Re: RFS: webcam-server

2006-09-26 Thread James Westby
On (26/09/06 09:35), Luca bedogni wrote: > Il giorno Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:07:59 +0100 > James Westby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > > > On (23/09/06 13:36), Luca bedogni wrote: > > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "webcam-server". > > &

Re: RFS: blacs-pvm (updated package)

2006-09-26 Thread James Westby
an important linda warning W: blacs1-pvm; The library libblacs is not in a shlibs file. James -- James Westby --GPG Key ID: B577FE13-- http://jameswestby.net/ seccure key - (3+)k7|M*edCX/.A:n*N!>|&7U.L#9E)Tu)T0>AM - secp256r1/nistp256 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: License DData (was Re: RFS: haskell-uulib)

2006-09-30 Thread James Westby
-clause BSD > license also used by GHC. > > Daan, I tried to find the specific licencing terms of DData but could > only find two emails [1,2] in which is stated that you have a specific > BSD-style licence for DData: Hi Arjan, Has there been any progress on this issue? James --

Re: Sponsor request for hunspell-uz

2006-09-30 Thread James Westby
On (21/09/06 15:55), Mashrab Kuvatov wrote: > On Tuesday 19 September 2006 14:01, James Westby wrote: > > > Not the tarball that I downloaded. It only contained a .tar.gz. I see it > > is fixed in this version though. Thanks for that. > > Anybody to sponsor it? Please. :-

Re: RFS: frown

2006-09-30 Thread James Westby
On (28/09/06 02:20), Arjan Oosting wrote: > Hi, > > I hereby renew my request for sponsorship. > > I have update the package after some remarks of James Westby and > Stephane Bortzmeyer and hope that someone is willing to upload it, > > * Package name: frown The p

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

2006-09-30 Thread James Westby
hould be ready for sponsoring. James -- James Westby --GPG Key ID: B577FE13-- http://jameswestby.net/ seccure key - (3+)k7|M*edCX/.A:n*N!>|&7U.L#9E)Tu)T0>AM - secp256r1/nistp256 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: cunit

2006-09-30 Thread James Westby
On (19/09/06 19:30), Philipp Benner wrote: > On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:46:35 +0100 > James Westby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > Can I suggest to metion that you have uploaded a new version if you do when you reply to comments, and mention the URL as well, it makes it

Re: RFS: gtksee (updated package)

2006-09-30 Thread James Westby
On (27/09/06 23:50), holoturoide wrote: > > On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:57:58 +0100, James Westby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On (25/09/06 19:01), holoturoide wrote: > >> Dear mentors, > >> > >> I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.5.6

Re: RFS: inotail -- inotify enhanced tail (updated package, again)

2006-09-30 Thread James Westby
toppers, so I believe the package is ready to be sponsored. James -- James Westby --GPG Key ID: B577FE13-- http://jameswestby.net/ seccure key - (3+)k7|M*edCX/.A:n*N!>|&7U.L#9E)Tu)T0>AM - secp256r1/nistp256 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: drapes (updated again)

2006-09-30 Thread James Westby
bian.net/debian/pool/main/d/drapes/drapes_0.4.97-3.dsc > You have lots of lintain warnings of the form I: drapes source: build-depends-without-arch-dep If you fix these I think the package will be ready for sponsoring. James -- James Westby --GPG Key ID: B577FE13-- http

Re: RFS: blacs-pvm (updated package)

2006-09-30 Thread James Westby
On (29/09/06 22:13), Muammar Wadih El Khatib Rodriguez wrote: > Hi James, > > On 9/26/06, James Westby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Please drop the use of ${Source-Version}, see > >http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/09/msg00228.html > > I read

Re: RFS: inotail -- inotify enhanced tail (updated package, again)

2006-09-30 Thread James Westby
On (30/09/06 23:12), Daniel Baumann wrote: > James Westby wrote: > > The only changes I would make would be to add a watch file and to change > > "License" to "License and Copyright" in debian/copyright. > > Since Tobias is also the upstream author,

Re: RFS: page-crunch (updated package)

2006-09-30 Thread James Westby
han "make" in debian/rules. * You have given a different license to debian/rules from that you state the packaging is under in debian/copyright. The package looks good apart from these though. James -- James Westby --GPG Key ID: B577FE13-- http://jameswestby.net/

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

2006-09-30 Thread James Westby
the stuff Copyright this guy as you say it is not needed. * Remove the blank line from debian/docs. James -- James Westby --GPG Key ID: B577FE13-- http://jameswestby.net/ seccure key - (3+)k7|M*edCX/.A:n*N!>|&7U.L#9E)Tu)T0>AM - secp256r1/nistp256 -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: RFS: libvrb -- Virtual Ring Buffer library

2006-09-30 Thread James Westby
es a few I: vbuf: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/vbuf.1.gz:66 that you might like to fix. The binary packages look good though. James -- James Westby --GPG Key ID: B577FE13-- http://jameswestby.net/ seccure key - (3+)k7|M*edCX/.A:n*N!>|&7U.L#9E)T

Re: RFS: cunit

2006-10-01 Thread James Westby
On (01/10/06 11:09), Philipp Benner wrote: > The new package has been uploaded: > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/cunit/ Hi, Looks good to me, I believe it is ready for sponsoring. James -- James Westby --GPG Key ID: B577FE13-- http://jameswestby.net/ s

Re: RFS: otserv

2006-10-01 Thread James Westby
dpkg-source: error: file otserv_0.5.0.orig.tar.gz has size 1005244 instead of expected 935205 Can you please correct this? James -- James Westby --GPG Key ID: B577FE13-- http://jameswestby.net/ seccure key - (3+)k7|M*edCX/.A:n*N!>|&7U.L#9E)Tu)T0>AM - secp256r1/ni

Re: trueprint

2006-10-01 Thread James Westby
On (26/09/06 22:08), Henrique Haas wrote: > On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:20:15 +0100, James Westby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/t/trueprint/trueprint_5.3-4.dsc Hi, The package looks good to me now, I think it is ready for sponsoring. Jam

Re: Sponsor request for hunspell-uz

2006-10-01 Thread James Westby
On (01/10/06 13:18), Mashrab Kuvatov wrote: > On Sunday 30 October 2006 19:43, James Westby wrote: > > > I have found just one more problem, lintian says > > > > I: uzbek.wordlist source: build-depends-without-arch-dep > > dictionaries-common-dev > > N: &

Re: RFS: libdiscid

2006-10-01 Thread James Westby
S_ARGS = -V in debian/rules seems a little tight. Are you sure you want this? * Please add a watch file. James -- James Westby --GPG Key ID: B577FE13-- http://jameswestby.net/ seccure key - (3+)k7|M*edCX/.A:n*N!>|&7U.L#9E)Tu)T0>AM - secp256r1/nistp256 -- To

Re: RFS: python-musicbrainz2

2006-10-01 Thread James Westby
n-support is not the usual way of using it, it looks more like python-central from the control file. * You should register the documentation with doc-base. James -- James Westby --GPG Key ID: B577FE13-- http://jameswestby.net/ seccure key - (3+)k7|M*edCX/.A:n*N!>

Re: RFS: libdiscid

2006-10-01 Thread James Westby
On (01/10/06 18:28), Lukáš Lalinský wrote: > James Westby wrote: > > Hi, I cannot sponsor, but I have a few comments. > > > > * You shouldn't use ${Source-Version} in debian/control any more > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/09/msg00228.html

Re: RFS: python-musicbrainz2

2006-10-01 Thread James Westby
On (01/10/06 18:34), Lukáš Lalinský wrote: > James Westby wrote: > > Have you contacted formorer to see if he will sponsor this version as > > well? > > Roberto C. Sanchez was sponsoring the first version of this package as part of > his NM proccess. Alexander Wirt o

Re: RFS: libdiscid

2006-10-01 Thread James Westby
On (01/10/06 18:56), Lukáš Lalinský wrote: > James Westby wrote: > > > > See > > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=383040 > > > > for an example bug that is the fault of using this field. > > The bug is about using ${So

Re: RFS: page-crunch (updated package)

2006-10-08 Thread James Westby
On (26/09/06 12:09), Sylvain Beucler wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.0-1 > of my package "page-crunch". > Uploaded. (Nothing to do with me, but I wanted to keep the list up to date). James -- James Westby -

Re: FW by [EMAIL PROTECTED] : 'tdmenu' uploaded to mentors.debian.net

2006-11-17 Thread James Westby
the maintainer is "Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" Hope this helps, James -- James Westby --GPG Key ID: B577FE13-- http://jameswestby.net/ seccure key - (3+)k7|M*edCX/.A:n*N!>|&7U.L#9E)Tu)T0>AM - secp256r1/nistp256 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: To adopt or not to adopt: smstools

2006-11-17 Thread James Westby
pond. The cynical view would be that it was also the best way to get a response. I appreciate how hard it is to want to contribute but be held back by something, and I hope that you manage to get this sorted. James -- James Westby --GPG Key ID: B577FE13-- http://jameswestby.net/ s

Re: New request for checking: Java library tagsoup (ITP #359170)

2006-11-22 Thread James Westby
ackages that repack a .tar.bz2 and don't document it. James -- James Westby --GPG Key ID: B577FE13-- http://jameswestby.net/ seccure key - (3+)k7|M*edCX/.A:n*N!>|&7U.L#9E)Tu)T0>AM - secp256r1/nistp256 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pbuilder problem

2006-11-23 Thread James Westby
ckage build-depend on it? Does the package get installed? I wont explaina chroot to you, as I will assume you know what one is, but if you don't I suggest you go and look it up, that knowledge is crucial to understand some things about pbuilder? James -- James Westby --GPG Key ID: B577FE13

Re: RFC: AKFQuiz (was: new here)

2006-11-24 Thread James Westby
r method of handling them though that some packages use, where the files are updated as required, but they do not appear in the diff. James -- James Westby --GPG Key ID: B577FE13-- http://jameswestby.net/ seccure key - (3+)k7|M*edCX/.A:n*N!>|&7U.L#9E)Tu)T0>AM - sec

Re: How to handle this: mantis DB upgrade 0.19 -> 1.0.6

2006-11-24 Thread James Westby
e all the databases are on the system? I may have some of this wrong, apologies in that case. James -- James Westby --GPG Key ID: B577FE13-- http://jameswestby.net/ seccure key - (3+)k7|M*edCX/.A:n*N!>|&7U.L#9E)Tu)T0>AM - secp256r1/nistp256 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: variables from shell output in makefile

2006-11-24 Thread James Westby
XT_DIR} is empty? Some obvious things to rule out. 1) /usr/bin/php-config --extension-dir produces no output 2) It produces output on stderr (I believe this wont be caught. 3) The value is overriden by the environment. I hope this helps, but if not someone with more make skills might be able to

Re: RFC: AKFQuiz

2006-11-24 Thread James Westby
On (24/11/06 22:27), Joachim Reichel wrote: > Hi, > > James Westby wrote: > > There is a cleaner method of handling them though that some packages > > use, where the files are updated as required, but they do not appear in > > the diff. > > can you explain the pr

Re: RFC: AKFQuiz (was: new here)

2006-11-25 Thread James Westby
On (25/11/06 06:30), Andreas K. Foerster wrote: > Am Freitag, dem 24. Nov 2006 schrieb James Westby: > > No, don't delete them, they are there for a reason, please read > > /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz > > where it is explained. > > Now I'm r

Re: Updated bmpx

2006-11-25 Thread James Westby
o news from the current maintainer. > Does this mean that you are not the maintainer of bmpx? You are not listed as the maintainer on the PTS. James -- James Westby --GPG Key ID: B577FE13-- http://jameswestby.net/ seccure key - (3+)k7|M*edCX/.A:n*N!>|&7U.L#9E)Tu)T0

Re: RFS: meep

2006-11-26 Thread James Westby
cowbuilder chroot, so I guess that mpb doesn't have the same dependencies, but it might be worth an email to the maintainer confirming that they meant to do this. (Note that I wont be doing this myself). James -- James Westby --GPG Key ID: B577FE13-- http://jameswestby.net/

Re: RFS: recordmydesktop

2006-11-29 Thread James Westby
t is included why do you just talk about a frontend in the description, and not about the tool itself? Thanks, James -- James Westby --GPG Key ID: B577FE13-- http://jameswestby.net/ seccure key - (3+)k7|M*edCX/.A:n*N!>|&7U.L#9E)Tu)T0>AM - secp256r1/nistp256

Re: RFS: recordmydesktop

2006-11-29 Thread James Westby
On (29/11/06 22:05), José L. Redrejo Rodríguez wrote: > El mié, 29-11-2006 a las 20:18 +0000, James Westby escribió: > > This should really be an answer to the ITP, but I am posting here for > > expediancy reasons. > > > I guess you're refering to the I

Re: Bugs on machine

2006-12-11 Thread James Westby
listbugs list IIRC). I'm also not sure if it can do multiple packages at once. James -- James Westby --GPG Key ID: B577FE13-- http://jameswestby.net/ seccure key - (3+)k7|M*edCX/.A:n*N!>|&7U.L#9E)Tu)T0>AM - secp256r1/nistp256 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

RFS: bazaar-webserve

2007-01-07 Thread James Westby
ITP bug closed. This package spent quite a long time packaged but not uploaded, but has been available publically. If a potential sponsor would prefer a different arrangement please let me know. Kind regards James Westby -- James Westby --GPG Key ID: B577FE13-- http://jameswestb

Re: Library sonames and unstable libraries

2007-01-10 Thread James Westby
ding on this subject. James -- James Westby --GPG Key ID: B577FE13-- http://jameswestby.net/ seccure key - (3+)k7|M*edCX/.A:n*N!>|&7U.L#9E)Tu)T0>AM - secp256r1/nistp256 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: libpam-radius-auth (updated package)

2007-01-12 Thread James Westby
. Once you got > that, feel free to ask again. > The original request should have stated that this is an NMU with permission. See #405445. James -- James Westby --GPG Key ID: B577FE13-- http://jameswestby.net/ seccure key - (3+)k7|M*edCX/.A:n*N!>|&7U.L#9E)Tu)T0

Re: RFS: poco

2007-01-13 Thread James Westby
le other 3 clauses) BSD license. So maybe we do not need to > care. If poco has parts GPL and parts 4-BSD then you have the problem without even getting OpenSSL involved. James -- James Westby --GPG Key ID: B577FE13-- http://jameswestby.net/ seccure key - (3+)k7|M*edCX/.A

Re: Tone-of-voice used by sponsors

2007-01-15 Thread James Westby
ays I have more ideas than time. My premise for most of this email has been that it has been repetition that has sparked off this thread, but I also think there are other things going on here that I haven't highlighted, and don't have the quick fixes that I have mentioned. Thanks for reading,

Re: RFS: bazaar-webserve

2007-01-29 Thread James Westby
Hi, I am resending this request as I have had no response yet. I saw recently that the package may be rejected if the changed-by date is too old in the upload. If the date seems like that might apply I would of course be happy to update it. Thanks, James On (07/01/07 17:57), James Westby

Re: Better to run multiple configure/make cycles or use separate sources?

2007-02-19 Thread James Westby
ation though. You can add as much Makefile madness to this as you like to generate the targets that you need, but the basic idea should work. Note that I have never packaged a package like this, so you might hit a snag with this method, if so I suggest you look at other examples. Thanks, James

Re: Must a source package's shared libraries always be spit into separate binary packages?

2007-02-19 Thread James Westby
some way to try and achieve it, and if it happens regularly it will get very ugly. Also if only a minority of programs are going to link to the secondary library you can reduce dependencies by splitting it out. This would also help in any transitions that you have to do. Thanks, James --

Re: Creating a source tarball for repackaged source using dpkg-source -b

2007-03-09 Thread James Westby
kaging should be considered carefully, but .ds standing for Debian source is a common choice for suffix. Thanks, James -- James Westby --GPG Key ID: B577FE13-- http://jameswestby.net/ seccure key - (3+)k7|M*edCX/.A:n*N!>|&7U.L#9E)Tu)T0>AM - secp256r1/nistp256 -

Re: Creating a source tarball for repackaged source using dpkg-source -b

2007-03-09 Thread James Westby
On (09/03/07 23:50), James Westby wrote: > On (09/03/07 23:54), Benjamin Mesing wrote: > > How do I invoke dpkg-source to create the .orig.tar.gz file? > > > > I would say that you don't need dpkg-source to, tar + gzip should work > just fine. > > Most (all?)

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: OTPW]

2007-03-14 Thread James Westby
right to modify the code. > Furthermore, permission to include the code is not permission to modify it > nor > sell it in another software. There's an RMD160 implementation in libgcrypt under the LGPL, could that be used instead? Thanks, James -- James Westby --GPG Key ID: B57

Re: Bug#419570: webcalendar: Package dependencies must allow php5 instead of php4

2007-04-17 Thread James Westby
robably a bug. Some dependencies are hard to specify in a pleasant way though, so it might get a little ugly. I hope this helps, Thanks, James -- James Westby --GPG Key ID: B577FE13-- http://jameswestby.net/ seccure key - (3+)k7|M*edCX/.A:n*N!>|&7U.L#9E)Tu)T0>AM - se

Re: Looking for a maintainer with experience in debconf programming

2007-04-17 Thread James Westby
t, I'm considering dropping all the debconf magic, converting the > current script with a config-setup helper. I expect this would faciliate > upgrades, but I'm still a bit undecided. > Could you tell me what config-setup is please? Apologies if I looked too little and got

Re: yada generated deb not calling update-menus

2007-04-18 Thread James Westby
v/null`" ]; > then update-menus; fi That should be $1 (or is it $2?) in the first set of quotes. Whatever is writing this out is probably a shell or perl script that isn't escaping it. I don't have internet access to check your script now though. Thanks, James -- James Westb

Re: Bug#393832: Bug#419570: webcalendar: Package dependencies must allow php5 instead of php4

2007-04-20 Thread James Westby
On (19/04/07 23:01), Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > * James Westby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-04-17 18:09]: > > libapache-mod-php4 depends on apache-common, which in turn depends on > > apache, so that works ok. > > I do not see that: > > $ apt-cache show apache-

Re: [HELP][LONG] Multiple-binaries packages

2007-05-04 Thread James Westby
) just remove -arch or -indep and use eg > binary:. Since your install script seems to be installing just perl > and shell scripts, this shouldn't be a problem. > Policy dictates that you must keep an empty target. http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-debianrules

Re: dpkg-source and .git directories.

2007-06-28 Thread James Westby
r way of working, so I am not sure how it will suit you. Thanks, James -- James Westby --GPG Key ID: B577FE13-- http://jameswestby.net/ seccure key - (3+)k7|M*edCX/.A:n*N!>|&7U.L#9E)Tu)T0>AM - secp256r1/nistp256 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ubuntu-to-Debian packaging

2007-11-23 Thread James Westby
On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 18:23 -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: > Giovanni Mascellani wrote: > > All'incirca Fri, 23 Nov 2007 14:23:54 -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sembrerebbe aver scritto: > > > >> You just need to make the package accomplish the Debian policy, t

[RFS] seccure -- tools for using algorithms based on elliptic curve cryptography (ECC)

2009-06-10 Thread James Westby
Hi all, I'm looking for a sponsor for the new version of seccure. This new version makes use of gcrypt's secure memory, so we can drop the patch that disables memory locking. You can find the updated packages at http://people.ubuntu.com/~jamesw/packages/seccure-0.4/seccure_0.4-1.dsc Thanks,

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