Re: RFS: ldap-account-manager

On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 06:51:31PM +0100, Roland Gruber wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for LDAP Account Manager. > The ITP bug number is 208406. > Homepage: http://www.sf.net/projects/lam > Source package (0.4-2): > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-all/ldap-account-

Re: config.sub and config.guess | .diff.gz bloat

On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 02:42:59PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > Should I email this to the debhelper script maintainer? > > Only if you want me to bounce it to the maintainer of the package that > actually put those lines there. Be careful - he may think that's a valid way

Re: config.sub and config.guess | .diff.gz bloat

On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 11:37:25AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 09:41, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 02:42:59PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > > > Should I email this to the debhelper script mainta

Re: Packaging phpLDAPadmin. Newbie's questions.

On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 02:07:46PM -0600, David Segonds wrote: > 1. Even though, Architecture was set to 'all' in debian/packages, the > 'changes' file I obtain is tagged with 'i386'. Is this normal? The same > thing happen when I repackage phpmyadmin. Yes. The changes file will always be tagged

Re: Packaging phpLDAPadmin. Newbie's questions.

On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 04:48:51PM -0600, David Segonds wrote: > I am sure they will. The question is how I can achieve that simply. I > need to research how other packages are dealing with this. Especially > when packages are upgraded. Typically you ask the appropriate questions, and then in the

Re: Packaging phpLDAPadmin. Newbie's questions.

On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 05:06:59PM -0600, David Segonds wrote: > As a newbie, ignoring lintian advices does not seem the right thing to > do for some reasons. :) Indeed. However, they're programatic warnings, which can't handle every eventuality. Think of them like "unless you can think of a rea

Re: Packaging phpLDAPadmin. Newbie's questions.

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 09:51:22PM -0600, David Segonds wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 10:46:35AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > > What's to heavily modify? I presume the config file is a fairly reasonable > > format, in which case a search 'n replace

Re: Packaging phpLDAPadmin. Newbie's questions.

On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 01:23:24PM -0600, David Segonds wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 05:37:02PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > If you mean producing a template file with tags which you macro-replace at > > configuration time, that's also done, and works well eno

Re: Packaging phpLDAPadmin. Newbie's questions.

On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 09:32:48AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:46:35 +1100, Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > the user hasn't used debconf to make the change. To cover that > > circumstance, I've started to make a file contain

Re: sponsors?

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:02:47AM +0100, Marco Massari Calderone wrote: > i requested a sponsor in the correct pagenow, to know if someone What correct page? There are plenty of places where potential sponsors hang out, but I'm not aware of any truly official place to request sponsorship - t

Re: sponsors?

On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:23:32AM +1100, An?bal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 07:11:03PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > >On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:02:47AM +0100, Marco Massari Calderone wrote: > >>i requested a sponsor in the correct pagenow,

Re: sponsors?

On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 11:20:21AM +0100, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:57:01AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > Quick hand check. Of all people willing to sponsor others, who actually > > checks that page regularly to find people to sponsor? > >

Re: sponsors?

On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 12:09:12PM +0100, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote: > I thought that a page like the ITP, RFP overviews would be enough > http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/being_packaged > http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/requested OK, that works for me. I like that a lot. > But then again a ta

Re: sponsors?

On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 01:59:54PM +0100, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:24:34PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > No it wouldn't. Once a regular sponsor was found, the bug would be closed > > and the sponsor and sponsee would go their merry ways. &

Re: Sponsor for new applicant - packaging Balance

On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 07:45:14PM +, James Jeffrey wrote: > I'm looking for a sponsor to look over a package I have created of the http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html. What is it, where can we get it, etc etc. - Matt

Re: RFS: fai-bootcd

On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:22:10PM +0800, Niall Young wrote: > > The emphasis here is on using FAI's class mechanism as a complete > *description* of any host. I'm more interested in using class definitions > to create a host, than in extracting a class or filesystem from an > existing host. The

Re: Need a sponsor for my konversation package

Nathaniel W. Turner said: > Wow, Konversation sure is a great IRC client! It would sure be great > if it were in Debian What? You think so too? You're a DD? > Splendid! Consider sponsoring my package: [...] > P.S. I was going to put "Single IRC client package seeks caring DD for > uplo

Re: How to deal with sql-database structures on upgrade

Marc Haber said: > On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 23:05:12 +0100, Thorsten Sauter > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Cacti use a mysql database to store the configuration values (including >>users/password, graphic options, layouts, ...). The new upstream >>version (0.8.x) use a completly new designed database st

Re: RFS: asc - turn-based strategy game

On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 08:32:24AM +0200, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: > I'm looking for one-time-sponsor for my package asc. > Usually Matthew Palmer uploads asc package for me, but he doesn't respond > for my mails so I'm looking for someone else to upload it this tim

Re: Python executables inside libraries

On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 09:25:41AM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: > I have a silly little problem with getting Python's distutils to play > nice with Debian packaging. The library I am packaging (PyGGy) has a few > python files that double as executable scripts (in short they have '#! > /usr/bin/pyt

Re: Python executables inside libraries

On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 11:41:09PM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: > On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 10:53:32PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > >On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 09:25:41AM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: > >> I have a silly little problem with getting Python's distutils to pla

Re: Need Sponsor

[Apologies for the duplicate if you're subscribed] On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 05:22:26PM +0530, Amit Dixit wrote: >Myself Amit Dixit Working as System Engg. at Hughes Softwares Ltd. > >I want to join the Debian as Maintainer. > >I need Sponsor for joing the Debian Developer's. > >

Re: `tcpshow` package

[Apologies for the Cc if you're subscribed; a lot of people treat this list as a write-only medium] On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 06:54:47AM -0700, C.J. Steele wrote: > I recently noticed there was no debian package for `tcpshow` (nor is > tcpshow even being maintained currently) so I've taken the liber

Re: RFS: proxycheck

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 12:02:41PM +0300, Al Nikolov wrote: > Hi, all > > Looking for sponsor for a new package: > > I'll help you out with this one, but it'll have to wait until after the 18th when I get back from Li

Re: Debian and Oracle

On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 11:21:50PM +0100, Patrick Geschinski wrote: > So my question is why doesnt't Oracle certify his product for Debian ? > What's the obstacle ? Oracle want the OS vendor to supply people, at the OS vendors' cost, to staff the Oracle support center. There are also lots of othe

Re: Need an advocate

On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 07:28:49PM -0600, Matthew A. Nicholson wrote: > I am in search of someone who will agree to advocate me to become a debian http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html Specifically "There is no point asking for an advocate on debian-mentors" and the question

Re: Need an advocate

On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 09:24:33PM -0600, Matthew A. Nicholson wrote: > >If bootsplash is what I think it > >is, however, you may have a potential sponsor and advocate in yours > >truly. > > What do you think it is? (bootsplash.org) Considering that you gave no useful information in your origina

Re: RFS: hatari

On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 03:08:14AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > components to be specified, in this example "2.3.0". All four > components may still be used if someone wishes to do so. Or if your package only complies with a spelling mistake. - Matt

Re: RFS: apt-best

On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 02:32:54PM +0100, chatiman wrote: > apt-best is a utility which helps the user in finding the most populars > debian packages. > For that it uses the scores found on freshmeat (more sources to come) for > exemple and link them to the debian package archive. > It is licensed

Re: Sponsor not responding

On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 02:34:43PM +0100, Roland Gruber wrote: > I am maintainer of the ldap-account-manager package. It came into Debian > in November 2003 and is sponsored by Matthew Palmer. > The problem is that since the end of December Matthew did not reply to > my mails. There

Re: Is this sufficient for an application?

On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 08:37:22PM +0100, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > IANADD myself. But from reading mailing lists, I think the sentiment of many > is that getting an account on the Debian machines should be a question of > 'is it necessary for your work'? This is something I'v

Re: Is this sufficient for an application?

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 09:11:25PM +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: > However, I hope this helps - some suggestions and bug reports: Bug reports don't make a good application. They are things which can be quite reasonably carried out by users. Now, marketing on behalf of Debian, where being a

Sponsorship guidelines

This is a (very small) part of the reason I haven't been doing sponsorships with the appropriate amount of vigour lately - I've been working on a more automated and standardised approach to my sponsor work. I've got a bit of a pseudo upload queue happening, and I've got some behind-the-scenes scri

Sponsorship guidelines - addendum

Of course, it would be useful if I gave the URL to the guidelines: http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/sponsorship.html (sigh) it's been a long day. - Matt

Re: Sponsorship guidelines

On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 11:21:49AM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > You must be intending to join the Debian project at some point in the > > future. I see sponsorship as a step to becoming a DD, not an end in > > and of itself. You may not have a specific timeline for applying, but > > if you t

Re: Sponsorship guidelines

On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 12:35:19PM +, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Matthew Palmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Two quick things on the checklist: > - Maybe do add a quirk that the prospective packager should (or even say must) > have read the canonical docs (policy, d.'s r., n

Re: Help with my program

On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 11:07:25PM +0100, Nico Golde wrote: > How can this program placed in the debian distribution? > I read the documentation (maint-guide, developer-guide), but i am not > really shure how it works. > Can someone (a Maintainer) help me? FAQ-man to the rescue! http://people.deb

Re: Looking for sponsor : xmail

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 12:21:31AM +, Radu Spineanu wrote: > Did anyone have any problems with this package ? Settle down. It does take some time to go over a package, especially one as large as an MTA. I'm sure you'll receive comments in due course. - Matt

Re: cryptoloop-source, anyone taking over?

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 09:19:16AM +0100, Juergen Strobel wrote: > The PTS shows cryptoloop-source to be orphaned, with a note that > someone is intending to take over. The note is quite old now and > references a bugreport which gives no further clues. Have you attempted to contact Vincent Bernat

Re: RFS[4]: popfile -- Email classification tool

On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 02:47:00AM -0300, Lucas Wall wrote: > Hi! I'm still looking for a sponsor for the popfile[1] package I made. Interesting. Have a look at http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/sponsorship.html, and if you like, contact me privately and we can discuss sponsorship. - Matt

Re: Initial Questions

On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 11:16:28PM +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote: > I want to adopt an orphaned package, but haven't worked with packages > yet. Before I go in a completely wrong direction: Is the Debian New > Maintainers' Guide (package maint-guide) a good way to start? Yep. Move from there onto t

Multi-person sponsorship

Prompted by a comment made by one of my potential sponsees, I've been reworking my semi-automated sponsorship queue from a "helps me" thing to a "could help lots of people" thing. The comment was along the lines of "wouldn't it be cool if we could remove the SPOF of sponsors, and have a group of p

Re: applying patches

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 03:04:39PM +0200, Radu Spineanu wrote: > I have to apply a small patch to my xmail package, > however > i ran into different opinions while looking on how > to do this. > Some suggested dbs, others dpatch, others just > applying the > patch dirrectly to the source. >

Re: Multi-person sponsorship

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 07:11:08PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > Prompted by a comment made by one of my potential sponsees, I've been > > reworking my semi-automated sponsorship queue from a "helps me" thing to a > > "could help lots of people" thing. The comment was along the lines of >

Re: Multi-person sponsorship

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 08:45:00AM -0700, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > The final question I'd like feedback on is this: how many sponsors > > would consider pointing their sponsees to this service, rather than > > whatever methods you're using now? The benefits are that other > > sponsors might occ

Re: Multi-person sponsorship

On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 10:22:22AM +0100, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > On Tuesday 17 February 2004 19.52, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > Having a new-maintainer keyring, to which keys could get added by any > > > AM after it has been verified, and che

Re: Multi-person sponsorship

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 11:21:11PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Matthew Palmer wrote: > > So, comments, brickbats, acclaim, whatever. Throw it at me. > > Well I don't think that this system as described would be of any use to > me. I want to maintain a close relationship w

Re: Multi-person sponsorship

On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 10:08:34AM +, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Matthew Palmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >2) Download tracking, both by count and "yes I'll upload this" via web > >browser. I'm still up in the air about whether there will be apt-getable

Re: Multi-person sponsorship

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 08:23:05AM +, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > > It'll probably be more timely and less bandwidth intensive to track > > -changes... > Well, I mostly have Packages/Sources for unstable available. In my book, I > prefer > parsing those over automatically processing email. Also,

Re: Multi-person sponsorship

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:39:31AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 06:42:42PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 10:08:34AM +, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > > > Maybe you could also reuse / build upon rene from the dak suite. (May

Re: Multi-person sponsorship

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 01:05:08PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Matthew Palmer wrote: > > > package I sponsor. I want to know if they are not able to send me a > > > package that will build properly. I want to work with them and be > > > > Since you only get packages

Re: RFS: BinClock - binary clock

On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 01:29:50AM +0100, Nico Golde wrote: > I think it should be in because its a nice toy and you can practise your > math skills and your brain. Not to mention that watching the binary digits tick over can be quite hypnotic. I have no particular need for a software binary cl

Re: RFS: BinClock - binary clock

On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 01:35:23PM +0100, Eike zyro Sauer wrote: > Matthew Palmer schrieb: > > I have no particular need for a software binary clock, though, as I've got > > a breadboard of LEDs doing the job for me. > > Are you going to package it? ;o) I could put in a jiffy box. - Matt

Re: ITA with already removed packages

On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 12:49:54PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > > libming currently has two grave bugs, one of which indicates that it > > needs source changes to make it work with the current PHP API. > > Unless you can address all of these (upstream presumed dead and the > grave bugs), you sh

Re: Need a sponsor to upload #234303

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 02:38:53PM -0300, Everton da Silva Marques wrote: > This is my first Debian package. > > The bug report for the package is here: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=234303 > > The tentative package files are here: > http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/ruli/

Re: Need a sponsor to upload #234303

On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 05:25:05PM -0300, Everton da Silva Marques wrote: > The usual description for the RULI package is: > > RULI stands for Resolver User Layer Interface. It's > a library built on top of an asynchronous DNS stub > resolver. RULI provides an easy-to-use interface > for q

Re: RFS: pdfmerge

On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 09:39:57PM +0100, Philipp Gortan wrote: > Should the perl script be in the "i386" architecture, or the "any"? Have a quick look at some other perl scripts, and see what they've got. And read the Debian Perl Policy, I would imagine it'd have some words of wisdom. - Matt

Re: Need a sponsor to upload #234303

On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 07:44:43PM -0300, Everton da Silva Marques wrote: > I do intend to push the library, but I actually don't > have a map of Debian applications which use SRV > records. I'm planning to contact those applications > (i.e. their maintainers) as soon as I find them, > but I would

Re: RFS: pdfmerge

On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 12:33:39AM +0100, Philipp Gortan wrote: > >The proper place for the script (after doing things right) is > >ghostscript upstream. Take a look at pdf2ps and try to get your program > >next to that. There's no reason to produce packages for a one liner. > > ok, so we know the

Re: RFS: pdfmerge

On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 01:23:39PM +0800, Didier Casse wrote: > On 02/03/04, at 15:31 +0100, Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There's no reason to produce packages for a one liner. > > As for your "another way of doing things": Just because there's not one > > exclusive right way doe

Re: pdfmerge

Ben Young wrote: > Yeah... but it was said in a quite arrogant manner. Matthew Palmer said > things neatly in his first email (which I think everybody understood > correctly!), then I didn't quite like the tone of his second one. Just Yeah, the second one was a little over the

Re: looking for a sponsorship in schooling

On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:27:39PM +, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > What strikes me as odd is why people think they will get any kind of > scholarship (which seems to be the objective) with such a mail. It's like spam. They send an e-mail to anything that vaguely resembles an e-mail address within

Re: can a non-buildable part remain in source

On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 05:32:03PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > I have a package that has an optional part that cannot presently be > built in main but ships a (java bytecode) binary in the tarball. > Policy prevents me from adding this to the binary debs, but my > understanding of policy is tha

Re: PHP/MySQL package

On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 01:55:21PM -0600, David Moreno Garza wrote: > In the documentation I been searching, I just can find some resources > with packaging which need to be compilated or so. In the package I would > need to set up a new MySQL database (I vaguely know I could use > wwwconfig, but n

Re: can a non-buildable part remain in source

On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 07:38:45AM +, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Matthew Palmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 05:32:03PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > >> I have a package that has an optional part that cannot presently be > >> built in main

Re: Where shoud I put my public key?

On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 07:37:24PM -0800, Number Six wrote: > > gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --send-key [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Okay, I did that. Is there a canonical-Debian way to point the world > there to verify it? So they'll actually trust the .dsc? > > Or do I just do that in an out-of-ba

Re: should main package binary manpage be symlinked to package name?

On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 08:29:08PM -0800, Number Six wrote: > If the main binary in a package is named "x" and the package is named > "x-package", should I ship > > (a) a manpage x.1 ? > (b) a manpage x-package.[1-9]? > > I'm pretty sure of (a). I think the answer to (b) is no, but I'm not > s

Re: reactivate myself

On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 12:22:01AM -0500, Brian Russo wrote: > Looking to reactivate myself, gradually. > Can someone point me to the current procedure, Thanks. Since you're still in db.debian.org, and not listed as an emeritus or disabled maintainer, I think all you'd have to do is get a new key

Re: reactivate myself

On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 02:05:08AM -0500, Brian Russo wrote: > At Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 05:20:14PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > Since you're still in db.debian.org, and not listed as an emeritus or > > disabled maintainer, I think all you'd have to do is get a new k

Re: reactivate myself

On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 05:06:04AM -0500, Brian Russo wrote: > Seriously though, Any AM's around? It's not an AM you've got to convince, though. Front Desk and the keyring maintainer would be the people you'd have to convince that whatever authentication method you were going to use was appropr

Re: Need a sponsor to upload #234303

On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 12:50:24AM -0300, Everton da Silva Marques wrote: > I'm unsure on how to apply licensing terms to RULI > (GNU GPL) > plus this recently created PHP4-binding. Do we have > compatibility issues with the PHP license? Since your library is under the GPL, I presume that the PHP4

Re: Versioning question

On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 12:55:33PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > The version for this release is 0.70-rc, and upstream says the next > release will be 0.70. The obvious problem is: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg --compare-versions 0.70-rc-1 lt 0.70-1 && echo yes > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > That won't

Re: Need a sponsor to upload Bug#237028

On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:09:53PM +0200, Martin-?ric Racine wrote: > Subject says it all. Feel free to ask any clarification question. The effort involved in going to the bug report and have a good read isn't likely to be expended if I don't have any interest in the package. You might get a bet

Re: RFS: Bug#237028 cups-pdf - PDF printer backend for CUPS

On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:35:32PM +0200, Martin-?ric Racine wrote: > On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:09:53PM +0200, Martin-?ric Racine wrote: > > > Subject says it all. Feel free to ask any clarification question. > >

Re: Q: why dpkg-buildpackage unsets +x for file that is in /usr/share/doc/$name/* ?

On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 03:22:12PM +0200, Art??ras ??lajus wrote: > I am building package and file "ec" in /usr/share/doc/echat/ isn't > executable. > It's an script and makefile installs it with mode 755. What could be wrong? Probably the fact that documentation is very rarely supposed to be exe

Re: expired key

On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 11:53:36AM +0100, KELEMEN Peter wrote: > [ Please Cc: answers as I'm not subscribed. Thanks. ] > > I was about to vote when I realized that my GPG key has expired > exactly one year ago. In private communications this didn't pose > a problem, but chaning Debian password f

Re: About Package Creation... (sarge vs sid)

On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 06:12:52PM -0700, Benjamin Cutler wrote: > Just how important is it that a package be created on a box running sid? > I'm currently running sarge, and would like to package a program myself > instead of waiting for somebody else, but I'm not sure I want to start > running

Re: RFS : diogenes - web content management system

On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 09:43:50AM +0200, Jeremy Lain? wrote: > I am still looking for a sponsor for Diogenes! I am sure there is > someone with some PHP/MySQL/debconf experience out there to look at the > packages? Experience, probably. Time is the pressing issue. Out of interest, what does dio

Re: RFS : diogenes - web content management system

On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 11:14:46AM +0200, Jeremy Lain? wrote: > I have looked through the MySource documentation and I won't claim that > Diogenes has all the features of MySource, that just wouldn't be true > (for instance there is no "plugin" mecanism in Diogenes currently). It > does however, ha

Issues found with diogenes

I found the following problems on an initial investigation of the package: * No WNPP bug filed. * Communicates with the user via the console. Consider using debconf notes instead if it's vitally important. * "If you chose one of the first three options" on a question that only has two options i

Re: Issues found with diogenes

On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 07:57:35PM +0200, Jeremy Lain? wrote: > Anyhow, diogenes 0.9.9.3-4 fixes this, can you possibly confirm that > the installation works as expected? Upload it to my queue (as described at http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/sponsorship.html) and I'll check it out. > This still

Re: Intrest in becoming a Debian developer

On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 01:38:04PM +0800, Nima Talebi wrote: > My name is Nima Talebi and I'd like to become a Debian developer. This would be a first port of call, I'd say: http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html That should answer your first round of questions. - Matt

Re: Grab bag of questions

On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 03:04:50AM -0600, Benjamin Cutler wrote: > "acc" has a somewhat unclear license regarding distribution and > modification. It includes both a EULA that sounds like a commercially > purchased binary, and another license file that basically says "modify > it, but don't sell

Re: Grab bag of questions

On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 04:19:19AM -0600, Benjamin Cutler wrote: > Matthew Palmer wrote: > >If they're the typical .h files, /usr/include/acc would be as good a place > >as any. > > > They're not, they're .acs files. I think I'm going to rename the p

Re: Grab bag of questions

On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 05:06:06AM -0600, Benjamin Cutler wrote: > Matthew Palmer wrote: > > >What are .acs files when they're at home? General data goes in either > >/usr/share or /usr/lib, depending on the architecture-specificity. > > > They're uncompiled

Re: Grab bag of questions

On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 06:14:32PM -0600, Benjamin Cutler wrote: > Pending a response from Raven, would it be at all acceptable to place > the acc package somewhere offsite and have the zeth package tell you > where to get it, or is even that running afoul of policy? You could put zeth in contri

Re: Question on License

On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 12:56:22AM +0200, Jos? Luis Tall?n wrote: > The License reproduced hereunder comes from "AlterMIME". It seems quite > similar to a modified BSD license, but there are some points which make me > suspect it could be non-free... can somebody please check it and offer some >

Re: Becoming the upstream maintainer of a package

On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 11:32:19PM -0400, Chris Anderson wrote: > I'm the current maintainer for xtrlock and it was abandoned upstream > years ago (1996?). I have an updated package where I rewrote the build > system since the old one used Imake and some flags that no longer were > relevant. I fixe

Re: OT: German police needs your help

On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 11:07:47AM +0200, Stephan Brendel wrote: > i know, this doesn't belong to Debian Mentors, but i believe the > campaign from the german police needs to be supported. "I think the importance of my message trumps topicality". I've heard that sort of justification before... Y

Re: Virtual packages visavi Real packages

On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 11:05:06AM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > The problem is that there's a REAL 'slapd' package on the Debian > GNU/Linux APT archive(s) which seem to override _my_ virtual > package(s). > > I would like to have my packages to override the 'original' one > (they have A LOT

Re: Sponsor for Ontographics?

On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 11:50:33AM +0200, Roman Kennke wrote: > > > I also could use /usr/bin/java instead, which is managed by > > > alternatives, but again, my app doesn't work with kaffe/gjc/another JRE, > > > so I don't see the point. > > > > I do. The point is that not everyone puts their jr

Re: PLML Sgml System Package [ looking for upload ]

On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 11:07:34PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi everybody, I'm looking for a sponsor to upload soon this > package of mine : plml > >http://www.lulli.net/WEB/debian/plml_1.0-1.dsc >http://www.lulli.net/WEB/debian/plml_1.0-1.tar.gz >http://

Re: Sponsor for Ontographics?

On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 10:06:26PM +0200, Roman Kennke wrote: > > Does your package depend on the Blackdown JRE .deb? If so, then it would be > > reasonable to rely on that package's file locations. > > That was exactly my thought. My package depends on j2re1.4 and uses the > packages file locati

Re: Sponsor for Ontographics?

On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 12:47:06AM +0200, Roman Kennke wrote: > > > 'official' Java package from Blackdown. I have used the Blackdown > > > package from > > > deb http://jopa.studentenweb.org/debian/ ./ > > > > > > which works great. It's very likely, that other j2re1.4 packages (if > > > there ar

Re: How many times run debian/config?

On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 01:09:39PM +0200, Fabio Tranchitella wrote: > If I install my package with dpkg, it run once, after unpacking... > But if I install the package with apt-get, it run twice: before the > unpacking (Preconfiguring package) and after the unpacking (Configuring > package), so I

Re: How many times run debian/config?

On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 02:11:06PM +0200, Fabio Tranchitella wrote: > It is a web-based tool written in PHP. The package provide an example > configuration which have to be modified by the system administrator > after installing it. In debian/config (but I will move the code in > debian/postint) I

Re: Package review and comment wanted

On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 05:17:45PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote: > In debian/dirs, you only list the directories that you want to create > with dh_installdirs - e.g. directories that the upstream Makefiles > assumes to be present upon installation, or directories to which you > want to move some files

Re: Package review and comment wanted

On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 09:01:34AM +0900, Bengt Thuree wrote: > >The version of the debian package you produce is taken from the package's > >topmost changelog entry. For timestamps, you can use touch(1), but I'm > >having trouble coming up with why you'd want to stamp a file to a > >particular >

Re: RFS: metapixel

On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 06:11:26PM +0200, Chris Vanden Berghe wrote: > Is there nobody with a bit of free time willing to sponsor the package > described below? I expect it to be reasonably painless... The problem normally is both a lack of free time (I've got nine packages on my list of "I'll lo

Re: RFS: yaffa -- secure ftp client

On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 10:30:22AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Just a thought, what do you think about patching the README to remove a > certain badword from it? Feel like modifying the kernel sources to do the same thing? I'd suggest, at most, maybe replacing a few strategic letters with asteri

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