Re: Debian JED Group needs a co-maintainer/sponsor

2009-11-05 Thread Luca Falavigna
Il giorno Wed, 4 Nov 2009 13:17:36 + (UTC) Guenter Milde ha scritto: > However, after the retirement of the group leader, there is no DD > left in the group. Is any of you a DM, or plan to apply for the role? It could really help a lot if no DDs are available for regular sponsoring activitie

(non-)upstream changelog

2009-11-05 Thread Pietro Battiston
Hello, the developers of an app I'm packaging, denemo (www.denemo.org) do not use (it is there, but not updated since months) the file ChangeLog. However, they do keep a list of changes, which they published, for the last release, in their site and on the mailing list, and which content would be t

RFS: colorcode

2009-11-05 Thread Filippo Rusconi
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "colorcode". * Package name: colorcode Version : 0.5.5-1 Upstream Author : Dirk Laebisch * URL : http://colorcode.laebisch.com/ * License : GPL-3 Section : games It builds these binary package

Re: (non-)upstream changelog

2009-11-05 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hi, 2009/11/5 Pietro Battiston : > Hello, > the developers of an app I'm packaging, denemo (www.denemo.org) do not > use (it is there, but not updated since months) the file ChangeLog. > > However, they do keep a list of changes, which they published, for the > last release, in their site and on t

Re: (non-)upstream changelog

2009-11-05 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno gio, 05/11/2009 alle 23.20 +0100, Sandro Tosi ha scritto: > Hi, > > 2009/11/5 Pietro Battiston : > > Hello, > > the developers of an app I'm packaging, denemo (www.denemo.org) do not > > use (it is there, but not updated since months) the file ChangeLog. > > > > However, they do keep a l

Re: RFS: lesstif2 AND Questions about collab-maint

2009-11-05 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 06:16:08PM +0100, Paul Gevers a écrit : > > Point taken. I will do what I want to do with lesstif next weekend/weeks > and if nobody steps up to sponsor I will leave it on mentors and on > Alioth and just provide a package at Launchpad [1] for a while. Dear Paul, do not h

Re: (non-)upstream changelog

2009-11-05 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Sandro Tosi wrote: >> P.P.S: I'm taking care of this package since few months... under >> previous maintainer, the upstream ChangeLog was still updated > > That's nicer, but I don't think it's worth a hunk in diff.gz (either > as direct change or patch) for this. What’s stopping one from sh

Re: (non-)upstream changelog

2009-11-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Pietro Battiston writes: > Do you suggest me to: > - patch the changelog/introduce a new one, and then install it, or > - in debian/changelog, after "New upstream release", list all of those > changes? I always summarize major changes in a new upstream release in debian/changelog whether upstrea

Re: (non-)upstream changelog

2009-11-05 Thread Ben Finney
Russ Allbery writes: > I always summarize major changes in a new upstream release in > debian/changelog whether upstream provides its own changelog or not. > It seems polite and I know as a user it makes debian/changelog more > useful to me than a bunch of bare "New upstream release" lines when >

Re: "One time" post-invoke hook

2009-11-05 Thread Julien Valroff
Hi, Le mercredi 04 novembre 2009 à 19:08 +0100, Julien Valroff a écrit : > Hi, > > I am trying to address bug #544573 [1] against rkhunter which I > maintain. > > rkhunter postinst script is used to call rkhunter --propupd which > updates/creates its file properties database. > > rkhunter recom

Re: "One time" post-invoke hook

2009-11-05 Thread Charles Plessy
> Le mercredi 04 novembre 2009 à 19:08 +0100, Julien Valroff a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > > > rkhunter recommends some packages, eg. unhide, which are configured > > after rkhunter, and hence after rkhunter postinst script is run. Hello Julien, if you can cooperate with the maintainers of packages

Re: "One time" post-invoke hook

2009-11-05 Thread Julien Valroff
Hi Charles, Thanks for your answer. Le vendredi 06 novembre 2009 à 15:37 +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > > Le mercredi 04 novembre 2009 à 19:08 +0100, Julien Valroff a écrit : > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > rkhunter recommends some packages, eg. unhide, which are configured > > > after rkhunter,

Re: RFS: aegis (updated package, hijack)

2009-11-05 Thread Walter Franzini
Walter Franzini writes: [replying to myself] > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 4.24.2-1 of the package > "aegis". I'm still looking for a sponsor, the package has been uploaded 2009-10-18, I've asked for sponsorship every Friday, but nobody has yet had the time