Re: Depends on -dev package

2011-08-23 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2011-08-22, Russ Allbery wrote: > "Bernhard R. Link" writes: >> * Russ Allbery [110822 19:59]: > >>> That's a fascinating point. I have never done that with any -dev >>> package, since essentially every -dev package would require that, which >>> seems rather silly. (There are almost no non-

Re: RFS: flare

2011-08-23 Thread Jan-Hendrik (hennr) Peters
Hi Vincent, thanks for your input. I will work on these issues and reupload. Anyone else got some feedback for me so far? Greetings Henner On 08/23/2011 07:05 AM, Vincent Cheng wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not a DD so I can't sponsor your package, but nevertheless I hope > the following comments/sugge

RFS: spotweb (new version)

2011-08-23 Thread Jan-Pascal van Best
Dear mentors, I've just uploaded an update to the spotweb package. Here is the Debian changelog: * Complete i18n of spotweb.templates, spotweb.templated now completely in English, added nl.po * Added VCS fields to control file * Added (almost) empty watch file to quiet lintian. Upstream does

RFS: xnoise (3nd try)

2011-08-23 Thread Tal Hadad
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "xnoise". * Package name: xnoise Version : 0.1.27-1 Upstream Author : Jörn Magens * URL : http://code.google.com/p/xnoise/ * License : GPLv2+ (with exception[0] to non-free GStreamer plugins) Sec

Re: Depends on -dev package

2011-08-23 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Russ Allbery [110822 21:47]: > There are not, so far as I know, any exceptions for -dev packages from the > normal requirements for Depends, which say simply: > > The Depends field should be used if the depended-on package is > required for the depending package to provide a significant

Re: RFS: flare

2011-08-23 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Excerpts from Jan-Hendrik (hennr) Peters's message of Mon Aug 22 07:47:10 -0400 2011: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "flare". > It's a diablo like rpg game with complete free art and code. > This is my first package, hope it's ok ;) That's really exciting! I sugges

RFS: ruby-foreigner

2011-08-23 Thread Akshay Mankar
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "ruby-foreigner". * Package name: ruby-foreigner Version : 1.1.1-1 Upstream Author : Matthew Higgins * URL : http://github.com/matthuhiggins/foreigner * License : MIT Section : ruby It bui

Re: Depends on -dev package

2011-08-23 Thread Kyle Willmon
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:57:37AM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Russ Allbery [110822 21:47]: > > and given that C -dev packages are unusable in general without libc6-dev > > installed, that would, on the surface, seem to qualify. > If you compile a program, you will usually need libc develop

Re: RFS: conky (backported package)

2011-08-23 Thread Aron Xu
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 13:31, Vincent Cheng wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my backported package "conky"; the > current version in testing fixes numerous bugs that can be found in > squeeze's version of conky. > libxnvctrl-dev does not exist in Squeeze, neither main no

RFS: assimp (3rd try)

2011-08-23 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear mentors, sponsors and fellow Debianistas, here is my third attempt to find a sponsor (or more reviewers) for my package "assimp". since the main package description has not really changed much since last friday, i will give you just a quick over

Re: RFS: open-axiom

2011-08-23 Thread David Bremner
On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:54:42 +0400, Игорь Пашев wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "open-axiom". > > * Package name: open-axiom >Version : 1.4.1+svn~2299-1 Hi Igor; Thanks for working on this, and for making a source package. You package builds OK, but it has m

Re: RFS: flare

2011-08-23 Thread Jan-Hendrik (hennr) Peters
Hi again. On 08/23/2011 07:05 AM, Vincent Cheng wrote: > - Please try to make your package lintian-clean before asking for a > RFS. As you may have noticed at [1], your package has a few warnings > that should be fixed; the first two can be fixed simply by making sure > that no line in debian/con

Re: RFS: flare

2011-08-23 Thread Jan-Hendrik (hennr) Peters
Hi. On 08/23/2011 03:53 PM, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > Excerpts from Jan-Hendrik (hennr) Peters's message of Mon Aug 22 07:47:10 > -0400 2011: >> Dear mentors, >> >> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "flare". >> It's a diablo like rpg game with complete free art and code. >> This is my first

ITP: i-news (2nd request) -- GTK-based highly graphically-configurable RSS Ticker

2011-08-23 Thread Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "i-news" (2nd request). It's now fully lintian clean. As I already mentioned, the package name choice is not definitive and I'm open to any better name (but a not too long one) that could come up... ;) This app has been previously selected

Re: RFS: flare

2011-08-23 Thread Vincent Cheng
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Jan-Hendrik (hennr) Peters wrote: > But there is another lintian warning that bugs me and I could use some > advices with this one: > W: flare: executable-not-elf-or-script usr/share/games/flare/fonts/white.png > > I checked the orig.tar.gz The file is not executa

RFS: spotweb (third version)

2011-08-23 Thread Jan-Pascal van Best
Dear mentors, On my request, upstream has added an explicit LICENSE file detailing the (BSD-3-clause) license. Up to now, the license wasn't in the source package itself. I've also changed to packaging to use debhelper instead of cdbs. The new .dsc is at http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main

Re: RFS: conky (backported package)

2011-08-23 Thread Vincent Cheng
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Aron Xu wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 13:31, Vincent Cheng wrote: >> Dear mentors, >> >> I am looking for a sponsor for my backported package "conky"; the >> current version in testing fixes numerous bugs that can be found in >> squeeze's version of conky. >>

Re: Depends on -dev package

2011-08-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Sune Vuorela writes: > On 2011-08-22, Russ Allbery wrote: >> There are not, so far as I know, any exceptions for -dev packages from the >> normal requirements for Depends, which say simply: >> The Depends field should be used if the depended-on package is >> required for the depending p

Re: Depends on -dev package

2011-08-23 Thread Russ Allbery
"Bernhard R. Link" writes: > I think this is the old general discussion what "useful" is. A pdf > viewer is not useful without a pdf file to view, still a pdf viewer > should of course not depend on some package with pdf files in it. > I think some good heuristic is usually looking at what you n

Re: RFS: flare

2011-08-23 Thread Jan-Hendrik (hennr) Peters
Hi Vincent. On 08/23/2011 08:55 PM, Vincent Cheng wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Jan-Hendrik (hennr) Peters > wrote: >>> - debian/rules: you can simply your rules file and get rid of several >>> overrides with... >>> >>> %: >>> dh $@ --buildsystem cmake --builddirectory=build >>

unable to upload

2011-08-23 Thread Gabriele
I'm trying to upload a package but every time i dput it I get no notifications. File transfers are reported to be successful. Thanks, Gabriele -- *"Egli è scritto in lingua matematica, e i caratteri son triangoli, cerchi, ed altre figure geometriche, senza i quali mezzi è impossibile a intendern

RE: unable to upload

2011-08-23 Thread Tal Hadad
Happen to me too. I guess that for all of us. It just takes time until you could see the package.(I know it sound unsure) From: phoenix1...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:42:01 +0200 Subject: unable to upload To: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org I'm trying to upload a package but every time

Re: unable to upload

2011-08-23 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Gabriele, On 23.08.2011 22:42, Gabriele wrote: > I'm trying to upload a package but every time i dput it I get no > notifications. File transfers are reported to be successful. It might be helpful to tell us what you are trying to do. We have no c

Re: unable to upload

2011-08-23 Thread Luis Henriques
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 10:42:01PM +0200, Gabriele wrote: > I'm trying to upload a package but every time i dput it I get no > notifications. > File transfers are reported to be successful. If your talking about mentors.d.o, I just uploaded a package without any problem. And it took < 1 minute t

Re: unable to upload

2011-08-23 Thread Michael Ole Olsen
#upload to debian mentors dput debexpo yourpackage_yourversion_arch.changes that worked for me about 10-15 hours ago or so. it would help if you wrote your command and its output... the package first shows up on mentors page after 2-5 minutes or so, and it might never show up if your package has

Re: RFS: xxxterm

2011-08-23 Thread Luis Henriques
Hi, On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 10:11:42PM +0100, Luis Henriques wrote: [...] Just to inform I re-uploaded the package. Basically, I corrected an issue with the copyright file (finally I have all the licenses issues sorted out!) Cheers, -- Luis Henriques -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentor

Re: unable to upload

2011-08-23 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Michael Ole, On 23.08.2011 23:19, Michael Ole Olsen wrote: > the package first shows up on mentors page after 2-5 minutes or so, and it > might never show up if your package has lots of errors I think(read the faq). No, mentors accepts every packa

Re: unable to upload

2011-08-23 Thread Gabriele
I'm using the same command that hashas been successful earlier. Command is dput debexpo pygtkplot_0.1-1_i386.changes debexpo is configured correctly, 'cause it used to work with previously issued commands. On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:09 PM, Arno Töll wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE---

Re: unable to upload

2011-08-23 Thread Alex Chiang
* Gabriele : > I'm using the same command that hashas been successful earlier. > Command is > dput debexpo pygtkplot_0.1-1_i386.changes > > debexpo is configured correctly, 'cause it used to work with previously > issued commands. Do you have an existing .upload file in your directory? /ac

Re: unable to upload

2011-08-23 Thread Gabriele
no .update file. Update seems to complete fine. On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Alex Chiang wrote: > * Gabriele : > > I'm using the same command that hashas been successful earlier. > > Command is > > dput debexpo pygtkplot_0.1-1_i386.changes > > > > debexpo is configured correctly, 'cause

Re: unable to upload

2011-08-23 Thread Alex Chiang
* Gabriele : > no .update file. Update seems to complete fine. I hope this is simply a typo and not a misunderstanding, as I asked about a .upload file, not .update. Please include your complete console log, all the output from the time you type "dput" to the end. Thanks, /ac -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: unable to upload

2011-08-23 Thread Gabriele
Here is the complete output. gabriele@gabriele-zd7000:~/Programming/python$ ls pygtkplot_* pygtkplot_0.1-1_all.deb pygtkplot_0.1-1_i386.build pygtkplot_0.1-1.diff.gz pygtkplot_0.1-1_i386.changes pygtkplot_0.1-1.dsc pygtkplot_0.1.orig.tar.gz gabriele@gabriele-zd7000:~/Programming/python$ dpu

Re: unable to upload

2011-08-23 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24.08.2011 00:32, Gabriele wrote: > Successfully uploaded packages. ... but: 20:40:31,102 ERROR [debexpo.plugins.closedbugs] Bug #12345 does not exist I agree you shouldn't crash your Debepo import by specifying an invalid bug :) - -- with kind

Re: unable to upload

2011-08-23 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24.08.2011 01:05, Arno Töll wrote: > I agree you shouldn't crash your Debepo import by specifying an invalid bug :) ^^^ Fixed but not yet pushed a bug fix for that problem. - -- with kind regards, Arno Töll

Re: RFS: eviacam

2011-08-23 Thread Cesar Mauri
Hi Kilian, Thanks for your review. The file debian/po/templates.pot has a lot of template headers still though. Please fill in all fields that are still holding bogus data. Done. Also added Catalan and Spanish translations. However, every time I run debconf-updatepo this file gets overwritte

Re: RFS: eviacam

2011-08-23 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Cesar Mauri , 2011-08-24, 00:25: I tried the dpkg-override way (I took mlocate package as reference) but I didn't find a proper way to reset ownership/permissions when the user chooses not SUID without resorting to chown/chmod commands. Thus I left the chown/chmod commands. Running chown/c

Re: RFS: ndpmon

2011-08-23 Thread John R. Baskwill
> > > While reading into your package I'm wondering about: > > 1.) ndpmon.init: >- DAEMON and INIT must be defined in /etc/default/ndpmon. I doubt > that's a good default. You should define fall-back defaults in the init > script too > >- you background start-stop-daemon during star

Re: RFS: conky (backported package)

2011-08-23 Thread Aron Xu
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 03:51, Vincent Cheng wrote: > > Conky build depends on libxnvctrl-dev | nvidia-settings, so it builds > fine on Squeeze since nvidia-settings is available and contains the > headers that conky needs (I just tried building conky with a Squeeze > VM and it worked fine). As an

Re: RFS: conky (backported package)

2011-08-23 Thread Vincent Cheng
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 10:35 PM, Aron Xu wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 03:51, Vincent Cheng wrote: >> >> Conky build depends on libxnvctrl-dev | nvidia-settings, so it builds >> fine on Squeeze since nvidia-settings is available and contains the >> headers that conky needs (I just tried build