Re: RFS: packagekit (ping2)

2010-10-17 Thread Matthias Klumpp
> > [...] (lots of further info on packagekit) > > Well, I am a DD and in principle could sponsor such a package, but I just > lack > all the know how needed to properly evaluate gnome-related packages. And, > as I > already wrote in another reponse to an RFS some minutes ago, it seems that > nob

Re: RFS: packagekit (ping2)

2010-10-13 Thread Michael Tautschnig
Hi Matthias, > On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 22:38:59 +0200, Julien Viard de Galbert > wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 08:09:23PM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > >> Dear mentors, > >> > >> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "packagekit". > >> This package has been reviewed by Paul Wise and Ashees

Re: RFS: packagekit (ping2)

2010-10-09 Thread Matthias Klumpp
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 22:38:59 +0200, Julien Viard de Galbert wrote: > On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 08:09:23PM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: >> Dear mentors, >> >> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "packagekit". >> This package has been reviewed by Paul Wise and Asheesh Laroia already >> and >> s

Re: RFS: packagekit (ping2)

2010-10-08 Thread Julien Viard de Galbert
On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 08:09:23PM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "packagekit". > This package has been reviewed by Paul Wise and Asheesh Laroia already and > should be completely free of any policy violations or other problems > regardi

RFS: packagekit (ping2)

2010-10-08 Thread Matthias Klumpp
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "packagekit". This package has been reviewed by Paul Wise and Asheesh Laroia already and should be completely free of any policy violations or other problems regarding packaging. I work closely with upstream and hope to find someone intereste

RFS: packagekit (ping2)

2010-09-13 Thread Matthias Klumpp
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "packagekit". * Package name: packagekit Version : 0.6.8-1 Upstream Author : Richard Hughes * URL : http://packagekit.org * License : GPLv2/LGPLv2 Section : admin It builds these binary package

RFS: packagekit (ping)

2010-09-06 Thread Matthias Klumpp
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "packagekit". * Package name: packagekit Version : 0.6.8-1 Upstream Author : Richard Hughes * URL : http://packagekit.org * License : GPLv2/LGPLv2 Section : admin It builds these binary package

RFS: packagekit (ping)

2010-09-03 Thread Matthias Klumpp
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "packagekit". * Package name: packagekit Version : 0.6.7-1 Upstream Author : Richard Hughes * URL : http://packagekit.org * License : GPLv2/LGPLv2 Section : admin It builds these binary package

RFS: packagekit

2010-09-03 Thread Matthias Klumpp
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "packagekit". * Package name: packagekit Version : 0.6.7-1 Upstream Author : Richard Hughes * URL : http://packagekit.org * License : GPLv2/LGPLv2 Section : admin It builds these binary package

Re: RFS: packagekit

2010-09-02 Thread Matthias Klumpp
On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 15:39:55 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Matthias Klumpp > wrote: > >> The license of the Fedora Wiki is AFAIK CC-BY-SA, should be no problem to >> reuse the texts. (I also modified them to match the Debian situation) > > I mean stuff like indicati

Re: RFS: packagekit

2010-09-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > The license of the Fedora Wiki is AFAIK CC-BY-SA, should be no problem to > reuse the texts. (I also modified them to match the Debian situation) I mean stuff like indicating that the text is CC-BY-SA and listing the copyright informatio

Re: RFS: packagekit

2010-09-01 Thread Matthias Klumpp
Something left to do? Regards Matthias --- The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/packagekit - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - d

Re: Debian and Patents (was: Re: RFS: packagekit)

2010-08-31 Thread Matthias Klumpp
On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:12:37 +0530, Praveen A wrote: > 2010/8/31 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. : >> I thought the patent encumbered software was banned from the repos due to >> legal risk to SPI.  I get my ffmpeg and mp3 stuff from the >> debian-multimedia >> repositories which, while good, are not offic

Re: RFS: packagekit

2010-08-31 Thread Matthias Klumpp
On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:26:25 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Matthias Klumpp > wrote: > >> new wiki pages have been created. (I basically took the information from >> Fedora) > > Please move them under the PackageKit namespace, so... > > http://wiki.debian.org/Packag

Re: RFS: packagekit

2010-08-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Praveen A writes: > I was reading through the wiki and found this, > * Debian does not include software that is encumbered by software patents. > This statement is correct for Fedora, but we have many *known* patent > encumbered software in our repos like mp3 codec, ffmpeg etc. So I > think, th

Re: Debian and Patents (was: Re: RFS: packagekit)

2010-08-31 Thread Praveen A
2010/8/31 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. : > I thought the patent encumbered software was banned from the repos due to > legal risk to SPI.  I get my ffmpeg and mp3 stuff from the debian-multimedia > repositories which, while good, are not official. apt-cache policy libmad0 ffmpeg apt-cache show libmad0 f

Debian and Patents (was: Re: RFS: packagekit)

2010-08-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Praveen A wrote: >I was reading through the wiki and found this, > >* Debian does not include software that is encumbered by software patents. > >This statement is correct for Fedora, but we have many *known* patent >encumbered software in our repos like mp3 codec, ffmpeg etc. So I >think, th

Re: RFS: packagekit

2010-08-31 Thread Praveen A
2010/8/31 Paul Wise : > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > >> new wiki pages have been created. (I basically took the information from >> Fedora) > > Please move them under the PackageKit namespace, so... > > http://wiki.debian.org/PackageKit/PackageItemNotFound > and so on

Re: RFS: packagekit

2010-08-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > new wiki pages have been created. (I basically took the information from > Fedora) Please move them under the PackageKit namespace, so... http://wiki.debian.org/PackageKit/PackageItemNotFound and so on Also, what was the license for th

Re: RFS: packagekit

2010-08-30 Thread David Bremner
On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 14:48:17 +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > somone (pabs?) wrote: > > Why do you move the upstream helper scripts to /usr/lib? > They're scripts and should not be in /usr/share/PackageKit. In this > directory we only have documentation of PK. As best I understand the Linux File H

Re: RFS: packagekit

2010-08-30 Thread Matthias Klumpp
On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:12:18 +0200, David Bremner wrote: > On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 14:48:17 +0200, Matthias Klumpp > wrote: >> somone (pabs?) wrote: >> > Why do you move the upstream helper scripts to /usr/lib? >> They're scripts and should not be in /usr/share/PackageKit. In this >> directory we onl

Re: RFS: packagekit

2010-08-30 Thread Matthias Klumpp
Hi again! With the latest upload I fixed everything which was criticized on the packaging: The copyright is clear, it does not FTBFS on pbuilder, the mozilla package has been renamed to browser-plugin, we don't need the dirty hack to remove the source file anymore and new wiki pages have been creat

Re: RFS: packagekit

2010-08-29 Thread Matthias Klumpp
Hi! >> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/packagekit/packagekit_0.6.7-1.dsc > > A review as promised... > > The copyright situation is much more complex than what you present in > debian/copyright. Please look at each file and fully document the > license situation. It is possible to h

Re: RFS: packagekit

2010-08-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > The package FTBFS in pbuilder: I should have said that this seems to be because one of the patches touches configure.ac. You need to build-dep on dh-autoreconf and add the appropriate --with argument to dh. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.or

Re: RFS: packagekit

2010-08-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/packagekit/packagekit_0.6.7-1.dsc A review as promised... The copyright situation is much more complex than what you present in debian/copyright. Please look at each file and fully document th

Re: RFS: packagekit

2010-08-28 Thread Matthias Klumpp
Hi! I found a way to make the creation of the patch a little less annoying. You just need to run "debuild -S -sa" twice, if a patch is created, and the script will remove the patch and cleanup the sources automatically. This keeps the debian/patches directory clean. ---

Re: RFS: packagekit

2010-08-27 Thread Matthias Klumpp
Hi again! >> I already do this, but the problem is that the script changes files, it >> does not only create new ones. >> So I'm completely unable to restore all files. > > No, not *completely*. You can move the files that get modified, build > everything > and move them back in the clean target.

Re: RFS: packagekit

2010-08-27 Thread Rogério Brito
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Matthias. On 08/27/2010 01:18 PM, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > I already do this, but the problem is that the script changes files, it > does not only create new ones. > So I'm completely unable to restore all files. No, not *completely*. You can mo

Re: RFS: packagekit

2010-08-27 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Matthias Klumpp writes: > Before you complain about this after review: Do you know a way to disable > the automatic patch creation which was introduced with the 3.0 deb format? > PackageKit updates the documentation and other files during build. This is > not undone in make distclean, so debhelpe

Re: RFS: packagekit

2010-08-27 Thread Matthias Klumpp
On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:37:18 +0200, David Paleino wrote: > On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:31:41 +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > >> Before you complain about this after review: Do you know a way to disable >> the automatic patch creation which was introduced with the 3.0 deb >> format? >> PackageKit updat

Re: RFS: packagekit

2010-08-27 Thread Matthias Klumpp
On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:50:34 +0900, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Matthias Klumpp writes: > >> Before you complain about this after review: Do you know a way to disable >> the automatic patch creation which was introduced with the 3.0 deb >> format? >> PackageKit updates the documentation and other

Re: RFS: packagekit

2010-08-27 Thread David Paleino
On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:31:41 +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > Before you complain about this after review: Do you know a way to disable > the automatic patch creation which was introduced with the 3.0 deb format? > PackageKit updates the documentation and other files during build. This is > not und

Re: RFS: packagekit

2010-08-27 Thread Matthias Klumpp
On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:12:47 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Matthias Klumpp > wrote: > >> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "packagekit". > > I'd like to applaud your and others efforts on this package, well done. > > I don't have time to do ongoing sponsors

Re: RFS: packagekit

2010-08-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "packagekit". I'd like to applaud your and others efforts on this package, well done. I don't have time to do ongoing sponsorship but I will attempt to review the package this weekend. -- bye,

RFS: packagekit

2010-08-26 Thread Matthias Klumpp
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "packagekit". * Package name: packagekit Version : 0.6.7-1 Upstream Author : Richard Hughes * URL : http://packagekit.org * License : GPLv2/LGPLv2 Section : admin It builds these binary package

RFS: packagekit

2010-08-26 Thread Matthias Klumpp
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "packagekit". * Package name: packagekit Version : 0.6.7-1 Upstream Author : Richard Hughes * URL : http://packagekit.org * License : GPLv2/LGPLv2 Section : admin It builds these binary package