A bunch of questions: buildd, chm, build dependencies, software patent issue

2008-10-26 Thread Jose Luis Blanco
Dear mentors, I hope someone can help me with a few doubts: 1) buildd: I have found problems in the compilation of my (first) package in buildd (http://buildd.debian.org/pkg.cgi?pkg=mrpt). Some fixes only imply changes in the debian/ directory, others are changes in the upstream files. How can I

Re: A bunch of questions: buildd, chm, build dependencies, software patent issue

2008-10-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 03:24:22PM +0100, Jose Luis Blanco a écrit : > > This software for the detection of invariant keypoints is being made > available for individual research use only. Any commercial use or any > redistribution of this software requires a license from the Universit

Re: A bunch of questions: buildd, chm, build dependencies, software patent issue

2008-10-26 Thread Jose Luis Blanco
On the software patent issue: Ruben, Charles: Thank you very much for the quick answers. OK, I think I will leave those sources out of the Debian package and look for more "open" alternatives... About autopano-sift, now I see it's actually in debian-multimedia, not Debian. I was wrong because I r

Re: A bunch of questions: buildd, chm, build dependencies, software patent issue

2008-10-26 Thread Ruben Molina
Hi Jose Luis! El dom, 26-10-2008 a las 15:24 +0100, Jose Luis Blanco escribió: > This software for the detection of invariant keypoints is being made > available for individual research use only. Any commercial use or any > redistribution of this software requires a license from the University >

RFS: nmapsi4

2008-10-26 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "nmapsi4". * Package name: nmapsi4 Version : 0.1-1 Upstream Author : Francesco Cecconi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://nmapsi4.netsons.org/web/ * License : GPL Section : web It builds these b

Re: RFS: nmapsi4

2008-10-26 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hi Giuseppe, On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 17:02, Giuseppe Iuculano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "nmapsi4". I'm giving it a look, and let you know asap. Sandro -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, Morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.a

Getting Started

2008-10-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
So, I decided to stop talking about contributing to Debian and start *actually* contributing to Debian. I ran "aptitude search '~i!~M' | head" to find a package to start working on, and the first one that came up was acpi-support, so I looked it up on PTS and got started. Maybe this isn't the

Re: RFS: fig2sxd

2008-10-26 Thread Alexander Bürger
Hei, > > > ... upstream changelog ... So, I made a new version 0.20-1 and it is available via URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/fig2sxd Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/fi

Re: RFS: nmapsi4

2008-10-26 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 17:22, Sandro Tosi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Giuseppe, > > On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 17:02, Giuseppe Iuculano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Dear mentors, >> >> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "nmapsi4". > > I'm giving it a look, and let you know asap. Why is "

Re: RFS: fig2sxd

2008-10-26 Thread Daniel Moerner
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Alexander Bürger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hei, > >> > > ... upstream changelog ... > > So, I made a new version 0.20-1 and it is available via > > URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/fig2sxd > Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/de

Re: RFS: fig2sxd

2008-10-26 Thread Alexander Bürger
Ouch, I sent my last mail too early. I wanted to add that: > No. I say that uploading in unstable a version that will never go in > testing because of the freeze would put some difficulties on you if you > need to upload a fix (a small fix that would be 0.18-2 for example). I do not understa

Re: RFS: fig2sxd

2008-10-26 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Alexander Bürger wrote: > Ouch, I sent my last mail too early. I wanted to add that: > > >> No. I say that uploading in unstable a version that will never go in >> testing because of the freeze would put some difficulties on you if you >> need to upload a fix (a small fix that would be 0.18

Re: RFS: fig2sxd

2008-10-26 Thread Alexander Bürger
Hi, > > URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/fig2sxd > > Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main > > contrib non-free > > dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/fig2sxd/fig2sxd_0.20-1.dsc > > Doesn't look like it uploaded to me. > HTTP re

Re: RFS: nmapsi4

2008-10-26 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Sandro Tosi ha scritto: > Why is "Section: web"? if you want to mimik nmap, its section is net. > > Please use a versione build-dep on cmake, since upstream clearly > requires "cmake >= 2.6" but for example etch has 2.4.5 . Fixed. > > What about add "graphical" to the description (just to clari

Re: RFS: nmapsi4

2008-10-26 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 23:07, Giuseppe Iuculano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sandro Tosi ha scritto: >> Why is "Section: web"? if you want to mimik nmap, its section is net. what about this? >> Did you run a spell check on the long description? from "menagement" I >> can inferr you didn't ;) add

Re: RFS: nmapsi4

2008-10-26 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Sandro Tosi ha scritto: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 23:07, Giuseppe Iuculano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Sandro Tosi ha scritto: >>> Why is "Section: web"? if you want to mimik nmap, its section is net. > > what about this? Fixed > But description still contains: > > - "NmapSI4 s a" > - "design

Re: A bunch of questions: buildd, chm, build dependencies, software patent issue

2008-10-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Jose Luis Blanco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2) chm (MS' compressed html format) help files: Is it preferred to include > only > HTML help files in foo-doc packages? I find CHM files quite useful for > example, > for searching, but I don't know if there's any p

Re: A bunch of questions: buildd, chm, build dependencies, software patent issue

2008-10-26 Thread Daniel Moerner
> I'd suggest to remove them and just include plain HTML, so people > don't have to install Xorg and a desktop system to view them; since > there are console HTML readers but not console CHM readers. > If you want to convert them, archmage converts CHM to HTML pretty well in my experience. You co

Re: Getting Started

2008-10-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 3:10 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, I decided to stop talking about contributing to Debian and start > *actually* contributing to Debian. Excellent! > acpi-support, so I looked it up on PTS and got started. Maybe this isn't > the right way to

Re: Getting Started

2008-10-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 26 October 2008, "Paul Wise" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: Getting Started': >On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 3:10 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> acpi-support, so I looked it up on PTS and got started. Maybe this >> isn't the right way to start, but I'm more in

Re: Getting Started

2008-10-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there anything I can do here to move the fixes from sid to lenny? I > know this is normally automated, but I seem to remember that lenny is in > deep freeze so packages don't get auto-migrated anymore. (?) Ch

Re: RFS: recoverjpeg (updated package)

2008-10-26 Thread William Vera
So, any DD can help me to upload? the package is clean and it's updated to upstreams's new version. Thanks! On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 10:08 PM, William Vera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Charles > In particular, I use the package, not very consistently (fortunately > not always make mistakes