Re: RFS: django-picklefield

2010-03-12 Thread Michael Fladischer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jakub Wilk, 2010-03-11 22:39: > Oh, and I forgot about one more thing: tests should be run at build > time, preferably with all supported Python versions. I'm no quite sure if this is feasible because the tests require a working Django installation pl

Getting started on Debian

2010-03-12 Thread Christoph Pohl
Hello, I would like to start helping Debian, and I can code in C. I was thinking to "adopt" Jamin, but I am going to need a "helping hand", because I am completely new to all this. Thanks in advance. Christoph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: RFS: django-picklefield

2010-03-12 Thread Michael Fladischer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jakub Wilk, 2010-03-11 21:21: > Please don't bump revision number for every upload to mentors. So should I stay with x.y-1 for the version with each upload? > Python module name is "picklefield", so the binary package name should > be "python-picklefi

Re: Getting started on Debian

2010-03-12 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Christoph Pohl wrote: > Hello, > I would like to start helping Debian, and I can code in C. > I was thinking to "adopt" Jamin, but I am going to need a "helping hand", > because I am completely new to all this. Debian has a *huge* amount of quality documentation. For packaging: http://wi

Re: RFS: django-picklefield

2010-03-12 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Michael Fladischer , 2010-03-12, 09:17: Oh, and I forgot about one more thing: tests should be run at build time, preferably with all supported Python versions. I'm no quite sure if this is feasible because the tests require a working Django installation plus database connectivity. I have to

Re: RFS: django-picklefield

2010-03-12 Thread Michael Fladischer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jakub Wilk, 2010-03-12 10:25: > That's OK, we are all here to learn. :) It's not a big deal to setup a > Django test project programmatically: Thanks, once one sees the solution it's always so obvious :-) I incorporated it using the override_dh_auto_t

RFS: gnustep-dl2 (updated package)

2010-03-12 Thread Federico Giménez Nieto
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.12.0-1 of the package "gnustep-dl2", which i intend to adopt. It builds these binary packages: gnustep-dl2 - Objective-C Classes needed for Database Access gnustep-dl2-postgresql-adaptor - gnustep-dl2 adaptor to connect to PostgreSQL

Re: RFS: django-picklefield

2010-03-12 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Michael Fladischer , 2010-03-12, 09:33: Please don't bump revision number for every upload to mentors. So should I stay with x.y-1 for the version with each upload? That's right. Python module name is "picklefield", so the binary package name should be "python-picklefield". Changed it. I

Re: New packager

2010-03-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 7:05 AM, Niels Thykier wrote: > You may want to join or/and ask Debian's Java team[1] about the java > packages - they will (also) be far better equipped for java specific > questions than the general mentors list (and can provide sponsors for > java packages); though for

RFS: lmfit

2010-03-12 Thread j . wuttke
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "lmfit". * Package name: lmfit Version : 3.1-1 Upstream Author : myself (Joachim Wuttke * URL : http://www.messen-und-deuten.de/lmfit/lmfit.html * License : public domain Section : libs It bui

RFS: lmfit - sorry, I forget to say: please put me CC

2010-03-12 Thread j . wuttke
sorry, I forget to say: please put me CC, as I am not subscribed to this list - Joachim Forschungszent

Re: RFS: lmfit

2010-03-12 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Hi, Have you sent an ITP? Unfortunately I don't think lmfit is... fit for Debian (yet): I believe it is a Debian policy to not accept libraries which are not used by any application in Debian. Furthermore, lmfit is only a tiny little bit of (useful) software. It will have a hard time sur

Gnutls for Webfs

2010-03-12 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Dear mentors, there is an old bug #395873 for Webfs asking to implement GnuTLS support instead of OpenSSL support due the problematic license. This dates back to June 2006, but never lead anywhere. I recently adopted the package and I have now implemented the desired use of GnuTLS, but I could us

Re: RFS: lmfit

2010-03-12 Thread j . wuttke
Salut Thibaut: Have you sent an ITP? not yet Unfortunately I don't think lmfit is... fit for Debian (yet): I believe it is a Debian policy to not accept libraries which are not used by any application in Debian. I cannot believe that a useful math subroutine will be rejected just because the

Re: RFS: lmfit

2010-03-12 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Thibaut Paumard , 2010-03-12, 16:35: Unfortunately I don't think lmfit is... fit for Debian (yet): I believe it is a Debian policy to not accept libraries which are not used by any application in Debian. No, this is not the case. It would be a catch-22 policy: one could not upload a new lib

Re: RFS: lmfit

2010-03-12 Thread j . wuttke
Have you sent an ITP? done: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=573584 - Joachim Forschu

Re: Gnutls for Webfs

2010-03-12 Thread Luca Bruno
Mats Erik Andersson scrisse: > I recently adopted the package and I have now implemented the > desired use of GnuTLS, but I could use a pointer as to the best > methods of provoking a failed TLS-handshake. I need this for the > in-depth testing of the new patch, but I do not find myself knowledged

Re: RFS: cppcheck, new upstream version 1.42

2010-03-12 Thread Reijo Tomperi
Reijo Tomperi wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "cppcheck". * Package name: cppcheck Version : 1.25-1 Upstream Authors: Daniel Marjamäki Reijo Tomperi * URL : http://cppcheck.wiki.sourceforge.net/ * License : GP