RFS: zd1211-firmware (updated package)

2010-05-10 Thread Christian Kastner
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 3.0.0.56-1 of my package "zd1211-firmware". It builds these binary packages: zd1211-firmware - Firmware images for the zd1211rw wireless driver This is a new upstream release from a new upstream source (vendor-provided). Almost all ch

RFS: pyrit

2010-05-20 Thread Christian Kastner
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "pyrit". * Package name: pyrit Version : 0.3.0-1 Upstream Author : Lukas Lueg * URL : http://code.google.com/p/pyrit/ * License : GPLv3 + OpenSSL linking exception Section : net It builds these

Re: RFS: pyrit

2010-05-20 Thread Christian Kastner
On 05/20/2010 03:58 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Christian Kastner wrote: > >> Pyrit is an excellent example of a GPGPU-driven application. It consists >> of a main program and optional extensions for various GPGPU >> technologies, such a

Re: RFS: pyrit

2010-05-21 Thread Christian Kastner
On 05/21/2010 03:27 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:32 PM, Christian Kastner wrote: >> On 05/20/2010 03:58 PM, Paul Wise wrote: >>> Do we have OpenCL support in Debian main? >> Not yet, but it's being worked on. I've been in contact with t

RFS: pyevolve

2010-05-26 Thread Christian Kastner
Hello, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "pyevolve". * Package name: pyevolve Version : 0.6~rc1~svn397+dfsg-1 Upstream Author : Christian S. Perone * URL : http://pyevolve.sourceforge.net * License : Python License (with upstream subsituted for PSF)

Re: RFS: zd1211-firmware (updated package)

2010-05-30 Thread Christian Kastner
On 05/10/2010 07:43 PM, Christian Kastner wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 3.0.0.56-1 > of my package "zd1211-firmware". > > It builds these binary packages: > zd1211-firmware - Firmware images for the zd1211rw wirele

Re: RFS: zd1211-firmware (updated package)

2010-05-31 Thread Christian Kastner
On 05/30/2010 09:19 PM, David Kalnischkies wrote: > Bumping the revision implies mostly that the changes files need to include > also the "older" versions and the toolset needs to be instructed to do so > as the default is to only include the last version. > (See e.g. "man dpkg-genchanges" option -

RFS: libfann (updated package)

2010-06-06 Thread Christian Kastner
Hello, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.1.0~beta~dfsg-1 of my package "libfann". It builds these binary packages: libfann2 - Fast Artificial Neural Network Library libfann2-dev - Development libraries and header files for FANN libfann2-doc - API documentation for FANN python-pyf

Re: RFS: libfann (updated package)

2010-06-07 Thread Christian Kastner
On 06/07/2010 08:39 AM, Luca Bruno wrote: > Christian Kastner scrisse: > >> I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.1.0~beta~dfsg-1 >> of my package "libfann". >> >> It builds these binary packages: >> libfann2 - Fast Artificial Neural

Re: RFS: libfann (updated package)

2010-06-07 Thread Christian Kastner
On 06/06/2010 04:55 PM, Christian Kastner wrote: > Hello, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.1.0~beta~dfsg-1 > of my package "libfann". > > It builds these binary packages: > libfann2 - Fast Artificial Neural Network Library > libfann2-dev

Re: Help for watch file

2010-07-09 Thread Christian Kastner
On 07/09/2010 09:58 AM, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > I wonder how I might get a watch file for code.google.com working. > For FreeDiams I tried > > version=3 > http://code.google.com/p/freemedforms/downloads/list \ > http://freemedforms.googlecode.com/files/freediams_([.\d]+).*\.tar\.gz > >

Re: Problem with uscan --repack

2011-05-25 Thread Christian Kastner
On Wed, 25 May 2011 06:48:56 +0200, Daniele Tricoli wrote: Hi all, I'm taking care of python-peak.util (under the umbrella of DPMT) and to close #606382 I have to obtain a new orig tarball. python-peak.util is a multi-upstream source package but obtain a new orig tarball in not a difficult tas

Re: Nitpicking: you are doing it wrong

2011-07-08 Thread Christian Kastner
On 07/08/2011 12:29 PM, Arno Töll wrote: > On 08.07.2011 18:24, Adam Borowski wrote: >> If you don't make use of newest shiniest features, higher debhelper levels >> just make backporting harder for no gain. > > There is debhelper 8 in both, lenny-backports as well as in > squeeze-backports. There

Re: tophat: Help needed with boost

2014-03-18 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-03-18 14:19, Andreas Tille wrote: > segment_juncs.o: In function `boost::thread::get_id() const': > /usr/include/boost/thread/detail/thread.hpp:730: undefined reference to > `boost::thread::native_handle()' > segment_juncs.o: In function `boost::thread::join()': > /usr/include/boost/thread

Bug#741501: RFS: libb2/0.96-1 [ITP]

2014-03-20 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi, On 2014-03-13 05:57, Robert Ransom wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "libb2": I'm not a DD so I can't sponsor your package, but here is a quick review: Building There is one troublesome aspect of the upstream code: AFAICT, CPU-specific optimizations such as MMX, S

Bug#729534: RFS: libpoly2tri/0.3.3-1 [ITP]

2014-03-20 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2013-11-14 00:32, Bryan Conrad wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "libpoly2tri" I'm not a DD so I cannot sponsor your package, but hoping that you are still interested in contributing to Debian (despite the long time passed since your ITP) I'd like to offer some feedback. debi

Re: Bug#729534: RFS: libpoly2tri/0.3.3-1 [ITP]

2014-03-20 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-03-20 23:21, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Christian Kastner , 2014-03-20, 22:49: >> This is problematic. First, you need to demangle the symbols in there >> with c++filt (for examples, your package FTBFS on my host without this). > > I haven't looked into details of th

Re: Bug#729534: RFS: libpoly2tri/0.3.3-1 [ITP]

2014-03-20 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-03-20 23:21, Jakub Wilk wrote: > For example, symbol names for a f(size_t) function are: > _Z1fj on i386, > _Z1fm on amd64. > > After unmangling it becomes: > f(unsigned int) on i386, > f(unsigned long) on amd64. Well, after researching a bit, the only somewhat manageable solutions I can

Re: Bug#729534: RFS: libpoly2tri/0.3.3-1 [ITP]

2014-03-20 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-03-21 00:00, Christian Kastner wrote: > On 2014-03-20 23:21, Jakub Wilk wrote: > A) using symbols.common + symbols.$arch > B) using symbols.common + symbols.arch, using (arch= ) tags > C) using symbols + (c++|regex) tags Missed an obvious one: D) using symbols + (c++|arch=) t

Bug#741501: RFS: libb2/0.96-1 [ITP]

2014-03-31 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-03-31 12:37, Robert Ransom wrote: > On 3/20/14, Christian Kastner wrote: >> debian/control: >> == >> >> Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), not debhelper (>= 9.0.0). IIRC there >> exists a (written or unwritten) rule for when one can/sh

Bug#740043: RFS: powerline/0~20140216-1 [ITP]

2014-04-05 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi Jerome, On 2014-02-25 06:36, Jerome Charaoui wrote: > Package: sponsorship-requests > Severity: normal > > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "powerline" > > * Package name: powerline >Version : 0~20140216-1 >Upstream Author : Kim Silkebækken >

Bug#683120: RFS: yadifa/1.0.3-1 [ITP]

2014-04-05 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi, On 2014-03-18 22:34, Markus Schade wrote:> However there is one question, which I am not sure, what is correct. > Upstream uses /var/zones as base for its zone files. My guess was > that this is not the proper location for such files in Debian. So I > changed it to /var/cache/yadifa like bind9

Bug#683120: RFS: yadifa/1.0.3-1 [ITP]

2014-04-09 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-04-09 09:26, Markus Schade wrote: > thanks for the review, Christian! Glad I can help :-) Here is some further feedback: >> debian/control >> == >> If you're using a VCS for your packaging, Vcs-* URLs would be nice (to >> simplify contributing to your packaging). You can als

Bug#683120: RFS: yadifa/1.0.3-1 [ITP]

2014-04-09 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-04-09 20:50, Christian Kastner wrote: >>> debian/control >>> == > > I like your approach with a common description provided through a > substitution variable! Very efficient. Oh, I missed something here: you are using the substitution variable ${De

Re: Library packaging and missing .a file

2014-04-24 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-04-24 08:16, Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote: > dh_install: libstrophe-dev missing files (usr/lib/lib*.a), aborting > > The libstrophe.a file is installed into /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu, > instead of /usr/lib. When should the .a file be installed into > /usr/lib and when into x86... ? The new

Re: No upstream versioning

2014-04-24 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-04-24 12:45, Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote: > On 24.04.14 20:12:12, Benjamin Donald-Wilson wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm wishing to package ipad-charge[0] for Debian.[1] The only problem I >> appear to be having is that the upstream don't version their uploads. I've >> emailed the developer a few

Re: Library packaging and missing .a file

2014-04-24 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-04-25 07:58, Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote: >> On 24.04.14 10:23:23, Christian Kastner wrote: > I have got another problem. Libstrophe only provides .a file, no .so, > so basically it should provide only a -dev package. Is it ok to > package only -dev, or is it agains policies

Re: No upstream versioning

2014-04-28 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-04-29 00:22, Octavio Alvarez wrote: > Wouldn't this version scheme open the possibility an incorrect timeline? > For example, commit 20140428.1234567 would be considered previous than > 20140428.2345678 when this may not necessarily be the case in the git > history. While theoretically cor

Re: managing patches

2016-07-04 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2016-07-04 06:23, Herminio Hernandez Jr wrote: > I have a question regarding managing patches. I am wondering is there > a way to merge multiple patches into one or is there way to rollback > from a patch? I'm not quite sure what you mean by "rolling" back from a patch (that's probably somethin

Bug#756452: RFS: libcap2/2.24-4 [ITA] -- POSIX 1003.1e capabilities

2014-07-29 Thread Christian Kastner
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for a new version of package libcap2. It builds the following binary packages: libcap-dev - POSIX 1003.1e capabilities (development) libcap2 - POSIX 1003.1e capabilities (library) libcap2-bin - POSIX 10

Bug#756451: RFS: libcgroup/0.41 [ITA] -- control and monitor control groups

2014-07-29 Thread Christian Kastner
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for a new version of package libcgroup. It builds the following binary packages: cgroup-bin - control and monitor control groups (transitional package) cgroup-tools - control and monitor control groups (t

Bug#756452: RFS: libcap2/2.24-4 [ITA] -- POSIX 1003.1e capabilities

2014-08-03 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi Vincent, thanks for another review. On 2014-08-03 03:28, Vincent Cheng wrote: >> I am looking for a sponsor for a new version of package libcap2 >> The package builds lintian-clean with sbuild. The source package can be >> found here: >> >> http://www.kvr.at/debian/pool/main/libc/libcap2/

Bug#756451: RFS: libcgroup/0.41 [ITA] -- control and monitor control groups

2014-08-03 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi Vincent, thanks for the review. On 2014-08-03 03:10, Vincent Cheng wrote: >> I am looking for a sponsor for a new version of package libcgroup. >> The package builds lintian-clean with sbuild. The source package can be >> found here: >> >> http://www.kvr.at/debian/pool/main/libc/libcgroup

Bug#756451: RFS: libcgroup/0.41 [ITA] -- control and monitor control groups

2014-08-03 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-08-03 12:11, Christian Kastner wrote: >> debian/copyright: >> - src/pam/pam_cgroup.c is dual-licensed BSD and LGPL 2.1, not BSD or >> GPL 2. That also makes the GPL-2 license block in d/copyright >> obsolete. > > Hm... while you're right that someth

Re: Bug#752897:

2014-08-27 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-08-27 03:58, Tobias Frost wrote: > However, in this case the package needs also different cmake options at > dh_auto_configure-time, so only override_dh_auto_build-indep will not work as > you need to disable DENABLE_DOCS during cmake configuration. > I just wondering if there is also a dh_

Re: Bug#762228: RFS: ufoai-music review

2014-09-20 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi Markus, On 2014-09-20 01:22, Markus Koschany wrote: > The debian/copyright file is identical for ufoai-data, ufoai-music and > ufoai-maps. I find this somewhat confusing. Generally speaking, I don't believe that listing the copyright of files which are not part of the source package (in fact,

Re: Bug#762228: RFS: ufoai-music review

2014-09-20 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-09-20 13:23, Markus Koschany wrote: > On 20.09.2014 10:10, Christian Kastner wrote: >> On 2014-09-20 01:22, Markus Koschany wrote: >>> The debian/copyright file is identical for ufoai-data, ufoai-music and >>> ufoai-maps. >> >> I find this somewhat

Re: Bug#762228: RFS: ufoai-music review

2014-09-20 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-09-20 13:02, Markus Koschany wrote: > On 20.09.2014 09:57, Tobias Frost wrote: >> My reasoning is, that because of every data package has its own >> orig.tar, they need to be crafted in a way to so that they will >> be -- individually looked at -- reach Debian quality requirements. To exp

Re: Bug#762228: RFS: ufoai-music review

2014-09-20 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-09-20 17:33, Markus Koschany wrote: > On 20.09.2014 15:45, Tobias Frost wrote: >> Due to the split I say "we now have 4 related, but independent source >> packages and they should be handled as such". >> The Relation is no guarantee that the packages will not diverge in the >> future. (e.

Re: Bug#762228: RFS: ufoai-music review

2014-09-20 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-09-20 16:22, Markus Koschany wrote: > On 20.09.2014 16:02, Tobias Frost wrote: >> Addendum: >> >> On Sat, 2014-09-20 at 15:45 +0200, Tobias Frost wrote: Absolutely agreed. But can you point me to examples where the short reference to /usr/share/common-licenses was deemed not appro

Bug#767534: FS: librscode/1.3-1 [ITP]

2014-10-31 Thread Christian Kastner
c The git repository for the packaging (gbp) can be found at: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/librscode.git Changes since the last upload: * Initial release. Closes: #767299 I'm already a DM, if that helps. Regards, Christian Kastner signature.asc Description:

Facilitating contributions by newcomers

2014-11-09 Thread Christian Kastner
The first steps in contributing to Debian are usually the hardest. Normally, new contributors are pointed to the standard docs [eg: 1,2,3,4,5], but processing such an amount of information is often a daunting task, and not a very fun one either. On the other hand, we have quite a few mentors who w

Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers

2014-11-10 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-11-10 10:58, Ghislain Vaillant wrote: > On 09/11/14 21:44, Don Armstrong wrote: >> On Sun, 09 Nov 2014, Christian Kastner wrote: >>> With the recent gamification of just-about-everything, I was wondering >>> whether following such an achievement-oriented appro

Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers

2014-11-11 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-11-10 22:12, Roger Light wrote: > I think this is a worthwhile idea, but would like to suggest that if > you're going to go down the approach of badges/accomplishments then it > would be good to consider how to encourage existing DDs to become > active in mentoring. That's one of the key p

Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers

2014-11-11 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-11-11 03:06, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > >> How do you see the transition from a mentee to a DM going? > > Something like this: > > Do a bunch of tasks through the proposed program. > > Feel more confident in your knowledge of Debian. I

Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers

2014-11-11 Thread Christian Kastner
uming the package isn't team maint). I guess we do > have RFAs and orphaned packages, but not a lot of interesting software > ends up there. This is one of the problems I had in mind when I wrote: On 2014-11-09 20:20, Christian Kastner wrote: > All in all, I think the additional c

Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers

2014-11-11 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-11-09 22:44, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Sun, 09 Nov 2014, Christian Kastner wrote: >> With the recent gamification of just-about-everything, I was wondering >> whether following such an achievement-oriented approach, with >> opportunities for contribution formulated

Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers

2014-11-11 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-11-11 14:43, Stéphane Aulery wrote: > Le mardi 11 novembre 2014 à 02:30:56, Simon Chopin a écrit : >> Quoting Stéphane Aulery (2014-11-11 13:51:50) >>> >>> A tag "easyhack" (or whatever) for BTS would be welcome, like the >>> LibreOffice >>> project Easy_Hacks made: >> >> This already exis

Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers

2014-11-11 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-11-11 20:28, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 09/11/14 at 20:20 +0100, Christian Kastner wrote: > Do you have how-can-i-help installed? > The WNPP list might not be the best approach to finding interesting > packages to adopt. But looking at the intersection with packages you >

Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers

2014-11-11 Thread Christian Kastner
ts tagged 'entry-point' with the information I mention in first post, ie: On 2014-11-09 20:20, Christian Kastner wrote: > * A specific objective (bug fix, enhancement, debugging, cleanup, > documentation, translation, ...). This should probably be tied to a > D

Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers

2014-11-12 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-11-12 02:14, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Wed, 12 Nov 2014, Christian Kastner wrote: >> Going even further, what would you see as possible solutions for >> augmenting bug reports tagged 'entry-point' with the information I >> mention in first post, ie: >&

Re: Making "entry-point" nee "gift" a real BTS tag [Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers]

2014-11-13 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-11-13 09:42, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 07:42:33PM +0100, Stéphane Aulery wrote: >> entry-point >> The maintainer can easily solve this bug by himself, but he >> wants to take it to new contributors who wish to get involved >> in Debian. Bugs of any diff

Re: Making "entry-point" nee "gift" a real BTS tag [Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers]

2014-11-13 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-11-13 12:43, Stéphane Aulery wrote: > I'm sorry my English is poor and I can hardly do better. I wanted to > summarize the main ideas of the second paragraph on page [1] which I > find very good. The maintainer should know the first glance by reading > the description if it can offer the b

Bug#770636: RFS: gitinspector/0.3.2+dfsg-1 [ITP]

2014-11-22 Thread Christian Kastner
tinspector Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command: dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gitinspector/gitinspector_0.3.2+dfsg-1.dsc Changes since the last upload: * Initial release. Closes: #768508 I'm already a DM, if that helps. Rega

Bug#770638: RFS: python-cachetools/0.7.0-1 [ITP]

2014-11-22 Thread Christian Kastner
c Changes since the last upload: * Initial release. Closes: #767298 I'm already a DM, if that helps. Regards, Christian Kastner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

Bug#770636: RFS: gitinspector/0.3.2+dfsg-1 [ITP]

2014-12-02 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-12-02 18:42, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 09:56:33PM +0100, Christian Kastner wrote: >> dget -x >> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gitinspector/gitinspector_0.3.2+dfsg-1.dsc >> >> Changes since the last upload: >&g

Bug#770638: RFS: python-cachetools/0.7.0-1 [ITP]

2014-12-05 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi, On 2014-12-05 22:07, Thomas Kemmer wrote: > As the upstream author of this I feel flattered, but just for the records: > It's Thomas KEMMER, not > > Upstream Author : Thomas Kremmer sorry about that! I will correct it in the next upload for 0.8.0. Regards, Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Bug#771774: RFS: libmongo-client/0.1.8-2 [ITA]

2014-12-06 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-12-05 08:43, Gergely Nagy wrote: >> "Jörg" == Jörg Frings-Fürst writes: > >> * Why move --dbg-package from DH_OPTIONS to an override? > > Jörg> --dbg-package is only needed in dh_strip[1]. > > Yes. But it works fine in DH_OPTIONS too, without any ill side-effects, > and is s

Bug#770638: RFS: python-cachetools/0.7.0-1 [ITP]

2014-12-19 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-12-19 19:00, Thomas Kemmer wrote: > FYI: Version 1.0.0 has just been release on PyPi and GitHub A package based on 1.0.0 has just been uploaded. Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists

Re: simple shell question

2015-02-19 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2015-02-18 21:40, Paul Gevers wrote: > I am wondering about the following, what is the practical difference in > a shell script between > [ "$foo" ] and [ -n "$foo" ] POSIX [1] mandates it: | -n string | True if the length of string is non-zero; otherwise, false. | string | Tr

Re: Using root privileges to build a package

2020-01-14 Thread Christian Kastner
On 14.01.20 12:14, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote: > El 14/1/20 a les 10:54, Andrey Rahmatullin ha escrit: >> Sorry, are you saying you think it's fine for a package build process to >> modify the build host system? > > just to install some files and yes, I understand that it shouldn't. It's not

Re: sbuild VM or Server

2020-04-13 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2020-04-13 12:36, Jörg Frings-Fürst wrote: > I want to set up a VM or a dedicated server for it. Is there a prepared > VM and/or a description? autopkgtest-build-qemu will create a VM with vmdb2, and will customize it so that you can use it for most development needs. For example, sbuild has a

Bug#968450: RFS: anacron/2.3-30 [QA] -- cron-like program that doesn't go by time

2020-08-18 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi Jpaulo, I can sponsor this. You seem to have based directly off of 2.3-29. However, git contains a handful of newer commits. Could you fork the repo on salsa.debian.org and add your changes on top of the current HEAD, so that (1) those changes are included and (2) your work can also be merged

Repack source lacking root directory?

2023-08-15 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi, I have an upstream source that ships files as a ZIP file, with no root directory in that file. So contents are something like file1.txt file2.c subdir/file3.h file4.tx uscan will automatically repack the ZIP, but I couldn't figure out the magic incantation necessary in debian/watch t

Re: Repack source lacking root directory?

2023-08-17 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2023-08-16 13:28, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 08:23:14AM +0200, Christian Kastner wrote: >> uscan will automatically repack the ZIP, but I couldn't figure out the >> magic incantation necessary in debian/watch to move these to a root >> folder &#x

Re: ROCm installation

2022-01-12 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2022-01-12 22:15, M. Zhou wrote: > If shlibs are installed to somewhere like /usr/lib/rocm/lib/, > we are still able to tamper with ld.so.conf. > If binary executables are installed to /usr/lib/rocm/bin/, > then we are screwing up with the default shell PATH. > This is a deadend because we are n

Re: Separate GPG subkey for package signing

2022-06-24 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2022-06-24 18:40, Dániel Fancsali wrote: > I thought, I'll create a separate subkey for signing the package (and > keep my master key off-line, and the others keys separate from this > debian-signing-subkey). Would that be considered good practice? Or is > there something I can't see here? This

Re: Bug#683120: RFS: yadifa/1.0.3-1 [ITP]

2015-08-15 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2015-08-15 16:17, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Christian Kastner , 2014-04-09, 20:50: >> The Vcs-Git URL should use the git:// protocol specifier, and you >> could add a Vcs-Browser URL pointing to the github package, like so: >> >> -Vcs-Git: https://github.com/asciiprod/y

Bug#683120: RFS: yadifa/2.0.5-1 [ITP]

2015-08-16 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi Markus, On 2015-06-05 13:52, Markus Schade wrote: > New package for yadifa 2.1.0 is available > > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/y/yadifa/yadifa_2.1.0-1.dsc > > It would be great if someone could sponsor this package. I think > the history of this bugreport proves that the package

Re: Bug#683120: RFS: yadifa/1.0.3-1 [ITP]

2015-08-16 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2015-08-16 13:43, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Christian Kastner , 2015-08-15, 23:57: >>>> The Vcs-Git URL should use the git:// protocol specifier, and you >>>> could add a Vcs-Browser URL pointing to the github package, like so: >>>> >>>> -Vcs-Git:

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

2015-08-20 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2015-08-20 18:33, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Currently i am stuck at: > > - https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsFaq#How_do_I_make_my_first_package.3F > "Put a package together, built against a current version of sid." > > I'm on Jessie 8.1. The dependencies of the packages in question > ar

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

2015-08-20 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2015-08-20 18:33, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > i am the upstream developer of freshly orphaned packages libburn4, > libisofs6, libisoburn1, cdrskin, and xorriso. Now preparing to get > them in shape for sponsorship and for closing old bug reports. By the way, in that case, you should retitle the res

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

2015-08-21 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2015-08-21 13:21, Danny Edel wrote: > On 20/08/15 18:33, Thomas Schmitt wrote: >> Else: Is there a shortcut description how to quickly set up >> Debian package development in a virtual machine and how >> to keep it up to date ? >> (Hardware is plenty but my own VM scripts date back to De

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

2015-08-21 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2015-08-21 13:15, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > I already began installing yesterday evening. > It is instructive, but i would have preferred to postpone > the qemu adventures until i explore passthrough of DVD drives. Yes, that makes sense. > How about publicly available accounts on a sid machine,

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

2015-08-23 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2015-08-23 16:08, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Remaining questions: > > - Shall i dput -f now ? Yes. I don't know if you have to remove the package first (eg via the web interface). Can someone more familiar with mentors.debian.net add some enlightenment here? > - What to do about the complaint:

Re: +dfsg extension with Files-Excluded: in d/copyright

2015-09-02 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi Jakub, On 2015-09-01 12:22, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Ole Streicher , 2015-09-01, 11:51: >> when using the Files-Excluded: tag in debian/copyright, in the past >> there was an "+dfsg" suffix added to the version number automatically. >> This seems to have changed; is there a reason for that? Is the

Bug#787328: RFS: mpd-sima/0.13.1-1

2015-09-14 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi Geoff, Gianfranco already beat me to the review; nevertheless, here are some additional notes I had prepared, based on the package I saw on Sunday (the package is no longer visible on mentors.d.n). On 2015-09-14 12:32, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > lets review: > > 1) you dropped 0.10.0-2 en

Bug#787328: RFS: mpd-sima/0.13.1-1

2015-09-15 Thread Christian Kastner
(replying just to the issues I raised) On 2015-09-15 21:00, Geoff wrote: >> - It is helpful to be more explicit about some changes. You mention, >> for example, that the package has been converted to Python 3. The >> fact that the Python 2 package has been dropped is merely implied. >>

Splitting a source package with a new upstream version

2015-09-22 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi, libfann 2.1.0~beta+dfsg-1 in Debian currently builds a library as binary package libfann2, and Python bindings for it as binary package python-pyfann. The new upstream version 2.2.0 of libfann no longer provides the Python bindings; they are now provided by an external contributor instead. (A

Re: Splitting a source package with a new upstream version

2015-09-23 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2015-09-23 11:56, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Christian Kastner , 2015-09-22, 11:08: >> 1. upload a 2.2.0 version of the library, with the Python bindings >> dropped. python-pyfann currently has a versioned dependency on a >> specific version of the library, libfann

Re: How to accomodate test files that move after installation?

2015-10-01 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi Jeffrey, On 2015-09-30 14:17, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Crypto++ has test files. When they are run from $PWD, them they work > fine. After installation into, say, /usr/share/, they break because > the location is an implicit dependency. So the two requirements are > self test must always run from

Bug#790104: RFS: lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings/1.2.0-1 [ITP]

2015-10-05 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi James, a review of your package follows: On 2015-06-27 06:59, James Lu wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings". > > * Package name: lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings >Version : 1.2.0-1 >Upstream Author : Andrew P. > * URL

Re: Bug#790104: RFS: lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings/1.2.0-1 [ITP]

2015-10-05 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2015-10-05 22:47, Christian Kastner wrote: > - The frontend for git at anonscm.d.o has been changed from gitweb to >git; please update Vcs-Browser URL accordingly I meant cgit, sorry. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#790104: RFS: lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings/1.2.0-1 [ITP]

2015-10-11 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2015-10-11 07:54, James Lu wrote: >> d/copyright: >> - The license appears to be GPL-3, not GPL-3+ (at least in the handful >>of files I checked). This also requires correction of the free- >>standing license block (the last paragraph) > > I see. Ubuntu's packaging wrote the license as

Bug#801237: mactel-boot review

2015-10-23 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2015-10-23 21:47, Bernhard Reiter wrote: > Am 2015-10-23 um 18:47 schrieb Gianfranco Costamagna: >> Control: owner -1 ! Control: tags -1 moreinfo > >> Hi, the packaging looks fine, however I don't understand what the >> code is supposed to do. > >> seems that the purpose of this code is to se

Bug#804343: RFS: libsvm/3.20-1 [NMU] -- library implementing support vector machines

2015-11-09 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi, On 2015-11-07 18:21, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: >>libsvm (3.20-1) unstable; urgency=medium >> >> * Non-maintainer upload. [...] > >> * Import new upstream version. > > > this is really out of an NMU scope, do you have any evidence about the > maintainer > being MIA/not interested anymo

Bug#822360: RFS: sequitur-g2p/0.0.r1668-3 -- Grapheme to Phoneme conversion tool

2016-04-23 Thread Christian Kastner
control: owner -1 ! Hi Giulio, I'd be happy to sponsor your package. On 2016-04-23 21:06, Giulio Paci wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for an updated version of my package "sequitur-g2p" > > You can download the package with git using this command: > >git clone git://anonscm.debian.org/

Bug#823470: RFS: sequitur-g2p/0.0.r1668.r3-1 -- Grapheme to Phoneme conversion tool

2016-05-05 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi Giulio, On 2016-05-05 03:57, Giulio Paci wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for an updated version of my package "sequitur-g2p" >git clone git://anonscm.debian.org/collab-maint/sequitur-g2p.git > A package review is very welcome as well. Looks good to me. Nice to see that upstream incl

Bug#823470: RFS: sequitur-g2p/0.0.r1668.r3-1 -- Grapheme to Phoneme conversion tool

2016-05-05 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2016-05-05 17:16, Giulio Paci wrote: >> One thing I'm not quite sure I follow yet is the change in the version >> numbering scheme, both upstream and in the package. This is how it looks >> to me: >> >> 1. Upstream re-used revision r1668 and added a -r3 suffix >> -> "r1668" trades a bit of r

Re: Package Naming

2016-05-11 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2016-05-11 03:41, Benda Xu wrote: > Hi, > > I am packaging a library called "casacore" which provides > > libcasa_python3.so.2 and libcasa_python.so.2 > > with SONAME=2. > > How should them be named when the python major version and SONAME could > cause confusion? > > I can think of > >

Re: Package Naming

2016-05-11 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2016-05-11 22:13, Ole Streicher wrote: > Christian Kastner writes: >> On 2016-05-11 03:41, Benda Xu wrote: >>> I am packaging a library called "casacore" which provides >>> libcasa_python3.so.2 and libcasa_python.so.2 >>> with SONAME=2. >

Re: Salsa CI documentation updated

2024-09-27 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2024-09-27 11:09, Jeroen Ploemen wrote: > On Fri, 27 Sep 2024 10:12:29 +0200 Christian Kastner wrote: >> For src:rocminfo, we have pipelines that fail [1,2,3] because >> rocminfo depends on bin:libhsa-runtime64-1 also from experimental. > > That should be a matter o

Re: Salsa CI documentation updated

2024-09-27 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi Otto, On 2024-09-24 18:18, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > We've overhauled the README.md at > https://salsa.debian.org/salsa-ci-team/pipeline to be as complete as > possible, yet clear and to the point. If you are not yet using Salsa > CI for pre-upload quality assurance for your package, you might w

Re: Can Debian Maintainers sponsor packages?

2025-01-18 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi Tiago, On 2025-01-17 14:51, Tiago Bortoletto Vaz wrote: > It is very much appreciated that you were diligent and consulted > documentation (and this list) before trying to sponsor packages as a DM. > Technically, it's not possible. See: > > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMaintainer#Granting_Per