RFS: evilvte (updated package)

2009-08-04 Thread Wen-Yen Chuang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.4.4.2-1 of my package "evilvte". (Programming language: C) It builds the binary package: evilvte The latest entry in the Debian changelog is: evilvte (0.4.4.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

Re: RFS: task-spooler

2009-08-04 Thread Alexander Inyukhin
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 08:48:52PM -0300, David Bremner wrote: > 1) I expect whoever does sponsor it will ask you to compress > debian/changelog a bit. Typically there should be 1 changelog entry > per debian upload. Sorry I didn't mention this in my mail to BTS. I've just re-uploaded the package.

RFS: php-net-ldap2 (updated package)

2009-08-04 Thread Benoit Mortier
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.0.5-1 of my package "php-net-ldap2". i just adopted the package by ITA the bug number is #529692 It builds these binary packages: php-net-ldap2 - Object oriented interface for searching and manipulating LDAP-entries The package can

RFS: pdfchain

2009-08-04 Thread Johann Felix Soden
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "pdfchain". * Package name: pdfchain Version : 0.123-1 Upstream Author : Martin Singer (m_pow...@users.sourceforge.net) * URL : http://pdfchain.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: C++

Automated package build-and-test tools for Debian package maintainers (was: pbuilder: The following packages have unmet dependencies)

2009-08-04 Thread Ben Finney
Charles Plessy writes: > this breakage [of pbuilder] gave me a good opportunity to realise that > sbuild has become almost as easy to use as cowbuilder. What are the relative merits of the various automated package testing tools, from the perspective of someone maintaining packages for Debian us

Re: RFS: task-spooler

2009-08-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090804100620.ga8...@shurick.s2s.msu.ru>, Alexander Inyukhin wrote: >Socket permissions are controlled by umask, but if security >matters, a more sophisticated way of managing sockets should be used. >Since task-spooler is intented for use in single user environment, >I do not think this is a

Re: Automated package build-and-test tools for Debian package maintainers (was: pbuilder: The following packages have unmet dependencies)

2009-08-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <87bpmvsux5.fsf...@benfinney.id.au>, Ben Finney wrote: >That is, if I'm maintaining packages for Debian and want to build and >test them in an easy and automated manner, what tools are available >(‘pbuilder’, ‘sbuild’, ‘cowbuilder’, …) and for each of them why would I >choose that one? There's

Re: Automated package build-and-test tools for Debian package maintainers (was: pbuilder: The following packages have unmet dependencies)

2009-08-04 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 09:57:49AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > There's really only two that I know of. pbuilder (and variants: > qemubuilder, cowbuilder, etc.) and sbuild. ISTR, sbuild is used on the > buildds, but all my experience is with pbuilder. I find it incredibly > flexible

Re: RFS: task-spooler

2009-08-04 Thread Alexander Inyukhin
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 09:52:23AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20090804100620.ga8...@shurick.s2s.msu.ru>, Alexander Inyukhin wrote: > >Socket permissions are controlled by umask, but if security > >matters, a more sophisticated way of managing sockets should be used. > >Since task-sp

RFS: azureus (updated package)

2009-08-04 Thread Adrian Perez
Dear friends, I am looking for a sponsor and reviewer for the new version 4.2.0.4-1 of my package "azureus". It builds these binary packages: azureus- BitTorrent client vuze - Multimedia BitTorrent client The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 329018

Ceasing sponsoring and unsubscribing

2009-08-04 Thread Neil Williams
I'm still on VAC due to ill health. As part of the management of my condition, I must reduce my general Debian workload. I'm unsubscribing from various Debian mailing lists, including this one. I'll update my sponsoring page appropriately once I am actually back at home. (I cannot make any uploads

Re: RFS: azureus (updated package)

2009-08-04 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Adrian Perez wrote: > The upload would fix these bugs: 329018, 398014, 409952, 412213, 491624, > 515015, 516059 What about: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=509880 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506027 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-b

Re: RFS: azureus (updated package)

2009-08-04 Thread Adrian Perez
I'll fix the remaining bugs manually when I confirm that they are a) fixed upstream b) merged c) no longer relevant. So, it's true that I might have skipped sending through mentors, but I want as many eyes as possible. Yes Shaun RFA'ed azureus a while ago, he was helping me with reviewing it, (a

Re: RFS: magicfilter (updated package)

2009-08-04 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Russ and other mentors. On Aug 03 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: > Rogério Brito writes: > > > I have one off-topic comment: I've seen some well known maintainers > > do some things without the rigor that mentors apply to prospective > > maintainers. > > Yes. It's a little frustrating. Frustrat

RFS: remotetea - Sun ONC/RPC support for Java

2009-08-04 Thread PICCA Frédéric-Emmanuel
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "remotetea". * Package name: remotetea Version : 1.0.7-1 Upstream Author : [fill in name and email of upstream] * URL : http://remotetea.sourceforge.net/ * License : LGPL Section : java It build

Re: RFS: yajl

2009-08-04 Thread George Danchev
> Dear mentors, Hi, > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "yajl". > > * Package name: yajl > Version : 1.0.5.dfsg-1 > Upstream Author : Lloyd Hilaiel > * URL : http://lloyd.github.com/yajl/ > * License : BSD > Section : libs > > It builds these

Re: RFS: task-spooler

2009-08-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In Tuesday 04 August 2009, you wrote: >On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 09:52:23AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> In <20090804100620.ga8...@shurick.s2s.msu.ru>, Alexander Inyukhin wrote: >> >Socket permissions are controlled by umask, but if security >> >matters, a more sophisticated way of managin

Re: RFS: yajl

2009-08-04 Thread John Stamp
On Tuesday 04 August 2009 12:07:11 pm George Danchev wrote: > I haven't review the package, but it would be very nice if anyone can > compare that to the json-c project [1], which looks quite serious to > me, at least as briefly scanning through the code. We have JSON > implementations in almost an

Re: RFS: magicfilter (updated package)

2009-08-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Rogério Brito writes: > On Aug 03 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Rogério Brito writes: >>> I have one off-topic comment: I've seen some well known maintainers >>> do some things without the rigor that mentors apply to prospective >>> maintainers. >> Yes. It's a little frustrating. > Frustrating

Re: RFS: yajl

2009-08-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:58 PM, John Stamp wrote: > As for applications, argyll[2] includes libyajl in its private > libraries, I've added a note about this to the testing security team's embedded-code-copies file, please file a bug on argyll once yajl enters Debian and let the team know which

Re: Ceasing sponsoring and unsubscribing

2009-08-04 Thread Ben Finney
Neil Williams writes: > I'm still on VAC due to ill health. As part of the management of my > condition, I must reduce my general Debian workload. […] > Health is more important than Debian. Absolutely right. Free software is not something for which we can ask anyone to exacerbate an illness. >

Re: RFS: yajl

2009-08-04 Thread George Danchev
Hi, > On Tuesday 04 August 2009 12:07:11 pm George Danchev wrote: > > I haven't review the package, but it would be very nice if anyone can > > compare that to the json-c project [1], which looks quite serious to > > me, at least as briefly scanning through the code. We have JSON > > implementatio