Re: Building a build environment

2008-07-30 Thread markus schnalke
[2008-07-29 10:18] Richard Hurt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Since I'm not running Sid on any of my machines, I had > the though of using VirtualBox on my Ubuntu machine to create a clean > Sid build environment. Does this make sense? I was in the same situation some month ago and used cowdancer/

Lintian error

2008-07-30 Thread Charliej
I am getting this error from lintian N: This package contains an embedded copy of the JQuery, Prototype, N: Mochikit or "Cropper" JavaScript libraries that are now available in N: their own packages. Please depend on the appropriate package and N: symlink the library into the appropriate

RFS: esteidutil

2008-07-30 Thread Kaido Kert
Hello, I have sent RFS for this package twice, and have not gotten any bit of feedback yet. Can anyone at least point me to what i am missing ? thank you, Kaido Kert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

pbuilder/pdebuild mini-howto (Was: Building a build environment)

2008-07-30 Thread Jens Peter Secher
2008/7/29 Richard Hurt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am just getting started in Debian package building and I need to know if > this idea is valid or if there is a better way. > [...] > What do you use? I find pbuilder easiest to work with. Since I am mostly running Testing, I have two setups, one fo

Re: Lintian error

2008-07-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Charliej <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have contacted upstream about this error, and he states that he would not > want to depend on the prototype package in debian because he has made > changes to the version of prototype he is currently using. Please ask him to

Re: Lintian error

2008-07-30 Thread Ben Finney
"Paul Wise" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Charliej <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have contacted upstream about this error, and he states that he > > would not want to depend on the prototype package in debian > > because he has made changes to the version of

Re: pbuilder/pdebuild mini-howto (Was: Building a build environment)

2008-07-30 Thread markus schnalke
[2008-07-30 10:51] Jens Peter Secher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 2008/7/29 Richard Hurt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I am just getting started in Debian package building and I need to know if > > this idea is valid or if there is a better way. > > [...] > > What do you use? > > I find pbuilder easiest to w

Re: Building a build environment

2008-07-30 Thread Eric Pozharski
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:04:35AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Richard Hurt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: *SKIP* > > Also, the wide array of tools available to me is pretty > > overwhelming. pBuilder, cowbuilder, cowdancer, quilt, etc... The > > list is quite long and I'm not sure which one is old, n

ftp-masters

2008-07-30 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
If a package has been uploaded to NEW, but has not been yet approved or rejected by ftp-masters, and if this package has a mistake that is better to be corrected before the package gets into unstable, then what is the official procedure of doing such correction? -- Stanislav -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: ftp-masters

2008-07-30 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > If a package has been uploaded to NEW, but has not been yet approved or > rejected by ftp-masters, and if this package has a mistake that is > better to be corrected before the package gets into unstable, then what > is the official procedure of doing such correction?

Re: RFS: vbackup

2008-07-30 Thread Stefanos Harhalakis
On Tuesday 29 July 2008, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Stefanos Harhalakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.07.28.1250 +0200]: > > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/v/vbackup/vbackup_0.1.6pre1-1. > >dsc > debian/control: > Build-Depends-Indep: autotools-dev > I don't like if packages

Re: ftp-masters

2008-07-30 Thread Tobias Quathamer
On Wednesday 30 July 2008 13:50:10 Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > If a package has been uploaded to NEW, but has not been yet approved or > rejected by ftp-masters, and if this package has a mistake that is > better to be corrected before the package gets into unstable, then what > is the official pr

Re: ftp-masters

2008-07-30 Thread Ben Finney
Tobias Quathamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You can send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and ask them to REJECT your > package now, without doing further checks and then upload again. You > can even re-use the same version number then. Though there's no good reason I can see to re-use a release

Re: ftp-masters

2008-07-30 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 15:11, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tobias Quathamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> You can send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and ask them to REJECT your >> package now, without doing further checks and then upload again. You >> can even re-use the same version

Re: RFS: vbackup

2008-07-30 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Stefanos Harhalakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.07.30.1345 +0200]: > Include a comparison of vbackup with other software in the package > description? Somehow I don't find this right. I believe that it is > a moving target that may imply false things regarding other > packages at some poi

versioned Build-Depends on debhelper

2008-07-30 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
Hello again, My sponsor asked me to delete versioned build dependency on debhelper. I had it in the form "debhelper (>= 5)" and changed it to just "debhelper". I am wondering if this is right. In debian/compat I put "5". -- Stanislav -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: versioned Build-Depends on debhelper

2008-07-30 Thread Romain Beauxis
Le Wednesday 30 July 2008 20:22:18 Stanislav Maslovski, vous avez écrit : > Hello again, Hi ! > My sponsor asked me to delete versioned build dependency on > debhelper. I had it in the form "debhelper (>= 5)" and changed > it to just "debhelper". I am wondering if this is right. > > In de

Re: ftp-masters

2008-07-30 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 15:11, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tobias Quathamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> You can send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and ask them to REJECT your > >> package now, without doing further checks and then upl

Re: pbuilder/pdebuild mini-howto (Was: Building a build environment)

2008-07-30 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, markus schnalke wrote: > When I configured pbuilder some time ago, I couldn't manage to use > different locations than /var/cache/pbuilder when using > cowdancer/cowbuilder with it. You set BASEPATH instead of BASETGZ (or use --basepath instead of --basetgz). Don Armstrong

Re: RFS: esteidutil

2008-07-30 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Kaido Kert, 2008-07-30] > I have sent RFS for this package twice, and have not gotten any bit of > feedback yet. Can anyone at least point me to what i am missing ? I'd say it's due to this md5sum problem (.dsc file points to different upstream sources tarball). If not, then most probably there

Re: versioned Build-Depends on debhelper

2008-07-30 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 08:30:15PM +0200, Romain Beauxis wrote: > Le Wednesday 30 July 2008 20:22:18 Stanislav Maslovski, vous avez écrit : > > Hello again, > > Hi ! > > > My sponsor asked me to delete versioned build dependency on > > debhelper. I had it in the form "debhelper (>= 5)" and

Re: RFS: sitebar (updated package)

2008-07-30 Thread Carlos Eduardo Sotelo Pinto
THanks I take this for the synopsis >web-based bookmark manager -- Carlos Eduardo Sotelo Pinto ( KrLoS ) Free and OpenSource Software Developer GNULinux Registered User #379182 GNULinux Registered Machine #277661 GNULinux Arequipa Users Group||Debian Arequipa Users Group -- subkeys.pgp.net

Re: ftp-masters

2008-07-30 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (30/07/2008): > > Because it never reach the archive, so it's better to keep the same > > version for a REJECTED package: jumping revision is useless. > > There's no reason not to increment the version. You've made a release, > and have made changes to that releas

Re: ftp-masters

2008-07-30 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (30/07/2008): > > There's no reason not to increment the version. You've made a > > release, and have made changes to that release. Whether it > > actually hits the archive is immaterial. You just build with the > > app

Re: versioned Build-Depends on debhelper

2008-07-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Stanislav Maslovski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My sponsor asked me to delete versioned build dependency on debhelper. I think this is bad advice. > I had it in the form "debhelper (>= 5)" and changed it to just > "debhelper". I am wondering if this is right. > > In debian/compat I put "5". I

Re: versioned Build-Depends on debhelper

2008-07-30 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 02:14:53PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Stanislav Maslovski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > My sponsor asked me to delete versioned build dependency on debhelper. > > I think this is bad advice. I agree. There are people building Debian packages on older releases, and havi

Re: ftp-masters

2008-07-30 Thread Ben Finney
"Sandro Tosi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 15:11, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [T]here's no good reason I can see to re-use a release number > > after it's uploaded. > > Because it never reach the archive, so it's better to keep the same > version for a REJEC

Re: ftp-masters

2008-07-30 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 00:33, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Sandro Tosi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 15:11, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > [T]here's no good reason I can see to re-use a release number >> > after it's uploaded. >> >> Because it ne

Re: ftp-masters

2008-07-30 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Sandro Tosi wrote: > Because it doesn't add any information for the end users, Sure it does. It tells end users what was changed in between the REJECT and the new upload. Eliding this means that it's no longer possible to trivially tell what was changed between uploads.[1] >

Re: ftp-masters

2008-07-30 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 01:07, Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Sandro Tosi wrote: >> Because it doesn't add any information for the end users, > > Sure it does. It tells end users what was changed in between the > REJECT and the new upload. Eliding this means that it

Re: pbuilder/pdebuild mini-howto (Was: Building a build environment)

2008-07-30 Thread markus schnalke
[2008-07-30 12:39] Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, markus schnalke wrote: > > When I configured pbuilder some time ago, I couldn't manage to use > > different locations than /var/cache/pbuilder when using > > cowdancer/cowbuilder with it. > > You set BASEPATH instead of BA