Re: Help needed for packaging a library

2008-03-28 Thread Giovanni Mascellani
All'incirca Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:49:54 +0100, Romain Beauxis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sembrerebbe aver scritto: > Appart from that, I can only point you to > http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ > > There, you can find more documentation on the first steps in > packaging stuff.. More documentati

Re: Help needed for packaging a library

2008-03-28 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Freitag, den 28.03.2008, 00:41 +0100 schrieb Georgi Chulkov: > I'm trying to package a very simple hello world library, before I move to > more > complex things. The problem is that dpkg will not include the most important > files in the finished package. Here's what I did, step by step (on

RFS: qstardict

2008-03-28 Thread Alexander Rodin
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for update my package "qstardict". * Package name: qstardict Version : 0.12-1 Upstream Author : Alexander Rodin * URL : http://qstardict.ylsoftware.com * License : GPL-2 Section : x11 It builds these binary p

RFS: lynis (updated package)

2008-03-28 Thread Mateusz Umstadter
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.0.9-1 of my package "lynis". It builds these binary packages: lynis - security auditing tool for Unix based systems The package appears to be lintian clean. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors

Re: RFS: qstardict

2008-03-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:17 PM, Alexander Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for update my package "qstardict". Did you read my earlier comments and questions? http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2007/11/msg00171.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2007/

Re: RFS: qstardict

2008-03-28 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* Alexander Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-28 16:17:12 +0300]: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for update my package "qstardict". > > * Package name: qstardict > Version : 0.12-1 > Upstream Author : Alexander Rodin > * URL : http://qstardict.ylsoft

Re: RFS: qstardict

2008-03-28 Thread Romain Beauxis
Le Friday 28 March 2008 16:16:03 Oleksandr Moskalenko, vous avez écrit : > > I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. > > > > Kind regards > >   Alexande Rodin > > Uploaded, but you must take Paul's comments very seriously for the next > revision to be uploaded. I cannot find the .

Re: RFS: lynis (updated package)

2008-03-28 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Mateusz, IANADD, but: > lynis - security auditing tool for Unix based systems Please provide a long description next time. After all this is an ad for sponsors. > - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/lynis/lynis_1.0.9-1.dsc 1) Remove unneeded example files please. Can s

RFS: gnormalize

2008-03-28 Thread Alessio Gaeta
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gnormalize". * Package name: gnormalize Version : 0.53-1 Upstream Author : Claudio Fernandes de Souza Rodrigues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://gnormalize.sourcefo

RFS: uvccapture

2008-03-28 Thread Krzysztof Burghardt
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "uvccapture". * Package name: uvccapture Version : 0.4-1 Upstream Author : Gabriel A. Devenyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://staticwave.ca/source/uvccapture/ * License : GPL (version 2 or newer) Sect

Re: Help needed for packaging a library

2008-03-28 Thread Georgi Chulkov
> > libnonsense-dev.install > > --- > > usr/include/* > > usr/lib/lib*.a > > usr/lib/lib*.so > > usr/lib/pkgconfig/* > > usr/lib/*.la > > It is IMHO a better idea to drop the libtool .la files. Please excuse my ignorance, but why is it better to drop them? > > usr/share/pkgcon

RFS: poco and poco-doc (updated packages)

2008-03-28 Thread Krzysztof Burghardt
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.3.2+dfsg1-1 of my package "poco". It builds these binary packages: libpoco5-dev - Development files for POCO - The C++ Portable Components libpocodata5 - The C++ Portable Components Data library libpocodatad5 - The C++ Portable Compon

RFS: courier-filter-perl (updated package)

2008-03-28 Thread Julian Mehnle
Hi mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.200 of my "courier- filter-perl" package (a Perl-based mail filtering framework for the Courier MTA). In the past, I had Daniel Ruoso sponsoring uploads for the package. I now asked him whether he'd be willing to again sponsor an uploa

Re: Help needed for packaging a library

2008-03-28 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Georgi, > Why is my library architecture-dependent? How can I make it > architecture-independent, assuming the source code doesn't care about the > architecture (I don't think a printf should be a problem)? Your library will be compiled to a binary blob and this binary blob is architecture d

Re: RFS: gnormalize

2008-03-28 Thread Helmut Grohne
IANADD, but > * Package name: gnormalize 1) /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL -> GPL-3, but your copyright file says GPL-2. Please fix that. 2) Is there a reason for you are not calling dh_strip? 3) Does debian/TODO still apply? If not, why not remove it? Helmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Help needed for packaging a library

2008-03-28 Thread Felipe Sateler
Helmut Grohne wrote: > Hi Georgi, > >> Why is my library architecture-dependent? How can I make it >> architecture-independent, assuming the source code doesn't care about the >> architecture (I don't think a printf should be a problem)? > > Your library will be compiled to a binary blob and thi

Re: RFS: qstardict

2008-03-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 12:55 AM, Romain Beauxis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I cannot find the .dsc file mentionned in the RFS. ... > If not, they seems important enough *not* to upload the package. > And I cannot check it since the link is broken.. Mentors deletes packages once they get ann