a bug report on grimripper, the first thing I would want to do is run asunder alongside it to compare. Also, until grimripper is uploaded we won't know for sure if it will build on all architectures, and until I get access to a S

Bug#1035106: RFS: grimripper/3.0.0-1 [ITP 1035103] -- Graphical audio CD ripper and encoder

2023-05-07 Thread Peter B
Package renamed;  * Package name : grimripper    Version  : 3.0.0-1    Upstream contact : Salamandar  * URL  : https://gitlab.gnome.org/Salamandar/GrimRipper  * License  : GPL-2, CC0-1.0  * Vcs  : TBD    Section  : sound The source builds th

Bug#1035106: RFS: grimripper/3.0.0-1 [ITP 1035103] -- Graphical audio CD ripper and encoder

2023-05-06 Thread Peter B
On Fri, 5 May 2023 17:59:01 +0200 Bastian Germann wrote: > On Sat, 29 Apr 2023 20:10:02 +0100 Peter Blackman wrote: > > cdreaper is the Gtk3 fork of asunder > > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/asunder > > > > I would like to set up a packaging VCS on Salsa under the debian group, > > but don't hav

Re: Bug#1035106: RFS: grimripper/3.0.0-1 [ITP 1035103] -- Graphical audio CD ripper and encoder

2023-05-05 Thread Peter B
Hi Andreas, Upstream have now renamed the package to grimripper. I've uploaded to Mentors. https://mentors.debian.net/package/grimripper/ Cheers, Peter

Re: Bug#1035106: RFS: cdreaper/3.0.0-1 [ITP 1035103] -- Graphical audio CD ripper and encoder

2023-04-29 Thread Peter B
On 29/04/2023 20:24, Andreas Ronnquist wrote: Please notice that there might be a rename of the project (See #4 on the upstream bugtracker [1]). On another note - I would gladly co-maintain this (whatever the name turns out to be in the end :). 1: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Salamandar/Reaper/-/

Bug#1034168: RFS: profile-cleaner/2.44-1 [ITP] -- Reduces browser profile size by cleaning their sqlite databases

2023-04-10 Thread Peter B
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "profile-cleaner":  * Package name : profile-cleaner    Version  : 2.44-1    Upstream contact : graysky  * URL  : https://github.com/graysky2/profile-cleaner  * Lice

RFS: c-evo-dh/1.6.0-1 [ITP] -- Empire Building Game, C-evo: Distant Horizon

2023-01-05 Thread Peter B
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "c-evo-dh":  * Package name : c-evo-dh    Version  : 1.6.0-1    Upstream contact : Peter  * URL  : https://sourceforge.net/projects/c-evo-eh/  * License  : CC-BY-3.0, CC-BY-SA-3.0-US, CC0-1.0, GPL-2+  * Vcs 

RFS: c-evo-dh/1.1-1 [ITP] -- C-evo: Distant Horizon, Empire Building Game

2022-09-03 Thread Peter B
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "c-evo-dh":  * Package name    : c-evo-dh    Version : 1.1-1    Upstream Author : Peter  * URL : https://sourceforge.net/projects/c-evo-eh/  * License : CC-BY-3.0, CC-BY-SA-3.0-US, GPL-2+, CC0-1.0  * Vcs

Re: Salsa repository requested

2022-08-16 Thread Peter B
On 15/08/2022 09:07, David Kalnischkies wrote: Here you go: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/qosmic (assuming I didn't mess up too badly) Thanks David, Looks to be working fine. Cheers, Peter

Bug#1015866: RFS: qt6ct/0.5-1 [ITP] -- Qt6 Configuration Tool

2022-07-22 Thread Peter B
in as version 0.5-2 I'll put a note on the ITP. Cheers, Peter B

Re: Bug#1015866: RFS: qt6ct/0.5-1 [ITP] -- Qt6 Configuration Tool

2022-07-22 Thread Peter B
o Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem. Hi Boyuan, qt6-qpa-plugins  was missing as a dependency. (Running with build dependencies installed masks the problem) Thanks for your report, uploading fixed version to Mentors. Cheers, Peter B

Bug#1015866: RFS: qt6ct/0.5-1 [ITP] -- Qt6 Configuration Tool

2022-07-22 Thread Peter B
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "qt6ct":  * Package name    : qt6ct    Version : 0.5-1    Upstream Author : Ilya Kotov ,  * URL : https://github.com/trialuser02/qt6ct  * License : BSD-2-clause

Bug#1010663: RFS: strawberry/1.0.4-1 [ITP] -- Audio player and music collection organizer

2022-06-09 Thread Peter B
On 09/06/2022 17:02, Jeroen Ploemen wrote: On Fri, 3 Jun 2022 13:08:55 +0100 Peter B wrote: Aside from the dbus xml stuff: what exactly do you mean by the comment in the GPL-3 license paragraph? I'm confused regarding GPL-3 & GPL-3+. We now have a License paragraph for GPL-3 that

Re: Bug#1010663: RFS: strawberry/1.0.4-1 [ITP] -- Audio player and music collection organizer

2022-06-04 Thread Peter B
On 04/06/2022 16:39, Bastian Germann wrote: Am 04.06.22 um 17:11 schrieb Peter B: Would it be OK if I change the homepage instead? No, the Homepage in d/control should be the place where users (not developers) go and learn about the program. It would then become https://github.com

Bug#1010663: RFS: strawberry/1.0.4-1 [ITP] -- Audio player and music collection organizer

2022-06-04 Thread Peter B
On 04/06/2022 10:15, Bastian Germann wrote: Please change d/watch and d/copyright's Source field to https://files.strawberrymusicplayer.org and check if the jkvinge.net files that you used before match. This is the location that the homepage points to. Hi Bastian, Would it be OK if I change

Bug#1010663: RFS: strawberry/1.0.4-1 [ITP] -- Audio player and music collection organizer

2022-06-03 Thread Peter B
On 02/06/2022 07:27, Jeroen Ploemen wrote: On Sun, 29 May 2022 11:52:53 +0100 Peter wrote: Updated copyright and reverted to Qt5 Thanks, qt5 seems to be the way to go for now. Also, I found that the Qt6 version on Debian had very a small font, with no obvious way of enlarging it. If Strawb