Re: How to build-depend on linux-headers

2009-04-27 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Luca Niccoli (Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:25:18 +0200): > 2009/4/27 Jonas Meurer : > > Hey, > > I'm not absolutely sure about it, but linux-libc-dev might be the answer > > to your questions. > Yes! > I was completely mistaken, I thought the headers I needed were in my > system because I had linux-hea

Re: RFS: shutter

2009-04-27 Thread LI Daobing
Hello, On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 07:41, Ryan Niebur wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "shutter". > > * Package name    : shutter >  Version         : 0.70.2-1 >  Upstream Author : Mario Kemper and Shutter Team > * URL             : http://shutter-project.org/ > *

Re: RFS: ripit (updated package)

2009-04-27 Thread Wen-Yen Chuang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 20:25, Neil Williams wrote: >> ? I have not changed the notes in order to prevent any sponsoring. I >> have merely updated the notes as a direct result of issues that have >> arisen when reviewing packages

Re: RFS: boats

2009-04-27 Thread LI Daobing
Hello, On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 07:31, Thibaut GRIDEL wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "boats". > > * Package name    : boats >  Version         : 200904-1 >  Upstream Author : Thibaut GRIDEL > * URL             : http://boats.berlios.de > * License         : G

Re: RFS: kcometen4

2009-04-27 Thread LI Daobing
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 22:50, LI Daobing wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 07:18, John Stamp > wrote: >> Dear mentors, >> >> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "kcometen4". >> >> * Package name    : kcometen4 >>  Version         : 1.0.4-1 >>  Upstream Author : John Stamp >> *

RFS: scid (updated package)

2009-04-27 Thread W. van den Akker
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 3.7.3-1 of my package "scid". It builds these binary packages: scid - chess database with play and training functionality The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 465788, 487771 The package can

Question about README.source

2009-04-27 Thread Laurent Léonard
I didn't found any standard template for DFSG and various files removing for README.source, so can I use the following generic sentence ? " The following files were removed from the original source tree: CMakeLists.txt~ ftp.cpp~ ftp.h~ ftp.protocol~ README~ rfc4217.txt " Or do I have to specify

Re: RFS: scid (updated package)

2009-04-27 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi Dne Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:25:00 +0200 (CEST) "W. van den Akker" napsal(a): > I have contacted the previous maintainer (see also #487771). He agreed > that I may continue maintaining the package for Debian. > Since the previous upload (aug-08) I have made massive changes in the > build proces af

RFS: scid (updated package)

2009-04-27 Thread W. van den Akker
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 3.7.3-1 of my package "scid". It builds these binary packages: scid - chess database with play and training functionality The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 465788, 487771 The package can

Skipping check of source package

2009-04-27 Thread Jérémy Lal
hi, i just uploaded an update to the redmine package, and i see that : Lintian report: N: Skipping check of source package redmine is displayed in my mentor console. did i do something wrong ? Regards, Jérémy Lal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: Question about README.source

2009-04-27 Thread Paul Wise
2009/4/27 Laurent Léonard : > I didn't found any standard template for DFSG and various files removing for > README.source, so can I use the following generic sentence ? I personally prefer to write a get-orig-source target that shows exactly how the orig.tar.gz was constructed. Usually a couple

Re: RFS: shutter

2009-04-27 Thread Ryan Niebur
Hi! On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 07:22:45PM +0800, LI Daobing wrote: > > sounds OK for me, but a few question: > > 1. why it build depends on debhelper >= 7.2 (instead of >= 7) sorry, it should have been 7.0.50, but out of habbit I wrote 7.2.. fixed now. anyway, the newer version is needed because I

Writing debian/watch for project located at ohloh

2009-04-27 Thread Resul Cetin
Hi, I am currently trying to create a package for something which hosts its files only on ohloh's download services. The files can be found at https://www.ohloh.net/p/mereo/download?package=stable I started with following file: --- version=3 https://www.ohloh.net/p/mereo/download?package=stable

Re: Writing debian/watch for project located at ohloh

2009-04-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Resul Cetin wrote: > Will (as you can read above) only create a file called 'download'. Inside is a > html file with the link hidden somewhere. Does anyone has experience or an > idea how to write a working debian/watch file for such a project? Potential options

Re: Writing debian/watch for project located at ohloh

2009-04-27 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Montag, den 27.04.2009, 17:01 +0200 schrieb Resul Cetin: > Hi, > I am currently trying to create a package for something which hosts its files > only on ohloh's download services. The files can be found at > https://www.ohloh.net/p/mereo/download?package=stable > > I started with following fi

Re: RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

2009-04-27 Thread Matthias Julius
Matthias Julius writes: > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.3-2 > of my package "dnshistory". > > It builds these binary packages: > dnshistory - Translating and storing of IP addresses from log files > > The package appears to be lintian clean. > > The upload would fix these bugs:

Re: Question about README.source

2009-04-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Laurent Léonard writes: > I didn't found any standard template for DFSG and various files > removing for README.source, so can I use the following generic > sentence ? > > " > The following files were removed from the original source tree: > CMakeLists.txt~ > ftp.cpp~ > ftp.h~ > ftp.protocol~ > R

RFS: fsprotect (try #3)

2009-04-27 Thread Stefanos Harhalakis
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "fsprotect". In this message there is also a summary of everything that was discussed in this list. * Package name: fsprotect Version : 1.0.2 Upstream Author : Stefanos Harhalakis (me) * URL : http://www.v13.gr/

Re: Bug#523338: ITP: radare -- Free advanced command line hexadecimal editor

2009-04-27 Thread Sebastian Reichel
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 07:41:09PM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > AFAIUI sponsor requests should go to debian-mentors. Please not that I'm > not a mentors regular, so I'm not really sure of the exact procedures > here. Nevertheless, I'm copying the mailing list. I know, but you told me before to

Re: Bug#523338: ITP: radare -- Free advanced command line hexadecimal editor

2009-04-27 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:34:50 +0200 Sebastian Reichel wrote: > > In general, run the tool `devscripts -r .` in the top level root > > directory to get a brief license check. AFAIUI this is the tool > > ftpmaster uses to examine NEW packages. > > uhm where do I get devscripts? The devscripts packa

Re: Writing debian/watch for project located at ohloh

2009-04-27 Thread Resul Cetin
On Monday 27 April 2009 17:45:32 Daniel Leidert wrote: > You can manipulate the download URL and the filename via an opts line > and downloadurlmangle and filenamemangle in your watch file. As far as I > understand the cloudfront-concept, the distribution ID is always the > same for a project. > >

Re: RFS: scid (updated package)

2009-04-27 Thread W. van den Akker
On Monday 27 April 2009 14:32:37 Michal Čihař wrote: > Hi > > Dne Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:25:00 +0200 (CEST) > > "W. van den Akker" napsal(a): > > I have contacted the previous maintainer (see also #487771). He agreed > > that I may continue maintaining the package for Debian. > > Since the previous u

Re: RFS: boats

2009-04-27 Thread Thibaut GRIDEL
Hello again, * LI Daobing [2009-04-27 13:34]: > Hello, > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 07:31, Thibaut GRIDEL wrote: > > Dear mentors, > > > > It builds these binary packages: > > boats      - a race scenario drawing tool > > > > The package appears to be lintian clean. > > > > The package can be fou

Re: mimelib 1.1.2 packages: strlcpy/strlcat vs. strcpy/strcat

2009-04-27 Thread Aljoscha Lautenbach
Hi, On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 2:17 AM, Jonas Meurer wrote: > Hello, > > I plan to package libmimelib 1.1.2 for debian/unstable. Until now this > has been built/provided by kdepim from kde3, but as part of the kde4 > transition kdepim3 has been removed from debian/unstable. Still lurker > depends on

Re: mimelib 1.1.2 packages: strlcpy/strlcat vs. strcpy/strcat

2009-04-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Aljoscha Lautenbach writes: > A simple grep -r 'size_t strlcpy' in the source directory of the > kernel shows that the function is indeed defined for the kernel in > "$source/include/linux/string.h" and is implemented in > "$source/lib/string.c". That unfortunately doesn't help unless you're wri

Re: RFS: gnome-inm-forecast (updated package)

2009-04-27 Thread Gustavo Iñiguez Goya
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 04:24:15PM +0200, Gustavo Iñiguez Goya wrote: > On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 01:13:30AM +0200, Gustavo Iñiguez Goya wrote: > > Dear mentors, > > > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.8.0-1 > > of my package "gnome-inm-forecast". > > > > It builds these binary pac

Re: RFS: ripit (updated package)

2009-04-27 Thread Marius Vollmer
Neil Williams writes: > On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:55:59 +0200 > Sandro Tosi wrote: > >> As a side note: I think Neil wrote his sponsorship notes with the only >> goal to avoid sponsorship at all > > That was definitely not my intention. Well, I have to say that upon reading them when first visiti

Re: RFS: gnome-inm-forecast (updated package)

2009-04-27 Thread Ryan Niebur
Hi Gustavo, On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 02:03:58AM +0200, Gustavo Iñiguez Goya wrote: > Here are some screenshots: > http://kutxa.homeunix.org/trac/gnome-inm-forecast/wiki/ScreenShots > Please consider uploading some screenshots of it on Debian to http://screenshots.debian.net/ > Thanks in advance

Criteria for sponsoring packages (was: RFS: ripit (updated package))

2009-04-27 Thread Ben Finney
Wen-Yen Chuang writes: > I am new at deb packaging. I think Neil's guidelines [1] is good and > reasonable. > I am not an DD nor an DM. I have not start my NM process yet. > I am not an experienced programer. I only know a little C and shell > programing. > > Neil's guidelines is clear, simple,

Documenting new upstream version in ‘debian/c hangelog’ (was: Uploaded)

2009-04-27 Thread Ben Finney
Adeodato Simó writes: > * Please only close bugs with a “New upstream version” message if > they’re actually a wishlist bug asking for the new version to be > packaged. In case they are actual bugs, please do something like: > > * New upstream release: > + does not prepen

Re: Documenting new upstream ver sion in ‘debian/changelog’ (was: Uploaded)

2009-04-27 Thread Ryan Niebur
Hi, On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:31:35AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > I wholeheartedly agree with this, and would go further: even if there > are no Debian BTS reports to close, you should *still* give the > highlights of a new upstream version in the ‘debian/changelog’. > > I'm utterly uninformed

Re: Documenting new upstream version in ‘debian /changelog’

2009-04-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Ryan Niebur writes: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:31:35AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: >> I wholeheartedly agree with this, and would go further: even if there >> are no Debian BTS reports to close, you should *still* give the >> highlights of a new upstream version in the ‘debian/changelog’. >> >> I

Re: RFS: gnome-inm-forecast (updated package)

2009-04-27 Thread Ryan Niebur
Hi, I am about to leave again, so haven't looked much more, but... On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 02:03:58AM +0200, Gustavo Iñiguez Goya wrote: > > By the technical side, an important bug has been fixed, which caused to > not work on GNOME 2.26: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-inm-for

Re: Documenting new upstream version in ‘debian /changelog’

2009-04-27 Thread Ben Finney
Ryan Niebur writes: > Hi, > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:31:35AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > I wholeheartedly agree with this, and would go further: even if > > there are no Debian BTS reports to close, you should *still* give > > the highlights of a new upstream version in the ‘debian/changelo