Re: Fixing old-fsf-address-in-copyright-file

Le Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 05:37:08PM +1100, Ben Finney a écrit : > > If we distribute a package with ‘debian/copyright’ so that it > deliberately differs from upstream in this regard, are we not > violating policy §12.5 “Every package must be accompanied by a > verbatim copy of its copyright and dis

Re: New upstream release

> Od: Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals (RainCT) > Well, I guess you're missing "Section:" in debian/control. Exactly .. ;) thank you ... fixed regards mira -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

RFS: php-geoip (updated package)

Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.0.7-1 of my package "php-geoip". It builds these binary packages: php5-geoip - GeoIP module for php5 The package appears to be lintian clean. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/po

Re: Fixing old-fsf-address-in-copyright-file

Ben Finney wrote: > If we distribute a package with ‘debian/copyright’ so that it > deliberately differs from upstream in this regard, are we not > violating policy §12.5 “Every package must be accompanied by a > verbatim copy of its copyright and distribution license in the file > `/usr/share/doc/

Re: Fixing old-fsf-address-in-copyright-file

(Now including debian-policy; this bears on how to interpret §12.5 w.r.t. changing the FSF's address in an upstream license grant.) Charles Plessy writes: > Le Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 05:37:08PM +1100, Ben Finney a écrit : > > If we distribute a package with ‘debian/copyright’ so that it > > delibe

debian/control

Hello, I am not sure what to fill to "Section" in control file for my new package I am building. Program is small easy CLI utility generating sound (pink and white noise) Thanks for help mira -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Fixing old-fsf-address-in-copyright-file

Ben Finney writes: > If it is not required to be verbatim in ‘debian/policy’, then why > include it at all? > On the other hand, if it *is* required to be in ‘debian/policy’ > verbatim, doesn't that preclude changing what it says before upstream > makes the same change? Those should both read “

Re: debian/control

On dim, 15 mar 2009 13:57:40 +0100, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: > Hello, Hello, > > I am not sure what to fill to "Section" in control file for my new package I > am building. > Program is small easy CLI utility generating sound (pink and white noise) > > Thanks for help > For me this type of softw

Re: debian/control

On 2009-03-15, Laurent Guignard wrote: > On dim, 15 mar 2009 13:57:40 +0100, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: >> Hello, > > Hello, > >> >> I am not sure what to fill to "Section" in control file for my new package I >> am building. >> Program is small easy CLI utility generating sound (pink and white noise)

Re: debian/control

* Jaromír Mikeš [Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:57:40 +0100]: > Hello, > I am not sure what to fill to "Section" in control file for my new package I > am building. > Program is small easy CLI utility generating sound (pink and white noise) Section: sound sounds appropriate to me. -- - Are you sure we'r

Re: debian/control

> Od: Adeodato Simó > > Section: sound sounds appropriate to me. > I will use "sound" ... thank you all. cheers mira -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: RFS: redmine

They aren't redmine plugins, but rails plugins that redmine requires. okay, I'll work on those next week and next weekend. Thanks, Ryan Ok, i get it. indeed there are plugins in vendor/plugins, but i fear that you can't really put them apart from redmine : i asked JP Lang (upstream developer) a

RFC: new version of bibutils

Dear mentors, Dear debian-science people; I am hoping that Yaroslav Halchen will continue sponsoring this (Hi Yaroslav!), but I made quite a few changes in this new version including: - soname bump - added a symbol file - converted packaging to topgit - two standards ver

itp-bug

Hello, I know that I should report a bug if I want make a new package. I was studying "Developers Reference, section 5.1" but anyway it is not clear for me how to do it. Can somebody help me pls? regards mira -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: itp-bug

Hi, On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 05:48:29PM +0100, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: > Hello, > > I know that I should report a bug if I want make a new package. > I was studying "Developers Reference, section 5.1" but anyway it is not clear > for me how to do it. > > Can somebody help me pls? > run "reportbug

Re: itp-bug

> Od: Ryan Niebur > > On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 05:48:29PM +0100, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: > > I know that I should report a bug if I want make a new package. > > I was studying "Developers Reference, section 5.1" but anyway it is not > > clear > for me how to do it. > > > > Can somebody help me pls?

Re: itp-bug

2009/3/16 Jaromír Mikeš : > I am running ubuntu based distro "reportbug wnpp" not working on it can I use > "ubuntu-bug"? > Or some other way? You need a Debian sid install to build and test your packages in before uploading them to Debian, so you could use that to report the bug. Also, the BTS

Re: itp-bug

> 2009/3/16 Jaromír Mikeš : > I am running ubuntu based distro "reportbug wnpp" not working on it can I use > "ubuntu-bug"? > Or some other way? reportbug --bts=debian -- Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals (RainCT) Ubuntu Developer. Debian Contributor. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors

Re: itp-bug

Hi mira In that case you need to specify that you are reporting in the Debian BTS: reportbug --bts debian wnpp Cheers, Andreas -- ,-¤. Kubuntu Linux ¤; http://www.kubuntu.org `-¤' Linux for Human Beings On Sunday 15 March 2009 18:12:02 Jaromír Mikeš wrote: > > Od: Ryan Niebur > > > > O

Re: itp-bug

> Od: Paul Wise > You need a Debian sid install to build and test your packages in > before uploading them to Debian, so you could use that to report the > bug. I am using pbuilder with option "--distribution sid" It should be fine I hope. mira -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-req

Re: itp-bug

On Sunday 15 March 2009 12:52:51 Jaromír Mikeš wrote: > Od: Paul Wise >> You need a Debian sid install to build and test your packages in >> before uploading them to Debian, so you could use that to report the >> bug. >I am using pbuilder with option "--distribution sid" >It should be fine I hope.

RFS: commons-math

Dear mentors and Java maintainers, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "commons-math". * Package name: commons-math Version : 1.2-1 Upstream Author : Apache Software Foundation * URL : http://commons.apache.org/math/ * License : Apache 2.0 Section

makefile

Hello, Is it allowed to edit makefile? If not how I can patch original makefile with my patch? cheers mira -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: makefile

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 08:50:55PM +0100, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: > Hello, > > Is it allowed to edit makefile? Yes, in the manner of [1]. If you do it this way, you will see your changes appear in the .diff.gz when you build the package. Or, if you want to keep the source pristine, use a patch syst

Re: RFS: commons-math

On Sun Mar 15 20:30, Damien Raude-Morvan wrote: > Dear mentors and Java maintainers, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "commons-math". Hi Damien, I'm looking at it now, I've got a couple of points, firstly, libraries should not depend on runtimes (you depend on openjdk-6-jre-headless

Re: makefile

> Od: Jonathan Wiltshire > > Hello, > > > > Is it allowed to edit makefile? > > Yes, in the manner of [1]. If you do it this way, you will see your > changes appear in the .diff.gz when you build the package. > > Or, if you want to keep the source pristine, use a patch system: dpatch > or quil

Re: makefile

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 21:33, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: >> Od: Jonathan Wiltshire > >> > Hello, >> > >> > Is it allowed to edit makefile? >> >> Yes, in the manner of [1]. If you do it this way, you will see your >> changes appear in the .diff.gz when you build the package. >> >> Or, if you want to ke

RFS: pidgin-osd 2nd attempt

Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "pidgin-osd". * Package name: pidgin-osd Version : 0.1.0-1 Upstream Author :Maik Broemme * URL : * License : GPL3 Section : net It builds these binary packa

Re: RFS: commons-math

On Sunday 15 March 2009 21:09:33 Matthew Johnson wrote: > Hi Damien, I'm looking at it now, I've got a couple of points, Hi Matthew and thanks for taking care. > firstly, libraries should not depend on runtimes (you depend on > openjdk-6-jre-headless | java2-runtime-headless), applications using

Re: makefile

> Od: Sandro Tosi > > Ok this ml is for mentoring, but use google and read doc before asking > every single question you face. For the point above, see [1]. > > [1] http://packaging-handbook.alioth.debian.org/wiki/PatchSystems/ Sorry, and thanks for link. regards mira -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: RFS: lbzip2

On 02/18/09 15:25, Paul Wise wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:12 AM, ERSEK Laszlo wrote: I uploaded a new build of the package: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/lbzip2 Please contact this list for future versions and I will upload if I am able. I released a new upstream versio

Re: RFS: lbzip2

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 8:12 AM, ERSEK Laszlo wrote: > I released a new upstream version (0.14, changes should become shortly > visible under http://freshmeat.net/projects/lbzip2) and made available a new > build of the corresponding Debian package; the URL is the same as above. ... > Trivial int