Best practice for packages using devhelp for their API documentation

2006-11-17 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi all, the hal-doc package contains the API documentation for hal. In the last upstream release, upstream decided to use devhelp [1] for the API documentation. The location of the documentation files changed (to /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/hal/) which lead to this bug report [2]. While taking a look

Re: Using the user nobody in my package

2006-11-17 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 08:25:18AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > Marc Haber wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 01:41:30AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > >> I always use something like this in my postinst scripts > >> > >> if ! getent group foo > /dev/null ; then > >>addgroup --quiet --system foo

RFS: tunapie (updated package)

2006-11-17 Thread James Stone
Sorry for these rapid releases.. Someone kindly uploaded the last version of tunapie to Debian, and then I realised there was a horrible bug in the layout, so that some of the buttons were hidden. I have fixed this upstream, and here is the info for the fixed debian packages at mentors: The packag

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2006-11-17 Thread skepticism
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To adopt or not to adopt: smstools

2006-11-17 Thread Patrick Schönfeld
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, i am a so-far happy long-time-user of debian and now would like to give something back to the debian project. Now i've seen a while ago that the package smstools is far from the upstream smstools (and has not been changed since a year, excep

FW by [EMAIL PROTECTED] : 'tdmenu' uploaded to mentors.debian.net

2006-11-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hi all, this afternoon I have downloaded a package with an error, corrected it and reuploaded... Now I get this: - Forwarded message from "mentors.debian.net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Your upload of the package 'tdmenu' to mentors.debian.net was successful. Sponsors can now download it. Th

RFS: tdicons

2006-11-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "tdicons". * Package name: tdicons Version : 0.0.3-2 Upstream Author : Michelle Konzack * URL : http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/t/tdicons * License : Artistic License Section : misc I

Re: RFS: harminv

2006-11-17 Thread Loic Le Guyader
Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz nul-unu.com> writes: > One minor nitpick: Your .diff.gz contains > libharminv.postinst.debhelper > libharminv.postrm.debhelper > libharminv.substvars > from the previous version, I guess. Please remove those. Indeed, thanks. Problem solved in the new upload http://

Re: To adopt or not to adopt: smstools

2006-11-17 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, Patrick Schönfeld wrote: > Now i asked the maintainer of this package, if he lost time on this > project or something like that. He did not respond. But he seems to be > active otherwise and i know he might be busy because of the upcoming > release. But how to go on wit

Re: FW by [EMAIL PROTECTED] : 'tdmenu' uploaded to mentors.debian.net

2006-11-17 Thread James Westby
On (17/11/06 17:49), Michelle Konzack wrote: > Your package does not seem to be lintian clean. > 'lintian' is a tool to verify if source package contain obvious > packaging errors. These warnings/errors were found: > W: tdmenu source: changelog-should-mention-nmu This occurs when the name/address

Re: To adopt or not to adopt: smstools

2006-11-17 Thread James Westby
On (18/11/06 01:05), Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, Patrick Schönfeld wrote: > > Now i asked the maintainer of this package, if he lost time on this > > project or something like that. He did not respond. But he seems to be > > active otherwise and i know he might be

Re: RFS: tunapie (updated package)

2006-11-17 Thread Daniel Baumann
James Stone wrote: > Sorry for these rapid releases.. No problem. I've uploaded this one here. However, if you would like to have permanent sponsoring, I offer to do this. Please contact me offlist then[0]. [0] http://people.debian.org/~daniel/documents/sponsoring.html#contact -- Address:

Re: RFC: teamspeak-server -- VoIP chat for online gaming (server)

2006-11-17 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 03:26:32AM +0100, Adam Cecile wrote: > Hello mentors! > > Could you please review my teamspeak-server package? > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/non-free/t/teamspeak-server/teamspeak-server_2.0.20.1-1.dsc > Hello, It seems that the TeamSpeak licence doesn't allow d

Re: Bug#398486: RFC: teamspeak-server -- VoIP chat for online gaming (server)

2006-11-17 Thread Daniel Baumann
Neil McGovern wrote: > This could put us in a tricky legal situation. Until this is cleared up, > I object to this ITP. please read the whole license, *including* the special permission given by the vendor. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: [

Re: Bug#398486: RFC: teamspeak-server -- VoIP chat for online gaming (server)

2006-11-17 Thread Daniel Baumann
Neil McGovern wrote: > On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 10:21:17PM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote: >> Neil McGovern wrote: >>> This could put us in a tricky legal situation. Until this is cleared up, >>> I object to this ITP. >> please read the whole license, *including* the special permission given >> by the

Re: Bug#398486: RFC: teamspeak-server -- VoIP chat for online gaming (server)

2006-11-17 Thread Daniel Baumann
Neil McGovern wrote: > Ahh, sorry about that :) > > I withdraw the objection. no problem, your're welcome *g -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/ -- To UNS

Re: Bug#398486: RFC: teamspeak-server -- VoIP chat for online gaming (server)

2006-11-17 Thread Richard Laager
> I hereby >grant both the Debian and Ubuntu teams, and their associated mirrors, >permission to distribute the TeamSpeak Version 2.x, and ONLY Version 2.x, >software package FREE of charge, and without any fee requirements, > for the >sole purpose of facilitating the installation p

Re: Bug#398486: RFC: teamspeak-server -- VoIP chat for online gaming (server)

2006-11-17 Thread Daniel Baumann
Richard Laager wrote: > This violates the DFSG, in that the license can't be Debian-specific, > right? Unless this is going into non-free... I haven't followed this > thread. men, we are just talking about non-free. main was never considered even for a milisecond with this EULA+permission-clause.

Re: Bug#398486: RFC: teamspeak-server -- VoIP chat for online gaming (server)

2006-11-17 Thread Adam Cécile (Le_Vert)
Thanks Daniel ;-) Could you please read the full license before abojecting? Moreover ts-client is already in Debian with the same non-free license + distribution clause. Le samedi 18 novembre 2006 00:03, Daniel Baumann a écrit : > Richard Laager wrote: > > This violates the DFSG, in that the li

Re: Using the user nobody in my package

2006-11-17 Thread Thomas Goirand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc Haber wrote: > > This is ongoing documentation work, see > http://wiki.debian.org/AccountHandlingInMaintainerScripts > As far as I can see, this doc gives (IHMO) no real directions and says that it's under discussion on how to get UIDs... I'm

Re: Using the user nobody in my package

2006-11-17 Thread Richard Laager
On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 12:59 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Also, I wanted to have your opinion. Is it ok to use dtc:nogroup, or > should I also generate a group name and use it? I think the same arguments apply for the group. Richard signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed messag