Re: Package does not migrate to testing

2012-03-14 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-03-14 10:14, Johannes Ring wrote: > Dear all, > > One of my packages, syfi, has not migrated to testing, but I fail to > see why. According to the excuses page [1], it won't migrate because > "Updating syfi introduces new bugs: #628243", but that bug was closed > a long time ago. The excus

Re: bad lintian warning?

2012-05-22 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-05-21 17:38, Daniel Pocock wrote: > On 21/05/12 10:02, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: >> [...] >>> - - make a lintian override to suppress the warning, with a comment to >>> explain I am using -release deliberately for resiprocate? >> I'm not sure you want to keep the current names for the lib a

Re: Bug archiving

2012-06-21 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-06-21 09:37, Olе Streicher wrote: > Hi list, > > I just re-inserted a package that was removed from Debian a year ago > (saods9), and following some recommendations, I exhumated the old bugs > and set them to "fixed" in the new version. > > Shall I archive them now again manually? Or is t

Re: libircclient packaging (Chances to get it into Wheezy)?

2012-07-04 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-07-04 22:14, Andreas Rönnquist wrote: > Hey > Hi, > I have done some work on the recently orphaned libircclient package, > (O/ITA: at [1]), updated it to the latest release, updated packaging to > current standards, and amongst other things made it Multiarch aware, and > enabled hardenin

Re: RFS: l2tp-ipsec-vpn (updated package)

2012-11-06 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-10-19 10:23, Werner Jaeger wrote: > > Dear mentors, > > My sponsor is kil...@debian.org. > > I just uploaded the new version 1.0.9-1 of my package "l2tp-ipsec-vpn". > > This upload contains RC bug fix #684962 > [...] > > dget -x > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/l2tp-ip

Re: RFS: l2tp-ipsec-vpn (updated package)

2012-11-07 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-11-07 06:59, Werner Jaeger wrote: > Hi, > > unfortunately you're right. Is it OK. to upload it again, with only the > changelog corrected, or do I also need a new version entry > (l2tp-ipsec-vpn (1.0.9-1.1) unstable; urgency=low) in the changelog ? > > Thank you > > - Werner > > [...]

Re: How to specify a >= X < Y Depends (Was: Packaging GNU Health)

2012-11-25 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-11-26 08:24, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > Hi all, > >> Hi Emilien, >> >> On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 11:54:59AM +0100, Emilien Klein wrote: >>> ... >>> As a general question: >>> If package A depends on a specific set of releases (like in this case >>> Tryton 2.4.X), how do we usually handle th

Re: How to specify a >= X < Y Depends (Was: Packaging GNU Health)

2012-11-26 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-11-26 08:59, Emilien Klein wrote: > [...] >> >> I believe it is quite valid to use: >> >> tryton (>= 2.4~), tryton (<< 2.5~) >> >> At least lintian4python uses this approach (rather than breaks/conflicts >> etc). >> >> ~Niels >> >> PS: The "~" is there to handle the case where tryton migh

RFS: mscgen

2009-06-05 Thread Niels Thykier
b-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/mscgen/mscgen_0.15-4.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Niels Thykier -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comm

RFS: mscgen

2009-07-01 Thread Niels Thykier
ool/main/m/mscgen - - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/mscgen/mscgen_0.16~svn31-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Niels Thykier -BEGIN PGP

Re: RFS: mscgen

2009-07-09 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote: > Hi Niels, > > I looked at mscgen 0.16~svn35-1 on mentors.debian.net > > On 09/07/02 16:51 +0530, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag said ... >> [...] > > Comments: > > I noticed that the "released" version upstream is 0.15 and you

Re: RFS: mscgen

2009-07-13 Thread Niels Thykier
to have the ".0" in Standards-Version: 3.8.2.0. Only the > first 3 digits of the version number are enough. > > The package looks good and we can upload if the above "Comments" are fixed. > Done and done. (NB: the examples were/are added via a dpatch 01_add_exa

Re: RFS: mscgen

2009-07-15 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote: > On 09/07/13 23:18 +0200, Niels Thykier said ... >>> - You've modified the .orig.tar.gz to remove a file that doesn't have >>> license >>> information. In such cases,

Subject: RFS: jflex (updated package)

2009-07-23 Thread Niels Thykier
me. Kind regards Niels Thykier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: about debian/watch

2009-08-15 Thread Niels Thykier
Elías A. M. wrote: > Hi all, > How I can put in debian/watch this path..? > i.e. > > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/app/app/1.10/app-1.10.zip > Hi You may want to look in the "uscan"'s man page, where there is an example of how to watch files on SourceForge via http://sf.net/ > I've

Re: Dependency against ant

2009-10-08 Thread Niels Thykier
Giovanni Mascellani wrote: > Hi all. > > A Java package I'm working on (osmosis) uses some bzip2 embedded code > copy (less than 10 classes) from the ant project (classes > org.apache.tools.bzip2.*): if I want to avoid embedded code copies, I > need to make osmosis depend on ant, forcing the user

Re: RFS: JavaMorph - IANADD

2010-01-10 Thread Niels Thykier
Claus Wimmer wrote: > From: Claus Wimmer > To: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org > Subject: RFS: javamorph > > Dear mentors, > Hi Thank you for your interest in packaging for Debian. I am not a Debian Developer; nevertheless I had a look at your package and have a few pieces of advices based on

Re: [debian-mentors] question regarding rejected uploads

2010-02-11 Thread Niels Thykier
Scott Howard wrote: > Hello, > > I recently adopted the "eagle" package, and with the help of the > previous maintainer was able to upload a new version (I've received > multiple requests through BTS and direct contact asking for this > version from users). My sponsor uploaded for i386 (i386.deb a

Re: New packager

2010-03-10 Thread Niels Thykier
Fabrizio Furnari wrote: > Ok, sorry for the previous, long email. > My question is: is there someone who want to help me to package these: > > OpenJump 1.3.1 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/jump-pilot/files/) > Saga 2.0.4 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/saga-gis/files/) > AutoQ3D Community ( >

Re: RFS: pleiades - Japanese Language package for Eclipse using Dynamic AOP - IANADD

2010-03-21 Thread Niels Thykier
Hideki Yamane wrote: > Dear mentors (CC: debian-j...@lists.debian.org), > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "pleiades", Japanese Language > package > for Eclipse. It is very popular for Japanese Eclipse users. Its newest > release > is downloaded about 50,000 times. > > * Package

RFS: mscgen 0.17-2 (Usual sponsor is [VAC])

2010-03-25 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi I have prepared mscgen 0.17-2.This upload is mainly just bug-fixes from upstream's SVN. Some of these bug-fixes requires an update of configure.ac and to avoid having to update the orig.tar.gz I decided to remove the affected autogenerated files during clean. Upstream seems to have become rath

Re: RFS: pleiades - Japanese Language package for Eclipse using Dynamic AOP - IANADD

2010-03-26 Thread Niels Thykier
Hideki Yamane wrote: > Hi, > > thank you for review! > > On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:17:16 +0100 > Niels Thykier wrote: >> It would be nice if it could be installed beneath /usr/share/eclipse/ >> rather than /usr/lib/eclipse/ because it is a large arch all packa

Re: dpkg-buildpackage misunderstanding my instructions ...

2010-03-28 Thread Niels Thykier
Wuttke, Joachim wrote: > Dear specialists: > > I am preparing two packages: >liblmmin3 >liblmmin-dev > from upstream project lmfit (http://www.messen-und-deuten.de/lmfit). > > [...] > Problems: > - The shared library liblmmin.so.3.0.2 went into the package liblmmin-dev, > though I though

Re: dpkg-buildpackage misunderstanding my instructions ...

2010-03-28 Thread Niels Thykier
Wuttke, Joachim wrote: >> It is debhelper (or/and your debian/rules file) and not >> dpkg-buildpackage causing this issue. >> Have you checked whether it installs everything into >> debian/liblmmin-dev/ rather than debian/tmp/? > > Thank you, Niels: > there is indeed a problem with the directories

RFS: libsysactivity (new package)

2010-04-13 Thread Niels Thykier
ontrib non-free - - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libsysactivity/libsysactivity_0.5.1-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Niels Thykier [1] Full description (from libsysactivity0): Description: Retrieves statistics of the system

Re: RFS: libsysactivity (sponsor found)

2010-04-17 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi I found a sponsor for this package. Thanks for your time, ~Niels signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: editing former patches

2010-06-04 Thread Niels Thykier
Joachim Wiedorn wrote: > Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote on 2010-06-04 14:44: >> When I get it with "apt-get source" the untared folder is already >> patched. > > This is the new behaviour with Debian's source format 3.0 (quilt). > Nope, the slim package referred to is a 1.0 package. From what I

Re: New Package: Lejos NXJ

2010-07-20 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-07-20 20:14, Chris Baines wrote: > Hello, > > My name is Chris and I have just started using Debian. I would like to > build a Debian package for the Lejos NXJ project > (http://lejos.sourceforge.net/). Its a replacement firmware and java ap

Re: RFS: cpptasks (fwd to d-java@l.d.o)

2010-07-23 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-07-24 00:29, Chris Baines wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "cpptasks". > > * Package name: cpptasks > Version : 1.0~b5-1 > Upstream Author : Unknown > * URL : > http://ant-cont

Re: RFS: loopdub

2010-08-03 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-07-31 05:39, Stephen Sinclair wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "loopdub". > Hi I am not a Debian Developer and cannot upload your package; nevertheless I have had a look at it in the hope that it will s

Re: .deb package for a library generation

2010-08-08 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-08-08 15:45, Zvi Dubitzky wrote: > I need to generate a Debian package for a library > As an exercise I tried it with libvirt . > I am running a Ubuntu 8.10 . and use the libvirt.0.6.1 tar.gz > Hi, Thanks for your interest in Debian,

Fwd: Re: .deb package from compiled libraries

2010-08-11 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Oops, forgot to send this to the list as well. - Original Message Subject: Re: .deb package from compiled libraries Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:45:13 +0200 From: Niels Thykier To: Zvi Dubitzky On 2010-08-11 19:46, Zvi Dubitzky

Re: RFS: obdgpslogger [ITP #580176]

2010-08-17 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-08-16 01:28, Gary Briggs wrote: > > Dear mentors, > > [...] > * Package name: obdgpslogger > Version : 0.15-1 > Upstream Author : Gary Briggs [myself] > * URL : http://icculus.org/obdgpslogger/ > * License

Re: Doubts in Sigar packaging

2010-09-15 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-09-14 18:51, Thiago Franco de Moraes wrote: > Hi all, > Hi > [...] > * This library contains a bunch if bindings, one of them is java. These > java bindings is compiled using ant. The compilations generates a bunch > of .class and .jar fil

Re: RFS: subversion (updated package) [lenny-backports, 1.6.12dfsg-2~bpo50+1]

2010-10-02 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-10-02 22:25, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: > Hi, Michael: > > On Saturday 02 October 2010 21:24:22 Michael Diers wrote: >> Dear mentors and backporters, >> >> I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.6.12dfsg-2~bpo50+1 >> of my existing ba

Re: Four days

2010-10-03 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-10-03 13:16, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > Hi all, > >> Hey everyone, >> >> Niels Thykier and I were talking on #debian-mentors. I was saying >> that I find the debian-mentors list kind of lonely and impersonal

Review of gnome-gmail

2010-10-04 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-09-25 15:28, David Steele wrote: > Dear mentors, > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gnome-gmail". > > * Package name: gnome-gmail > Version : 1.6-3 > Upstream Author : David Steele > * URL : http://gnom

Re: RFS: galinette

2010-10-07 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-10-01 12:23, Paul McEnery wrote: > Dear mentors, > Hi I have had a look at your package; please note that I am not a DD (which means I cannot sponsor it, even if you address all my comments) and I ran out of time to do a full review, so I

Re: RFS: disco

2010-10-11 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-10-06 20:47, Janos Guljas wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "disco". > > * Package name: disco > Version : 0.3.1-1 > Upstream Author : Ville Tuulos > * URL : http://github.com/

Re: RFS: equinox-themes

2010-10-21 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-10-10 10:52, Hadret wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "equinox-themes". > > * Package name: equinox-themes > Version : 1.30.2-2 > Upstream Author : Matthieu James > * URL : htt

Re: Open RFS lacking (further) response

2010-10-30 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-10-30 08:59, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > [...] > > One technical question, however, remains: Could we have some list of packages > that remain to be reviewed? Just telling people "please review some package" > is > pretty awkward... > > Bes

Re: Open RFS lacking (further) response

2010-10-30 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-10-30 02:16, The Fungi wrote: > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:44:37PM +0100, Noel David Torres Taño wrote: > [...] >> Is it always an upstream package worst than a repackaged package? > [...] > >>From what I've seen, in most cases, yes. > > I

Re: Bug merge fail owner mismatch

2010-11-01 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-11-01 14:29, Daniel Stender wrote: > Hi people, > > it would be good idea to merge my ITP with the "original" RFP, but my attempt > to merge two bugs failed: > > > Bug#568920: RFP: didjvu -- encoding into DjVu with layers separation > Bug

Re: RFS: clipit

2010-11-12 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-11-12 13:51, Julien Valroff wrote: > Le vendredi 12 nov. 2010 à 13:48:01 (+0100), Raphael Hertzog a écrit : >> Hi, >> >> On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Cristian Henzel wrote: >>> P.S. I find it odd that it includes the package even if there's no >>> re

Re: RFS: clipit

2010-11-12 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-11-12 18:32, Cristian Henzel wrote: >> I responded on a specific point (which concerns me since I'm maintaining >> dpkg-shlibdeps), I have not looked the rest of the package and I don't >> intend to do it, sorry. >> >> Someone else should be

Re: RFS: clipit

2010-11-15 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-11-15 10:13, Henzel Cristian wrote: > Hello, > Hi > > so I have written an E-Mail to the original maintainer of parcellite > more than 2 days ago and haven't got any answer yet. Should I still wait > for an answer, or is anyone else inter

Re: RFS: clipit

2010-11-25 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-11-25 13:16, Cristian Henzel wrote: > > Hello, > > > it's been almost two weeks now and I still haven't got an answer from > the maintainer of parcellite. > > > -- > Best regards, > Mit freundlichen Grüßen, > > Henzel Cristian > > Al

Re: ClipIt -- Clipboard manager

2010-12-02 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-11-26 13:59, Cristian Henzel wrote: > Hello again, > > > I just made a new upstream release to fix a couple of open issues and > have updated the debian package on mentors.debian.net to the latest > version (1.3.4). > > I'd welcome reviews

Re: RFS: amavisd-milter (updated package - 2nd try)

2010-12-03 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-12-03 19:47, Harald Jenny wrote: > Hello, > > I know it's not good mailing style to reply to my own message but as 5 days > have passed I just wanted to send a reminder to the list (yes I know it's not > very polite to be noisy and things ne

Re: RFS: disco

2010-12-11 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-12-08 02:25, Janos Guljas wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "disco". > > [...] > > Kind regards > Janos Guljas > > Hi again, Sorry for not getting back to you earlier[1]. [quote] > > Why do disco-ma

Re: RFS: sciteproj (updated package)

2010-12-11 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-12-08 02:48, Andreas Ronnquist wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.3.17-1 > of my package "sciteproj". > > It builds these binary packages: > sciteproj - project manager for the SciTE editor > > The

Re: RFS: sciteproj (updated package)

2010-12-11 Thread Niels Thykier
ct manager for the SciTE editor > > The package appears to be lintian clean. > > - This upload fixes a whole lot of problems brought to my attention by Niels > Thykier. Many thanks! > > The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: > - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/po

Re: RFS: lilo (updated package) (new Maintainer)

2010-12-12 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-12-11 18:29, Joachim Wiedorn wrote: > Dear mentors, > Hi, I had a quick look at your package, though there are things I may have missed. > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1:22.8-9 > of my package "lilo". > > It builds thes

Re: RFS: lilo (updated package) (new Maintainer)

2010-12-12 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-12-12 16:34, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Niels Thykier , 2010-12-12, 16:05: >> --- lilo-22.8/debian/lilo.postinst >> +++ lilo-22.8-9/debian/lilo.postinst >> [...] >> + # to be compatible to older debian package

Re: RFS: lilo (updated package) (new Maintainer)

2010-12-12 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-12-12 16:05, Niels Thykier wrote: > On 2010-12-11 18:29, Joachim Wiedorn wrote: >> [...] >> This update of the LILO package (based on lilo 22.8-8.3) comes with a >> small set of bugfixes to work better within Sque

Re: RFS: lilo (updated package) (new Maintainer)

2010-12-12 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-12-11 18:29, Joachim Wiedorn wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1:22.8-9 > of my package "lilo". > > It builds these binary packages: > lilo - LInux LOader - The Classic OS loader can load Linux

Re: RFS: lilo (updated package) (new Maintainer)

2010-12-13 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-12-12 19:43, Joachim Wiedorn wrote: > Hello Niels, > > Niels Thykier wrote on 2010-12-12 17:18: > >> [...] >> For the next non-Squeeze upload you may want to consider using the 3.0 >> (quilt) format, since i

Re: RFS: epr-api

2010-12-20 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-12-19 13:05, Antonio Valentino wrote: > Dear Debian mentors, > > the epr-api package has been moved to > > git.debian.org/git/pkg-grass/epr-api.git > > so it is no more available on > > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/e/epr-api

Re: RFS: triggerhappy

2010-12-20 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-12-18 15:10, Stefan Tomanek wrote: > Dear mentors, > > > [...] > > Looking for a way of globally assigning hotkey handlers to the special keys > found on my notebooks, I developed triggerhappy. I also use it to control > headless systems,

Re: RFS: triggerhappy

2010-12-20 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-12-20 17:08, Stefan Tomanek wrote: > Dies schrieb Niels Thykier (ni...@thykier.net): > >> Though the upstream code might need a little attention (or some >> clarification); e.g. cppcheck finds a resource leak: >>

Re: RFS: triggerhappy

2010-12-21 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-12-20 21:20, Stefan Tomanek wrote: > Dies schrieb Niels Thykier (ni...@thykier.net): > >>>> Checking cmdsocket.c... >>>> [cmdsocket.c:126]: (error) Resource leak: fd > [...] >> Okay, perhaps you could

Re: RFS: triggerhappy

2010-12-21 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-12-21 11:48, Stefan Tomanek wrote: > Dies schrieb Niels Thykier (ni...@thykier.net): > >> It might be because you have a different version than I; I am using 1.44 >> (from testing). > > So am I: > > st

Re: Building and uploading package, depending on experimental

2010-12-26 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-12-26 14:18, Anton Gladky wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I want to upload a package to http://mentors.debian.net, which I am working > on (https://launchpad.net/yade). > Now I am trying to build the package with pbuilder. > The problem is, that

Re: RFS: failmalloc - Memory allocation failure crash-test tool (2nd try)

2011-01-04 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-01-04 12:31, Alessandro Ghedini wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "failmalloc". > Hey Thanks for your interest in Debian. This is indeed an interesting library. :) > * Package name: failmalloc > V

Re: RFS: failmalloc - Memory allocation failure crash-test tool (2nd try)

2011-01-04 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-01-04 16:40, Alessandro Ghedini wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 02:21:16PM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: >> I thinking that devel might be a better section than utils. Particularly >> the devel section covers "Development

Re: RFS: biomaj

2011-01-06 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-01-06 11:32, Olivier Sallou wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "biomaj". > > * Package name: biomaj > Version : 1.1.0-1 > Upstream Author : olivier.sal...@irisa.fr > * URL : http

Re: RFS: c2html (updated package)

2011-01-06 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-01-06 03:30, fulapol hl wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.9.6-4 > of my package "c2html". > > It builds these binary packages: > c2html - Highlight C sources for WWW presentation > > The upload wou

Re: RFS: googlizer (updated package)

2011-01-06 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-01-06 03:31, fulapol hl wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.3-4 > of my package "googlizer". > > It builds these binary packages: > googlizer - utility to search Google via your GNOME menu/panel > >

Re: RFS: c2html (updated package)

2011-01-10 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-01-09 04:23, Gildardo Adrian Maravilla Jacome wrote: > Ops, a very little (big) mistake I did. Update, and using experimental > as target. Uploaded to experimental, thanks for your contribution to Debian. Feel free to contact me directly n

Re: RFS: pev

2011-01-14 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-01-11 23:05, Fernando Mercês wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "pev". > > * Package name : pev > Version : 0.22-1 > Upstream Author : Fernando Mercês > * URL : http://coding40.mentebinaria.com.br > *

Re: RFS: libzeep

2011-01-14 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-01-11 08:26, Maarten L. Hekkelman wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "libzeep". > > * Package name: libzeep > Version : 2.0.1-1 > Upstream Author : Maarten L. Hekkelman > * URL :

Re: RFS: fgrun

2011-01-14 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-01-12 23:32, Chris Baines wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "fgrun". > > * Package name: fgrun > Version : 1.5.2-1 > Upstream Author : Frederic Bouvier (Project admin) > > * URL

Re: RFS: naev

2011-01-14 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-01-11 09:18, Vincent Cheng wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "naev". > > * Package name: naev > Version : 0.4.2 > Upstream Author : Edgar Simo "bobbens" > Nikola Whallo

Re: RFS: mangler

2011-01-14 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-01-09 09:13, Vincent Cheng wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "mangler". > > * Package name: mangler > Version : 1.2.1 > Upstream Author : Eric Connell, Daniel Sloof > * URL : ht

Re: RFS: rman (updated package)

2011-01-14 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-01-09 10:33, Anton Gladky wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 3.2-5 > of my package "rman". > > It builds these binary packages: > rman - PolyglotMan - Reverse compile man pages > > The package a

Re: RFS: libzeep

2011-01-15 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-01-14 20:31, Maarten L. Hekkelman wrote: > On 14-01-11 11:45, Niels Thykier wrote: > >> I tried to build your package, but it fails in a clean chroot. Most >> likely you are missing a Build-Depends or two. > > Tha

Re: RFS: fgrun

2011-01-15 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-01-14 16:36, Chris Baines wrote: > I did consider contacting the Games Team, but FGRun is related to > FlightGear, which is maintained by the Debian FlightGear Crew, so I > thought I would try there and the mentors list first. > > I will con

Re: RFS: libzeep

2011-01-17 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-01-17 12:18, Maarten L. Hekkelman wrote: > Op 15-01-11 23:13, Niels Thykier schreef: > >>I messed around a bit and the library appears to build just fine with >> - --no-add-needed (and --no-undefined), so it appe

Re: RFS: snake4 (updated package)

2011-01-17 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-01-16 21:33, michael wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.0.12-12 > of my package "snake4". > > It builds these binary packages: > snake4 - Snake game > > The upload would fix these bugs: 581387 (

Re: RFS: rman (updated package)

2011-01-18 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-01-17 22:04, Anton Gladky wrote: > Hi, Niels, > Hey > I have uploaded a new version of rman. Could you not, please, have a look? > It seems, that I have fixed all issues, which were suggested by you. > Sure; I have a question to the real

Re: RFS: rman (updated package)

2011-01-18 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-01-18 12:15, Anton Gladky wrote: > Hi, Niels, > > I have re-uploaded that. > > Thanks. > > Anton > > > > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Niels Thykier wrote: > On 2011-01-17 22

Re: RFS: pev

2011-01-18 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-01-16 02:16, Fernando Mercês wrote: > Niels, > > You're right in all points. Thank you for help. I've used the new tool > for DEP-5 and got no warnings. I've fixed the other issues too. > > Please, can you check the package now (already re-

Re: DEP5 and multiple copyrights for same file

2011-01-20 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-01-20 22:25, Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals (RainCT) wrote: > Hi Jean, > > Something likes this should do: > > -- > Files: gtk/core_math2.cc > Copyright: 2004-2010, Thomas Okken > Lic

Re: RFS: rman (updated package)

2011-01-21 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-01-18 17:38, Anton Gladky wrote: > Ups, sorry. > > Uploaded. > > Anton > > > > > [...] Hey Uploaded, thanks for your contribution to Debian and feel free to ping me privately if you have another upload of rman ready. :) ~Niels ---

Re: RFS: lilo (updated package)

2011-01-21 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-01-19 20:51, Joachim Wiedorn wrote: > Dear mentors, > Hey > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1:23.1-1 of my package > "lilo". > > It builds these binary packages: > lilo - LInux LOader - the classic OS boot loader > li

Re: RFS: snake4 (updated package)

2011-01-23 Thread Niels Thykier
an has a few cross package checks, which currently requires that lintian processes the package in a certain order. > So what do I need to do next? > > Kind regards > Michael Boegl > > Am Montag, den 17.01.2011, 13:15 +0100 schrieb Niels Thykier: > On 2011-01-16 21:33, m

Re: RFS: snake4 (updated package)

2011-02-02 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-01-23 16:05, michael wrote: > [...] Hey, Sorry for the late reply. I am taking the liberty of answering this one first. > Last questions : Is it a MUST to make those suggested changes? And if > not, what's next now? None of these suggest

Re: RFS: snake4 (updated package)

2011-02-05 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-02-05 13:39, Michael wrote: >> On 2011-01-23 16:05, michael wrote: >>> > > [...] >> > >> > >> > Hey, >> > >> > Sorry for the late reply. I am taking the liberty of answering this one >> > first. > That's o.k. although I feared I had picked

Re: RFS: snake4 (updated package)

2011-02-05 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-02-05 14:28, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 12:37:18AM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: > [snip] >> Finally there is this part, which I asked you to look at: >> >> ifneq (,$(findstring noopt,$(DEB_BUILD_O

Re: RFS: snake4 (updated package)

2011-02-07 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-02-05 14:51, Michael wrote: >> On 2011-02-05 13:39, Michael wrote: >> [...] >> > I am also perfectly fine with you simply removing the "noopt" CFLAGS >> > stuff. The problem with keeping it is that it implies that the package >> > supports it

Re: RFS: 9menu (updated package) (Second try)

2011-02-07 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-02-06 21:40, Daniel Echeverry wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.8-5 > of my package "9menu". > > It builds these binary packages: > 9menu - Creates X menus from the shell > > The package appea

Re: RFS: mpg321 (updated package, 2nd try)

2011-02-11 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-02-11 16:17, Nanakos Chrysostomos wrote: > Dear mentors, > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.2.13-1 of my package > "mpg321". > > It builds these binary packages: > > mpg321 - Simple and lighweight command line MP3 playe

Re: CFLAGS in d/rules (and Debian policy) [Was: Re: RFS: mpg321 (updated package, 2nd try)]

2011-02-12 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-02-12 11:24, Paul Gevers wrote: >> - The CFLAGS in d/rules overrides flags set by dpkg-buildflags, which >>makes it more difficult to rebuild the package with different default >>flags (see man dpkg-buildflags). > > I see that the e

Re: I'm the new developer on parcellite, but the debian maintainer for it hasn't responded

2011-03-10 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-03-10 15:40, doug Springer wrote: > Hi, > I started developing parcellite because I didn't want it to disappear > from the repositories. > > I've been developing parcellite for several months now and have a new > release that's been tested a

Re: I'm the new developer on parcellite, but the debian maintainer for it hasn't responded

2011-03-11 Thread Niels Thykier
ope will reply within a couple of days. If you want an active part in maintaining parcellite, your best option right is to offer to become a co-maintainership. [1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/parcellite/news/20110306T041708Z.html > Best Regards, > Doug Springer > > > On 03/10/20

Re: RFS: sciteproj (updated package)

2011-03-18 Thread Niels Thykier
non-free > - dget > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/sciteproj/sciteproj_0.4.01-1.dsc > > I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. > > Niels Thykier, who normally uploads this package for me hasn't got the > possibility to do it this time. > &

Re: RFS: lilo (updated package, RC bug fix)

2011-03-22 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-03-20 16:18, Joachim Wiedorn wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1:23.1-2 > of my package "lilo". > > It builds these binary packages: > lilo - LInux LOader - the classic OS boot loader > lilo-doc

Re: Help with lintian

2011-04-02 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-04-02 10:11, Chris Carr wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm puzzled by this warning from lintian: > > chrisc@xaphod:/var/cache/pbuilder/result$ lintian -Ivi --pedantic > angband_3.2.0-1_i386.changes > N: Setting up lab in /tmp/esv0j1oUBP ... > N: Pro

Re: How are directories managed.

2011-04-12 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-04-12 03:56, Paul Elliott wrote: > > This may be a FAQ but I could not find the answer in the documentation: > > How are directories managed? When does a directory get deleted? What is the > lifetime of a directory? Is a directory owned by

Re: RFS: nautilus-image-manipulator

2011-04-14 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-04-14 22:27, Emilien Klein wrote: > [...] > > Also, I have installed Squeeze in a VM. Since running the packaging in > Debian directly, Lintian is not complaining anymore about using a too > recent Standards-Version. With that, all 3 of Juli

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