On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 2:42 AM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> d/*.install:
>The files are starting by a line "#!/usr/bin/dh-exec" I admit
>I have never seen this before even if I suspect this might be
>somewhere in the docs which you have definitely read in a way more
>recent version
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 5:45 AM, Beren Minor
wrote:
> BTW, I also have a GemRB package that requires sponsorship. I've
> recently joined the Debian Games Team to maintain it, but I have
> little time to chase sponsors. So, if you have some time to spend and
> want to have a look at it, it would be
Hi Andrey,
Would you also be interested in packaging dwarf fortress?
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=588377
I can help sponsor, but I'm not a df player -- I will have to trust
your evaluation of the functionality of the package.
I think dwarf fortress should be packaged before
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Scott Howard wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Rodolfo kix Garcia wrote:
>> Hi Scott,
>>
>> please, see the comments to your mail below. IMO this comments are fine,
>> but there are more important things:
>>
>> 1. C
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Rodolfo kix Garcia wrote:
> Hi Scott,
>
> please, see the comments to your mail below. IMO this comments are fine,
> but there are more important things:
>
> 1. Can you sponsor me to upload the package?
Yes, I'll sponsor it, but I need to spend more time looking a
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Rodolfo kix Garcia wrote:
> About 1: I don't know what to do. I can maintain the current code or change
> to new debhelper and compat.
Your choice. I'd say maintain current code, no need to bump the
version unless you really need some feature.
I never used those
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Scott Howard , 2011-12-30, 11:36:
>> Also, I'm not too familiar with this package, but is there any reason why
>> you want to explicitly set DEB_BUILD and DEB_HOST types in debian/rules?
>
>
> Please see:
Hello Rodolfo and Paul,
Please CC me to replies. I just did a QA upload to fix an RC bug in
wmaker, I didn't see that you were already working on it (otherwise I
could have just worked with you!)
I saw Paul's given helpful advice on the package, I wanted to add some
comments about d/rules (haven'
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> Don't get me wrong, in my opinion (some of) these things are "good". But
> making a big fuss about them is not helping anybody. It only distracts
> attention from things that are important, and creates false impression that
> they are somehow cru
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> Don't get me wrong, in my opinion (some of) these things are "good". But
> making a big fuss about them is not helping anybody. It only distracts
> attention from things that are important, and creates false impression that
> they are somehow cru
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> Dear reviewers, next time if you are going to complain about:
> - debian/compat being "too low";
There are cases where it should be bumped [1], support for old
versions gets removed. Many sponsors take the approach "What should be
done eventuall
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Wolodja Wentland wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've recently started to work on some packages and am not sure if I follow
> best practices when packaging software from git repositories with
> git-buildpackage.
>
> My main point of confusion is that I don't really see the nee
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Tony Houghton wrote:
> I forgot to close #610981 when I released roxterm 1.21.4-1. I guess I
> should fix this by sending a message to 610981-done@b.d.o but I'm not
> 100% sure what to do about debian/changelog. I think I should add
> (Closes: #610981) retrospecti
Hi Pauel
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Paul Reddy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> [I hope this is the right group. Apologies if not]
>
> I've built a reasonably comprehensive backup and disaster recovery app,
> and am looking for some help on the next steps, the first of which I
> believe is to find a mentor
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Anton Gladky wrote:
> Hi, all
>
> I have a similar question. I am using:
>
> override_dh_auto_build:
> make doc
> ...
>
> How to perform this section only on binary-independent packages?
from the dh manpage:
Finally, remember that you are not limited to using o
On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 8:10 AM, David Paleino wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Apr 2011 21:59:59 -0700, Vincent Cheng wrote:
>
>> Dear mentors,
>>
>> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "0ad".
>>
>> * Package name : 0ad
>> [..]
>haven't checked the package, but given I'd like to play it, I tried to bui
On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 9:44 AM, The Fungi wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 10:21:57AM +0200, Michael Wild wrote:
> [...]
>> I'd like the docs only to be built *once* on the build server, not for
>> every architecture, since they are architecture independent and building
>> them for every architect
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Michele Gastaldo
wrote:
> Hi all
> Trying to package kpartsplugin (ITP: bug #597110), I get a warning from
> lintian (wrong-name-for-upstream-changelog): there's a ChangeLog file from
> upstream I listed in debian/docs, but according to the Debian Policy Manual it
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Kete wrote:
>
> These are actually warnings:
> W: icecat: extra-license-file usr/lib/icecat-3.6.15/LICENSE
> W: icecat: extra-license-file
> usr/lib/icecat-3.6.15/extensions/https-everywh...@eff.org/LICENSE.txt
> W: icecat: extra-license-file
> usr/lib/icecat-3.6
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote:
>> Upstream doesn't have any sort of version control for this project. A quick
>> Googling suggests that this is, however, for version control on the Debian
>> site, which is neat. However, it looks like only DD's get accounts on
>> colla
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 11:34 PM, R Alemi wrote:
>
>> I am seeking a sponsor to package OSCAR (Open Source Clinical
>> Application Resources) on Debian and Ubuntu.
>> OSCAR is an Electronic Medical Records suite
I know that getting OSCAR working
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Chris Baines wrote:
> Dear mentors,
>
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "fgrun".
>
> * Package name : fgrun
> Version : 1.5.2-1
> Upstream Author : Frederic Bouvier (Project admin)
>
> * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/fgrun
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Michael wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> Hope this is a more intelligent question than the last one ;-)
>
> I want to get rid of
>
> W: libsnacc0c2: package-name-doesnt-match-sonames libasn1c++0
> libasn1cCebuf0 libasn1cebuf0 libasn1cmbuf0 libasn1csbuf0 libasn1ctbl0
>
> I d
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Scott Howard wrote:
> "TOR not having their act together" - does that mean that they haven't
> released a stable version yet or that no stable package is in Debian?
> Would you be interested in packaging and maintaining TOR in Debian?
So
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 3:12 PM,
wrote:
>> Standards-Version: 3.8.4 should be 3.9.1
>
> I used the dh tools to make this, and I've seen debuild complain
> about this, but really didn't know what I should be doing in this
> case - funny thing is, both tools were up-to-date from teh ubuntu
> repo.
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 6:42 PM,
wrote:
> http://mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/maintainer-packages?action=details;package=polipo-tor;seeksponsor=0
>
> Not asking for a sponsor right now since it depends on pkgs not in deb/ubu
> repos.
>
> But would like constructive criticism on packaging.
>
> Versi
>> library's filename). I know your package lacks a SONAME, but you can
>> add one like the enet package does. their binary makes a library with
>> the SONAME libenet.so.0debian1, so their binary package is
>> libenet0debian1 and their source package name is enet.
>
> Didn't know that it was pos
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 6:05 AM, Johey Shmit wrote:
> I took zlib as a guideline and named it after the upstream name.
>
> Because version '4.26', '4.27', etc. are not binary compatible I
> added the '4.26' to the package name. That way different versions
> should be installable in parallel.
zlib
2011/1/11 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo :
> Hello again,
>
> On Tuesday 11 January 2011 22:50:45 Fernando Mercês wrote:
>> Scott, thank you. It's very clear for me now.
>>
>> I have just uploaded my package.
>
> I don't know where you get the instructions, but I think that you got some
> things wro
2011/1/11 Fernando Mercês :
> Hello, Scott.
>
> I have read in the Mentor's wiki that is a good idea ask for help here
> before upload the package. ;)
> If it's not the common way, please let me know.
The mentors wiki says that you should ask people here for a review
before uploading to the offici
2011/1/11 Fernando Mercês :
> Hello, Manuel.
>
> Many thanks for your support.
> I've fixed the problems and now I'm providing unsigned source and binary
> packages at http://www.mentebinaria.com.br/coding40/pev_0.22-r2.tar.gz
> I think it's enough to get reviews, right? Before upload, I know that
Thanks for looking at these - I've seen this library mentioned on
Debian Games mailing lists/wiki every once and a while. Do you know of
a free alternative? I see on Ubuntu RFP [1] for this library that
someone suggested something like http://sam.zoy.org/flessd.
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Jo
> Am 17.12.2010 20:59, schrieb Bill Cox:
>> In my case, I wrote and maintain both the code and debian directory,
>> so I see no need for me to use the quilt patch system, though I do use
>> it in maintaining other packages for Vinux.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bill
Hi Bill,
Please take a look at [1], and a
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Tony Houghton wrote:
> I want to get roxterm 1.20.x into Debian but there's 1.18.5-3 in testing
> waiting for Squeeze's release. Should 1.20.x go into experimental
> instead of unstable? If so do I do this just by putting "experimental"
> instead of "unstable" in d
e package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
- URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libqtexengine1
- Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable
main contrib non-free
- dget
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libqtexengine1/libqtexengine1_0.3-1.dsc
K
On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Daniel Stender wrote:
> question: if I am adopting a packet, what's the procedure for altering
> debian/copyright (dep5)?
> Since I've learned that the "Maintainer:" field is for the upstream
> developer, should I just "take
> over" the copyright for "Files: debia
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 01:02:25PM +0100, Daniel Lombraña González a écrit :
>>
>> After that, I kept reading about git-buildpackage and it seems that it
>> should be more easy to maintain those differences between the upstream
>> version and
Hello,
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Givors Fabien
wrote:
> Dear mentors,
>
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "libclanlib2.2".
>
Non-DD review:
1) An earlier version of this package is already in Debian. I think
you really should (probably must) talk with the previous maintainers.
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Givors Fabien
wrote:
> Dear mentors,
>
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "libclanlib2.2".
I'll try to take a look at the package for non-DD review later - but I
also wanted to point out the debian games team [1] who can also
sponsor this package [2]. You
Thanks for packaging fritzing, btw - it's a good tool to have in Debian.
2010/10/31 Enrique Hernández Bello :
> 2010/10/26 Scott Howard
>> 2010/10/24 Enrique Hernández Bello :
>> 1) instead of CDBS and explicitly using quilt, would you consider
>> using source format 3
Hello,
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 3:22 AM, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> Unfortunately, proposals such as the collaborative package review by Charles
> Plessy [2] haven't caught any attention. In particular, this is a call to
> people
> not being DD (yet): Everyone could review packages, but it just
n Fri, 2010-10-29 at 18:42 +0300, Nanakos Chrysostomos wrote:
> > >> I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.2-1
> > >> of my package "morse".
Hello,
Non-DD review:
looks good in general.
$ lintian --pedantic -I
-i /var/cache/pbuilder/sid-amd64/result/morse_2.2-1_amd64.changes
P: mors
2010/10/24 Enrique Hernández Bello :
> What is the next step? :)
> --
> Enrique Hernández Bello
>
Hi Enrique,
I'm not a DD yet, but I learned a lot from sponsors being extremely
picky about my packages. Here are some comments for you to consider:
1) instead of CDBS and explicitly using quilt, wo
net/debian unstable
main contrib non-free
- dget
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libcdk5/libcdk5_5.0.20060507-3.dsc
I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me.
Kind regards
Scott Howard
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Thank you all!
Niels Thykier comment worked, my sponsor has uploaded it!
"I think your sponsor should have built it with "-B" (binary
arch-dependent only)."
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Paul Wise wrote:
> If the license allows it, the package can be whitelisted for building
> on the non-free
) in unstable >= new version
(5.7.0-2) targeted at unstable.
can not overwrite existing copy of 'eagle_5.7.0-2.diff.gz' already in
the archive.
What is the proper procedure for uploading additional binaries to
non-free so it can be available to users and migrate to testing?
Thank yo
n unstable
main contrib non-free
- dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/non-free/e/eagle/eagle_5.7.0-1.dsc
I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me.
Kind regards
Scott Howard
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it seems to build different binaries than the current Debian package.
Also, it seems from your ITP that you are interested in it. I suggest
checking out the Debian Games Team and chat with them on IRC, they are
very helpful.
Regards,
Scott Howard
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Ben, thank you for your comments:
>> * License : Custom, open-source, I have written permission to
>> package,
>> non-free since author is concerned about it
>> being used to make
> commercial games and thus puts some extra
>>
n VCS at:
https://launchpad.net/sandboxgamemaker-debian
I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me.
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