Re: upstream tarball repackaging from bz2 to gz

2006-09-03 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 03 September 2006 19:18, Toni Mueller wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 03.09.2006 at 19:04:49 +0300, George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 03 September 2006 17:10, Eric Cooper wrote: > > > (I don't think I can justify asking upstream to publi

Re: Packaging automation - separation of 'debian/' directory

2006-09-06 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 07 September 2006 08:14, Bas Wijnen wrote: > On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 09:48:42PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I've seen many recommendations that the 'debian/' directory should not > > > be part of the 'foo_X.Y.orig.tar.gz' tarball but shoul

Re: Packaging automation - separation of 'debian/' directory

2006-09-07 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 07 September 2006 09:42, Russ Allbery wrote: > Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > That's what I do for releases as well. For normal testing builds though > > (that's to see if the package builds and works without planning a > > release), creating a tarball and unpacking it firs

Re: RFS: lisaac

2006-09-07 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 07 September 2006 11:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello Hello, > > * lintian errors: > > E: lisaac-doc: copyright-should-refer-to-common-license-file-for-gpl > > E: lisaac-common: copyright-should-refer-to-common-license-file-for-gpl > > E: lisaac: copyright-should-refer-to-common-l

Re: RFS: bobcat (updated package) - fixes FTBFS on 64-bit arch's

2006-09-07 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 01 September 2006 15:38, George Danchev wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.10.2-1 > of my package "bobcat". > > It builds these binary packages: > libbobcat1 - run-time (shared) Bobcat library > libbobcat1-dev -

Subject: RFS: bisonc++

2006-09-07 Thread George Danchev
buildserver.net/build.php?arch=&pkg=bisonc%2B%2B Kind regards George Danchev -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB pgp2txU5dJXzq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Subject: RFS: c++-annotations

2006-09-07 Thread George Danchev
changelog entry closes the ITP bug #386060. Thanks. Kind regards George Danchev -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB pgpThIj9ZwGNR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Subject: RFS: c++-annotations

2006-09-07 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 08 September 2006 00:05, tony mancill wrote: > Hello George, Hello, > I'm looking at this package. Here are a couple of comments so far: Thanks for looking at the package and your comments. > debian/control: > > * The package Architecture should be "all" instead of "any" - this will

Re: RFS: bisonc++

2006-09-07 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 07 September 2006 23:43, Andrew Donnellan wrote: > On 9/8/06, George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Upstream Author : [fill in] > > * URL : [fill in] > > * License : [fill in] > > It would be nice to actually fill these in.

Re: RFS (or feedback): chuck

2006-09-12 Thread George Danchev
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 08:05, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 10:48:21PM +0100, James Westby a écrit : > > The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be > > included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. > > > > Any person wishing

Re: binNMU safe and ${binary:Version} or ${source:Version}

2006-09-12 Thread George Danchev
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 17:14, Daniel Leidert wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 12.09.2006, 15:56 +0200 schrieb Daniel Leidert: > > Hello, > > > > I currently try to understand, what I need to do to make my packages > > binNMU-safe (I package several libraries). For a package I want to put > > into De

Re: RFS: c++-annotations

2006-09-13 Thread George Danchev
Ok, FYI: that has been uploaded to NEW queue. Thanks. -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[stealth] strange LaTeX error on mipsel architecture

2006-09-15 Thread George Danchev
Hello, We face a strange error [1] on mipsel [2] wrt processing some innocent LaTeX code, while it is doing fine on all other architectures. Could that be any sort of environment issue being temporarily available on that buildd ? Any help is appreciated. Should I contact mispel at buildd.d.o to

Re: dvipng: Version 1.8 package (NMU / New Maintainer)

2006-09-15 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 16 September 2006 07:45, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > Hello, Hello Kapil, > I wrote earlier on 03 Jul 2006: > > I would like someone to sponsor an adoption/hijacking or NMU'ing > > of a more recent version of "dvipng" than is available in the Debian > > archive. > > (Package descript

Re: dvipng: Version 1.8 package (NMU / New Maintainer)

2006-09-16 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 16 September 2006 09:58, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > > On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, George Danchev wrote: > > > Just to let you know that these are 'Not Found'. Why don't you upload > > > to ment

Re: RFS: bisonc++

2006-09-17 Thread George Danchev
Hello, FYI: that has been uploaded to NEW queue. Thanks to Tony Mancill. -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: my projects for debian ?

2006-09-17 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 17 September 2006 15:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi guys from the Debian Developer Team, Hello acid, > i am a little open software developer and wanna ask you if you would like > to have two of my project for debian, so for the debian ports collection. This is of course cool ;-). H

Re: What to do with word documents ?

2006-09-17 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 17 September 2006 15:19, Christoph Haas wrote: > > 3) In general, is there a policy about MSWord documents? > > I don't think there is a clear policy. But since the format is proprietary > I wouldn't put it into a Debian package anyway. I would suggest you remove > that documents from th

Re: RFS: malaga (updated package)

2006-09-18 Thread George Danchev
On Monday 18 September 2006 20:07, Timo Jyrinki wrote: > Dear mentors, Hello, > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 7.6-1 > of the package "malaga". It'd be the first step in having Debian include > the new high quality, GPL'd Finnish spellchecking Voikko > (http://hunspell-fi.org/tied

Re: Error with dh_gencontrol

2006-09-19 Thread George Danchev
[-devel and Wouter Verhelst excluded.] On Tuesday 19 September 2006 16:30, Rodrigo Tavares wrote: > > Tavares wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > When I run the command below, come this error > > > > message: > > > mypc:~/script-1.4# dh_gencontrol Avoid working as root for no good reasons. Work as m

Re: man-browser virtual package

2006-09-19 Thread George Danchev
On Wednesday 20 September 2006 00:40, Neil Williams wrote: > Neil Williams wrote: > > Turns out that (answering my own question): > > > Does every package in the virtual man-browser package need to provide > > the 'man' command or can some require a different command (without a > > symlink)? > > No

Re: RFS: swish++: A Simple Web Indexing System for Humans --- C++ version

2006-09-21 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 21 September 2006 10:27, James Westby wrote: > On (21/09/06 12:00), Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, James Westby wrote: > > > On (20/09/06 15:00), Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > Could someone please sponsor a New Maintainer

Re: RFS to fix RC bug: rssreader.app

2006-09-21 Thread George Danchev
On Wednesday 20 September 2006 23:17, Yavor Doganov wrote: > Neil Williams wrote: > > Yavor Doganov wrote: > > > the files clearly indicate that they're under > > > GPL, but contain the confusing "See the GNU Library General Public > > > License for more details". > > > > Just a note: This could be

Re: Changing version numbers for upload to m.d.n [ was: Re: RFS: swish++: A Simple Web Indexing System for Humans --- C++ version ]

2006-09-21 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 21 September 2006 16:51, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach James Westby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.09.21.1526 +0200]: > > I think the reasoning is that it is the extra step for sponsors to > > build with -v. > > ... and sometimes -sa. That is a sponsoree job to mention to... as a ma

Re: Changing version numbers for upload to m.d.n [ was: Re: RFS: swish++: A Simple Web Indexing System for Humans --- C++ version ]

2006-09-21 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 21 September 2006 17:21, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.09.21.1608 +0200]: > > That is a sponsoree job to mention to... as a maintainer note. > > Agreed. Ideally, the dpkg-dev tools should be more cautious too. >

Re: RFS: qpopper (updated package)

2006-09-21 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 21 September 2006 18:49, hi wkby wrote: > Dear mentors, Hello Hiro, Looks fine, and here are some minor points you might want to address first: * debhelper compat 5 (and make changes if needed) * you might want to use your real name rather than a nick ? ;-) * debian/copyright

Re: Reassigning Bugs

2006-09-24 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 24 September 2006 14:00, Benjamin Mesing wrote: > Hello, > > I have a bug which is not a bug in my package (packagesearch). However, > reassigning it to the package that causes that bug (apt-file), would > leave it no longer visible for my package, and thus probably result in > the bug to

Re: Reassigning Bugs

2006-09-26 Thread George Danchev
On Monday 25 September 2006 16:19, Benjamin Mesing wrote: > Hello > > > > Options I have thought about, but found not to be optimal: > > > * File a bug report against apt-file, and block the bug against > > > packagesearch by the new one - close the bug against > > > packagesa

Re: Reassigning Bugs

2006-09-26 Thread George Danchev
On Tuesday 26 September 2006 15:39, Benjamin Mesing wrote: > On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 15:20 +0300, George Danchev wrote: > > On Monday 25 September 2006 16:19, Benjamin Mesing wrote: > > > > clone 12345 -1 > > > > reassign -1 apt-file > > > > reti

Re: RFS: exaile

2006-10-16 Thread George Danchev
On Tuesday 17 October 2006 01:25, François Févotte wrote: > The package is lintian clean. Hello, * Lintian complains about a templated README.Debian. * Upstream changelog says exaile uses gamin to monitor directories, but your package doesn't depend on it. -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 f

Subject: RFS: shc (updated package)

2006-10-18 Thread George Danchev
nd regards George Danchev -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB pgpD63wLuovyx.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Who sponsored the NMU of clustalw?

2006-11-06 Thread George Danchev
On Monday 06 November 2006 10:41, Martin Loschwitz wrote: --cut-- > You can find out who sponsored an upload by checking the signature of the > .dsc-file that was uploaded. In this case, the .dsc-file is: ... or use `who-uploads sourcepackage' to do the job for you. p.s. who-uploads(1) is in the

Re: Fwd: Re: RFS: renrot - a program to rename and rotate files according to EXIF tags

2006-11-06 Thread George Danchev
On Monday 06 November 2006 17:51, Mike Hommey wrote: --cut-- > FWIW, jhead already does all that, except that it's not a perl script. FWIW, I'm much in favour of having one or two alternatives. Sometimes this provokes competition, and would save functionality if one of the alternatives gets unma

Re: RFS: renrot - a program to rename and rotate files according to EXIF tags

2006-11-08 Thread George Danchev
On Wednesday 08 November 2006 12:02, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > >>Thanks for explanation. > > > > Just use the package "reportbug" and the command "reportbug wnpp". > > I've filled all needed forms and send ITP bug. You need to close that bug report (the bug number you

Re: RFS: radvd (updated package)

2006-11-09 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 09 November 2006 14:11, Andreas Rottmann wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1:1.0-1 > of my package "radvd". > > It builds these binary packages: > radvd - Router Advertisement Daemon > > The package is lintian clean. > > The upload would fix

Re: Why isn't this packages.d.o page updated?

2006-11-16 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 17 November 2006 00:49, Nikolaus Schulz wrote: --cut-- > I'd really expect it to be more up-to-date. > Anyway, it seems to be in the process of being updated now (changelog > and copyright are not there ATM). Sounds much like a severe performance issue to me -- p.d.o is a constantly ove

Re: RFC: AKFQuiz (was: new here)

2006-11-26 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 26 November 2006 22:04, Andreas K. Foerster wrote: --cut-- > > - My guess is you are not building the binaries in a sid environment. You > > must do that. Actually you should build in pbuilder. In the process, you > > will be setting up a chroot, that you can also use to run the right > >

Re: RFC: AKFQuiz

2006-11-27 Thread George Danchev
On Monday 27 November 2006 19:13, Andreas K. Foerster wrote: > Am Sonntag, dem 26. Nov 2006 schrieb George Danchev: > > Anyway, I can do some test for you, > > when I have the time to do so and if the debootstrap'ed system > > is still not a feasible option for you. >

Re: aspell-uz: new upstream release (0.6.0)

2006-12-09 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 09 December 2006 15:06, Mashrab Kuvatov wrote: > On Saturday 09 December 2006 10:20, Daniel Baumann wrote: --cut-- > > * you could save hunspell-uz.dirs by using install -D in rules. > > What is it? Can you please explain more? `install -D' will create the leading path for you and th

Re: libhello?

2006-12-30 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 30 December 2006 09:57, Mikhail Gusarov wrote: > Hi, Hi, > I'm looking for the Debian package which may be used as an 'hello > world' example of properly packaged shared library. > > I picked up several random libraries on my system, but was unlucky to > find one usable to serve as ex

Re: libhello?

2006-12-30 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 30 December 2006 10:25, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 13:57:40 +0600 > > Mikhail Gusarov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm looking for the Debian package which may be used as an 'hello > > world' example of properly packaged shared library. > > (Nervous about putting head

Re: native packages

2007-01-23 Thread George Danchev
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 12:37, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 21:34 +1100, Andrew Donnellan wrote: > > What exactly are the advantages and disadvantages of making a > > Debian-native package, and is there any real policy or practice? Hello, > I think this is a good rule: > >

Re: Linda question: Maintainer script prerm uses debhelper, but does not use #DEBHELPER#.

2007-01-28 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 28 January 2007 21:46, Maximilian Wilhelm wrote: > Hi! Hi, > I get the following warnings when checking my package with linda: > | $ linda -i *.dsc > | W: conntrackd; Maintainer script postinst uses debhelper, but does not > | use #DEBHELPER#. The maintainer script shown above is includ

Re: netcdf again

2007-02-01 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 01 February 2007 21:30, Warren Turkal wrote: > The new packages are at [1]. > > The newest packages remove the libnetcdf++4 package as I don't think it's > needed. > > Please check out these packages, and help me get them ready for upload to > debian. > > [1]http://penguintechs.org/~wt/

Re: RFS: xc3sprog (Xilinx FPGA jtag <-> parallel programmer)

2007-02-06 Thread George Danchev
On Wednesday 07 February 2007 04:22, Jeff Carr wrote: Hi Jeff, > I've uploaded a new package called xc3sprog. It's used for programming > Xilinx FPGA's. I've never quite understood the "right" way to package > up a debian package so there are probably a lot of really dumb things > I've done wrong

Re: Anyone with experience in XView? (xv_get)

2007-05-11 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 11 May 2007, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hello, Hi, > I am trying to buls some older tools from but get strange > errors (It compiles fine under Slink and Potato :-)) ) Usually the newer compilers are stricter and afaics the newer's compiler warnings are quite reasonable, facing thes

Re: bugreport, debian, ubuntu

2007-05-17 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 17 May 2007, Paul Elliott wrote: Hello, > ftp://ftp.BerliOS.de/pub/peless/ubuntu.704/peless_1.108-1.diff.gz > ftp://ftp.BerliOS.de/pub/peless/ubuntu.704/peless_1.108-1.dsc > ftp://ftp.BerliOS.de/pub/peless/ubuntu.704/peless_1.108-1_i386.build > ftp://ftp.BerliOS.de/pub/peless/ubuntu.7

Re: DOS line endings in tarball

2007-06-26 Thread George Danchev
On Tuesday 26 June 2007, Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote: > Hi Hi, >I am trying to upgrade a package but I have the problem that the line > endings in the original tarball are in DOS mode and this makes boring > problems with dpatch. >How can I fix that without changing the original tarball? I

Re: Broken uploads to mentors.debian.net

2007-07-15 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 15 July 2007, Kel Modderman wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 09:00:44 am Neil Williams wrote: > > On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 00:31:29 +0200 > > > > Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 10:42:52PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > > Is this a result of the need to a

Re: Change in my sponsorship requirements

2007-07-15 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 15 July 2007, Bart Martens wrote: > On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 12:02 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: --cut-- > Something like this ? > > packagename (0.1.0-8) unstable; urgency=low > > * Updated debian/watch to recognize both ".tar.gz" and ".tar.bz2", > now revealing the real latest upstream

Re: Change in my sponsorship requirements

2007-07-15 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 15 July 2007, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Colin Tuckley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.07.15.1618 +0200]: > > No, I saw it and assumed that is what would happen in the case > > where the uploads use ~r1 etc and the final upload to Debian by > > the sponsor deleted the extra part of th

Re: RFS: hfsprogs - mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems

2007-07-18 Thread George Danchev
On Wednesday 18 July 2007, Florent Rougon wrote: > Warren Turkal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why does this matter? I don't see every other package specifically > > mentioning who made it or what OS it was originally developed for. > > Of course it matters. I don't know whether there is an offici

Re: Svn-buildpakcage ignoring some directories.

2007-07-18 Thread George Danchev
On Wednesday 18 July 2007, Charles Plessy wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am using svn-buildpacakge to manage the debian directory of the emboss > pacakge, but at build time it ignores subdirectories - that is, > debian/manpages and debian/patches are not included in the .diff.gz. > > http://svn.debia

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

2007-07-21 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 21 July 2007, Daniel Leidert wrote: --cut-- > > Or, alternatively, create an emboss-manpages package (arch: all) to > > Depend on (as I already stated). > > Where is the advantage of such an effort? There is none. You would have > to install two packages instead of simply one and you do

Re: Creating Source Packages

2007-07-29 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 29 July 2007, Ben Finney wrote: > Brendon Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have those files listed below (Excepting the > > package_1.0-1.diff.gz) as there are no differences that need to be > > applied for debian. So a "source distribution" would just include > > the .dsc and .tar

Re: RFS: codeblocks

2007-11-23 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 23 November 2007, George Danchev wrote: > On Friday 23 November 2007, Erick Mattos wrote: > > Dear mentors, > > > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "codeblocks". > > Hi, > > Thanks for packaging codeblocks! I can't spponsor, b

Re: RFS: codeblocks

2007-11-23 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 23 November 2007, Erick Mattos wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "codeblocks". Hi, Thanks for packaging codeblocks! I can't spponsor, but you can count me as a thankful user of that package ;-) Compilation yields the following error: infopane.cpp:

Re: RFS: unicornscan

2007-12-13 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 13 December 2007, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Subject: RFS: unicornscan Hi, why is Architecture: field set to amd64 ? I failed to see any amd64 specific bits in the source code, so you should use Architecture: any. -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22

Re: RFS: unicornscan

2007-12-13 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 13 December 2007, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: --cut-- > there is no special reason for this field. I set this to amd64, because I > have only amd64-architecture available. I am sure, it can also be built on > i386. Your amd64 with be fine with arch: any. > You may change this field, or I w

Re: gcc-snapshot for testing

2007-12-14 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 14 December 2007, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: Hi, > I needed to test the building of one of my packages with gcc4.3. > However it turns out that gcc-snapshot from unstable contains the critical > bug, which makes impossible using it. At the same time the previous > version of the gcc-snap

Re: RFS: engauge-digitizer

2012-01-22 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 07 January 2012 18:48:29 Tobias Winchen wrote: > Dear mentors, Hi, (a bit late, but anyway ...) > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "engauge-digitizer". > The package is an update for engauge-digitizer 4.1, which is already in > debian. The update closes the following bugs: #6

Re: RFS: quickrdp

2012-01-24 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 22 January 2012 17:08:48 Tobias Eliasson wrote: Hi, --cut-- > > There are multiple implementations of telnet in Debian. Does quickrdp > > really need this particular one provided by the "telnet" binary > > package? If not, then the recommendation/suggestion should be changed > > to "tel

Bug#662968: RFS: shc/3.8.7-1

2012-03-07 Thread George Danchev
Hi Vibhav, Please have a look at: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=327263 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=508109 -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listm

Re: Best use of bug tracker for a complicated situation

2012-03-19 Thread George Danchev
On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:37:45 +, Tony Houghton wrote: Hi, I maintain roxterm. The source package of that name generates a number of binary packages: roxterm-common, roxterm-gtk2, roxterm-gtk3 and roxterm (a virtual package depending on roxterm-gtk3). A user has reported 2 bugs with sligh

Bug#664634: RFS: engauge-digitizer/5.0-2 [RC]

2012-03-20 Thread George Danchev
On Monday 19 March 2012 15:52:38 Tobias Winchen wrote: > Dear mentors, Hi Tobias, > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "engauge-digitizer" > * Added patch fixing passing double as qreal. Closes: #656943 (FTBFS on > armel and armhf) While the original reporter of bug #656943 did his bes

Re: packaging help

2012-04-24 Thread George Danchev
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:39:41 +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: On 04/24/2012 03:16 PM, Whit Armstrong wrote: I would be looking for 6-64999, assuming my package eventually made it into debian, I suppose it would need to have a 'globally allocated' uid. The idea is simply not to give users exe

Re: nbc package has been removed from Mentors

2012-07-16 Thread George Danchev
On Monday 16 July 2012 11:58:23 Slavko wrote: > Hi Thibaut, Hi, > thank you for quick reply. > > Dňa Mon, 16 Jul 2012 11:30:35 +0200 Thibaut Paumard > > napísal: > > It's not easy to get a sponsor, especially during a freeze (please > > read my previous message from 15min ago entitled "Re: fre

[uploaded] Re: RFS: copher (bugfix)

2009-02-03 Thread George Danchev
On Tuesday 03 February 2009 16:07:19 Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > Dear mentors > > I am looking for sponsorship for my package 'copher' (Paul Wise > sponsored last time). It closes a serious bug #513710, and also includes > the VCS fields now that I have converted my repository to git. > > The dsc i

Re: dh 7 broken by design?

2009-02-17 Thread George Danchev
On Tuesday 17 February 2009 14:35:27 Helmut Grohne wrote: Hi, > > Can you give an example of a ???debian/rules??? that does not work, and > > what the desired behaviour would be? > > Well my basic idea was to add a .PHONY line to the 3-line example like: > > #!/usr/bin/make -f > %: > $@ > .

[uploaded] cppcheck_1.29-1 (was Re: RFS: cppcheck, new upstream version 1.28)

2009-03-02 Thread George Danchev
On Monday 02 March 2009 22:02:47 Reijo Tomperi wrote: > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/cppcheck/cppcheck_1.29-1.dsc Uploaded. Thanks for your work. P.S. Could you please change the version in subject line next time, to avoid possible confusion. -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18

Re: RFS: blueman

2009-03-07 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 06 March 2009 17:15:57 Christopher Schramm wrote: > Jelle de Jong wrote: > > I agree this package is welcome in debian, somebody fancy to sponser? > > Since nobody was yet: Is there any problem with sponsoring the package? Hi, It is not necessary for the package to have any technical or

Re: RFS: CLAM, C++ library for audio and music

2009-03-07 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 08 March 2009 03:43:00 David García Garzón wrote: --cut-- Hi, > Well, no problem. We are also volunteers so i understand. I hope we can > find an sponsor soon or someone that could take it a closer look to find > more issues. You may also want to check your sourses with cppcheck as fo

[uploaded] Re: RFS: cppcheck, new upstream version 1.30

2009-03-08 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 08 March 2009 21:29:51 Reijo Tomperi wrote: Hi, > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/cppcheck/cppcheck_1.30-1.dsc Uploaded. Thanks. P.S. Providing upstream Changelog would be very much appreciated by the cppcheck users, though it is unlikely they haven't seen diff, diffstat

Re: RFS: confget -- read variables from INI-style configuration files

2009-03-19 Thread George Danchev
On Wednesday 18 March 2009 11:43:40 Peter Pentchev wrote: > Dear mentors, Hello Peter, > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "confget". > > * Package name: confget > Version : 1.01-1 > Upstream Author : Peter Pentchev (myself) > * URL : http://devel.ringlet.net/

Re: RFS: confget -- read variables from INI-style configuration files

2009-03-19 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 19 March 2009 23:12:22 Peter Pentchev wrote: --cut-- > > It took me some time to assimilate the hardening notes at wiki.d.o [1], > > I'm remotely familiar with, though this document is informative enough > > about potential build and run-time failures on different architectures > > wrt

Re: RFS: confget -- read variables from INI-style configuration files

2009-03-23 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 22 March 2009 02:17:30 Peter Pentchev wrote: Hello, > Well, actually what I did was take this change, another couple of > things (the example files, a small fix to the testing framework), and > just go ahead and release a new upstream version, confget-1.02. > > A Debian package for it i

Re: RFS: dante (updated package)

2009-03-25 Thread George Danchev
On Wednesday 25 March 2009 14:54:41 Peter Pentchev wrote: > Dear mentors, Hello Peter, > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.1.19.dfsg-3 > of my package "dante". This version does not fix any problems > listed in the Debian BTS; what it DOES fix is a serious problem > with libsocksd

Re: RFC: dma -- the DragonFly Mail Agent

2009-03-31 Thread George Danchev
On Monday 30 March 2009 17:23:48 Peter Pentchev wrote: > Dear mentors, Hello Peter, > This is not even an RFS :) > > Now, seriously - I've prepared a package for dma, the DragonFly Mail > Agent, as ITP'd in my #511410, I've uploaded it to mentors.d.n, and > I've sent out a request for debconf tra

Re: RFS: bindfs (updated package)

2009-04-03 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 02 April 2009 20:59:08 Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Dear mentors, Hi, > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.8.3-1 ... > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/b/bindfs/bindfs_1.8.3-1.dsc Uploaded. Thanks! -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 signature.asc Descriptio

Re: dante: libc6 dependency: can't migrate to testing?

2009-04-10 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 10 April 2009 10:27:06 Peter Pentchev wrote: > Hi, Hello Peter, > I've been seeing this for the past two weeks: > > http://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=dante > > libdsocksd0/alpha unsatisfiable Depends: libc6.1.1 (>> 2.9) > libsocksd0/alpha unsatisfiable Depends: libc6.1.1 (>> 2.9)

Re: RFS: cppcheck, new upstream version 1.31

2009-04-12 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 12 April 2009 21:45:04 Reijo Tomperi wrote: > Reijo Tomperi wrote: > > Dear mentors, Hi, > The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: > - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/cppcheck > - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable > main contr

Re: RFS: cppcheck, new upstream version 1.31

2009-04-12 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 12 April 2009 23:09:42 Reijo Tomperi wrote: > George Danchev wrote: > > On Sunday 12 April 2009 21:45:04 Reijo Tomperi wrote: > >> Reijo Tomperi wrote: > >>> Dear mentors, > > > > Hi, > > > >> The package can be found on mentors

Re: Lintian clean? (was: Re: RFS: mpview)

2009-05-03 Thread George Danchev
Quoting Magnus Holmgren : On lördagen den 2 maj 2009, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: 2009/5/2 Magnus Holmgren : > On torsdagen den 26 mars 2009, Michal Čihař wrote: >> Dne Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:21:29 +0100 >> >> Adam Ziaja napsal(a): >> > The package appears to be lintian clean. >> >> It does not: >> >

Re: Lintian clean? (was: Re: RFS: mpview)

2009-05-03 Thread George Danchev
Quoting Paul Wise : On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 3:26 PM, George Danchev wrote: Running just lintian on m.d.o is not enough, what is indeed needed is lintian from *sid* to be run over the package. I'm guessing that m.d.o is running lintian from stable which knows less than the lintian from si

Re: Lintian clean? (was: Re: RFS: mpview)

2009-05-03 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 03 May 2009 13:24:12 Luca Niccoli wrote: > 2009/5/3 George Danchev : > > Nod. I'm in favour of removing any lintian assertions from m.d.o, since > > that might be misleading. > > Maybe write something like: > [Check the package with lintian --pedant

Re: RFS: sigx (second attempt)

2009-05-05 Thread George Danchev
On Tuesday 05 May 2009 20:43:08 Patrick Matthäi wrote: > Chow Loong Jin schrieb: > > Dear mentors, > > > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "sigx". > > > > * Package name: sigx > > Version : 2.0.2-1 > > Upstream Author : [fill in name and email of upstream] > > * URL

Re: RFS: ethstats (adopted and updated)

2009-05-09 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 09 May 2009 17:24:13 Peter Pentchev wrote: > Dear mentors, Hello Peter, > The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: > dget -x > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/e/ethstats/ethstats_1.0-3.dsc Package uploaded. Thanks for your work! -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18

Re: RFS: wwwstat (adopted & updated)

2009-05-09 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 09 May 2009 17:44:58 Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 01:37:47AM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > Dear mentors, ... > > The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: > > dget -x > > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/w/wwwstat/wwwstat_2.0-5.dsc Package uploaded

Re: RFS: cppcheck, new upstream version 1.32

2009-05-11 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 10 May 2009 22:28:43 Reijo Tomperi wrote: > Reijo Tomperi wrote: --cut-- > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/cppcheck/cppcheck_1.32-1.dsc Package uploaded. Thanks for your work. -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.deb

Re: RFS: poco (updated package)

2009-05-26 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 24 May 2009 21:14:10 krzysz...@burghardt.pl wrote: > Dear mentors, Hi, > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/poco/poco_1.3.5-1.dsc Looks good. I also checked buildability of clamfs with poco 1.3.5-1 (the only package in the archive which build-depends on libpobo-dev). The o

Re: RFS: libdebug (adopted, updated, fixed bugs)

2009-05-29 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 28 May 2009 17:20:53 Peter Pentchev wrote: > Dear mentors, Hello Peter, > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.4.3-1 of my > package "libdebug". This is an attempt to adopt the package, > turn it into a non-native one, become upstream, bring the Debian > packaging up to t

Re: RFS: cppcheck, new upstream version 1.33

2009-06-08 Thread George Danchev
> Reijo Tomperi wrote: > > Dear mentors, > > > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "cppcheck". > > > > * Package name: cppcheck > > Version : 1.25-1 > > Upstream Authors: Daniel Marjamäki > >Reijo Tomperi > > * URL : http://cppcheck.wiki.sourc

Re: RFS: kabikaboo

2009-06-15 Thread George Danchev
Hi, > Why it should be in Debian: there are ~ a hundred text editors, but none > of them are like this, at least not that I know of. I personally > couldn't write my novel without it - that's why I made it! :) > > cheers > Dave > > > PS. I hope everything is in order here, but if not, please let

Re: RFS: subnetcalc

2009-06-16 Thread George Danchev
Quoting Patrick Matthäi : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Bannister schrieb: On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 11:14:23PM +0200, Thomas Dreibholz wrote: Dear Patrick, Thijs, Paul, thank you for your review of the SubNetCalc package. The updated package at http://mentors.debian.net/

Re: RFS: pslist (3rd try) -- utility that lists, kills, or renices a process and its descendants

2009-06-17 Thread George Danchev
> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 05:16:48PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > Dear mentors, > > > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "pslist". > > Here we go again, with my changes after Ben Finney's recommendations, > and a Standards Version bump to the just-released Policy 3.8.2 :) > > * Package

Re: Problem with dpkg-shlibdeps

2009-06-18 Thread George Danchev
> Hi, Hi, > in a new upstream version which I'm working on, I get warnings from > dpkg-shlibdeps which I don't understand. And I can't find a way to find > out, so I'm asking here. > > The warnings are multiple occurrences of > > dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: binaries to analyze should already be inst

Re: Problem with dpkg-shlibdeps

2009-06-22 Thread George Danchev
> Frank Küster writes: > > Maybe some other tool "usually" also creates DEBIAN, but not in my case? > > I'm really confused by this too, since the calling sequence for a binary > build also runs dh_makeshlibs before running dh_installdeb, > dh_makeshlibs seems to assume that the DEBIAN directory a

Re: Problem with dpkg-shlibdeps

2009-06-22 Thread George Danchev
> George Danchev writes: > > dh sequencer also calls dh_installdebconf earlier in the call sequence > > (which Frank's rules was actually missing), which takes care to create > > debian/pkg/DEBIAN/ directory. So, when dh_makeshlibs and dh_shlibdeps > > enter

Re: RFS: wmanager (updated the Debian packaging)

2009-06-24 Thread George Danchev
> Dear mentors, Hi, > The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/w/wmanager/wmanager_0.2.1-6.dsc Ok, that is now uploaded. Thanks for your work. -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message p

Re: RFS: gvpe, the GNU Virtual Private Ethernet daemon

2009-06-24 Thread George Danchev
> On 2009-06-12, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > > I am seeking a sponsor for this new package, gvpe. It builds an secure > > virtual ethernet between multiple endpoints and gateways, rather than a > > straight end-to-end VPN tunnel. This makes it more resilient to failures > > of individual nodes par

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