Re: RFS: rush

2010-06-13 Thread George Danchev
Tim Retout writes: > On 4 June 2010 10:45, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: > > I am seeking an __active__ sponsor for this package. > > I'm afraid it seems you're stuck with me. ;) At DebConf we (the > project) shall have to discuss the sponsoring situation. I will not be attending debconf10, but h

Re: RFS: emu8051

2010-06-13 Thread Bhavani Shankar R
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Bhavani Shankar R wrote: > > > On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Johan Van de Wauw < > johan.vandew...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I am not a devian developer, so I can not sponser your upload, however >> here are some comments: >> debian/control: XSBC-original maintain

Re: RFS: presage

2010-06-13 Thread Matteo Vescovi
Paul Wise wrote: On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 5:51 AM, Matteo Vescovi wrote: I am looking for a sponsor/reviewer for my package "presage". Here is a review: Many thanks for reviewing my package. I started off fixing the reported issues with debian (quilt) patches, but soon realized

Re: RFS: pgfouine (updated package)

2010-06-13 Thread Tim Retout
On 31 May 2010 22:35, Luis Uribe wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.2-1 > of my package "pgfouine". I'd be interested in sponsoring this, or you might also be interested in the pkg-postgres team. Please write your changelog entries in the same style as th

Re: A lot of pending packages

2010-06-13 Thread nikrou77
Hi all, I don't agree with you on the reasons. The thing is, PHP applications in Debian aren't made to support multiple instance. The result being that it doesn't make sense to use them, because you wont be able to have more than a single site with it. If there was a move toward multiple instanc

Re: RFS: rush

2010-06-13 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* George Danchev [100613 09:33]: > * the easy part: there is nothing wrong for non-DD to ask in advance if there > are interested sponsor(s) of the piece of software they intend to package or > adopt, especially with large and complex pieces. That would avoid wasting > their time. I don't know ab

sponsorship, asking before packaging (was: Re: RFS: rush)

2010-06-13 Thread Tim Retout
On 13 June 2010 12:47, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * George Danchev [100613 09:33]: >> * the easy part: there is nothing wrong for non-DD to ask in advance if there >> are interested sponsor(s) of the piece of software they intend to package or >> adopt, especially with large and complex pieces. Th

Re: RFS: presage

2010-06-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Matteo Vescovi wrote: > Paul Wise wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 5:51 AM, Matteo Vescovi >> wrote: ... > Right, I modified presage build system to use the system libtinyxml rather > than the embedded copy. It would be good to get that removed upstream too. Unti

Re: RFS: webfs (updated package)

2010-06-13 Thread Christoph Egger
Mats Erik Andersson writes: > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.21+ds1-5 > of my package "webfs". Uploaded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debi

Re: RFS: ziproxy (updated package)

2010-06-13 Thread Christoph Egger
Hi! I've just uploaded ziproxy! Regards Christoph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87wru3auyg@chillida.ipv6.sieglitzhof.net

RFC: Using git/collab-maint/PET for debian-mentors.

2010-06-13 Thread Tim Retout
[Please excuse the long email. I welcome comments.] There has been some recent discussion on debian-mentors about the difficulties being faced by contributors seeking sponsorship, i.e. that DDs willing to sponsor packages are short on time and/or motivation. In my view, this is an important issue

Re: RFC: Using git/collab-maint/PET for debian-mentors.

2010-06-13 Thread George Danchev
Quoting "Tim Retout" : [Please excuse the long email. I welcome comments.] Hi, a lot of helpful technical details, already used for years [1] (though I don't know what PET is), however I still can't see how the 'splitted brain syndrome' is dealt with, the logical problem, i.e. mentee X

Re: RFC: Using git/collab-maint/PET for debian-mentors.

2010-06-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Tim Retout wrote: >      * Maintaining packages in git in collab-maint. (I don't think we >        want a separate pkg-mentors repository, because once people >        graduate from mentors they would feel compelled to move away.) As said on IRC, "cue anti-git f

RFS: mcron

2010-06-13 Thread Dale Mellor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "mcron". * Package name: mcron Version : 1.0.5-1 Upstream Author : Dale Mellor * URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/mcron * License : GPLv3 Section

Re: RFS: mcron

2010-06-13 Thread Christoph Egger
Hi! Dale Mellor writes: > The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: > - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/mcron > - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main > contrib non-free > - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/mcron/mcro

question about debian/watch

2010-06-13 Thread Elías Alejandro
Hi all, I'm working with the new radiotray's version (http://sourceforge.net/projects/radiotray/files/) , it's new version 0.6, however doing: uscan --verbose it just show me: -- Scanning for watchfiles in . -- Found watchfile in ./debian -- In debian/watch, processing watchfile line: http://sf

Re: question about debian/watch

2010-06-13 Thread Christoph Egger
Hi! Elías Alejandro writes: > Hi all, > I'm working with the new radiotray's version > (http://sourceforge.net/projects/radiotray/files/) , it's new version > 0.6, however > doing: uscan --verbose it just show me: > Newest version on remote site is 0.5.1, local version is 0.6 > => remote site d

Re: question about debian/watch

2010-06-13 Thread José Manuel Santamaría Lema
On Domingo 13 Junio 2010 20:53:23 Christoph Egger escribió: > Hi! > > Elías Alejandro writes: > > Hi all, > > I'm working with the new radiotray's version > > (http://sourceforge.net/projects/radiotray/files/) , it's new version > > 0.6, however > > doing: uscan --verbose it just show me: > > >

git-buildpackage and multiple source tarballs

2010-06-13 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, I have a small package which is currently in the process to being converted to 3.0 (quilt) with multiple original tarballs, thanks to upstream's decision to ship the single 31 KB manpage in its own tarball. I maintain the Debian packaging in git and used to use git-buildpackage. Do I see cor

Re: RFS: emu8051

2010-06-13 Thread Praveen A
2010/6/13 Bhavani Shankar R : > I would be glad if someone from pkg-electronics or mentors reviews the > package and uploads the package for me you have to send a mail to pkg-electronics-devel list if you want some one in that team to review and upload your package http://lists.alioth.debian.org/

RFS: bubblemon

2010-06-13 Thread Adam Sjøgren
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my updated package of "bubblemon". * Package name: bubblemon Version : 2.0.15-1 Upstream Author : Johan Walles * URL : http://www.nongnu.org/bubblemon/ * License : GPL 2.0 Section : gnome It builds this

RFS: amavisd-milter

2010-06-13 Thread Harald Jenny
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "amavisd-milter". * Package name: amavisd-milter Version : 1.5.0-1 Upstream Author : Petr Rehor * URL : http://amavisd-milter.sourceforge.net/ * License : BSD Section : mail It builds these bin

Re: RFC: Using git/collab-maint/PET for debian-mentors.

2010-06-13 Thread Ben Finney
Paul Wise writes: > As said on IRC, "cue anti-git flamage". In debian we use a multitude > of version control systems and we shouldn't impose choice of a > specific VCS nor force people to use a VCS. I personally maintain > packages in git, in SVN and in no VCS and prefer either no VCS or SVN > f

Re: question about debian/watch

2010-06-13 Thread Ben Finney
Elías Alejandro writes: > as you see, my debian/watch is: > version=3 > http://sf.net/radiotray/radiotray-(.*)\.tar\.gz Unrelated to the problem you're reporting, but a minor point: Your regex could be tighter (it's best to be as specific as feasible in a regex). I suggest: http://sf.net/ra

Re: RFC: Using git/collab-maint/PET for debian-mentors.

2010-06-13 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Ben Finney writes: > Paul Wise writes: > >> As said on IRC, "cue anti-git flamage". In debian we use a multitude >> of version control systems and we shouldn't impose choice of a >> specific VCS nor force people to use a VCS. I personally maintain >> packages in git, in SVN and in no VCS an

Re: RFC: Using git/collab-maint/PET for debian-mentors.

2010-06-13 Thread Ben Finney
Ansgar Burchardt writes: > Ben Finney writes: > > > I'm not sure what “coordinating via notes at the top of > > debian/changelog” means. Bear in mind that the changelog is > > primarily for communicating package changes *to users* of those > > packages. > > The Perl Group makes use of this: in t