Re: RFS: colordiff

2007-12-13 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 10:38:27PM +, Colin Tuckley wrote: > Yes, in fact so new that I don't think the lintian update has made it into > testing yet (you do run lintian -i on your package don't you?). It's always best to use the lintian in sid, since all packages (most of them) enter , and ar

RFS: yougrabber

2007-12-13 Thread chaica
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "yougrabber". * Package name: yougrabber Version : 0.29.2-1 Upstream Author : Carl Chenet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://yougrabber.sourceforge.net * License

Re: Packages getting created without signature

2007-12-13 Thread iluvlinux
hi thanks for all the replies i got it how to package with signatures but one more information i need is i have to give -k option to dpkg-buildpackage command ie $ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -k -sgpg And at the end it asks for passphrase So is there any way that i can automate this stuff. ie

Re: Packages getting created without signature

2007-12-13 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Thursday 13 December 2007, iluvlinux wrote: > but one more information i need is i have to give -k option to > dpkg-buildpackage command > > ie $ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -k -sgpg the '-rfakeroot' is no longer necessary when using dpkg >= 1.14.7, as in that case dpkg will use fakeroot by

RFS: unicornscan

2007-12-13 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Subject: RFS: unicornscan Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "unicornscan". * Package name: unicornscan Version : 0.4.7-1 Upstream Author : Hans-J. Ullrich * URL : http://www.unicornscan.org * License : GPLv2 Section : network

Re: Packages getting created without signature

2007-12-13 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
iluvlinux wrote: [snip] > ie $ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -k -sgpg [snip] Complementing what Bart said: '-k' and '-sgpg' are also not needed. The '-k' is mostly only needed for sponsoring uploads. After a quick read of the thread, it seems you intend on maintaining this package yourself. The '-

Re: Packages getting created without signature

2007-12-13 Thread Michael Lamothe
I think that the -k is used to specify which key to use. You can have multiple GPG keys. I don't know the "safe" way to do what you're asking. But if you find out please let me know. :) Thanks, Michael On 13/12/2007, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 13 Decem

Re: Removing parts of upstream tar-ball, parsers, autobuilding

2007-12-13 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, IANADD, but anyways some comments: On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 07:03:54PM +0530, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote: > 1. I have an upstream source tar-ball that accidentally includes some > files that are generated (and cleaned when a make distclean is issued) the question to decide is: What files doe

Re: Removing parts of upstream tar-ball, parsers, autobuilding

2007-12-13 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 13 déc. 07 à 14:33, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag a écrit : Hello World!, Hi, I have a bunch of questions: 1. I have an upstream source tar-ball that accidentally includes some files that are generated (and cleaned when a make distclean is issued) using the build system, and it is not necessar

Removing parts of upstream tar-ball, parsers, autobuilding

2007-12-13 Thread Y Giridhar Appaji Nag
Hello World!, I have a bunch of questions: 1. I have an upstream source tar-ball that accidentally includes some files that are generated (and cleaned when a make distclean is issued) using the build system, and it is not necessary that I include those files in the orig.tar.gz file. These files

Re: Packages getting created without signature

2007-12-13 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:56:52PM +1100, Michael Lamothe wrote: > I think that the -k is used to specify which key to use. You can have > multiple GPG keys. > > I don't know the "safe" way to do what you're asking. But if you find > out please let me know. :) Well, there's always gpg-agent, of

yes, GPL means GPL3 today... (Re: RFS: gnome-color-chooser)

2007-12-13 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Matthias, On Wednesday 12 December 2007 18:23, Matthias Julius wrote: > Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ./src/gnome-color-chooser.1 says the licence is GPL, which means GPL3, > > while debian/copyright says the software is GPL2+... please fix. > > Does it really mean GPL3? Do I ha

Re: Removing parts of upstream tar-ball, parsers, autobuilding

2007-12-13 Thread Y Giridhar Appaji Nag
On 07/12/13 19:03 +0530, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag said ... > 2. Are there packages in our archive that directly include parsers > (generated by bison etc.) in the orig.tar.gz directly rather than > "Build-Depends"-ing on the parser-generator? gccxml includes gcc's parser and doesn't require bison (ev

Re: Packages getting created without signature

2007-12-13 Thread Colin Tuckley
Peter Pentchev wrote: > Well, there's always gpg-agent, of course... isn't this pretty much > what it was *written* for? :) Yes, but gpg-agent is a short term temporary volatile cache! Which is very different from putting your passphrase in the ENVIRONMENT or a script. -- Colin Tuckley |

a "package-all" package

2007-12-13 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Hello, I'm packaging an interpreted language, Yorick, and a bunch of add-ons for that language. I'd like to provide a wrapper package that would depend on all the packages in this family present in main and suggest the one that is in non-free. I would like users to get a complete system w

Re: Removing parts of upstream tar-ball, parsers, autobuilding

2007-12-13 Thread Felipe Sateler
Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote: > Hello World!, > > I have a bunch of questions: > > 1. I have an upstream source tar-ball that accidentally includes some > files that are generated (and cleaned when a make distclean is issued) > using the build system, and it is not necessary that I include those

Re: yes, GPL means GPL3 today... (Re: RFS: gnome-color-chooser)

2007-12-13 Thread Olivier Berger
Le jeudi 13 décembre 2007 à 15:06 +0100, Holger Levsen a écrit : > And yes, if you refer to "the GPL" today, it certainly means GPL3. > Somebody said... GNU GPL ? I'm pretty sure there are other General Public Licenses out there... My 2 cents, -- Olivier BERGER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (ATTENTION

Re: a "package-all" package

2007-12-13 Thread Felipe Sateler
Thibaut Paumard wrote: > Hello, > > I'm packaging an interpreted language, Yorick, and a bunch of add-ons > for that language. > > I'd like to provide a wrapper package that would depend on all the > packages in this family present in main and suggest the one that is > in non-free. I would like

Re: a "package-all" package

2007-12-13 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 13 déc. 07 à 17:20, Felipe Sateler a écrit : Thibaut Paumard wrote: Hello, I'm packaging an interpreted language, Yorick, and a bunch of add-ons for that language. I'd like to provide a wrapper package that would depend on all the packages in this family present in main and suggest the o

Re: RFS: colordiff

2007-12-13 Thread Dave Ewart
On Wednesday, 12.12.2007 at 22:38 +, Colin Tuckley wrote: > Dave Ewart wrote: > > > Hmm, standards version to 3.7.3? Oh, that must be quite new... I'll > > check that out. > > Yes, in fact so new that I don't think the lintian update has made it into > testing yet (you do run lintian -i on

Re: RFS: unicornscan

2007-12-13 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 13 December 2007, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Subject: RFS: unicornscan Hi, why is Architecture: field set to amd64 ? I failed to see any amd64 specific bits in the source code, so you should use Architecture: any. -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22

Re: RFS: colordiff

2007-12-13 Thread Dave Ewart
On Wednesday, 12.12.2007 at 22:38 +, Colin Tuckley wrote: > One additional thing I noticed with the package; it still mentions > Graham Wilson as the sponsor in a couple of places in addition to his > earlier roles in the development of the package. It's probably easiest > to remove references

Re: RFS: colordiff

2007-12-13 Thread Colin Tuckley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Ewart wrote: > Actually, can I leave those references to Graham in for now? > Technically, those bits of the text are part of the 'upstream' program > which (although I am also the author) is not something that would > normally be changed as part

Re: RFS: unicornscan

2007-12-13 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Donnerstag, 13. Dezember 2007 schrieb George Danchev: > On Thursday 13 December 2007, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > Subject: RFS: unicornscan > > Hi, > > why is Architecture: field set to amd64 ? I failed to see any amd64 > specific bits in the source code, so you should use Architecture: any. > H

Re: RFS: unicornscan

2007-12-13 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 13 December 2007, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: --cut-- > there is no special reason for this field. I set this to amd64, because I > have only amd64-architecture available. I am sure, it can also be built on > i386. Your amd64 with be fine with arch: any. > You may change this field, or I w

Re: Removing parts of upstream tar-ball, parsers, autobuilding

2007-12-13 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Thibaut Paumard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071213 14:46]: > >Now, the best thing to do would be to copy the upstream tar-ball as-is > >to orig.tar.gz and have a patch that removes these files (this will > >result in a big diff). > I tend to move those files to a safe place in the configure rule and >

Re: yes, GPL means GPL3 today... (Re: RFS: gnome-color-chooser)

2007-12-13 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 03:06:27PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > And yes, if you refer to "the GPL" today, it certainly means GPL3. Not at all. Well, at least not completely. ;-) GNU GPL 3 itself says about this (section 14): If the Program does not specify a version number of the GNU

Re: yes, GPL means GPL3 today... (Re: RFS: gnome-color-chooser)

2007-12-13 Thread Neil Williams
Bas Wijnen wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 03:06:27PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: >>> Are now all packages buggy that reference >>> /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL instead of GPL-2 because GPL now >>> points to GPL-3? >> Yes. > > Only if they are "GPL 2 only". GPL 3 is a valid license for a GPL2

RFS: mustang

2007-12-13 Thread Morten Kjeldgaard
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "mustang". * Package name: mustang Version : 3.0-1 Upstream Author : Arun S. Konagurthu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.bx.psu.edu/arun * License : 3-clause BSD like Section : science I

Re: RFS: unicornscan

2007-12-13 Thread Raphael Geissert
On 13/12/2007, Hans-J. Ullrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/u/unicornscan/unicornscan_0.4.7-1.dsc dpkg-source: warning: unknown information field 'Version' in input data in package's section of control info file Please also provide a debian/watch file (s

Re: RFS: yougrabber

2007-12-13 Thread Raphael Geissert
On 13/12/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Upstream Author : Carl Chenet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> According to the files under src/ you aren't upstream :) > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/y/yougrabber/yougrabber_0.29.2-1.dsc debian/changelog: fill an ITP and make the

Re: RFS: freevo

2007-12-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi, > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "freevo". > > * Package name: freevo > Version : 1.7.3-1 > * URL : freevo.sf.net > * License : GPL > Section : graphics I'll sponsor "freevo" :) Didn't have the time for a closer look today, but there're

Re: yes, GPL means GPL3 today... (Re: RFS: gnome-color-chooser)

2007-12-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The ambiguity of using the GPL symlink is not useful - particularly with > respect to libraries. It is all too easy to re-license a formerly GPL-2+ > library under GPL-3+ (using the machine-operable nomenclature for > debian/copyright) and thereby make i

Re: RFS: colordiff

2007-12-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Dave Ewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, I do run lintian (and linda), but the spare machine I used to build > the packages was running Lenny at the time I built them. It's now Sid > ;-) You can also pin lintian in particular to unstable on a system that's otherwise testing. It's arch: all

Re: Removing parts of upstream tar-ball, parsers, autobuilding

2007-12-13 Thread Y Giridhar Appaji Nag
On 07/12/13 23:18 +0100, Bernhard R. Link said ... > * Thibaut Paumard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071213 14:46]: > > >Now, the best thing to do would be to copy the upstream tar-ball as-is > > >to orig.tar.gz and have a patch that removes these files (this will > > >result in a big diff). > > > I tend t

Re: RFS: mustang

2007-12-13 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Morten, On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 12:29:49AM +0100, Morten Kjeldgaard wrote: > - dget > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/mustang/mustang_3.0-1.dsc > > I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. I am not a DD, but want to just make some minor points: * A diffstat of

Re: RFS: mustang

2007-12-13 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 11:18:30AM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > - dget > > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/mustang/mustang_3.0-1.dsc > > > > I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. > > I am not a DD, but want to just make some minor points: > > * A diffstat of yo