Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] RFS: thaifonts-siampradesh

2009-06-22 Thread Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote: > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Nicolas Spalinger > wrote: >> LI Daobing wrote: >>> yes, i know it is not DFSG-free. >>> >>> but not all the non-DFSG-free software can be uploaded to non-free, >>> and I can't found any conclusion

RFS: kernel-patch-exec-shield (updated package)

2009-06-22 Thread Masami Ichikawa
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1:2.6.30.1 of my package "kernel-patch-exec-shield". It builds these binary packages: kernel-patch-exec-shield - protection against stack smashing and other attacks (dummy package) linux-patch-exec-shield - protection against stack sma

Re: Problem with dpkg-shlibdeps

2009-06-22 Thread George Danchev
> Frank Küster writes: > > Maybe some other tool "usually" also creates DEBIAN, but not in my case? > > I'm really confused by this too, since the calling sequence for a binary > build also runs dh_makeshlibs before running dh_installdeb, > dh_makeshlibs seems to assume that the DEBIAN directory a

Re: package sponsored and uploaded, then how to update it ?

2009-06-22 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Jérémy Lal writes: > i wish to update the package spawn-fcgi to correct a bug. > but i can't upload it to debian mentors : it's been removed > from my package list (probably because it's now in the debian > archive) and mentors refuses packages not starting with -1 version. > > my question i

Re: Problem with dpkg-shlibdeps

2009-06-22 Thread Russ Allbery
George Danchev writes: > dh sequencer also calls dh_installdebconf earlier in the call sequence > (which Frank's rules was actually missing), which takes care to create > debian/pkg/DEBIAN/ directory. So, when dh_makeshlibs and dh_shlibdeps > enter the scene, we have valid package directories, as

package sponsored and uploaded, then how to update it ?

2009-06-22 Thread Jérémy Lal
Hi, i wish to update the package spawn-fcgi to correct a bug. but i can't upload it to debian mentors : it's been removed from my package list (probably because it's now in the debian archive) and mentors refuses packages not starting with -1 version. my question is : where to dupload it so that

Re: package sponsored and uploaded, then how to update it ?

2009-06-22 Thread David Paleino
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:55:51 +0200, Jérémy Lal wrote: > Hi, > i wish to update the package spawn-fcgi to correct a bug. > but i can't upload it to debian mentors : it's been removed > from my package list (probably because it's now in the debian > archive) and mentors refuses packages not starting

Re: Bug#533369: ITP: tinycalc -- Command line calculator for developers

2009-06-22 Thread LordZen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johan Henriksson wrote: > octave:3> bin2dec("0") > ans = 15 > > this functionality, and much more, is already covered by the octave package Yes, this is true octave offers many features, however, a developer needs a fast tool and tinycalc is good

Re: Bug#533369: ITP: tinycalc -- Command line calculator for developers

2009-06-22 Thread LordZen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 LordZen wrote: > Johan Henriksson wrote: >> octave:3> bin2dec("0") ans = 15 > >> this functionality, and much more, is already covered by the > octave package Yes, this is true octave offers many features, > however, a developer needs a fast tool

RFS: ah

2009-06-22 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "ah". * Package name: ah Version : 0.02-1 Upstream Author : Zhaolei Maintainer : Harry Rickards * URL : https://sourceforge.net/projects/antihex/ * License

Re: RFS: ah

2009-06-22 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 19:39, Harry Rickards wrote: > The package appears to be lintian clean apart from a few warnings that I > can't seem to correct (http://pastebin.com/f2ed86daf) please explain WHY you can't correct them. for example: W: ah: manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry usr/share/man/man1/ah

Re: RFS: ah

2009-06-22 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/22/09 18:56, Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 19:39, Harry Rickards wrote: >> The package appears to be lintian clean apart from a few warnings that I >> can't seem to correct (http://pastebin.com/f2ed86daf) > > please explain WHY yo

Re: Problem with dpkg-shlibdeps

2009-06-22 Thread George Danchev
> George Danchev writes: > > dh sequencer also calls dh_installdebconf earlier in the call sequence > > (which Frank's rules was actually missing), which takes care to create > > debian/pkg/DEBIAN/ directory. So, when dh_makeshlibs and dh_shlibdeps > > enter the scene, we have valid package direct

Re: RFS: ah

2009-06-22 Thread Alexander Toresson
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Harry Rickards wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 06/22/09 18:56, Sandro Tosi wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 19:39, Harry Rickards wrote: >>> The package appears to be lintian clean apart from a few warnings that I >>> can't seem to c

Re: RFS: ah

2009-06-22 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:39:25 +0100 Harry Rickards wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "ah". Can't this use a better name, like antihex ? At least that tells me something about what the package can do. Or maybe something like hex2dec or similar. How does this c

Re: RFS: ah

2009-06-22 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/22/09 19:45, Neil Williams wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:39:25 +0100 > Harry Rickards wrote: > >> Dear mentors, >> >> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "ah". > > Can't this use a better name, like antihex ? > > At least that tells m

Re: RFS: ah

2009-06-22 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/22/09 19:39, Alexander Toresson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Harry Rickards wrote: ... > Thanks for the advice. I've managed to get rid of all of the errors > apart from two. They are: > > new-package-should-close-itp-bug > and > ma

RFS: iulib (3rd attempt)

2009-06-22 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "iulib". * Package name: iulib Version : 0.3-1 Upstream Author : Thomas Breuel * URL : http://code.google.com/p/iulib/ * License : Apache-2.0 Section : graphics It builds these binary packages: lib

Re: RFS: ah

2009-06-22 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:41:07 +0100 Harry Rickards wrote: > >> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "ah". > > > > Can't this use a better name, like antihex ? > > > > At least that tells me something about what the package can do. Or > > maybe something like hex2dec or similar. > > > > How

Re: RFS: ah

2009-06-22 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:19:07 +0100 Neil Williams wrote: > Make sure you document this change in the ITP - including retitling the > ITP to use the changed package name. Just saw, you've already done that. #534242 - thanks. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://ww

RFS: antihex (was RFS: ah)

2009-06-22 Thread Harry Rickards
On 22 Jun 2009, at 21:20, Neil Williams wrote: On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:19:07 +0100 Neil Williams wrote: Make sure you document this change in the ITP - including retitling the ITP to use the changed package name. Just saw, you've already done that. #534242 - thanks. Actually, that was t

Re: Bug#471770: ITA: mpg321 -- A Free command-line mp3 player

2009-06-22 Thread Elías A . M .
Chrysostomos, Well, I've already sent one ITA, but a I dont know how we can work for mpg321. I sent e-mails to Joe Drew and , eff and Stephen Depooter but I don't have any answer. Will you be the new upstream author? Some mentor know how we can continue with this? Regards, Elías On Sun, Jun 21,

RFS: kabikaboo

2009-06-22 Thread Dave Kerr
Dear Mentors, Can someone please upload this package for me? I have recently added a sponsorship entry for it here: http://sponsors.debian.net/viewpkg.php?id=480 1. Name: kabikaboo 2. License: GPL 3. Short Description: Recursive Writing Assistant 3. Long Description: Kabikaboo is a simple tr

Re: RFS: ah

2009-06-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Harry Rickards writes: > Even after removing the \, I still get: > > W: ah: manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry usr/share/man/man1/ah.1.gz ah.1.gz in the deb archive that you pointed to at the beginning of this thread is a pure text file that's just formatted vaguely like the output of nroff. The man

Re: RFS: kernelcheck

2009-06-22 Thread Joe Smith
"Master Kernel" wrote in message news:4a3cf0a0.1040...@gmail.com... Theoretically speaking, what if I found someone within the Debian community with a trusted identity who could package the program from source for me, and then upload it. Could I then remain anonymous as the upstream author?

CDBS - how to source a shell fragement before running ./configure?

2009-06-22 Thread Carsten Aulbert
Hi, as suggested on debian-user I repost my question here (sorry for the cross post, but I think it's better than send to individual emails to both lists, feel free to remove the other list) I'm currently packaging some "internal" software named gds with the great CDBS package. However, I have a

Re: RFS: ah

2009-06-22 Thread Harry Rickards
On 23 Jun 2009, at 00:27, Russ Allbery wrote: Harry Rickards writes: Even after removing the \, I still get: W: ah: manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry usr/share/man/man1/ah.1.gz ah.1.gz in the deb archive that you pointed to at the beginning of this thread is a pure text file that's just form

Re: RFS: ah

2009-06-22 Thread Harry Rickards
On 23 Jun 2009, at 00:27, Russ Allbery wrote: Harry Rickards writes: Even after removing the \, I still get: W: ah: manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry usr/share/man/man1/ah.1.gz ah.1.gz in the deb archive that you pointed to at the beginning of this thread is a pure text file that's just form