Re: Bug#457477: devscripts: [tagpending] Did not tag the bug.

2007-12-23 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 09:10:41PM +, Julien Cristau a écrit : The problem is not bts, or tagpending, or the BTS. The problem is that your MTA is not configured correctly. With exim, which you appear to be using, see /etc/email-addresses. Le

Re: Bug#457477: devscripts: [tagpending] Did not tag the bug.

2007-12-23 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 04:57:12PM -0500, Asheesh Laroia a écrit : If your ISP has an SMTP server you can use as a relay, which is almost always the case, configuring your Exim to go through that should be fairly easy. That should eliminate these

Re: Bug#457477: devscripts: [tagpending] Did not tag the bug.

2007-12-25 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 05:11:56PM -0500, Asheesh Laroia a écrit : My laptop runs an SMTP server on localhost port 25 that, when it receives mail, opens an SSH tunnel to a machine that *does* know it's ISP's SMTP server, and talks to tha

Re: alpine_1.0+dfsg-2_source.changes REJECTED

2008-01-12 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Dear Mentors, I'm a Debian Maintainer now and am uploading a new release of my package alpine, for which I successfully uploaded 1.0+dfsg-1 to the archive. I noticed that according to http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?pkg=alpine , the Debian archive never builds i386 packages. To my surpri

Re: alpine_1.0+dfsg-2_source.changes REJECTED

2008-01-12 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Rejected: source only uploads are not supported. That's exactly the point: at the moment, source-only uploads are REJECTED. You have to provide at least the binaries for one architecture. Interesting. Is there a reason for this policy, or is it ju

Re: alpine_1.0+dfsg-2_source.changes REJECTED

2008-01-12 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 11:51:14AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: ISTR it was intended to ensure the package at least builds fine in the developer's environment, to reduce FTBFSes. I wasn't there at that time though, but I've been told several times

Re: alpine_1.0+dfsg-2_source.changes REJECTED

2008-01-12 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, Cyril Brulebois wrote: On 12/01/2008, Asheesh Laroia wrote: I realize that the "arch: all" packages would need technical attention before the policy can be realized in practice, and there may be other small technical issues to work out, but I imagine there are so

Re: alpine_1.0+dfsg-2_source.changes REJECTED

2008-01-13 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, Bernhard R. Link wrote: * Asheesh Laroia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080112 11:41]: That's exactly the point: at the moment, source-only uploads are REJECTED. You have to provide at least the binaries for one architecture. Interesting. Is there a reason for this po

Re: Sponsor for existing libapache-mod-* packages.

2008-01-27 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Andreas Wenning wrote: Hi I have 3 packages which is unusable in lenny+sid as apache has been removed; I've repackaged those with support for apache2. I'm looking for a sponsor(s) for all three of them: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=429126 http://bugs

Re: NMU package: bitcollider

2008-03-04 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Salvatore Ansani wrote: Hi guys, I made a new version of bitcollider package (revision: 0.6.0-1.1). Can I safely upload it on mentors ?? I need to respect any policy before upload ?? I sent an email to old mantainer but I didn't receive any response. As I understand thi

RFH: liblicense: dpkg-shlibdeps: failure: couldn't find library

2008-03-14 Thread Asheesh Laroia
I'm working on a package of the last release of liblicense. The liblicense source package generates liblicense.so.1 in a liblicense1 package and a program /usr/bin/license that links to liblicense.so.1 to do its job. liblicense, by means of background, is a C library. Its mission in life is

Re: RFH: liblicense: dpkg-shlibdeps: failure: couldn't find library

2008-03-14 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: Asheesh Laroia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: When building this dsc <http://asheesh.org/debian/pool/main/libl/liblicense/liblicense_0.5.1-1.dsc>, I get at the end of the build: dpkg-shlibdeps: failure: couldn't find library liblicen

Re: RFH: liblicense: dpkg-shlibdeps: failure: couldn't find library

2008-03-14 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 15 Mar 2008, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 01:46:42PM -0700, Asheesh Laroia a écrit : I'm working on a package of the last release of liblicense. The liblicense source package generates liblicense.so.1 in a liblicense1 package and a program /usr/bin/license that

More RFH: liblicense: Module symbols "found in none of the libraries"

2008-03-31 Thread Asheesh Laroia
I'm (still) working on packaging liblicense. http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-mentors@lists.debian.org/msg54877.html has the previous discussion. Thanks to everyone who helped. To give a quick summary, liblicense is a library that reads and writes license metadata out of e.g. MP3, Ogg Vorbi

Re: RFS: ext3grep

2008-04-12 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 12 Apr 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi world, I am about to upload a fixed package for review, but I have a question - I spoke to the author of ext3grep about backtrace.cc and the other GPLv3 files, and he informed me that that was an oversight when he switched the license from GPLv

Re: RFS: ext3grep

2008-04-13 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sun, 13 Apr 2008, Carlo Wood wrote: On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 08:48:33PM -0700, Asheesh Laroia wrote: Is the Right Thing to do here to modify the orig.tar.gz to contain the GPLv2 files, to have a patch modify the license headers appropriately (eww) at compile-time, or something else? The

Re: RFS: atmailopen

2008-06-22 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Giuseppe Iuculano wrote: First I tried tu use debian pear linking /usr/share/php to /usr/share/atmailopen/libs/PEAR, but unfortunately atmail doesn't work, just a white page... Usually the PHP error log can show the problems here; perhaps you can turn up the debug level

Re: Use of hfsprogs in Ubuntu

2008-06-29 Thread Asheesh Laroia
all, thank you very much for your reply. I'm sorry that I could not reply earlier. No trouble! Long-awaited replies are the Debian Way! (-; On Jun 21 2008, Asheesh Laroia wrote: I got this mail because I'm on debian-powerpc. Nice. I still have a PPC notebook (a G3 notebook) and

Re: RFS: genwebgallery

2008-07-04 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Fri, 4 Jul 2008, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: Hi, On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 07:29:49PM +0200, markus schnalke wrote: But back to `genwebgallery': I think packages should be like programs according to the Unix philosophy: - small and simple - do one thing well I would usually agree with you, b

Re: Updating Debian Package

2008-08-26 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Kruti wrote: Hi!! Can someone suggest me some good links which will help me out to know how to update a debian package and also how to make sure that through apt-get the updated package only will be installed.. You should check out http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debia

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-19 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Stephan Hermann wrote: What you are suggesting is already there. It's called "hct" and it's keybuks child. So, seeing this in an environment of Ubuntu: I think (or I hope) hct will be included in launchpad, and then we will include some parts of REVU3 (I hope :)) into laun

mdf2iso already packaged in Ubuntu Universe

2005-12-28 Thread Asheesh Laroia
A few months back, I filed the ITP Bug#310876 . Just as I'm finally uploading this to mentors.debian.net and about to look for a sponsor, I discovered that Lukas Fittl had packaged this in Ubuntu Universe. Lukas, do you plan to upload it to Debian, too? If not,

RFS: cue2toc

2006-01-07 Thread Asheesh Laroia
I believe that file format compatibility is something Free Software should strive toward, and I would love to see cue2toc be sponsored! CUE is a common format for describing CDs' table-of-contents. cue2toc is a program to convert the common CUE file format into the TOC format that cdrdao can

Re: RFS: cue2toc

2006-01-09 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: Dear Sheesh, There is a cue2toc that is included with cdrdao (in the etch version of cdrdao) is this the same/better? I've spoken with asuffield, the cdrdao maintainer. It appears the cdrdao upstream distributes an old version of cue2toc, and

Re: Extra debian repository

2006-01-14 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Bas Wijnen wrote: You should somehow sign your own archive and add your public key to apt's keyring (I'm guessing it's in /usr/share/keyrings or /usr/share/apt). I haven't done anything like that though, but I suppose the internet can tell you a bit more. :-) http://wik

RFC: Packaging converters from ${format} to ISO

2006-01-15 Thread Asheesh Laroia
I want to package mdf2iso and b5i2iso, two small utilities that convert proprietary programs' CD image formats into the normal ISO format that cdrecord and Linux's iso9660 filesystem accept. There are at least half a dozen such utilities that would be useful. I could: * create ITPs for all o

Re: Problem compiling new upstream version, what to do?

2006-01-17 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Stan Vasilyev wrote: I'm trying to package the new version of xdialog: Xdialog-2.1.2. The upstream tarball doesn't compile on my system. When I run configure and make I get: RANLIB@: Command not found I found a way to fix that error by running autogen.sh in the source tr

Re: How to 'su' to root from a script using Xdialog?

2006-03-27 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Michelle Konzack wrote: I like to have a Dialog which tell the $USER: "This programm requires root permission. Please enter the password:" GNOME programs tend to use "gksu" for this. You might find it would be appropriate for you to use in your program, too. KDE provide

Re: kqemu package

2006-04-10 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Colin Tuckley wrote: Adam Borowski wrote: The problem is, you are not allowed to distribute kqemu. So, the only thing you will be legally permitted to do with your package will be installing it on any number of machines under your control. Why not? According to the sou

Re: proper way to package mozilla extensions

2006-04-24 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: 1. There are two possible packaging schemes a. Keep only original .xpi in the .orig.tar.gz, and extract/dpatch it at build time. b. Keep unzipped .xpi in .orig.tar.gz. I was going the b. way but now I think that keeping original .xpi would

Re: optional building of a package

2006-06-02 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 3 Jun 2006, Charles Plessy wrote: However, I was wondering wether it would make sense to provide to the Debian user a mean to install the extra programs from the Debian sources. Is there a way to make the source package able to produce a probcons-extra package, but only optionaly? On

RFS: ccd2iso (ITP #373150)

2006-06-17 Thread Asheesh Laroia
ccd2iso is a program to convert CloneCD images to normal .iso CD image files. It's helpful for users who have made CloneCD images of discs that they want to use in a Free OS. I've packaged it and would like comments or (preferably!) someone to sponsor this upload. It's lintian and Linda clea

Re: RFS: ccd2iso (ITP #373150)

2006-06-17 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 17 Jun 2006, Alec Berryman wrote: Asheesh Laroia on 2006-06-17 15:03:22 -0400: I want to add that there are a lot of these little *2iso programs, and most of them are dead upstream because they are simple, well-tested programs that are complete. Someone on #debian-mentors suggested

Re: RFS: ccd2iso (ITP #373150)

2006-06-17 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 17 Jun 2006, Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote: Hi Asheesh, Sounds good to have this. Hi! Thanks for the quick reply! Anyway, the package may use debhelper compatibility level 5, but that would make Sarge backports a very bit 'harder'. Right, I think it's better to use debhelper compatibil

Re: RFS: ccd2iso (ITP #373150)

2006-06-17 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 17 Jun 2006, Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote: On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 15:57 -0400, Alec Berryman wrote: Forget rewriting them, how about just aggregating them into one package? Sounds better. I mean to one binary with switches like --from= and --to= . My main objection is that this makes th

Re: use of xvfb-run in pbuilder builds

2006-07-04 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Carlo Segre wrote: I suppose that I will have to figure out how to install all the requirements at run time or just give in and permanently install X on my chroots. Isn't this what build dependencies are for? -- Asheesh. -- Counting in octal is just like counting in deci

Re: Bug#377420: mod-bt - FTBFS: Not resolvable build dependencies

2006-07-09 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sun, 9 Jul 2006, Tyler MacDonald wrote: But if I have to remove the "apr1 | apr0" sutff, then a new version of mod-bt (and every other apache2 module) will be neccessary when the switch to 2.2 happens. In theory you could just switch the order of apr1 | apr0. But I agree that this is less

[RFC] alpine - Friendly text-based email client (Bug #401001)

2006-12-05 Thread Asheesh Laroia
I'm working on packaging the Alpine mail client, an Apache License 2.0 release of the popular PINE mail and news reader. I'm very happy to see this great (both powerful and friendly) MUA be Free. Upstream bundles an editor called PICO, originally the PIne COmposer. I wanted to ask for commen

Re: [RFC] alpine - Friendly text-based email client (Bug #401001)

2006-12-05 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Quick side question resulting from off-list discussions: This package conflicts with (custom-built) pine packages many people have been using. Okay if I make alpine "Conflicts: pine" and "Replaces: pine"? Also, I think it would be useful if /usr/bin/pine were a symlink to /usr/bin/alpine? O

Re: [RFC] alpine - Friendly text-based email client (Bug #401001)

2006-12-05 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Daniel Baumann wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/alpine/alpine_0.8-0.dsc * you're modifying imap/Makefile without notice in the changelog Fixed. * it's normal to write debhelper with a version, such as debhelper (>= 4), and list it as the first bu

Re: [RFC] alpine - Friendly text-based email client (Bug #401001)

2006-12-06 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Daniel Baumann wrote: * versioned depends are commonly written as: foo (>= 1.2.3), not foo (>=1.2.3). Changed. * rules contains still a useless dh_* call (dh_installexamples to be precise). Fixed. Tell me what you think now of the package as it is hosted on me

Re: Packages (using C++) for two different distributions

2006-12-20 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Kasper Peeters wrote: So the question is: what is the easiest way for me to generate packages for two distributions with incompatible C++ ABIs, given that I have only one machine? I'm not a Debian developer, but I would think the easiest thing to do is to install pbuilder

Re: What to do if my package doesn't build on some architecture

2007-01-20 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Kumar Appaiah wrote: I have come across an unexpected (serious), bug in my package libitpp, that it doesn't build on s390. Check http://bugs.debian.org/407555 [snip] Besides, I don't have access to such a machine! You can emulate an s390 using the package Hercules. Se

Re: RFS: cwiid -- Linux interface to the Wiimote

2007-03-19 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Romain Beauxis wrote: Le vendredi 19 janvier 2007 15:30, Romain Beauxis a écrit : Hi mentors ! Hi again ! Just another request for sponsoring.. If any one could have time to review/uplaod this package it would be great ! I'm looking for a sponsor for thi

Re: From local source tree to Debian package

2007-03-19 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Ben Finney wrote: Writing a bunch of 'cp' or 'install' commands in the 'debian/rules' file seems like drudgery and is certainly prone to error. What tools are there to assist Debian packagers in making this task more automated? Well, "make install" typically puts them som

Re: List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-22 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, Ondrej Certik wrote: The actual discussion came up when we talked about whether the current GR on non-DDs with upload permissions is good or bad for Debian. And we agreed that Debian lacks a lot of packages just because the poor package maintainer (tm) didn't find a sponso

Re: using boost headers

2007-08-18 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Carlo Segre wrote: One of my packages uses the boost headers and distributes them in the original tarball. I have been modifying the configuration scripts to ignore the local copy and use the libboost-dev dependency instead. Since these are headers and not real libraries

Re: RFS: piwva

2007-08-21 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Paul Wise wrote: On 8/21/07, Henrik Andreasson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Section : mail ... piwva - addon to pine to allow easy download/display of attachments pine is not in main, so you should change the section to contrib/mail. This program presum

Re: RFS: piwva

2007-08-21 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Paul Wise wrote: On 8/21/07, Asheesh Laroia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This program presumably works with alpine, which is a Free Software update of pine and is in main, however. (I happen to maintain alpine.) Hmm, perhaps pine-tracker should be removed from no

Re: RFS: xvattr

2007-08-29 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Venkatesh Srinivas wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "xvattr". * Package name: xvattr Version : 1.3-1 Upstream Author : Björn Englund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://freshmeat.net/projects/xvattr/ * License

Re: speed of COW directory copying: XFS 20x slower than ext3

2007-09-15 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Ondrej Certik wrote: I am using cowbuilder for building my packages, because the initialization takes like 10s, compared to several minutes with pbuilder on my system. A few days ago, I realized that on one of my systems, it takes 0.5s only to copy the COW directory. I becam

Re: Building a package for a web application

2007-09-17 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, liran tal wrote: While attempting to run dpkg-buildpackage to create a .deb package of the current directory where I'm at I'm receiving the error message: dpkg-genchanges: failure: cannot read files list file: No such file or directory my debian/ directory reads the follow

Re: mentors.debian.net reloading

2007-10-26 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Christoph Haas wrote: Regarding CPU-intensive QA tests (builds and piuparts runs): I think that it's very important to do them on mentors. Might be helping the sponsor to determine if the package builds. But I'm not sure if it's worth it. Just my personal opinion. I don'

Re: mentors.debian.net reloading

2007-10-26 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Christoph Haas wrote: On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 03:47:09PM +0200, Ondrej Certik wrote: The sources: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/collab-qa/svnbuildstat/?rev=0&sc=0 The wiki page: http://wiki.debian.org/svnbuildstat I believe Debian needs the same as Ubuntu has: Personal Packa

Re: Need help with a watch file

2007-11-05 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Michael Biebl wrote: Hi everyone, I've got some troubles creating a working watch file for kdesvn. Upstream uses version numbered subdirectories. http://www.alwins-world.de/programs/download/kdesvn/ Currently the latest version is http://www.alwins-world.de/programs/downlo

Re: Using Linda

2007-12-14 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 15 Dec 2007, David Schulberg wrote: Hi All, Posted originally to debian-user and it was suggested I post here in particular: Have just set up Linda or I thought I had. When I run 'linda package.deb' I get errors as follows: debian:/home/david/Desktop/Downloads# linda checki

Re: alpine_0.999999+dfsg-2_i386.changes REJECTED

2007-12-15 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Dear Mentors: I'm a Debian Maintainer now (not a DD, just the new separate status) and I'm trying to figure out why my upload was rejected. Here's the message I sent to an @ftpmaster.debian.org address, but maybe some of you can help? Thanks! -- Asheesh. On Sat, 15 De

Re: alpine_0.999999+dfsg-2_i386.changes REJECTED

2007-12-15 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 15 Dec 2007, Neil Williams wrote: Asheesh Laroia wrote: Dear Mentors: I'm a Debian Maintainer now (not a DD, just the new separate status) and I'm trying to figure out why my upload was rejected. Here's the message I sent to an @ftpmaster.debian.org address, but maybe

Re: alpine_0.999999+dfsg-2_i386.changes REJECTED

2007-12-15 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 15 Dec 2007, Adeodato Simó wrote: * Asheesh Laroia [Sat, 15 Dec 2007 12:31:49 -0800]: I believe that the latest alpine in unstable (namely 0.99+dfsg-1) has me as the maintainer, me listed as the Maintainer:, and DM-Upload-Allowed: yes in the source section of the control file

Re: alpine_0.999999+dfsg-2_i386.changes REJECTED

2007-12-15 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 15 Dec 2007, Adeodato Simó wrote: * Neil Williams [Sat, 15 Dec 2007 20:58:50 +]: $ gpg --list-key 70096AD1 pub 1024D/70096AD1 2005-12-28 uid Asheesh Laroia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uid Asheesh Laroia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uid

Bug#680141: RFS: liblastfm/0.4.0~git20090710-2 [RC]

2012-07-04 Thread Asheesh Laroia
I'm concerned by the following lintian warnings on mentors, which I can reproduce locally: W: liblastfm-fingerprint0: hardening-no-fortify-functions usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblastfm_fingerprint.so.0.4.0 W: liblastfm0: hardening-no-fortify-functions usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblastfm.so.0.4.0

Bug#680141: This seems fine to upload

2012-07-05 Thread Asheesh Laroia
John Stamp, can you clear the debdiff with the release team in an email to debian-release? Just email them the debdiff and ask if that would be okay, and if they say yes, I will upload this. (If you already have a sponsor lined up, then that's fine, too.) Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: automatic removal of packages from mentors

2012-07-19 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Thu, 19 Jul 2012, Bart Martens wrote: Hi supp...@mentors.debian.net, I understand that packages must be removed from mentors, because disk space is not infinite. I have heard from multiple people requesting sponsorship that one of the reasons to remove packages is that no sponsor was fou

Bug#682519: Still looking for sponsor?

2012-09-27 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Hi there, I'm a Debian Developer and possibly interested in reviewing and sponsoring this! Are you still looking? Cheers, -- Asheesh. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: h

Bug#682519: Quick notes

2012-10-01 Thread Asheesh Laroia
First of all, let me say thank you for beginning the work to package this in Debian! Wow... this is a solid package: * You have a man page. * It's lintian clean. * /usr/bin/fbcmd doesn't have a .php extension. How did you even manage to make such an excellent package!? I can't find anything

Re: orig tarball in conflict with debian policy

2009-02-21 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, Michael Rasmussen wrote: Hi all, What is the proper way of dealing with a orig tarball where both naming and internal structure is in conflict with debian policy? Especially the internal structure is a problem since it prevents using the dh-tools in debian. example: orig

Re: RFS: python-clips

2010-02-02 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Pablo Recio Quijano wrote: --Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "python-clips". * Package name: python-clips Version : 1.0.7.348-1 Upstream Author : Francesco Garosi, fran...@infinito.it * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/

Just sponsored my first package

2010-02-02 Thread Asheesh Laroia
I just wanted to announce gleefully to this list: I just sponsored my first package, miredo. A few years ago, this list helped me find sponsors for the packages I wanted to contribute to Debian. People on the list taught me about being a friendly mentor and a detailed critic of packages. Now I

Re: Experimental release for IPv6 patched package?

2010-02-05 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: Dear mentors, I have taken to addressing the lack of IPv6-support for tftpd from netkit-tftp-0.17 (see #536509). As far as I can tell it seems to work on my machine, including format 3.0-quilt. Would I be correct in guessing that the experiment

Re: RFS: ceph

2010-02-05 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, Sage Weil wrote: Hello, I am looking for a sponsor for ceph. Ceph is a distributed object store and file system designed for scalability, reliability, and performance. The kernel module for mounting the file system is planned for inclusion in 2.6.34. Hi! That's one awe

Re: RFS: ceph

2010-02-06 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 6 Feb 2010, Sage Weil wrote: On Sat, 6 Feb 2010, Asheesh Laroia wrote: On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, Sage Weil wrote: Hello, I am looking for a sponsor for ceph. Ceph is a distributed object store and file system designed for scalability, reliability, and performance. The kernel module for

Re: RFS: ooo-thumbnailer

2010-02-06 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 6 Feb 2010, David D Lowe wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.2-3 of my package "ooo-thumbnailer". It builds these binary packages: ooo-thumbnailer - thumbnailer for OpenOffice.org documents I'm the upstream author. The work is licensed under the GPL v

Re: RFS: ooo-thumbnailer

2010-02-06 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 6 Feb 2010, Christoph Egger wrote: On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 03:48:08PM -0500, Asheesh Laroia wrote: Also, I'm just wondering: why did you remove the dependency on "bash"? Maybe I'm being silly, but I figure it does really depend on it. bash is Ess

Re: RFS: ooo-thumbnailer

2010-02-06 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 6 Feb 2010, David D Lowe wrote: On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 15:48 -0500, Asheesh Laroia wrote: Presuming you meant http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/o/ooo-thumbnailer/ooo-thumbnailer_0.2-3.dsc and continuing with review... Yes, indeed, my mistake. Well, it builds clean in a

Re: README.Debian updated

2010-02-08 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sun, 7 Feb 2010, David D Lowe wrote: On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 21:51 -0500, Asheesh Laroia wrote: Ping debian-mentors when you've updated README.Debian! I've updated README.Debian, you can get the new version at: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/o/ooo-thumbnaile

Re: RFS: ceph

2010-02-08 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Sage Weil wrote: On Sat, 6 Feb 2010, Asheesh Laroia wrote: For your package, I'll take a look right now. Some feedback: First of all, you've made it a native package. Fixed this up (after finally sorting out the difference between - and _ in the filename).

Re: RFS: ttf-aoyagi-soseki (Japanese brush font package)

2010-02-10 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Hideki Yamane wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "ttf-aoyagi-soseki". * Package name: ttf-aoyagi-soseki Version : 20070207-1 Upstream Author : 青柳衡山 (Kouzan Aoyagi) and 青柳疎石 (Soseki Aoyagi) * URL : ht

Re: README.Debian updated

2010-02-10 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, David D Lowe wrote: On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:37 AM, Asheesh Laroia wrote: *Almost* A few lintian warnings: paulprot...@renaissance:~/pbuilder/result/sid-i386 $ lintian ooo*deb W: ooo-thumbnailer: extra-license-file usr/share/doc/ooo-thumbnailer/COPYING.gz W: ooo

Re: init script versosity

2010-02-10 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, PICCA Frédéric-Emmanuel wrote: Hello I am using the /etc/init.d/skeleton (from unstable) file to write my package init scripts. but it seems that the lsb-base default behaviour is to have VERBOSE=no so there is no output. Is it ok with the debian-policy 9.4 Console mes

Re: RFS: libzeep

2010-02-10 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Maarten L. Hekkelman wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "libzeep". * Package name: libzeep Version : 1.0-1 Upstream Author : me (Maarten L. Hekkelman) * URL : http://www.cmbi.ru.nl/ * License : boost Section

Re: RFS: zynjacku

2010-02-10 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "zynjacku". * Package name: zynjacku Version : 5.2-1 Upstream Author : Nedko Arnaudov * URL : http://download.gna.org/zynjacku/ http://home.gna.org/zynjacku/ is a more

Re: RFS: wpasupplicant (updated package)

2010-02-10 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Kel Modderman wrote: Hi mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.6.10-1 of the package "wpasupplicant". It has been a long time since its last update due to myself travelling and the rest of pkg-wpa-devel maintenance group being inactive. The inactive me

Re: RFS: ceph

2010-02-11 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Sage Weil wrote: On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Asheesh Laroia wrote: On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Sage Weil wrote: I'm having trouble getting pbuilder working; trying on another machine now. And it's not clear to me from the output you sent where those warnings are coming f

Re: RFS: zynjacku

2010-02-11 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: Od: Asheesh Laroia > * Package name: zynjacku It looks like a cool package -- I hope you get a sponsor! If not, I'll be freer in a fortnight. Re-ping the list then. Hello, It would be great if you can upload zynjacku for me .

Re: RFS: slgtk -- FTBFS fix, new uploader

2010-02-25 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010, Jörg Sommer wrote: Dear mentors, I was just reviewing this, but it seems uploaded. Hooray! In the future, try to email the list so we know that. (-: Congratulations, and welcome to DM-Upload-Allowed! -- Asheesh. -- "I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because i

Re: RFS: zynjacku

2010-02-27 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sun, 21 Feb 2010, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: Od: Asheesh Laroia > * Package name: zynjacku Sorry -- not yet. Super busy. Ask again in another 10 days or so. -- Asheesh. Hello there, Nobody was uploaded zynjacku package yet. So it would be nice if you can do it for me. Some feedb

Re: RFS: ceph

2010-03-06 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Sage Weil wrote: On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Asheesh Laroia wrote: On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Sage Weil wrote: Ok, the build is fixed (man_MANS vs dist_man_MANS in the man/Makefile.am), and pbuilder is behaving fine on my other box. The updated .dsc is at http://ceph.newdream.net

Re: RFS: recoverjpeg (updated package)

2010-03-06 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, William Vera wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.0-1 of my package "recoverjpeg". It builds these binary packages: recoverjpeg - tool to recover JPEG images from a filesystem image I suggest trying to find a sponsor in the debian-forensic

Re: Regarding GSoC

2010-03-08 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Sukhbir Singh wrote: Hello everyone. I am interested in participating in Google Summer of Code this year and have a project that pertains to the distribution of Debian over BitTorrent.This is somewhat a solution to the problem posted on the Idea List page ( http://wiki.d

Re: RFS: ceph

2010-03-09 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Asheesh Laroia wrote: On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Sage Weil wrote: On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Asheesh Laroia wrote: On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Sage Weil wrote: Ok, the build is fixed (man_MANS vs dist_man_MANS in the man/Makefile.am), and pbuilder is behaving fine on my other box. The

Re: RFS: ceph

2010-03-09 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Asheesh Laroia wrote: On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Asheesh Laroia wrote: On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Sage Weil wrote: On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Asheesh Laroia wrote: On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Sage Weil wrote: Ok, the build is fixed (man_MANS vs dist_man_MANS in the man/Makefile.am), and pbuilder

Re: RSF: logkeys

2010-04-05 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, Vedran Furač wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "logkeys". I would also note that I'm familiar with this process as, for some years now, I already maintain a couple of packages in debian and hopefully I haven't made any errors when packaging th

Re: RFS: evilvte (updated package)

2010-04-10 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 10 Apr 2010, Wen-Yen Chuang wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wen-Yen Chuang wrote: Note: bug #576624 is vte's bug, not evilvte's. evilvte (0.4.6-1) unstable; urgency=low . * New upstream release - avoid an severe VTE bug in version 0.24.0, please see #576624

Re: RFS: scidavis (updated package, 2nd try)

2010-04-10 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Fri, 9 Apr 2010, Ruben Molina wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.2.4-1 of my package "scidavis". It builds these binary packages: scidavis - application for scientific data analysis and visualization Updated packages are a great thing. I'm busy right n

Re: RFS: mailscanner (updated package)

2010-04-13 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010, Simon Walter wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 4.79.11-2 of my package "mailscanner". It builds these binary packages: mailscanner - email gateway for virus scanning, spam and phishing detection The package appears to be lintian clean. T

Re: RFS: drbdlinks (updated package, 2nd try)

2010-04-13 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 10 Apr 2010, Thierry Randrianiriana wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "drbdlinks". * Package name: drbdlinks Version : 1.18-1 Upstream Author : Sean Reifschneider * URL : http://www.tummy.com/Community/software/drbdlinks/ * License

Re: RFS: monkey (updated package)

2010-04-23 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Thorsten Schmale wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.10.1-1 of my package "monkey". It builds these binary packages: monkey - very small and fast open source web server for Linux Did you get this uploaded? If not, where is your origi

Re: Only in pbuilder: CMake can't find FLTK

2010-05-06 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 5 May 2010, Gary Briggs wrote: I've been spending the last few days packaging up my pet project. I finally submitted it to the mentors website last night, but I'm aware of one problem building it, that I'm hoping someone knows how to solve. In one sentence, like the subject says: Whe

Re: Only in pbuilder: CMake can't find FLTK

2010-05-07 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Thu, 6 May 2010, Gary Briggs wrote: On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 10:28:35PM -0400, Asheesh Laroia wrote: On Wed, 5 May 2010, Gary Briggs wrote: I've been spending the last few days packaging up my pet project. I finally submitted it to the mentors website last night, but I'm aw

Re: RFS: kapow

2010-05-09 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 8 May 2010, Tang Ke wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "kapow". * Package name: kapow Version : 1.3.2-1 Upstream Author : Graeme Gott * URL : http://gottcode.org/kapow/ * License : GPLV3 Section : x11 It builds th

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