RFS: donkey (adopted & updated)

2009-08-21 Thread Peter Pentchev
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for version 0.5-18 of the package "donkey" which I am trying to adopt (ITA #541053). It is a simple S/Key (one time password) generator which could come quite useful to people who still care :) * Package name: donkey Version : 0.5-18 Upstr

Re: developers-reference: Improve "Getting started" to talk about more than New Maintainer's Guide

2009-08-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:27:05 -0700, Carl Worth wrote: > > Can you image to take a look at the Developers' Reference too? AFAIK > > the only mentioning of teams there is in 5.12. > Yes, definitely. [..] > I'm filing a bug against the developers-reference package for this > now. Cool! > Thanks fo

Re: Taking care of existing packages

2009-08-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:33:54 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > The reason why I posted to both is that I see a trend in -mentors that > many new contributors seem to create an artificial need as a reason to > get their contributions in the distribution and choose to package a new > program. I agree w

Re: Taking care of existing packages

2009-08-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090821160945.gb22...@belanna.comodo.priv.at>, gregor herrmann wrote: >I just think we also have to keep in mind that the proverbial "itch" >that new contributors are trying to "scratch", i.e. why they want to >help in Debian in the first place, is that they are missing a piece >of software th

RFS (take 3(!)): libbash

2009-08-21 Thread Hai Zaar
Dear mentors, I am still looking for a sponsor for my package "libbash". All of the pointed issues have been fixed (http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-mentors@lists.debian.org/msg63502.html). Someone, please have a look. Thanks. * Package name: libbash Version : 0.9.10b Upstream Auth

Re: how to solve a non pic code in an shlib due to assembly code

2009-08-21 Thread Ove Kaaven
Picca Frédéric-Emmanuel skrev: > Is someone on this mailing have the assembly skills to help me, and the > upstream, solve this problem. > > I already contact the main upstream but it does not know how to > solve this. The idea of position-independent code (PIC) is that no absolute memory offsets

Re: Taking care of existing packages

2009-08-21 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 06:09:45PM +0200, gregor herrmann a écrit : > > I just think we also have to keep in mind that the proverbial "itch" > that new contributors are trying to "scratch", i.e. why they want to > help in Debian in the first place, is that they are missing a piece > of software th

RFS: commandeer

2009-08-21 Thread Jacob Peddicord
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "commandeer". * Package name: commandeer Version : 0.2.1-1 Upstream Author : Jacob Peddicord * URL : https://launchpad.net/commandeer * License : GPLv2 Section : utils It builds these binary pa

RFS/RFC syncevolution and libsynthesis

2009-08-21 Thread David Bremner
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my packages "syncevolution" and "libsynthesis". Syncevolution is the command line application that supports synching Evolution (and e.g. plain text files) with a SyncML server. Libsynthesis is a SyncML client library used by Syncevolution. Both packa

Re: how to solve a non pic code in an shlib due to assembly code

2009-08-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ove Kaaven writes: > However, if they can't or won't fix it, there's *some* good news. In > general, shared libraries must be compiled as PIC because on some > platforms, the library just won't work properly if you don't. However, > i386 and amd64 are not among those platforms. Since the MMX code