On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 08:02:02PM +0100, José Sánchez Moreno wrote:
> Dear mentors,
>
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gnomecatalog".
>
> * Package name: gnomecatalog
> Version : 0.3.1-1.0
That '.0' at the end isn't necessary.
> Upstream Author : [fill in name and e
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 10:09:13AM +0100, Roland Gruber wrote:
> The problem is that my application provides a set of default templates
> for user creation. These files must be editable via the application
> itself and therefore reside in /var/ldap-account-manager.
I most sincerely hope they do no
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 12:02:02PM +0100, Roland Gruber wrote:
> Matthew Palmer schrieb:
> > Well, don't do that, then. Ship the template files somewhere else, and then
> > copy them into /var if they're not already there.
>
> that is probably the best solution. I
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 11:56:44AM +0200, Sylvain Garcia wrote:
> Dear mentors,
>
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "obm".
>
> * Package name: obm
> Version : 2.1.9-1
> Upstream Author : [fill in name and email of upstream]
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 11:20:40PM -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> I'm new to this end - and don't know if what I want is possible or not.
> But here goes.
What you want is quite possible, and something a lot of people do a lot.
> I need to modify some of the stock Debian packages for different
> o
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 02:08:34PM +0200, Marko Randjelovic wrote:
> How to set clean Etch build environment, so I can backport a package from
> testing to etch?
pbuilder, just like you would setup a lenny or sid build environment.
- Matt
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On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 04:08:08AM +0200, Noel David Torres Taño wrote:
> Hello mentors:
>
> I have some files in the package I'm maintaining which are (most probably)
> under GPLv1. And it is NOT in /usr/share/common-licenses
>
> What must I do? To install the GPL-1 file there or to express the
On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 10:43:00PM +0200, Jann Horn wrote:
> Er... I haven't got a file named "*.orig.tar.gz". I think it's because I
> myself made the program I want to put in a package.
> So my question is: How can I remove this dash?
You don't want to remove the dash, you want to fix your packa
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 01:45:10AM +0200, Laurent Léonard wrote:
> I try to build the package kio-ftps, but the 0.2 version (for KDE 4) uses
> CMake. What is the procedure to build a Debian package with CMake ?
It's no different to any other package. You put cmake in the build-deps,
run it to bu
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 11:21:19PM +0200, lucas kenter wrote:
> I would like to create a debian package for a simple project that I've
> created. The project contains only scripts, so there is no makefile or
> anything like that. For the script to work I would like to prompt for some
> simple quest
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 12:10:26AM +0200, lucas kenter wrote:
> Wow,
>
> Thanks for the quick and helpfull response Matthew and ehm... I suppose this
> is what they mean by "Debians helpfull community"! I'm possitively amazed!
> :-D
>
> one more question though,
>
> > So you could do something
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:14:56PM +0100, Laurent Guignard wrote:
> Michal ??iha?? a écrit :
> > Hi
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Quick look at the package:
> >
> > - any reason why it is Architecture: i386?
>
>
> In reason of the libraries dependency.
> libnet1 package is for i386 architecture and dh
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 01:37:48PM +0100, Laurent Guignard wrote:
> I have another question about architecture :
> How is it possible to check if a package could be built on architecture
> without the appropriate hardware ?
> I can say that dhcp-probe could be build on i386 and any compatible
> arc
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 03:04:33PM +0100, Alexander Block wrote:
> Dear mentors,
>
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "hexec".
>
> Package name: hexec
> Version : 0.2.0-1
> Upstream Author : Alexander Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 09:11:36PM +0100, Laurent Guignard wrote:
> Is there any means to know if someone work on a bug from RC bug ?
> rc-alert or popbugs show all RC bugs of our packages but if someone is
> already on, it isn't necessary to work to solve the bug.
> Are all works in progress refer
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 04:14:06PM -0800, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> [...]
> >
> > A new version of the package is available which integrates all updates
> > you noticed.
> > I controlled all files twice but an error or anything else could be
> > hidden in.
> >
> > You will find all links need t
On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 04:06:46PM +, Neil Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 22:18:01 +0900
> "Paul Wise" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Andy Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > New symbols. It specifically has support for embedding images int
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 01:05:25PM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> http://www.dclunie.com/medical-image-faq/html/part8.html#UIDRegistration
>
> ...
> To use SNMP one needs an Enterpise UID assigned by IANA, which is free
> and may also be used for any other purpose that requires a UID root.
>
>
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 01:32:34PM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> So IMHO only large institution would need to change that to their own
> OID, unfortunately this is a compile time variable...
Fix that. Making something that has to be unique to each installation a
compile-time flag is stupendou
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 07:44:27PM -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> Hi,
>
> To begin, I think there's some confusion about UID and OID. They
> are actually the same thing, according to Clunie:
>
> What DICOM calls "UIDs" are referred to in the
> ISO OSI world as Object Identifiers (OIDs).
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 05:45:44PM +0100, Giuseppe Iuculano wrote:
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "fspy".
>
> * Package name: fspy
> Version : 0.1.0-1
> Upstream Author : Richard Sammet
> * URL : http://mytty.org/fspy/
> * License : GPL
> Program
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 09:54:30AM +0100, Giuseppe Iuculano wrote:
> Matthew Palmer ha scritto:
>
> > Looks good, except that the manpage mentions info pages which don't appear
> > to exist in the package or upstream tarball.
>
> Fixed.
Looks good. Uploaded.
I've made several updates to the debian-mentors FAQ in the last few days,
including making mention of sponsors.debian.net, pointing to some revision
control howtos, a comprehensive description of native vs non-native
packages, and a pointer to the REJECT-FAQ (with a list of things to check
for in p
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 01:33:55PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> George Danchev wrote:
> > On Friday 09 September 2005 15:01, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > --cut--
> > > The FAQ is at: http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html
> >
> > a minor typo
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 01:13:19PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 06:30:29PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 12:16 +0200, Joost van Baal wrote:
> >
> > > On http://www.debian.org/ there is a link called "Help Debian", to
> > > http://www.debian.org/devel/jo
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 06:03:10PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote:
> Re: Thaddeus H. Black in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Pierre Machard wrote:
> > > Do not worry if I set my name as uploader, so that it's easy for me to
> > > track packages I am sponsoring.
>
> The PTS does perfectly suit this, and you
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 01:40:03AM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote:
> Re: Matthew Palmer in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > The primary reason I've seen expressed for desire to be added to the
> > Uploaders field is so that the sponsor can get a quick summary of a
> > sp
On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 05:00:01PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 09:48:26PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote:
> > You can remove the transition package now; upgrades skipping a stable
> > release are not supported.
>
> Interesting, is this policy or just common practice in
On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 04:53:50PM -0700, Al Stone wrote:
> What's puzzling me is this:
>
>-- the original source tarball used to be acovea-4.0.0.tar.gz,
> and I used the name acovea_4.0.0.orig.tar.gz, as is proper.
Check.
>-- upstream has changed the name of the source tarball so
On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 11:26:43AM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Dear all!
>
> I have a question concerning packages with epoch: We are preparing a NMU
> (maintainer approved) for tipa which currently is of version
> 2:1.2-2
> When I get the source package via apt-get source tipa and rebu
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 09:10:14PM -0500, Joe Smith wrote:
>
> "Justin Pryzby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Indeed, many packages aren't copyrighted by individual person[s];
> >check out the 'coreutils' package, the copyright of which is held by
> >some funky g
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 12:13:31PM +1100, skaller wrote:
> This is how Wikipedia works and why it is successful. With minimal
> fuss I have contributed some comments and a couple of changes.
How easy is it for a Wikipedia comment to contain a rootkit, though?
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On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 02:14:14PM +1100, skaller wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 20:44 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
>
> > > EG: My comp is on the net sometimes and sitting here idle.
> > > I'd be happy if Debian used it occasionally to build binaries.
> > > Where is the web page telling me how to a
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 08:04:01PM +0200, Mugurel Tudor wrote:
> - the repository created is a trivial one (something like "deb
> http://server/dir1/dir2 dir3/"), and dir3 containes the packages
> involved and the Packages.gz (created with dpkg-scanpackages)
Hint: use apt-ftparchive. It's a lot t
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 05:17:48PM +0100, Marcus Better wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> I use a few packages, such as kernel-patch-exec-shield, which are
> neglected by the maintainer. What can I do to help if the maintainer is
> not responding to bug reports or e-mail
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 04:40:12PM +0200, Ivars Strazdins wrote:
> Sam Morris wrote:
> > it should really live in /usr/lib/. If the use of /opt
> > is hard coded into the package then, well, that sucks. :)
>
> It is hard coded into management decision to which I really have no
> access whatsoever
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 09:01:18PM +0100, Marco Nenciarini wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 02:25:29PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 08:21:42PM +0100, Marco Nenciarini wrote:
> > > Package: wnpp
> > > Severity: wishlist
> > > Owner: Marco Nenciarini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 10:12:46AM +0100, Marco Nenciarini wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 09:21:08AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> >
> > If there's one thing people are good at here in d-mentors, it's editing long
> > descriptions to improve them.
> >
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 08:19:23PM +0100, Julien Valroff wrote:
> I am very interested in taking over fast-user-switch-applet package
> (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=304763)
>
> I don't own the ITP which is almost one year old, and the owner hasn't
> (yet) answered my e-mail.
>
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 02:31:54PM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote:
> Now I'd like to make it depend on either php4 or php5, so I've
> attempted the following:
>
> Depends: ${misc:Depends}, php4 (>=4.3) | php5 (>=5.1) |
> libapache2-mod-php4 | libapache2-mod-php5, php4-mysql (>=4 .3) |
I think you're o
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 03:18:23PM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote:
> W: winefish; A binary links against a library it does not use symbols from
> This package contains a binary that links against a library that is
> not in the Depends line. This may also be a bug in the library which
> does not hav
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 01:58:08PM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote:
> Of course, both php4 and php5 are still out there and probably both
> are widely used at this point. There's two ways I can think of to go about
> rolling .deb's for each:
>
> - change "--with-php-config" in my
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 02:52:43PM +0300, Panu Kalliokoski wrote:
> Some issues seem to come up time and again when somebody inspects RFS'd
> packages. Some of these are not breaches of policy but simply bad
> practices, like leaving quoted dh_* commands in debian/rules. Some are
> breaches of po
On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 01:46:35PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> I am working on packaging probcons, which consists of two main programs
> carrying the core functionalities, and a few other programs with
> ambiguous names (convert, makegunplut, project) which will not be useful
> to the vast major
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 06:14:39PM -0500, Carlo Segre wrote:
> We are working on package of a data acquisition & control system (called
> "mx") which has an executable called "motor" which has a completely
> different function (it is a java editor). This executable conflicts with
> an executabl
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 08:42:39PM -0500, Carlo Segre wrote:
> >Is motor generally useful, or is it just used as an internal component of
> >mx? (not a good name itself, BTW) If the latter, consider putting motor
> >into /usr/lib/mx.
>
> It is a generally used program for data acquisition and con
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 12:02:24PM +1000, Nikolai Lusan wrote:
> Once I install the libpq4-hw package dpkg will still complain:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] # dpkg -i postgresql-client-8.0-hw_8.0.7-1_i386.deb
> Selecting previously deselected package postgresql-client-8.0-hw.
> (Reading database ... 221
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 12:32:53PM +1000, Nikolai Lusan wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 12:15 +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > I strongly suspect that You're Stuffed. For this sort of thing, I typically
> > just create my own packages with the same name and cross my fingers tha
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 09:03:18PM -0700, Steven Hill wrote:
> I have been reading the literature on debian packages, and I am trying
> to figure out how to tell the package installer to automatically use
> "apt-get install" to satisfy a dependency at installation time - is
> there any way to do th
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 10:46:47AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> Matthew, could we please add this to the FAQ?
It shall be done. I'll also note about dget (which is a little-known tool,
I think).
- Matt
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On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 07:49:01PM +0200, Bart Martens wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-08-26 at 18:59 +0200, Christoph Haas wrote:
> > Dear package maintainers...
> >
> > a sponsor of Debian packages today sent an email to the mentors.debian.net
> > support email address and I would like to forward the sug
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 07:57:27PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Now lintian complains about the files in /usr/lib/kde3:
>
> E: kdesvn-kio-plugins: shlib-with-non-pic-code usr/lib/kde3/kded_kdesvnd.so
> E: kdesvn-kio-plugins: shlib-with-non-pic-code usr/lib/kde3/kio_ksvn.so
> E: kdesvn: shlib-with
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 10:37:06PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> If forgot to add, that the software runs just fine on my i386 box. Is
> this a error message that can safely be ignored or does it only affect
> certain !i386 platforms.
It's only a problem on some !i386 platforms.
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On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 01:16:40AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 07:57:27PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> >> Now lintian complains about the files in /usr/lib/kde3:
> >>
> >> E: kdesvn-kio-plugins:
References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Please don't hijack threads. If you wish to start a new thread, click 'new
message' rather than replying to an existing message and changing the
subject.
- Matt
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 05:26:53PM -0500, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 08:27:43PM +0200, kku wrote:
> > >You are programaticaly managing a configuration file in /etc. You
> > >should look into using ucf, that already handles this.
> >
> > I've had a look at ucf, but
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 10:18:29PM -0500, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 10:01:47AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 05:26:53PM -0500, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 08:27:43PM +0200, kku wro
On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 05:16:06PM +0100, James Westby wrote:
> On (16/09/06 21:34), Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote:
> > On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, James Westby wrote:
> > > * The debian/copyright file is lacking. There is no copyright
> > > information, what is referred to as Copyright is in fact a Li
On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 11:33:43PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > How does pag compare to pwgen (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pwgen/)?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > tony
>
> Hi Tony,
>
> yes, i tested pwgen in thought the same. Pwgen has no option to create a
> password list and you cant set the l
On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 11:01:57PM +0200, Toni Mueller wrote:
> I'm looking for a program like 'what' on BSD, but on Linux (obviously).
This is more a question for debian-user. But I'll say that a bit of shell
plumbing would probably get you what you want:
strings $file | grep '^\$.*\$$'
Of cou
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 03:19:27AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> You cant generate passwords with only numbers in it with pwgen.
Sounds like a chance for a feature enhancement you could make.
> But maybe pwgen is better i dont know. My program cant generate
> PWs with only letters at time.
>
On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 02:44:14PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> For one of the packages I created, the upstream sources I used were a
> version 1.x accidentally released as version 2.0 on sourceforge.
"Accidentally"? Did you package and upload this new upstream release? Has
upstream gone back
On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 05:09:51PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 04:28:14PM +1000, Matthew Palmer a écrit :
> > On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 02:44:14PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> > > For one of the packages I created, the upstream sources I used were a
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 09:33:46AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 08:20:15PM -0300, Leo Antunes a écrit :
> > If that's done then you're job's simple, repackage with the new version
> > and that's it. Make it as fast as possible though, since your users are
> > probably a bi
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 07:36:36PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 12:19:04PM +0200, Bas Wijnen a écrit :
> > But that's not what he wants, because then all the people who upgrade to
> > etch
> > with also see it then, even though it's irrelevant for them. What he's
> > as
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 07:19:04AM +1000, Andree Leidenfrost wrote:
> The '(if any)' makes me think I can amend the copyright file like this:
>
> It was originally downloaded from
> http://home1.stofanet.dk/peter-seidler/ which does not exist anymore.
> There is currently no known download locatio
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 11:56:59PM +0100, Székelyi Szabolcs wrote:
> I've posted an [0]RFS about 2 weeks ago, but the package has received no
> attention from official developers.
>
> What is the usual procedure in this case? Wait longer, re-post the RFS
> or try to accept that the package will ne
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 11:44:55PM -0800, Charlie Zender wrote:
> 2. dh_builddeb warnings with gpg signing
Try passing '-uc -us' to dpkg-buildpackage -- that should tell it to not try
and sign the resulting package upload.
- Matt
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On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 02:15:35PM +0100, Salokine wrote:
> I learn to create my first new package (tremulous-mappack). I've finished to
> create it and download to ftp//mentors.debian.net.
>
> What must I do now to continue integration process ?
> Why my package isn't to "My Packages" view ?
> W
On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 10:32:21PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 02:24:13PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> >
> > Because the vast bulk of users do *not* roll their own kernels [yes, an
> > assumption, but I'm pretty confident here :)].
> >
> I disagree. I think that
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 09:15:28AM +1100, Tim Hessint wrote:
> So, there is no .dsc or orig.tar.gz.
There needs to be a source package in a Debian upload. A source package
consists of a .dsc plus the files it references. Until you have a source
package, there's no way your package can be uploade
On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 07:21:51AM +0100, Johann Rudloff wrote:
> I hope it's correct now, but I've one little question:
>
> > * your build-depends are wrong. you depend on libgtk2.0-0 instead of
> > libgtk2.0-dev and libglib2.0-dev
> I added both, but is the dependency on libglib2.0-dev rea
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 06:42:13PM +0100, Chris Amthor wrote:
> Dear mentors,
>
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "crotch".
>
> * Package name: crotch
> Version : 1.0.1-1
> Upstream Author : Chris Amthor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * URL : http://www.chroam.de/
> *
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 07:26:00PM +0200, Jari Aalto wrote:
>
> Suppose this:
>
> bzr branch devel.branch my.branch
>
> C-c
This is a question for the bzr lists, not debian-mentors.
- Matt
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On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 10:22:41PM -0600, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote:
> I do have an issue I need help testing before upload. If I install
> etch/sid liferea + liferea-gtkhtml in a chroot, then add a sources
> line for my private repository with this new version, apt-get update,
> apt-get dis
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 01:33:54PM -0600, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 06:37:28PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 10:22:41PM -0600, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote:
> > > What happens is that liferea is held-back. I've
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 10:39:28PM -0600, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote:
> [Note: I updated the package to backport a patch from 1.2.5, which
> both a reporter and upstream agree should close #379900. Please, if you
> deem the package uploadable, do grab the new version first, from the
> same UR
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 09:44:45PM -0600, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 01:43:52PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 10:39:28PM -0600, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote:
>
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# apt-get dist-upgrad
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 11:29:36PM +0100, Curt Manucredo wrote:
> i am not quiet sure about sudo, since it asks from time to time a
> password.
Then you haven't put NOPASSWD: in the relevant sudoers entry. It works like
a charm.
Oh, and I think that you've totally over-complicated the wheel in y
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 08:22:30PM -0800, FROM FILA wrote:
> {libglade) i been tying to install for the last month and it's killing me, i
> get a message that says not installable so i go to problems and that say
> Aplication package is incompatible with current software but i have the
> lastest??
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 04:17:10AM +0100, Curt Manucredo wrote:
> i could never imagine that it is possible to call a command and then
> have root rights for it, without authentificating on the system with a
> password. so i thought a daemon running as root might solve that problem
> (which i thoug
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 10:51:45PM +0100, Richard Fearn wrote:
> I was wondering whether I should change the package from "RFA" to "ITA"
> now, even though I've got some way to go before I'm competent enough to
> create packages. I feel that adopting the package, when I won't be able
> to packag
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 01:04:57PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 12:15:03AM +0200, Sebastian Harl wrote:
> > - The files under src/win32helpers are released under the 4-clause BSD
> > license which is incompatible with the GPL. Thus distributing them as
> > part
>
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 06:01:53PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > It is exactly because it is anyway wrong to not cite authors that it is
> > better to leave the requirement out of the licence. When we publish
> > scientific articles, we do not put a
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 02:01:15AM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote:
> I've made Konatu font package (ttf-konatu)
> http://www.masuseki.com/index.php?u=be/konatu.htm
> and I have a question about its license is dfsg-free or not.
>
> It is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0.
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 11:07:17AM -0300, Tiago Saboga wrote:
> I am working closely with upstream devs, and I am willing to manage
> the debian files in the same sourceforge cvs. I understand that the
> upstream tarball should not contain the debian files; OTOH,
> sourceforge asks that all files i
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 10:59:12AM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> On 27/06/07, Tiago Saboga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I am working closely with upstream devs, and I am willing to manage
> >the debian files in the same sourceforge cvs. I understand that the
> >upstream tarball should not conta
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 08:49:47PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 07:50:58AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 10:59:12AM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> > > On 27/06/07, Tiago Saboga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
Finally, after much delay, I've got a new version of the FAQ uploaded to
it's usual place at
http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html .
Updates in this "release":
* Add a comment about telling everyone you got sponsored to reduce
duplication of effort. (Christoph Haas)
In my last update of the FAQ, I forgot to include a substantial rework of
the difference between native and non-native packages from Thijs Kinkhorst.
The rework also split the discussion on why debian dirs in upstream tarballs
is bad, which should help in the future when people ask about it -- now
On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 12:50:32AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:46:13 -0700, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > 'fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage' runs the build target under fakeroot,
> > which is undesirable primarily because Debian 'build' targets are
> > requi
On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 05:13:58PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "ftpsync".
Any major feature improvements over sitecopy?
- Matt
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On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 10:41:57PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote:
> I have no good explanation for the situation Neil mentioned though. The
> package maintainer must have uploaded a package with an orig tarball.
> But then the orig tarball was changed and an upload without an orig
> tarball was done
On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 11:21:09AM +0200, "Adam Cécile (Le_Vert)" wrote:
> Dear mentors,
>
> I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.7.0-1
> of my package "fuse".
I'm taking a look at this now.
- Matt
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On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 11:21:09AM +0200, "Adam Cécile (Le_Vert)" wrote:
> Dear mentors,
>
> I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.7.0-1
> of my package "fuse".
Looks solid. Uploaded.
- Matt
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On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 04:13:06PM -0400, Tim Hull wrote:
> Anyway, I am curious what exactly it entails to become a Debian developer,
> and what would be best to do if one wanted to involve
> oneself in Debian with this ultimate goal.
The FQ... the FAQ...
http://people.debian.org/~mpalm
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:13:06AM +1000, Brendon Costa wrote:
> I have been looking on the web, but have found little in the way of
> tutorials on how to create a debian source package. I have created a
> binary package for my project (EDoc++: http://edoc.sourceforge.net/),
> but want to create a
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 02:59:53PM +1000, Brendon Costa wrote:
> > Actually, there is no one-file source package form of a deb like there
> > is for rpms. When you create your binary package, a signed .dsc file is
> > created with which you can create the deb in conjunction with the
> > original up
On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 03:33:20PM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote:
> I have a package that I maintain that has a dependency on php4-cgi
> or php5-cgi.
>
> If I remember correctly php4 will not be in lenny. Correct me if I
> was dreaming and misunderstood this.
Nope, I think you're right. Last I heard
On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 02:42:19PM +0200, Francesco Namuri wrote:
> Hi mentors,
> I've received from the author of homebank a pre-release version 3.4 of
> homebank with new SVG icons released under GPL, I have a doubt regarding
> one of these icons, it is released with this license metadata:
>
>
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