problems with mentors.debian.net mailserver

2007-06-24 Thread Michael Gilbert
hello, i tried to sign up for a mentors account today (http://mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/maintainer-signup), but got the following error, which appears to be a mailserver failure: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/www/mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/maintainer-signup", line 99, in ? a

RFS: steam-powered

2007-06-26 Thread Michael Gilbert
Dear mentors and game maintainers, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "steam-powered". * Package name: steam-powered Version : 0.8.0 Upstream Author : Michael Gilbert * URL : no web site * License : gpl for steam-powered script, non-free for

Re: RFS: steam-powered

2007-06-27 Thread Michael Gilbert
On 6/27/07, Ben Finney wrote: What license do you have for the package? "non-free" isn't a license, it's a descriptor. the entire contents of the steam-powered package are fully licensed under the GPL (there is no non-free content in the package). however, the steam-powered script does downloa

Re: RFS: steam-powered

2007-06-29 Thread Michael Gilbert
On 6/29/07, Rob Andrews wrote: The Architecture entry in the control file is "any" - wine is only available[0] on i386 and amd64, so build will fail on other architectures. You should match wine's Architecture line. i've now modified the control file so that the package will be built only for t

Re: RFS: steam-powered

2007-06-29 Thread Michael Gilbert
On 6/29/07, Jon Dowland wrote: Just a few suggestions: 1) I'd add 'set -u' and 'set -e' to the top of steam-powered: I do this for every shell script I write. This might require some of the script to be re-written to cope with unbound variables, etc. i've added "set -u" to the script.

RFS: steam-powered

2007-08-27 Thread Michael Gilbert
Dear mentors and games team, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "steam-powered". * Package name: steam-powered Version : 5 Upstream Author : Michael Gilbert * URL : no website * License : gpl Section : contrib/games It builds th

Re: RFS: steam-powered

2007-08-28 Thread Michael Gilbert
> So you think having it debian native is a good thing? sure, why not? the guts of the program are so simple that i don't think it would really be that useful to set up a website or svn. in a sense www.steampowered.com perhaps should be considered the upsteam? this package is just a wrapper to m

Re: RFS: steam-powered

2007-08-29 Thread Michael Gilbert
Bjoern Boschman wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > I build your packages and installed steam-powered and counter-strike > steam-powered downloaded > http://www.steampowered.com/download/SteamInstall.msi but it seems that > it was not installed > > when I run /usr/g

Re: RFS: steam-powered

2007-08-29 Thread Michael Gilbert
> Are there "free" games available on the steam plattform? sadly there are no steam games that are free of cost. however, it is free of cost to run the steam application itself, to use it to browse their pages, to use their communicator to chat with friends, and to play no-cost game demos. > I a

Re: RFS: steam-powered

2007-09-02 Thread Michael Gilbert
> The users *are* free to choose the software that's out there. The > Debian project is also free to refuse to choose what software it > distributes. the key word is "distribution." the question is whether the part of the software to be added to the archive is distributable. for steam-powered, a

Bug#440607: ITP: steam-powered -- Valve's steam game content delivery system

2007-09-02 Thread Michael Gilbert
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: steam-powered Version : 6 Upstream Author : Michael Gilbert * URL : no website * License : GPL Programming Lang: shell Description : Valve's steam g

Re: RFS: steam-powered

2007-09-03 Thread Michael Gilbert
> This sub-thread is discussing whether we *want* software in Debian > whose only purpose is to sell non-free software. like i said before, the purpose of the package is to help the average user to easily run the software of their choice on linux. steam does include a store, but it is by no means

Re: RFS: steam-powered

2007-09-03 Thread Michael Gilbert
> I for one would prefer not to concentrate too much in adding that > kind of software to Debian, and even less in trying to promote it > if there's no real demand for it beforehand. there is demand. 90% of computer users play games, and steam has a lot of users (3 million players per month [1]).

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-19 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, > > I'm generally not a big fan to overuse the BTS for stuff it wasn't > really designed for. This tends to result in complex processes that are > difficult to follow for newcomers. That statement actually describes the Debian project as

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-19 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Jakub Wilk writes: >> * Gergely Nagy , 2012-01-19, 17:24: > >>> I might be mistaken, but the amount of NEW > >> Why only NEW? Checking only NEW packages doesn't buy us more than, say, >> checking only package with with have "r" in their name.

Re: Making mentors.debian.net a .org (was: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests)

2012-01-19 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 6:47 AM, Arno Töll wrote: > DSA is the team which makes a DNS CNAME record, or provides a hosting > facility. In my interpretation they are not making facts by that. Making > mentors.debian.net a .org makes the project official part of Debian, > just like any other core team

Re: Bug#657100: Please add a sponsorship-requests pseudo-package

2012-01-23 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jan 2012, Arno Töll wrote: >> Hence, please add a "sponsorship-requests" pseudo-package with >> debian-mentors@lists.debian.org as a package owner and we can get started. This seems like a good name to me as well. > I still need t

Re: Bug#657100: Please add a sponsorship-requests pseudo-package

2012-01-23 Thread Michael Gilbert
As for the usertag names, I came up with the following when writing support for this into reportbug: 'new': "a sponsorship request for a brand new package", 'update': "a sponsorship request for an update to a package you've gotten sponsored and uploaded previ

Re: sponsorship-requests and orphaned status

2012-02-07 Thread Michael Gilbert
> Nevertheless, when the involved package is orphaned, > it would be a good idea to change its status to reflect the fact > it is indeed orphaned, but also on the way to be adopted: > a kind of limbo status. Do you mean something like: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned_byage Anyone can ad

Mentors upload authentication

2012-02-15 Thread Michael Gilbert
Based on discussion about making mentors official, one of the key requirements is contributor DMUP agreement and upload authentication. One thought I had recently was to move the file hosting functionality over to alioth, which already has the necessary authentication infrastructure. The process

Re: Mentors upload authentication

2012-02-15 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > I don't think that will work, since you need to be in a project to get > SSH access to alioth: > > http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/SSH#I.27m_unable_to_Connect_via_SSH.2C_... They could be made part of a "new contributors" project to start them out

Re: Mentors upload authentication

2012-02-16 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:17 AM, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Michael Gilbert said: >> Based on discussion about making mentors official, one of the key >> requirements is contributor DMUP agreement and upload authentication. >> >> One thought I h

Re: Mentors upload authentication

2012-02-20 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 5:27 AM, Stephen Gran wrote: >> In terms of gpg public keys, the user could simply upload theirs to a >> public_html alioth location, which would allow the mentors scraping >> algorithms to pick that up.  That process itself would be rather >> simple, and could be documented

My package sponsoring guidelines

2012-04-24 Thread Michael Gilbert
Hi, I'm going to be making some of my time available to review packages. So, I'm primarily interested in looking at work that fixes release-critical bugs, security issues, and just regular bugs as well (i.e. non-maintainer uploads, NMUs). So, if you're the bug fixing type, this is for you. I am

Re: RFS: yubiserver/0.2-2 [RC]

2012-05-06 Thread Michael Gilbert
> Changes since the last upload are: > > * Fixed buffer overruns. > * Fixed FTBFS bug in debian/rules file. (Closes: Bug#666357) >  Thanks to Lucas Nussbaum and Anibal Monsalve Salazar >  for their help and for pointing this out. Hi, I've just reviewed this package. Since this apparently fixes s

Re: RFS: yubiserver/0.2-2 [RC]

2012-05-06 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote: >> Changes since the last upload are: >> >> * Fixed buffer overruns. >> * Fixed FTBFS bug in debian/rules file. (Closes: Bug#666357) >>  Thanks to Lucas Nussbaum and Anibal Monsalve Salazar >>  for their he

Bug#662076: RFS: pam-shield/0.9.2-3.3 [NMU] [RC]

2012-05-06 Thread Michael Gilbert
Hi, I've reviewed this package, and it looks good. A couple other tasks need to be done though: 1. Please send your nmu debdiff to #658830. 2. Since this is fixing a potential security issue, please send a message (including patch and a good description of the problem) to oss-sec [0] requesting

Bug#659083: RFS: xmoto -- 2D motocross platform game

2012-05-06 Thread Michael Gilbert
Hi, I just reviewed this package. It looks good except for a couple issues: 1. bin/credits.rpl seems to be a binary file in the repacked upstream source (there may be others, but I stopped at that one) 2. I'm not sure that it's good practice to apply the patch directly within the upstream orig

Bug#659522: prelink - problems with 0.0.20090925-4

2012-06-11 Thread Michael Gilbert
> Since the last time I did the 20111012-1 package from 2090925-1 it > worked flawlessly with the same dpatch -> quilt script, I'm assuming > some change took effect between revisions 1 and 4 that broke this > package for quilt, but apparently not for dpatch. There were two patches applied in -2 t

Bug#659522: prelink - problems with 0.0.20090925-4

2012-06-11 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Daniel Martí wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 12:11:30PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: >> There were two patches applied in -2 that were cherry-picked from the >> upstream version you're working on now.  The patch systems will still >>

Bug#659522: RFS: prelink/20111012-1 [QA]

2012-06-11 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Daniel Martí wrote: > Dear Debian Mentors, > > A new package can be found up at mentors.debian.net: > > http://mentors.debian.net/package/prelink > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/prelink/prelink_0.0.20111012-1.dsc > > Here is the full changelog: > > p

Bug#659522: RFS: prelink/20111012-1 [QA]

2012-06-12 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Daniel Martí wrote: >> Would you mind incorporating the libtool fixes that I pushed in the -6 >> upload? > > Sure. But please, if you want to incorporate more changes, either do it > all at once or email them to me so I can add them to the newer package. > I'm sta

Bug#659522: RFS: prelink/20111012-1 [QA]

2012-06-12 Thread Michael Gilbert
> I've read quite a bit on the kfreebsd-i386 problems with ELF, but I > have encountered a different solution in every thread on the internet. > Some said to patch libelf.h, which is sadly not shipped with prelink. We > have libelf-0.7.0.patch, but that patchs a nonexistent file. We do have > libel

Re: Bug#677277: lists.debian.org: new list: sponsorship-reque...@lists.debian.org

2012-06-12 Thread Michael Gilbert
> I'll just try this selectricity poll for now so we don't get billions > of votes here: > > http://selectricity.org/quickvote/debianrfslist So, I don't think those options accurately describe the choices. The options really are: 1. Send useful bts discussion as well as verbose control messages

Re: Bug#675873: RFS: pam-shield/0.9.6-1 [ITA]

2012-06-19 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Jonathan Niehof wrote: > Dear mentors-- > > I'm not sure if the etiquette for "nag requests" has been sorted out > given the move of RFS to the bug tracker, but I submitted this RFS two > weeks ago and have not received so much as a nibble. If anyone is able > to de

Re: My package sponsoring guidelines

2012-06-26 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Andreas Rütten wrote: > > Hi Mike, > > do you still have some time available for reviewing NMUs? > > If so I would like to point you attention to this one: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=676927 Hi, The bugs solved in your version are not relea

Re: modifications by sponsors

2012-07-11 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Arno Töll wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On 11.07.2012 13:34, Bart Martens wrote: >>> Is it OK that a sponsor adds modifications to a sponsored package ? >> >> I see it regularly that sponsors do little modific

Re: Bug#675873: RFS: pam-shield/0.9.6-1 [ITA]

2012-07-13 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Jonathan Niehof wrote: >> Dear mentors-- >> >> I'm not sure if the etiquette for "nag requests" has been sorted out >> given the move of RFS to the bug tracker, but

Re: Bug#659077: RFS for package no longer at mentors

2012-07-15 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 7:05 AM, Bart Martens wrote: > Hello, > > I see that the package at mentors is no longer there. What happened ? Can the > RFS be closed, or can you restore the package at mentors ? > > no package at mentors for RFS 664181 trustmanager 3.0.5-1 > no package at mentors for RFS

Re: Architecture-independent packages with missing build-dependencies on some architectures

2012-09-22 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Stephen Kitt wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I maintain the wine-gecko package (wine-gecko-1.4), which is in an > interesting situation because its build-dependencies can't be satisfied on all > architectures, but it builds an "Architecture: all" package. Something > sim

Re: Upgrade "rar" Package Version

2012-10-18 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Ma Xiaojun wrote: > There is no reason shipping 4.0 beta3 rather than latest 4.20. > If we check change Changelog, it is clear that the package get active > uploads until 4.0 beta3 is uploaded. > http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/non-free/r/rar/current/cha

Bug#691014: RFS: swftools/0.9.2+ds1-3 [RC]

2012-10-21 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 3:14 AM, Christian Welzel wrote: > Package: sponsorship-requests > Severity: important > > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "swftools" > > * Package name: swftools >Version : 0.9.2+ds1-3 Hi, I've just reviewed these changes.

My sponsoring guidelines

2012-10-25 Thread Michael Gilbert
Just to let everyone know, I am making myself available to sponsor uploads that fix RC bugs. Those uploads may be either NMUs or maintainer uploads, just make sure to mark your sponsorship-request with RC and I (and others) will notice it. Best wishes, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-m

(Non-)Usefulness of the current for-wheezy and fit-for-wheezy usertags

2012-10-25 Thread Michael Gilbert
Hi, I feel like the current for-wheezy and fit-for-wheezy usertags actually make the sponsorship-requests bug page harder to use than it needs to be. In actuality, any bug tagged ITP and QA should not have either of those tags (since no itp or qa upload is going in until the freeze is lifted unle

Re: (Non-)Usefulness of the current for-wheezy and fit-for-wheezy usertags

2012-10-26 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > It is possible to target a package for testing during the freeze even > though it does not fix any RC bugs, see everthing other than item one > here: > > http://release.debian.org/testing/freeze_policy.html I am certainly well aware of the freeze

Ideas on contributing during the freeze

2012-10-27 Thread Michael Gilbert
Hi, I remember being rather frustrated during past freezes (before I was a DD) at the lack of interesting things to do (since the fun stuff like ITPs tend to go nowhere at these times). I assume there are a lot of others in a similar situation now, so I just want to give a couple suggestions. Th

Bug#686070: libpam-ssh/1.92-15

2012-10-30 Thread Michael Gilbert
control: retitle -1 RFS: libpam-ssh/1.92-15 [ITP] [REINTRODUCTION] Unfortunately this package was removed from unstable, so it won't be considered for upload until after wheezy unfreezes. Removing RC since as a NEW package the RC categorization does not apply. Best wishes, Mike -- To UNSUBSCR

Bug#691893: RFS: roundup/1.4.20-2 [RC]

2012-10-30 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 6:18 PM, Kai Storbeck wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "roundup". I have a dedicated > uploader (Toni Mueller), but another eye on my changes needn't hurt. It > fixes 3 outstanding bugs, one of which is an RC bug. Hi, I've just reviewed this. + * patch

Re: (Non-)Usefulness of the current for-wheezy and fit-for-wheezy usertags

2012-10-31 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 6:40 AM, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > > First of all, you are free to view the bug page with the ordering you > prefer. Try using "ordering=standard": > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=sponsorship-requests;ordering=standard Thanks for the hint. Reverting

Bug#692065: RFS: mcrypt/2.6.8-1.3 [RC][NMU]

2012-11-01 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Jean-Michel Vourgère wrote: > mcrypt (2.6.8-1.3) unstable; urgency=medium > . >* Non-maintainer upload. >* CVE-2012-4527: stack-based buffer overflow by encryption / decryption of > overly long file names (Closes: #690924) I've reviewed this and it l

Bug#692065: RFS: mcrypt/2.6.8-1.3 [RC][NMU]

2012-11-02 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Jean-Michel Vourgère wrote: >>>* CVE-2012-4527: stack-based buffer overflow by encryption / decryption >>> of >>> overly long file names (Closes: #690924) > >> I've reviewed this and it looks mostly good. However, can you explain >> why you chose ERRWIDTH=

Bug#686070: libpam-ssh/1.92-15

2012-11-02 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> I'm removing the not-fit-for-wheezy tag since Thomas claims to have >> improved on that matter. > > > It still have the tag `not-fit-for-wheezy'. This is more evidence that this tag doesn't actually provide anything useful. This package was

Bug#692065: RFS: mcrypt/2.6.8-1.3 [RC][NMU]

2012-11-02 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Jean-Michel Vourgère wrote: > I don't see the point to upload a version of just that to mentors. > Just use: > patch -p 1 < 80-width patch > , update the changelog and you're done with the NMU. It gives you a chance to be the one contributing to the release. I'm lo

Bug#691893: RFS: roundup/1.4.20-2 [RC]

2012-11-02 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Kai Storbeck wrote: > Hi Mike, > > Thanks for your prompt review. > > It seems I wasn't fully aware of the Freeze Policy. I was under a wrong > assumtion that I could make the package's state better during the freeze. > > I've spoken with Salvatore who proposed an NM

Re: fix for rc bug #665199

2012-11-02 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 10:11 AM, gustavo panizzo wrote: > hello, i've prepared an updated version of slapd package which fix > the bug #665199 Hi, I've just reviewed this, and it looks reasonable. However, the changelog note is not really descriptive enough: * Fix a bug while upgrading from

Bug#691893: RFS: roundup/1.4.20-2

2012-11-11 Thread Michael Gilbert
control: retitle -1 RFS: roundup/1.4.20-2 control: severity -1 normal Downgrading the severity of this request since an nmu was uploaded to fix the rc issue. Before further review, the package will need to be updated to incorporate the nmu, and at this point the upload should probably target expe

Bug#693182: RFS: sqldeveloper-package/0.3.0 [RC]

2012-11-13 Thread Michael Gilbert
control: severity -1 normal control: retitle -1 RFS: sqldeveloper-package/0.3.0 On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Lazarus Longwrote: > - Download links updated (Closes: #618650) > (Reported by Sergio Fernandez) Since there is already a deferred nmu fixing the rc issue, I'm downgrading the se

Bug#693182: RFS: sqldeveloper-package/0.3.0 [RC]

2012-11-14 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 4:03 AM, Lazarus Long wrote: > Hi: > > The deferred NMU uploader has canceled it in behalf of mine. > > I'm not sure how to proceed now. Should I remove my version, or should > it be re-evaluated as a RC bug fix? Preferably the nmu will be re-uploaded since it's a targeted

Re: dm upload permissions

2012-11-17 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 2:29 AM, Bart Martens wrote: > Hello, > > As I wrote earlier on debian-devel [1] I have a few reports [2] about DM > upload > permissions. According to the announcement [3] the permissions "only via > DMUA=yes" will be revoked on 24th of November 2012, and that date is com

Bug#693249: RFS: etw/3.6+svn140-4 [RC] [ITA] arcade-style soccer game

2012-11-17 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Markus Koschany wrote: > Changes since the last upload: > > * New Maintainer. (Closes: #544922) > * Eat the Whistle will be maintained in a Git repository from now > on. Change the Vcs-fields in debian/control accordingly. > * debian/patches: > Add 0005-Change

Some easy-looking rc bugs

2012-11-17 Thread Michael Gilbert
Hi, I had a quick look through the rc bugs that have a patch: http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi?release=wheezy_and_sid&patch=only&merged=ign&done=ign&fnewerval=7&rc=1&sortby=id&sorto=asc&chints=1&ctags=1&cdeferred=1 The following look like they'll be pretty easy, so they're a prime opportunity for m

Bug#693249: RFS: etw/3.6+svn140-4 [RC] [ITA] arcade-style soccer game

2012-11-18 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Markus Koschany wrote: > thanks for taking the time to review the changes. Indeed the author of > etw already checks for PATH_MAX in etw.c and stores the result in > TEMP_DIR. On the other hand he uses 1024 bytes for the buffer at most > and truncates the rest if it

Bug#693925: RFS: harden/0.1.38+nmu1 [RC] [NMU]

2012-11-21 Thread Michael Gilbert
> Reviewed and uploaded. Thanks! Make sure to send your debdiff to the bug report to stay in compliance with nmu rules: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#nmu-guidelines Thanks, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: Some easy-looking rc bugs

2012-11-23 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote: > The following look like they'll be pretty easy, so they're a prime > opportunity for mentees to build, test, and prepare a package to be > potentially sponsored: So, it's been almost a week, and I decided to tak

Re: Some easy-looking rc bugs

2012-11-23 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote: >> The following look like they'll be pretty easy, so they're a prime >> opportunity for mentees to build, test, and prepare a package to be >> pote

Bug#694164: RFS: redmine/1.4.4+dfsg1-2 [NMU] [RC]

2012-11-24 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Dominik George wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "redmine" Hi, thanks for working on these issues. I'd like to see a few things corrected in the changelog, but otherwise it looks good. > * NMU to fix RC bugs. There is specific language usuall

Another round of easy RC bugs

2012-11-27 Thread Michael Gilbert
Hi, I've taken a look at the bugs tagged patch, and the following 11 strike me as likely being rather easy to fix. 677861 681457 687396 687848 692129 693208 - seems to just need a tpu upload 693980 694015 694061 694340 694417 So, let's fix these easy 11 bugs! Best wishes, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRI

Bug#694459: RFS: lcdf-typetools/2.92+dfsg1-1.1 [NMU] [RC]

2012-11-27 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 10:29 AM, roucaries bastien wrote: > Package: sponsorship-requests > Severity: important > > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the package "lcdf-typetools" > > I have found two license problem on this package: > - #694352 lcdf-typetool include non free adobe d

Bug#694872: Why was this bug closed?

2012-12-02 Thread Michael Gilbert
> Well, I thought this was only the case when there is no other option, because > the version has to be smaller than the one in unstable (when testing has > 4.3.6-1 and unstable has 4.3.6-2 with unacceptable changes). I did a t-p-u > update like this (without the deb7u suffix) yesterday (for fossil

Bug#694872: Why was this bug closed?

2012-12-02 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Ivo De Decker wrote: > Hi Mike, > > On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 03:20:25PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: >> > Well, I thought this was only the case when there is no other option, >> > because >> > the version has to be smaller th

Bug#694872: Why was this bug closed?

2012-12-02 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Ivo De Decker wrote: > Mike, > > On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 04:36:23PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: >> Yes. I don't have a link to the final decision, but you can easily >> verify the veracity of that statement by looking at the versionin

Subject: RFS: enet

2009-12-29 Thread Michael Gilbert
if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards, Michael Gilbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

RFS: yui-compressor

2009-12-29 Thread Michael Gilbert
debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/y/yui-compressor/yui-compressor_2.4.2-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards, Michael Gilbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debia

RFS: protoaculous

2009-12-29 Thread Michael Gilbert
oaded this package for me. Kind regards, Michael Gilbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

RFS: alien-arena (updated package)

2009-12-29 Thread Michael Gilbert
-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/non-free/a/alien-arena-data/alien-arena-data_7.33-0+nmu1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards, Michael Gilbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: RFS: alien-arena (updated package)

2009-12-29 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:17:02 -0500 Barry deFreese wrote: > Michael Gilbert wrote: > > Dear mentors, > > > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version of alien-arena. > > Version 7.31 fixed a nasty security issue (CVE-2009-3637), but > > the debian package

Re: Subject: RFS: enet

2009-12-29 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:24:23 -0600 Scott Howard wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Michael Gilbert > wrote: > > Dear mentors, > > > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "enet". > > I'm not a sponsor, but I work wi

Re: RFS: protoaculous

2009-12-30 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:41:09 +0800 Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 3:59 AM, Michael Gilbert > wrote: > > > libjs-protoaculous - A compressed library containing both prototype and > > scriptaculous > ... > > My motivation for maintaining this p

Re: RFS: protoaculous

2009-12-30 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:35:48 +0100 Patrick Matthäi wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Michael Gilbert schrieb: > > Dear mentors, > > > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "protoaculous". > > > > * Pack

Re: Bug#519938: RFS: System protoaculous library

2009-12-30 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:51:14 +0100 Damien Raude-Morvan wrote: > Le mardi 29 décembre 2009 21:10:41, Michael Gilbert a écrit : > > Hi, > > Hi, > > [context: I'm the owner of yuicompressor ITP #519938] > > > I have put together a protoaculous package for the

RFS: alien-arena (updated package)

2010-01-07 Thread Michael Gilbert
on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/contrib/a/alien-arena - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/non-free/a/alien-arena-data I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards, Michael Gilbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors

Re: RFS: yui-compressor

2010-01-07 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:42:55 +0100 Patrick Matthäi wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Michael Gilbert schrieb: > > Dear mentors, > > > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "yui-compressor". > > > &

Re: RFS: alien-arena (updated package)

2010-01-08 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:11:11 +0100, Patrick Matthäi wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Michael Gilbert schrieb: > > Hi, > > > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 7.33-1 of alien-arena > > and alien-arena-data. > &

Re: RFS: alien-arena (updated package)

2010-01-17 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:11:11 +0100 Patrick Matthäi wrote: > == > review of alien-arena: > == > > + * New upstream release with many feature enhancments > > +(closes: #592770, #467387, #437461). > > Could you please list the items like: > * New upstrea

Re: RFS: alien-arena (updated package)

2010-01-18 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:40:28 +0100 Patrick Matthäi wrote: > Now they look like: > > I: alien-arena source: quilt-patch-missing-description > kill-runaway-crded_tool_debianization.patch > I: alien-arena source: quilt-patch-missing-description > rcon_tool_debianization.patch > I: alien-arena source:

Re: RFS: alien-arena (updated package)

2010-01-18 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:34:49 +0100 Patrick Matthäi wrote: > In general it looks good, but you have missed one important thing, if > you split up packages: conflicts and replaces. > > Now, if users upgrade from 7.0 to 7.33, dpkg would abort, because the > - -common package include files, which are

Re: RFS: alien-arena (updated package)

2010-01-18 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:56:37 +0100 Patrick Matthäi wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Michael Gilbert schrieb: > > On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:34:49 +0100 Patrick Matthäi wrote: > >> In general it looks good, but you have missed one important

Re: RFS: alien-arena (updated package)

2010-01-18 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:27:32 +0100 Patrick Matthäi wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Michael Gilbert schrieb: > > On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:56:37 +0100 Patrick Matthäi wrote: > > > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Ha

Re: RFS: alien-arena (updated package)

2010-01-20 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:03:29 +0100 Patrick Matthäi wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Michael Gilbert schrieb: > > On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:27:32 +0100 Patrick Matthäi wrote: > > > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Ha

RFS: alien-arena (updated package)

2010-01-24 Thread Michael Gilbert
n unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/contrib/a/alien-arena/alien-arena_7.33-2.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards, Michael Gilbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

RFS: xpdf (updated package)

2010-02-06 Thread Michael Gilbert
Hi, I have prepared an updated package for xpdf that fixes quite a few security issues (and a couple cosmetic ones as well). The package is available at [0]. Note that I've built updated etch and lenny packages there as well, which I am getting sponsorship from the security team. They can be ign

Re: RFS: xpdf (updated package)

2010-02-07 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 19:19:37 +0100 Nico Golde wrote: > Hey, > * Michael Gilbert [2010-02-07 18:22]: > > I have prepared an updated package for xpdf that fixes quite a few > > security issues (and a couple cosmetic ones as well). The package is > > available at [0]. Note

Re: RFS: xpdf (updated package)

2010-02-07 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 14:50:07 -0500 Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 19:19:37 +0100 Nico Golde wrote: > > > Hey, > > * Michael Gilbert [2010-02-07 18:22]: > > > I have prepared an updated package for xpdf that fixes quite a few > > > security issues

Re: RFS: xpdf (updated package)

2010-02-14 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 19:19:37 +0100 Nico Golde wrote: > Hey, > * Michael Gilbert [2010-02-07 18:22]: > > I have prepared an updated package for xpdf that fixes quite a few > > security issues (and a couple cosmetic ones as well). The package is > > available at [0]. Note

Re: RFS: xpdf (updated package)

2010-03-26 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 19:19:37 +0100 Nico Golde wrote: > Hey, > * Michael Gilbert [2010-02-07 18:22]: > > I have prepared an updated package for xpdf that fixes quite a few > > security issues (and a couple cosmetic ones as well). The package is > > available at [0]. Note

RFS: pulseaudio (updated package)

2010-03-27 Thread Michael Gilbert
me. Kind regards, Michael Gilbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100327145820.a3585b98.michael.s.gilb...@gmail.com

Re: RFS: pulseaudio (updated package)

2010-03-28 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 13:14:24 +0200 Giuseppe Iuculano wrote: > Hi Michael! > > Il 27/03/2010 19:58, Michael Gilbert ha scritto: > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.9.21-1+nmu1 > > of my package "pulseaudio", which fixes CVE-2009-1299 (bug #573615).

RFS: xpdf

2010-05-02 Thread Michael Gilbert
Hi, I have prepared an update for xpdf, which fixes an RC issue among others. Would anyone be kind enough to upload this new version? Best wishes, Mike http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/x/xpdf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsu

RFS: gordon

2010-05-13 Thread Michael Gilbert
n/gordon_0~git20100510-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Best wishes, Michael Gilbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: htt

RFS: protoaculous

2010-05-13 Thread Michael Gilbert
ool/main/p/protoaculous/protoaculous_1.dsc I tried a different approach a while back (building the compressed lib at build time), but now I am building the lib at install time. Perhaps that is a cleaner solution? I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Best wishes, Michael Gilber

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