Re: insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) ... overwrites defaults

2009-11-11 Thread Peter Pentchev
r users' questions, but for new maintainers'! > > Please re-post your question to debian-u...@lists.debian.org Well, that would have been fine, except that Michael Hanke is actually the maintainer of the arno-iptables-firewall package, and he may be asking this question from a "wh

Re: Writing manpages (was: Re: Man and UTF-8.)

2009-11-28 Thread Peter Pentchev
asn't around ten years ago :) And I'm pretty much used to mdoc by now :) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.netr...@space.bgr...@freebsd.org PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2

RFS: dma (bugfixes, debconf, 3.0 (quilt))

2009-12-10 Thread Peter Pentchev
52754 - add Japanese. Closes: #554515 - remove a double space and unfuzzy the translations. Closes: #552586 * Fix a crash when the SMTP server does not support STARTTLS. Closes: #547594 -- Peter Pentchev Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:08:19 +0200 G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r

Re: RFS: mbuffer (new package)

2009-12-10 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 12:45:28PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 01:03:06PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 06:27:26PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > Dear mentors, > > > > > > I am looking for a sponsor

Re: RFS: mbuffer (new package)

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Pentchev
ity: Does mbuffer now prefer libmhash over libssl? > > > That has been troublesome in the past. > > > > The documentation of the upstream author states that he prefers > libmhash over libssl. At about the same time as Peter Pentchev > made his first packaging of mbuffe

Re: RFS: mbuffer (new package)

2009-12-14 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 02:46:28AM +0100, Hector Oron wrote: > Hello, > > 2009/12/10 Peter Pentchev : > > * Package name    : mbuffer > >  Version         : 20091122-1 > >  Upstream Author : Thomas Maier-Komor > > * URL             : http://www.maier-ko

Re: RFS: dma (bugfixes, debconf, 3.0 (quilt))

2009-12-19 Thread Peter Pentchev
upstream, as dma happens to be. I don't do this with other packages, but this particular case was special - in order to be an easily-usable MTA, dma needed a couple of nudges in the right direction, but definitely not enough to warrant a full-scale fork on my part. Thanks for taking a

RFS: mbuffer (new upstream, fix FTBFS, prefer libmhash)

2009-12-19 Thread Peter Pentchev
net/debian/pool/main/m/mbuffer/mbuffer_20091213-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.netr...@space.bgr...@freebsd.org PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC

Re: RFS: qliss3d (adopted & updated)

2009-12-23 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 12:46:12PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 03:15:12PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > Dear mentors, > > > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.3.2-5 > > of my package "qliss3d". I'm trying

Re: RFS: mbuffer (new upstream, fix FTBFS, prefer libmhash)

2009-12-24 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 03:54:09PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 20091213-1 > of my package "mbuffer". In addition to the new upstream > version, there's a FTBFS bug fixed, and the Debian package

RFS: s5 (more DFSG free, refreshed Debian packaging)

2010-01-07 Thread Peter Pentchev
copyright years on the Debian packaging. * Correct the s5 tool's manual page - remove the obsolete "bug" about no config files; this has not been true for almost two years now! * Convert to the 3.0 (quilt) source format with no changes. -- Peter Pentchev Thu, 07 Jan 20

Re: RFS: s5 (more DFSG free, refreshed Debian packaging)

2010-01-08 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 06:18:07PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Peter Pentchev (07/01/2010): > > Dear mentors, > > Hi, > > > I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. > > if nobody beats me to it, I could have a look tonight (UTC+1). IRC >

RFS: s5 (updated package)

2010-02-25 Thread Peter Pentchev
look for the checksums file in the parent directory, too, since that's where the "blank" action actually installs it! -- Peter Pentchev Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:05:23 +0200 G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.netr...@space.bgr...@freebsd.org PGP key:

RFS: mbuffer (updated package)

2010-02-25 Thread Peter Pentchev
against it now * Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.4 with no changes. * Add the 07-manpage patch to fix a couple of typos and grammar nits in the manual page; forwarded upstream, the author accepted it for the next upstream release. -- Peter Pentchev Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:43:44 +0200

Re: CHowning files - or not?

2010-03-02 Thread Peter Pentchev
em the file is > > re-installed, but chown in postinst will as well ... > > And will nuke possible local changes? Erm, surely the script would check with dpkg-statoverride --list before setting the permissions, as described in Policy 10.9.1 :) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev

Re: CHowning files - or not?

2010-03-02 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 06:43:07PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:23:25AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > >> Dominik George (26/02/2010): > >> > OK, as it is done in postins

Re: CHowning files - or not?

2010-03-02 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 12:00:25PM +0100, Dominik George wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 12:37:25 +0200, Peter Pentchev > wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:23:25AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > >> Dominik George (26/02/2010): > >> > OK, as it is done in p

Re: CHowning files - or not?

2010-03-02 Thread Peter Pentchev
f you don't feel like it, just use chown - but make a point to remember that this is a special case and for other packages you might want to use dpkg-statoverride :) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.netr...@space.bgr...@freebsd.org PGP key:http://people.Fre

RFS: qliss3d (updated package, DMUA candidate :)

2010-03-09 Thread Peter Pentchev
e copyright year on the debian/ files. * All the patches were forwarded upstream. -- Peter Pentchev Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:56:38 +0200 G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.netr...@space.bgr...@freebsd.org PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerp

RFS: gtkcookie (adopted, updated, DMUA candidate)

2010-03-11 Thread Peter Pentchev
hardening wrapper if the "hardening" build option is set. -- Peter Pentchev Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:35:38 +0200 G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.netr...@space.bgr...@freebsd.org PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint

Re: Use of DM-Upload-Allowed field

2010-03-20 Thread Peter Pentchev
ink they're quite the right thing to do, so I'm sticking by them :) Even more so now that some DD's (at the very least Paul Wise and Sandro Tosi, and also Hector Oron who uploaded the last revision of qliss3d for me and set DMUA) have expressed their agreement to it. G'luck, Pe

Re: Source format 3.0 (quilt) and new debhelper dh syntax (maint-guide)

2010-03-22 Thread Peter Pentchev
nd, yes, in the beginning I did find myself doing "dh binary-arch --no-act --verbose > ~/tmp/binary-arch.log" to see What Would DebHelper Do(tm) - but, with time, one gets to memorize which program goes in which automatically-invoked target. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r

Re: Question about package priority

2010-03-25 Thread Peter Pentchev
tually affects your package depends on exactly what your package does with ifconfig :) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.netr...@space.bgr...@freebsd.org PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354

RFS: mbuffer (updated package, DMUA candidate)

2010-04-07 Thread Peter Pentchev
debian/* copyright notice. * Just set LDFLAGS instead of overriding debhelper's auto_configure. -- Peter Pentchev Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:53:50 +0300 Thanks in advance for your time! G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.netr...@space.bgr...@freebsd.org PGP key:

Re: RFS: django-auth-ldap

2010-04-07 Thread Peter Pentchev
es > that are part of your packaging but may well be of interest to > upstream. Also for third parties who would like to use a BSD-licensed package and actually *like* some of your patches - they, too, might be happier if the patches are under the same license as the upstream code. G'luck,

RFS: debsigs (packaging updates, DMUA candidate)

2010-06-02 Thread Peter Pentchev
from the Perl build dependency * Update the copyright file to the latest revision of DEP 5 and bump the year on my copyright notice. -- Peter Pentchev Wed, 02 Jun 2010 11:18:57 +0300 G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.netr...@space.bgr...@freebsd.org PGP key:

RFS: tina (adopted, updated a lot, turned non-native)

2010-06-03 Thread Peter Pentchev
quot; build option is set. -- Peter Pentchev Fri, 04 Jun 2010 02:58:13 +0300 G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.netr...@space.bgr...@freebsd.org PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D

Re: RFS: debsigs (packaging updates, DMUA candidate)

2010-06-14 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 02:20:41PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.1.16 > of my package "debsigs". This is a packaging update to > bring it to the latest-and-greatest standards available :) > See below

Re: RFS: tina (adopted, updated a lot, turned non-native)

2010-06-15 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 03:21:20AM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.1.11-1 > of the package "tina". And here goes my second attempt to adopt tina - nothing changed since the first one, just resending th

Re: POSIX replacement for bash's “export -n” ?

2010-07-12 Thread Peter Pentchev
e "Cannot run wossname"; > > by the following line: > > open (WOSSNAME, "(unset EMBOSS_ACDCOMMANDLINE; wossname -alpha -auto)|") || > die "Cannot run wossname"; Erm... since you *are* executing this in a separate process, can't you just unset

Re: debian/watch file based on text and not on href

2010-07-16 Thread Peter Pentchev
efully after reading Nick's question yesterday, and after a couple of quick tests I did conclude that this was simply not possible with the current version of uscan - so it might indeed not have been that hard to conclude that this is, actually, a feature request :) G'luck, Pete

Re: How to Deal with files created dynamically

2010-07-28 Thread Peter Pentchev
ackage install -o root -g newpackage -m 2755 program /usr/bin/program The only drawback would come if this is not about a program, but, say, a library - in that case, either every program using that library would need to be setgid (ugh!), or you could go the "grantpty" way and make a littl

dpkg-buildflags [Was: Re: RFS: libaosd (updated package)]

2010-08-03 Thread Peter Pentchev
" (or even "debian/rules build"). Of course, this would bring in a build dependency on dpkg-dev >= 1.15.7, which might cause problems if your package is backported, but the person doing the backport should figure out how to set CFLAGS, etc easily enough :) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@space.bgr...@ringlet.netr...@freebsd.org PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 This sentence no verb. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: question about proprietary libraries

2010-09-02 Thread Peter Pentchev
> Of course if the proprietary library is necessary then his library goes > to contrib as well as any program depending on it. > > Also I think I've read somewhere that no library really enter debian > unless a program requires it. (which kind of makes sense). > >

Re: RFS: compactheader

2010-09-03 Thread Peter Pentchev
e more appropriate? > > That's right, but I've not found his email anywhere Erm, I believe what Rogério meant was that you might change "Section: web" to "Section: mail" :) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@space.bgr...@ringlet.netr...@freebsd.or

Re: How to compare source package contents between revisions with 3.0 quilt format

2010-09-04 Thread Peter Pentchev
he debian/ subdir, i.e. compare modified > patches, scripts and control files, right ? Erm, when I just tried it: debdiff file1.dsc file2.dsc ...produced a "diff -Nru" unified diff, showing the changes I'd made to the debian/* files. Isn't that what you're looking for

Re: problem with lintian overrides

2010-09-18 Thread Peter Pentchev
a file that will be installed as part of the binary package. You may install it into /usr/share/lintian/overrides/ "by hand", but it will be much easier to just drop a file named binarypackagename.lintian-overrides (well, in your case that is kstars-data-extra-tycho2.lintian-overrides) in

Re: RFS: fritzing

2010-10-04 Thread Peter Pentchev
: http://fritzing.org > * License : GPLv3 & CC:BY-SA > Section : electronics > > It builds these binary packages: > fritzing - Easy-to-use, electronic design software Is there really a need for the comma here? G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentc

Re: Adopting: maintainer change in debian/changelog

2010-11-06 Thread Peter Pentchev
nse. This might not be needed if the new license is just as restrictive or more restrictive than the old - but only if it does indeed include *all* the restrictions the old one did. In general, it doesn't hurt to ask :) Of course, IANAL and it just might be worth it for you to bring

Re: RFS: wav2cdr (updated package)

2010-11-26 Thread Peter Pentchev
ans that your package needs to change in some way. You can find the upgrading checklist in the /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/ directory in several formats after installing the debian-policy package. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@space.bgr...@ringlet.netr...@freebsd.

Re: ClipIt -- Clipboard manager

2010-11-30 Thread Peter Pentchev
ending on autotools-dev. Your > package should build-depend on what it needs, regardless if some of these > dependancies are also satisfied on a second or higher order by other packages. Not to mention that a direct dependency on autotools-dev >= 20100122.1~ is quite useful when using dh

Re: RFS: mosquitto

2010-11-30 Thread Peter Pentchev
able to have an initial upload without symbols files and then let mole.debian.org generate some for you to include in the next version, but IMHO it would be better to have them right from the start :) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@space.bgr...@ringlet.netr...@freebsd.org PGP

Re: RFS: mosquitto

2010-11-30 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 04:01:45PM +, Roger Light wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > Actually it would be great to have symbols files right from the start. > > This way, when the next library version comes out, dpkg-gensymbols will > &g

Re: RFS: blankon (updated package)

2010-12-08 Thread Peter Pentchev
me-blankon/usr/share/icons/monde > > Hope that helps Since CDBS is a wrapper around debhelper, adding "usr/share/icons/monde" to the debian/gnome-icon-theme-blankon.dirs file ought to do the trick. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@space.bgr...@ringlet.netr...@fr

Re: Renaming multiple packages in a single control file

2010-12-12 Thread Peter Pentchev
2527DF13 Contents: ...and then add a file:// repository to /etc/apt/sources.list. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@space.bgr...@ringlet.netr...@freebsd.org PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 45

Re: Debhelper: LDFLAGS

2010-12-19 Thread Peter Pentchev
le itself*, it won't be passed to child processes such as the configure script. Also, are you aware of the dpkg-buildflags utility available in recent versions of dpkg-dev? :) On both counts, feel free to take a look at recent versions of, say, the timelimit (>= 1.6-1) package. (shameless se

Re: Debhelper: LDFLAGS

2010-12-19 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 08:53:01PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Peter Pentchev , 2010-12-19, 20:16: > >When you say that setting the custom LDFLAGS doesn't work, have you > >actually exported them? :) If you just do LDFLAGS=... or LDFLAGS > >!= ... or LDFLAGS := ..., mak

Re: Building and uploading package, depending on experimental

2010-12-26 Thread Peter Pentchev
have to admit I'm pretty good at that sometimes...) > > 2) May I upload such package to mentors.debian.net? > > > > Yes, if you target the package for experimental (instead of unstable). > > > I would appreciate any comments or links, where I can find a solution for

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

2011-01-04 Thread Peter Pentchev
gt; failmalloc (alternatively there is no reason to ship the unversioned > > symlink in the failmalloc binary package). > > Quite a good point indeed. > > I re-uploaded, dropping the libfailmalloc0 package and adding > autotools-dev to rules. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev

Re: Detecting build architecture

2011-01-14 Thread Peter Pentchev
message are aware of the possible size mismatch between pointers and integers. And, just as Sven Joachim says, Andreas, take a look at the dpkg-architecture manual page, the documentation of the DEB_BUILD_ARCH_BITS variable explicitly mentions the word "pointers" - so this is exactly what you nee

Re: RFS: logtop a realtime log line rate analyzer

2011-02-02 Thread Peter Pentchev
o have the "news" in a file named "Changes" :) As Savatage sing, "Welcome to the system, here's the situation / It's a bit confusing, welcome to the maze!" :P G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@freebsd.org pe...@packetscale.com PGP

Re: RFS: logtop a realtime log line rate analyzer

2011-02-02 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 10:40:46AM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:30:29 +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > but it would seem that the GNU Coding Standards > > do not agree - it seems you're doing the right thing with your CHANGELOG > > file, a

Re: RFS: snake4 (updated package)

2011-02-05 Thread Peter Pentchev
it goes. 2. More recently, dpkg-dev 1.15.7 introduced the dpkg-buildflags tool which is perfect for this task :) You may take a look at the rules files for the mbuffer or timelimit packages to see how it's used. Hope that helps :) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.

Re: RFS: snake4 (updated package)

2011-02-05 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 03:28:16PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 12:37:18AM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: > [snip] > > Finally there is this part, which I asked you to look at: > > > > ifneq (,$(findstring noopt,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS))) > &

Re: RFS: cr3

2011-02-08 Thread Peter Pentchev
of course, for packages that do introduce really unstable features that need further testing before the unstable upload. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@freebsd.org pe...@packetscale.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD

Re: RFS: libmatheval (updated package)

2011-02-08 Thread Peter Pentchev
h you are adopting the package; still, I just thought I'd say that as a longer-term idea :) Thanks for your work in adopting and refreshing the package! G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@freebsd.org pe...@packetscale.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roa

Re: adding --distribution experimental to pdebuild

2011-02-10 Thread Peter Pentchev
Hmm, won't things Just Work(tm) if you create a new pbuilder chroot specifying "experimental" as the distribution? It is special-cased in several places in pbuilder's operation. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@freebsd.org pe...@packetscale.com

Re: Problem to create the orig tarball

2011-02-16 Thread Peter Pentchev
and similar). For an example, pick any of the packages listed by e.g.: apt-cache search --names-only -- -source | fgrep -ve 'kernel module' -e driver I believe the gcc*-source packages are provided for this exact purpose - a base for cross-compiling development environments for embedded

RFS: mdk (adopted, updated the packaging a lot)

2011-02-21 Thread Peter Pentchev
er, postrm.debhelper and prerm.debhelper files; I'm not sure whether they should ever have been tracked in a VCS. * In the 01-gtk-deprecated patch, also remove the G_DISABLE_DEPRECATED definition - GLib 2.26 deprecates the completion functions. -- Peter Pentchev Mon, 21 F

Re: RFS: webhoneypot

2011-03-01 Thread Peter Pentchev
config skript that writes a config.php (or similar) in > /usr/share/. > > But thanks, I've overseen that while going through the policy/FHS. I will > modify this to /var/webhoneypot/templates. Just for the record, I think /var/lib/webhoneypot/ might be even better :) G'luck, Pe

RFS: donkey (updated, DMUA candidate :)

2011-03-01 Thread Peter Pentchev
-Werror by default unless the "nowerror" build option is specified. -- Peter Pentchev Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:41:57 +0200 G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@freebsd.org pe...@packetscale.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerp

RFS: debsigs (updated, DMUA candidate :)

2011-03-01 Thread Peter Pentchev
;Debian GNU/Linux systems" to "Debian systems" - update to the latest version of the DEP 5 candidate format - bump the year on my copyright notice * Use bzip2 compression for the tarball. * Bump the debhelper compatibility level to 8 with no changes. -- Peter Pentchev

Re: RFS: debsigs (updated, DMUA candidate :)

2011-03-01 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 01:12:12PM +0100, Michal Čihař wrote: > Hi > > Dne Tue, 1 Mar 2011 13:47:11 +0200 > Peter Pentchev napsal(a): > > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.1.17 > > of my package "debsigs". This version contains various pack

Re: RFS: mdk (adopted, updated the packaging a lot)

2011-03-08 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 01:45:17PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.2.3-2 > of my package "mdk". I am hereby trying to adopt the package and > refresh its packaging a lot; I've left the update to new

RFS: gtkcookie (many packaging refreshments, DMUA candidate :)

2011-03-08 Thread Peter Pentchev
unnecessary dependencies. * Make the short description start with a lowercase letter. -- Peter Pentchev Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:39:26 +0200 G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@freebsd.org pe...@packetscale.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fi

Re: Bug#570621: Parsing output = derivative work?

2011-03-09 Thread Peter Pentchev
GPL-2 (no +) license? :) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@freebsd.org pe...@packetscale.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 This sentence contradicts itself - or rather - w

DESTDIR-awareness [Was: Re: RFS: b43-fwcutter (updated package)]

2011-03-09 Thread Peter Pentchev
gram: install (some options) fooclient ${DESTDIR}${PREFIX}/bin install (some options) fooserver ${DESTDIR}${PREFIX}/sbin This achieves both goals - the files end up in the DESTDIR tree and PREFIX, BINDIR, etc keep their "real" values that correspond to the paths where the fi

Re: RFS: mdk (adopted, updated the packaging a lot)

2011-03-09 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 09:28:14PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Tue, 08 Mar 2011 13:56:52 +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.2.3-2 > > > of my package "mdk". I am hereby trying to adopt the package and

Re: RFS: minidlna (updated package)

2011-03-17 Thread Peter Pentchev
hat case. I wonder if Michael meant rm -f "${PIDDIR}"/* with the slash :) (IMHO the quotes would also be a good idea) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@freebsd.org pe...@packetscale.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint

Re: FAIL: Package purging left files on system:

2011-03-17 Thread Peter Pentchev
rm script that checks if the user is really purging your package (check if [ "$1" = 'purge' ]) and, if so, remove the directory, assuming that the user who specifically issued a purge request really understands what she's doing to the package and all of its data files :) G'

Re: RFS: ttylog (updated package)

2011-03-28 Thread Peter Pentchev
d as Debian Enhancement Proposal 5 (DEP 5, http://dep.debian.net/) - bump the debhelper compatibility level to 8 with no further changes Thanks for making Debian better by taking care of its packages! G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@freebsd.org pe...@packet

Re: RFS: alarm-clock-applet (updated package)

2011-03-28 Thread Peter Pentchev
and not --watchfie to uscan ;) - no need to pass the changelog name to dh_installchangelogs since 7.0 - bump the debhelper compatibility level to 8 with no further changes Of course, it's your package, it's your call whether to accept them or not. Thanks for making Debian better by taking care of i

Re: RFS: alarm-clock-applet (updated package)

2011-03-29 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:44:54AM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > On Monday 28,March,2011 10:46 PM, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > [...] > > Hi, > > Hi Peter, > > Thanks for your patches. I've looked through them, and I think I'll accept > just > the secon

Re: creating new package without archive file (e.g. tar.gz)

2011-04-12 Thread Peter Pentchev
nned to be released certainly doesn't. Agreed. In my packaging, I've been using 0.0.MMDD for that purpose - assuming that when/if the upstream developers decide to actually roll out a release, they'll use something larger than 0.0.1 for a version number :) G'luck

Re: RFS: tinycalc

2011-04-20 Thread Peter Pentchev
or know that it's not always a good idea to leave the .svn/ directories in the release tarball :) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@freebsd.org pe...@packetscale.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3

Re: RFS: ripit (updated package, upload to unstable only)

2011-04-26 Thread Peter Pentchev
None of them are mandatory or anything; they're just things that I would do to my own Debian packages, and of course it's up to you whether to accept them or not :) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@freebsd.org pe...@packetscale.com PGP key:http://peo

Re: RFS: ripit (updated package, upload to unstable only)

2011-04-26 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 05:18:08PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > * Peter Pentchev [110426 15:49 +0300]: > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 01:38:02PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > Dear mentors, > > > > > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new versio

Re: RFS: frei0r (updated package)

2011-04-29 Thread Peter Pentchev
your package is synced with Ubuntu, the bug will be closed in their LaunchPad system. > or we really live on different worlds? I don't think there really was a call for that - at least not before you'd found out whether there really was a way - as there is in this case :) G'

Re: RFS: opencpn

2011-05-02 Thread Peter Pentchev
l design of a project it might be useful to know what tools are available and which of them might also be available in a broader target base. Of course, ICBW - as I often am :) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@freebsd.org pe...@packetscale.com PGP key:http://peopl

[OT] Re: RFS: opencpn

2011-05-03 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 11:15:47AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > Hmm, it's very, very rare that I find myself disagreeing with Paul > > Wise[0] > > Hmm, whats [0]? Oops, sorry; I wasn't aiming for myste

RFS: fetchmail-6.3.19 backport to Lenny

2011-05-10 Thread Peter Pentchev
ioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fetchmail-maint/2011-May/004075.html I would be glad if someone could find a couple of minutes to review the trivial changes needed for the backport (just roll back the dh_python2 transition) and upload this package for me. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev

Re: DEP-5 format definition hell

2011-05-30 Thread Peter Pentchev
to me) This used to be correct during the initial discussion of the idea of machine-readable copyright files; it became incorrect the moment DEP 5 was created as such :) > d) broken links (obviously rejected) True, that :) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@freeb

Re: RFS: oss-compat (adoption, updated package)

2011-06-08 Thread Peter Pentchev
he latest rev of the debian/changelog file in the pkg-games/oss-compat.git repository on Alioth Reborn) I'm not really sure why Fuddl reset the maintainer field when uploading; the usual practice is to set it to the Debian Games Team (as Stephen did) and, if necessary, put the uploader's na

RFS: gforth (updated package)

2011-07-12 Thread Peter Pentchev
the Vcs-Git and Vcs-Browser URLs. -- Peter Pentchev Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:50:11 +0300 G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@freebsd.org pe...@packetscale.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B

Re: RFS: libspctag

2011-07-14 Thread Peter Pentchev
as > > Yes, I'm the upstream maintainer. I didn't provide a changelog because > this is the first release, but I will make one for future versions. Just for the record, I always put a "First public release" changelog entry in the changelog of the, well, first release of

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

2011-07-27 Thread Peter Pentchev
But unless you're doing > > something really different, you shouldn't need to specify any build > > rules at all > > Both of those are rather too much magic. One of the great benefits of > using debhelper( as opposed to CDBS) is that one can look at a > ‘debian/

RFS: hexer -- backport to Squeeze (a bugfix, some refreshments)

2011-08-01 Thread Peter Pentchev
Dear mentors and backporters, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "hexer" - a backport to Debian 6.0 (Squeeze) to fix #633508 (searching for octets > 127) and refresh the packaging a bit. * Package name: hexer Version : 0.1.7-1~bpo60+1 Upstream Author : P

Re: RFS: hexer -- backport to Squeeze (a bugfix, some refreshments)

2011-08-01 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 11:39:28AM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > Peter Pentchev schrieb am Monday, den 01. August 2011: > > > Dear mentors and backporters, > > > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "hexer" - a backport to Debian > > 6.0 (Squee

Re: RFS: wizznic

2011-08-05 Thread Peter Pentchev
d it is only ".dfsg" that may indeed be harmful if upstream decides to release a next version with a new component that sorts lower than, well, "dfsg" :) However, I really don't see what upstream's next version number has to be so that it will cause problems with "+

Re: RFS: wizznic

2011-08-05 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 01:06:18PM +0200, Kilian Krause wrote: > Hi Peter, > > On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 13:18 +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 08:52:37AM +0200, Kilian Krause wrote: > > > Hi Tony, > > > > > > On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 1

RFS: php-pecl-http - extended HTTP support for php5

2011-11-10 Thread Peter Pentchev
.1+dfsg.1-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@freebsd.org pe...@packetscale.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553

Re: RFS: php-pecl-http - extended HTTP support for php5

2011-11-12 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 11:39:47AM +0100, Mathias Ertl wrote: > Hi, > > On Thursday, November 10, 2011 10:53:44 PM Peter Pentchev wrote: > > I am looking for a sponsor for my new package "php-pecl-http". > > I am not a Debian Developer, so I cannot upload/sponsor,

Re: RFS: php-pecl-http - extended HTTP support for php5

2011-11-12 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 01:40:10AM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: [snip] > > * I couldn't get your debian/watch file to work, this one works: > > http://pecl.php.net/package/pecl_http \ > > /get/pecl_http-([\d\.]*).tgz debian > > Hmm, that's interesting.

Bug#700943: RFS: stdsyslog/0.03-1 [ITP] -- log a program's output to the system log

2013-02-19 Thread Peter Pentchev
d to close my ITP bug #699347. * Package name: : stdsyslog Version : 0.03-1 Upstream author : Peter Pentchev * URL : http://devel.ringlet.net/sysutils/stdsyslog/ * License : BSD-2 Section : utils It builds a single bina

Bug#700943: RFS: stdsyslog/0.03-1 [ITP] -- log a program's output to the system log

2013-02-21 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:00:43PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: > Control: tag -1 + confirmed moreinfo > Control: tag -1 owner ! > > On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:26:34 +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "stdsyslog" - a tool th

Bug#696899: can anybody sponsor an ITP for premake4 ?

2013-04-03 Thread Peter Pentchev
> want an upload prior to wheezy's release Just for the record, I'm not really sure whether this is true for new packages - I think newborn packages are not considered for testing migration at all, are they? G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@free

Re: CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS/LDFLAGS

2013-05-14 Thread Peter Pentchev
else wrote, we'll need to see a build log and a copy of your debian/rules file before that. Actually, it might be good to see upstream's build files (Makefile, CMakeLists.txt, etc), too, just to make sure that they do (or don't) pay attention to CPPFLAGS at all. G'luck, Peter

Re: Sponsorship request

2013-08-20 Thread Peter Pentchev
mentors.debian.net/package/mosquitto > > Please, file a RFS. It is easier to follow progress this way: > http://mentors.debian.net/sponsors Actually, I believe that he has: http://bugs.debian.org/719207 G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@freebsd.org p.penc...@stor

Re: debian/watch: Version based on file timestamp

2013-10-16 Thread Peter Pentchev
on too many almost-simultaneous requests. It doesn't sound too hard; if nobody else steps up, I may try to write something like this. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@freebsd.org p.penc...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key

Bug#729374: RFS: spiped/1.3.1-1 [ITP] -- create secure pipes between socket addresses

2013-11-12 Thread Peter Pentchev
x27;stable'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.10-3-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=bg_BG.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=bg_BG.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@freebsd.org p.penc...@storpool.com PG

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