dlatest: Query the Debian archive for the latest available version of the package (was: Closing bugs, incrementing release number, and uploads to mentors.debian.net)

2009-03-03 Thread Ben Finney
Russ Allbery writes: > It would be great to get this into debuild as an option, so that you > could pass it some flag and it would do this work to figure out the > last Debian version and include all the changelog entries to that > point. > > Maybe someone (Ben, perhaps?) could open a wishlist b

Re: preinst script: warning that downgrading isn't supported.

2009-03-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Frank Lin PIAT writes: > Hello, > > I am working on a package that have a postinst script that process the > package's data on upgrade. > > Is there any current (best) practice to warn the user that downgrading > isn't supported? (I mean, explicitly notifying when downgrade is not > supported, ra

Re: preinst script: warning that downgrading isn't supported.

2009-03-03 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Frank Lin PIAT writes: > >> >> I am working on a package that have a postinst script that process the >> package's data on upgrade. >> >> Is there any current (best) practice to warn the user that downgrading >> isn't supported? (I mean, explicitly notifying when down

RFS: cnetworkmanager

2009-03-03 Thread Alexander Block
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "cnetworkmanager". * Package name: cnetworkmanager Version : 0.8.2-1 Upstream Author : Martin Vidner * URL : http://vidner.net/martin/software/cnetworkmanager/ * License : GPLv2 Section : net It

RFS: lynis (updated package)

2009-03-03 Thread Francisco M.
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.2.3-1 of my package "lynis". It builds these binary packages: lynis - security auditing tool for Unix based systems Lynis is an auditing tool for Unix. It scans the system configuration and creates an overview of system inform

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Re: RFS: lynis (updated package)

2009-03-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Francisco M. García Claramonte wrote: > - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/lynis/lynis_1.2.3-1.dsc Upstream changed their copyright info (+2009), debian/copyright needs to change too. There is one pedantic lintian complaint: P: lynis: copyright

Re: RFS: cnetworkmanager

2009-03-03 Thread Alexander Block
I've just updated the package on debian mentors to 0.8.2-2. The new upload contains some suggestions made by Ahmed El-Mahmoudy. Regards, Alexander Block Alexander Block wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "cnetworkmanager". * Package name: cnetworkmanager Versi

Re: RFS: cnetworkmanager

2009-03-03 Thread Michael Biebl
Alexander Block wrote: > I've just updated the package on debian mentors to 0.8.2-2. The new > upload contains some suggestions made by Ahmed El-Mahmoudy. > Regards, > Alexander Block > > Alexander Block wrote: >> Dear mentors, >> >> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "cnetworkmanager". >>

Re: 3.0 Quilt packages

2009-03-03 Thread Andreas Hoenen
Noel David Torres Taño wrote: > On Sunday 01 March 2009 03:46:27 Paul Wise wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Noel David Torres Taño > > wrote: > > > > > Does somebody know if 3.0 (Quilt) format packages are actually accepted > > > in the archive? My mentor tried before Lenny frozen and

Re: RFS: mupen64plus

2009-03-03 Thread Daniel Moerner
I CC'd debian-mentors; I presume you forgot to CC it. If you want private email off of a list, please say so in the message. (But this is not ideal.) On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Félix Arreola Rodríguez wrote: > I hijack an ITP? Normally, the person who owns the ITP is the person who is expec

How do I transfer ownership of a package?

2009-03-03 Thread Richard Hurt
I am the current owner of Redmine (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=478741) but don't have time to work on it any more. Fortunately someone is already stepping up to take it over. My question it how do I transfer ownership of the ITP to Jérémy Lal? -- ---

Re: How do I transfer ownership of a package?

2009-03-03 Thread Daniel Moerner
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Richard Hurt wrote: > I am the current owner of Redmine > (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=478741) but don't have > time to work on it any more.  Fortunately someone is already stepping up to > take it over.  My question it how do I transfer ownersh

Re: How do I transfer ownership of a package?

2009-03-03 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 05:21:01PM -0500, Richard Hurt wrote: > I am the current owner of Redmine > (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=478741) but don't have > time to work on it any more. Fortunately someone is already stepping up > to take it over. My question it how do I t

RFS: osm2go

2009-03-03 Thread Andrew Chadwick (mailing lists)
(This time with the right email address, I hope. Sigh.) I've just updated my packaging of OSM2Go on http://mentors.debian.net to 0.6.13-3, and I'm still looking for a sponsor. The new upload clarifies some outstanding licensing and copyright ownership issues, adds Vcs-* control fields so that ever

Re: RFS: mupen64plus

2009-03-03 Thread Félix Arreola Rodríguez
, I now understand it. But, I wirte a reply in the ITP (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=513322). I'm not sure about how to handle this. I need to contact this person (William Pitcock), becuase he is trying to package it. Well, meanwhile, in mentors.debian.net, i will suspend t