Re: Did mistake in signaturing, and can't fix this by dcut.

2011-10-08 Thread Paul Gevers
I think you want to upload to mentors.debian.net and NOT to ftp.upload.debian.org. I don't think ftp-master checks against public key repositories, but only to it's database of known debian developers and maintainers. Therefore, if you are not an established maintainer or a DD, you can not upload t

Re: RFS: anox

2011-12-08 Thread Paul Gevers
>>> - It's hardcoded to use "xinit -- :1 vt8". >> >> I do not understand why this is a problem, the eight terminal should >> just be free (it's more a limitation than a bug). > ---end quoted text--- > > No, it's not always free. For example, it happens with me sometimes that > X would crash for

winff fails on armel, where to seek help

2012-01-14 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi all, It has been a while since I asked questions here (although I read the list mail nearly daily), but here is one. My package winff, which uses the FreePascal compiler, fails to build on armel buildserver ancina [1]. As far as I can deduce from the build log [2], there is a problem with the

Re: RFS: fpc/2.6.0-7

2012-12-21 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Abou, On 17-12-12 14:36, Abou Al Montacir wrote: > I'm looking for a sponsor for my package "fpc". > > This upload is fixing an important bugs#686038 to allow translating user > targeted question upon installation. > > The respective dsc file can be found > at:http://mentors.debian.net/debi

Re: Bug#694778: RFS: tcpflow/1.3.0-1 [ITA] TCP flow recorder

2013-01-06 Thread Paul Gevers
On 06-01-13 14:40, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 12:04:41PM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: >> you bump the Standards-Version but do not mention which (if any) changes >> were needed for that. > > In 99% cases, there are no changes needed, so it's pointless to spam the > changelog, an

Re: want to get involved to fix blt package

2013-01-21 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Paul, On 22-01-13 04:26, Paul Johnson wrote: > I just kicked up some dust about getting the blt package fixed for Wheezy. If you want this in Wheezy, please read the freeze-policy [1] and make sure that your package has minimal changes to fix the bug. > I'm a Debian user and have been buildin

Re: Build-Depends versioning and binary Depends versioning

2013-03-20 Thread Paul Gevers
On 20-03-13 15:54, Antonio Ospite wrote: > Maybe I've picked the wrong example, the actual problem was with > libavdevice53, the same soname is used for either 0.8.5-1 and 9.3-1, > but 9.3-1 links to libavcodec54 while 0.8.5-1 links to libavcodec53, so > my binary ended up importing either libavcod

Re: Build-Depends versioning and binary Depends versioning

2013-03-21 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Andrey, On 21-03-13 07:46, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 07:17:50PM +0100, Paul Gevers wrote: >>> Maybe I've picked the wrong example, the actual problem was with >>> libavdevice53, the same soname is used for either 0.8.5-1 and 9.3-1, >>&

Re: Build-Depends versioning and binary Depends versioning

2013-03-21 Thread Paul Gevers
Please ignore the mail below, I think I understand that part now. libavdevice53 itself depends on libavcodec5{3|4} depending on where it comes from. Paul On 21-03-13 08:04, Paul Gevers wrote: > Hi Andrey, > > On 21-03-13 07:46, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 20, 201

Re: Lintian false positive

2013-03-30 Thread Paul Gevers
On 30-03-13 10:43, Bas van den Dikkenberg wrote: > Is this a false positive can’t find an old adres, only the new one I see the address twice. ONce the new one, and once the old one. line 30/31 and line 67/68 Paul signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: How to avoid "all arch" notice in dpkg-buildpackage.

2013-06-01 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 01-06-13 03:35, linux at iocellnetworks wrote: > I guess I had my hopes a little bit high when I wrote to the list. I > was hoping for something more along the lines of a mentor as > described on Wikipedia: "... the personal name /Mentor/ has been > adopted in English as a term meaning some

Re: RFH: Bug#713565: gwyddion: FTBFS: ../libdraw/gwyrgba.h:24:23: fatal error: gdk/gdkgc.h: No such file or directory

2013-06-25 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Jan, On 25-06-13 21:44, Jan Beyer wrote: > recently I received the bug report below. The problem for the FTBFS is, that > gwyddion currently seems to not include libgtk2.0-dev (which contains the > missing header file gdkgc.h) correctly. Gwyddion correctly Build-Depends: > on libtgtk2.0-dev, bu

Re: Insecurity about right file-placement in .deb-package

2013-06-28 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Daniel, On 28-06-13 17:26, Daniel Brendle wrote: > Hello, debian mentors. > > I am currently trying to package the software i write into a valid > debian package. Until now this has been working very well, but i am a > little stuck here and would appreciate if someone could help me out. > > T

Re: How to rename a ucf-conffile?

2013-07-02 Thread Paul Gevers
On 02-07-13 21:42, Marc Haber wrote: > Hi, > > the PowerDNS packages have shipped configuration in > /etc/powerdns/pdns.d/foo, with the pdns.d functionality patched in by > Debian. Upstream has recently followed our wishlist request to > implement include-dir functionality in PowerDNS proper. > >

Re: How to rename a ucf-conffile?

2013-07-03 Thread Paul Gevers
On 03-07-13 09:58, Marc Haber wrote: >> I recently thought about it for cacti. Maybe you can find the answer here: >> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-cacti/cacti.git;a=commit;h=5c8640af6857fb5660d89e5291f84994c730b3da > > That code was only added in May, with 0.8.8a+dfsg-6, right? Do you >

Re: help to fix lintian problems, native-package-with-dash-version etc

2013-07-05 Thread Paul Gevers
On 06-07-13 01:47, T o n g wrote: > I got native-package-with-dash-version problems when using lintian to > check my built package. > - upstream name the tarball pam_ssh_agent_auth-0.9.5.tar.bz2 > - I named it libpam-ssh-agent_0.9.5.orig.tar.bz2 as per above Sound good. > I: libpam-ssh-agen

Re: Build issue in package using Qt

2013-07-10 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Andreas, On 10-07-13 10:59, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 06:13:20PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: >> and it just works: >> >> debian/rules build >> dh build --parallel --buildsystem=qmake_qt4 # >> --dbg-package=freemedforms-project-dbg >>dh_testdir -O--parallel -O--builds

Re: Empty binary package

2013-07-17 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Tong, Side note, could you please stop with posting html messages to Debian lists? See the code of conduct: http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/index.en.html Paul signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Empty binary package

2013-07-17 Thread Paul Gevers
On 17-07-13 20:30, Tong Sun wrote: > > > Re: Empty binary package > > >> I'm wondering why the binary package built from my source package is empty. >>> >>> Here is what I've discovered so far: >>> >>> - If I unpack the upstream tarball and build the binary debian package with >>> 'debuild -u

Re: Empty binary package

2013-07-18 Thread Paul Gevers
On 19-07-13 05:13, T o n g wrote: > As said in OP, Which I don't have anymore, so indeed please repeat it if you want my help. > - I unpack the upstream tarball and build the binary debian package with > 'debuild -us -uc'. the build is good. Why do this debuild -us -uc first if you proceed wit

Re: Empty binary package

2013-07-19 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Tong, On 19-07-13 15:14, T o n g wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 08:38:49 +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: >> Which I don't have anymore, so indeed please repeat it if you want my >> help. > > It was still included in the message that I previously replied. Sure. therefore t

Re: Empty binary package

2013-07-19 Thread Paul Gevers
On 20-07-13 06:31, T o n g wrote: > On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 03:11:46 +, T o n g wrote: >>> That part was fully clear to me. And as I said, in my tries it was >>> always there. >> >> So you did the above normal steps as building any binary package but get >> different result? Or did you do something

Re: Empty binary package

2013-07-20 Thread Paul Gevers
On 20-07-13 16:29, T o n g wrote: >> - Simple: add the build-arch and build-indep targets yourself. If I am >> not mistaken, with this specific rules file, you can just add them, >> depend on the build target and do nothing in the target itself. > > After a bit of struggle, I think these are the c

Re: Bug#716852: Fwd: Bug#716852: RFS: libpam-ssh-agent-auth/0.9.5-2.2 [ITP]

2013-07-21 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Tong, Just to be clear, I don't feel I know enough about authentication/security to be able to sponsor you, but I do have comments on the packaging. Although you fixed your initial problem of building a package, you are not done yet. The quality of the packaging is by far not good enough yet fo

Re: Package dropped from testing/unstable: ITP or ITA?

2013-08-11 Thread Paul Gevers
On 11-08-13 13:43, Robert J. Clay wrote: >I figure to reopen that bug but which would best for it to be? As > an ITP, because it isn't currently in unstable or testing? Or as an > ITA, because it had been packaged and is present in oldstable? As the package is currently not in Debian unstabl

Re: réduire la taille d'un paquet source et ajouter des paramètres spécifiques dans le fichier control

2013-08-23 Thread Paul Gevers
On 23-08-13 16:20, Zoubeïda Zarkouna wrote: > Now iam facing an other problem: i want to automate generating control > file it should be completed with information from rules file! > i can not do it with dh_gencontrol cause it will modify control file > only in binary file and thus i had this prob

Re: Two packages interdependency issue

2013-08-24 Thread Paul Gevers
On 24-08-13 13:46, Tomasz Buchert wrote: > > Hi, > I had no idea what subject to pick up. I hope > it will attract somebody. :D > > I have a source package (stellarium FYI) and I want to > create a new source package that contains packages that > will be *optional* for stellarium (stellarium-star

Re: Upstream database update not in a single step

2013-08-29 Thread Paul Gevers
On 28-08-13 22:32, Jan-Pascal van Best wrote: > I've extracted the update script from the indicated revision and all php > files actually needed to run it. My current version of the package > installs them into /usr/share/spotweb/db-update/. postinst then > checks whether the intermediate step is n

Re: Upstream database update not in a single step

2013-08-29 Thread Paul Gevers
On 29-08-13 21:09, Jan-Pascal van Best wrote: >> I remember you said your package uses dbconfig-common. I assume you have >> this checking and versions performed by dbconfig-common. If not, why not? > No, because dbconfig-common runs after the regular postinst script. But isn't that your choice? S

Re: Help with bug 722794

2013-09-17 Thread Paul Gevers
On 17-09-13 21:01, Jose G. López wrote: > I've received a bug in one of my packages and I want to check with you a > proper solution before I make a stupid thing. There is some discussion on debian-devel: [1] and follow ups. It is not agreed that the bug is valid. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debi

Bug#706904: Chinese Checkers RFS review

2013-09-19 Thread Paul Gevers
On 20-09-13 01:29, Dave Steele wrote: > Since you are maintaining the software and the Debian packaging in the > same repository, it would be simpler if the source format were '3.0 > (native)', not '3.0 (quilt)'. Please don't recommend native as format. Especially not for this reason. The native f

Re: Volunteer in need of a mentor

2013-09-23 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Beco, Welcome. On 23-09-13 21:39, Beco wrote: > After some time programming my own softwares to solve little problems, > scientific problems, and some useful exercises to teach C, I decided > it's time to do another step. I am ready to help a little more, > starting with packaging one little g

FWD: RFS: doublecmd/0.5.6-1 [ITP] -- twin-panel (commander-style) file manager

2013-09-24 Thread Paul Gevers
org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/doublecmd-help.git Regards Paul, for Graham Inggs Original Message Subject:A favour please? Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 11:58:20 +0200 From: Graham Inggs To: Paul Gevers Hi Paul Could you forward this RFS bug to the debian-mentors ma

Bug#724757: RFS: dxsamples/4.2.0-2 [ITA] -- Sample programs for the OpenDX Data Explorer

2013-09-28 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: owner -1 ! On 27-09-13 17:09, Graham Inggs wrote: > * Package name: dxsamples >Version : 4.2.0-2 Could you please tag bug 412811 (new upstream version) as wont-fix if you still believe it is not fixable (please check). And could you please at least comment on bug 173709

Bug#724757: RFS: dxsamples/4.2.0-2 [ITA] -- Sample programs for the OpenDX Data Explorer

2013-10-05 Thread Paul Gevers
On 05-10-13 09:23, Graham Inggs wrote: > I have completed the changes in dx (getting dxexec to run on kfreebsd) > and I think both packages are now ready for sponsoring. This week I have more time. I will try to look at both soon. Paul signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#724757: RFS: dxsamples/4.2.0-2 [ITA] -- Sample programs for the OpenDX Data Explorer

2013-10-05 Thread Paul Gevers
On 28-09-13 11:15, Graham Inggs wrote: >> Could you please tag bug 412811 (new upstream version) as wont-fix if >> you still believe it is not fixable (please check). > > I did check on this with the previous maintainer and I intend to get the > opinion of debian-legal on how to proceed. It may b

Bug#724757: RFS: dxsamples/4.2.0-2 [ITA] -- Sample programs for the OpenDX Data Explorer

2013-10-07 Thread Paul Gevers
On 07-10-13 14:47, Graham Inggs wrote: > On 05/10/2013 19:22, Paul Gevers wrote: >> What I intended you to do is to state the above also in bug 412811, so >> that it is clear for people looking at that bug report. And when you >> communicate with debian-legal, make sure the

Bug#724757: RFS: dxsamples/4.2.0-2 [ITA] -- Sample programs for the OpenDX Data Explorer

2013-10-11 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Graham, I hope this is my last comment in this bug ;) On 11-10-13 17:37, Graham Inggs wrote: > I agree that in most cases you would want the symlinks in the package > that provides the target files. > I think an exception would be where there is not a strong dependence > (either way) between t

Bug#724757: RFS: dxsamples/4.2.0-2 [ITA] -- Sample programs for the OpenDX Data Explorer

2013-10-13 Thread Paul Gevers
On 10/13/13 19:24, Graham Inggs wrote: > If dx-doc and dxsamples are not installed, dx still functions, except > that the online help and samples are not available. > My reasoning was that if either dx-doc or dxsamples were installed on > their own, without dx, there would be no change in their fun

Bug#714310: RFS: polyphone/1.1-1 [ITP]' from 'RFS: polyphone/1.0-1 [ITP]

2013-11-09 Thread Paul Gevers
[A review of part of the review] On 09-11-13 16:51, Daniel Lintott wrote: > I'm also fairly new to reviewing, so forgive me if I miss something! > 1. As your package is not yet in debian, the entries in debian/changelog > should be merged to a single entry, for the version of the package that > w

Bug#729359: RFS: mtink/1.0.16-8 [QA] -- Status monitor tool for Epson inkjet printers

2013-11-12 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: owner -1 ! On 12-11-13 11:01, Graham Inggs wrote: > * Override remaining Lintian spelling error warnings. Isn't it (easily) possible to fix these spelling errors, or are they false positives? If you stick to the overrides, please document why in the override file. Would you mind creatin

Bug#729359: RFS: mtink/1.0.16-8 [QA] -- Status monitor tool for Epson inkjet printers

2013-11-14 Thread Paul Gevers
On 13-11-13 14:46, Graham Inggs wrote: >> Isn't it (easily) possible to fix these spelling errors, or are they >> false positives? If you stick to the overrides, please document why in >> the override file. > > Well, they occur in non-English messages so I would say false positives, > but perhaps

Bug#729359: RFS: mtink/1.0.16-8 [QA] -- Status monitor tool for Epson inkjet printers

2013-11-20 Thread Paul Gevers
On 14-11-13 21:56, Paul Gevers wrote: >>> Would you mind creating a VCS repository on Alioth (collab-maint comes >>> to mind) to ease further QA maintenance? >> >> That's a good idea. I will do that. > > Alioth is down due to broken disk raid, so you

Bug#729359: RFS: mtink/1.0.16-8 [QA] -- Status monitor tool for Epson inkjet printers

2013-11-21 Thread Paul Gevers
On 21-11-13 16:28, Graham Inggs wrote: > I have looked, but don't think there is anything I can fix there. Hmm, than I will leave some comments here and there. >>> And, as you have been working on silencing lintian, why have you not >>> tried to fix the extended-description-is-probably-too-short

Re: Upstream tarballs with varying line endings

2013-11-21 Thread Paul Gevers
On 21-11-13 19:17, Felix Natter wrote: > 1. integrate http://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/fixcrlf.html upstream > (generate tarball, extract, fix line endings, generate tarball) Sound like a good solution. > 2. write a get-orig-source target that does the same? > If yes, shall I append "+dfsg1" to

Bug#729359: RFS: mtink/1.0.16-8 [QA] -- Status monitor tool for Epson inkjet printers

2013-11-30 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: -1 pending On 30-11-13 11:05, Graham Inggs wrote: > I've pushed some commits to the git on collab-maint. > > I added a comment about the overridden Lintian spelling error > warnings, rewrote the package descriptions, merged the changes I had > made in d/control into d/control.in and rege

Re: empty-binary-package

2014-01-02 Thread Paul Gevers
On 02-01-14 20:44, Russ Allbery wrote: > Be aware of one gotcha: the destination column in *.install files > specifies the destination *directory*, not file name. You cannot use > dh_install to rename files; Except if you build depend on dh-exec and use it (The man page is good, so I am not going

Re: Wish to package astronomy software

2014-01-05 Thread Paul Gevers
[Are you subscribed to debian-mentors? CC'ing you just in case you're not]. On 05-01-14 12:42, Bamm wrote: > I'm Bamm from the Philippines. I'm new to this list Welcome. > and I hope to gain advice how to package for Debian. Have you read the front page of https://mentors.debian.net/ If it is n

Re: Wish to package astronomy software

2014-01-05 Thread Paul Gevers
On 05-01-14 14:23, Bamm wrote: >> Please file an ITP (Intend to package) bug against the WNPP (pseudo) >> package. You should use the reportbug command for that, as it gives you >> the proper template to file out. > > Thanks! Where do I report the ITP bug? Is there an online form, e.g., > bugzill

Bug#736085: RFS: doublecmd/0.5.8-1 -- twin-panel (commander-style) file manager

2014-01-24 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: owner 736085 ! On 19-01-14 16:41, Graham Inggs wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my update to package "doublecmd": Interesting that I have missed this the first time that you did this work. Funny thing is that we are trying to get things related to FreePascal into one team, so I in

Bug#736085: RFS: doublecmd/0.5.8-1 -- twin-panel (commander-style) file manager

2014-01-24 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Graham, On 19-01-14 16:41, Graham Inggs wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my update to package "doublecmd": By source and binary inspection: - Some (if not all, I am unsure) of your Conflicts are unneeded, Breaks is good enough. Please read [1] and following paragraphs carefully again. -

Bug#737907: RFS: chrony/1.29.1-1 -- Set the computer clock from time servers

2014-02-08 Thread Paul Gevers
On 06-02-14 22:04, Joachim Wiedorn wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "chrony" If nobody beats me to it, I will have a look. Feel free to bug me if I haven't responded within a week. Paul signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#737907: RFS: chrony/1.29.1-1 -- Set the computer clock from time servers

2014-02-08 Thread Paul Gevers
On 06-02-14 22:04, Joachim Wiedorn wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "chrony" From the Debian side this looks trivial and I think I will upload as is, but some remarks still. - Upstream FAQ removed two questions and part of the answer to one question is now part of the answer to

Bug#737907: RFS: chrony/1.29.1-1 -- Set the computer clock from time servers

2014-02-08 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Joachim, On 08-02-14 18:51, Joachim Wiedorn wrote: >> - Your watch file doesn't work, please find attached a version that >> works and at the same time takes advantage of the fact that upstream >> signs its releases. You need the also attached keyring for that but feel >> free to generate that

Bug#739029: RFS: qgis/2.0.1-2

2014-02-14 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Bas, [ Sorry, no intent to sponsor this right now, but ... ] On 15-02-14 03:12, Bas Couwenberg wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "qgis" This package is part of a proposed transition (by you). You would do well to at least mention this fact in your RFS. Paul signature.asc

Re: header-only dependence

2014-03-22 Thread Paul Gevers
On 22-03-14 13:33, Nico Schlömer wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm packaging a library libA which depends on a header-only library > libB. Obviously I need libB to be present whenever I build an > executable against libA. Where in debian/control will I have to fill > in libB? If I am correct, you should h

argument against splitting packages

2014-04-24 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi all, In the last couple of days, the following came up multiple times. Splitting binary packages adds to the total amount of packages in Debian. I have heard that (some) people are very careful before they decide to do that. What is the argument? I can come up with one, but I wonder if there is

Re: argument against splitting packages

2014-04-25 Thread Paul Gevers
On 24-04-14 20:41, Don Armstrong wrote: > The cases where you should split are generally really obvious; if it's > not clear, ask here or in #debian-mentors, and you'll get some > reasonable advice. Ok, so let me show one of the two issues I have at hand (the other is currently being discussed on

Re: how to convert a .doc file in the context of a package build?

2014-05-17 Thread Paul Gevers
On 14-05-14 05:39, Paul Wise wrote: > (but not in a package build context). > > libreoffice --headless --convert-to pdf --outdir . input.ods I do use it during packaging. Well, soffice as command, but I assume that is a synonym. (Package: winff) Paul signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digita

Re: how to properly remove an empty config directory

2014-06-19 Thread Paul Gevers
On 20-06-14 07:55, Guido van Steen wrote: >> 3. remove the empty directory /etc/apt.conf.d that shouldn't exits. > > More precise: > > 3. remove the empty directory /etc/apt.conf.d if it is empty. well, the command rmdir only removes a dir when it is empty. I think you already got the answer to

Bug#749452: RFS: gnustep-gui/0.24.0-1

2014-07-04 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Yavor, On 27-05-14 02:57, Yavor Doganov wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gnustep-gui". I can't promise that I will upload the package, but if you can push your changes to the packaging git I promise that I will have a look. (I prefer the git over just the package as it makes

Bug#749452: RFS: gnustep-gui/0.24.0-1

2014-07-04 Thread Paul Gevers
On 04-07-14 22:01, Paul Gevers wrote: > I can't promise that I will upload the package, but if you can push your > changes to the packaging git I promise that I will have a look. Never mind, I was fooled by the web interface of gitweb [1], which didn't show the changes of the exp

Re: Raleway and Open Sans fonts in Debian

2014-07-05 Thread Paul Gevers
On 04-07-14 22:03, Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff wrote: > Should I request splitting these fonts into individual packages? If yes, > how do I do that? You can request a split. File it as a wishlist bug against the providing package (as you would with any bug). Also prepare yourself to get wontfix as

Bug#751208: RFS: lusernet.app/0.4.2-7

2014-07-07 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: owner -1 Control: pending -1 On 11-06-14 06:12, Yavor Doganov wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "lusernet.app". I am building and uploading shortly, however, please add the following to your git tree in debian/copyright (preferably you figure out the dates of the contrib

Bug#752339: Some questions about RFS: dbuskit/0.1.1-1 [ITP]

2014-07-15 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: owner -1 ! Control: tags -1 moreinfo Hi Yavor, Before I upload this package to the new queue, could you please comment on the lintian errors about missing source? I am looking for a statement like: "I added lintian overrides for these files as the source is available several directories

Bug#752339: Some questions about RFS: dbuskit/0.1.1-1 [ITP]

2014-07-15 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Yavor, And an additional remark: the COPYING file and the headers in several (all?) source files don't match. The COPYING file says LGPL-2.1+ while the headers say LGPL-2+. Please update your d/copyright file to match the situation. Paul signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#752339: Some questions about RFS: dbuskit/0.1.1-1 [ITP]

2014-07-15 Thread Paul Gevers
On 15-07-14 14:54, Yavor Doganov wrote: > Paul Gevers wrote: >> Before I upload this package to the new queue, could you please >> comment on the lintian errors about missing source? > > The reason for these is gnustep-make's incapable dist rule, combined > with not

Bug#754870: RFS: systempreferences.app/1.2.0-1 -- GNUstep preferences application

2014-07-15 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: owner -1 ! Control: tags -1 pending I like the Description of the packages to be consistent. Either System Preferences *is* or System Preferences *are*. I think the second option is the logic one considering the name, but otherwise you need something like "The System Preferences applicati

Bug#752339: Some questions about RFS: dbuskit/0.1.1-1 [ITP]

2014-07-15 Thread Paul Gevers
On 15-07-14 16:05, Yavor Doganov wrote: >> Well, the source has to be DFSG-free. How we guarantee that usually is >> by building everything from source during the build. If you don't want >> to build it, you have to remove them from source and repack > > I don't understand. It is quite common for

Bug#753348: RFS: gnustep-performance/0.5.0-1 [ITP] -- GNUstep performance library

2014-07-15 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: owner -1 ! Control: tags -1 pending I uploaded the package, but may I request that next time you add a symbols file so that depending packages get a properly versioned dependency? See lintian info tag: I: libperformance0.5: no-symbols-control-file usr/lib/libPerformance.so.0.5.0 N: N:

Bug#753348: RFS: gnustep-performance/0.5.0-1 [ITP] -- GNUstep performance library

2014-07-15 Thread Paul Gevers
On 15-07-14 18:46, Yavor Doganov wrote: > Paul Gevers wrote: >> I uploaded the package, but may I request that next time you add a >> symbols file so that depending packages get a properly versioned >> dependency? > > Symbols files are ultimately unapplicable for O

Bug#753406: RFS: gnustep-sqlclient/1.7.3-1 [ITP] -- SQL client library for GNUstep

2014-07-15 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Yavor, On 01-07-14 17:13, Yavor Doganov wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gnustep-sqlclient". > libsqlclient1.7 - SQL client library for GNUstep (runtime library) This package contains files in an unversioned sub-directory of /usr/lib/ This is a violation of Debian policy §8

Bug#753406: RFS: gnustep-sqlclient/1.7.3-1 [ITP] -- SQL client library for GNUstep

2014-07-15 Thread Paul Gevers
On 15-07-14 21:16, Yavor Doganov wrote: > Paul Gevers wrote: >>> libsqlclient1.7 - SQL client library for GNUstep (runtime library) >> >> This package contains files in an unversioned sub-directory of /usr/lib/ >> This is a violation of Debian policy §8.2 >

Bug#752339: Some questions about RFS: dbuskit/0.1.1-1 [ITP]

2014-07-16 Thread Paul Gevers
On 15-07-14 18:52, Yavor Doganov wrote: > Paul Gevers wrote: >> Whatever you do, to prevent accidental usage of a pre-build object >> file it is very common to at least clean them. > > It is done by `make distclean'. I hate to disagree, but for me it doesn't. After

Bug#755210: RFS: gnustep-sqlclient/1.7.3-2 -- SQL client library for GNUstep

2014-07-19 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: owner -1 ! Control: tags -1 pending On 18-07-14 21:56, Yavor Doganov wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gnustep-sqlclient". As I sponsored the initial upload, I will take this one as well. Paul signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#751550: RFS: aclock.app/0.4.0-1 [ITA]

2014-08-03 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: owner -1 ! Control: tags -1 moreinfo Hi Yavor, On Sat, 14 Jun 2014 09:19:24 +0300 Yavor Doganov wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "aclock.app". I have several (in random order) remarks: Are there any sources for the png/wav in Resources ? The man page is rather brief

Bug#751659: RFS: gridlock.app/1.10-4 [ITA]

2014-08-03 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: owner -1 ! Control: tags -1 moreinfo Hi Yavor, On Sun, 15 Jun 2014 10:45:38 +0300 Yavor Doganov wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gridlock.app". I have several (in random order) remarks: Please acknowledge nmus (even if the content is nearly all yours) Are the d/dir

Bug#751875: RFS: gorm.app/1.2.20-1

2014-08-03 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: owner -1 ! Control: tags -1 moreinfo Hi Yavor, On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 14:50:16 +0300 Yavor Doganov wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gorm.app". I have several (in random order) remarks: I find the man page rather short, is it reasonable to improve it? I didn't check ye

Bug#750800: RFS: gtamsanalyzer.app/0.42-7

2014-08-06 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Yavor, This bug was already closed, but I already had a look... On Sat, 07 Jun 2014 04:57:13 +0300 Yavor Doganov wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gtamsanalyzer.app". > gtamsanalyzer.app - Qualitative Research Software for GNUstep First remark, I don't really like the sh

Bug#751550: RFS: aclock.app/0.4.0-1 [ITA]

2014-08-06 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Yavor, On 04-08-14 22:12, Yavor Doganov wrote: > Paul Gevers wrote: >> Are there any sources for the png/wav in Resources ? > > There's a Blender file (cuckoo.blend) in the top directory. Then I really suggest to create the images (and the wav?) from that file during b

Bug#751698: RFS: talksoup.app/1.0alpha-32-g55b4d4e-2 [ITA]

2014-08-06 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: owner -1 ! Control: tags -1 moreinfo Hi Yavor, On Sun, 15 Jun 2014 20:15:41 +0300 Yavor Doganov wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "talksoup.app". Some remarks: Icon in desktop file in /usr/lib/ Text about license file on Debian systems does not mention the version I

Bug#750865: RFS: lynkeos.app/1.2-7

2014-08-06 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: owner -1 ! Control: tags -1 moreinfo Hi Yavor, On Sat, 07 Jun 2014 21:20:42 +0300 Yavor Doganov wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "lynkeos.app". Some remarks in random order: The location of icon in the desktop file point to /usr/lib/ Could you add tilde to the depen

Bug#751550: RFS: aclock.app/0.4.0-1 [ITA]

2014-08-06 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: tags -1 pending On 06-08-14 13:57, Yavor Doganov wrote: >> Then I really suggest to create the images (and the wav?) from that >> file during building. I share the opinion of many (most?) DD's that >> the only way to make sure that we can build from sources with tools >> available in Debi

Bug#751875: RFS: gorm.app/1.2.20-1

2014-08-07 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: tags -1 +pending -moreinfo Hi Yavor, On 06-08-14 13:25, Yavor Doganov wrote: >> I find the man page rather short, is it reasonable to improve it? > > I have extended it as much as I could. Looks much better now, thanks. >> I didn't check yet, but aren't you know installing the d/docs

Bug#750865: RFS: lynkeos.app/1.2-7

2014-08-08 Thread Paul Gevers
Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/media/home/paul/tmp/sponsorships/lynkeos.app' make: *** [clean] Error 2 dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules clean gave error exit status 2 Description: Debian policy 12.1 says that man pages should be installed in sections 1 to 9. Author:

Bug#751698: RFS: talksoup.app/1.0alpha-32-g55b4d4e-2 [ITA]

2014-08-23 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Yavor, Several new remarks. When they are resolved (by an explanation or a fix) I will build and upload. - library files are not in /usr/lib anymore but in /usr/lib/talksoup.app/ . As far as I can tell this is good, but it is not documented in changelog. - d/copyright: * years of Adrew, star

Bug#756373: RFS: gnustep-examples/1:1.4.0-1 -- GNUstep example applications

2014-08-23 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: owner -1 ! Control: tags -1 moreinfo Hi Yavor, On 29-07-14 12:39, Yavor Doganov wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gnustep-examples". Some remarks, when they are resolved I think I will upload. * copyright file needs updated dates (also in the negative direction) * co

Bug#755962: RFS: zipper.app/1.5-1 [ITA] -- Archive manager for GNUstep

2014-08-24 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: owner -1 ! Control: tags -1 pending On 24-07-14 23:08, Yavor Doganov wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "zipper.app". You found one one. Building right now (for real), but still I have some remarks that I like you to fix next time: * If suggests are not installed, is the

emacspeak -> piuparts and gnupg

2014-08-30 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi all, I am trying to investigate why emacspeak has a piuparts purge failure [1]. It fails because there are files in /root/.gnupg/. As emacspeak doesn't depend on gnupg and doesn't do anything of itself with gnupg, I don't have a clear picture of where to start. It seems that emacspeak is the on

Bug#741648: RFS: cbootimage/1.2-2

2014-09-05 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Marc, On 05-09-14 16:29, Eriberto Mota wrote: > Not mandatory or recommended by policy. However, a good practice > commonly requested by all sponsors to allow the control of the code by > you or any external people. You must implement it. Just to be sure, I read this as "You must implement it

lintian overrides [Was: Bug#763540: Review of psocksxx/0.0.5-1]

2014-10-03 Thread Paul Gevers
On 04-10-14 00:44, Paul Wise wrote: > They are also not for > experimental, pedantic or info level issues. So all of these issues > should either be ignored or fixed but not overridden. I have seen this before and I (as a maintainer) don't understand this comment so bold as it is put here. I would

Bug#764067: lintian: prevent misuse of overrides by allowing maintainer comments

2014-10-05 Thread Paul Gevers
hanks for considering and the great tool that lintian is. Paul Original Message Subject: Re: lintian overrides [Was: Bug#763540: Review of psocksxx/0.0.5-1] Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 09:12:25 +0800 From: Paul Wise To: Debian mentors On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Paul Gevers wrote:

Re: HELP: Bug#766821: relion: FTBFS: B-D on nonexistent openmpi-gcc

2014-10-26 Thread Paul Gevers
On 26-10-14 07:37, Vincent Cheng wrote: >> Anny suggestion for a solution since I have no idea about those >> other architectures? > > Drop the build-dep on openmpi-gcc. > > You must make sure that the first build dependency in a set of > alternative build-deps is always installable, otherwise it

Bug#769142: RFS: rsskit/0.3-3 -- GNUstep RSS framework [RC]

2014-11-11 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: owner -1 ! On 11-11-14 19:47, Yavor Doganov wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "rsskit". > It builds these binary packages: > This upload is targeted for t-p-u; the debdiff was pre-approved by the > release team (release.d.o #768923). Checking, building etc... Paul

Bug#769688: RFS: gnustep-sqlclient/1.8.1-1 -- SQL client library for GNUstep

2014-11-15 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: owner -1 ! Control: tags -1 pending On 15-11-14 16:53, Yavor Doganov wrote: > I'm looking for a sponsor for my package "gnustep-sqlclient". You found one. As always I build from git, I assume that is all right. Paul signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#770146: RFS: gnustep-back/0.24.0-4 -- GNUstep GUI Backend [RC]

2014-11-21 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: owner -1 ! Control: tags -1 pending On 19-11-14 07:57, Yavor Doganov wrote: > I'm looking for a sponsor for my package "gnustep-back". Building now, etc... Paul signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#770224: RFS: gnustep-base/1.22.1-4+deb7u1 -- GNUstep Base library [RC SECURITY] [wheezy]

2014-11-21 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: owner -1 ! Control: tags -1 pending On 19-11-14 22:14, Yavor Doganov wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gnustep-base". Building soon, etc... Paul signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#768916: RFS: systempreferences.app/1.2.0-2 -- GNUstep preferences application [RC]

2014-11-29 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: owner -1 ! Judging the response of Sebastian in bug 768764, he doesn't have time anymore. Building right now, uploading after dinner... Paul signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#773992: RFS: xmlrpc-c/1.33.15+svn20141223~2672-1 [ITA]

2014-12-29 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: owner -1 ! Hi Jörg, On 26-12-14 20:48, Jörg Frings-Fürst wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "xmlrpc-c" I am willing to help, review below is incomplete yet though (just scanned the changes once). > Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this com

Bug#773992: RFS: xmlrpc-c/1.33.15+svn20141223~2672-1 [ITA]

2015-01-05 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Jörg, On 30-12-14 21:17, Jörg Frings-Fürst wrote: > first sorry for my late answer. I was i little bit ooo and then the > 31C3. No problem. Also sorry I didn't replied sooner. > Am Montag, den 29.12.2014, 11:13 +0100 schrieb Paul Gevers: >> On 26-12-14 20:48, Jör

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