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

2010-06-14 Thread Tim Retout
On 14 June 2010 02:20, Ben Finney wrote: > 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

Indicator applets and related packages

2010-06-14 Thread Raphael Hertzog
[ Bcc debian-mentors as some prospective DD might be interested in packaging those ] Hello, I would like to be able to use ubuntu's indicator applets in Debian but very few of the required packages are in Debian (only libindicator is available). Here are some of the design pages if you don't kn

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

2010-06-14 Thread Ben Finney
Tim Retout writes: > I'm not particularly attached to the choice of VCS; but what I do > think is important is that people /do/ choose a VCS. Rather, I think it's important (for the good reasons you explained) that a package maintainer *use* a VCS for their packaging work. They don't have to ch

Re: RFS: debsigs (packaging updates, DMUA candidate)

2010-06-14 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 02:20:41PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.1.16 > of my package "debsigs". This is a packaging update to > bring it to the latest-and-greatest standards available :) > See below for the full changelog entry.

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

2010-06-14 Thread Jakub Wilk
Ansgar Burchardt writes: All of these notes are removed before the upload so they do not show up in the released packages. I think this is a very good method to communicate with other team members about the current state of packages. Leaving notes is a good communication method? Seriously?

RFS: vttest (updated package)

2010-06-14 Thread Wen-Yen Chuang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.7+20100528-1 of my package "vttest". (Programming language: C) The package is lintian clean. It builds the binary package: vttest vttest (2.7+20100528-1) unstable; urgency=low . * New

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

2010-06-14 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 12:25:07PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: >> Ansgar Burchardt writes: >>> I think this is a very good method to communicate with other team >>> members about the current state of packages. > Leaving notes is a good communication method? Seriously? > How about *talking* to eac

Re: question about debian/watch

2010-06-14 Thread Elías Alejandro
> 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/radiotray/radiotray-(.+)\.tar\.gz > Ok, thanks people. -- Elías -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ..

RFS: squidguard (updated package, many fixes, DMUA candidate) (3nd try)

2010-06-14 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.4-1 of my package "squidguard". it supplants the very old version 1.2. And I would be most grateful if a kind sponsor would set the DM-Upload-Allowed (DMUA) flag before uploading :) It builds these binary packages: squidguard - filt

Re: A lot of pending packages

2010-06-14 Thread Tanguy Ortolo
Le samedi 12 juin 2010, Johan Van de Wauw a écrit : > 2010/6/11 Tanguy Ortolo : > > * dokuwiki, a PHP-based wiki, that I co-maintain with a DD that has > >  almost no time to sponsor me and suggested me to find another sponsor: > >  such a package (PHP, web application) seems to interest nobody. >

Asking for DMUA: Yes while seeking first sponsor

2010-06-14 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! I noticed that recently some people seem to seek first time sponsors while asking for setting the "DM-Upload-Allowed: yes" flag at the very same time. While I can certainly understand Maintainers want to upload their packages ASAP themselves, I would like to point out that I consider that qui

Re: A lot of pending packages

2010-06-14 Thread Tanguy Ortolo
Le dimanche 13 juin 2010, Thomas Goirand a écrit : > 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

RFS: nautilus-clamscan RC bug

2010-06-14 Thread Andrew SB
The attached debdiff fixes the RC bug (BTS #539813) against nautilus-clamscan as well as all other bugs against the package. nautilus-clamscan (0.2.2-2.1) unstable; urgency=low * Non-maintainer upload. * debian/watch: Fix broken watch file. (Closes: #550765) * debian/control: - Add missi

RFS: dokuwiki (updated package)

2010-06-14 Thread Tanguy Ortolo
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.0.20091225c-4 of my package "dokuwiki". It builds these binary packages: dokuwiki - standards compliant simple to use wiki The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these Debian bugs: 404353, 572377, 572502 (pl

Re: RFS: dokuwiki (updated package)

2010-06-14 Thread nikrou77
Hi Tanguy, I noticed two things : - a warning : unused substitution variable ${perl:Depends} - an unused string in debconf template : dokuwiki/wiki/failpass Theses warnings are reported by lintian but it's certainly not valuable because lintian currently only understand shell script. Why do yo

Re: RFS: dokuwiki (updated package)

2010-06-14 Thread Tanguy Ortolo
Le lundi 14 juin 2010, nikro...@gmail.com a écrit : > I noticed two things : > - a warning : unused substitution variable ${perl:Depends} > - an unused string in debconf template : dokuwiki/wiki/failpass > > Theses warnings are reported by lintian but it's certainly not valuable > because lintian

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

2010-06-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Finney writes: > Ansgar Burchardt writes: >> All of these notes are removed before the upload so they do not show up >> in the released packages. >> >> I think this is a very good method to communicate with other team >> members about the current state of packages. This works brilliantly, b

Re: RFS: webfs (updated package)

2010-06-14 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Dear Christoph, söndag den 13 juni 2010 klockan 15:59 skrev Christoph Egger detta: > Mats Erik Andersson writes: > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.21+ds1-5 > > of my package "webfs". > > Uploaded My honest thanks for the help in uploading. That bugreport has been bugging me u

Re: RFS: xpdf (updated package)

2010-06-14 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, 6 Jun 2010 00:45:31 +0400 Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 12:24:15PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > > On Sat, 5 Jun 2010 02:20:22 +0400 Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > > > On the other hand, xpdf opens all > > > files without any problems, but can be a bit slower in scro

Re: RFS: xpdf (updated package)

2010-06-14 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sat, 5 Jun 2010 21:34:13 +0200 Tanguy Ortolo wrote: > Le samedi 05 juin 2010, Michael Gilbert a écrit : > > If you can pinpoint some example files that crash evince but work fine > > in xpdf, I will test them. So far, I have not encountered any issues > > myself. Gentoo has been shipping xpdf-

RFS: googlecl (now uploaded to mentors repo)

2010-06-14 Thread Jason Holt
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "googlecl". * Package name: googlecl Version : 0.9-2 Upstream Author : Tom H. Miller * URL : http://code.google.com/p/googlecl * License : Apache 2.0 Section : python It builds these binary pac

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

2010-06-14 Thread Felipe Sateler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 13/06/10 10:05, Tim Retout wrote: > Proposal > > > I am considering creating a new workflow for my sponsoring: > > * Maintaining packages in git in collab-maint. (I don't think we > want a separate pkg-mentors repository,

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

2010-06-14 Thread Felipe Sateler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/06/10 01:55, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > I started working on a version of PET that supports several VCS > backends, even for a single instance: all packages show up on a single > package no matter in which of the known VCS they live in. > For no

Re: RFS: marave - 2nd Attempt (Question: Royalty Free License)

2010-06-14 Thread Chris
Hi folks - Per the inspection from Paul, I mailed the folks at Partners In Rhyme about the use of the audio files from the email titled: Re: RFS: marave - 2nd Attempt There was some questioning about the copyrights that they have on their website so I thought I might try to pin down something a

Re: Asking for DMUA: Yes while seeking first sponsor

2010-06-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > I noticed that recently some people seem to seek first time sponsors > while asking for setting the "DM-Upload-Allowed: yes" flag at the very > same time. This isn't the only misuse of DMUA that exists, some people set it in th

Re: RFS: googlecl (now uploaded to mentors repo)

2010-06-14 Thread Paul Wise
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Re: RFC: Using git/collab-maint/PET for debian-mentors.

2010-06-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Felipe Sateler wrote: > The only problem I see is that PET does not really scale well to lots of > packages, the page gets quite cluttered. So I don't know if pulling the > whole collab-maint area will be of any use. I suppose that depends on how much or little w

Re: RFS: googlecl (now uploaded to mentors repo)

2010-06-14 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hello Jason, On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 02:56, Jason Holt wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "googlecl". i'm going to give it a look. In the meantime, could you please evaluate to maintain this package under the Debian Python Apps umbrella [1] ? [1] http://wiki.de

Re: RFS: googlecl (now uploaded to mentors repo)

2010-06-14 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 08:21, Jason Holt wrote: > Thank you!  Obey Arthur Liu graciously offered to sponsor the package.  But > I'm always happy to have more feedback :) Obey, next time please alert the mailing list you're already working on it. it will help not wasting time. I'll continue the

Re: RFS: googlecl (now uploaded to mentors repo)

2010-06-14 Thread Jason Holt
Thank you! Obey Arthur Liu graciously offered to sponsor the package. But I'm always happy to have more feedback :) On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Sandro Tosi wrote: > Hello Jason, > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 02:56, Jason Holt wrote: > > Dear mentors, > > > > I am looking for a sponsor for