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Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for my package "wordgrinder".
* Package name: wordgrinder
Version : 0.2-1
Upstream Author : David Given <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://wordgrinder.sourcefor
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Colin Tuckley wrote:
[...]
> I'll take a closer look tomorrow and if I don't find anything wrong I'll
> sponsor it for you.
Ta muchly.
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Colin Tuckley wrote:
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> Uploaded!
Gosh, that was quick! Thanks very much.
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nly be minor changes,
they might even work, too.
Does such a thing exist?
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Dominik George wrote:
[...]
> Sounds easy - but how do I get it to copy my one single file? What Dmitry
> suggested does not quite work ...
The debian/rules file *is* a Makefile --- so at the very worst you can
just change the bit that invokes upstream's Makefile to a cp.
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Include my own copy of the library (which I don't want to do)? Petition the
sqlite maintainers to build a non-threaded version as part of the stock
libsqlite3 package?
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I'm current packaging ufiformat, a USB floppy disk formatter (#436134). It's
nearly at the stage of looking for a sponsor, but before that happens I'd like
to sound people out about something.
I needed to change Makefile.am to tell it to install the b
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Justin Pryzby wrote:
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> Otherwise you can depend on autotools-dev and run them at build time,
> and remove the generated files at clean time to get a small diff.
This approach works fine; I'm now running aclocal, automake and autoconf at
build ti
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The package I'm putting together has no man page and the author is Japanese,
which means I have to write one; as a courtesy, I'd like to put the kanji-form
of his name in the AUTHORS section as well as the romanji. Unfortunately, it
would appear that u
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Russ Allbery wrote:
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> The last time I checked, this didn't work for man pages. If it does now
> and we can just install man pages in UTF-8, that's great, but a quick test
> seems to indicate it still doesn't work even if you run groff -T utf8 in
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Ben Finney wrote:
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> That sounds like a bug. I was under the impression that the default
> encoding of everything in lenny was supposed to be UTF-8.
>
> What tool is it that has this different default encoding?
Well, I tried UTF-8 with the assum
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Charles Plessy wrote:
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> You can refer to the following post of Noridata Kobayashi on this list:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2007/03/msg00378.html
>
> Apparently, the encoding of the manpages is hardcoded, so you have no
> other cho
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Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for my package "ufiformat".
* Package name: ufiformat
Version : 0.9.3-1
Upstream Author : Kazuhiro Hayashi / 林和宏
* URL : http://www.geocities.jp/tedi_world/format_usbfdd_e.html
* Li
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Russ Allbery wrote:
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> What I was trying to get at earlier is that I believe groff can't handle
> UTF-8 input. So fixing B, if I'm correct, is certainly not local to
> man-db. I believe that fixing groff to handle multibyte character sets
> prop
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Ben Finney wrote:
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>> The standard encoding for Japanese man pages is EUC-JP
>
> That's no more true than "the standard encoding for English text is
> ASCII". The world is moving to Unicode encodings, though legacy
> encodings will remain for som
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Russ Allbery wrote:
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> Okay, your analysis matches what I thought was going on. However, David
> Given seems to be seeing something else where some man pages are already
> encoded in UTF-8. So I guess I'm confused as to what'
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Adam Borowski wrote:
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> Due to Red Hat and probably other dists using UTF-8 already, plenty of man
> pages are in UTF-8 when our groff still can't parse them. Having gone
> through 2/3 of the archive, I got 807 such pages so far. And every singl
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David Given wrote:
[...]
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "ufiformat".
[...]
> ufiformat - disk formatter for USB floppy drives
I don't suppose there's anyone interested in sponsoring this, is there?
AFAICT, th
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I have an application I'd like to package --- plasticfs. Unfortunately, due to
glibc weirdnesses, it needs a copy of glibc built using custom (non-standard)
options. Is this doable, or is it likely to be a lost cause?
Note: it doesn't need the customi
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Justin Pryzby wrote:
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>> I have an application I'd like to package --- plasticfs. Unfortunately, due
>> to
>> glibc weirdnesses, it needs a copy of glibc built using custom (non-standard)
>> options. Is this doable, or is it likely to be a lost c
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Justin Pryzby wrote:
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>> which means the
>> preloader library doesn't get a chance to override it. plasticfs wants a
>> glibc
>> compiled with --disable-hidden-plt to expose this interface.
> I still don't understand why?
I *presume* so that pla
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Neil Williams wrote:
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> Do the work and come back to the list with
> a detailed reasoning for what is a MAJOR packaging decision. This isn't
> "yet another customised version of a package" it is a COPY of GLIBC!
Don't shout at me, please.
Yes, I
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Don Armstrong wrote:
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> The people who have responded to you so far strongly suspect that it's
> not worth the effort, but without knowing why the glibc we already
> distribute can't be used, it's hard for us to give you a definitive
> answer.
*n
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Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
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> Then what about using ptrace and overriding syscalls in the way
> usermodelinux used to do it?
Yes, indeed; that is currently looking like the best approach. Not only does
it provide the low-level interface that upstream
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Ben Finney wrote:
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> There's nothing in the social contract that compels anyone to include
> any specific software in Debian if they are disinclined to do so. The
> package in question has as its sole purpose the promotion of non-free
> software.
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Michelle Konzack wrote:
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> since 2007-08-01 I am now jobless (yeah, the new French GOV do not like
> that I stay in the army as PMC) and today (Saturday) I was asked by an
> owner of a german Enterprise whether it is possibel to port GNU/Linux,
>
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Erik Schanze wrote:
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> Is it possible to get any sound output without MIDI hardware
> (kernel module is loaded)?
> Just to test the program.
Install timidity and freepats, do:
timidity -iAv -B2,8 -Os
...and some new MIDI ports will show up. Y
Hello,
I'm packaging a daemon that wants to run in its own user and group. I'm
having trouble finding any information on how to handle
creating/deleting these cleanly. I've looked it the New Maintainer's
Guide and the Policy Manual but don't see any reference to doing this.
I've looked at some ex
Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for my package "spey".
* Package name: spey
Version : 1.0.pre1-1
Upstream Author : David Given ; myself
* URL : http://spey.sf.net
* License : GPL v2
Section : mail
It builds these binary pack
On 30/01/11 03:02, The Fungi wrote:
[...]
> This has been discussed to death in years past, but it's generally
> considered more dangerous to delete accounts in package management
> than to leave them behind.
That's fine by me; less work!
I've done this; thanks. Although I might suggest that the
On 13/10/11 16:13, Joey Parrish wrote:
[...]
> Does the Debian community standardize on git, or is an svn repo also
> acceptable? I don't have any experience with git yet, but I'm a
> frequent user of svn.
If you like SVN you may be interested in checking out Mercurial; it
speaks git, so you can
I've been maintaining the ufiformat floppy disk formatter package;
recently I did a new version to fix a FTBFS bug (plus a whole bunch of
other improvements). Unfortunately my usual sponsor is unavailable due
to being in hospital, so I can't get it uploaded --- I'm not a DM.
Would it be possible f
On 19/10/13 18:12, David Given wrote:
[...]
> Would it be possible for someone to have a look to make sure I haven't
> done anything really stupid and, if it looks good, upload it for me?
>
> https://mentors.debian.net/package/ufiformat
Can anyone assist me with this? I want to
On 21/10/13 15:32, David Given wrote:
[...]
> Can anyone assist me with this? I want to get the FTBFS bug fixed, but
> can't upload it myself...
I've just received notification that it's been uploaded by someone. Thanks!
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d, it's not on the ports page,
and I can't seem to find any resources on the 'net that date past about 1997.
I could really use such a thing.
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d, it's not on the ports page,
and I can't seem to find any resources on the 'net that date past about 1997.
I could really use such a thing.
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No Spam wrote:
[...]
I'm not sure that that's what's happening, but it makes sense. You
can easily install a filesystem with "debootstrap - Bootstrap a basic
Debian system".
That seems like such overkill.
I'm trying to do something similar; I'm putting together an embedded system,
and want to pop
William Ballard wrote:
[...]
Of course you're right. But building XML with shell commands
was always a lot easier when I could count on all shell output
being 2-byte Unicode. It was a neat bit of magic, ascii and
utf-8 text files would get turned into Unicode and I'd pipe
them to cscript.exe and
William Ballard wrote:
[...]
But back to Linux.
$echo hi | iconv -f utf8 -t unicode | grep hi
(no output)
Not surprised; grep understands ASCII, AFAIK, so what you've just sent to
it is:
$ echo hi | iconv -f utf8 -t unicode | od -t x1
000 ff fe 68 00 69 00 0a 00
It can't find an 'h' and an 'i'
n
- support for read-only/closed/mandatory lists
- support for Blacklist
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Minimalist has also a notion of 'trusted users'. They have full rights to
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I'm currently thinking about packaging Citadel, a next-gen BBS and groupware
system (http://www.citadel.org/).
The problem with Citadel is that it supplies a whole bunch of different
services. You can access it via its own protocol on port 504; it can be used
as an SMTP mail server; it can act
On Sunday 09 January 2005 18:53, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * David Given:
> > Is there a correct way of tackling this kind of thing?
>
> Does citadel provide the /usr/lib/sendmail interface?
It does, yes, although it needs a bit of setting up; which makes it a good
candidate for the
as one day I'd like to
make a Debian package of all of this, I want something that's
Debian-friendly.
Is there any better way of going about it than to just check a pre-built
version of the parser into CVS?
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On Thursday 23 June 2005 20:04, John Skaller wrote:
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> That cannot be allowed, the build must proceed without
> ever installing anything: if you really need something
> installed you will need to provide a separate package,
> and then the build interaction cannot be cyclic.
Ung. The build scr
On Friday 09 November 2001 14:42, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
> David Given <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I'd just like to point out that I'm working on packages for a bunch of
> > IF interpreters using the glk I/O library;
[...]
> Are you interested in maintainin
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I have a Debian package that I'm looking for a sponsor for.
Package: vbcc
Version: 0.7-2
Section: devel
Priority: optional
Architecture: i386
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-2)
Installed-Size: 1562
Maintainer: David Given <[EMAI
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On Monday 14 January 2002 11:51, peter karlsson wrote:
> David Given:
> > E: vbcc: FSSTND-dir-in-usr usr/man/
> > - --- what's this?
[...]
> man lintian
>
>-i, --info
> Print explanatory i
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On Tuesday 15 January 2002 17:38, you wrote:
> David Given <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit:
> > vbcc is *non-free*. (The upstream author wants to keep a license that
> > disallows the distribution of modified ve
nitfol_0.5-3_i386.deb
...plus source. All of them are lintian clean. I have a number of users
who haven't complained of any bugs yet.
Anyone interested in sponsoring them? I've managed to tick off
everything else on the checklist...
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plicate the
source tree three times, once for each configuration. Using symlink
trees this won't use much more disk space (apart from the object files),
and dependencies will keep working (although they're not used much in
Debian).
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reters using the glk I/O library; I've done Nitfol (Z-machine)
and Glulxe (Glulx), and someone's just pointed me to a Tads glk
interpreter. There's also a few other things in there that use glk.
deb http://plover.net/~hjalfi/debian ./
deb-src http://plover.net/~hjalfi/debian ./
On Friday 09 November 2001 14:42, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
> David Given <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I'd just like to point out that I'm working on packages for a bunch of
> > IF interpreters using the glk I/O library;
[...]
> Are you interested in maintainin
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I have a Debian package that I'm looking for a sponsor for.
Package: vbcc
Version: 0.7-2
Section: devel
Priority: optional
Architecture: i386
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-2)
Installed-Size: 1562
Maintainer: David Given <[EMAI
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On Monday 14 January 2002 11:51, peter karlsson wrote:
> David Given:
> > E: vbcc: FSSTND-dir-in-usr usr/man/
> > - --- what's this?
[...]
> man lintian
>
>-i, --info
> Print explanatory i
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On Tuesday 15 January 2002 17:38, you wrote:
> David Given <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit:
> > vbcc is *non-free*. (The upstream author wants to keep a license that
> > disallows the distribution of modified ve
nitfol_0.5-3_i386.deb
...plus source. All of them are lintian clean. I have a number of users
who haven't complained of any bugs yet.
Anyone interested in sponsoring them? I've managed to tick off
everything else on the checklist...
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plicate the
source tree three times, once for each configuration. Using symlink
trees this won't use much more disk space (apart from the object files),
and dependencies will keep working (although they're not used much in
Debian).
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Package: sponsorship-requests
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Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for my package "wordgrinder":
* Package name: wordgrinder
Version: 0.7-1
Upstream Author: David Given
* URL: http://cowlark.com/wordgrinder
* License: MIT
Section: editors
It builds th
wski wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 11:33:13AM +0100, David Given wrote:
> > * Package name: wordgrinder
> > Version: 0.7-1
>
> > WordGrinder's not a new package --- it's been in Debian since wheezy.
> > Unfortunately my existing sponsor has retired an
I'd add that the recommended thing to do if you're trying to create a
package for software you own is to blatantly wear two hats: with one hat
you're the upstream author, and with the other hat you're the packager.
Have two different repositories, don't add the debian/ directory to the
upstream dis
On Wed, 14 Jun 2023 at 09:35, Paul Wise wrote:
[...]
> The upstream repo seems to use bazel as its build system, at least
> according to the README. Is that not usable here? The bazel tool
> appears to be packaged in bazel-bootstrap in Debian.
>
bazel-bootstrap is very old, unfortunately --- it'
I'm try to put together a package for a big, complex application. One of
its dependencies isn't in Debian yet. What do I do?
- package up the dependency and somehow get both packages sponsored at the
same time (how?);
- package up the dependency and get it sponsored first... meaning that I'll
be t
00/phidias) and jungrapht (
https://github.com/tomnelson/jungrapht-visualization), but there's more.
AFAICT packaging a Maven Java-only library is, or at least should be,
almost trivial...
On Fri, 24 May 2024 at 18:08, Jérémy Lal wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> Le ven. 24 mai 2024 à 17:06, David
On Sun, 26 May 2024 at 04:58, Wookey wrote:
> On 2024-05-24 16:39 +0200, David Given wrote:
>
[...]
> > - package up the dependency and get it sponsored first... meaning that
> I'll
> > be trying to get a library added which has no users.
>
> This is what I do. A
I have a compiler suite --- the Amsterdam Compiler Kit --- which I'm
thinking of packaging. Trouble is, it's a bit of a moving target as it
doesn't have releases and there's a slow trickle of activity making
changes. I could do a packaging for it and get it reviewed and uploaded,
but then I'd have
I've just had a FTBFS bug on a new upload caused by a debian/rules bug
where I was running upstream's make install twice, once without setting
PREFIX. This was causing the package to be installed to $HOME as will as
to ./debian/tmp.
This worked while doing the packaging, because it was silently ge
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