Re: RFS: Looking for a mentor for my dspdfviewer package

2015-08-06 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Well now it's public that I do not like cdbs :) TBH I do not understand it, and the popcon is 1/5 of debhelper. Two reasons to keep me away from it :) cheers, G. Il Giovedì 6 Agosto 2015 17:18, Gianfranco Costamagna ha scritto: Hi Danny (sending privately) please do *not* use cdbs :) It

Re: RFS: Looking for a mentor for my dspdfviewer package

2015-08-06 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi Danny (sending privately) please do *not* use cdbs :) It will scare you away! I do not like it, dh is really better, and fortunately people are switching to dh :) cheers, G. Il Giovedì 6 Agosto 2015 16:57, Danny Edel ha scritto: Hello Gianfranco, On 06/08/15 16:16, Gianfranco Costam

Re: RFS: Looking for a mentor for my dspdfviewer package

2015-08-06 Thread Danny Edel
Hello Gianfranco, On 06/08/15 16:16, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > Reading symbols from /usr/bin/dspdfviewer...Reading symbols from > /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/c2/c35e6f96f063aff4e0d6e3e644855c31b11a0f.debug...done. > Ah yes, it says something like that for me now too, once I install dspdfviewer

Re: RFS: Looking for a mentor for my dspdfviewer package

2015-08-06 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi Danny, [upstream changes] nice! > "is the dbg package working? how can I verify?" > (too lazy to quote you :) ) $ dpkg -i ../dspdfviewer_1.13.1-1_amd64.deb [snip] $ gdb /usr/bin/dspdfviewer [snip] Reading symbols from /usr/bin/dspdfviewer...(no debugging symbols found)...done. $ dpk

Re: RFS: Looking for a mentor for my dspdfviewer package

2015-08-06 Thread Danny Edel
On 05/08/15 17:10, Danny Edel wrote: > I won't have it ready today, expect a revised package tomorrow. While going through the changes, I actually stumbled upon a regression, forcing me to release a bugfix/maintenance version v1.13.1 upstream. I used the opportunity to do some cleaning: * Create

Re: RFS: Looking for a mentor for my dspdfviewer package

2015-08-05 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Other two nitpicks, no need to cc me, I'm subscribed to the list, and it is called Debian, not debian :) cheers! G. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.o

Re: RFS: Looking for a mentor for my dspdfviewer package

2015-08-05 Thread Danny Edel
On 05/08/15 16:15, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > > nope, the manpage is correct, I tried a --help, and I didn't find it > (sorry for the confusion) > >> If you have a suggestion on where to place and/or how to re-word the >> manpage, that would be much appreciated. Since I'm more a developer tha

Re: RFS: Looking for a mentor for my dspdfviewer package

2015-08-05 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
>Well, it is, under the "controls" section. But I guess that's not really >well-placed, since you didn't find it straight away : ) nope, the manpage is correct, I tried a --help, and I didn't find it (sorry for the confusion) >If you have a suggestion on where to place and/or how to re-word the

Re: RFS: Looking for a mentor for my dspdfviewer package

2015-08-05 Thread Danny Edel
On 05/08/15 13:53, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > maybe that "s" should be put in the manpage somewhere? Well, it is, under the "controls" section. But I guess that's not really well-placed, since you didn't find it straight away : ) If you have a suggestion on where to place and/or how to re-wor

Re: RFS: Looking for a mentor for my dspdfviewer package

2015-08-05 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
>If you pass no command-line switch it assumes its a double-width pdf, >which has the "presenter" side on the right and "audience" on the left. > >It should™ render the presenter view (with the clocks and the notes) to >the "primary" screen (you can set with xrandr --output XXX --primary), >regard

Re: RFS: Looking for a mentor for my dspdfviewer package

2015-08-05 Thread Danny Edel
On 05/08/15 12:44, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: >> This is working exactly as intended : ) >> >> Try the -f / --full-page command-line switch for "regular" PDFs. > > > ok, I thought this was a bug... BTW I have the main monitor to the > left, and the extended to the right, why does it show the o

Re: RFS: Looking for a mentor for my dspdfviewer package

2015-08-05 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
>This is working exactly as intended : ) > >Try the -f / --full-page command-line switch for "regular" PDFs. ok, I thought this was a bug... BTW I have the main monitor to the left, and the extended to the right, why does it show the opposite order for regular pdfs? >The main feature is the dou

Re: RFS: Looking for a mentor for my dspdfviewer package

2015-08-05 Thread Danny Edel
On 05/08/15 11:52, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > Some issues: > 1) please provide a .desktop file if possible I will. > 2) it seems to work bad with an external monitor. > > It splits the pdf half in the main monitor and half in the extended one. > > I'm attaching a picture. This is working

Re: RFS: Looking for a mentor for my dspdfviewer package

2015-08-05 Thread Danny Edel
Hi Gianfranco, thank you for the input! I had actually not found this introductory page yet, now I actually have a debian mentors account. Maybe this time the upload will work : ) Regarding your points: > Please look e.g. at this one > https://sources.debian.net/src/s3cmd/1.5.2-4/debian/watch/ >

Re: RFS: Looking for a mentor for my dspdfviewer package

2015-08-04 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Damn enter key :) Hi again http://keyring.debian.org/creating-key.html gpg --recv-keys 7183343C gpg: requesting key 7183343C from hkp server keys.gnupg.net gpg: key 7183343C: "Danny Edel " not changed gpg: Total number processed: 1 gpg: unchanged: 1 everything seems good so far.

Re: RFS: Looking for a mentor for my dspdfviewer package

2015-08-04 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi Danny, (just answering where possible) >Could you take a look at the debian/watch file? Those opts and regexes >twisted my mind a bit, not sure if I have done that right. Please look e.g. at this one https://sources.debian.net/src/s3cmd/1.5.2-4/debian/watch/ it should be good for you too.

Re: RFS: Looking for a mentor for my dspdfviewer package

2015-08-04 Thread Danny Edel
Hello Riley, thank you for listing those things! I will comment on each of your points inline, I hope that's okay. On 04/08/15 00:02, Riley Baird wrote: > > Hi Danny, > > I'm not a DD, so I can't sponsor your package, but I had a look and > here are some things that I noticed: > > d/changelog

Re: RFS: Looking for a mentor for my dspdfviewer package

2015-08-03 Thread Riley Baird
On Sat, 1 Aug 2015 15:57:08 +0200 Danny Edel wrote: > Dear Debian mentors, > > I have created a debian package for my project dspdfviewer, a > dual-screen pdf viewer specifically made for LaTeX-Beamer presentations. > I have been programming and maintaining this since winter 2012/2013, and > I b

RFS: Looking for a mentor for my dspdfviewer package

2015-08-01 Thread Danny Edel
Dear Debian mentors, I have created a debian package for my project dspdfviewer, a dual-screen pdf viewer specifically made for LaTeX-Beamer presentations. I have been programming and maintaining this since winter 2012/2013, and I believe it is stable and mature enough now to be included in Debian