RFS: php-simpletest

2009-03-24 Thread david wright- [白熊]
Hello, This is actaully in response to a bug fix for, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=428013 The package already exists, http://packages.debian.org/lenny/php-simpletest, I have contacted the current maintainer, Charles, who stated that he doesn't have time to maintain this pa

RFS: mp3splt-gtk, mp3splt (updated package), and libmp3splt

2009-03-24 Thread Ryan Niebur
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "libmp3splt". * Package name: libmp3splt Version : 0.5.4-1 Upstream Author : Matteo Trotta and Alexandru Ionut Munteanu * URL : http://mp3splt.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPLv2+ Section : libs

debian/watch file

2009-03-24 Thread Panagiotes [paggas] Mousikides
Hi, I've noticed that lintian produces a warning when a package has no debian/watch file (at least when run with the -iI flags). I read the uscan(1) manpage, as the warning suggests, but I still am not sure if I got the format of the debian/watch file right. The manpage has this example: ftp:/

Re: debian/watch file

2009-03-24 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:22:09AM +0200, Panagiotes [paggas] Mousikides wrote: > > If I got it correct, it means that (.*) will match the version used for the > orig.tar.gz archive? Correct. -- Jonathan Wiltshire PGP/GPG: 0xDB800B52 / 4216 F01F DCA9 21AC F3D3 A903 CA6B EA3E DB80 0B52 --

Re: debian/watch file

2009-03-24 Thread Ben Finney
"Panagiotes [paggas] Mousikides" writes: > The manpage has this example: > > ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/web/c_cpp/cweb/cweb-(.*)\.tar\.gz > > If I got it correct, it means that (.*) will match the version used > for the orig.tar.gz archive? Yes. Unfortunately, I just noticed that it will

Re: RFS: stardata-common (updated package)

2009-03-24 Thread Francisco M.
Hi all, Please, don't download this package by now, I'm making some improvements on it. I have removed it from mentors.d.n. I'll upload it when it is ready. Thanks. Regards, Francisco. El lun, 23-03-2009 a las 09:11 +0100, Francisco M. García Claramonte escribió: > Dear mentors, > > I am lo

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on.... (they use none of its symbols)

2009-03-24 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:00:41 -0430, Muammar El Khatib написа: > No, Debian is not BSD. But we have this > http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/: GNU/kFreeBSD is a GNU system. > Now, as you can see at #502083 and #320697 the use of the flag has > gotten problems before. The keyword here is

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on.... (they use none of its symbols)

2009-03-24 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Yavor Doganov [090324 12:13]: > The keyword here is "before". There were bugs in binutils exposed on > some architectures, especially for C++ linking. Maybe new architectures > like armel are still problematic in some cases. The problem Bernhard > Link describes has been resolved upstream: >

Re: Build reproducibility

2009-03-24 Thread Luca Niccoli
2009/3/24 Paul Wise : > In automake-based packages the recommended way to clean up after > autotools regeneration is 'make maintainer-clean'. Unfortunately > automake doesn't remove Makefile.in files in maintainer-clean by > default so you may have to delete them manually or with dh_clean. Actual

Re: Build reproducibility

2009-03-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Luca Niccoli wrote: > Actually I'm not running automake, do I need to? Not unless you are patching Makefile.am -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Build reproducibility

2009-03-24 Thread Daniel Leidert
Luca Niccoli wrote: > I just refresh configure after modifying configure.in to add some > localization support; Can you provide the patch you are applying to configure.in? It is often not necessary to touch this file. Sometimes you can easily patch configure or "fix" variable values during the `m

Re: RFS: CLAM, C++ library for audio and music

2009-03-24 Thread David García Garzón
A new version of the following source packages is available at: http://clam-project.org/download/linux-debian-sid/svnsnapshots #493282 ITP: clam -- CLAM, C++ Library for Audio and Music #517910 ITP: clam-chordata -- CLAM Chordata, chord detection tool #518353 ITP: clam-plugins -- Extension plugins

Re: Build reproducibility

2009-03-24 Thread Luca Niccoli
2009/3/24 Daniel Leidert : > Can you provide the patch you are applying to configure.in? It is often Of course: --- temp/grcm-0.1.6/configure.in2008-06-07 05:35:00.0 +0200 +++ grcm-0.1.6/configure.in 2009-03-24 00:32:09.0 +0100 @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(GE

RFS: sigx

2009-03-24 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "sigx". * Package name: sigx Version : 2.0.2-1 Upstream Author : kl...@triend.eu * URL : http://www.assembla.com/spaces/sigx * License : LGPL-2+ Section : devel It builds these binary packages:

RFS: siege (updated package)

2009-03-24 Thread Tristan Greaves
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.66-3 of my package "siege". It builds these binary packages: siege - Http regression testing and benchmarking utility The upload would fix these bugs: 521029, 521034 The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http:

Re: RFS: siege (updated package)

2009-03-24 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:31:42PM +, Tristan Greaves wrote: > > Note that the lintian errors appear to be legacy, as I used quilt for > the new patch I introduced. You can still fix them, as a responsible maintainer :) The lintian on m.d.o lags a bit, in pedantic mode on my builder it repo

Substituting the doc/ dir with a symlink

2009-03-24 Thread Rodrigo Gallardo
Policy 6.6.4 says that, when unpacking an upgraded package ... A directory will never be replaced by a symbolic link to a directory or vice versa; instead, the existing state (symlink or not) will be left alone and dpkg will follow the symlink if there is one. Which means that, when naively try

Re: RFS: siege (updated package)

2009-03-24 Thread Tristan Greaves
Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:31:42PM +, Tristan Greaves wrote: Note that the lintian errors appear to be legacy, as I used quilt for the new patch I introduced. You can still fix them, as a responsible maintainer :) The lintian on m.d.o lags a bit, in pedantic mod

Re: RFS: siege (updated package)

2009-03-24 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:25:04PM +, Tristan Greaves wrote: > Many thanks. Please could you let me know which version of lintian you > are using, and which command line arguments? I am just trying to > reproduce the same pedantic behaviour at this end... 2.2.8 from sid, run with -I (+in

Re: RFS: siege (updated package)

2009-03-24 Thread Tristan Greaves
Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:25:04PM +, Tristan Greaves wrote: Many thanks. Please could you let me know which version of lintian you are using, and which command line arguments? I am just trying to reproduce the same pedantic behaviour at this end... 2.2.8 fro

Re: RFS: siege (updated package)

2009-03-24 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:50:48AM +, Tristan Greaves a écrit : > Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: >> >> 2.2.8 from sid, run with -I (+info tags), -E (+experimental tags) and >> --pedantic (speaks for itself). If you want the extended explanations, >> use -i as well. > > I'll probably shy away from si

Re: RFS: siege (updated package)

2009-03-24 Thread Ben Finney
Tristan Greaves writes: > I'll probably shy away from sid for now. Is it sufficient for me to > fix the standard lintian warnings thrown by my system? No. If you're uploading the package targeted at Debian ‘sid’, you must build and test the package in a Debian ‘sid’ system. Note that this isn't

Re: RFS: CLAM, C++ library for audio and music

2009-03-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:25 AM, David García Garzón wrote: > * Should I split this RFS thread into several as i did for the ITP bugs? No need to. > * The only lintian warning i get is: > W: libclam13: package-name-doesnt-match-sonames libclam-audioio13 libclam- > core13 libclam-processing13 >

Re: Build reproducibility

2009-03-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 1:56 AM, Luca Niccoli wrote: > -ALL_LINGUAS="" Ahhh, upstream should not be using this variable, please get them to switch to the po/LINGUAS file instead. This way it should not be nessecary to rebuild the configure & Makefiles in order to support and install a new langua