On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 12:23:39PM +0100, David Given wrote:
> (Incidentally, the more I look at fakechroot the more I'm coming to believe
> that it's no use for anything whatsoever. The security aspects of it are...
> erm... nil; it's trivial for the client app to break out of its jail. Is this
>
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 03:17:18PM +0100, David C Tarrant wrote:
> Dear mentors,
>
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "eprints".
I don't see an ITP for this package.
> "Making Research Freely Available - For many years we have been helping
> researchers and their institutions to provid
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 06:27:09PM +0100, David C Tarrant wrote:
> It builds these binary packages:
> eprints- Content Management System for Information Archiving
>
> EPrints is a web-based content management system. It allows a large
> number of contributors to share their digital objects/d
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 12:25:52AM +0200, Mihamina (R12y) Rakotomandimby wrote:
> There is a list of softwares already debian packaged.
> The packager has applied a patch on them.
> I need to modify again the patched part.
> So, I need to "patch the patch".
> I guess in real world I wont patch the
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 07:20:29PM -0400, Peter wrote:
> If I post this question in the wrong list please tell me where to ask
> the question :)
>
> I created an update package and it install perfectly but for one thing.
> If I install an earlier version, my package won't show up as an update.
>
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 10:18:48PM +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
> i know it is a problem on my side, but please give me a bit time. Sorry
> for communicating this a bit bad, but i was quite overworked the last
> weeks, esp. as i am currently moving to a new home.
>
> For the others: i allready
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 04:39:05PM +0200, Markus Schölzel wrote:
> Dear mentors,
>
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "dosbox".
>
> * Package name: dosbox
> Version : 0.72-0.1
> Upstream Author : The DOSBox-Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * URL : www.sourceforge.ne
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 04:46:43AM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote:
> Today I stumbled over the question: After which time should transition
> stuff be removed from the debhelper scripts. In this special case I'm
> talking about install-sgmlcatalog calls in (e.g.) postinst scripts. Adam
> Di Carlo anno
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 08:57:19AM -0700, varun_shrivastava wrote:
> i have a library and want to package it
> But it has a configuration option as --enable-debug=yes/no
>
> So i need to make 2 packages as
>
> 1) libinput0
> 2) libinput0-debug
>
> So now if an application uses libinput, how the
On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 08:09:28AM +0100, Anthony wrote:
> Le lundi 2 février 2009 22:46, Jack T Mudge III a écrit :
> |> On Monday 02 February 2009 09:43:07 am Anthony wrote:
> |> > I have a problème about auto home creation.
> |> >
> |> > All my users are on a ldap server with is home parameter.
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 04:59:33PM +0100, Thomas Dreibholz wrote:
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "subnetcalc". subnetcalc is a
> simple
> IPv4 subnet address calculator. For given IP address and netmask, it
> calculates network address, broadcast address, maximum number of hosts and
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 07:21:22PM +0200, Stefanos Harhalakis wrote:
> * Package name: fsprotect
> Version : 1.0.0
> Upstream Author : Stefanos Harhalakis (me)
> * URL : http://www.v13.gr/ (not available yet)
Based on your e-mail address, I'm guessing that www.v13.gr i
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:41:48PM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> Stefanos Harhalakis wrote:
> > I'll add it when it is available. Since this is a debian native package,
> > I'm
> > waiting for it to enter debian (if it ever happens) before creating a page.
>
> Whis is this native? From wh
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:38:16PM +0100, Jaromír Mike? wrote:
> > Od: Chow Loong Jin
> > I don't get it. debhelper should already pull in the appropriate perl. I
> > cannot even begin to imagine how you borked up your perl installation to
> > that extent.
>
> Neither me ... installation of ubunt
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 08:02:44AM +, Tristan Greaves wrote:
> I'm taking a look at packaging the game Cluedome:
>
> http://www.cluedome.com/
>
> I'm wondering if there are any copyright concerns. The game advertises itself
> as a clone, and the source ships with an example game rules ru
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 08:40:50AM +, Tristan Greaves wrote:
> Matthew Palmer wrote:
>> [clue data files with copyrighted info]
>>> One option would be to NOT include those two data files in the package, but
>>> then it would not be a particularly user friendly in
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:08:41PM +0200, Davide Puricelli wrote:
> I'm asking you help about bug #509367.
>
> Summarizing, new mono packages introduced a /usr/bin/csc file that
> conflicts with /usr/bin/csc I used to ship into chicken-bin, so now
> there's a conflict between these two packages.
>
On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 11:57:43PM +0800, Cheng Renquan wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Ramesh wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I wish to contribute to debian as a developer. I got my keys signed by
> > one of the existing developers.
>
> Please read
> http://www.debian.org/devel/join/newmaint
On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 10:23:37PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote:
> Dear mentors,
>
> The package magicfilter, a print filter for spoolers like lpr/lprng/etc,
> in Debian had some issues (dependencies on nonexistent packages)
> since it had not been updated in the last 3 years (according to the
> cha
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 08:06:54AM -0700, Ehren Kret wrote:
> It builds these binary packages:
> libgoogle-gflags-dev - a commandline flags processing library
> libgoogle-gflags0 - a commandline flags processing library
Considering the plethora of other libraries to process command line flags, I
t
Hi Rogério,
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 07:32:46PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote:
> Probably this was missed the past few times that I posted to the list.
>
> Please, could anybody sponsor it?
I've started looking at this package, but got caught up with other things.
At the very least, you'll need to
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 09:22:49PM +0200, Stéphane Glondu wrote:
> Neil Williams a écrit :
> >> Is it still allowed as per 3.8.1 policy to use multi maintainer style
> >> changelogs?
> >
> > Yes.
>
> And what was the prevous style of changelog allowed, by the way?
Originally, the debian changelo
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 06:44:54PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
> dget -x
> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/debsigs/debsigs_0.1.15.dsc
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404
dget: curl debsigs_0.1.15.dsc
http://mentors.debia
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 12:07:31AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote:
> Hi, LI.
>
> On May 17 2009, LI Daobing wrote:
> > 1. download foo-1.2.3.tar.gz
> > 2. run "ln -s foo-1.2.3.tar.gz foo_1.2.3.orig.tar.gz", so debuild can
> > recognize that you already have a orig tarball
>
> Yes, I understood that.
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 10:33:07AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> On Sat, 16 May 2009 21:50:10 -0300
> Rogério Brito wrote:
>
> > Dear mentors,
> >
> > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "foo".
>
> [Include one of:]
> >
> problems.>
> .>
>
> [or some other description of the kind of upl
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 03:59:18PM +0200, Thomas Dreibholz wrote:
> - The new upstream version is now 2.0.2, therefore the new Debian package is
> 2.0.2-1debian1.
Uhm... no. 'debian' is effectively the default source, so you don't tag
packages as such.
- Matt
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On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:53:32AM +0200, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:01:30AM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 23:00, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote:
> > > Thanks for the feedback Sandro. I've written the primer for
> > > technical-minded
> > > debian user
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 07:23:38PM +0100, Juan Jesús Ojeda Croissier wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Chow Loong Jin wrote:
> > On Wednesday 01,July,2009 12:27 AM, Juan Jesús Ojeda Croissier wrote:
> >> [...]
> >> And also a kind of retorical one (I guess I know already the
> >> answer...)
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 03:02:19PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> In <200907221847.44193@alaxarxa.net>, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote:
> >I think I have not seen it in the Debian policies. I have a dual role in
> > one application: developer and co-maintainer. I would like to ask one
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 01:46:04AM +, Leinier Cruz Salfran wrote:
> why is so hard to find a sponsor?
>
> I have a package online since 2 weeks ago, I sent 3 RFS and I have found
> no sponsor yet.
>
> why
The debian-mentors FAQ
(http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html)
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:11:12AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> Sune Vuorela writes:
> > For example, I would be very reluctant to sponsor a first package of a
> > person that was a new library without any application using it,
> > whereas a interesting kde application might easier catch my eye.
>
package into
> > > Debian, but that package requires one or more separately-packaged
> > > libraries that *also* need to be sponsored into Debian before the
> > > ???interesting??? package can go in?
> >
> > Request sponsorship together. And read up on library pac
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:06:56PM -0700, Jeremy Leibs wrote:
> We have kind of a unique environment in that many of the (somewhat
> naive) system users have root-access for installing new packages on an
> as-needed basis, but the development environment itself has some
> specific requirements. Fo
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 02:50:46PM +0200, Jos? Manuel Santamar?a Lema wrote:
> I'm a novice and I uploaded some times packages to m.d.n. According to the
> home page, binary packages are discarded keeping only the source package.
> However every time that I upload a package, _all_ files are uploa
On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 01:34:12AM +0200, ERSEK Laszlo wrote:
> - I like a fresh Standards-Version,
This is not a valid reason to make an upload to Debian. It is perfectly
permissible to have a package with an outdated standards version, especially
if the updates to policy do not apply to your pa
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 03:43:22AM +0200, Jarom?r Mike? wrote:
> > Od: Jarom?r Mike?
>
> JM> > I did it, but it breaks functionality ... there exist also symlinks with
> JM> same name and in same location.
>
> JM> > usr/bin/lv2rack
> JM> > usr/bin/zynjacku
> JM> > usr/bin/zynspect
> JM> > --
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 01:44:11PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> Matthew Palmer writes:
>
> > So someone's using a single file as both a library and a stand-alone
> > program. Damned silly idea.
>
> Not so silly; a Python module can be useful both as a main program an
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:39:58AM +0800, Liang Guo wrote:
> Currently I'm using qspice, a Simple Protocol for Independent Computing
> Environments (SPICE) client as my console to connect to KVM. qspice is a
> utility from RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.4, and It is licensed under GNU
> GPLv2.
>
> qs
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 01:38:32PM +0100, Lucas B. Cohen wrote:
> Is it considered acceptable for a package to blindly delete, then
> recreate its entire directory under /usr/share/doc upon installation or
> upgrade ?
I would consider it extremely unacceptable. Your package can fiddle with files
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 12:59:54PM -0800, Joe Smith wrote:
> I'm having an issue with distributing a .deb package that has a dependency
> on another .deb package that might not be in an available repository (or the
> target may not have a network connection at the time of installation). What
> I'd
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 08:08:36AM +0100, Joachim Wiedorn wrote:
> thanks for this informations!
What informations?
- Matt
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On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 03:41:39PM +0100, Lucas B. Cohen wrote:
> Roger Leigh wrote:
> >
> > Users don't have write access to anything under /usr in general
> > (and /usr/share/doc in particular). If they did place files there,
> > they must have done it after gaining root privs. I.e. they took
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 05:13:51PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 26 2009, Matthew Palmer wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 01:38:32PM +0100, Lucas B. Cohen wrote:
> >> Is it considered acceptable for a package to blindly delete, then
> >> recreate i
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 07:57:18AM +, Tadeusz Struk wrote:
> I've created one amd64.deb package. Unfortunately I don't have access
> to other architectures. The pkg can be found here:
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/spg/files/spg.0.5.0/spg_0.5.0-1_amd64.deb/download
You need to provide the
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 01:43:49PM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote:
> I'm thinking about tomoyo-ccstools package update but it has a problem.
> It has no compatibility with current version (1.6.8) and newer version
> (1.7.1). So, I want users would be able to choice continue upgrading or
> not with
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 01:40:29PM -0800, Chris Taylor wrote:
> You should take a look at the documents located at
> http://www.debian.org/devel/
>
> Namely you should read the New Maintainers Guide:
> http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/
> The Debian Developers' Reference:
> http://www.debia
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:53:46AM +0100, Fabrizio Furnari wrote:
> Now, the great of the software we need in ArcheOS are in Java, some are web
> applications (some webGIS, and so on). Licensing is not a problem but
> packaging is a little more difficult than usual, so the conclusion to write
> in
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 04:12:20PM +0200, Nicolas Joseph wrote:
> Maybe but debarchiver reject my upload because the file is already added and
> has
> a different md5 sum.
>
> how do you do for real repositories?
You don't upload the same package version twice. If you need to update,
bump the v
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:25:53AM +0200, David Paleino wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:50:20 +0100, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 09:55:30AM +0300, Andrew O. Shadoura wrote:
> > > It builds these binary packages:
> > > twms - tiny WMS service
> >
> > What is a "web m
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 09:31:10AM +0100, Chris Baines wrote:
> Hello mentors,
>
> I am getting a package-section-games-but-contains-no-game lintian error
> on my package fgrun. FGRun is a FLightGear graphical launcher,
> FlightGear is a flight simulator game. FGRun puts its binary in
> the /usr/b
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:03:42AM -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Chris Baines wrote:
> > Hello Mentors,
> >
> > I am looking at creating packages that involve programs that create
> > caches while running of images or other files. But I am a bit stumped at
> > wh
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 03:47:48PM -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Chris Baines wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 05:52 +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:03:42AM -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
> >> > On Tue,
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:01:46PM +0300, Zvi Dubitzky wrote:
> I am having conffiles file placed in debian directory and holding the
> configuration files ( full path) that should avoid being overwritten when
> installing a package ,
> Yet when I install the built package the package config
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 03:45:28PM +, alma...@comcast.net wrote:
> I am working with this tutorial to understand better the debian packaging
> process:
>
> http://www.debian-administration.org/article/337/Rolling_your_own_Debian_packages_part_2
>
>
> it all goes well until I try to "build
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 06:47:09AM +0300, Zvi Dubitzky wrote:
> Is there a way to put something in DEBIAN directory that will trigger the
> poped up question when overwriting config files
> (during package installation) before running dpkg-deb --build to generate
> the packge OR is there a deb
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 07:24:02PM +0200, N.L.M. de Jonge wrote:
> I tried e-mailing the "vice" deb package maintainer, but his maildir is
> over quota; what to do now... is there an overseer that I can e-mail
> about the maintainer not checking his e-mail?
It appears that you were attempting to r
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 01:51:22PM -0300, Thiago Franco de Moraes wrote:
> I'm trying again to package a library called SIGAR [1] because it's a
> requirement in a free software help to develop called InVesalius [2].
> During this trying some doubts occurred:
>
> * The Source is in git [3]. I'm n
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 03:18:20PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 01:31:39PM +0100, Tony Houghton wrote:
> > Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > > > sigar-1.7.0~git833ca18ecfc1f3f45eaf8544d8cdafef6603772d
> > > Yeah, that isn't going to work
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 09:59:43AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 03:22:31PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 03:18:20PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > > Why won't you just use `git --describe`?
> > > It produces ni
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:44:47PM +0100, Tony Houghton wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:00:27 +1000
> Matthew Palmer wrote:
>
> > > > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 03:18:20PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > > > > Why won't you just use `git --describe`?
>
On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 10:59:51PM -0500, Luis Uribe wrote:
> I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.2-2
> of my package "pgfouine".
Are you looking for a single sponsorship, or an on-going sponsoring
relationship? Are you currently, or are you planning on becoming, a DM or
DD?
- Matt
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 11:42:59AM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Oct 2010 11:35:04 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Michael Gilbert writes:
> >
> > > As someone who has attempted to go through the mentoring process, I
> > > agree very much that it is rather depressing.
> >
> > How much
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 11:35:55AM -0500, Luis Uribe wrote:
> [Forgot to send the reply to the list, just read about "Four Days" thread]
>
> On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 03:38:42PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 10:59:51PM -0500, Luis Uribe wrote:
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 09:17:24PM +0200, Joachim Wiedorn wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Michal ??iha?? wrote on 2010-10-04 18:14:
>
> > Lack of interested mentors is indeed an issue. Nobody has unlimited
> > time and chooses what attracts him. For me it usually means things I
> > know and test or which I
On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 10:59:51PM -0500, Luis Uribe wrote:
> I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.2-2
> of my package "pgfouine".
The package is really, *really* not Lintian clean, and claiming otherwise in
the RFS was bad form. All those CVS dirs in the resulting package
definitely
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 10:32:24PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 17:37:19 -0700 PJ Weisberg wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> > > On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 06:30:22 +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > >> Yeah, that&#
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 12:14:36AM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 13:52:09 +1100 Matthew Palmer wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 10:32:24PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> > > On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 17:37:19 -0700 PJ Weisberg wrote:
> > >
>
On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 11:11:49AM -0400, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Matthew Palmer wrote:
>
>> To clarify: the intended point of this proposal is to solve the
>> perceived problem that DDs don't sponsor packages because they're
>> co
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 09:45:55PM +0200, Sergio Suarez wrote:
> Hi Im new in debian develop and want adopt the orphan package zed, I =
> need a sponsor
Do you have anything to sponsor? It's all well and good to say "I want a
sponsor", but unless you've got something to show us, it's unlikely any
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 02:48:28PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
> > Huh? This package is *not* part of Debian.
>
> A little bit more information would be appreciated.
Well, you just failed Debian Philosophy 101.
Hint: non-free is not part of Debian, it merely uses Debian's
infrastructure.
- Matt
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 03:54:32PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 02:48:28PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
> > > > Huh? This package is *not* part of Debian.
> > >
> > > A little bit more information would be appreciated.
> >
> > Well, you just failed Debian Philosophy 101.
> >
> >
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 06:58:06AM +1000, An?bal Monsalve Salazar wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 21:45 +0200, Sergio Suarez wrote:
> > Hi Im new in debian develop and want adopt the orphan package zed, I =
> > need a sponsor
> >
> > Package name: zed
> > Package description: Powerful, multipurpo
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 02:15:53AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> First a bug says:
> * #143670: fda: Upstream location is bogus
>
> I've checked the location, it's not there anymore.
> Look for a new web , and I only found references to the Debian archive.
> I have contacted the upstream a
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 12:11:46PM +0200, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
> I packaged ROX-Filer (http://rox.sf.net/). Some time ago version 2.0.0 was
> released as stable so I changed few things in packaging. Now I have 3
> packages:
>
> 1. rox - "stable release only" version of ROX-Filer
> 2. rox-sn
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 02:15:00PM -0700, Keith Dunwoody wrote:
> I want to adopt a group of related packages (the
> abuse-related packages, in this case), but the
> description of the "abuse" package says it has been
> obseleted by abuse-sdl, and I would have to agree. I
> think this package shou
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 11:22:20PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> You won't be approved with no package in the archive.
bullshit
Unless things have changed in the 18 months or so I've been a DD. I had no
packages sponsored or otherwise in the archive for about the first month or
so after I got m
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 11:04:34PM +0200, Marcin Orlowski wrote:
> all doing your Debian work in own spare time, but doesn't this ring a bell
> that there is something in the whole procedure that simply does not work?
OK, please suggest a better way. Criteria to be fulfilled are:
1) Nobody shoul
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 05:56:07PM -0600, Larry Gilbert wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > In the case of software for Palmpilots and whatnot, unless a DD has
> > compatible hardware, they can't test it. (Incidentally, if someone really
> > want
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 12:54:08PM -0700, Eric Winger wrote:
> I hope that I've selected the correct debian mailing list for this
> question. But if not, I would appreciate if you could redirect properly.
Nope, this is the right spot.
> My first steps are proving to be quite haltingly slow. I'm
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 11:24:13AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 07:38:11PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > The things which absolutely have to be in a package in order to be
> > built are debian/rules and debian/control. debian/rules gives the
> >
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 04:16:31PM -0700, Eric Winger wrote:
> thx to all for the responses. I'm slowly making progress here. Could
> someone distinguish the configuration section and how that applies to
> debian packages for me (the eternal newbie).
There are several "configuration sections" yo
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 05:20:46PM +0300, Fabian Fagerholm wrote:
> This is my third or fourth attempt to find a sponsor for the
> python-albatross package. So far, I've been contacted by one developer
> who was interested in sponsoring the package; he never replied to my
> reply, however, so I ass
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:15:37AM +0200, Stefan Voelkel wrote:
> I'd like to participate in the debian project. There is a small puzzle
> game called wakkabox:
>
> http://frap.net/kenn/wakkabox/
>
> I'd like to package.
You don't need our approval to package something.
Once you've got it
OK, having watched the same questions come past regularly, I've finally
bitten the bullet and put a bit of a FAQ together for this list. I'd
appreciate comments and more questions and answers.
http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html
- Matt
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 10:52:39AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 05:54:49PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > OK, having watched the same questions come past regularly, I've finally
> > bitten the bullet and put a bit of a FAQ together for this list.
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 10:49:09AM -0400, Joe Nahmias wrote:
> 0) In the "General questions" section, you should mention the
> #debian-mentors IRC channel. I know there aren't alot of ppl there,
> but at times I have found it to be quite handy.
Which IRC network is that on?
> 5) In the "Where el
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 11:45:09AM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote:
> It is RFS what I want to tell about:
>
> Ask at places where the audience for you package hang around.
>
> I would like to see these hints in the mentors FAQ.
Last question in the FAQ at present:
"Where else can I get a sponsor
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 07:24:15PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 05:54:49PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > OK, having watched the same questions come past regularly, I've finally
> > bitten the bullet and put a bit of a FAQ together for this list.
On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 04:44:10PM -0500, Michael Schultheiss wrote:
> Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > To facilitate that, I've put an explicit licence notice at the bottom of the
> > page if someone wants to incorporate it into another Debian document
> > (alternate licencing
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 01:03:46PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote:
> Re: Re: FAQ for debian-mentors [Joe Nahmias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thu, Sep 04,
> 2003 at 10:49:09AM -0400, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]
> > 4) Same section, there should be a step 3.5 which says something
> > like: "Upload the source package
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 03:45:04AM -0500, Cam Desautels wrote:
> but I haven't yet developed anything worth contributing. Anyway, I'm
> not yet familiar with the exact duties of a maintainer but I understand
> generally and I am willing to contribute the time to learn and to
> conduct a package ma
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 05:48:28PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote:
> I then went to the Mentors FAQ, searched for "source" and found nothing.
> Upon close inspection, your statement is clear, but I'd change it:
>
> > # Provide a publically accessible place where all of the files
> > (.orig.tar.gz, di
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 12:27:53AM +0200, Andrei Mitrofanow wrote:
> nobody interestet to fvwm-themes?
It would appear not, if you haven't gotten any private responses. If that's
the case, try asking in other places where developers hang out who might be
interested in your package - FVWM-related
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 01:20:26PM -0500, John Lightsey wrote:
> A while back I ITA'd the rocks-n-diamonds package. After talking with the
> upstream maintainer I realized this package can't be included in Debian
> without heavy modification of the upstream version. I'm not going to say
> exac
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 09:10:51PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote:
> packaged the entire library and the application, now I need a sponsor
http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html
Specifically, WHAT EXACTLY DOES YOUR PACKAGE DO?
Think of this e-mail as your TV ad. It's all you reall
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 04:18:45PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote:
> Ok, sorry about the misinformation... here goes a description:
And now my interest is well and truly peaked - and probably a few other
people's, as well. My time for sponsorship is limited at the moment, though
(and apologies to my r
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 09:26:07PM +0200, Magos?nyi ?rp?d wrote:
> The current problem is that I do not have a pgp key in the database,
> so I cannot reactivate my account. I guess I have to send my key
> -which is signed by other debian developer(s)- to someone. But whom?
I think it's [EMAIL PRO
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 02:04:26AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> Windows users typically use zMud and Mushclient, and among Unix people the
> most popular one is ancient tinyfugue -- dead upstream for 4 years
I'm sorry, but you've just tripped my FUD-o-meter. TF is not dead upstream,
there was
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 04:02:12PM -0400, Alexander Winston wrote:
> Hi, I came across http://qa.debian.org/orphaned.html> yesterday and
> am interested in helping in any way that I can, but I am not a Debian
> developer and could not find any directions to follow in the
> documentation related to
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 12:40:12AM +0100, Martin List-Petersen wrote:
> What would be an appropriate timeframe from the point, where you file an
> ITP until the first package arrives in sid ? What is custom ?
As soon as practicable. It's hard to put any hard limits on it - you should
file the ITP
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