beginner's questions

Hello, I am writing you because i want to help but i don't know how to start. But before i move on to my questions let me say that at the moment i'm mainly interested in sporadic bug fixing as package maintenance requires a commitment that at the moment i am unable to offer. I have read the

Re: beginner's questions

> 1) Having found a bug report that i would like to work on > - Which is the source file i download? the orig or the dsc? the > debian one or the upstream one? Just do this: apt-get source package-name > - Do i need to contact first the maintainer of the package that i > intend to work

Re: beginner's questions

Thank you Daniel. -- Dionysis Kalofonos Daniel Pocock wrote: 1) Having found a bug report that i would like to work on - Which is the source file i download? the orig or the dsc? the debian one or the upstream one? Just do this: apt-get source package-name - Do i need to contact f

Annoying "send-detail Bug#" ([EMAIL PROTECTED])...

Hello Mentors, trying several options and reading the docs I found no option to get the Mailbox (!!!) of a Bug# send to me as message/rfc822. Is there realy no way? Note: Over iMode I can not access the bugserver to get the mailbox over http. Greetings Michelle Konzack signature

Re: RFS: eboard (updated package)

OoO En cette soirée bien amorcée du jeudi 05 juin 2008, vers 22:14, Patrik Fimml <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > The updated versions of > eboard (pack2 suggestion removed) and Uploaded. For a future version, it seems that you can just use: --data-prefix=/usr/share/games > eboard-extras-

Re: RFS: eboard (updated package)

On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 06:30:49PM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > > eboard (pack2 suggestion removed) and > > Uploaded. For a future version, it seems that you can just use: > --data-prefix=/usr/share/games > > > eboard-extras-pack1 (now lintian-clean) > > It does not compile on my host: >

Re: RFS: eboard (updated package)

OoO Lors de la soirée naissante du vendredi 06 juin 2008, vers 18:54, Patrik Fimml <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > As you uploaded eboard-1.1.1-1 already, do I have to increase the > version number? I'll suppose so. eboard-1.1.1-2 is on mentors now. With > the fixed version, the extras pack build

RFS: swedish (updated ispell and spell packages)

Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.4.5 of my package "swedish". It builds these binary packages: iswedish - The Swedish dictionary for ispell wswedish - The Swedish dictionary The package appears to be lintian clean. (I ran it through lintian myself after buildin

Re: RFS: lynis (updated package)

OoO En cette nuit nuageuse du jeudi 05 juin 2008, vers 01:11, Francisco García <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > Dear mentors, > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.1.4-1 > of my package "lynis". Hi Francisco! I have uploaded your new version. -- /* Nobody will ever see this message

Re: RFS: php-ssh2, php-geoip (new packages)

OoO En cette soirée bien amorcée du jeudi 05 juin 2008, vers 22:26, "Sergey B Kirpichev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: >> I am not sure, but I think that if you add >> in debian/copyright the link to the commit that tells that php-geoip is >> licensed under PHP license 3.01, it may be OK. >

Re: RFS: poco and poco-doc (updated packages) [3rd try]

OoO En cette nuit nuageuse du vendredi 06 juin 2008, vers 00:26, "Krzysztof Burghardt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: >> As Cyril stated in another post, you must (by policy) put this >> information in debian/copyright. Sorry to have hinted an outdated >> information (some t

Re: RFS: php-ssh2, php-geoip (new packages)

> One last thing about the short description. It should not start with a > capital. It should not start with "a". And I think that the wording is > unfortunate. I am not a native english speaker but I would suggest: > php5 module mapping IP addresses to geographic places Now it's: "GeoIP modu

Re: RFS: php-ssh2, php-geoip (new packages)

OoO En cette soirée bien amorcée du vendredi 06 juin 2008, vers 22:00, "Sergey B Kirpichev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: >> One last thing about the short description. It should not start with a >> capital. It should not start with "a". And I think that the wording is >> unfortunate. I am not

Re: RFS: lynis (updated package)

Hi Vincent!, Lots of thanks, once again. Best regards, Francisco. El vie, 06-06-2008 a las 21:33 +0200, Vincent Bernat escribió: > OoO En cette nuit nuageuse du jeudi 05 juin 2008, vers 01:11, Francisco > García <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > > > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor fo

RFS: greylistd (updated package)

Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.8.7 of my package "greylistd". It builds these binary packages: greylistd - Greylisting daemon for use with Exim 4 The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 311652, 480365 The package can be found

Re: RFS: lsat

Vincent Bernat escribió: OoO Pendant le journal télévisé du mercredi 04 juin 2008, vers 20:50, Juan Angulo Moreno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: I respective changes, could review it?. I got it back to Debian Mentors. There is still a bogus blank line at the end of debian/c