Hey Neil,
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 11:02:40AM +, Neil Williams wrote:
> Good, that's the kind of RFS I like to see - just one thing missing,
> this is an existing package:
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/u/ustr.html
just a quick note (and question): He indicated that this package isn't
new, by
Hi Francisco,
IANADD so I cannot sponsor your upload. However I think my comments may
be useful for you. CC'ing my AM: Eventually he has additional comments
and/or is willing to sponsor your upload, when everything okay.
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 01:22:42AM +0100, Francisco García wrote:
> - dget h
Hi Joel,
IANADD, anyways here are some comments about your sponsoring request
that might be useful.
First of all:
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 01:04:48AM -0300, Joel Franco wrote:
> It builds these binary packages:
> nettee - a network "tee" program
It would be a good idea to include a long desc
Hi Francisco,
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:53:34AM +0100, Francisco García wrote:
> I have made the changes that you suggest me. I think
> the package is better now.
all at all good work. But still one comment:
Run lintian with -I and you will see this:
I: lynis: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/sha
Hi,
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:46:27PM -0300, Joel Franco wrote:
> A long description is really difficult because the 2 words say all :)
no, they don't. Imagine you would be someone who is interested in
cloning a system, but you never heard about tee or netcat. How could the
maintainer of such a
Hi Joel,
sorry for answering myself so late, but I have been busy these days (and
I am still but I'm trying to keep up today).
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 12:02:10AM -0300, Joel Franco wrote:
> However, if you look ate the Debian available packages today, you will
> see that the most do not follow th
Hi Joel,
I wonder if you got my mail below, because I saw that I did not send it
to you directly (it was only addressed to
debian-mentors@lists.debian.org). Did you receive my comments?
Any progress on your package?
Best Regards,
Patrick
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 09:40:45AM +0100, Patrick
[CCing the maintainer of dbconfig-common because his input would be
highly useful]
Hi,
I have a question regarding database upgrades with dbconfig-common.
Currently I have the problem that I have some situations where a
database fix is needed (in case one had a very old version of the
package ins
Hi,
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 01:23:22PM +0200, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote:
> How would I handle this situation best? Any opinions?
forget the question :-) I already figured that I'm not in need for a
script, therefore the problem does not exist anymore.
Greets,
Patrick
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On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:20:50AM +0200, Thibaut GIRKA wrote:
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "bluemindo".
here it comes to my comments about your package. Please note that this is not a
complete list of possible issues or wishes about your package. As sponsoring is
an iterative
Hi,
not having reviewed your package again, yet, will look into it tomorror,
but some comments for now:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 08:24:04PM +0200, Thibaut GIRKA wrote:
> The original Makefile is incomplete and doesn't provide a clean target.
> As a result, the compiled locales are not removed afte
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:09:55PM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> OoO Pendant le journal télévisé du mardi 24 juin 2008, vers 20:24,
> Thibaut GIRKA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait :
>
> > I'll see about CDBS.
>
> In case, I can sponsor CDBS packages and give tips about solving issues
> with CD
icy
[6]
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices.en.html#s-bpp-pkg-synopsis
[7]
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices.en.html#s-bpp-pkg-desc
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 09:40:56PM +0200, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote:
&
Hi,
sorry for my late reply. Has been a bit busy these days.
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 02:13:17PM +0200, Thibaut GIRKA wrote:
> > - Important: You install an extra-license file which causes a lintian
> > warning. Refer to Policy Manual, section 12.5 for details. Please
> > always check your pac
Hi,
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 10:59:02AM +, Francisco M. García Claramonte wrote:
> I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.1.7-1
> of my package "lynis".
IANADD but as part of my NM process I'm going to review some packages
which will hopefully and likeley lead to an upload done by my
Hi again,
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 10:59:02AM +, Francisco M. García Claramonte wrote:
> I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.1.7-1
> of my package "lynis".
a general comment: As our freeze is coming up soon I just want to ask
you if you are sure that introducing a new upstream ver
Hi,
On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 11:25:18AM +0200, Thibaut GIRKA wrote:
> > Due to the fact that its a GPL license you have the possibility to
> > create a symlink to the file in /u/s/common-licenes.
> > Or patch bluemindo. First choice probably preferrable.
>
> Done, but not sure this is the cleanest
Hi,
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 07:29:49PM +0200, markus schnalke wrote:
> But back to `genwebgallery':
>
> I think packages should be like programs according to the Unix
> philosophy:
> - small and simple
> - do one thing well
I would usually agree with you, but only to some extent.
After all each
Hi Matteo,
On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 09:52:16AM +, Matteo Vescovi wrote:
> - how different should the new name be? I considered using names such as
> "predict" or "guess", but they are already taken, so I thought about using
> "soothie" (short for soothsayer, sort of :-) ), but would this name
Hi,
On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 10:57:34AM -0700, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> Honestly, disks are cheap, and buildds don't spend a lot of time on shell
> script packages since they don't need to be built. 5 kilobytes for a
> .deb file and its source packaging is not a great burden to ask of the
> mirr
Hi,
no time too look into your package further at the moment. Just commenting on
your mail for now.
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 01:56:48PM +, Francisco M. García Claramonte wrote:
> > - debian/README.Debian: Thats really a nitpick, but you updated it, so its a
> > good thing to update the times
Hi,
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 12:30:57AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> > And i don't know if i should add a lintian-override,
>
> Rather than an override, you can simply add a 'debian/watch' file that
> has (only) comments explaining the current situation.
Hu?
> > add a watch file with the url [1] a
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 11:23:24PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> Right. And the lintian message suggests exactly what I'm suggesting: a
> watch file that documents exactly why 'uscan' can't yet do its work
> for this particular package.
Seems wrong to me. The lintian text states that a package which
Hi,
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 07:03:22PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> My suggestion is that comments in the watch file are appropriate to
> document *any* reason why the package maintainer is currently unable
> to provide suitable information for 'uscan'.
Nothing against this. I just would like to be
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 04:05:05PM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
> > I know many "hacks" to know that I'm upgrading (like doing dpkg -l,
> > etc.), but what is the correct/policy way to know from what version my
> > package is upgrading, so my postinst can run smoothly?
> Policy 6.6.3 says
Hey,
sorry for beeing late with replying. Had been a bit busy the days when
we where on this, and forgotten it over this. Mea culpa, but just as a hint for
the future: Its not bad to send a reminder after some days. After all
people in the project are just people, so things like this may happen
ot
Hi Vincent,
On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 11:34:25PM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> > Uarg. Another reason not to like CDBS, but apart from this, this seems
> > to be adequate.
>
> cdbs also supports quilt (/usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/patchsys-quilt.mk).
>
> You cannot ask for a "simple patch system" and
Hi,
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 07:21:03AM -0500, Carlos Eduardo Sotelo Pinto wrote:
> http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#bpp-pkg-synopsis
>
> package-name is a synopsis.
>
> but all the packages that I have seen was on this way
>
> Package-name is a synopsis.
Hi,
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 07:29:35AM -0500, Carlos Eduardo Sotelo Pinto wrote:
> I had fixed this problem on sitebar building package changing
> /usr/sbin/mysql to just mysqld but, how about the bug, itsuggest to
> change to dbconfig-common, then what i must do first, just correct or
> change th
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 01:00:00AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Patrick Schoenfeld wrote:
> > dbconfig-common is documented fairly well.
>
> I do not agree with this statement. There are dark areas in the doc,
> particularly nowhere, it's telling how to get a root us
Hi,
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 08:49:06PM +0200, Krzysztof Burghardt wrote:
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "elfrc".
I intend to review your package. I will get back to you ASAP.
Best Regards,
Patrick
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Hi,
Krzysztof Burghardt wrote:
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "elfrc".
here it comes to my comments about your package. Please note that this
might not be a complete list of possible issues or wishes about your
package. As sponsoring is an iterative process I will continue to tell
Hi Charlie,
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 02:15:41PM -0500, Charliej wrote:
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "quickplay".
I intend to review your package and will come back to you soon.
Best Regards,
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Hi,
before the review process starts, a question:
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 02:15:41PM -0500, Charliej wrote:
> Version : 0.1
> * URL : http://quickplay.isfound.at/
Do you think this software is yet mature enough for inclusion into
Debian? I'm just wondering, because of the l
Hi,
Charliej wrote:
> That depends on what your definition of what "mature" is? If you mean
> "mature" as in will the software do what it's suppose to do then yes.
> If you mean "mature" as in time then probable not.
mature means for me that the package is somewhat ready for use by "end users".
Hi,
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 01:14:42PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> mismatch error). I was wondering if approx is any better than the other
> two. Did any of you try?
I made similar observations with the use of apt-cacher and apt-proxy and
therefore switched to approx. This is working like a ch
Hi Charlie,
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 09:57:09AM -0500, Charliej wrote:
> I have been thinking about this quite a bit, and you are absolutely
> correct. Upstreams documentation is sourly lacking. I asked myself the
> question "If I was the end user would I use something so poorly
> documented" and
Hi,
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 03:11:28PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> In addition to Patrick's comments, I'd suggest to “s/program to //” this
> description.
thanks for noting that.
BTW. the package has been uploaded.
Regards,
Patrick
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Hi,
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 01:34:02AM +0200, Luca Falavigna wrote:
> I uploaded on mentors.d.n NMU candidate for tinyscheme 1.37-3.1 [1],
> which fixes two RC bugs [2-3]. I attached a debdiff of the changes
> provided in the bug reports. Could you please have a look at it?
good. uploaded.
Thank
Hi,
Marc Haber wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 04:58:13PM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
>> I often find the lists that Daniel posts to resemble commands "remove
>> this.", "do not do that", "this is bogus", "that is useless" but lacking
>> of background or guidance.
>
> This might be a language
Michael Krauss wrote:
> Are you sure, that the executable bit isn't set?
Yes.
> Here i get the following:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /usr/share/xpn/xpn.sh
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 559 2007-09-03 20:41 /usr/share/xpn/xpn.sh
That is why you should use something like pbuilder etc. to test your
pa
Jan C. Nordholz wrote:
> (Besides, I wouldn't call the Debian changelog a user-exposed file - its
> contents are often quite cryptic to the casual user ("updated po files"...
> "rediffed patch foo and blorb, minor changes to work nicely with libbar"...),
> and the more experienced can live with a f
Charles Plessy wrote:
> Fortunately, the wise people who wrote the Social Contract made it
> clear:
>
> We have created contrib and non-free areas in our archive for these
> works. The packages in these areas are not part of the Debian system,
> although they have been configured for use wit
Patrick Schoenfeld schrieb:
> Charles Plessy wrote:
>> Fortunately, the wise people who wrote the Social Contract made it
>> clear:
>>
>> We have created contrib and non-free areas in our archive for these
>> works. The packages in these areas are not part of
Hi there,
I'am currently in progress of packaging password-gorilla, which is a
tcl/tk application. Well everything is fine so far, except that the
application contains menu items LICENSE and HELP which rely on files in
the source distribution, which I currently install with dh_installdocs.
So basi
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Norbert Preining wrote:
> dh_installdocs does not compress (AFAIR), it is dh_compress. And you can
> give dh_compress the -X option to exclude those file from being
> compressed.
Yeah. When i acutally tested what i meant it revealed that dh_compress
-
Michael Levin wrote:
> Accidentally filed two (#441087, #441088) but the changelog closes both
> of them.
You know, that bugs can be merged?
Regards,
Patrick
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Adeodato Simó schrieb:
> Your init.d script should *not* exit with status non-zero if the daemon
> was already stopped. You can do that either by passing --oknodo to
> start-stop-daemon, or by checking by hand if the return status is 1.
> *Not*, in any case, by appending "|| true", since that would
Justin Pryzby schrieb:
>> It would be a pro to take this into the policy, wouldn't it?
>
> It is 9.3.2:
>
> | [...]
No, it isn't. This part of the policy just says that it should not kill
other processes, which are eventually named unfortunately, just because
the process it *should* kill does no
Felipe Sateler wrote:
> - Behave sensibly when invoked with 'start' and already running
> - Behave sensibly when invoked with 'stop' and not running
Ah.. yeah, that would be a possible interpretation of the policy. But
formalizing something as to "behave sensibly" is not really exact, cause
it i
Felipe Sateler schrieb:
> Not really. It also depends on how you see it: if I ask some process to
Sure. Thats exactly what I'm saying.
> stop, I don't care if it was running or not. All I care is that it does
> end up stopped. I see it like this:
Really? So maybe *you* don't care about the serv
Hi,
Hideki Yamane wrote
> [...]
> The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
IANADD but anyways some (hopefully useful) comments.
- debian/rules:
* There is no reason to keep all those comments, that come from
the template you are using for it
* Is there any reason to recreate the (
Hi,
Christopher Zimmermann schrieb:
> I just packaged the small multipipe tool from
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/multipipe.
IANADD but anyways, here are some (hopefully useful) comments:
At first: You would help potential sponsors a lot if you could post more
information about your package
Hi,
Hideki Yamane wrote:
>> * Is there any reason to recreate the (already existing) manpage
>> during build? Eventually the other way round: Is it needed to have
>> a manpage in debian/ if you create a newer version of it during
>> build? Also this causes the clean target to be (afa
Michal Čihař wrote:
> I just noticed one more thing - as we now have Homepage field support
> in dpkg, please use it instead of URL pseudo tag (some tools will
> complain about Homepage for now, but you can ignore it).
Is this field really available at the time of writing? (I'm just aware
of #4334
Jon Dowland schrieb:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 07:19:22PM +0200, JackTheDipper wrote:
>> - dget
>> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gnome-color-chooser/gnome-color-chooser_0.2.2-1.dsc
>
> My initial test with debuild did not work:
I can confirm this. Your clean target is wrong. With
Hi there,
the following is a problem that I already had with another package where
a solution for this is also pending. The problem is the following.
A Sourceforge project, for which I create the packages, does have
several files on sf.net. One is the stable tree with a version like
1.4.x and the
Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> If you are sure that they use only dots and numbers, you may wish to
> use ([\d\.]+) instead of (.*) for versioning.
How would that help me? This would match digits and points as part of
the version instead of everything and so it would also consider 1.5.x to
be newer then 1
Hi,
Daniel Leidert schrieb:
> Then use
>
> http://sf.net//-([\d\.]+)\.tar\.gz
>
> I always use this to avoid matching on packages like
> package-foo-x.y.z.tar.gz, if I want to match on package-x.y.z.tar.gz
no this does not help me. I think there is a misunderstanding.
The filenames of the pack
Daniel Leidert schrieb:
> Well, you removed the second proposal from my answer, which exactly
> handles this case (I e.g. have a similar problem for gchempaint and
> gnome-chemistry-utils, see the debichem SVN). So I'm wondering, why you
> didn't give it a try?
Well, probably because it is _not_ h
Daniel Leidert schrieb:
> version=3
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=14963&package_id=166159
> .*mantisbt\/mantis-([\d\.]+)\.tar\.gz.*
Thanks. I will test that und use that concept for further packages.
Seems to be an example of not seeing the forest cause of so much trees,
Hi,
IANADD but anyway some comments:
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 12:48:36PM +0200, Vincent Legout wrote:
> It builds these binary packages:
> gimmix - Graphical music player
It appears to be inappropriate to speak a about a music player as it would be a
standalone music player, if in reality gim
Hi,
IANADD, but...
On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 01:28:36AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Shall we open bugs for each and every problem encountered, with
> individual patch, and then check them regularly through the QA? Or fix
yes, thats probably the best way to go.
> them all while we're at it, an
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 08:36:26PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> in the past, I followed those rules for an obviously unmanitained
> package, and all it resulted in was that a DD ignored my NMU patch and
> uploaded his own NMU which contained all the fixes I refrained to
> include... (and I think
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 01:05:32PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> wdg-html-validator‽
Forget it. Must have made something wrong when calling your link,
> I'm pointing you to the messages in the buglog of the gpredict package,
> so that you stop lacking context.
Well. I don't understand that...
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 01:18:11AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> There's no need to be a DD to answer to a (RC) bugreport. There's no
> need to be a DD to answer to a mail announcing an NMU uploaded to
> DELAYED/*5*. I can understand one might need time to prepare an upload
BTW. apart from what
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 02:39:47PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> The rules defined in [1] applied. And instead of pinging the maintainer,
Thanks for pointing this rules out to me. I wasn't aware of them.
Now that I know them I feel a bit more wiser.
Regards,
PatricNow that I know them I feel a
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 11:03:04AM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote:
> No, not really. The post you replied to stated explicitly that it
> wasn't talking about any specific event, just about general procedure.
I think this is a missunderstanding. I asked if there is some general rule
change or if some spe
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 09:22:30PM -0400, Zachary Palmer wrote:
> Whoah; good catch. Forgot to specify "mentors" in my command line.
BTW. just as a tip: dut supports configurable default targets, so I would
suggest you to configure it as long as you are not a DD. If the entry in your
.dput.cf for
Hi,
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 10:07:52PM -0300, Cody A.W. Somerville wrote:
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "catfish".
IANADD so I cannot sponsor your upload. Anyway some comments:
* debian/rules:
- clean target does not work
- unneeded debhelper comments
- some unneeded sp
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 12:17:53PM +0530, Kartik Mistry wrote:
> Please fill the details you left out!
Additional I find the description very meaningless. I can't say from the
description what it is. IANADD so my opinion might not count, but I
don't feel like checking this package for packaging is
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 06:23:50PM -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote:
> You need a new changelog for Debian starting from scratch and you could
> adapt the copyright (if the license allow it) or just make one new.
Why? Thats IMHO a very bad way to do it.
1) changelog is to track was has been
Hi,
[no need to CC me. I never expressed the wish that I want that]
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 09:34:27PM +0100, José L. Redrejo Rodríguez wrote:
> Not too long ago, about 4 years, when Ubuntu didn't exist, I tried to
> upload my first package to Debian. It was a package we had been using in
> LinEx
On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 02:04:43AM +0100, Romain Beauxis wrote:
> However, your arguments are not much consistent as well since you mix
> copyright related issues ("take the work from others") and technical issues
> ("track recent changes before initial debian upload").
I don't mix arguments. Th
Hi,
On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 09:08:54PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Sunday 02 December 2007 13:19, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote:
> > Really, it may have sounded more rude to you, then it was meant to be.
> > But I was really annoyed by such a statement,
>
> That ra
Hi Miriam,
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 11:35:31PM +0100, Miriam Ruiz wrote:
> While I do believe that, as a general rule, it's much better to keep
> old changelog entries, I'm pretty sure it's not illegal at all
> toremove them (IANAL) as long as you keep the copyright statements. It
> might not be po
Hi,
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 01:46:49AM +0100, Ondrej Certik wrote:
> > > > Really, it may have sounded more rude to you, then it was meant to be.
> >
> > > > But I was really annoyed by such a statement,
> > >
> > > That rather implies you wer
Hi,
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 12:16:12PM -0800, C.J. Adams-Collier wrote:
> I'm sorry, what is an "SRU"?
with Google the first hit I found by earching for "SRU+Ubuntu" was
[1], so I think this are updates to a "stable" Ubuntu release.
Best Regards,
Patrick
[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableRelea
Hi,
IANADD so I cannot sponsor your upload, but anyways some comments.
First of all:
You really should include the URL to the .dsc file of your package.
That way you make it a lot of easier for potential sponsors to find your
package and you higher the chances that a potential sponsor will have a
Hi,
IANADD, but anyways some comments:
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 07:03:54PM +0530, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote:
> 1. I have an upstream source tar-ball that accidentally includes some
> files that are generated (and cleaned when a make distclean is issued)
the question to decide is: What files doe
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