Re: RFS: backup2l (updated package - new upstream release) (2nd try)

2009-12-30 Thread Charles Plessy
ch less common, but a couple of insightful blogs in planet.debian.org gave recently some good reasons to try. In both cases, the VCS you chose can be documented in debian/control, see § 6.2.5 in the Developers Reference: http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#bpp

Re: RFS: backup2l (updated package)

2010-01-01 Thread Charles Plessy
s. This is a very good thing. Note that there is a standardisation effort for patch descriptions. I recommend you to try it next time: ‘http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/’. Have a nice day, and a happy year of Debian packaging. -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: DEB-3: unclear patchfile header (was: RFS: backup2l (updated package))

2010-01-02 Thread Charles Plessy
ones. You can either assume that they are allowed, or raise the question on debian-de...@l.d.o. Have a nice Sunday, -- 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

Re: RFS: acetoneiso

2010-01-13 Thread Charles Plessy
t of Debian, we support their use’ 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

Re: Changing section from math to science?

2010-01-19 Thread Charles Plessy
ne gets an automated e-mail with instructions on how to submit a bug to ftp.debian.org in order to ask our archive administrators to amend the central information. But this change can actually be done without uploading. You can find a little bit more information in the Debian wiki: http://wiki.deb

Re: On intermediary deb-releases, their archiving.

2010-01-21 Thread Charles Plessy
ts Erix, the command “debcheckout -d this” will tell you if the source of this package was stored in a VCS. 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.debi

Re: On intermediary deb-releases, their archiving.

2010-01-21 Thread Charles Plessy
t; currently part of a Debian suite. By the way, Ubuntu stores snapshots in Bzr branches, so if syncs were regular, one may find what he wants for Debian in Launchpad: https://code.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: help with BTS mail interface

2010-01-29 Thread Charles Plessy
w.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting#pseudoheader http://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control 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

Re: package split

2010-01-29 Thread Charles Plessy
should not > occur if you upgrade from a ...) Dear Elías, there are control fields to inform dpkg that it is acceptable to overwrite another package's files because the installed package replaces it. http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-replaces Have a nice day

Re: RFS: cobertura

2010-02-01 Thread Charles Plessy
ersions of the Apache Software License, ant tasks can not be > licensed > under the GPL. Dear Miguel, this information is outdated as the GPL version 3 is compatible with the Apache License version 2.0, see: http://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html Have a nice day, -- Charl

Re: E: pbuilder-satisfydepends failed.

2010-02-08 Thread Charles Plessy
4), > + libexpat-dev, libjpeg-dev, libpng-dev, libtiff-dev, zlib1g-dev, default-jdk, > ... > > Any suggestions ? Hi Mathieu, libjpeg8-dev does not provide libjpeg-dev… Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi,

Re: E: pbuilder-satisfydepends failed.

2010-02-08 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 02:28:38PM +0100, Sven Joachim a écrit : > On 2010-02-08 14:25 +0100, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > libjpeg8-dev does not provide libjpeg-dev… > > The latest version (8-2) does. So Matthieu only has to wait for version 8-2 to propagate to his favorite mi

Re: create orig.tar.gz

2010-02-28 Thread Charles Plessy
#x27;t keep the same md5sum. And also, the md5sum of the gzipped archive made from the original bzipped archive can vary from conversion to conversion unless the option ‘--no-name’ is passed to gzip. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: lintian error on my package dhcp-probe

2010-03-15 Thread Charles Plessy
7;s complexity with a patch or a build-time modification. This has the double benefit of sharing with the whole communauty, and pinging upstream for activity. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &

Re: Use of DM-Upload-Allowed field

2010-03-20 Thread Charles Plessy
ate DM upload rights by having them or not in the Uploaders field. Cheers, -- 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 of "unsubscribe".

Re: A meager copyright. Remotely acceptable?

2010-04-01 Thread Charles Plessy
f the syntax to signal that they belong to a family of very similar licenses would be useful). This is why there is currently no “BSD-2” short name in the DEP-5 draft, only FreeBSD and NetBSD short names. Note also that this is work in progress, and that many things can change in the future. Hav

Re: flow of things rules/debhelper

2010-04-05 Thread Charles Plessy
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/20100406002324.ga11...@kunpuu.plessy.org

Re: migration to testing

2010-04-14 Thread Charles Plessy
o do in this situation. Dear Stanislav, you need to request the removal of the kfreebsd version in unstable. http://wiki.debian.org/ftpmaster_Removals Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Re: RFS: checkinstall (new upstream)

2010-04-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:16:25PM +0200, Jan Hauke Rahm a écrit : > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 04:28:13PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: > > Dear mentors, > > > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.6.2-1 > > of my package "checkinstall". As per the

Re: RFS: NMU goocanvas (updated package)

2010-05-08 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, May 08, 2010 at 01:01:00PM +0200, Jeffrey Ratcliffe a écrit : > On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 09:57:53AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > You might want ping the maintainer directly and to report them as MIA > > if they do not respond: > > He's been pinged on several occasions on #521722[1]. Ubuntu h

Re: RFS: NMU goocanvas (updated package)

2010-05-08 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, May 08, 2010 at 01:43:17PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > > In general, I think that we are a bit too careful when dealing with > non-responding maintainers. The maintainer of this package has ignored > comments on that bug report for more than a year, despite making an > upload on anot

Re: RFS: backup2l (updated package)

2010-05-14 Thread Charles Plessy
have uploaded backup2l with DM-Upload-Allowed set to ‘yes’. Importantly, as I am not a user of backup2l, I have not tested it. Please check the package as soon as possible. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.

Re: RFS: clamz

2010-05-30 Thread Charles Plessy
of use. I recommend to shorten it, removing the part that is redundant with the README. Lastly, pardon my ignorance, but what is the purpose of the following lines in debian/rules ? export UPDATE_MIME_DATABASE = : export UPDATE_DESKTOP_DATABASE = : Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kan

Re: Upload to fix bug #580413

2010-05-30 Thread Charles Plessy
apply your patches! Can you correct debian/copyright at the next upload? 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 Arc

Re: RFS: xpdf (updated package)

2010-06-03 Thread Charles Plessy
t estimate, but if it helps I can communicate it to you privately. 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

Re: RFS: xpdf (updated package)

2010-06-03 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 02:47:27PM -0300, Rogério Brito a écrit : > > Just as a quick question, if you use xpdf with the poppler backend, do > you have poppler-data installed? It contains the character mappings > established by adobe for fonts... Thanks, Rogério for the helpful answer. I was ver

Re: Asking for DMUA: Yes while seeking first sponsor

2010-06-15 Thread Charles Plessy
nt upload rights as soon as the DM shows good signs of self-evaluation. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Illkirch, France -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Packages with DMUA but no DM (was: Re: RFS: mpg321 (updated package with AudioScrobbler support))

2010-06-27 Thread Charles Plessy
ulate upload rights through the Uploaders field. So at least some of our packages would be in this list without being problematic. 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-

POSIX replacement for bash's “export -n” ?

2010-07-11 Thread Charles Plessy
replacement for this command, apart from someghing ugly like: BAR=$FOO ; unset FOO ; FOO=$BAR ; unset BAR to replace ‘export -n FOO’. Any idea ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: POSIX replacement for bash's “export -n” ?

2010-07-12 Thread Charles Plessy
me"; This wossname command just prints to stdout a list of available commands from the EMBOSS software suite 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/20100712115655.ga20...@merveille.plessy.net

Re: POSIX replacement for bash's “export -n” ?

2010-07-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 03:01:35PM +0300, Peter Pentchev a écrit : > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 08:56:55PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > > open (WOSSNAME, "export -n EMBOSS_ACDCOMMANDLINE;wossname -alpha -auto|") > > || die "Cannot run wossn

How to test a manpage? ‘nro ff -man | less’ does not display like ‘man ’.

2010-07-13 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, before updating a package, I wanted to look at the new upstream manpage, but realised that ‘nroff -man’ does not produce the same output as ‘man’ itself. Let's take the example of samtools(1) from the samtools package. With ‘man samtools’, users can see tables like the following one in

[Summary] Re: How to test a manp age? ‘nroff -man | less’ does not display lik e ‘man’.

2010-07-16 Thread Charles Plessy
Many thanks to everybody for their interesting answers. Here is a short summary, and examples for a manpage called manpage.1.gz, in the current directory. Have a nice week-end, -- Charles How to test a local manpage. Some manual pages are using helpers, usually ‘tbl’, ‘eqn’ or ‘pic’. In these

Re: how to correct missing changelog information?

2010-07-20 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:31:44PM -0400, Eric Cooper a écrit : > I recently uploaded a new version of a package and forgot to include a > (closes: #NNN) line in the changelog for a bug that was closed. I can > easily close the bug using the mailserver, but what is the right way > to correct the c

dh_makeshlibs exits with error on buildds and with success at home: is DPKG_GENSYMBOLS_CHECK_LEVEL set on buildds ?

2010-07-21 Thread Charles Plessy
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 of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arc

Re: dh_makeshlibs exits with error on buildds and with success at home: is DPKG_GENSYMBOLS_CHECK_LEVEL set on buildds ?

2010-07-21 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 02:10:53AM +0200, Jakub Wilk a écrit : > * Charles Plessy , 2010-07-22, 08:41: >> I uploaded a package that built fine in a chroot made by the helper >> tool ‘sbuild-createchroot’, but it failed on all buildds when running >> dh_makeshlibs. >

Re: dh_makeshlibs exits with error on buildds and with success at home: is DPKG_GENSYMBOLS_CHECK_LEVEL set on buildds ?

2010-07-22 Thread Charles Plessy
s that --with-java is dropped > when java is not detected. Usually, you'd prefer explicit arguments to > be error out. Thank you very much for your help. It was very instructive. I have reported the issue upstream, and made the package Build-Depend on openjdk-6-jdk in the meantime.

Re: Working with upstream-developed debian packaging

2010-08-03 Thread Charles Plessy
am release are easy. 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/20100803232946.ga17...@merveille.plessy.net

Re: Working with upstream-developed debian packaging

2010-08-03 Thread Charles Plessy
equire them to switch to git. This said, I recommend that you do not ignore the package that is already in Ubuntu… http://packages.ubuntu.com/codeblocks Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Re: Four days

2010-10-06 Thread Charles Plessy
r your efforts to improve debian-mentors. I am sure that everybody has good intentions, but with such a high traffic it is just too easy to lose momentum. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: Four days

2010-10-06 Thread Charles Plessy
ion, that still points at http://people.d.o/~mpalmer, could be updated as well? I have not figured out if this is done through a bug on lists.d.o or by modifying a WML file somewhere… Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Ts

Proposal: a simple package peer-review using the BTS.

2010-10-09 Thread Charles Plessy
. But better solutions are of course welcome. English corrections as well. 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 Arc

Re: Four days

2010-10-09 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 05:13:22PM -0400, Asheesh Laroia a écrit : > On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Charles Plessy wrote: >> >> perhaps the list's description, that still points at >> http://people.d.o/~mpalmer, >> could be updated as well? I have not figured out if

Re: Proposal: a simple package peer-review using the BTS.

2010-10-10 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 09:36:43AM +1030, Karl Goetz a écrit : > On Sat, 9 Oct 2010 19:45:56 +0900 > Charles Plessy wrote: > > > following our discussion in the ‘Four days’ thread, here is a simple > > proposal for organising package peer reviews using the BTS. > >

Re: Fwd: Build-Depends-Indep dependencies

2010-10-26 Thread Charles Plessy
policy/footnotes.html#f48 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/20101026084326.ga12...@merveille.plessy.net

Re: Time of a package to be processed by FTP-masters

2010-10-27 Thread Charles Plessy
. The goal is to trigger an chain reaction of package reviews: http://wiki.debian.org/CopyrightReview 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? Conta

Re: Open RFS lacking (further) response

2010-10-31 Thread Charles Plessy
. How about including in the RFS emails a link to the most relevant diff in the web interface of the VCS where the package is stored ? This will help to have the changes seen by many eyes. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@li

Re: RFS: calcoo (updated package)

2010-10-31 Thread Charles Plessy
r advice on this list. After becoming a DD, I still occasionally do as well. Lastly, it would be great if you could spare some time to have a look to one fresh RFS on this list, and report the issues you find, or make suggestions for improvement. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsuru

Re: RFS: ttf-isabella (updated package)

2010-10-31 Thread Charles Plessy
with the Debian Fonts Task Force if they would be interested to host and sponsor your package ? http://wiki.debian.org/FontsTaskForce Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Re: Open RFS lacking (further) response

2010-11-02 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 11:00:23PM -0400, Asheesh Laroia a écrit : > On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, Charles Plessy wrote: >> >> RFS has something similar in concept to pull requests. How about including in >> the RFS emails a link to the most relevant diff in the web interface of the

Re: Using Quilt with a new package

2010-11-03 Thread Charles Plessy
n that they will need to be listed in debian/patches/series. There is an even simpler solution, /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/simple-patchsys.mk, but it is deprecated (which makes me sad). Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ..

Re: Build-Depends-Indep, please review

2010-11-19 Thread Charles Plessy
m instead of build sometime > after > the Squeeze release and before the Wheezy freeze. Nice to see enthousiasm ! Perhaps such project would make a good Debian enhancement proposal (DEP, http://dep.debian.net/ ) Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNS

Re: ClipIt -- Clipboard manager

2010-11-30 Thread Charles Plessy
also satisfied on a second or higher order by other packages. 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 Ar

Re: .changes files without source packages

2010-12-03 Thread Charles Plessy
n you send us a step-by-step example ? 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/20101204011813.ga25...@merveille.plessy.net

Re: .changes files without source packages

2010-12-03 Thread Charles Plessy
| cut -f1 -d' ') $(ls -l $DEB | cut -f5 -d' ') $(basename $DEB) CHANGES Note that since I do not know how complex is your realy system, this may be too simplistic… Another solution would be to make a proper source package. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Jap

Re: Skip build step in debian packaging?

2010-12-22 Thread Charles Plessy
f3c...@mail.gmail.com Hope this helps, -- Charles Plessy Strasbourg, France -- 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/20101222154640.ga32...@merveille.plessy.net

Canonical location for buildd signed logs?

2010-12-28 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear mentors, I was wondering where I could find the original buildd logs. I found some on buildd.debian.org in ‘/srv/buildd.debian.org/db’. But how about the cryptographic signatures? Is there a place where they can be found ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: Canonical location for buildd signed logs?

2010-12-28 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 01:23:13AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > > I was wondering where I could find the original buildd logs. I found some on > buildd.debian.org in ‘/srv/buildd.debian.org/db’. But how about the > cryptographic signatures? Is there a place where they can be foun

Re: Cannot see the freefem++.git repository on the web

2011-01-11 Thread Charles Plessy
ackages/freefem++.git;a=summary. Dear Dimitrios in URLs, some characters have to be encoded: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding http://git.debian.org/?p=debian-science/packages/freefem%2B%2B.git :) Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/d

Re: DEP5 and multiple copyrights for same file

2011-01-20 Thread Charles Plessy
| can be found in the `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL' file. There are license headers, like the one used for GPL in the example below, you should use those. ” Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...

Re: warning: patches have not been applied, applying them now (use --no-preparation to override)

2011-02-01 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 12:29:22PM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre a écrit : > > ... > dpkg-source: info: local changes stored in > dcmtk-3.6.0/debian/patches/debian-changes-3.6.0-1, the modified files > are: > dcmtk-3.6.0/config/config.guess > dcmtk-3.6.0/config/config.sub > > > Should I be doing so

Re: [Fwd] Bug#621966: hasciicam: FTBFS: hasciicam.c

2011-04-25 Thread Charles Plessy
oad or to recommend you as Debian Maintainer — that is, to give you upload privilege. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Illkirch-Graffenstaden, Alsace, France -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: [Fwd] Bug#621966: hasciicam: FTBFS: hasciicam.c

2011-04-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 09:35:51AM +0200, Jaromil a écrit : > > sure! and so I did, also knowing Filippo personally. In fact, despite > the limited amount of time at his hands, he is doing his best to > review my other upstream software package, which is arguably more > urgent than hasciicam: free

Re: Menu question: Sound Application

2011-05-21 Thread Charles Plessy
an.org/Proposals/DebianMenuUsingDesktopEntries 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.deb

Re: DEP-5 format definition hell

2011-06-01 Thread Charles Plessy
s deleted, and the above URL is now showing the expected contents, of the Subversion repository. 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

Re: RFS: john (updated package)

2011-06-07 Thread Charles Plessy
It would help to review your changes. Did the address change ? http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/john.git Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: RFS: john (updated package)

2011-06-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 10:10:17PM -0500, Ruben Molina a écrit : > El mar, 07-06-2011 a las 22:37 +0900, Charles Plessy escribió: > > Le Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 08:24:30AM -0500, Ruben Molina a écrit : > > > > > as I sponsored you in the past I can have a look at your pac

Re: RFS: john (updated package)

2011-06-14 Thread Charles Plessy
, let me know. 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/20110615013055.gc9...@merveille.plessy.net

Re: Version number adjustment needed?

2011-06-23 Thread Charles Plessy
en repacking upstream sources: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices#bpp-origtargz 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-

Re: RFS: basenji

2011-06-24 Thread Charles Plessy
end!? Actually, I do not remember the relationship between basenji and Debian Med: the package is not in our Alioth repositories, and it was not discussed on our mailing list. Can somebody comment ? Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/de

Re: RFS: phing (Another try)

2011-07-02 Thread Charles Plessy
e > paragraph is still required in that case. Hello everybody, By the way, there is an excellent DEP 5 parser and validator packaged in Debian. I recommend to read the following article. http://ddumont.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/debian-copyright-dep5-parsereditorvalidatormigrator-is-releas

Re: RFS: xul-ext-zotero

2011-07-04 Thread Charles Plessy
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/20110704081249.ga21...@merveille.plessy.net

Re: RFS: xul-ext-zotero

2011-07-04 Thread Charles Plessy
unique within > the copyright file (e.g. AGPLv3) and use that with the final License tag and > following full quote of the license. In addition, I recommend to use the SPDX short names when available. http://spdx.org/licenses/ Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Jap

Re: RFS: john (updated package)

2011-07-05 Thread Charles Plessy
ying as DM or resuming your DD application ? It think that you are doing a good work with john and could upload independantly. Of course you would still be welcome, as everybody is, to ask questions on debian-mentors even if you do not need a sponsor. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Deb

Commit hooks for Git and no tarballs ?

2011-07-06 Thread Charles Plessy
, -- 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 of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.

Re: how to get people to run lintian on their packages

2011-07-07 Thread Charles Plessy
build logs including such iformation. 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/20110707224549.ga25...@merveille.plessy.net

Re: how to get people to run lintian on their packages

2011-07-08 Thread Charles Plessy
perience, an innocent pedantic tag that suddenly appears is sometimes the symptom that the package is totally broken (like for instance lacking almost all files that it should contain). That is why I always run lintian with --pedantic. Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packagin

Re: jampal_02.01.05-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

2011-07-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 05:39:13PM -0400, Peter Bennett a écrit : > Kilian > I will have to use +dfsg1 instead of ~dfsg1, because ~ sorts before the > base version and now uscan thinks there is a newer version available > (unless I have failed to understand something here - which is quite likely) >

Re: Downloading of test data

2011-08-14 Thread Charles Plessy
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/20110814091737.gg17...@merveille.plessy.net

Re: Is registered Categories required for debian?

2011-08-16 Thread Charles Plessy
at should start with "X-"’. 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/20110816224158.ge23...@merveille.plessy.net

Re: RFS: assimp

2011-08-20 Thread Charles Plessy
stream sources under their original version number. Have a nice Sunday, -- 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

Re: DEP-5 requirements (was: Re: RFS: pygtkplot)

2011-08-22 Thread Charles Plessy
is not used upstream. 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/20110822131246.ga10...@merveille.plessy.net

Re: Best practice for changelog file

2011-08-24 Thread Charles Plessy
will be confusing, so it would be better to replace it something else, ideally that sorts lower. The --local option of dch may help you to automate the task. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: Best practice for changelog file

2011-08-25 Thread Charles Plessy
nd what you are trying to do with the version number looks similar in spirit. The usual way is to modify the source package before building, not during. You can see http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/scripts/backport.html as one of the many examples. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, K

Re: DEP-5 requirements

2011-08-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 03:53:07PM +0200, Arno Töll a écrit : > On 22.08.2011 15:12, Charles Plessy wrote: > > DEP 5 will be distributed in the debian-policy package (see #609160), but > > there > > is not plan of making it part of the Policy, in the sense of being > >

Re: Tracking RFSs as bugs

2011-09-05 Thread Charles Plessy
f checkouts… This may also be one reason why some RFS take some time to be transformed in uploads. 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? C

Re: Becoming DM [was: Re: Tracking RFSs as bugs]

2011-09-06 Thread Charles Plessy
ble'. Dear Johan, DM and DDs can also ask for comments on debian-mentors. 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

Re: dh_python2: error: no such option: --with

2011-09-07 Thread Charles Plessy
7;t it be --with cli,python2 ? Cheers, -- 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 of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@

Re: Package separation/naming conventions

2011-09-23 Thread Charles Plessy
evelopers will find libwcslib-dev easily with apt-cache, and the description of your package will present its contents clearly. This has the advantage that everybody can rely on the same convention that is used for most of the other C libraries: libfoo is the foo library. For a similar reason, I a

Re: Shared libs dependencies

2011-09-23 Thread Charles Plessy
at for users installing Sid or Testing packages on Testing or Stable, and sometimes helps the packages to migrate to Testing. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&q

Re: Package separation/naming conventions

2011-09-24 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 12:22:31PM +0200, Ole Streicher a écrit : > Charles Plessy writes: > > > > although it looks ugly, perhaps you can consider calling your binary > > packages libwcslib4, libwcslib-dev, libwcslib-doc and wcslib-util. > > The first problem

Re: Re: RFS: gedit-r-plugin (updated package, needed for gedit 3.0 transition, NMU)

2011-10-04 Thread Charles Plessy
since a year. Since it is Git-maintained on collab-maint, perhaps you could go ahead with all consensual improvements you want to do, and bluntly orphan the package ? If it is the wrong decision, it is easy to correct it, by uploading the new upstream release that is available on SourceForge…

Re: RFS: gedit-r-plugin (updated package, needed for gedit 3.0 transition, NMU)

2011-10-05 Thread Charles Plessy
better reflect the situation of that package. 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.debia

Re: RFS: gedit-r-plugin (updated package, needed for gedit 3.0 transition, NMU)

2011-10-05 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 06:39:24PM +0200, Tobias Hansen a écrit : > Am 05.10.2011 10:03, schrieb Charles Plessy: > > > >Orphaning would, in my opinion, better reflect the situation of that package. > > As far as I'm concerned, let's do this one as NMU to give Mate

Re: RFS: gedit-r-plugin (updated package, needed for gedit 3.0 transition, NMU)

2011-10-06 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 11:17:52AM +0200, Tobias Hansen a écrit : > Am 06.10.2011 07:29, schrieb Charles Plessy: > >Actually, since the package is in collab-maint, you can > >probably add yourself as Uploader at this upload :) > > > >Do you already have a sponsor ? If n

Re: syntax-error-in-dep5-copyright syntax error in section 4 after the tag license

2011-10-11 Thread Charles Plessy
escaped by dots, like in the Description field of Debian control files. The following parser may be useful to you: http://ddumont.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/debian-copyright-dep5-parsereditorvalidatormigrator-is-released/ Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNS

Re: not installing files...(with cdbs)

2011-10-12 Thread Charles Plessy
ter upstream update. 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/20111013001017.gb2...@merveille.plessy.net

Re: berlios closing; where should my projects escape to?

2011-10-21 Thread Charles Plessy
ww.branchable.com/news/free_hosting_for_Free_Software/ 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/20111021084931.gb27...@merveille.plessy.net

Re: git-buildpackage and tarballs

2011-10-21 Thread Charles Plessy
is included in a single tarball. (As a side note, you can consider to use xz instead of gzip to compress that tarball). Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: git-buildpackage and tarballs

2011-10-22 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 12:46:12PM +0200, Arno Töll a écrit : > > On 22.10.2011 03:36, Charles Plessy wrote: > > if as an upstream author you are not using tarballs, you can use the format > > ‘3.0 (native)’. It will make a source package where everything is included > >

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