Re: Questions about package dependencies with no upstream version

2023-11-21 Thread Wookey
On 2023-11-21 16:39 +, David James wrote: > Dear Mentors, > > I would like to package the Citra emulator in the future. There are currently > a few dependencies that need to be added as packages before Citra itself can > be built from a tarball. > > A couple of these dependencies have no ve

Re: Questions about package dependencies with no upstream version

2023-11-21 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 04:39:42PM +, David James wrote: > A couple of these dependencies have no version upstream. Is there a > precedent for this? Can these dependencies be packaged? There are definitely packages like that in Debian and the usual practice is using date-based versions, probabl

Questions about package dependencies with no upstream version

2023-11-21 Thread David James
Dear Mentors, I would like to package the Citra emulator in the future. There are currently a few dependencies that need to be added as packages before Citra itself can be built from a tarball. A couple of these dependencies have no version upstream. Is there a precedent for this? Can these de

Re: Questions about packaging the 'googleapis' project

2023-06-14 Thread Oliver Reiche
On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 11:27 AM David Given wrote: > > The sad thing is that bazel, which is the least bad build system I've ever > used, works in a way that's completely antithetical to how Debian wants to > build things: it doesn't want to use host software for anything and will, > e.g., dow

Re: Questions about packaging the 'googleapis' project

2023-06-14 Thread David Given
On Wed, 14 Jun 2023 at 09:35, Paul Wise wrote: [...] > The upstream repo seems to use bazel as its build system, at least > according to the README. Is that not usable here? The bazel tool > appears to be packaged in bazel-bootstrap in Debian. > bazel-bootstrap is very old, unfortunately --- it'

Re: Questions about packaging the 'googleapis' project

2023-06-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2023-06-13 at 19:22 +0200, Oliver Reiche wrote: > 1. Due to the missing build description, is it ok if the maintainer > provides a Makefile for building the C++ libraries in ./debian? ... > 4. Such a Makefile (and control file) will be quite lengthy. The upstream repo seems to use bazel a

Questions about packaging the 'googleapis' project

2023-06-13 Thread Oliver Reiche
Dear mentors, Wookey and I are trying to come up with a sane concept to package the googleapis project [1]. During our initial investigation a few questions came up that we would like to discuss publicly. BACKGROUND: 'googleapis' is a collection of protocol buffer [2] files, an

Re: Questions about ITP in Debian

2023-05-30 Thread Robin Gustafsson
On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 6:24 PM Tadeu Sampaio wrote: > > Thx Robin for the fast response! So what is needed in order to proceed with > the ITP below, we need a sponsor? > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1024547 > > Best regards, > Tadeu The (currently) last message [1] on tha

Re: Questions about ITP in Debian

2023-05-29 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 01:24:12PM -0300, Tadeu Sampaio wrote: > Thx Robin for the fast response! So what is needed in order to proceed with > the ITP below, we need a sponsor? Unless it's your ITP you should contact the current ITP owner so that you don't make duplicate work.

Re: Questions about ITP in Debian

2023-05-29 Thread Tadeu Sampaio
Thx Robin for the fast response! So what is needed in order to proceed with the ITP below, we need a sponsor? https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1024547 Best regards, Tadeu On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 12:53 PM Robin Gustafsson wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 5:36 PM Tadeu S

Re: Questions about ITP in Debian

2023-05-29 Thread Robin Gustafsson
Hi, On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 5:36 PM Tadeu Sampaio wrote: > > Hi, thx for your attention! Please, can you clarify this for me? For an ITP > to be submitted, it is necessary that the person applies to become a member > (Debian New Maintainers)? I am asking regarding this ITP: > https://bugs.debi

Questions about ITP in Debian

2023-05-29 Thread Tadeu Sampaio
Hi, thx for your attention! Please, can you clarify this for me? For an ITP to be submitted, it is necessary that the person applies to become a member (Debian New Maintainers)? I am asking regarding this ITP: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1024547 Thx, Tadeu

Re: Questions about creating package with epoch number

2022-10-13 Thread Tobias Frost
On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 03:16:01PM +, Debora Velarde wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have been trying to create an update to an existing package. It currently > doesn't use an epoch number and I need to add one. A couple questions: If the package is for a Debian upload, befo

Re: Questions about creating package with epoch number

2022-10-13 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
require to introduce an epoch? A couple questions: 1.  Is there a good package that uses an epoch number that I could look to for an example? The package "python-django" comes to my mind, which is now at epoch 3, and also has some explanation in its changelog at https://metadata.f

Questions about creating package with epoch number

2022-10-13 Thread Debora Velarde
Hi everyone, I have been trying to create an update to an existing package. It currently doesn't use an epoch number and I need to add one. A couple questions: 1. Is there a good package that uses an epoch number that I could look to for an example? 2. When I create the ta

Re: Few questions about shaderc packaging

2022-09-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2022-09-11 at 21:40 +0200, Philippe SWARTVAGHER wrote: > Upstream has several files describing copyrights of the project [1-4]. > In d/copyright, I licensed the whole project with Apache 2.0, with > "Google Inc." as copyright holder. Should I detail more? Generally, the ftp-masters requir

Few questions about shaderc packaging

2022-09-11 Thread Philippe SWARTVAGHER
Hello, I created the shaderc package (see https://salsa.debian.org/phsw/shaderc) and its almost ready for upload (and RFS!). Yet, I have few questions: * Copyright Upstream has several files describing copyrights of the project [1-4]. In d/copyright, I licensed the whole project with Apache

Re: Few questions about updating the dia package

2022-05-26 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 11:31:22PM +0200, Philippe SWARTVAGHER wrote: > - dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: can't extract name and version from library > name 'libdia.so' I think you can ignore these. > - W: dia source: debian-rules-sets-DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS (line 10) > > Parallel builds may cause a build er

Few questions about updating the dia package

2022-05-26 Thread Philippe SWARTVAGHER
Hello, I'm trying to adopt and update the dia package, as my first contribution to Debian packaging. I managed to update the package to the current upstream version (not the easiest thing: the project moved from autotools to meson since the last package update) and fix some lintian issues. I th

Re: Questions about buildinfo

2020-09-22 Thread Alec Leamas
On 22/09/2020 16:05, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > Hi Alec, > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 10:48:39AM +0200, Alec Leamas wrote: >>> I have problems with the debugging info containing the local build path >>> and the buildinfo. Status: [snip] > You misread the dpkg-genbuildinfo(1) manpage, the correct env

Re: Questions about buildinfo

2020-09-22 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
Hi Alec, On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 10:48:39AM +0200, Alec Leamas wrote: > > I have problems with the debugging info containing the local build path > > and the buildinfo. Status: > > > > As uploaded, the Build-Path stanza is not part of buildinfo. As I > > understand it, this is inconsistent with t

Re: Questions about buildinfo

2020-09-22 Thread Alec Leamas
On 22/09/2020 10:29, Tobias Frost wrote: > Hi mentors, > - Forwarded message from Alec Leamas - > > Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2020 20:56:57 +0200 > From: Alec Leamas > To: Tobias Frost > Subject: cxx-serial > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 > Thunderbird/68

Questions about buildinfo

2020-09-22 Thread Tobias Frost
Hi mentors, Forwarded with permissionis from Alec. I don't know the correct answer atm, need to do research on that. Maybe someon here can help ;-) Cheers, tobi - Forwarded message from Alec Leamas - Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2020 20:56:57 +0200 From: Alec Leamas To: Tobias Frost Subject: cx

Bug#904765: looking-glass packaging questions

2019-01-08 Thread Lennart Weller
Hello everyone I do have some changes I want to make to the package to make it more comfortable to use. Before the first use the looking-glass host (this package) requires some changes to the libvirt-qemu abstract apparmor profile. Explicility changing "/{dev,run}/shm r," to read-write The prob

Re: looking-glass packaging questions

2019-01-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 11:06 PM Lennart Weller wrote: > The last change is something maybe for the future. The software depends on a > client component for windows which currently needs to be downloaded from the > authors website. I imagine one could supply a self cross-compiled windows > execu

looking-glass packaging questions

2019-01-07 Thread Lennart Weller
Hello everyone I do have some changes I want to make to the package to make it more comfortable to use. Before the first use the looking-glass host (this package) requires some changes to the libvirt-qemu abstract apparmor profile. Explicility changing "/{dev,run}/shm r," to read-write The prob

Re: Questions regarding orphaned package and transition

2018-11-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 4:51 PM Birger Schacht wrote: > i let ratt rebuild all the reverse dependencies, but i'm not sure about > the results [0]. there are some build failures that don't seem to have > anything to do with libjson, i.e. [1] which seems to fail because of a > directory permission p

Re: Questions regarding orphaned package and transition

2018-11-13 Thread Birger Schacht
hi, thanks for the detailed explanation and the link to the wiki page- that was exactly what i was looking for! On 11/08/2018 03:05 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > The package ratt (Rebuild All The Things) can be used to rebuild reverse deps. i let ratt rebuild all the reverse dependencies, but i'm not s

Re: Questions regarding orphaned package and transition

2018-11-07 Thread Paul Wise
Since this is an orphaned package, any uploads would be referred to as "QA upload" (dch --qa) rather than NMUs. Looking at #904418, it seems that the test rebuild of all reverse dependencies was not fully completed so there could be more than just OpenSIPS affected. The package ratt (Rebuild All

Questions regarding orphaned package and transition

2018-11-07 Thread Birger Schacht
Hello mentors, I would like to get the sway window manager into unstable. Sway has a build dependency on libjson-c-dev (>=0.13). I'm trying to wrap my head around the possibilities to help out with this, but i'm not sure if i understand the dependencies correct, so i welcome any pointers to explan

Re: Copyright: in d/copyright - Questions about writing copyright info

2018-08-30 Thread Ben Finney
Jongmin Kim writes: > In case of git repository, it is possible to extract all the author's > information by tracking the commit history. Bear in mind that copyright law leaves plenty of ways that there is no connection betwee “person who authored the work” versus “entity who holds copyright in

Re: Copyright: in d/copyright - Questions about writing copyright info

2018-08-29 Thread Jongmin Kim
A lot of appreciating all for your kind suggestions! On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 09:15:32AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > The “Machine-readable debian/copyright file” specification allows > free-form text in the “Copyright” field. > > With that said, in my opinion you should strongly prefer the canonic

Re: Copyright: in d/copyright - Questions about writing copyright info

2018-08-29 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 08:23:29 -0400, Tong Sun wrote: > > You can also check the file with: cme edit dpkg-copyright. > > > > These tools require cme packages with its recommended dependencies. > > cme - Check or edit configuration data with Config::Model > > This is not the cme packages that you w

Re: Copyright: in d/copyright - Questions about writing copyright info

2018-08-29 Thread Tong Sun
On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 4:41 AM Dominique Dumont wrote: > > > Note that the copyright file can be generated from sources: .. > You can also check the file with: cme edit dpkg-copyright. > > These tools require cme packages with its recommended dependencies. cme - Check or edit configuration data

Re: Copyright: in d/copyright - Questions about writing copyright info

2018-08-29 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Tuesday, 28 August 2018 00:23:08 CEST Jongmin Kim wrote: > I'm new to packaging, and I am currently trying to write 'd/copyright' > file. I am watching some other repositories for studying the > conventions. Note that the copyright file can be generated from sources: https://wiki.debian.org/C

Re: Copyright: in d/copyright - Questions about writing copyright info

2018-08-28 Thread Ben Finney
t doesn't belong in the “Copyright” field. There is already an appropriate field, “Source”, where the URL for the upstream source can be declared. > Now I have some questions: > - Is it a one of the conventions? Can I write like that? The “Machine-readable debian/copyright file” sp

Copyright: in d/copyright - Questions about writing copyright info

2018-08-27 Thread Jongmin Kim
ub.com/authorname'. Even though the upstream source has their explicit copyright information--like 'year name'-- in copyright file--like 'LICENSE.txt'. Now I have some questions: - Is it a one of the conventions? Can I write like that? - Why use only the author&

Some questions regarding packaging of bolt

2018-03-15 Thread Birger Schacht
Hello debian-mentors, i'm in the process of packaging 'bolt', the thunderbolt 3 device manager. I've pushed the current state of the package to salsa [0]. There are still some lintian warnings about missing copyright informations, but those are about manpage files, dockerfiles, systemd-servic

Re: I have some questions about alioth repository

2017-04-23 Thread Roger Shimizu
On Fri, 21 Apr 2017 10:58:30 +0100 Ghislain Vaillant wrote: > If the corresponding Vcs-* fields in d/control are missing for these > packages, then the packaging work is not stored in a VCS. You may > generate one by calling `gbp import-dscs $PACKAGE` which will download > all previous uploads an

Re: I have some questions about alioth repository

2017-04-21 Thread Sean Whitton
On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 05:37:19PM +0900, JungHwan Kang wrote: > 4. Some packages don't have repository(No repository found by debcheckout > tool) > >     like acpi, alsamixergui, apg, aspell-en, autoconf. > >     Are there repositories for source code of those packages ? > % dgit clone ac

Re: I have some questions about alioth repository

2017-04-21 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi, >> 3. In case of darcs package, debcheckout tried to download source code from >> Darcs repository. >> (anonscm.debian.org/cgi-bin/darcsweb.cgi) >> But, that failed. Because, the project doesn’t exist in the repository. Is >> this working well? > >If it failed, probably the answer is

Re: I have some questions about alioth repository

2017-04-21 Thread Ghislain Vaillant
On Fri, 2017-04-21 at 17:37 +0900, JungHwan Kang wrote: > Hi, > I was analyzing repositories of debian packages by debcheckout tool. > I've known there are 7 types of version control system. > (Arch, Bazzar, CVS, Darcs, Git, Mercurial, Subversion) > My questions are below...

I have some questions about alioth repository

2017-04-21 Thread JungHwan Kang
Hi, I was analyzing repositories of debian packages by debcheckout tool. I've known there are 7 types of version control system. (Arch, Bazzar, CVS, Darcs, Git, Mercurial, Subversion) My questions are below... 1 All version control systems are using actively? or moving t

Re: [ITA] muse-el, with issues, and questions

2016-08-30 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
P.S. git://repo.or.cz/muse-el.git is another possible valid source, and also has gpg-signed releases/tags. I'm unclear whether the github repo is the master or the mirror. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [ITA] muse-el, with issues, and questions

2016-08-30 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 09:26:24AM +, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > Hi, > > > > >> Also, it's now xz compressed, which I anticipated is something > >> Gianfranco might hassle me about if I didn't enable haha.> > > > >If you're not uploading a new upstream version you can't change the > >tar

Re: [ITA] muse-el, with issues, and questions

2016-08-30 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi, >> Also, it's now xz compressed, which I anticipated is something >> Gianfranco might hassle me about if I didn't enable haha.> > >If you're not uploading a new upstream version you can't change the >tarball compression (unless you're changing the source package name, >which I don't recommen

Re: [ITA] muse-el, with issues, and questions

2016-08-29 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 07:05:59PM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > Also, it's now xz compressed, which I anticipated is something > Gianfranco might hassle me about if I didn't enable haha. If you're not uploading a new upstream version you can't change the tarball compression (unless y

Re: [ITA] muse-el, with issues, and questions

2016-08-29 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On 29 August 2016 at 17:15, James Cowgill wrote: > On 29/08/16 21:49, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm adopting muse-el. Right now it's a work-in-progress. The steps I >> took to fixup this package can be found here: >> >> https://github.com/sten0/muse-el >> clone: https://github.com/s

Re: [ITA] muse-el, with issues, and questions

2016-08-29 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi Sean, On 29 August 2016 at 17:35, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 10:15:08PM +0100, James Cowgill wrote: >> > Finally, is now the time to fix the >> > debian-rules-missing-recommended-target warning? I'm saving homepage >> > and Vcs fields for last. >> >> Yes, those t

Re: [ITA] muse-el, with issues, and questions

2016-08-29 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 10:15:08PM +0100, James Cowgill wrote: > > Finally, is now the time to fix the > > debian-rules-missing-recommended-target warning? I'm saving homepage > > and Vcs fields for last. > > Yes, those targets are required by policy (even though there are masses > of pac

Re: [ITA] muse-el, with issues, and questions

2016-08-29 Thread James Cowgill
On 29/08/16 21:49, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > Hi, > > I'm adopting muse-el. Right now it's a work-in-progress. The steps I > took to fixup this package can be found here: > > https://github.com/sten0/muse-el > clone: https://github.com/sten0/muse-el.git > > I've also uploaded a package, with

Re: [ITA] muse-el, with issues, and questions

2016-08-29 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On 29 August 2016 at 16:49, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > Hi, > > I'm adopting muse-el. Right now it's a work-in-progress. The steps I > took to fixup this package can be found here: > > https://github.com/sten0/muse-el > clone: https://github.com/sten0/muse-el.git > > I've also uploaded a package

[ITA] muse-el, with issues, and questions

2016-08-29 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi, I'm adopting muse-el. Right now it's a work-in-progress. The steps I took to fixup this package can be found here: https://github.com/sten0/muse-el clone: https://github.com/sten0/muse-el.git I've also uploaded a package, with "-sa" full sources for review here: https://mentors.debian.net/

Re: Preliminary questions for sponsoring a compiler

2016-07-30 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Paul Wise , 2016-07-30, 15:16: I myself use Alioth, Savannah, SourceForge, GitHub and LaunchPad for different projects. There are no hosting facilities that I personally like, mostly because they are all web services. There are many command-line tools that let you distance yourself from the

Re: Fwd: Re: Preliminary questions for sponsoring a compiler

2016-07-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 8:57 PM, Albert van der Horst wrote: > Do you really demand that a Debian package can generate windows > executables, and booting floppies in double density? We already have tested and working GCC cross-compilers for Windows. https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=mi

Re: Fwd: Re: Preliminary questions for sponsoring a compiler

2016-07-26 Thread Albert van der Horst
Paul Wise schreef op 2016-07-26 07:15: On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 3:01 AM, Albert van der Horst wrote: It has been published, the generic system is GPL as well. It is on the net since ages http://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst/ciforth-5.0.tar.gz and http://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst/ci

Re: Fwd: Re: Preliminary questions for sponsoring a compiler

2016-07-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 3:01 AM, Albert van der Horst wrote: > It has been published, the generic system is GPL as well. > It is on the net since ages > http://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst/ciforth-5.0.tar.gz and > http://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst/cifgen.html > > I doubt that any one

Re: Preliminary questions for sponsoring a compiler

2016-07-25 Thread Christian Seiler
On 07/25/2016 09:28 PM, Albert van der Horst wrote: > Christian Seiler schreef op 2016-07-25 18:14: >> I don't quite get what you mean, I never had any problem with >> that. > > {Probably going off topic here] > A pure assembler file means full control over section names, their > properties (in pa

Re: Preliminary questions for sponsoring a compiler

2016-07-25 Thread Albert van der Horst
Christian Seiler schreef op 2016-07-25 18:14: On 07/25/2016 02:51 PM, Albert van der Horst wrote: The problem is: ld is not stable w.r.t. linking pure assembler files. How so? $ cat write.s .text .global _start .type _start, @function _start: mov $1, %rax mov %rax,

Re: Fwd: Re: Preliminary questions for sponsoring a compiler

2016-07-25 Thread Albert van der Horst
Albert van der Horst schreef op 2016-07-25 18:00: Oorspronkelijke bericht Onderwerp: Re: Preliminary questions for sponsoring a compiler Datum: 2016-07-25 16:15 Afzender: Paul Wise Ontvanger: Albert van der Horst Not sure why you moved the discussion off-list, in Debian we

Re: Preliminary questions for sponsoring a compiler

2016-07-25 Thread Christian Seiler
On 07/25/2016 02:51 PM, Albert van der Horst wrote: > The problem is: ld is not stable w.r.t. linking pure assembler files. How so? $ cat write.s .text .global _start .type _start, @function _start: mov $1, %rax mov %rax, %rdi lea str, %rsi mov

Fwd: Re: Preliminary questions for sponsoring a compiler

2016-07-25 Thread Albert van der Horst
Oorspronkelijke bericht Onderwerp: Re: Preliminary questions for sponsoring a compiler Datum: 2016-07-25 16:15 Afzender: Paul Wise Ontvanger: Albert van der Horst Not sure why you moved the discussion off-list, in Debian we prefer to discuss things in public. Feel free to

Fwd: Re: Preliminary questions for sponsoring a compiler

2016-07-25 Thread Albert van der Horst
I didn't mean to put this off list, my bad. Oorspronkelijke bericht Onderwerp: Re: Preliminary questions for sponsoring a compiler Datum: 2016-07-25 15:58 Afzender: Albert van der Horst Ontvanger: Paul Wise Paul Wise schreef op 2016-07-25 15:12: On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at

Re: Preliminary questions for sponsoring a compiler

2016-07-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 8:51 PM, Albert van der Horst wrote: > Question 1: Am I obliged to supply a .s file and linking prescripts? You need to supply the upstream source code and build system. If those are the upstream source code and build system, then yes. > (Because fasm is not in main) fas

Preliminary questions for sponsoring a compiler

2016-07-25 Thread Albert van der Horst
Dear mentors, Since 2002 lina is a stable Forth compiler under x86 linux (And compatible compilers available for OSX, win32 ). From the beginning it has been fully documented using texinfo, plus a man-page, that documents the options and a judicious excerpt. lina page http://home.hccnet.nl/a

Re: backport questions

2016-07-24 Thread Etienne Dysli-Metref
On 23/07/16 01:07, Ferenc Wágner wrote: >> - Can I push the backport branches to the repositories in [1]? > > Yes, please do so. Please discuss the necessary changes on our mailing > list beforehand, I'd like to keep the delta small. > >> - What should the changelog entry look like? "Backport to

Re: backport questions

2016-07-22 Thread Ferenc Wágner
Etienne Dysli-Metref writes: > I would like to backport Shibboleth packages [1] to jessie and wheezy. > > - What branch name should I use? > Documentation for git-buildpackage [2] says "debian/" so that > would yield "debian/jessie-backports-sloppy", but I've seen > "backports/" earlier so I'm un

Re: backport questions

2016-07-22 Thread Etienne Dysli-Metref
On 22/07/16 14:15, Alexander Wirt wrote: >> And the distribution field should be the backport target >> (jessie-backports-sloppy), right? > Depends on your backport. The one that matches to your backport. And > jessie-backports-sloppy is in every case wrong at this point in time. Ah right, yes! t

Re: backport questions

2016-07-22 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Fri, 22 Jul 2016, Etienne Dysli-Metref wrote: > Thank you Alex :) > > On 22/07/16 13:16, Alexander Wirt wrote: > >> - Can I push the backport branches to the repositories in [1]? > > The backports team doesn't care about the git, you will have to ask the > > other > > maintainers. > > Ok >

Re: backport questions

2016-07-22 Thread Etienne Dysli-Metref
Thank you Alex :) On 22/07/16 13:16, Alexander Wirt wrote: >> - Can I push the backport branches to the repositories in [1]? > The backports team doesn't care about the git, you will have to ask the other > maintainers. Ok >> - What should the changelog entry look like? "Backport to "? > That +

Re: backport questions

2016-07-22 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Fri, 22 Jul 2016, Etienne Dysli-Metref wrote: > Hello mentors, > > I would like to backport Shibboleth packages [1] to jessie and wheezy. > > - What branch name should I use? > Documentation for git-buildpackage [2] says "debian/" so that > would yield "debian/jessie-backports-sloppy", but I'

backport questions

2016-07-22 Thread Etienne Dysli-Metref
Hello mentors, I would like to backport Shibboleth packages [1] to jessie and wheezy. - What branch name should I use? Documentation for git-buildpackage [2] says "debian/" so that would yield "debian/jessie-backports-sloppy", but I've seen "backports/" earlier so I'm unsure. - Can I push the ba

Re: a few questions on ITP shadowsocks-libev before formal RFS

2016-06-30 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi, >> you already are a DM, you need the guest account, but it isn't requested >> for collab-maint access > >You mean guest account of porterbox, right? >I already applied, and got approved. It's for debug FTBFS of libcork >on s390x/ppc64/sparc64. > >For access collab-maint, guest account of ali

Re: a few questions on ITP shadowsocks-libev before formal RFS

2016-06-30 Thread Roger Shimizu
Dear G, Thanks for your quick response! On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 9:43 PM, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > Hi, > >>Now I already have acess to collab-maint (though I didn't do any work > >>yet), and I have become DM [0]. > > you already are a DM, you need the guest account, but it isn't requested >

Re: a few questions on ITP shadowsocks-libev before formal RFS

2016-06-29 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi, >Now I already have acess to collab-maint (though I didn't do any work >yet), and I have become DM [0]. you already are a DM, you need the guest account, but it isn't requested for collab-maint access >Could you kindly help to set up a git repo for shadowsocks-libev on collab-maint? ./

Re: a few questions on ITP shadowsocks-libev before formal RFS

2016-06-29 Thread Roger Shimizu
Dear G, Greetings after 1+ months for this thread! On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 12:32 AM, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > > > Hi, alternative proposal > >>Now I understand my todo-list, briefly: >>- package libraries first: libcork/ipset >>- create debian/watch and ds repack >>- RFS shadowsocks-libev

Re: a few questions on ITP shadowsocks-libev before formal RFS

2016-05-27 Thread Roger Shimizu
the other two. > - show your git skills in the meanwhile, and ask for collab-maint access > > (BTW it isn't requested to have the repo in collab-maint by the current > policy) Dear G, I followed most of your advice, and just uploaded to mentors. I didn't package ipset becaus

Re: a few questions on ITP shadowsocks-libev before formal RFS

2016-05-18 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi, alternative proposal >Now I understand my todo-list, briefly: >- package libraries first: libcork/ipset >- create debian/watch and ds repack >- RFS shadowsocks-libev >- apply for collab-maint access - open ITP bugs for all the libraries (search for wnpp and ITP on google) - package libcor

Re: a few questions on ITP shadowsocks-libev before formal RFS

2016-05-18 Thread Roger Shimizu
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 12:04 AM, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > > Hi, > > >>If so, here's our alioth account: rosh-guest, hosiet-guest, >>madeye-guest.>Thank you! > > > you need to send a request to join collab-maint, an alioth account doesn't > grant > your permissions automatically. > I sugge

Re: a few questions on ITP shadowsocks-libev before formal RFS

2016-05-18 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi, >If so, here's our alioth account: rosh-guest, hosiet-guest, >madeye-guest.>Thank you! you need to send a request to join collab-maint, an alioth account doesn't grant your permissions automatically. I suggest you to use an external repository to show your skills, and then ask to join (c

Re: a few questions on ITP shadowsocks-libev before formal RFS

2016-05-18 Thread Roger Shimizu
[Add Max and Boyuan from upstream to CC] Thanks Gianfranco and Jakub! I comment when I still have question, for other parts I'll follow your suggestion. On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 7:13 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Roger Shimizu , 2016-05-18, 02:14: >> >> Some questions/issu

Re: a few questions on ITP shadowsocks-libev before formal RFS

2016-05-18 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Roger Shimizu , 2016-05-18, 02:14: I'm doing ITP packaging on shadowsocks-libev. I have a few questions in detail. I have set up a git repo on github: https://github.com/rogers0/shadowsocks-libev My current changes are pushed to branch: RFC Package builds fine with command: gbp buildpa

Re: a few questions on ITP shadowsocks-libev before formal RFS

2016-05-18 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi, >I have set up a git repo on github: >https://github.com/rogers0/shadowsocks-libev >My current changes are pushed to branch: RFC (I won't clone that right now, only answering questions) >Package builds fine with command: gbp buildpackage -us -uc --git-ignore-branch yo

a few questions on ITP shadowsocks-libev before formal RFS

2016-05-17 Thread Roger Shimizu
Dear mentors list, I'm doing ITP packaging on shadowsocks-libev. I have a few questions in detail. I have set up a git repo on github: https://github.com/rogers0/shadowsocks-libev My current changes are pushed to branch: RFC Package builds fine with command: gbp buildpackage -us -uc

Re: don't use sbuild --dist/-d and other sbuild stuff (was: Re: Questions before my first upload attempt)

2015-08-31 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Johannes Schauer , 2015-08-31, 17:06: So please don't further advertise the -d or --dist option anymore if you actually want to use the -c or --chroot option instead! Um, except that -d/--dist is obligatory. Without it you get: No distribution defined indeed I must've made an error when te

Re: don't use sbuild --dist/-d and other sbuild stuff (was: Re: Questions before my first upload attempt)

2015-08-31 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Jakub Wilk (2015-08-31 16:02:38) > * Johannes Schauer , 2015-08-31, 15:53: > >>From now on, "sbuild --dist sid --arch amd64 path/to/my.dsc" works. > > > >It must be mentioned that a common problem with sbuild is, that the > >.changes file it generates will have a *different* distribut

Re: don't use sbuild --dist/-d and other sbuild stuff (was: Re: Questions before my first upload attempt)

2015-08-31 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Johannes Schauer , 2015-08-31, 15:53: From now on, "sbuild --dist sid --arch amd64 path/to/my.dsc" works. It must be mentioned that a common problem with sbuild is, that the .changes file it generates will have a *different* distribution from the one you set in debian/changelog if you use t

don't use sbuild --dist/-d and other sbuild stuff (was: Re: Questions before my first upload attempt)

2015-08-31 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Danny Edel (2015-08-21 13:43:41) > On 21/08/15 13:21, Danny Edel wrote: > > Once sbuild is setup > > Just to clarify. In this use case (using sbuild as close to buildd as > possible), the steps labeled "for personal use" in > https://wiki.debian.org/sbuild#Configuration > are *not* wh

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

2015-08-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > db.debian.org is planned to be rewritten with python/django. ... and help is needed for that. https://github.com/LucaFilipozzi/ud/ -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/ http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/User:

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

2015-08-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 8:41 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote: > db.debian.org should be probably fixed show SHA256 fingerprints (in addition > to MD5 fingerprints). db.debian.org is planned to be rewritten with python/django. > You can use the "www.debian.org" pseudo-pacakge for the wiki, I guess... The w

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

2015-08-28 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Thomas Schmitt , 2015-08-28, 17:06: After learning that it is a feature of Sid's ssh client, it was not too hard to find ssh -o FingerprintHash=md5 svn.debian.org which displays RSA key fingerprint is MD5:d7:0b:26:5c:7a:5d:56:40:a9:e0:5d:f4:e1:70:88:bf. Jessie's ssh client says by defau

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

2015-08-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, sorry for the noise. After learning that it is a feature of Sid's ssh client, it was not too hard to find ssh -o FingerprintHash=md5 svn.debian.org which displays RSA key fingerprint is MD5:d7:0b:26:5c:7a:5d:56:40:a9:e0:5d:f4:e1:70:88:bf. Jessie's ssh client says by default: RSA ke

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

2015-08-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i am trying to follow the instructions for SSH setup with alioth, after having been accepted as project member of https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-libburnia/ and promoted to admin in one sweep. The project has an SVN and two mailing lists. A ssh-rsa key has been uploaded via https:/

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

2015-08-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, gregor herrmann wrote: > You're uploading to ftp.upload.debian.org and not to mentors.d.n. Duh (once again). This explains a lot. Meanwhile i bothered it with a libisofs upload attempt, too. Need to make me an upload script. I began to write quite a desparate answer to Gianfranco and to thin

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

2015-08-24 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 12:50:04 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > I configured dput for http, as shown in > http://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers > > Strangely it said "ftp" and not "http" in its messages: > > - > $ dput -f li

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

2015-08-24 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi Thomas, If you dput $something, you need to wait until $something is processed, any later upload will fail because you can't overwrite the files in ftp unprocessed queue. So wait for the upload, get the email confirmation, and then dput again. According to the log you posted, seems that dpu

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

2015-08-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Gianfranco Costamagna: > (please open an RFS if you need a sponsor, otherwise it might be difficult > to track packages reviews and to actually have an upload) I will do if my direct approach to already interested people yields no success. But currently i seem to have upload problems. > [1

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

2015-08-24 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi Thomas, (please open an RFS if you need a sponsor, otherwise it might be difficult to track packages reviews and to actually have an upload) >There will be no SONAME change as long as i am the upstream >developer. ABI compatibility is one of the most important >goals of my development. this

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

2015-08-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
low me to apply for sponsorship by others: #796145, #796146, #796147. I thought they were orphaned since two years, when George told me he could not longer maintain them. But that last step was made only a few days ago, when he was pointed by a bystander to my questions on debian-user. We do not spl

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

2015-08-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote: > Um, no. We have literally thousands of packages shipping static libraries > (in addition to shared libraries). Policy §8.3 says: > “The static library (‘’) is usually provided in addition to > the shared version.” Due to the downsides we shoul

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