How to deal with reviews in mentors.debian.net and repositories for new packaging work

2014-02-26 Thread Emmanuel Kasper
I have uploaded a package on mentors.debian.net, and I got some review of my package suggesting some modifications (http://mentors.debian.net/package/vmtouch) Now that I have done the suggested changes, should I rather: A) delete the old package, upload a new one with same version number (and lose

Re: How to deal with reviews in mentors.debian.net and repositories for new packaging work

2014-02-26 Thread Daniel Lintott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 26 February 2014 09:55:44 GMT+00:00, Emmanuel Kasper wrote: >I have uploaded a package on mentors.debian.net, and I got some review >of my package suggesting some modifications >(http://mentors.debian.net/package/vmtouch) > >Now that I have do

Re: How to deal with reviews in mentors.debian.net and repositories for new packaging work

2014-02-26 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Feb 26, 2014 10:56 AM, "Emmanuel Kasper" wrote: > I have also read on the list that some mentors like to have a link to a > VCS to review the pacaking work. Is it possibile to host the packaging > work on alioth when you're not a Debian Developper ? > Sure, but you need a DD to advocate you. S

Re: How to deal with reviews in mentors.debian.net and repositories for new packaging work

2014-02-26 Thread Bertrand Marc
Le 26/02/2014 10:55, Emmanuel Kasper a écrit : > Is it possibile to host the packaging > work on alioth when you're not a Debian Developper ? You need to create a guest account on Alioth and then you will be able to use a personal git repository [1]. Joining collab-maint is also an option, but it

Re: How to deal with reviews in mentors.debian.net and repositories for new packaging work

2014-02-26 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:55:44AM +0100, Emmanuel Kasper wrote: > I have also read on the list that some mentors like to have a link to a > VCS to review the pacaking work. Is it possibile to host the packaging > work on alioth when you're not a Debian Developper ? Yes, though you need a DD advoca

Re: How to deal with reviews in mentors.debian.net and repositories for new packaging work

2014-02-26 Thread Ross Gammon
On 02/26/2014 11:23 AM, Daniel Lintott wrote: >> I have also read on the list that some mentors like to have a link to a >> VCS to review the pacaking work. Is it possibile to host the packaging >> work on alioth when you're not a Debian Developper ? > >> I know for instance NetBSD has an extra C

Re: How to deal with reviews in mentors.debian.net and repositories for new packaging work

2014-02-26 Thread Emmanuel Kasper
Le 26/02/2014 11:35, Bertrand Marc a écrit : > Le 26/02/2014 10:55, Emmanuel Kasper a écrit : >> Is it possibile to host the packaging work on alioth when you're >> not a Debian Developper ? > > You need to create a guest account on Alioth and then you will be > able to use a personal git reposito

Re: How to deal with reviews in mentors.debian.net and repositories for new packaging work

2014-02-26 Thread Ross Gammon
On 02/26/2014 12:03 PM, Emmanuel Kasper wrote: > Le 26/02/2014 11:35, Bertrand Marc a écrit : >> Le 26/02/2014 10:55, Emmanuel Kasper a écrit : >>> Is it possibile to host the packaging work on alioth when you're >>> not a Debian Developper ? >> >> You need to create a guest account on Alioth and t

Re: How to deal with reviews in mentors.debian.net and repositories for new packaging work

2014-02-26 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:03:58PM +0100, Emmanuel Kasper wrote: > advocate will likely accept only if package is already in debian ... Not necessarily. -- WBR, wRAR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Maintainer scripts: execute command as another user: use sudo or su?

2014-02-26 Thread Emilien Klein
Hi Mentors, TLDR: in order to execute a command as another user, should `sudo` or `su --command` be used? I'd like to get your opinion on how to best solve this issue: I've got a package [0] that uses dbconfig-common to manage its database. The database is owned by a specific user (not root). I

Re: Maintainer scripts: execute command as another user: use sudo or su?

2014-02-26 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 26/02/2014 16:07, Emilien Klein a écrit : > Hi Mentors, > > TLDR: in order to execute a command as another user, should `sudo` or > `su --command` be used? > > > I'd like to get your opinion on how to best solve this issue: > I've got a package [0] that uses dbconfig-common to manage its > da

Bug#740193: RFS: haskell-setlocale/0.0.3-1 [ITP]

2014-02-26 Thread Sven Bartscher
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist * Package name: libghc-setlocale Version : 0.0.3 Upstream Author : Lukas Mai * URL : http://hackage.haskell.org/package/setlocale * License : PublicDomain Programming Lang: haskell Description : Haskell b

Bug#739585: marked as done (RFS: qjoypad/4.1.0-1 ITP)

2014-02-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 26 Feb 2014 23:02:15 +0100 with message-id <20140226230215.6b979...@heffalump.sk2.org> and subject line Re: Bug#739585: RFS: qjoypad/4.1.0-1 ITP has caused the Debian Bug report #739585, regarding RFS: qjoypad/4.1.0-1 ITP to be marked as done. This means that you claim that

Re: Maintainer scripts: execute command as another user: use sudo or su?

2014-02-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Emilien Klein writes: > TLDR: in order to execute a command as another user, should `sudo` or > `su --command` be used? su. You don't want to depend on sudo to ensure that it's available, since package users may not want sudo installed on their systems. (I tend not to install it on servers mys

Bug#737493: RFS: iceowl-l10n/2.6.4-1 [NMU]

2014-02-26 Thread Vincent Cheng
Control: tag -1 + moreinfo On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Jerome Charaoui wrote: > reopen 737493 > thanks > > Hi, > > I'm reopening this RFS as the maintainer has given the OK for a NMU to > experimental. See : > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=693150#111 > > Package is still

Bug#737493: RFS: iceowl-l10n/2.6.4-1 [NMU]

2014-02-26 Thread Jerome Charaoui
> A NMU + new upstream release should be versioned with -0.1, e.g. > iceowl-l10n 2.6.4-0.1. Fixed. > Some of the patches are empty; is this intentional? > dpkg-source: warning: diff > `iceowl-l10n-2.6.4/debian/patches/Brand-es-ES.patch' doesn't contain > any patch > dpkg-source: warning: diff >

Bug#714087: marked as done (RFS: ipmiutil/2.9.2-1 [ITP])

2014-02-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Thu, 27 Feb 2014 04:29:19 + with message-id and subject line closing RFS: ipmiutil/2.9.2-1 [ITP] has caused the Debian Bug report #714087, regarding RFS: ipmiutil/2.9.2-1 [ITP] to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is

Bug#725862: marked as done (RFS: django-haystack/2.1.0-1 [ITP] -- database and form RGB color fields for Django)

2014-02-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Thu, 27 Feb 2014 04:29:17 + with message-id and subject line closing RFS: django-haystack/2.1.0-1 [ITP] -- database and form RGB color fields for Django has caused the Debian Bug report #725862, regarding RFS: django-haystack/2.1.0-1 [ITP] -- database and form RGB color fi

Bug#733455: marked as done (RFS: grap/1.44-1 [ITA] -- program for typesetting graphs)

2014-02-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Thu, 27 Feb 2014 04:29:18 + with message-id and subject line closing RFS: grap/1.44-1 [ITA] -- program for typesetting graphs has caused the Debian Bug report #733455, regarding RFS: grap/1.44-1 [ITA] -- program for typesetting graphs to be marked as done. This means that