Re: Adding quilt to the new maintainer guide.

2007-04-13 Thread Charles Plessy
> * Charles Plessy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070413 09:28]: > > Nevertheless, I tried quilt this week and I like it a > > lot. Actually, I find it simpler than dpatch because it is not > > necessary to convert the patches to a special format. I would like to > > submit a

Re: Adding quilt to the new maintainer guide.

2007-04-14 Thread Charles Plessy
works for > dpkg-source -x, but the archive doesn't accept it currently (and > dpkg-source cannot generate it). Does it mean that in order to enable or disable a patch the source package must be rebuilt ? Or maybe I did not understand how it works. Where is it described ?

Re: Adding quilt to the new maintainer guide.

2007-04-14 Thread Charles Plessy
> > Le Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 08:42:45AM +0200, Andreas Barth a écrit : > > > wig&pen, that's the new dpkg source format. It already works for > > > dpkg-source -x, but the archive doesn't accept it currently (and > > > dpkg-source cannot generate it)

When should versionned dependancies be dropped ?

2007-04-21 Thread Charles Plessy
, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: proda

2007-04-24 Thread Charles Plessy
my manpages. But it is a matter of taste. Lastly, proda is related to the probcons and amap programs, which failed to build with gcc-4.3. It means that it is likely that you would have a FTBFS bug filed by Martin Michlmayr soon after getting proda in the main archive. Depending on how playful and

Re: RFS: proda

2007-04-25 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 01:35:26PM +0200, Adeodato Simó a écrit : > * Charles Plessy [Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:18:30 +0900]: > > > About debian/rules: > > - The configure rule is mandatory > > I've never heard such a thing, where does this affirmation come from? &g

Are (c)debootstrap broken ?

2007-05-08 Thread Charles Plessy
rrors if I do not provide a mirror) What am I doing wrong? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Are (c)debootstrap broken ?

2007-05-10 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, May 09, 2007 at 01:22:23AM -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > This has been fixed in unstable now anyway with both a binNMU of e2fsprogs > and a subsequent maintainer upload, so I think this bug can be closed rather > than reassigned. Hi all, I do not manage to create an Etch chroot on

Rebuilding the whole archive.

2007-05-13 Thread Charles Plessy
uildd howto, I am taking the message seriously and will not use wanna-build. Even if I manage with buildd.sh, I would be interested to know about alternatives. My main interest is to generate build logs, but I do not need to keep the .debs. Are there better tools for this ? Have a nice day, -- Ch

Re: Rebuilding the whole archive.

2007-05-16 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, May 14, 2007 at 11:34:52AM -0400, Asheesh Laroia a écrit : > You may find it helpful to run that shell script with "sh -x" so you can > see a trace of its actions. That way, when it just hangs, it should be > clear why. > > (Replying off-list since it's more related to your tech questio

Re: bugreport, debian, ubuntu

2007-05-17 Thread Charles Plessy
n, I would strongly reommend to have at least a Debian Sid chroot (or a [cow|p|s]builder). It is still quite big to download, but definitely less than a whole system... Good luck ! -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: Status of wired

2007-05-19 Thread Charles Plessy
wired in Gutsy... Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Building a program with tcl/tk8.4

2007-05-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Building a program with tcl/tk8.4

2007-05-24 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, May 24, 2007 at 07:49:53AM +0100, Neil Williams a écrit : > Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > /usr/include/tcl8.4/tk.h:68:20: error: tcl.h: No such file or > > directory > > The reason is that /usr/include/tcl8.4/tk.h contains #include > >

Re: Building a program with tcl/tk8.4

2007-05-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, May 25, 2007 at 02:11:27PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > > Many thanks to you and Don for your quick answers. I located the place > where to fix the -I option, and now the compilation goes a bit further. > Unfortunately, the programs wants a file from the compat/ directory

RFP: phylographer -- Graph Visualization Tool

2007-05-28 Thread Charles Plessy
I am enquiring about the license of tcl_blast_parser parser to its author. http://www.atgc.org/BlastParser/Blast_Parser.html I am quite confident that this pacakge would easily find a sponsor if needed. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy, Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

getting the version of a package in the rules file.

2007-05-29 Thread Charles Plessy
echangelog | grep Ver | perl -ne '/\s(.*?)\-/ ; print $1')) Apparently, the perl oneliner returns the whole string. Is there a cleaner method to get the upstream version number in debian/rules ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- T

Re: Advice on packaging SAGE

2007-05-31 Thread Charles Plessy
e licence. In the end, the citation requrements are just a milder form of the BSD advertisement clause, for which there is a consensus that it is better to relicense without. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Molecular Biologist Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Advice on packaging SAGE

2007-05-31 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, May 31, 2007 at 06:01:53PM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : > Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It is exactly because it is anyway wrong to not cite authors that it is > > better to leave the requirement out of the licence. When we publish > >

Re: Advice on packaging SAGE

2007-05-31 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, May 31, 2007 at 06:42:26PM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : > Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I see it as violating clause 6: > > > No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor > > > The license must not restrict anyone from making u

Watching a webpage with the source name as text, not link.

2007-06-02 Thread Charles Plessy
of the tarball appears clearly. Is there a way to overcome this with uscan? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

-xpm or -noxpm

2007-06-02 Thread Charles Plessy
interact with xpm files? I came to a point in which I often have to remove some packages in order to build some of the source pacakges I have prepared. Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: -xpm or -noxpm

2007-06-03 Thread Charles Plessy
use libgd2-xpm-dev. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Watching a webpage with the source name as text, not link.

2007-06-03 Thread Charles Plessy
through a page named http://bibiserv.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/cgi-bin/download.pl, and I am affraid that one of its CGI parameters is rnahybrid-2.1-src.tar.gz. The solution is therefore: rm debian/watch :) Thanks for the help anyway, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama,

Where does /usr/bin/rename come from ?

2007-06-13 Thread Charles Plessy
perl in Sarge). Can I use it safely for building a package since I can not build-depend on it and it does not seem to be contained in an essential package ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Where does /usr/bin/rename come from ?

2007-06-14 Thread Charles Plessy
hat does entirely solve the problem :) Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cancel (Re: ITS (Re: RFS: libsvg-perl))

2007-06-18 Thread Charles Plessy
David's package. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian-Med packaging team. Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: folding

2007-06-29 Thread Charles Plessy
does not display the last line. I am not a DD anyway, so I can not sponsor your package. But you will save time to potential sponsors anyway by solving these points. PS: If you want to manage the sources of your pacakge in a SVN, I think that the debian-med SVN on Alioth could host y

Bug#432472: RFP: galaxy -- interactive web tool for comparative genomics

2007-07-09 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Package name: galaxy Version : Revision 1715 Upstream Author : The Center for Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics at Penn State URL : http://g2.trac.bx.psu.edu/ License : MIT Programming Lang: mostly python Descrip

[RFS] Looking for a sponsor for David's libsvg-perl.

2007-07-11 Thread Charles Plessy
debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libsvg-perl/libsvg-perl_2.33-1.dsc Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [RFS] Looking for a sponsor for David's libsvg-perl.

2007-07-11 Thread Charles Plessy
rl > project. > > But regardless, the first step is to actually send mail to Jose and > the ITP; only then can hijacking be contemplated. Hi, I forgot to say that I already contacted Jose one month ago and got no answer: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2007/06/msg00214.html Have

Re: [RFS] Looking for a sponsor for David's libsvg-perl.

2007-07-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 11:20:51AM +0300, Damyan Ivanov a écrit : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > - -=| Charles Plessy, 12.07.2007 04:57 |=- > > Here is the link to the package: > > > > http://mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/sponsor-pkglist?acti

Svn-buildpakcage ignoring some directories.

2007-07-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Does anyone has an idea of what could be broken ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Svn-buildpakcage ignoring some directories.

2007-07-18 Thread Charles Plessy
age where the debian directory is contained in a tar.gz file. It just looks more simple... (For debian/patches, well, when it is empty it is not causing trouble that it is included in diff.gz) Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Svn-buildpakcage ignoring some directories.

2007-07-19 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 10:07:28AM +0100, Jon Dowland a écrit : > On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 01:50:43PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > I was indeed wonering wether the fact that debian/manpage is empty > > would be a problem, so that is why I tried to transfer the manpage > >

Re: Svn-buildpakcage ignoring some directories.

2007-07-19 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 08:48:08AM -0500, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz a écrit : > On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 06:27:10PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Le Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 10:07:28AM +0100, Jon Dowland a écrit : > > > Why do you want the directory in the diff.gz? If yo

Auto-building many manpages: redundant work for the buildds ?

2007-07-19 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 05:04:35PM +0200, Daniel Leidert a écrit : > > Just a suggestion: Leave the script inside debian/manpages and remove > all manpages inside this directory via something like > > [ -s debian/emboss.manpages ] && cat debian/emboss.manpage | xargs rm -f > > So you have the di

Re: Auto-building many manpages: redundant work for the buildds ?

2007-07-20 Thread Charles Plessy
t lot of disk space. I think that there would be no inconvenience for the user to install emboss-doc. On the other hand, I can also try to summarise the problem, and submit a bug to the Policy. What is your opinion ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japa

Re: quilt, cdbs, dpatch, but is there even simpler ?

2007-07-21 Thread Charles Plessy
nderstand how to properly reformat the patch. I just sent my patch to the sgml source of the guide on bug #434156 Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

OK, let's build the manpages offline.

2007-07-21 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 03:14:15PM +0200, Daniel Leidert a écrit : > > > > > > Hi Daniel, > > > > > > Since it is not a MUST, but just a SHOULD, would it mean that it would > > > be acceptable to ship the manpages with the doc anyway ? > > Where is the advantage of such an effort? There is none. Y

[help] Merging tag and trunk in a SVN repository.

2007-07-31 Thread Charles Plessy
ose of svn merge is to work within revisions, not between tags and trunks. Could somebody point me the right tool for this ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [help] Merging tag and trunk in a SVN repository.

2007-07-31 Thread Charles Plessy
merge -r HEAD:HEAD tags/5.0.0-2/ trunk/ But with this other one, trunk's changelog is just replaced by the tags one: svn merge -r 87:HEAD tags/5.0.0-2/ trunk/ I did not manage to figure out how to simply merge the files, with conflicts to resolve by hand if necessary, in order to have everything in t

[solved] Merging tag and trunk in a SVN repository.

2007-08-02 Thread Charles Plessy
vn diff, and figured out that I could obtain what I want by using an earlier revision number. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Statically linked libraries...

2007-08-05 Thread Charles Plessy
uploaded the package on mentors (this is still a preliminary package). dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/mira/mira_2.8.2-1.dsc Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Man pages and UTF-8

2007-08-10 Thread Charles Plessy
idata Kobayashi on this list: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2007/03/msg00378.html Apparently, the encoding of the manpages is hardcoded, so you have no other choice than using the default encoding for english... Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Ja

Re: RFS: steam-powered

2007-08-29 Thread Charles Plessy
be the communauty, since it is CCed to -devel. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: takeover (Re: RFS: gscan2pdf (updated package))

2007-08-29 Thread Charles Plessy
when I hijacked seaview, and it worked like a charm. Have a nice day, and thanks for your efforts ! -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: takeover (Re: RFS: gscan2pdf (updated package))

2007-08-29 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 07:55:06AM +0200, Bart Martens a écrit : > On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 14:39 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > > Maybe it would help to be more formal and send a message on debian-devel > > (CCed to the maintainer of course) with a title like "Inte

Re: RFS: eprints

2007-09-03 Thread Charles Plessy
ovide free online access to their > research output (documents, multimedia and data)." Dear David, did you find a sponsor? If not, you can also try your luck on the debian-science mailing list. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNS

Re: RFS: steam-powered

2007-09-04 Thread Charles Plessy
, but if for each RFS on this list we get mails from persons explaining why they will not consider to sponsor the packages, our mailboxes will explode... Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: RFS: steam-powered

2007-09-04 Thread Charles Plessy
l Contract made it clear: We have created contrib and non-free areas in our archive for these works. The packages in these areas are not part of the Debian system, although they have been configured for use with Debian. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Sa

Docbook XML manpages and bash-completion.

2007-10-09 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, I wrote many Docbook XML manpages for command-line programs packaged for Debian-Med. I was just wondering if somebody knew a way to turn the OPTIONS section into something which can be used to enable bash completion ? Have a nice day ! -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org

Passing variables to a Makefile

2007-10-10 Thread Charles Plessy
on mentors: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/dialign-t/dialign-t_0.2.2-1.dsc It is work in progress unsuitable for anyghing else! ) Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &q

Re: Passing variables to a Makefile

2007-10-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, Many thanks everybody for your answers. Le Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 12:51:26PM +0200, Daniel Leidert a écrit : > Am Donnerstag, den 11.10.2007, 10:52 +0900 schrieb Charles Plessy: > > > in a package I prepare, there is the following line in a source/Makefile: > >

Re: Bug#444514: marked as done (gpredict: FTBFS: error: 'GtkTooltips' undeclared)

2007-10-15 Thread Charles Plessy
rently inactive for one year, I would recommend Cyril to ask on -devel, and -qa if he can orphan the package, and then propose comprehensive NMU. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &

Re: Bug#444514: marked as done (gpredict: FTBFS: error: 'GtkTooltips' undeclared)

2007-10-15 Thread Charles Plessy
ained but is obviously not, so my heuristic is completely wrong ;) Sorry for the noise, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: automatically parseable debian/copyright

2007-11-29 Thread Charles Plessy
all, Since it is intended to be machine-readable, a validator would be a great help. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: bibtool

2012-01-27 Thread Charles Plessy
hine-readable copyright format, it is indirectly mandated by the Policy: DEP 5: The syntax of the file is the same as for other Debian control files, as specified in the Debian Policy Manual. See its section 5.1 for details. Policy §5.1: All control files must be encoded in UTF-8. Chee

Re: sponsorship-requests

2012-01-31 Thread Charles Plessy
at do others think? I tend to consider them as annoying noise, especially on debian-devel and debian-policy. I prefer when no message is send by routine tools when there is no error. But I guess that the issue is rather with the BTS. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To

Bug#659045: RFS: goplay (NMU)

2012-02-07 Thread Charles Plessy
een > touched for years, I have reasonable concerns that either team is not active > or they are busy with something more important. Hi Dmitry, have you actually tried to contact the team ? I do not see messages from you in January or February on their mailing list. Have a nice day, --

Bug#659045: RFS: goplay (NMU)

2012-02-07 Thread Charles Plessy
ns. As a consequence, it can happen that everyone expects the others to have answered. I recommend to contact the team on its mailing list. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: watch-file syntax help

2012-02-09 Thread Charles Plessy
s/ \ http://sourceforge.net/projects/samtools/files/samtools/.+?/samtools-(.*).tar.bz2/download Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: DEP-5 versioned URI / Lintian complains

2012-02-10 Thread Charles Plessy
el, I do not recommend to use this URL. The current draft will not have normative changes anymore, so you can use: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ The DEP is in a final review stage. Unless additional delays, I will probably mark it accepted next week,

Re: how to manage d/changelog for updated but not yet sponsored package

2012-02-13 Thread Charles Plessy
ries of packages that have been released outside Debian for the public. However, I revert all previous “unstable” entries to “UNRELEASED” to clearly mark that these packages were not in the Debian archive. Have a nice day, Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.or

Re: Files permission in the debian directory

2012-02-13 Thread Charles Plessy
rting the 3.0 (quilt) format. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- 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.org/20120213235945.ga9...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: Debian-friendly upstream best practices?

2012-03-28 Thread Charles Plessy
with Git: I did not manage to find how to avoid sending a deluge of commit emails when pushing the upstream branch to Alioth. Also, they are sent with the commiter's name as sender, which gives the wrong impression he is the one who pushed the upstream changes to the Debian package. Any hint

Re: Advice on use of patch system while hacking

2012-04-01 Thread Charles Plessy
tu's changes). Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- 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.org/20120402020810.gb7...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: Signing a .deb later?

2012-04-03 Thread Charles Plessy
x27;t sign your binary packages. What you can sign is the .dsc > (source package) and .changes (upload file). You sign them using debsign. Actually, there is a binary package signing tool, but it looks rather abandonned… http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/en/man1/debsig-verify.1

Re: Bug#659047: RFS: rpg - Readable Password Generator

2012-04-05 Thread Charles Plessy
tine name of the software that is packaged, there are other ways such as the "AppStream and Component Metadata for Debian" and "Upstream metadata gathered with yaml (UMEGAYA)" projects. http://wiki.debian.org/AppStreamDebianProposal http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamMetadata

Re: Bug#659047: RFS: rpg - Readable Password Generator

2012-04-06 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 07:04:08PM +0400, Vladimir Stavrinov a écrit : > On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 3:34 AM, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > I also think that we should refrain from using short and common names for > > the > > What about "repagen" i.e. REadable PAs

Re: installing desktop file and icon

2012-04-06 Thread Charles Plessy
s, it would be best that "make install" simply install them at the same time as the other files. Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Bug#659047: RFS: rpg - Readable Password Generator

2012-04-07 Thread Charles Plessy
s users expectations, not only your vision as an upstream developer. This means that if some design choices are perceived as flaws from Debian's point of view, somebody will have to do some work to correct the package in Sid and perhaps in Stable. That is one of the reasons for the relu

Re: adding a new file using (d)quilt

2012-04-12 Thread Charles Plessy
using the dpkg format 3.0 (quilt). In contrary to what the name suggests, this will not be done using quilt. See the manual page of dpkg-source for more details. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Documentation generated by doxygen and Debian Policy

2012-04-19 Thread Charles Plessy
diffs and heating the planet for no benefit. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- 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.org/

Re: Documentation generated by doxygen and Debian Policy

2012-04-19 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 05:02:13PM +0200, Thibaut Paumard a écrit : > Le 19/04/12 16:20, Charles Plessy a écrit : > > > > I think that there is a consensus that generated files must be regenerable, > > and > > that it is a bug if their build system is broken. The b

Modifications of the changelog.

2012-04-21 Thread Charles Plessy
I have not found it causing breakages. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- 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.org/201

Re: Modifications of the changelog.

2012-04-21 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 12:22:43PM +1000, Ben Finney a écrit : > Charles Plessy writes: > > > are there concrete problems caused by modifying previous changelog > > entries ? > > Doing that breaks the entirely reasonable expectation: that a changelog > only ever

Re: how to adopt a non-orphaned package?

2012-04-25 Thread Charles Plessy
r packages. You will do a great service to Debian if in parallel you follow the guidelines that Paul pointed you to, and help the QA and MIA teams to take care of the other packages. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kan

Bug#659522: RFS: prelink/0.0.20111012-1 [ITA] - ELF prelinking

2012-04-27 Thread Charles Plessy
ck the archive instead of patching it ? Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- 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.org/20120428035339.ga16...@plessy.org

What is the best way for disabling a service from another package ?

2012-05-04 Thread Charles Plessy
de me curious how to actually do these kind of operations, when package A must in a way modify package B's starting behavior or configuration. Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Is there anyway to prettify long *-Depends: lines?

2012-05-12 Thread Charles Plessy
em to break core toolchain programs, but is there somebody aware of peripheral problems ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Re: is wheezy frozen already?

2012-05-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi all, when the NEW queue is long, this leaves us some time to make a pre-review to ease the work of the FTP team, by reducing the number of errors they have to deal with. http://wiki.debian.org/CopyrightReview Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: is wheezy frozen already?

2012-05-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, May 15, 2012 at 01:09:32AM +0200, Arno Töll a écrit : > On 15.05.2012 00:26, Charles Plessy wrote: > > when the NEW queue is long, this leaves us some time to make a pre-review to > > ease the work of the FTP team, by reducing the number of errors they have to > > deal

Re: Maintainer of GNS3 Missing-in-Action, I volunteer

2012-05-15 Thread Charles Plessy
of the gns3 package. -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- 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.org/20120515225252.ga30...@falafel.plessy.net

About the field "Choices-C" Debconf templates.

2012-05-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Hello everybody, years after becoming DD, I am learning Debconf... amazing. I could not find an explanation for the "Choices-C" field in debconf-devel(7) nor the Developers Reference. Is that field clearly defined somewhere ? Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging

Re: Bug#677013: RFS: time

2012-06-23 Thread Charles Plessy
that your current copyright file does not have a valid syntax as spaces are not allowed in short license names. The tool 'cme' frome Dominique Dumont's excellent libconfig-model-perl package, will assist you for further syntax checking. -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa,

Re: Bug#678468: RFS: sgml-data/2.0.7 [RC] [QA] -- common SGML and XML data

2012-06-23 Thread Charles Plessy
undant, i.e. it adds > no value to the description. But this is just my opinion. Hi all, perhaps one of the problems it causes is that, when the homepage changes, the long description changes, which will spend a bit of time of the translators, just for them to acknowledge that there is nothing t

Re: Bug#675701: RFS: ptop

2012-06-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 06:37:42AM +, Bart Martens a écrit : > > "Files: filename1, filename2" for exceptions. Actually, it should be: Files: filename1 filename2 (The separator is a space, not a comma plus a space). Cheers, -- Charles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...

Re: Multilicense `debian/copyright` file

2012-07-13 Thread Charles Plessy
collab-qa/packages-metadata/ (More information about this project at http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamMetadata ) Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&qu

Re: how to document removed Build-Depends in debian/changelog (Re: viennacl at mentors)

2012-07-15 Thread Charles Plessy
s, and more verbose in the corresponding commits, for which the changelog mentions the first numbers of the hash ID. But this is a matter of taste; all in all, it does not cost much to fill up the changelog line with more information. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging tea

Re: Any script to populate debian/copyright file ?

2012-07-16 Thread Charles Plessy
that they follow the machine-readable format version 1.0. These files are refreshed each time the package is uploaded, and sometimes more often, as they are picked directly from the package's VCS. See the following URL for details. http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamMetadata Have a nice d

Problems converting Subversion-managed source package to Git.

2012-09-13 Thread Charles Plessy
epair ? I have uploaded the repository at git://git.debian.org/debian-med/velvet.git Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Need help for watch file

2012-09-14 Thread Charles Plessy
6_64.sh/VolViewSrc$1.tar.gz/;s|http://www.kitware.com/VolView/files/|| Uscan now sees the file name as VolViewSrc-3.4.tar.gz Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: How to remove a package from unstable

2012-09-17 Thread Charles Plessy
osed-updates. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- 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.org/20120917235904.gc25...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: asking for package removal

2012-09-21 Thread Charles Plessy
on to remove the package, that you made in http://bugs.debian.org/687579#10. In the absence of answer, debian-qa is an appropriate list to discuss further the removal. If there a consensus for it, you can submit the request yourself to the FTP team. But I think you were right to use debian-mentor

Re: Once more: Need help updating my DM upload permissions

2012-11-17 Thread Charles Plessy
o wheezy-proposed-updates if need is. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- 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.org/20121117114502.gc29...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: Maintainer address for collab-maint team maintained packages

2012-11-19 Thread Charles Plessy
es that are collectively maintained. I have no time to do it myself, but see the following wiki page to contribute. http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/pts Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.

Re: RFS: libsvm (bug fixed)

2009-02-28 Thread Charles Plessy
in the system and keep it updated. Dear Chen-Tse, how about maintaining the libsvm source within the debian-science packaging project ? It will probably help you to find sponsors. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ..

Re: debian/rules

2009-03-11 Thread Charles Plessy
)/debian/jkmeter install Dear Jaromír, it looks fine, but the ultimate answer comes of course from building the binary package and inspecting its contents with dpkg -c. In addition, you can run the checker `lintian' on the .changes file; it will give you a lot of useful stylistic comments.

Re: Fixing old-fsf-address-in-copyright-file

2009-03-15 Thread Charles Plessy
he license that are not listed in §12.5, the requirement of verbatim copy would indeed disallow mending any contact address. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

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