RFS: wdg-offline-validator ( html syntax checker )

2008-01-01 Thread David Bremner
he "debian way". wdg-offline-validator currently conflicts with wdg-html-validator (since they both provide /usr/bin/validate) I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me, and/or provided some comments. Particularly the long description could be improved (but I'm not sure

Re: RFS: ladr and prover9-manual (updated package)

2008-01-18 Thread David Bremner
> "Peter" == Peter Collingbourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Peter> Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my packages Peter> "ladr" and "prover9-manual" (I am packaging the Peter> documentation separately because upstream distributes it in Peter> a separate tarball). I

Re: RFS: rafb

2008-01-20 Thread David Bremner
Hi Moe; Your package seems to be native, and has lintian warnings (with the latest lintian in sid). At the risk of the pot calling the kettle black (see wdg-offline-validator), I think you also need to sell people a bit on why a 100 line perl script needs its own package. best, David -- To

RFS/RFC: bibutils; convert bibliographic data between formats

2008-01-26 Thread David Bremner
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "bibutils". * Package name: bibutils Version : 3.39-1 Upstream Author : Chris Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://www.scripps.edu/~cdputnam/software/bibutils/bibutils.html Programming Lang: C License

Re: RFS/RFC: bibutils; convert bibliographic data between formats

2008-01-27 Thread David Bremner
>>>>> "Charles" == Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Charles> Le Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 04:42:39AM +0100, David Bremner a Charles> écrit : Charles> I have added your package on the following wiki page: Charles> http://wiki.

Re: RFS/RFC: bibutils; convert bibliographic data between formats

2008-01-27 Thread David Bremner
> "Charles" == Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Charles> I ran it on powerpc, diffed the new and old makefiles, Charles> and came to the conclusion that running it did not have Charles> any significant changes: only one variable was changed, Charles> containing t

Re: Program not supporting UTF8==bug ?

2008-02-15 Thread David Bremner
> "Thibaut" == Thibaut Paumard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Thibaut> following a [1]bug report on one of my packages Thibaut> ([2]yorick), I realize this interpreter has trouble Thibaut> dealing with UTF-8 strings. Is it considered a bug in Thibaut> itself? This wiki page [A]

Re: RFS: Perl packages update.

2008-02-19 Thread David Bremner
> "Francesco" == Francesco Cecconi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Francesco> Hi DD, I'm looking a sponsor for update my perl Francesco> packages: Dear Francesco: It would be great if you would join the pkg-perl team. The DDs there are are very helpful about uploading packages. See ht

RFS/RFC vrr: dynamic vector graphics with TeX text

2008-03-01 Thread David Bremner
zed doc package. I want to eventually make this a recommends, but since it contains the online help, this requires a little gtk+ hacking to pop up a dialog when the doc package is not present. Kind regards David Bremner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

2nd RFS/RFC vrr: dynamic vector graphics with TeX text

2008-03-23 Thread David Bremner
e libraries given by pkg-config. * there is a fair sized doc package. I want to eventually make this a recommends, but since it contains the online help, this requires a little gtk+ hacking to pop up a dialog when the doc package is not present. Kind regards David Bremner -- To UN

Re: 2nd RFS/RFC vrr: dynamic vector graphics with TeX text

2008-03-23 Thread David Bremner
>>>>> "pabs" == Paul Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: pabs> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 3:40 AM, David Bremner pabs> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "vrr". This is my >> second p

RFS: maxima (NMU)

2008-07-26 Thread David Bremner
non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/maxima/maxima_5.13.0-3.2.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards David Bremner pgpurijOTvIuo.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: RFS: maxima (NMU)

2008-07-27 Thread David Bremner
At Sun, 27 Jul 2008 09:31:26 +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > > [1 ] > OoO Pendant le repas du samedi 26 juillet 2008, vers 19:36, David > Bremner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait : > > > I have prepared an NMU changing the underlying lisp to SBCL. This is > >

Re: RFS: maxima (NMU) [UPLOADED]

2008-07-27 Thread David Bremner
Riku Voipio uploaded this NMU. Thanks all. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: libdata-report-perl (updated package)

2008-08-09 Thread David Bremner
At Sat, 9 Aug 2008 01:31:24 +0200, Angel Abad (Ikusnet SLL) wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.07-1 > of my package "libdata-report-perl". Dear Angel; If you join the pkg-perl team (alioth.debian.org/teams/pkg-perl), I guess you will have no problem finding a sponsor. Plus

Re: RFS: premake

2008-11-17 Thread David Bremner
At Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:16:51 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > [1 ] > On Sunday 2008 November 16 11:20, Kaido Kert wrote: > > Quite a few developers prefer premake for its use of Lua as scripting > > language, rather than using custom syntax. > > Sounds like it should wait until a packag

Re: RFS: libdata-compare-perl (updated package)

2009-02-01 Thread David Bremner
At Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:41:04 -0430, Miguelangel Jose Freitas Loreto wrote: > I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. > You might consider joining the debian perl team, http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org It is never a problem finding someone to upload packages from the team

RFS/RFC: sketch - 3D line drawings from scene descriptions

2007-09-27 Thread David Bremner
iles. The package has good user documentation. There are about 1 lines of C code with no dependencies other than libc. I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me, or had some comments to improve the packaging. This is my first sponsorship request, so be extra vigilant/kind :-). K

Re: RFS/RFC: sketch - 3D line drawings from scene descriptions

2007-09-28 Thread David Bremner
ated version. This (and the other things you mention) I can fix. Is there a canonical way to revert files that are autogenerated _and_ shipped in upstream? I guess I could add explicit copy and restore to debian/rules. Is there a better approach? I think patching won't work because of

sketch - New version

2007-10-04 Thread David Bremner
Eliminated xlstproc warnings for manpage -- David Bremner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 29 Sep 2007 08:04:47 +0200 Baj Wijnen mentioned above that he plans to check out this version and upload it if it is ok. Any other feedback is of course welcome. The package is lintian and pbuilder clea

Re: sketch - New version

2007-10-09 Thread David Bremner
>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Bremner wrote: >> I have upload a new version 0.2.27-2 of my package "sketch" to >> mentors.debian.net. Daniel> that won't work. you need 1:0.2

policy for file headers

2007-12-03 Thread David Bremner
Dear Mentors; Can someone point me to policy about file headers? I am currently looking at a package with a GPL copyright file in the top directory, and a terse statment "copyright X, released under the GPL" in most, but not all files. I think the files without copyright are non-essential, and c

Re: New package "unicornscan" (a new try !)

2007-12-05 Thread David Bremner
Hans-J> dupload -t mentors unicornscan_0.4.7-1_amd64.changes Hans-J> Uploading (scp) to mentors.debian.net:~ You need to use ftp, rather than scp to upload to mentors here is my dupload.conf. I think the default must be ftp, because I don't see anything here to force ftp. Here is my

Re: RFS: open-axiom/1.4.1+svn~2626-1

2012-04-24 Thread David Bremner
Игорь Пашев writes: > Package: sponsorship-requests > Severity: normal > > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "open-axiom" > I will have a look at this. d -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Bug#670589: RFS: newlisp/10.4.0-4 ITP

2012-04-27 Thread David Bremner
Nathan Owens writes: > Package: sponsorship-requests >Severity: normal [important for RC bugs, wishlist for new packages] > * Package name: newlisp > Version : 10.4.0-4 > Upstream Author : [fill in name and email of upstream] > * URL : [fill in URL of upstr

Bug#670589: RFS: newlisp/10.4.0-4 ITP

2012-04-27 Thread David Bremner
David Bremner writes: > Nathan Owens writes: > >> Package: sponsorship-requests >>Severity: normal [important for RC bugs, wishlist for new packages] >> * Package name: newlisp >> Version : 10.4.0-4 >> Upstream Author : [fill in na

Re: Getting rid of control messages revisited

2012-05-24 Thread David Bremner
Gergely Nagy writes: > > That sounds like a good idea, though closing mails would be useful on > -mentors@ too, not sure whether that counts as bug traffic or > control. But that's just a nice to have thing, in my opinion, one can > always manually subscribe to interesting RFS bugs anyway. > Peop

Re: RFS: new powertop version

2012-05-26 Thread David Bremner
Julian Wollrath writes: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for a new version of the package powertop, which > closes several bugs (e.g. bug #672555). I do this since there was no reaction > from the maintainer regarding my patches which fix bug #672555 and would like > to see the n

Bug#661309: RFS: task-spooler/0.7.3-1 [ITP] (new upstream)

2012-05-27 Thread David Bremner
Alexander Inyukhin writes: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "task-spooler" > It builds those binary packages: > > task-spooler - personal job scheduler I'll have a look at this. Alexander, please fix the expiry date on your gpg key; either make a new key or bump t

Re: Bug#661309: RFS: task-spooler/0.7.3-1 [ITP] (new upstream)

2012-05-27 Thread David Bremner
David Bremner writes: > I'll have a look at this. I sent a separate mail about some warnings from cppcheck and compilation. These might not be blockers, but the following is, your package currently violates policy 10.1 Two different packages must not install programs with d

Re: RFS: new powertop version

2012-05-29 Thread David Bremner
Julian Wollrath writes: > I prepared a new version, which keeps the changes in the rules minimal but > since upstream changed the building process a little bit, minimal changes > were > needed to get it build. The massive changes of the copyright file were also > needed so that it would be ma

Bug#676218: RFS: ustr/1.0.4-3 [RC] -- enable hardening flags and multiarch

2012-06-05 Thread David Bremner
Václav Ovsík writes: > Package: sponsorship-requests > Severity: important Does the RC in your subject refer to release critical? If so, what RC bug does this close? d -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listma

Bug#661309: RFS: task-spooler/0.7.3-1 [ITP] (fix policy violation)

2012-06-13 Thread David Bremner
Alexander Inyukhin writes: > On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 11:12:04AM -0300, David Bremner wrote: >> David Bremner writes: >> >> > I'll have a look at this. >> >> I sent a separate mail about some warnings from cppcheck and >> compilation. These mi

Bug#661309: RFS: task-spooler/0.7.3-1 [ITP]

2012-06-29 Thread David Bremner
Alexander Inyukhin writes: > > Changes from previous package version: > * priority changed to optional; > * fixed memory leak (cppcheck warning). Sounds good, I'll have a (hopefully final) look at this today. d -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Minutes from "Getting your packages into Debian"

2012-07-31 Thread David Bremner
\small\textbf{Notes:} #1} \newcommand{\recipebutton}[1]{\hyperlink{#1}{\beamergotobutton{#1}}\hypertarget{back:#1}{}} \newcommand{\recipe}[1]{\hypertarget{#1}{}\hyperlink{back:#1}{\beamerreturnbutton{back}}} \title{Getting your packages into Debian} \author{David Bremner} \titlegraphic{based on not

Re: packaging without make

2009-02-21 Thread David Bremner
At Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:19:28 +0100, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > > I intend to package a web based application which does not contain a > build system - no Makefile etc. > > What is the best way to approach this situation in my package? Create a > Makefile or whatever? You can probably do everyth

Re: RFS: lxmusic

2009-03-13 Thread David Bremner
DreamerC wrote: >* Package name: lxmusic > Version : 0.2.3-1+svn090103 > Upstream Author : [fill in name and email of upstream] >* URL : [fill in URL of upstreams web site] >* License : [fill in] > Section : sound Hi DreamerC; Please fill in all those

RFC: new version of bibutils

2009-03-15 Thread David Bremner
Dear mentors, Dear debian-science people; I am hoping that Yaroslav Halchen will continue sponsoring this (Hi Yaroslav!), but I made quite a few changes in this new version including: - soname bump - added a symbol file - converted packaging to topgit - two standards ver

Re: quilt

2009-03-16 Thread David Bremner
Jaromír Mikeš wrote: >http://wiki.debian.org/HolgerLevsen#addingpatcheswithquilttoapackage >I used this how-to and my patch is done like this: >$ diff -Naur makefile-orig makefile-edited > makefile.patch If you use quilt to generate the patches, then quilt will definitely understand them, and p

Re: How to get COMMIT right for an already exiting project ( "MSEide-MSEgui" in the "Sid" branch ) ?

2009-04-09 Thread David Bremner
At Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:47:16 +0400, Bobyr Raisa Efimovna wrote: > > Me'm the maintainer of this project but don't have access right to put > updates. > Torsten Werner and Mazen Neifer > helped me to join then with the COMMIT stuff but > currently don't respond to e-mail. Me'm affraid that th

Re: RFS: scmbug

2009-05-10 Thread David Bremner
Kristis Makris wrote: >On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 19:16 +0100, Michal Čihař wrote: >What do I need to do to change the package into being non-native ? >How/where do I specify the non-native version number ? http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Version (short answer: in deb

Re: RFS: scmbug

2009-05-12 Thread David Bremner
At Tue, 12 May 2009 10:26:50 -0700, Kristis Makris wrote: > > Because it breaks some tools which check archive and makes NMUs > > needlessly complicated. > > It sounds like some tools need to be corrected. > > For example, "man dpkg-buildpackage" reports a "-c" parameter for > specifying the con

Re: New package for pmgraph

2009-06-11 Thread David Bremner
At Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:21:58 +0100, Noe Gonzalez wrote: >I have just started to work with debian packages building, I create a > package for the project pmgraph. The package is main to install the war > file of the pmgraph project create a mysql database, and install and > configure some extra

Re: git-buildpackage issues

2009-08-03 Thread David Bremner
At Mon, 3 Aug 2009 14:48:12 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > $ \rm -fr rsvndump > $ mkdir rsvndump > $ cd rsvndump > $ git init > Initialized empty Git repository in > /home/mathieu/Perso/gdcm/Sandbox/debian-med/build-area/rsvndump/.git/ > $ git-import-dsc --pristine-tar ../rsvndump_0.5.2.dsc t

Re: RFS: task-spooler

2009-08-03 Thread David Bremner
Thanks for your work packaging this. I'm not a DD, so I can't upload it. 1) I expect whoever does sponsor it will ask you to compress debian/changelog a bit. Typically there should be 1 changelog entry per debian upload. Sorry I didn't mention this in my mail to BTS. 2) Is there any security ri

RFS: graph isomorphism

2009-08-05 Thread David Bremner
compute graph automorphisms and canonical labellings nauty - command line tools to compute graph automorphisms The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 529094 (ITP) I would be grateful if someone uploaded this package for me. Warm regards David Bremner

Re: RFS: graph isomorphism package nauty

2009-08-05 Thread David Bremner
Sorry, doze-n-send, strikes again. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/non-free/n/nauty - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/non-free/n/na

Re: vera++ on debian git: collab maint

2009-08-13 Thread David Bremner
Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >I am checking again today for the http view of the vera++ rep and I >still cannot see it. >Clearly the files are older than 6hours ago, right ? Hi Mathieu. Something (gitweb?) does not like the name vera++.git. I cannot get it to show up even with the url http:/

RFS/RFC syncevolution and libsynthesis

2009-08-21 Thread David Bremner
n these packages, or uploading if they seem OK. Note that both packages are in collab-maint. Kind regards David Bremner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: RFS/RFC syncevolution and libsynthesis

2009-08-22 Thread David Bremner
At Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:17:04 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > Hmhm, and syncevolution is supposed to include sync-ui, a GTK interface, > which doesn't seem to be included in your package. Is it on purpose? Not exactly on purpose; it just was not enabled by the default configure, so I forgot abou

Re: RFS/RFC syncevolution and libsynthesis

2009-08-22 Thread David Bremner
OK, I made a new version of the source package the builds the GUI. There is now, per suggestion, a separate sync-ui binary package. This lets people who only want the command line client to have significantly less dependencies. http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/syncevolution/syncevolut

Re: RFS: graph isomorphism package nauty

2009-09-05 Thread David Bremner
I found a silly packaging bug that causes the package to FTBFS almost everywhere. I uploaded a new version to http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/non-free/n/nauty/nauty_2.4~b7-1.dsc or from git://git.debian.org/git/debian-science/packages/nauty.git signed tag: debian/2.4b7rc2 I kno

Re: RFS: graph isomorphism package nauty

2009-09-05 Thread David Bremner
At Sat, 5 Sep 2009 13:32:26 -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > I'm willing to sponsor nauty. Thanks! > I had a very quick look. It builds and seems to produce correct packages. > However, there is some weird output during the process: > dh --with quilt /usr/share/topgit/tg2quilt.mk

Re: RFS: libv8

2009-09-06 Thread David Bremner
At Sun, 6 Sep 2009 16:03:10 +, Antonio Radici wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "libv8". > > * Package name: libv8 > Version : 1.3.9-1 > Upstream Author : Google v8 team > * URL : http://code.google.com/p/v8/ Some comments, from only looking at .d

Re: RFS: aegis (updated package, NMU)

2009-09-24 Thread David Bremner
Walter Franzini wrote: >The problem may be related to the procedure used to produce the upstream >tarball, it is created with file ownership different from root.root and >git-buildpackage /probably/ is unable to reproduce it exactly. If you are regenerating the tarball from git you should invest

Re: Convenience copies in upstream code: dependencies, removal, copyright, and other issues

2009-10-20 Thread David Bremner
Ben Finney wrote: >* Declare dependencies on the version of the library in Debian, even > though that version may be later than the convenience copy currently > in the original source? Section 4.1.3 of Debian policy says If the included code is already in the Debian archive in the form

Re: RFS: libplist (Adopted, updated package)

2009-11-21 Thread David Bremner
Sorry for the bizzare spam-like From on that last message. Experimental mail setup gone wild... d -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

RFS: lrslib, package to enumerate solutions to linear inequalities

2009-11-26 Thread David Bremner
rom: David Bremner To: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org Subject: RFS: lrslib Dear All; I am looking for a sponsor for my package "lrslib". * Package name: lrslib Version : 0.42c-1 Upstream Author : David Avis * URL : http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca

RFS: nauty graph isomorphism package (fixes RC bug).

2010-02-13 Thread David Bremner
ackage for me. Kind regards David Bremner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: RFS: nauty graph isomorphism package (fixes RC bug).

2010-02-13 Thread David Bremner
On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:11:43 -0400, David Bremner wrote: > > The upload would fix these bugs: 569269 (FTBFS due to appearence of > getline in default namespace). Sigh. That should be bug #569626, fixed in a new upload to mentors. d -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-men

help with dpkg-shlibdeps/library dependencies

2010-03-05 Thread David Bremner
I'm packaging the latest syncevolution (beta2) which needs a snapshot of libsynthesis (3.4.0.5+ds1). It builds fine, and seems to work, but the calculated depencies are wrong. src:libsynthesis makes two library binary packages, libsynthesis0 and libsmltk0 dpkg-shlibdeps computes dependency l

Re: RFS: packagekit

2010-08-30 Thread David Bremner
On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 14:48:17 +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > somone (pabs?) wrote: > > Why do you move the upstream helper scripts to /usr/lib? > They're scripts and should not be in /usr/share/PackageKit. In this > directory we only have documentation of PK. As best I understand the Linux File H

Re: packaging qt apps for debian

2010-10-02 Thread David Bremner
On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 13:46:40 +0530, Rustom Mody wrote: > > http://build-common.alioth.debian.org/cdbs-doc.html#id2561450 > > So you think it maybe better to go the cdbs->qmake-class way? > Without wishing to speak ill of CDBS, you will find that more people can help you with debhelper questions

Re: RFS: btag -- interactive command-line based multimedia tag editor

2010-10-05 Thread David Bremner
On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 00:50:15 -0300, Fernando Lemos wrote: > * Package name: btag > Version : 1.0.0-1 > Upstream Author : Fernando Tarlá Cardoso Lemos > * URL : http://github.com/fernandotcl/btag > * License : BSD > Section : sound Hi Fernando; I'm n

Re: RFS: disco

2010-10-11 Thread David Bremner
On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 22:13:43 +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > While I am not a python/erlang/etc. packager, I did a small review of > your package. It is quite possible that I missed some issues that a > second reviewer will find (particularly if said review know

Re: RFS: disco

2010-10-12 Thread David Bremner
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 03:31:06 +0200, Janos Guljas wrote: > Hi David, > > As I see, there is only one copy of jquery library > master/www/js/jquery-1.2.1.js which is removed and linked in > debian/rules. Another copy which in disco-doc package as a result of > python-sphinx work is also removed and

Re: RFS: twatch

2010-10-21 Thread David Bremner
On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 16:57:25 +0400, "Roman V. Nikolaev" wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "twatch". > > * Package name: twatch > Version : 0.0.4-1 > Upstream Author : Roman V. Nikolaev > * URL : twatch.rshadow.ru > * License

Re: RFS: robocut

2010-12-03 Thread David Bremner
On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 20:46:23 -0500, Markus Schulz wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "robocut". > > * Package name: robocut > Version : 1.0.4-1 > Upstream Author : Tim Hutt > * URL : https://launchpad.net/robocut > * License : GPL V3 > Sect

Re: RFS: daisy-player

2010-12-08 Thread David Bremner
On Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:31:37 +0100, Paul Gevers wrote: > daisy-player - player for DAISY Digital Talking Books > daisy-player-dbg - daisy-player debugging symbols Dear Paul; Is there some media available that people could test this with? I had a quick look at the daisy web site, but nothing jum

Re: RFS: aspell-id; third try

2010-12-11 Thread David Bremner
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 01:41:33 +0700, Mahyuddin Susanto wrote: > * Package name: aspell-id > Version : 1.2-0-4 > Upstream Author : Benitius Brevoort > * URL : http://translationproject.org/team/id.html > * License : GPLv2+ > Section : text 1) Usuall

ITR: robocut (driver for consumer GRAPHTEC cutting plotters like Silhouette SD and craftROBO)

2010-12-19 Thread David Bremner
On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 20:15:49 -0500, Markus Schulz wrote: > I uploaded a new version 1.0.6-1 that fixes a display bug and some other > small changes. > > This driver imports an SVG file from Inkscape and lets the use cut the path. > I intend to review, and all going well sponsor this. d pgp9

Re: ITR: robocut (driver for consumer GRAPHTEC cutting plotters like Silhouette SD and craftROBO)

2010-12-20 Thread David Bremner
On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 17:54:03 -0400, David Bremner wrote: > > I intend to review, and all going well sponsor this. > Uploaded. Some comments for the next upload: - Can you talk to Tim about re-generating the moc/qrc files at package build time (either don't distribute them, or

Re: ITR: robocut (driver for consumer GRAPHTEC cutting plotters like Silhouette SD and craftROBO)

2010-12-20 Thread David Bremner
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 20:17:40 -0500, Markus Schulz wrote: > I'm generating the tar.gz file via qmake; make; make dist - please tell > me if I need to create this readme file in this case or not? > (From debian-policy 4.14 I don't think so, but I'm still learning) No, you don't need to document h

Re: RFS: hugs98 (NMU, RC bugfix)

2011-01-16 Thread David Bremner
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:08:13 +0100, Felix Geyer wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my NMU of the package "hugs98". > > The upload would fix this RC bug: http://bugs.debian.org/608220 > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/h/hugs98/hugs98_98.200609.21-5.2.dsc > Hi Felix; Please disc

Re: RFS: dwarf-ng

2011-01-28 Thread David Bremner
On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 20:41:32 + (UTC), Fernando wrote: > > The package is not present in debian, it is my first commit. > > The package can be found on Savannah: > http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/dwarf-ng/dwarf_0.3.0-1_i386.deb > > I would be glad if someone uploaded this package f

Re: Git Package Versioning

2011-03-20 Thread David Bremner
On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 22:25:38 +0100, Joachim Wiedorn wrote: > > Please be aware, that "+" is not the optimal connector. > Try dpkg --compare-versions and see: [snip] > The version b) is the better way. So please use "~" > as connector. That rather depends on your goal. If the version number

ITR: jansson - C library for encoding, decoding and manipulating JSON data

2011-04-07 Thread David Bremner
On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 23:28:58 +0200, Alessandro Ghedini wrote: > > My motivation for maintaining this package is: Thanks to its intuitive and > simple API I think this is a very valid alternative to the IMHO more complex > json-c which is already in the archive. Many new interesting open source >

Re: RFS: jansson - C library for encoding, decoding and manipulating JSON data

2011-04-09 Thread David Bremner
On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 23:28:58 +0200, Alessandro Ghedini wrote: > It builds these binary packages: > libjansson4 - C library for encoding, decoding and manipulating JSON data > libjansson4-dev - C library for encoding, decoding and manipulating JSON data > (dev) > libjansson4-doc - C library for en

Re: RFS: jansson - C library for encoding, decoding and manipulating JSON data

2011-04-09 Thread David Bremner
On Sat, 9 Apr 2011 15:26:20 +0200, Alessandro Ghedini wrote: > > Thanks for your review. > Uploaded. Feel free to contact me directly for future jansson uploads. I took the liberty of pushing a tag debian/2.0.1-1 to collab-maint (corresponding to version I uploaded). Feel free to delete if the

Re: RFS: dylandotnet

2011-05-14 Thread David Bremner
On Sat, 14 May 2011 11:32:19 +0200, Dylan Borg wrote: > > It builds these binary packages: > dylandotnet - This is the dylan.NET compiler > Hi Dylan; It seems like your package ships several .dll files that are not rebuilt during the package build process. By policy 2.2.1, your package must b

RE: RFS: dylandotnet

2011-05-14 Thread David Bremner
I took the liberty of redirecting this reply back to the list. You may want to bounce your original message to the list as well. In general, please direct the discussion to the list. I'm not sure why lintian does not catch this, but your changelog needs work. - target should be debian unstable

RE: RFS: dylandotnet

2011-05-14 Thread David Bremner
On Sat, 14 May 2011 16:34:14 +0200, Dylan Borg wrote: > > I have updated the package(the debian dir only). The packagge is opens > ource. Open source software can run on Windows!...remove the > misconception that Windows software always must cost money. Hi Dylan; "non-free" is used in Debian in

Re: /usr/lib64 or /usr/lib

2011-06-09 Thread David Bremner
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:40:54 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > On Debian, you should always install into lib and never use lib64. > (Eventually, you may want to use the multiarch directory, but it will > still not be lib64.) > That was my first thought, but I couldn't find a straightforward justif

Re: /usr/lib64 or /usr/lib

2011-06-09 Thread David Bremner
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:41:34 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > 9.1.1 point 2: > > The requirement for amd64 to use /lib64 for 64 bit binaries is > removed. Yeah, that is the point that confused me. For me, removing the requirement is not the same as forbidding. > > Also note that /usr/li

Re: Nitpicking: you are doing it wrong

2011-07-08 Thread David Bremner
On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 08:47:31 -0400, Scott Howard wrote: > > > - debian/copyright not in DEP-5 format; > > This is accepted and will be policy soon [3]. "What should be done > eventually must be done immediately." > I think you might misunderstand the DEP process, which is easy to do. The follow

Re: RE : : RFS: autoconf-archive (updated package)

2011-07-13 Thread David Bremner
pend a patch, but I'm not sure yet that this is the best fix. David pgppRfioD7q7Q.pgp Description: PGP signature >From e0002bf481955279fbd9e930f08afb25403ac00d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Bremner Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 08:23:24 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] quilt-patches-deb-export-ho

Re: RE : : RFS: autoconf-archive (updated package)

2011-07-14 Thread David Bremner
On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:34:30 +0200, roucaries bastien wrote: > > They are no patches. It is a bug in gitpkg even after david Bremner > patch lintian complain. > I'm a bit surprised by that. In any case, try version 0.20 of gitpkg which contains a different fix. If there is st

Re: RE : : RFS: autoconf-archive (updated package)

2011-07-14 Thread David Bremner
On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:41:05 +0200, roucaries bastien wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:30 PM, David Bremner wrote: > > I use 0.20, it does not export patches but lintian complain. See the > file in mentors. I believe it is a lintian bug. > What do you think ? > Certainl

Re: RE : : RFS: autoconf-archive (updated package)

2011-07-14 Thread David Bremner
On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:06:06 +0200, roucaries bastien wrote: > Not fixed in my case: > lintian *.changes || lintian --version > E: autoconf-archive source: git-patches-not-exported > Lintian v2.5.1 Ah, yes. I agree this is a bug, different than the bug we just fixed in gitpkg. I'm not sure at th

Re: RE : : RFS: autoconf-archive (updated package)

2011-07-15 Thread David Bremner
On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:47:25 +0200, Kilian Krause wrote: Non-text part: multipart/signed > I've not "fixed" the unneeded-build-dep-on-quilt warning of lintian, but > maybe that could be part of the gitpkg "fix" that would only ship > debian/patches (including debian/patches/series) if it's really

Re: Package for OpenAxiom

2011-08-20 Thread David Bremner
On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:45:44 +0400, Игорь Пашев wrote: > I have prepared packages for OpenAxiom: > https://github.com/ip1981/open-axiom-debian It would help lazy/busy reviewers if you would provide either a source package uploaded to mentors.debian.net or a git repo that makes it easier to build

Re: RFS: open-axiom

2011-08-23 Thread David Bremner
On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:54:42 +0400, Игорь Пашев wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "open-axiom". > > * Package name: open-axiom >Version : 1.4.1+svn~2299-1 Hi Igor; Thanks for working on this, and for making a source package. You package builds OK, but it has m

Re: RFS: open-axiom

2011-08-28 Thread David Bremner
On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 23:01:12 +0400, Игорь Пашев wrote: > I have fixed all lintian issues, except two: > 1. image-file-in-usr-lib (e. g. > usr/lib/open-axiom/share/hypertex/bitmaps/anna_logo.xbm) Hmm. This should be fixed eventually, but if it will be fixed upstream anyway, it is probably more s

Re: RFS: open-axiom

2011-08-28 Thread David Bremner
On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 23:11:25 +0400, Игорь Пашев wrote: Non-text part: multipart/alternative > Lintian clear. > > 1. Hypetex data is moved to /usr/share with symlink. > 2. Removed shebangs and "compiled from ..." lines from *.fasl files > > Now OA packages are lintian clear. Just upload another

Re: RFS: open-axiom

2011-08-28 Thread David Bremner
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 02:34:03 +0400, Игорь Пашев wrote: Non-text part: multipart/alternative > Uploaded. > > http://mentors.debian.net/package/open-axiom > > Sorry for flooding ;-) > Some of these things I should have found earlier, but I thought lintian would keep you busy longer ;). - The se

Re: RFS: open-axiom

2011-08-30 Thread David Bremner
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:34:44 +0400, Igor Pashev wrote: > So, I have uploaded new version with corrections you suggested. > Please review it. On startup, I get (HyperDoc) read_ht_db: No ht.db file found. before the rest of the startup messages. Weirdly, the basic help commands I tried seem

Re: RFS: open-axiom

2011-08-30 Thread David Bremner
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:17:30 +0400, Igor Pashev wrote: > I saw this message after making symlink > /usr/lib/open-axiom/share/hypertex -> /usr/share/open-axiom/hypertex > And can't reproduce it after purging old version > and clean install of new version. OK, for first upload this is fine. As yo

Re: RFS: open-axiom

2011-08-30 Thread David Bremner
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 20:26:22 -0400, "Joseph R. Justice" wrote: > Or, is this incorrect, and if so what needs to be done and/or who > needs to be aware of this connection between OpenAxiom and SBCL such > that if if there *is* a fix to SBCL that needs to be incorporated into > OpenAxiom also, it

Re: RFS: task-spooler

2011-09-02 Thread David Bremner
On Fri, 2 Sep 2011 00:39:07 +0400, Alexander Inyukhin wrote: > * Package name: task-spooler > Version : 0.7.0-1~rc1 > Upstream Author : Lluís Batlle i Rossel > * URL : http://vicerveza.homeunix.net/~viric/soft/ts/ > * License : GPLv2+ > Section : mis

Re: RFS: open-axiom

2011-09-03 Thread David Bremner
On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 16:07:39 +0400, Igor Pashev wrote: > I have upload new version without > "./contrib" and "./src/include/xpm.h". > > The latter is going to be removed in upstream, > that file is from very old Axiom version. > > "./contrib" is not used now and has unclear license mess: > "./c

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