Re: RFS: tstat

2006-08-21 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 08:21:47AM -0700, tony mancill wrote: > Sandro Tosi wrote: > > * Package name: tstat > > IANAL (I am not a lawyer), but I wonder if we shouldn't ask debian-legal > about these license clauses for erf.c: > > 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of t

application package: phpip

2006-08-21 Thread Michael Earls
Dear mentors, Can someone assist in explaining how to build a Debian package based on a web application. The package I would like to build is from http://www.phpip.net [phpip is a complete IPv4 IPAM (IP address management) suite]. Thanks, mearls -- Michael Earls http://www.vermeer.org http:

Re: application package: phpip

2006-08-21 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On 2006-08-21 15:44:52, Michael Earls wrote: Can someone assist in explaining how to build a Debian package based on a web application. The package I would like to build is from You can start with these links, that was how I did: http://women.debian.org/wiki/index.php/English/PackagingTutoria

Re: application package: phpip

2006-08-21 Thread Sylvain Beucler
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 03:52:52PM +0200, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > On 2006-08-21 15:44:52, Michael Earls wrote: > >Can someone assist in explaining how to build a Debian package based > >on a > >web application. The package I would like to build is from > You can start with these links, that was

Re: RFS: anymeal

2006-08-21 Thread Amaya
Hi Sandro, mentorees and Mentors! Sandro Tosi wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "anymeal". I would love to sponsor it, but I have a huge backlog, as I had a Murphy stroke on my main developement machine's power supply, and no suitable replacement until half an hour ago. Please p

Re: RFS: spe (updated package)

2006-08-21 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hello Andreas, On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 22:31 +0200, Andreas Bresser wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.8.2a+repack-1 > of my package "spe". I've taken a look. I haven't uploaded it yet, because I've spotted the following things that could be improved: * Most importantly, 0.8

Re: RFS: anymeal

2006-08-21 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 16:53 +0200, Amaya wrote: > Sandro Tosi wrote: > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "anymeal". > > I would love to sponsor it, but I have a huge backlog, as I had a Murphy > stroke on my main developement machine's power supply, and no suitable > replacement until ha

Re: RFS: cobalt-panel-utils -- System utilities for Sun Cobalt's LCD and LEDs

2006-08-21 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 15:48 +0200, "Adam Cécile (Le_Vert)" wrote: > I fnished my package for a set of tools to manage buttons and LCD screen > from Sun Cobalt Servers Series. > These tools were released by Sun under GPL/LGPL license after EOL of the > Cobalt Serie. A Gentoo developper improved them

Re: RFC: ipodslave

2006-08-21 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hello Varun, On Sat, 2006-08-19 at 14:51 +0530, Varun Hiremath wrote: > Hello Mentors, > I am looking for comments and suggestions about my package ipodslave: Ok, here's some comments: * You're still using standards-version 3.6.2 while current policy is 3.7.2. * You install the docs NEWS an

RFS: rioutil -- Talk to USB based Diamond MM products

2006-08-21 Thread Nathan Hjelm
Package: rioutil Licence: LGPL Description: rioutil is a program for interfacing with MP3 players produced by Sonic Blue, Diamond MM and Digital Networks NA. It is known to work with a number of models from the Rio series, namely 600, 800, 900, Riot, S-Series and psa[play. Rio models Nitrus, C

Re: RFS: tptest3

2006-08-21 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hello Michael, On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 04:26 +0200, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "tptest3". Good work, but I haven't uploaded it yet, because of the following issues: * Re-read your changelog entry. You've left some boilerplate :) * In debian/control, you s

Re: RFS: rioutil -- Talk to USB based Diamond MM products

2006-08-21 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 10:41 -0600, Nathan Hjelm wrote: > Description: rioutil is a program for interfacing with MP3 players > produced by Sonic Blue, Diamond MM and Digital Networks NA. It is > known to work with a number of models from the Rio series, namely 600, > 800, 900, Riot, S-Series and ps

Re: RFC: ipodslave

2006-08-21 Thread Varun Hiremath
Hello Thijs, On Mon, 21 Aug, 2006 at 07:01:30PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > * You're still using standards-version 3.6.2 while current policy is > 3.7.2. I have changed it now. > * You install the docs NEWS and thoughts.txt which are (essentially) > empty; that's not useful. I have rem

Re: RFS: rioutil -- Talk to USB based Diamond MM products

2006-08-21 Thread Nathan Hjelm
A URL to the source file: http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/rioutil/rioutil-1.5.0.tar.bz2 -Nathan On Monday, August 21, 2006, at 11:57AM, Thijs Kinkhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 10:41 -0600, Nathan Hjelm wrote: >> Description: rioutil is a program for interfaci

Re: RFS: tptest3

2006-08-21 Thread Michael Rasmussen
Hi Thijs, Thanks for your comments they are indeed such things I look for. Some of them were solved in a newer version and the newest available version which you can find here has included fixes for your comments (I don't know how to replace an already uploaded package?). The newest version

Re: RFS: anymeal

2006-08-21 Thread Sandro Tosi
I've got some small comments: sure The docs you're installing in the file 'debian/docs': the file NEWS is zero-byte, so let's not install it. The file README contains no information relevant to Debian users and not already available, so let's keep that out aswell. removed both The file faq

RFS: Xindy

2006-08-21 Thread Jörg Sommer
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "xindy". * Package name: xindy Version : 2.2~beta2-1 Upstream Author : Joachim Schrod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.xindy.org * License : GPL Section : text It builds these binary packa

Re: RFS: tptest3

2006-08-21 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 22:45 +0200, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > > > * You install both README and README.Debian, which have essentially > > the same content. > > > A README file is mandatory using autotools. But to eliminate > redundancy I have renamed README.1st to README. README now contains >

Re: RFS: anymeal

2006-08-21 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 23:03 +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: > > Because of these are small issues I've uploaded this version now. > > Thanks you very much! Can I ask you again for further release of anymeal? Please ask at the list; I read it and will respond when I'm available to sponsor, but when not,

Re: RFS: tptest3

2006-08-21 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On 2006-08-22 00:12:14, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: You are talking about the upstream source, I'm about the Debian package. Ah, now I understand it better:-) Whatevery autotools mandates, you still don't need to install empty or duplicate documents in the Debian package (i.e.: list them in debian

Re: RFS: Xindy

2006-08-21 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 10:37:43PM +0200, Jörg Sommer wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "xindy". > > * Package name: xindy > Version : 2.2~beta2-1 > Upstream Author : Joachim Schrod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.xindy.org >

Re: RFS: tstat

2006-08-21 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 11:20:35AM +0200, Adam Borowski a écrit : > On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 08:21:47AM -0700, tony mancill wrote: > > 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software > > must display the following acknowledgement: > >This product includes soft

Question on a package split

2006-08-21 Thread Francesco Pedrini
Dear Mentors, I'm packaging the new shiny beta version of kmobiletools (www.kmobiletools.org). This version is really different from the actual stable, and implements two library and a plugins. The first library is libkmobiletools, the foundation library of the sw. The second is libkmobiletools

Re: Question on a package split

2006-08-21 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Francesco Pedrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After the inspection of the new code and the discover of the new library > I have a problem with the design of the new package structure, because > if I follow the splitting scheme written above I'll have: > > kmobiletools - the real application; >

Re: Question on a package split

2006-08-21 Thread Francesco Pedrini
On Tuesday 22 August 2006 02:09, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > > Can kmobliletools-plugin-kontact (or anything else out there based > on libkmobiletools) operate independantly of the main application? If > not, the only split might need to be the kontact plugin vs. > kmobiletools, to avoid kmobile

Re: Question on a package split

2006-08-21 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Francesco Pedrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, then I will have: > > kmobiletools > libkmobiletools > libkmobiletools-dev > and kmobiletools-plugin-kontact. > > It seems fine, I can always split the phone engines in a separated > package when the GAMMU engine (and maybe others) will be added

Re: RFS: queuegraph

2006-08-21 Thread Conall O'Brien
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 05:55:34AM IST, Paul Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> incoherently babbled: > There are some more problems with the package: > > * you seem to misunderstand postinst - postinst is run when users > *install* the package onto their systems. also, please think >