Re: Another Newby question - was - Re: Real newbie ....

2014-04-18 Thread Tobias Frost
Am Donnerstag, den 17.04.2014, 15:20 +0100 schrieb Barry Drake: > On 15/04/14 15:08, Barry Drake wrote: > > Just to let you know it worked 'out of the box', and I now have > > packages that seem OK. pbuilder is a very different animal under > > debian. The behaviour in Ubuntu is totally differe

Bug#745126: RFS: passwordsafe/0.93+dfsg-1 [ITP]

2014-04-18 Thread Bill Blough
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "passwordsafe" * Package name: passwordsafe Version : 0.93+dfsg-1 Upstream Author : Rony Shapiro * URL : http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/ * License

Bug#726490: sponsorship-requests: ethstatus/0.4.4 [ITA]

2014-04-18 Thread Vincent Cheng
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 6:18 AM, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote: > On 12 April 2014 09:46, Vincent Cheng wrote: >> Control: tag -1 + moreinfo >> >> On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 4:55 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: >>> You wrote: >>> >>> * Upstream is the same as Debian maintainer. >>> Therefore, build

Bug#745135: RFS: mariadb-10.0/10.0.10-1 [ITP] -- Latest version of worlds most popular non-Oracle database

2014-04-18 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "mariadb-10.0" * Package name: mariadb-10.0 Version : 10.0.10-1 Upstream Author : MariaDB Foundation * URL : http://mariadb.org/ * License : GPLv2

Bug#741644: RFS: keyringer/0.3.2-1 -- Distributed secret management using GnuPG and Git

2014-04-18 Thread intrigeri
Silvio Rhatto wrote (17 Apr 2014 21:24:29 GMT) : > I also got swamped with work and it's still hard to find when I should > ask for a new release to be uploaded into Debian. I suggest just closing this RFS bug, then. Cheers, -- intrigeri | GnuPG key @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrig

Bug#745135: RFS: mariadb-10.0/10.0.10-1 [ITP] -- Latest version of worlds most popular non-Oracle database

2014-04-18 Thread Tobias Frost
Hallo Otto, (disclaimer: I cannot sponsor it, I'm not a DD) Am Freitag, den 18.04.2014, 13:20 +0300 schrieb Otto Kekäläinen: > More information about MariaDB packaging can be obtained by asking > me by e-mail, I promise to reply quickly. > > The packaging is very similar to that of mariadb-5

Re: RFS: vim-subtitles, vim-srt, vim-sub, vim-mpsub

2014-04-18 Thread Sven Wick
Well, time flies :-) I changed the package now to a single binary package http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/v/vim-subtitles/vim-subtitles_1.0-1.dsc It looks much better to me now, and maybe someone would sponsor it or has some advice if the package is still in a bad shape... Cheers,

Re: Another Newby question - was - Re: Real newbie ....

2014-04-18 Thread Barry Drake
On 18/04/14 09:04, Tobias Frost wrote: https://wiki.debian.org/PbuilderTricks#How_to_include_local_packages_in_the_build I've worked through it and it 'nearly works'. Unfortunately the command: 'apt-ftparchive packages . > libsword-common_1.7.3+dfsg-1_all.deb libsword-dev_1.7.3+dfsg-1_i386.

Guidance for a Newbie wanting to contribute to Debian

2014-04-18 Thread Jeremy Davis
Hi all, Hopefully this is a good place to be posting this! Please feel free to recommend a better place! I'd like to start with a bit of background (as I think it sets the scene for my more specific questions, however if it's all tl;dr my specific questions are under the heading 'Specifics' lower

Re: Guidance for a Newbie wanting to contribute to Debian

2014-04-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Jeremy Davis wrote: > So as TurnKey is based on Debian It might be interesting for TurnKey to join the Debian derivatives census: https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census > it seems like a no brainer to get involved with Debian more closely. > But even after r