automake and intermediate files generated by yacc, lex, valac

Hi, there are several tools that generate C source code that is later complied in object code, e.g. yacc, lex or valac. automake defaults to distribute these built intermediate files, so they are usually not regenerated during a build. This causes several problems: 1. The intermediate files mig

Re: RFS: enet

Hi, Michael Gilbert writes: > Thanks for pointing this out. I had not realized that the enet package > already exists. I have now updated the existing package to version > 1.2.1. The only change I needed to make was to fix up the freebsd patch > due to some upstream changes. But the new versi

Re: RFS: amispammer

Hi, Julián Moreno Patiño writes: > * Package name   : amispammer >   Version : 3.1-1 > > The upload would fix these bugs: 579499 I am not a DD and cannot upload your package, but though I would give some comments: · debian/rules: The override_dh_auto_install target is useless. · debian/

Re: RFS: sqlitebrowser (updated package)

Hi, [ CCed sqlitebrowser's maintainer ] Stefan Haller writes: > I upgraded the package “sqlitebrowser” to a new upstream > release. The latest release is 2.0b1. That’s why I’ve choosen > “1.9+2.0b1-1” as Debian version number. The package uses now the the > new dpkg-source format “3.0 quilt”, s

Re: RFS: dirsum

Hi, jaromil writes: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "dirsum". There was some discussion [1] on debian-de...@l.d.o what dirsum offers that du and sort do not. You might have missed it if you are not subscribed to the list. Regards, Ansgar [1]

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

Hi, Ben Finney writes: > 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 and in no VCS an

Re: How to upload packages with skipped uploads

Hi, Osamu Aoki writes: > I just uploaded xpdf and then realized I was not closing bug for the > changelog entries from un-uploaaed versions. > > I just closed them manually but what did I miss to be like this. > > Is there some trick to indicate previos upload was not the previous > version in p

Re: Package Configuration

Hi, Chris Baines writes: > Sorry for the ambiguous message subject, one of the packages I am > building creates configuration files in the users home directory. > However when I purge the package these files do not get deleted. That is how a package should behave: the package manager must never

RFS: megahal_9.1.1a-9 (QA upload, RC bugfix)

Hi, I'm looking for a sponsor for my QA upload of the megahal package. It fixes an RC bug[1] and has already been ack'ed by the release team[2]. The package can be found on mentors.d.n[3]. Regards, Ansgar [1] [2] [3]

Re: RFS: packagekit

Matthias Klumpp writes: > Before you complain about this after review: Do you know a way to disable > the automatic patch creation which was introduced with the 3.0 deb format? > PackageKit updates the documentation and other files during build. This is > not undone in make distclean, so debhelpe

Re: What is the role of system user bin?

Hi, Andreas Tille writes: > the Debian Med team tries to support the pacakging of a hostpital > management system which is based on the Mumps implementation GT.M. The > actual maintainer wants to use the system user bin as owner of the > installed files[1]. I personally have no idea for what p

Re: How to compare source package contents between revisions with 3.0 quilt format

Olivier Berger writes: > Is there a replacement for interdiff -z to be able to compare contents > of source packages, when using the 3.0 (quilt) format ? debdiff can show the changes between two *.dsc files and also works with the new source format. Regards, Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: RFS: gdisk (updated package)

Hi, Guillaume Delacour writes: > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.6.11-1 of my package > "gdisk". The version in actual frozen testing is quite old (0.5.1), > and it would be great if the last version 0.6.11 could be available in > Squeeze. The release team no longer accepts new

Re: Fwd: Build-Depends-Indep dependencies

anatoly techtonik writes: > Can anybody point me to the part of the policy where Build-Depends and > Build-Depends-Indep differences are explained? They differ in when they must be satisfied (that is for running which target in debian/rules). See Section 7.7 [1]. Regards, Ansgar [1]

Re: RFS: 9menu (updated package)

Hi, Daniel Echeverry writes: > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.8-3 of my package > "9menu". I did take a look at your package. Some comments: · debian/changelog: There is a space missing in the last line. · debian/compat: You build-depend on debhelper 7, but use compat le

Re: RFS: lightspeed (updated package)

Hi, Tony Palma writes: > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.2a-8 of my package > "lightspeed". I did take a brief look at your package (not a full review) and here are some comments: · debian/changelog: What change does * Obsolete package removed since 1.2a-6. Closes: #60135

Re: RFS: 9menu (updated package)

nd check if 9menu still works correctly. Regards, Ansgar commit 9d73b3331c3cdd8ed294760b0b7be53329c87389 Author: Ansgar Burchardt Date: Mon Nov 1 09:52:02 2010 +0100 Correct two typos in d/changelog diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 8b0c038..04cc61c 100644 --- a/

Re: RFS: hotot

chrysn writes: > * the copyright file fails to mention "The Dojo Foundation" for > data/ui/js/jquery.js Please also use the JQuery library from libjs-jquery instead of an embedded copy. Regards, Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

Re: RFS: ccbuild (updated package)

Hi, Markus Schölzel writes: > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.0.1-0.1 > of my package "ccbuild". Your NMU does not close any bugs so I don't understand why you want to upload the package. If you want a new upstream version, you should first file a bug and ask the maintainer to

Re: RFS: lightspeed (updated package)

Hi, sorry for the late reply. Tony Palma writes: > I notified the author and upload the package to mentors with a very > large patch(build-update.diff). Now I'm using > dh $@ --with autotools_dev > and their respectives overrides, to manage the updates of > config.{guess,sub}. There are still

Re: RFS: 9menu (updated package, Second try)

Hi, epsilon writes: > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.8-4 > of my package "9menu". Some comments: · Does the README provide any information relevant to the user that is not already provided elsewhere (e.g. in the copyright file)? If not, it should not be installed. · Th

Re: RFS: webhoneypot

Hi, > I: webhoneypot: unused-debconf-template > webhoneypot/note_enable_apache_config Please do not use debconf to display usage information, instead keep them in /usr/share/doc/package/README.Debian or similar[1]. Also I would not expect packages to install a virtual host configuration in

Re: RFS: webhoneypot

Hi, "Christian Pohl" writes: >> W: webhoneypot: script-not-executable >> ./usr/share/webhoneypot/update/update-templates.php > Um? it is executable Does the update script modify files shipped in the package? >> - You don't seem to have taken Ansgar's remark into account ("I would >>

Re: RFS: 9menu (updated package, Second try)

Hi, >> · Does the README provide any information relevant to the user that is >> not already provided elsewhere (e.g. in the copyright file)? >> If not, it should not be installed. > > I think that the README file is very important in any package, the > README file has important descript

Re: RFS: 9menu (updated package, Second try)

Daniel Echeverry writes: > OK, remove the 9menu.docs. Please check out again: > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/9/9menu/9menu_1.8-4.dsc Uploaded with one minor change (chmod -x debian/{patches,format}/*; somehow this sneaked in with the last upload). Thanks for your work :-) Regards

Re: RFS: tenshi (updated)

Ignace Mouzannar writes: > | * debian/postinst: > | - Changed tenshi user home directory from /var/run/tenshi to > | /var/lib/tenshi as files in /var/run are cleared at boot time. > | This made the package FTBS. Thank you Lucas Nussbaum for spotting this > | issue. > > [1]

Re: RFS: git

Hi, Jonathan Nieder writes: > The motivation is mostly Bug#600413 (gitweb dependencies are too > strict). Since Gerrit is on vacation --- see debian-private --- I am > relying on you, dear mentors. The upload already has approval from > the release managers; see [1]. I just uploaded the packa

Re: RFS: tenshi (updated)

Ignace Mouzannar writes: > On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 16:26, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> Ignace Mouzannar writes: >>> |   * debian/postinst: >>> |     - Changed tenshi user home directory from /var/run/tenshi to >>> |       /var/lib/tenshi as files

Re: RFS: tla (updated package)

Hi, Tim Gokcen writes: > In Debian Squeeze, many tla commands generate warnings from `tar` due > to using the deprecated "--preserve" option. This patch, a two-liner, > fixes that by using "--preserve-permissions" and "--preserve-order" > instead, just as `tar` 1.23 suggests. I uploaded your upd

Re: RFS: tenshi (updated)

Hi, sorry for the late reply, the mail got a bit lost at the bottom of my mailbox. Ignace Mouzannar writes: >> Upgrading from 0.11-1 fails: >> >>  Updating tenshi user's home directory ... >>  usermod: user tenshi is currently logged in > > Oops, my daemon must have not been running when I teste

Re: RFS: sciteproj (updated package)

Hi, Andreas Ronnquist writes: > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.3.16-1 > of my package "sciteproj". I uploaded your package, but still some comments: · In debian/changelog, close bugs with an appropriate entry. For the bug closed in the last upload, it should look similar

Re: RFS webhoneypot (next try)

Hi, > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "webhoneypot". [...] > - dget > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/w/webhoneypot/webhoneypot_0.1.r123-1.dsc Where does trunk/update/update-templates.php store updated files? Does it overwrite files contained in the package with newer versio

Re: RFS: LeechCraft

Hi, > Dear mentors! I'm looking for a sponsor for the > leechcraft_0.4.55.72. This is my first try to include this package in > Debian. I don't have time to do a proper review, but here are some comments: · This should not be a native package. · There is no need to repeat the Homepage and Sect

Re: RFS: tenshi (updated)

Hi, Ignace Mouzannar writes: > I have uploaded a new version of tenshi [1] including the patch > provided by Hideki Yamane about the purge issue [2]. I have > successfully tested the the patched package with piuparts. > > I was hoping you could take a final look at it. :) I uploaded the package

Re: RFS: admesh (updated package)

Hi, Anton Gladky writes: > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.95-8 > of my package "admesh". Please write informative changelog entries when closing bugs. Just "Closes: #nn" does not say much. You might want to add a small informative header to the patch as well (maybe using t

Re: RFS: admesh (updated package)

Hi, Anton Gladky writes: > I have fixed the package according to your suggestions and would be > glad if you have a look at them. The package builds fine and DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip works as well. Some issues remain (some of them are new, but all easy to change): · Please wrap long lines in

Re: RFS: admesh (updated package)

Hi, Anton Gladky writes: > I just want to ask, how do you get those warnings, for example: >> lintian: debian-changelog-line-too-long > I use the same lintian 2.4.3 and do not get this message. How do you start lintian? There are checks for both source (*.dsc) and binary (*.deb) packages and

Re: RFS: blm (updated package)

Hi, fulapol hl writes: > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.9.3-3 > of my package "blm". > > The package appears to be lintian clean. There is still a lintian tag with severity wishlist (only shown when using lintian -I): I: blm source: binary-control-field-duplicates-source fie

Re: RFS: admesh (updated package)

Hi, Anton Gladky writes: > Thanks a lot for suggestions and reviewing. > > I have updated the package again, hopefully the last time for now ;) There were two occurrences of "[LICENSE TEXT]" in debian/copyright. You just replaced the first one (my fault, I said "a" :) ). It's in my opinion more

Re: RFS: admesh (updated package)

Hi, Anton Gladky writes: > I have fixed that. I uploaded admesh to unstable. Thanks for your work :) Regards, Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian

Re: RFS: ranger

Hi, Vern Sun writes: > ranger - a free console file manager I don't know much about Python, so just some generic comments: · Please file a ITP bug for new packages, for example with `reportbug wnpp'. · You don't need to build-depend on quilt when using the new source format `3.0 (qu

Re: RFS: gridwars2

Hi, Chris Baines writes: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gridwars2". > Section : non-free/games I'm not really interested in non-free, but some comments: debian/copyright says "License: None", but to be included in the non-free section at least redistribution has to be al

Re: RFS: git-core [lenny, 1:1.5.6.5-3+lenny3.3]

Hi, Jonathan Nieder writes: > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1:1.5.6.5-3+lenny3.3 of > the package "git-core". Uploaded. Regards, Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debi

Re: RFS: gnome-icon-theme-faenza

Hi, Adnan Hodzic writes: > * Package name: faenza-icon-theme > Version : 0.8-1 [...] > I listened to and did what Julien told me to do, in tarball there's a > original tarball with all the files, while the whole procedure of > setting up GNOME main menu icons and rest of the configu

Re: RFS: liboauth (Updated package)

Hi, Bilal Akhtar writes: > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.9.4-1 > of my package "liboauth". > > It builds these binary packages: > liboauth-dev - C library for implementing OAuth 1.0 (development files) > liboauth0 - C library for implementing OAuth 1.0 I noticed you patched s

Re: RFS: liboauth (Updated package)

on why those changes were made: . liboauth (0.9.4-1.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low . * Non-maintainer upload. * Sabotage xmalloc. . The person named in the Author field signed this changelog entry. Author: Ansgar Burchardt --- The information above should follow the Patch Tagging Guideli

Re: RFS: tintii (updated package) (second try)

Hi, Daniel Echeverry writes: > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.2.3-3 > of my package "tintii". Your changes look okay, but a bit nitpicking about the changelog: + Bumped standard versions 3.9.1 Please mention when no changes were done to comply with the new policy. It makes r

Re: RFS: libnet-akamai-perl (updated package)

Hi, Alexandre De Dommelin writes: > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.14-1 > of my package "libnet-akamai-perl". You did accidentally revert all upstream changes in debian/patches/debian-changes-0.14-1. If you add --abort-on-upstream-changes to debian/source/local-options, dpkg w

Re: RFS: libnet-akamai-perl (updated package)

Hi, some minor nitpicks: · debian/control: The package description include an trailing line with just a dot. I also recommend mentioning the upstream distribution name, i.e. "Net::Akamai is a Perl module to interact...". This way it can be found when using `apt-cache search Net::Akama

Re: RFS: tintii (updated package) (second try)

Hi, Daniel Echeverry writes: >>> I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.2.3-3 >>> of my package "tintii". I just uploaded the package from mentors.d.n. Thanks for your work :) Regards, Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

Re: RFS: archivemount (updated package)

Hi, Nanakos Chrysostomos writes: > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.6.1-2 > of my package "archivemount". Please use linux-any in the Architecture field if this should be built only on the Linux ports. Hurd doesn't have fuse-utils either so it should also be dropped. Also the f

Re: RFS: dropbox

Hi, Vincent Cheng writes: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "dropbox". This package was > previously in Debian's repositories (its former maintainer was Ivan > Borzenkov ), but it was removed due to unresolved > issues with licensing. I have edited debian/copyright and fixed the > issue

Re: RFS: webhoneypot

"Christian Pohl" writes: > webhoneypot - DShield Web Honeypot Project > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/w/webhoneypot/webhoneypot_0.1.r123-1.dsc Did anything change since [1]? Regards, Ansgar [1] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: RFS: webhoneypot

Hi, Christian Pohl writes: > ---snip--- > Where does trunk/update/update-templates.php store updated files? Does > it overwrite files contained in the package with newer versions? > ---snap--- > it will overwrite files in the templates dir if a new version of this > file is on the server (See REA

Re: RFS: rgbpaint

Hi, Mats Erik Andersson writes: >> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "rgbpaint". > a week has passed without anyone volonteering to > upload a fix for a recent toolchain change. It looks okay. I have just uploaded the package. Regards, Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mento

Re: RFS: minidlna (updated package)

Michael Tautschnig writes: > Looks pretty good, and I really like the fact that multiple people seem to be > working on it, makes package maintenance a lot more future-proof :-) Built and > uploaded! > > Just one thing, though, that I don't really like, which you might want to > reconsider for the

Re: ubuntu keyring?

Paul Wise writes: > We have emdebian and DebianEdu keyrings in Debian, there is no reason > someone couldn't upload the Ubuntu keyring to Debian. Seems no-one has > cared about doing that yet though. This could be a good task for the > Ubuntu portion of the DEX group, you might want to bring it up

Re: RFS: 0ad

Hi, Vincent Cheng writes: > - package libenet1.2, and replace 0ad's build dependency on > libenet-dev with this new package We just got rid of enet 1.2 in testing a few days ago and I prefer to have just a single version per release to care about (instead of doubling the number of possible versi

Re: debhelper 7 and architecture dependent/independent packages

Hi, Marc Haber writes: > I have a package which builds one architecture dependent and one > architecture independent binary package and uses dephelper 7. Due to > the weird and kind of incomplete upstream build code, I had to > override the dh_autoinstall target with an override_dh_auto_install >

Re: How to make a meta package unremovable?

David Kalnischkies writes: > On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 22:54, Erik Schanze (Debian) wrote: >> Does anybody have an additionally idea how to solve this, to prevent the >> removal of one package without hanging on user input and prevent >> automatic inclusion in PBuilder installation? [...] > > What c

Re: RFS: qasmixer

Hi, "Sebastian H." writes: >> You should now get a mail from the archive that your package is NEW and will >> require FTPmaster approval before officially listed in the archive. > > Got it and found the package in the NEW queue. > http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html > > It shows "source" and "i

Re: dpkg status Conffiles obsolete flag?

Hi, >> I am hoping to understand the "obsolete" flag on conffiles in the dpkg >> status file. There are many packages that include this flag at the >> end of the line. For example: [...] > > They are obsolete because they no longer exist in the package. It is > the package maintainer's task to

Re: RFS: wizznic

Adam Borowski writes: > Right, I missed the .o and .dll files, counting only wizznic-x86-precompiled > and tools/releaser/data/win/curl/curl.exe (the ones mentioned by lintian). > > The dlls are libjpeg, zlib, libogg, SDL, openssl -- all DFSG free with > source already in main. The source would n

Re: RFS: dylandotnet

Hi, Dylan Borg writes: > The new package now with a -5 has been succesfuly uploaded to mentors > complete with original source. While I will not sponsor your package as I neither know nor care about .Net, I did take a short look at it and noticed several problems: - The source for several file

Re: RFS: task-spooler

Hi, David Bremner writes: > - I have a vague memory of this being discussed before, but I can't >find the discussion now. As far as I can tell, there are several >ways in which the socket setup could be improved. > >- I don't really understand why the permissions on

Re: problem with "dput debexpo" packet upload

Sam Protsenko writes: > I trying to upload new packet to mentors.debian.net, and "dput" shows > that upload was finished successfully, but then I receive email with > next message: > [...] >> Rejecting incomplate upload. You did not upload None and we didn't find it >> on either one of our backu

Re: RFS: pygame

Hi, Vincent Cheng writes: > dget -x > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/pygame/pygame_1.9.1release-2.dsc Your changes look okay, but could you please document the copyright holder and license for freesansbold.ttf[1]? You might also want to change "Debian GNU/Linux systems" to just

Re: Tracking RFSs as bugs

Hi, I do not sponsor very much, but I am a bit unhappy about having comment possibilities on both mentors.d.n and the mailing list with information not forwarded. This results in duplicate work (for example I reviewed a package that already had a review on mentors.d.n pointing out the same issues

Re: Tracking RFSs as bugs

Hi, Gergely Nagy writes: > Ansgar Burchardt writes: >> - mentors.d.n automatically closes RFS bugs for uploaded packages or >>packages that were removed from there. It may also automatically >>close inactive bugs. > > Apart from closing inactive bugs automat

Re: Tracking RFSs as bugs

Hi, Jakub Wilk writes: >>- Comments are sent to the BTS. Tags are used as follows: >> - moreinfo: Open questions or changes are required before an upload. >> - confirmed: Somebody did review the package and thinks it is >> okay. (Not needed when the package is directly uploaded.) > > Let me bik

Re: Package separation/naming conventions

Hi, Ole Streicher writes: > Is the division into main and contrib done automatically based on the > dependencies to non-free packages? No, it is done by hand using the Section field in debian/control. > And if a package requires a non-free > package to build, will it automatically go to contrib

Re: RFS: gimp-gap: fix FTBFS, libjpeg transition

Hi, Thibaut Paumard writes: > gimp-gap - animation package for the GIMP > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gimp-gap/gimp-gap_2.6.0+dfsg-2.dsc The package still fails to build in a current unstable chroot: --8<---cut here---start->8--- gcc -DHAVE

Re: RFS: gimp-gap: fix FTBFS, libjpeg transition

Hi, Thibaut Paumard writes: > thanks for having looked at the package. I have re-uploaded it on > mentors. It would be great if you could review the changes: I uploaded the package. Thanks for your work :) Regards, Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Re: RFS: pygame

Hi, Vincent Cheng writes: > All right, repacked and re-uploaded to mentors.d.n: > > $ dget -x > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/pygame/pygame_1.9.1release+dfsg-2.dsc I am not an expert on python packages, but it looks okay to me with one exception: debian/rules hardcodes python ver

Re: RFS: pygame

Vincent Cheng writes: > On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> Vincent Cheng writes: >>> All right, repacked and re-uploaded to mentors.d.n: >>> >>> $ dget -x >>> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/pygame/pygame_1.9

Re: RFS: pygame

Vincent Cheng writes: >> Could you try the other alternative then? >> > > Done. I just uploaded the package. Thanks for your work :) Regards, Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.or

Re: dmaths: 30 days waiting for sponsor (package already in Debian)

Hi, Innocent De Marchi writes: > I have updated the package dmaths to close a bug report > (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=620942) so as to fix > some lintian messages. > > Now we just need someone encourage to review the package and upload the file. Where can I find the update

Re: Upstream changelog name change

Hi, Ole Streicher writes: > my upstream package has a file "CHANGELOG" which does not get installed > by default. When I just include this file name into debian/docs, lintian > complains about "wrong-name-for-upstream-changelog". If you use debhelper compat level 7 or higher, it should add the f

Re: watch file syntax

Ole Streicher writes: > > | Normally with a watch file, the URL at http://sf.net/gentoo is > > in my case, this is http://trac.assembla.com/astrolib >

Re: RFS: libunix-mknod-perl

Hi, Bastien ROUCARIES writes: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "libunix-mknod-perl". Have you considered maintaining the package within the Perl Group[1]? Regards, Ansgar [1] -- To UNSU

Re: RFS: libunix-mknod-perl

Hi, roucaries bastien writes: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "libunix-mknod-perl". I wrote a few comments to d/changelog in the Git repository. Regards, Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Upload to stable-security

Hi, Tomasz Muras writes: > I need to upload my package [1] from unstable (version 1.9.9.dfsg2-4) to > stable-security (yes, it's already agreed with the Security Team). How > do I name it for security upload? Should I make a new entry in changelog > and with version like "1.9.9.dfsg2-4+squeeze1"?

Re: leechcraft (closes ITP bug, 33 days have passed)

Hi, Boris Pek writes: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "leechcraft". I probably won't sponsor the package, but I was wondering if it is really necessary to build 53 binary packages (if I did not miscount)? Regards, Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.de

Re: leechcraft (closes ITP bug, 33 days have passed)

Hi, Boris Pek writes: >> I probably won't sponsor the package, but I was wondering if it is >> really necessary to build 53 binary packages (if I did not miscount)? > > The short answer: yes, it is. > > Here I can cite the description from my first message: >> LeechCraft is a free open source cro

Re: RFS: yast2-devtools

Hi, Björn Esser writes: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "yast2-devtools". I'm just curious: what is this used for? Isn't YaST only used by SuSE? Regards, Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact li

Bug#648299: uscan; whitespace in filename

Package: devscripts Version: 2.10.69 Mathieu Malaterre writes: > Has anyone work with upstream tarball with a space in the filename ? > I could get uscan to work (--verbose), however --repack fails > miserably on the following file: > > http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/collab-maint/deb-maint/op

Re: Running some commands with another uid from debian/rules?

Hi, Cédric Boutillier writes: > For this package, I would need to run an instance of postgres server to > be able to run the test suite of the package. Contrary to mysqld, > postgres refuses to be run as root. I tried to use su/sudo but I get > some error when I try to build the package (with git

Re: Help needed with Conflicts/Replaces/Provides after renaming packages and reordering files

Hi, Am 30.11.2011 14:42, schrieb Andreas Tille: at request of upstream the freediams package should be reordered. The current package is in short designet like that: freediams: arch any files freediams-data: arch all files consisting of 1. drug database

Re: RFS: oggfix

Hi, Gunter Königsmann writes: > Did try to change the version number to 0.9.1-1 - which sounded great > for a non-native debian package. But this meant running into all kinds > of warnings. (debuild claims my native package has a version number > that contains a dash!) You probably forgot to pro

Re: RFS: anox

Hi, Sébastien Bertrand writes: >anox - run an application in another X server While I don't plan to sponsor this, I found a few bugs after a short look at the package: - It's hardcoded to use "xinit -- :1 vt8". - It uses /tmp in an unsafe way (eg. predictable filename). Please use on

Re: RFS: anox

Sébastien Bertrand writes: >>  - It probably does not handle whitespace in command names or >>   directories. > > It handles complex command without problem. How? anonx does app = ' '.join(sys.argv[1:]) # Pick all arguments, but calling foo "bar x" is not the same as calling foo bar

Re: How to rebuild a package with full source upload?

Hi Mr./Mrs. Name, "With No Name" writes: > in the changes/upload file I have only those three files, but I need the > > package_1.2.3.tar.gz > > too. How do I do this? See the -sa option of dpkg-buildpackage / dpkg-genchanges. Regards, Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ.

Re: RFS: scorched3d (fixes FTBFS #650579)

Hi, "Stephen M. Webb" writes: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package update for "scorched3d". > This updated fixes a FTBFS and closes RC bug #650579. Your package reverts an earlier change: scorched3d (43.2a.dfsg-5) unstable; urgency=low * Team upload. * Prepare for libjpeg8 trans

Re: RFS: xgalaga

Hi, "Stephen M. Webb" writes: > I am looking for a sponsor for my update to the package package > "xgalaga". This update fixes a number of lintian and buildd warnings > and closes #641293. I uploaded the package. Please tag it in the team's VCS. Regards, Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: RFS: qastools

Benoît Knecht writes: >> > I see the point of having one source package for all the tools, but you >> > could still make several binary packages from there (as alsa-tools does, >> > though not for every single utility I must admit). >> >> What's the size of these packages? what's their dependenci

Re: RFS: qastools - multipackage version

Am 15.12.2011 15:59, schrieb Sebastian H.: It builds those binary packages: qastools-common - QasTools: Common files qastools-qasconfig - QasTools: ALSA configuration browser qastools-qashctl - QasTools: High level Control Interface ALSA mixer qastools-qasmixer - QasTools: ALSA mixer for t

Re: RFS: policyd-weight

wer...@aloah-from-hell.de writes: >> Stable is frozen, we do not change packages there unless there is a very >> good reason to do so. The bug you are fixing does not seem to qualify as >> release critical thus we need to deal with the problem as is. > > OK, thanks for your details. I do also think

Re: RFS: parcellite 1.0.2~rc5-1 (updated package)

Hi, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio writes: > Sigh... Any one feel giving me a Christmas present? Still builds in a > clean sid chroot, still is lintian clean, and still fixes a bug > reported by a Debian user. >>>  dget -x >>> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/parcellite/parcellite_1.0.2~rc5

Re: RFS: stopmotion 0.6.2-1.2 (NMU to fix RC bugs)

Hi, Mahyuddin Susanto writes: > I am looking for a sponsor for my NMU of "stopmotion". it fixes #565056, > #606721, and #612762. [...] > dget -x > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/stopmotion/stopmotion_0.6.2-1.2.dsc > > http://bugs.debian.org/565056 > http://bugs.debian.org/606721 >

Re: RFS: policyd-weight

Hi, wer...@aloah-from-hell.de writes: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "policyd-weight". [...] > dget -x > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/policyd-weight/policyd-weight_0.1.15.2-1.dsc >From d/changelog: ++ * New upstream release ++- (Closes: #641227) The second

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