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

2010-06-15 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hello Jason, here's my comments On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 08:15, 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 my package "googlecl". debian/changelog - given it's a NEW package, there's no need for a -

Re: RFS: rush

2010-06-15 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
söndag den 13 juni 2010 klockan 01:46 skrev Tim Retout detta: > 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 This pleases me! > project) shall have to discuss the

Re: RFS: tina (adopted, updated a lot, turned non-native)

2010-06-15 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 03:21:20AM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.1.11-1 > of the package "tina". And here goes my second attempt to adopt tina - nothing changed since the first one, just resending the RFS :) > This is an adoptio

Re: Asking for DMUA: Yes while seeking first sponsor

2010-06-15 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Paul Wise , 2010-06-15, 10:14: I'd personally like to see DMUA move from source packages to a mail bot or LDAP or something else. Same here. While I endorse the concept of Debian Maintainers, I am very unhappy with the way it is currently implemented. -- Jakub Wilk signature.asc Descript

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

2010-06-15 Thread Umang Varma
On 06/15/2010 12:46 PM, Sandro Tosi wrote: > debian/googlecl.manpages > - why manpage is called so generically 'google.1' and not googlecl.1' > given it's for the executable 'googlecl' In fact the package installs /usr/bin/google not /usr/bin/googlecl. As a not-so-experienced person, I shouldn't h

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

2010-06-15 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:00, Umang Varma wrote: > On 06/15/2010 12:46 PM, Sandro Tosi wrote: >> debian/googlecl.manpages >> - why manpage is called so generically 'google.1' and not googlecl.1' >> given it's for the executable 'googlecl' > In fact the package installs /usr/bin/google not /usr/bi

Re: Asking for DMUA: Yes while seeking first sponsor

2010-06-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:57:57AM +0200, Jakub Wilk a écrit : > * Paul Wise , 2010-06-15, 10:14: >> I'd personally like to see DMUA move from source packages to a mail bot >> or LDAP or something else. > > Same here. While I endorse the concept of Debian Maintainers, I am very > unhappy with th

Re: Asking for DMUA: Yes while seeking first sponsor

2010-06-15 Thread Ben Finney
Jakub Wilk writes: > * Paul Wise , 2010-06-15, 10:14: > > I'd personally like to see DMUA move from source packages to a mail > > bot or LDAP or something else. > > Same here. While I endorse the concept of Debian Maintainers, I am > very unhappy with the way it is currently implemented. As a De

Re: RFS: tina (adopted, updated a lot, turned non-native)

2010-06-15 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2010/6/15 Peter Pentchev : >> I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.1.11-1 >> of the package "tina". > > And here goes my second attempt to adopt tina - nothing changed > since the first one, just resending the RFS :) Thanks for the reminder! :-) >> Of course, I realize it woul

RFS: n2n Peer-to-Peer VPN network daemon (Updated package)

2010-06-15 Thread cristian paul peñaranda rojas
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.0.0~svn4035-1 of my package "n2n". It build these binary package: n2n- Peer-to-Peer VPN network daemon The package appears to be lintian clean. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net

Re: Asking for DMUA: Yes while seeking first sponsor

2010-06-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > The field should go away and be replaced with an out-of-band setting > that only a sponsor can change. Looks like there is the possibility of changing this: feel free to give us dak patches making DM saner. you will be heard. (from the #deb

Re: Asking for DMUA: Yes while seeking first sponsor

2010-06-15 Thread David Paleino
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:14:54 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > 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. > > Th

Re: Asking for DMUA: Yes while seeking first sponsor

2010-06-15 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
[I am a DM] Hi there, Even this is against the spirit of Debian Maintainer Concept, I believe this is because people are pragmatic. Speaking of experience I had to re-upload 5 times the exact same packages (GDCM) because in between each upload: - HPPA uploaded a Java package with dangling sy

Re: Asking for DMUA: Yes while seeking first sponsor

2010-06-15 Thread Hector Oron
Hello Alexander, 2010/6/14 Alexander Reichle-Schmehl : > So I think asking for DMUA:Yes while seeking an initial sponsor is just > plain wrong, as convincing a DD shouldn't be a one timer.  I therefore > ask DMs not to ask to set this flag on the first upload, and DDs not to > do so. Apologies I

Re: Asking for DMUA: Yes while seeking first sponsor

2010-06-15 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:14:54AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > This isn't the only misuse of DMUA that exists, some people set it in > their package instead of asking the sponsor to set it. Others go > further and do not mention that in debian/changelog nor in their RFS > mail. That is general

Re: Asking for DMUA: Yes while seeking first sponsor

2010-06-15 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Am 15.06.2010 12:16, schrieb Mathieu Malaterre: [..] [ uploading a package multiple times without DMUA:Yes] > Thankfully I was under the debian-med umbrella, otherwise I would > have gone mad, if every time I would have had to search for a DD. [..] Uhm... Why? I guess it's more the rule

Re: Asking for DMUA: Yes while seeking first sponsor

2010-06-15 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Am 15.06.2010 12:16, schrieb Mathieu Malaterre: > Speaking of experience I had to re-upload 5 times the exact same > packages (GDCM) because in between each upload: Why 5 times? > - HPPA uploaded a Java package with dangling symnlink, > - arm/armel updated the java package and libraries m

RFS: projectcenter.app (RC bugfix)

2010-06-15 Thread Yavor Doganov
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.5.3~20100601-2 of my package "projectcenter.app". It builds these binary packages: projectcenter.app - IDE for GNUstep Development The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 585978 The package can be

Re: Asking for DMUA: Yes while seeking first sponsor

2010-06-15 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2010-06-15, Paul Wise wrote: > This isn't the only misuse of DMUA that exists, some people set it in > their package instead of asking the sponsor to set it. Others go I guess it is unimportant who exactly writes the lines to debian/control. But the sponsor should definately agree on it being

Re: Asking for DMUA: Yes while seeking first sponsor

2010-06-15 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Mathieu Malaterre, 2010-06-15] > Thankfully I was under the debian-med umbrella, otherwise I would > have gone mad, if every time I would have had to search for a DD. well, it is hard indeed (if you want a new DD for every upload). Hint: try to ask previous sponsor first! > I completely unde

Re: Asking for DMUA: Yes while seeking first sponsor

2010-06-15 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Simon Richter, 2010-06-15] > I don't think it needs to be reflected in the changelog either, as it > doesn't really concern the packaging as such, but only upload > permissions (also, if I should set it, then I'd have to write the > changelog entry, no?). what about other DDs? I want to have a co

RFS: snap2 rsync-based backup program with GUI (with Debian source)

2010-06-15 Thread Lloyd Standish
Hello All, My previous RFS for this package was premature because I had not prepared the Debian source files. Even though the package contains no compiled code, this was a gross omission, for which I apologize. I have carefully built the Debian source files according to the documentation. H

Re: RFS: snap2 rsync-based backup program with GUI (with Debian source)

2010-06-15 Thread Norbert Preining
On Di, 15 Jun 2010, Lloyd Standish wrote: > Debian source: http://files.lstandish.com/snap2-source > > The package appears to be lintian-clean. How do you come to that idea? I unpacked your package, built it with dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot, and run lintian on the resulting package: $ ls

Re: RFS: snap2 rsync-based backup program with GUI (with Debian source)

2010-06-15 Thread Lloyd Standish
Dear Norbert, Thank you for your help with my snap2 project. The package appears to be lintian-clean. How do you come to that idea? Of course I came to that idea by running lintian (Lintian v1.24.2.1+lenny1) against the binary deb. It reported nothing (clean). I think the problem is tha

Re: Asking for DMUA: Yes while seeking first sponsor

2010-06-15 Thread Christoph Egger
David Paleino writes: > On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:14:54 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > >> 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

Re: Asking for DMUA: Yes while seeking first sponsor

2010-06-15 Thread Christoph Egger
Alexander Reichle-Schmehl writes: > [..] > [ uploading a package multiple times without DMUA:Yes] > >> Thankfully I was under the debian-med umbrella, otherwise I would >> have gone mad, if every time I would have had to search for a DD. > [..] > > Uhm... Why? I guess it's more the rule than th

Re: RFS: snap2 rsync-based backup program with GUI (with Debian source)

2010-06-15 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2010-06-15, Lloyd Standish wrote: > It did not occur to me to check for gtkdialog in Sid (it is available > in Lenny http://packages.debian.org/lenny/gtkdialog). So, until > there is a gtkdialog package in Sid, snap2 cannot run. This is a > great disappointment - I put a lot of effort into

Re: Asking for DMUA: Yes while seeking first sponsor

2010-06-15 Thread Andres Mejia
On Tuesday 15 June 2010 05:42:43 Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > > The field should go away and be replaced with an out-of-band setting > > that only a sponsor can change. > > Looks like there is the possibility of changing this: > > feel free to give us

Re: Asking for DMUA: Yes while seeking first sponsor

2010-06-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise writes: > Ben Finney wrote: >> The field should go away and be replaced with an out-of-band setting >> that only a sponsor can change. > Looks like there is the possibility of changing this: > feel free to give us dak patches making DM saner. you will be heard. > (from the #debian-

RFS: qhimdtransfer - transfer software for MiniDisc

2010-06-15 Thread Adrian Glaubitz
Dear mentors, I have already posted this earlier but since I haven't yet found a sponsor for my package, I'll give it another try since I think that this software will proof very useful for a lot of users. qhimdtransfer is part of the software developed by a couple of people around me within the

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

2010-06-15 Thread Chris
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:55:00 -0500 Chris wrote: > 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

Re: RFS: snap2 rsync-based backup program with GUI (with Debian source)

2010-06-15 Thread Norbert Preining
On Di, 15 Jun 2010, Lloyd Standish wrote: > Of course I came to that idea by running lintian (Lintian v1.24.2.1+lenny1) > against the binary deb. It reported nothing (clean). I think the problem is > that I am running the Debian stable (Lenny) version of dpkg-dev, and you are > probably runnin

Re: RFS: snap2 rsync-based backup program with GUI (with Debian source)

2010-06-15 Thread Lloyd Standish
Norbert, Thanks very much for pointing out how lintian is used to check a source package. I would have seen this if I had read the lintian man page carefully. I looked at zenity. From the man page which describes the command line options, I don't think it is capable of a complex dialog with

Re: RFS: qhimdtransfer - transfer software for MiniDisc

2010-06-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 5:09 AM, Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > qhimdtransfer is part of the software developed by a couple of people > around me within the linux-minidisc project [1]. You might want to join the multimedia team: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debi