Re: Override paths for the very latest lintian.

2011-04-28 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-04-28 01:02, David Kalnischkies wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 23:59, Mats Erik Andersson > wrote: >> This potentially could make fairly many override instances >> inapplicable for present day packaging, so I hope to hear >> an initiated v

Re: When to update public key?

2011-05-06 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-05-06 03:35, Andres Mejia wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to update my outdated public key signed by one DD (it's a 1024D key). > I > already have a new key (4096R key) signed by at least one other DD (not the > same DD). I've signed my new

Re: RFS: jchart2d

2011-05-10 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-05-10 11:53, Christian Lins wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "jchart2d". > > * Package name: jchart2d > Version : 3.2.1-1 > Upstream Author : Achim Westermann > * URL : http:/

Re: ITS: triggerhappy

2011-05-10 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-04-13 21:07, Stefan Tomanek wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "triggerhappy". > > * Package name: triggerhappy > Version : 0.3.4-2 > Upstream Author : Stefan Tomanek > * URL :

Re: ITS: triggerhappy

2011-05-10 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-05-10 22:51, Stefan Tomanek wrote: > Dies schrieb Niels Thykier (ni...@thykier.net): > Hi >> debian/copyright says it its GPL-3 or any later, but the license header >> in the source files merely say: >> >>

Re: ITS: triggerhappy

2011-05-11 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-05-11 00:08, Stefan Tomanek wrote: > Dies schrieb Niels Thykier (ni...@thykier.net): > >> To say "GPLv3" or "GPLv3 or any later"? (I did not check the tarball for >> the reasons listed below) > &

Re: How to tell cdbs to work only on 2 out of 7 debs in debian/control?

2011-05-23 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-05-23 04:15, Regid Ichira wrote: > debian/control of the nut source package has about 7 binary debs, > > say A ... G. They are built using cdbs. What should I put in debian/rules in > order to build only A and B? > The rules file tha

Re: how to get people to run lintian on their packages

2011-07-07 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2011-07-07 23:05, Benoît Knecht wrote: > Hi Paul, > > Paul Wise wrote: >> [...] > > I think three things are currently unclear: > > - lintian should be run on the .changes file before uploading a > package to mentors, in order to check both the source and binary > package (I know I

Re: how to get people to run lintian on their packages

2011-07-07 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2011-07-08 00:34, Rodolfo kix Garcia wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jul 2011 23:05:03 +0200, Benoît Knecht wrote: >> Hi Paul, >> >> Paul Wise wrote: >>> It is rare to see an RFS that says "The package appears to be lintian >>> clean." and the package (especially binary ones) actually be lintian >>> clean. I

Re: RFS: Jampal (2nd try)

2011-07-10 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2011-07-10 16:45, Peter Bennett wrote: > Hi Benoît > Hi > I am about to release a new version of jampal, and I have addressed most > of these issues (see below) in my latest debian build. However I still > have a couple of questions. > I am using wheezy/sid x86_64 > This is the lintian report

Re: RFS: fribid

2011-07-11 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi On 2011-07-11 23:46, Samuel Lidén Borell wrote: > >> Please recheck with lintian, I'm getting a couple of warnings here: >> W: fribid source: debian-rules-missing-recommended-target build-arch >> W: fribid source: out-of-date-standards-version 3.9.1 (current is 3.9.2) >> >> Please check debi

Re: Please try expo.debian.net -- a replacement for mentors.debian.net

2011-07-26 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2011-07-26 22:01, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Kilian Krause wrote: > >> [...] >> * output from lintian -IX --pedantic > > Difficulty: 0 (super easy) > > (step 0: get the latest code from git) > > Step 1: edit debexpo/plugins/lintian.py > > Right now, we call lintian like th

Re: Debhelper doesn't know the ‘build-stamp’ target, but Lintian recommends it

2011-07-27 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2011-07-27 10:17, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 08:23:42AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: >> Kilian Krause writes: >> >>> [...] >> Should Lintian's recommendation be changed? > > Quite possibly, I'm sure the lintian maintainers would be happy to have > improved help text. [...] Hi I

Re: RFS: libstring-tokenizer-perl

2011-07-30 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2011-07-30 21:47, Ben Webb wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "libstring-tokenizer-perl". > > * Package name: libstring-tokenizer-perl > Version : 0.05-2 > Upstream Author : Stevan Little, > * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Stri

Re: Adding symbols files to the tango package.

2011-08-01 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2011-08-01 10:28, Picca Frédéric-Emmanuel wrote: > «...] > > BUT, I would like your opinion about a dpkg-gensymbols concern. > I uploaded this package [1] to obtain the build log and then modify the > symbol files depending on the arch > It seems that the patch generated by dpkg-gensymbols dur

ITR: Re: looking for sponsor for my package "jscribble"

2011-08-01 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2011-07-31 10:06, Martin wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "jscribble". > > * Package name: jscribble > Version : 1.0 > Upstream Author : Martin Ueding (me) > * URL : https://launchpad.net/jscribble > * License : GPL v2 >

Re: looking for sponsor for my package "jscribble"

2011-08-01 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2011-07-31 10:06, Martin wrote: > Dear mentors, > Hi, I have reviewed your package and there some issues with it. It may appear as if I am tearing your package completely apart, but it is intended as constructive criticism to improve your package. The package does not close an ITP (Intend To

Re: looking for sponsor for my package "jscribble"

2011-08-02 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2011-08-02 03:42, Martin Ueding wrote: > Dear Niels, > Hi, > >> I have reviewed your package and there some issues with it. It may >> appear as if I am tearing your package completely apart, but it is >> intended as constructive criticism to improve your package. > > Thank you very much for

Re: Doubt about library version

2011-08-03 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2011-08-03 11:28, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > Hi, > > [...] >> the wmaker package includes some libraries in the upstream source. >> One of this libraries includes some files (WMaker.h and libMaker.*). >> This files are not in the source tree now (were removed from the git >> because they are n

Re: RFS: dfu-programmer

2011-08-05 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2011-08-05 01:01, Rodolphe Pelloux-Prayer wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "dfu-programmer". > > * Package name: dfu-programmer >Version : 0.5.4-0.2 >Upstream Author : weston_schm...@alumni.purdue.edu > * URL : http://dfu-pr

Default options for Lintian (Was: Re: RFS: fgo)

2011-08-06 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2011-08-06 15:31, Christopher Baines wrote: > [...] > Thanks, I have now fixed these, issues and uploaded the fixed package. > > After finally guessing the correct syntax for the lintian config file > (~/.lintianrc), I was able to make the -I and --pedantic options > permanent: > pedantic = 1

Re: In a single binary source package how does one fail to install some files? It did not work

2011-08-17 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2011-08-17 19:58, Paul Elliott wrote: > On Wednesday, August 17, 2011 04:46:30 AM Arno Töll wrote: >> [...] >> By the way, dh_install also has a -X option ... >> >>-Xitem, --exclude=item >>Exclude files that contain item anywhere in their filename >> from being installed. >

Re: Solving lintian warnings for multi-package roxterm

2011-08-17 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2011-08-17 22:19, Tony Houghton wrote: > I've split roxterm in to three packages: > > roxterm-legacy: binaries compiled and linked with GTK2 > roxterm: binaries compiled and linked with GTK3 > roxterm-common: All the other files > > roxterm-legacy and roxterm Conflict with each other and both

Re: I need help to solve lintian messages about NMU and linking with openssl

2011-08-17 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2011-08-18 08:24, Carsten Ringe wrote: > Dear debian-mentors, > Hi > I'm trying to build a package for s3fs. The package was originally > built by Loïc Minier and I started with his files in the debian > directory. > > But there are some lintian messages that I'm trying to solve now. This >

Re: packaging java resources with javahelper

2011-08-22 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2011-08-22 02:34, Wookey wrote: > I've been packaging a couple of java applications, using javahelper. > This has all gone very well except that I have a problem getting > non-class-file resources into the jar files. Both apps are GUI apps. > terraintool has an 'images' directory and tunnelx has

Re: Shared libs dependencies

2011-09-24 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2011-09-23 15:18, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Ole Streicher , 2011-09-23, 15:08: >> I have the feeling, that lintian is quite lazy about shared libs; at >> least it does not complain about a missing shlibs file. > > Of course it does. > dh_makeshlibs generates such a shlibs file for you in your bui

Re: RFS: eclipse-jgit

2011-10-25 Thread Niels Thykier
(BCC'ed to mentors as well to avoid duplicate work) On 2011-10-24 18:59, Jakub Adam wrote: > Dear mentors and java packagers, > Hi Jakub, First of thanks for looking at the eclipse plugins, it is greatly appreciated. :) I see you have not added yourself to uploaders of this package, despite own

Re: RFS: libgnujaf-java

2011-10-25 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2011-10-25 20:02, Jakub Adam wrote: > Dear mentors and java packagers, > > I am looking for a sponsor for package "libgnujaf-java". > > [...] > Hi, > Package is already in Debian, but installed jar archive is missing OSGi > metadata in its > manifest that I need there to be able to use this

Re: eiskaltdcpp (updated package)

2011-11-06 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2011-11-05 19:52, Boris Pek wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "eiskaltdcpp". > > Package was uploaded to m.d.n almost month ago (09 Oct 2011). And nobody > interested to upload it in Debian. So I make this request. > > There are such changes in this updated

Re: debian/rules override_dh_auto_build-indep

2011-11-10 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2011-11-10 08:20, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Hi all, > Hi > I have been trying to split indep operations from the rest on the > activiz.net package, see: > > http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-med/trunk/packages/activiz.net/trunk/debian/rules?view=markup > > However the -indep rule

Re: Where to place man-pages, when building multiple packages

2011-11-10 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2011-11-10 10:01, Björn Esser wrote: > Hi there! > Hi, > I'm just working on packaging. When I build on source into 2 pkgs. > > Theese are the two packages: > > jailkit -- here go all the c-binaries > jailkit-common -- here go python-scripts, manpages, other no-arch > > After building

Re: Additional lintian warnings in mentors upload

2011-11-10 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2011-11-10 10:59, Ole Wolf wrote: > I've noticed that the lintian check on my mentors uploads are a bit more > strict than the lintian checks on my PC; for example, lintian on mentors > catches version numbering intended for debian native packages. I want to > eliminate such warnings and errors

Re: Where to place man-pages, when building multiple packages

2011-11-10 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2011-11-10 11:55, Arno Töll wrote: > Hi, > On 10.11.2011 10:01, Björn Esser wrote: >> jailkit -- here go all the c-binaries >> jailkit-common -- here go python-scripts, manpages, other no-arch > > why? Wouldn't it make slightly more sense to put the manpage where the > corresponding executa

ITS: scrotwm (already in Debian)

2011-11-10 Thread Niels Thykier
-- scrotwm-0.9.34/debian/changelog 2011-11-09 18:04:29.0 +0100 +++ scrotwm-0.9.34/debian/changelog 2011-11-10 12:37:38.0 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +scrotwm (0.9.34-1.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low + + * Use buildflags.mk from dpkg-dev to set default buildflags. +- Enables hardning flags. + +

Re: ITS: scrotwm (already in Debian)

2011-11-10 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2011-11-10 17:08, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 12:56:57PM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> As the subject suggests I am willing to sponsor the package. :) > > I’m glad to hear that! > Hi, >> But >> before I do; h

Re: ITS: scrotwm (already in Debian)

2011-11-11 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2011-11-11 11:22, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:13:04PM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: > Hi >[...] >> >> If you are going to send a patch upstream anyway, you might as well make >> it possible to insert user *FLAGS after the "upstream flags

Re: ITS: scrotwm (already in Debian)

2011-11-11 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2011-11-12 01:16, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 12:19:16AM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: > >>> I’ve also noticed that the makefile snippet exporting the hardening build >>> flags takes care of enabling optimization and handling >>> DEB_BUI

Re: How to pass CFLAGS to upstream's Makefile with debhlepler ?

2011-11-13 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2011-11-14 06:12, Charles Plessy wrote: > Dear all, > > trying to pass dpkg-buildglags' settings to an upstream build system > (http://git.debian.org/?p=debian-med/bwa.git), I found no other way than > patching their makefile, basically replacing > > CFLAGS = -g -Wall -O2 > > with >

Re: multiarch and lintian

2011-11-21 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2011-11-21 22:29, Simon Paillard wrote: > Hi, > Hi, > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 11:48:12PM +, Debian FTP Masters wrote: >> Reject Reasons: >> most: lintian output: 'binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath usr/bin/most >> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu', automatically rejected package. >> most: If you hav

Re: Hardening-check reports on hardened object

2013-02-20 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-02-20 09:56, Olе Streicher wrote: > Just override lintian? > > Best > > Ole Yes. ~Niels -- 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/51249588.8060...@

Bug#695991: RFS: awstats/7.1~dfsg-1 (2nd try)

2013-02-21 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-02-08 08:16, Sergey Kirpichev wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "awstats". I have problems > getting in touch with the Debian Developer (Jonas Smedegaard) that > I've originally worked with. Could someone else update my DM flag as > per new procedure[1

Re: RFS: awstats/7.1~dfsg-1 (2nd try)

2013-02-23 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-02-22 16:59, Sergey Kirpichev wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 1:59 AM, Niels Thykier wrote: >> I think I could be convinced to do at least a onetime upload of the package. > > Thank you. Let's hope someday I can handle package myself, as before. > Indeed.

Re: RFS: awstats/7.1~dfsg-1 (2nd try)

2013-02-24 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-02-23 12:26, Sergey B Kirpichev wrote: >> The reason I am asking is that if we do this upload to unstable and >> later we find an annoying important bug (i.e. severity important), then >> we can no longer fix it for Wheezy[1]. > > Looks like there is testing-proposed-updates for that, isn'

Re: Build Debian packages for multiple architectures

2013-03-18 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-03-18 18:15, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 06:17:01PM +0200, Andrii Senkovych wrote: >> Hello, debian-mentors >> >> I'm sorry in advance if this is the wrong list to ask. >> >> TL;DR: how to build and upload properly packages that provide >> both arch=all and arch=any bin

Re: Sponsorship

2013-04-20 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-04-20 23:56, Nathan Owens wrote: > Is there a way I can find out who my previous sponsor for my package > 'dwb' is? > > who-uploads dwb ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debia

Re: Lintian false positive about virtual package depends?

2013-05-11 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-05-11 20:32, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2013-05-11 20:17 +0200, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: > >> On 11/05/13 20:10, Sven Joachim wrote: >>> On 2013-05-11 19:50 +0200, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: >>> Does anyone know why lintian would think that libmpich-dev, which is a

Re: How to handle a package triggering ice or segv during build?

2013-06-17 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-06-17 11:59, Thomas Moulard wrote: > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Paul Wise wrote: >> [...] >> >> So what you need to do is move the building of the documentation into >> the build-indep debian/rules target (instead of the build target). >> That way it will not be built and thrown away

Re: pdebuild without orig.tar.gz

2013-06-30 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-06-30 18:21, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: > Hi! > > I'm having some problems using pdebuild recently. I'm pretty sure this > command worked before, and I have updated my pbuilder chroot. > > I don't have a orig.tar.gz, so I ask it to build a binary package, but I > get this: > > ***

Re: help to fix lintian problems, NMU issue

2013-07-08 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-07-08 21:04, Tong Sun wrote: > Hi, > Hi, > I'm trying to fix the following issues: > > W: libpam-ssh-agent-auth source: changelog-should-mention-nmu > W: libpam-ssh-agent-auth source: source-nmu-has-incorrect-version-number > 0.9.5-2 > > I don't want to do a NMU because there hasn't

Re: Upgrading the Debian Policy

2013-09-24 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-09-24 14:38, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > Hi, > The package that I want to pick up has a status: > > "The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian > Policy (Standards-Version 3.9.4 instead of 3.8.3)". > > I never knew the details of Debian Policy before, but did try

Re: Upgrading the Debian Policy

2013-09-24 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-09-24 14:48, Dominik George wrote: >> If I can fix all lintian reported issues, it'll be safe to say that I've >> > bring the package to the last version of Debian Policy, right? > No. It is safe to say that if, and only if, you bump the > Standards-Version field to 3.9.4 and *then* have

Re: Upgrading the Debian Policy

2013-09-24 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-09-24 16:42, Dominik George wrote: > > > Andrew Shadura schrieb: >> Hello, >> >> On 24 September 2013 14:48, Dominik George wrote: >> lintian --color=always -I -E -i --pedantic >>> lintian -vIiE --pedantic --color=auto >> >> Properly reads as -Evil :) > > Hi, > > please fix your

Re: Javahelper automatic depends

2013-10-07 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-10-07 19:37, Wookey wrote: > I just packaged caveconverter (a fairly small simple command-line java > package), which uses ant as a build system. > (currently in new: > http://ftp-master.debian.org/new/caveconverter_0~20130921-2.html ) > Hi, > This all worked fine, except that using > De

Re: About the testing transition known as auto-libunwind

2013-12-22 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-12-22 03:45, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > I want to adopt the par2cmdline package, but on its QA page, > http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/par2cmdline.html > it says, > > ,- > | "This package is part of the ongoing testing transition known as > | auto-libunwind. Please avoid uploads unre

Bug#726791: willing to sponsor awstats

2013-12-28 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-12-28 16:20, Willi Mann wrote: > Hello Sergey, Hello Niels, > > I'd be willing to look at awstats 7.2~dfsg-1 and upload it if it looks > OK to me. Hi Willi, Thanks for considering. > Is there a packaging-related reason why Niels did not upload > it for you so far? > > Bye > Willi >

Re: dpkg-source: version does not contain a revision

2014-01-03 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-01-03 21:28, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > What's the cause (and fix) of the following error? > >dpkg-source -b dbab-1.0.1 > dpkg-source: error: can't build with source format '3.0 (quilt)': > version does not contain a revision > dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source -b dbab-1.0.1 g

Re: dch -i injects "urgency=medium"

2014-01-05 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-01-05 10:06, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 01/05/2014 04:55 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: >> Hi, >> >> since some days I noticed that a `dch -i` creates an entry with >> "urgency=medium" instead of "urgency=low". Anybody with the same >> observation and what might be the reason for this? >> >> Kin

Re: qiime REMOVED from testing

2014-01-21 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-01-21 19:45, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > Hi Andreas and d-mentors, > I hope this is the correct list to ask this questions - if not please > redirect me (and also please CC me in your reply). [debian-mentors in > CC as well - may be some other people have a similar problem.] > Seems l

Re: qiime REMOVED from testing

2014-01-22 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-01-22 00:43, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > On 21/01/14 18:45, Andreas Tille wrote: >> However, it is kicked because of an "old libffi" dependency. I realised >> that it had in fact >> >>libffi6 (>= 3.0.4) >> >> in its dependencies which was included via >> >>${shlibs:Depends} or >>

Re: Help: Bug#733407: maude: FTBFS: surface.yy:63:67: error: 'parseResult' was not declared in this scope

2014-01-27 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-01-27 20:30, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > does anybody have a clue how to fix this C++ issue? > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > It is not a C++ issue, but a change in bison you are looking at. I had a similar issue with mscgen not too long ago[1]. ~Niels [1] http://packages

Re: Help: Bug#733407: maude: FTBFS: surface.yy:63:67: error: 'parseResult' was not declared in this scope

2014-01-27 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-01-27 20:30, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > does anybody have a clue how to fix this C++ issue? > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > It is not a C++ issue, but a change in bison you are looking at. I had a similar issue with mscgen not too long ago[1]. ~Niels [1] http://packages

Re: Help: Bug#733407: maude: FTBFS: surface.yy:63:67: error: 'parseResult' was not declared in this scope

2014-01-27 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-01-27 22:31, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Niels, > > I guess you want to tell me that I want something like > > > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/mscgen.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/language.y-parse-param.patch;hb=HEAD > > applied to maude code. I need to admit that I'm

Re: lintian usage and inconsistence problem

2014-01-27 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-01-27 23:41, Etienne Millon wrote: > * T o n g [140127 23:37]: >> $ lintian -EviIL +pedantic --color auto --display-experimental >> ../*.dsc >> [...] >> I.e., when I invoke lintian manually, I didn't see problems reported >> by debuild. > > Hi Tong, > > Lintian can check both source p

Re: Moving a package (to non-free)

2014-02-01 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-01-30 09:33, Оlе Ѕtrеісhеr wrote: > Hi, > Hi, CC'ing the FTP masters. > I was trying to move a package (iausofa-c) from main to non-free with a > new version. In the developers reference [1], the according paragraph is > 5.9.1: > > >> If you need to change the section for one of your

Re: debian/copyright + cc-by-sa

2014-02-09 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-02-09 16:51, Felix Natter wrote: > hi, > > I couldn't find a short version of the "CC-BY-SA-3.0" license. > -> now I am using this: > > Files: ./freeplane_framework/script/freeplane.svg >./freeplane_framework/script/freeplane.png > Copyright: 2013-2014 Robert Gibson > License: CC-

Re: debian/copyright + cc-by-sa

2014-02-09 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-02-09 17:29, Felix Natter wrote: > Hi Niels, > > Niels Thykier writes: >> There is no "short" version you can use in d/copyright - you have to >> list the full license of CC-BY-SA-3.0 as it is not in common-licenses. >> Though, if you have it in a s

Re: Testing excuse "Section: non-free/science"

2014-03-02 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-03-02 12:05, Оlе Ѕtrеісhеr wrote: > Hi, > > after I moved one of my packages (iausofa-c) from main to non-free, I > had for some time the problem that the source still appeared in > main. This, however, was solved "somehow" without any notice. > > However, now I get the migration "excuse"

Re: psocksxx/1.1.0-2

2016-09-02 Thread Niels Thykier
Andrey Rahmatullin: > On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 10:57:07AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >>> * Set compatlevel at debian/compat to 10. >> >> Is using compat 10 already officially endorsed/allowed? > The manpage says "This compatibility level is open for beta testing; > changes may occur."

Re: Bug#837798: RFS: libcgicc/3.2.16-0.1 NMU -- C++ class library for writing CGI applications

2016-10-11 Thread Niels Thykier
Gianfranco Costamagna: > Hi, > >> I have uploaded a new package to mentors, with the two outstanding > >> issues fixed. > > not sure... > I see you forgot to probably run dh_clean > (I see debian/autoreconf.before and debian/autoreconf.after files) > > [...] > > G. > That needs a "dh_autor

Re: lintian: spelling

2016-10-20 Thread Niels Thykier
Jerome BENOIT: > Hello Forum, is there a list where we can deal on how correct spelling error > as detected by lintian ? > > For the curious. In the source, there is the sentence: > > :param int max_no_dec: number of rounds we allow to be stuck > > > and lintian complains as follows: >

Bug#841536: hdparm/9.50+ds-1

2016-10-21 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 moreinfo On Fri, 21 Oct 2016 14:46:32 +0200 Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > Package: sponsorship-requests > Severity: wishlist > X-Debbugs-Cc: mailatgo...@gmail.com > > Dear mentors, > > [...] > > Best regards, > Alex Hi Alex, Thanks for your contribution. Have you informed up

Re: Debian packaging for packages that provide the same files

2017-01-11 Thread Niels Thykier
J.T. Conklin: > [...] > > A complication is that each platform config package installs the same > set of files, so the normal package build technique of having all files > being installed to a common staging directory and each package's files > being selected by the debian/.install doesn't work. >

Re: Preference for build or debhelper installing systemd unit files?

2017-01-11 Thread Niels Thykier
J.T. Conklin: > My question, in the case where the same organization/people are > responsible for both the software and the debian packaging, is whether > there is a preference of which method is used. > > --jtc Hi, If you are (working on/with) upstream and doing the packaging, I believe ma

Re: How to ensure GLX extension in xfvb

2017-01-14 Thread Niels Thykier
Andreas Tille: > Hi, > > I'd like to fix the autopkgtest of njplot. The current code in Git[1] is > executing: > > xvfb-run --auto-servernum --server-num=20 -s '-screen 0 1024x768x24 -ac > +extension GLX +render' /usr/bin/njplot -psonly example.phb > X server has no GLX extension - required to

Re: Backporting shibboleth-sp2 2.6.0+dfsg1-4 to jessie: dh-systemd, piuparts and lintian errors

2017-01-17 Thread Niels Thykier
Etienne Dysli-Metref: > Hello mentors, > > Since shibboleth-sp2 2.6.0+dfsg1-4 migrated to testing during the > holidays, I'm now backporting it to jessie. So far there is nothing to > change, however piuparts gives me the following error (which does not > appear on stretch): > >> [...] > > So I

Re: Backporting shibboleth-sp2 2.6.0+dfsg1-4 to jessie: dh-systemd, piuparts and lintian errors

2017-01-18 Thread Niels Thykier
Etienne Dysli-Metref: > On 17/01/17 18:30, Niels Thykier wrote: >>>> E: libshibsp7: postinst-must-call-ldconfig >>>> usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libshibsp.so.7.0.0 >> >> This lintian error: >> >> * is aimed at stretch or later, and >> * shou

Re: HELP: Fixing a debconf bug in proftpd

2017-01-24 Thread Niels Thykier
Hilmar Preuße: > Hi, > > we got bug #820984 on debconf a while ago. I'm not very familiar w/ > debconf, hence I had a look into the templates/config delivered w/ > debconf itself. > I'm my eyes the code in proftpd is about a 1:1 copy of the code in > debconf, nevertheless it does not work as expec

Re: I would like to renew my request to delay the removal of maitreya from testing.

2014-06-24 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-06-25 07:40, Paul Elliott wrote: > [...] > > Therefore, I would like to request additional delay to sometime > after libwxsqlite3-3.0-dev reaches testing. As matters > now stand there is no way I can reach the deadline of > -- maitreya 7.0.5-1 is marked for autoremoval from testing on 201

Re: where are these lintian problems coming from

2014-07-12 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-07-12 09:36, Vincent Bernat wrote: > ❦ 12 juillet 2014 05:19 GMT, T o n g : > >> Do I need to care about the lintian problems from the binary package that >> I maintain/build? > > Yes, you need to handle at least errors and warnings. > >> For the following problems, I have no idea whe

Re: Testing migragtion of beast-mcmc is blocked but I have no idea why

2014-10-25 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-10-25 13:00, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=beast-mcmc > > says: > > beast-mcmc/i386 unsatisfiable Depends: libnucleotidelikelihoodcore0 (>= > 1.8.0-1) > > but I have asked ftpmaster for removal of beast-mcmc from arch i386 and > packages.de

Re: Python logo license

2015-02-28 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-02-28 16:37, Daniel Stender wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've got the official Python logo image [1] here in a package. > > 1) what would be the proper license for that file in deb/copyright? > > 2) what's the best place in Debian to ask copyright/licensing related > questions like this in the

Re: RC-bug listed on https://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/debian/all.html

2015-03-31 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-04-01 08:06, Werner Detter wrote: > Hi folks, > > just a short question - a bug which has already been taken care of for wheezy > and jessie is > still listed as RC bug at > https://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/debian/all.html > > Package: policyd-weight (debian/main). > Maintaine

Re: Why are old bug reports left open?

2015-06-02 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-06-02 20:10, Thaddeus H. Black wrote: > [...] > If I were the maintainer, I believe that I would have closed a bug like this. > The actual maintainer however (now emeritus) is smarter than me. He did not > close it. This suggests that he knew something I do not understand about > prop

Re: blocked migration from unstable to testing: old binaries left

2015-06-18 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-06-18 14:55, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 8:22 PM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > >> what am I supposed to do for unblocking ? > > You started a (minor) transition without involving the release team, > please read this: > > https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ReleaseTeam/Transitions > >

Re: blocked migration from unstable to testing: old binaries left

2015-06-18 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-06-19 02:48, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello, > > thanks for your prompt reply. > > On 18/06/15 14:55, Paul Wise wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 8:22 PM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> >>> what am I supposed to do for unblocking ? >> >> You started a (minor) transition without involving the relea

Re: blocked migration from unstable to testing: old binaries left

2015-06-28 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-06-19 15:21, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hi Again: > > On 19/06/15 14:52, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> Hi: >> >> On 19/06/15 08:07, Niels Thykier wrote: >>>[...] >>> >>> Yes, provided it depends on the correct -dev packages. Though it might >

Re: blocked migration from unstable to testing: old binaries left

2015-07-07 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-07-07 14:50, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello Niels and all: > > As the last package of ovito, which does not depends on tachyon any more, > has reached testing, I think that the tachyon package can now migrate to > testing: > how can we unblock its migration ? > > Thanks, > Jerome > > [..

Re: Granting DM rights as a sponsor

2015-07-15 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-07-15 08:45, Ole Streicher wrote: > Vincent Cheng writes: >> There are tools available in the archive to make this entire process >> relatively painless (dput-ng) > > But dcut-ng is not in Debian? > > $ apt-get install dcut-ng > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree

Re: Package not migrating

2017-08-18 Thread Niels Thykier
Ole Streicher: > Andrey Rahmatullin writes: >> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 08:42:37PM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: >>> * Not touching package due to block request by adsb (check >>> https://release.debian.org/testing/freeze_policy.html if update is >>> needed) >> https://release.debian.org/britney

Re: Package not migrating

2017-08-20 Thread Niels Thykier
Ole Streicher: > Hi Nils, > Hi, > Niels Thykier writes: >> Ole Streicher: >>> Andrey Rahmatullin writes: >>>> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 08:42:37PM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: >> The package is affected by the same issue that chocolate-doom was in the &

Re: dh_installdocs --link-doc not allowed between arch dep & arch indep?

2017-09-30 Thread Niels Thykier
أحمد المحمودي: > Hello > > The package pcb builds 2 arch. dependent packages (pcb-gtk & pcb-lesstif) and > an arch independent package (pcb-common) which contains data and > documentation. Hence the arch. dependent packages depend on this arch > independent package. > > Previously I ran: > dh

Bug#881946: RFS: keychain/2.8.4+dfsg-1 [ITA]

2017-11-16 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: owner -1 On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 18:45:58 -0200 Paulo Ricardo Paz Vital wrote: > Package: sponsorship-requests > Severity: normal > > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "keychain" > > * Package name: keychain >Version : 2.8.4+dfsg-1 >Upstream

Bug#881946: RFS: keychain/2.8.4+dfsg-1 [ITA]

2017-11-16 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 moreinfo Paulo Ricardo Paz Vital: > Package: sponsorship-requests > Severity: normal > > Dear mentors, > > [...] Hi, I have done an initial review of the changes and I have a few remarks. Please CC me directly on any follow ups to this bug. > > Changes since the last upload:

Re: Why debian use postinst for declarative actions?

2018-03-05 Thread Niels Thykier
George Shuklin: > On 05/03/18 14:35, Paul Wise wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 7:08 PM, George Shuklin wrote: >> >>> There is a big question with torture me for awhile. Why some purely >>> declarative operations are performed by non-standard postinst scripts? >> Probably dpkg doesn't support decla

Re: cmake packages fail to build since yesterday even if package has build before

2018-04-08 Thread Niels Thykier
Mattia Rizzolo: > On Sun, Apr 08, 2018 at 10:25:44AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: >> since yesterday packages using cmake are failing. >> Nothing inside libbpp-seq was changed that should affect the build >> process. I have the same problem with other cmake based packages. >> >> Any clue what might

Re: Bug#891890: ITP: zfs-linux-git -- zfsonlinux packaging tracking git master

2018-06-22 Thread Niels Thykier
Antonio Russo: > On 6/22/18 4:17 AM, Fabian Grünbichler wrote: >> >> as promised, and unfortunately delayed a bit longer than I wanted. >> thanks for the initial push - some of the points are more for a >> discussion with upstream regarding their inclusion of some variant of >> this, some are for d

Bug#902225: RFS: ii/1.8-1

2018-08-08 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 moreinfo -pending On Sat, 23 Jun 2018 15:09:00 + itd wrote: > Package: sponsorship-requests > Severity: normal > > Dear mentors, > > @Nico: I added myself to Uploaders. Please shout, if that is not what > you meant in #890995 [1]. > > [...] > > Changes since the last uplo

Bug#902225: RFS: ii/1.8-1

2018-08-08 Thread Niels Thykier
itd: > Hi, > > thanks for the review! > > Niels Thykier: >> # The remark: > Oops! Fixed, thanks. (Updated Build-Dependency on debhelper.) > Ack. :) >> * Relicense the patches to the same as upstream (requires approval from >>the previous maintaine

Re: nodoc solution HOWTO -- Avoid building Sphinx documentation on request (was: Bug#905750: RFS: elpy/1.23.0-1)

2018-09-04 Thread Niels Thykier
Nicholas D Steeves: > Hi Ben and readers of debian-mentors, > > Solution at bottom. > > [...] > > "export DEB_BUILD_PROFILES=nodoc ; gbp buildpackage" does not work, > although I expect "DEB_BUILD_PROFILES=nodoc ; export > DEB_BUILD_PROFILES ; gbp buildpackage" should. > Rather, I think there

Re: Elastix: dh_testroot: You must run this as root (or use fakeroot).

2019-01-14 Thread Niels Thykier
Andreas Tille: > Hi, > > I intend to upgrade elastix[1] but I'm running into: > > > ... > [100%] Built target itkMevisDicomTiffImageIOTest > make[2]: Leaving directory '/build/elastix-4.9.0/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu' > /usr/bin/cmake -E cmake_progress_start > /build/elastix-4.9.0/obj-x86_64-linux-gn

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