Re: Updating Debian Package

2008-08-26 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Kruti wrote: Hi!! Can someone suggest me some good links which will help me out to know how to update a debian package and also how to make sure that through apt-get the updated package only will be installed.. You should check out http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debia

Re: Updating Debian Package

2008-08-26 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 23:44 -0700, Kruti wrote: > how to make sure that through apt-get the > updated package only will be installed.. Increment the Debian version - once uploaded, it will replace the previous version in the repository and be the only version (for that suite) available for install

Re: Re: ITR: dbishell - QA upload

2008-08-26 Thread jorgen . hagg
>Are you sure it is worth keeping it in Debian? I'm not convinced. Coming from one who use it almost daily, yes, please try to keep it. :-) The command line interface is (actually) good, using sqlplus for oracle really sucks. I'm, however, not fanatic about it, I could switch to an equal alter

Re: Re: ITR: dbishell - QA upload

2008-08-26 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 10:46 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Are you sure it is worth keeping it in Debian? I'm not convinced. > > Coming from one who use it almost daily, yes, please try to keep it. :-) I'm certainly not going to maintain it and Sandro has already stated that he doesn't have s

Re: ITR: dbishell - QA upload

2008-08-26 Thread Joergen Haegg
> I was prepared to work with dbishell to aid support of free software in > Debian but the free software clients have already surpassed what > dbishell can offer, IMHO. Maybe you could list those clients, I havn't found anyone else except dbishell. I would be more than happy to use them instead.

Re: RFS: unionfs-fuse (updated package for RC bug)

2008-08-26 Thread Bernd Schubert
Dear mentors, my sponsor (Kapil) is presently very busy and so doesn't find the time to upload the package. Since this is a RC bug and therefore should be fixed for Lenny I would be glad if someone else could upload the package for me. Thanks, Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: ITR: dbishell - QA upload

2008-08-26 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 13:23 +0200, Joergen Haegg wrote: > > I was prepared to work with dbishell to aid support of free software in > > Debian but the free software clients have already surpassed what > > dbishell can offer, IMHO. > > Maybe you could list those clients, I havn't found anyone else

Re: Advice

2008-08-26 Thread Seth
Thanks for the information, It sounds like I have quite a bit of reading and research to do. I still feel like I don't know which direction to go in, but I am assuming everyone starting out felt the same way. I am going to just keep up and correct some bugs, then maybe down the line I can decide

Re: Advice

2008-08-26 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2008/8/25 Serafeim Zanikolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > There _is_ actually a mentoring program by the debian women project. I don't > see why they wouldn't accept a male mentee. In fact, there are thoughts of > expanding it outside d-women, according to the web page. > > http://women.debian.org/mento

Re: Advice

2008-08-26 Thread Jeremiah C. Foster
> Thanks for the information, > It sounds like I have quite a bit of reading and research to do. Don't get discouraged! It is hardest at the beginning. > I still feel like I don't know which direction to go in, > but I am assuming everyone starting out felt the same way. Of course! Everyone

Re: ITR: dbishell - QA upload

2008-08-26 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 13:49 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 13:23 +0200, Joergen Haegg wrote: BTW. If you want any of your comments to matter, you will need to CC the bug report or dbishell will be removed anyway. ftp-master does not read the mentors mailing list. http://packa

Re: emergency upload request for TWiki

2008-08-26 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En cette nuit nuageuse du mardi 26 août 2008, vers 00:27, Sven Dowideit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait : > do I need to find and contact (and bribe with beer?) someone to > 'convince release-manager'? Bribing with a beer will surely work. You can also just write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: unionfs-fuse (updated package for RC bug)

2008-08-26 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO Peu avant le début de l'après-midi du mardi 26 août 2008, vers 13:56, Bernd Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait : > my sponsor (Kapil) is presently very busy and so doesn't find the time to > upload the package. > Since this is a RC bug and therefore should be fixed for Lenny I would b

RFS: libv4l

2008-08-26 Thread Gregor Jasny
Dear mentors, This package was already in the NEW queue, but got rejected due to an incomplete copyright file. I've (hopefully) adressed this issue and packaged the current version. The original ITPer and sponsor Domenico Andreoli stated he's very very busy at the moment. So I'm seeking anoth

RFS: reportbug-ng (closes RC #496544)

2008-08-26 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
Dear all, I need sponsorship for a NMU that closes RC bug #496544 of the native package reportbug-ng. Do I have to ask for a release freeze, or would that be the sponsor? This NMU fixes the breakage of bug-triage (#496536; potentially other as well). I attach the patch with the changes (all of w

Re: RFS: reportbug-ng (closes RC #496544)

2008-08-26 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:41:09 +0100 Serafeim Zanikolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need sponsorship for a NMU that closes RC bug #496544 of the native > package reportbug-ng. Do I have to ask for a release freeze, or would > that be the sponsor? Shouldn't you give more time for the maintainer?

Re: RFS: reportbug-ng (closes RC #496544)

2008-08-26 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 23:04, Nelson A. de Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:41:09 +0100 > Serafeim Zanikolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I need sponsorship for a NMU that closes RC bug #496544 of the native >> package reportbug-ng. Do I have to ask for a release fre

Re: RFS: reportbug-ng (closes RC #496544)

2008-08-26 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:15:39PM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 23:04, Nelson A. de Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Shouldn't you give more time for the maintainer? (since there is only 1 > > day that the bug is open) > > >From [1][2]: "we still have a 0-day N

Re: Bug#496544: RFS: reportbug-ng (closes RC #496544)

2008-08-26 Thread Bastian Venthur
Hi all, haven't looked at the bugreport yet, since I was on vacation the last two weeks and returned just yesterday evening. But since the release team decided that rng is 'unfit for release' and blocked rng, it won't enter testing even if you NMU the bug. Cheers, Bastian Serafeim Zanikolas

Re: RFS: GNU FreeDink

2008-08-26 Thread Sylvain Beucler
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 11:13:48PM +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > 2008/8/23 Sylvain Beucler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi, > > > > I uploaded a new version: > > > > * separate debian/ to the diff.gz > > > > * fix 'dfarc' build under amd64 > > > > * trim debhelper commented functions that do belong to th

RFS: rsplib

2008-08-26 Thread Thomas Dreibholz
Dear mentors, We are looking for a sponsor for our package "rsplib". rsplib provides a light-weight environment for server pooling. If you are looking for a simple-to-use workload distribution system without the overhead and configuration effort of GRID computing, this package is what you are l

Re: RFS: GNU FreeDink

2008-08-26 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2008/8/27 Sylvain Beucler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Miry, > > You may want to check the latest snapshot at: > http://www.freedink.org/snapshots/freedink-1.08.20080826.tar.gz > http://www.freedink.org/snapshots/debian/freedink_1.08.20080826-1.dsc > > I recently got help with x86_64 and the game was

Re: RFS: desktop-data-model

2008-08-26 Thread Julien Lavergne
Le samedi 16 août 2008 à 10:49 +0200, Vincent Bernat a écrit : > OoO En cette nuit nuageuse du mercredi 13 août 2008, vers 00:24, Julien > Lavergne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait : > > You set DM-Upload-Allowed in debian/control while you are not a Debian > Maintainer (but your co-uploader is).