Re: RFS: OpenCPN navigation (ITP #538067)

2012-01-23 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 11:09:27PM -0800, Hamish wrote: > Hi, > > It's been 5 weeks without response, and no luck finding a sponsor on > IRC, so I'll try a repeat posting. :-) > It was not evident (at least for me) when you finished with your refinements. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UN

Re: RFS: OpenCPN navigation (ITP #538067)

2012-01-19 Thread Hamish
George Danchev wrote: > * long package descriptions should be impoved, > and in my opinoin to the point where a person > with a driver license could be comfortable to > read and understand it :) For instance: the > bullet list of bullet of features, should > have more explanations; you cold add a

Re: RFS: OpenCPN navigation (ITP #538067)

2012-01-19 Thread George Danchev
On Monday 16 January 2012 09:09:27 Hamish wrote: > Hi, Hi, (just to summarize the log from IRC session, we had) > It's been 5 weeks without response, and no luck finding a sponsor on > IRC, so I'll try a repeat posting. :-) Yeah, a lot of effort has been put into making this packaged properly (

Re: RFS: opencpn

2011-07-01 Thread Hamish
Hi, an update on ITP progress for the OpenCPN software (opencpn.org). | the debian/ dir can be viewed here: |http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-grass/packages/opencpn/trunk/ | | the .orig tarball can be found here: |http://pkg-grass.alioth.debian.org/tarballs/ | |sample data to test it

Re: RFS: opencpn

2011-06-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Hamish wrote: > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-grass-devel/2011-June/010184.html > > I feel your cringe, but we need a stable, controlled place with > history to house the dfsg version of the source tarball; so > $alioth is it. We could check it in u

Re: RFS: opencpn

2011-06-26 Thread Hamish
Paul W wrote: > I wasn't talking about repacking the tarball, but adding > "rm -r path/to/embedded/code/copies" to debian/rules build. > This ensures that the package will never build against the > embedded code. You can never be sure if the person doing the > upload will run lintian, nor that lint

Re: RFS: opencpn

2011-06-26 Thread Hamish
Hamish: > > I've no answer, but I notice that `apt-file search > > paypal` turns up a handful of other debian packages in the > > same boat, for good or bad. > > > > If it is deemed to be copyright/trademark problematic, > > there should be no trouble going the iceweasel custom > > graphic route, .

Re: RFS: opencpn

2011-06-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 7:34 AM, Hamish wrote: > I've no answer, but I notice that `apt-file search paypal` turns > up a handful of other debian packages in the same boat, for good > or bad. > > If it is deemed to be copyright/trademark problematic, there > should be no trouble going the icewease

Re: RFS: opencpn

2011-06-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Hamish wrote: > mmph, IMO .orig should mean "orig", and the .diff should take care of > the cleanup needed for Debianization. (the exception being dfsg > incompatible stuff) Lintian will alert us if a change in the cmake rules > re-embed the libs. (which are suppl

Re: RFS: opencpn

2011-06-20 Thread Hamish
Hi, (another) update on ITP progress for the OpenCPN software (opencpn.org), Fixes noted in this email are in the new 2.4.620 release. > the debian/ dir can be viewed here: >http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-grass/packages/opencpn/trunk/ > > the .orig tarball can be found here: >htt

Re: RFS: opencpn

2011-06-19 Thread Hamish
Paul: > When building the package I noticed that the gcc command-lines > had both -O2 and -O3. -O3 is added by OpenCPN's CMakeLists.txt: --- IF(NOT WIN32) ADD_DEFINITIONS( "-Wall -g -fexceptions -rdynamic" ) ADD_DEFINITIONS( "-O3 -fno-strict-aliasing") ENDIF(NOT WIN32) --- -O2 seems to come

Re: RFS: opencpn

2011-06-18 Thread Hamish
[several issues mentioned in yesterday's summary have now been fixed upstream, more on that soon] Paul wrote: > > What is the license for src/bitmaps/paypal_donate.xpm? Hamish: > -> TODO > I don't know, but we need to find out as a priority. I've no answer, but I notice that `apt-file search pay

Re: RFS: opencpn

2011-06-18 Thread Hamish
Hi, an update on ITP progress for the OpenCPN software (opencpn.org). Before Anton formally requests the next review, I though I'd take care of commenting on and clearing out as much of the old business as I can. the debian/ dir can be viewed here: http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-grass/p

[OT] Re: RFS: opencpn

2011-05-03 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 11:15:47AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > Hmm, it's very, very rare that I find myself disagreeing with Paul > > Wise[0] > > Hmm, whats [0]? Oops, sorry; I wasn't aiming for mysteeerious :/ Just thought I'd split m

Re: RFS: opencpn

2011-05-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Peter Pentchev wrote: > Hmm, it's very, very rare that I find myself disagreeing with Paul > Wise[0] Hmm, whats [0]? > but I think that the cross-platformness of a package / > library / toolset might actually be relevant if one looks at Debian not > merely as an

Re: RFS: opencpn

2011-05-02 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 11:37:16AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > A new review: > > There are bound to be more things to fix, I'll do another one when the > issues below are resolved. [snip] > > "cross-platform" isn't relevant in the context of Debian package descriptions. Hmm, it's very, very rare t

Re: RFS: opencpn

2011-05-01 Thread Paul Wise
A new review: There are bound to be more things to fix, I'll do another one when the issues below are resolved. Hamish, you should add yourself to the Uploaders, or use `dch --team` to indicate a GIS team upload. override_dh_installman shouldn't be needed, best create a debian/opencpn.manpages f

Re: RFS: opencpn

2011-05-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Hamish wrote: > this is an update on this from a year ago: >   http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2010/02/msg00115.html > > after a while and a fair bit of work upstream* I think we're ready for > another shot at review.  *[mainly hard work by Anton and Dave]

Re: RFS: opencpn

2011-04-30 Thread Hamish
Hi, this is an update on this from a year ago: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2010/02/msg00115.html after a while and a fair bit of work upstream* I think we're ready for another shot at review. *[mainly hard work by Anton and Dave] In the last year the program has enjoyed phenomenal

Re: RFS: opencpn

2010-02-16 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
Paul Wise wrote: > The OpenCPN code contains this template: > > * Copyright (C) $YEAR$ by $AUTHOR$ * > * $EMAIL$ * > > Upstream really needs to replace these by real information. Some files > have the right info but still have the template. BTW, the template is > wrong since (C) is not

Re: RFS: opencpn

2010-02-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > I'll take a closer look at the package when I'm on a Debian system. I took a much closer look at the package and in summary; I'd really like to sponsor this package but it needs a lot of work upstream, especially in the copyright/license departm

Re: RFS: opencpn

2010-02-08 Thread Anton Martchukov
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 04:47:16PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > I think it would be a good idea, you never know who will look at your > patches and use them blindly. > > >From the lintian tag info it sounds like it is worth it. You'll want > to remove the files on clean and before ./configure is run.

Re: RFS: opencpn

2010-02-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Anton Martchukov wrote: > Btw, I noted that most of the packages supply icons to > /usr/share/pixmaps, but some less amount to /usr/share/icons > like in case with OpenCPN. Is there any difference between > those folders, maybe it's better to fix Makefile to instal

Re: RFS: opencpn

2010-02-08 Thread Anton Martchukov
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 04:06:37PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Standards-Version is out of date, please read the upgrading document > and make any changes appropriate. > > debian/watch doesn't really need any comments or blank lines, you can > remove them. Same for the comment in debian/rules. > >

Re: RFS: opencpn

2010-02-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Anton Martchukov wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "opencpn". Some comments on the debian.tar.gz part of the source package: Standards-Version is out of date, please read the upgrading document and make any changes appropriate. debian/watch does