quilt, mq and guilt (was Re: RFS: openjpeg)

2007-03-31 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Paul TBBle Hampson dies 31/03/2007 hora 00:58: > I'm going to have to have a look at quilt. I was under the impression > that it was a rather complicated patch-management system, used for > example by Andrew Morton for managing the -mm tree pre git. quilt is just a must-know IMHO when you

Re: RFS: libphp-facebook

2007-03-31 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Andrew Donnellan dies 31/03/2007 hora 08:31: > It's the 2-clause BSD license, the 'FreeBSD' license is just the > 2-clause BSD with FreeBSD names put in. FreeBSD license This is the original BSD license with the advertising clause and another clause removed. (It is also sometimes

RFS: mt19937

2007-03-31 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "mt19937". * Package name: mt19937 Version : 1.1-1 Upstream Author : Douglas T. Crosher and Raymond Toy * URL : http://www.cliki.net/MT19937 * License : Public Domain Section : libs It builds th

Re: RFS: A very special package

2007-03-31 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Pete Figh dies 01/04/2007 hora 01:58: > It should be in Debian because there is no other package, that > provides such funktionality. I suspect the violence it will be rejected with will be a pretty good measure of how Debian developers care about their users. It's an interesting package.

Re: RFS: A very special package

2007-04-02 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Michael M. dies 02/04/2007 hora 07:48: > This sounds great, but could you please advice which brand of popcorn > meets the DFSG? I wouldn't want to violate the spirit of the > endeavor. Probably only the one with traceability information, so you have the possibility to access the source o

Re: RFS: newlisp

2007-04-07 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Bernhard R. Link dies 07/04/2007 hora 16:32: > - http://newlisp.org from debian/copyright is no URL without a / at > the end According to RFC 2396, a generic URI without a path component is a valid one (section 3). It is very uncommon, though. Uncommonly, Pierre -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open

Re: Adding quilt to the new maintainer guide.

2007-04-15 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Russ Allbery dies 13/04/2007 hora 11:05: > I've never seen anything that can manage a set of patches as smoothly > and as intuitively as quilt. I used quilt before, but now I only use its Mercurial counterpart, Mercurial queues. Its integration in the VCS makes it easier to use. I suppose

ITP bugs

2007-10-01 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Among my 5 packages waiting at mentors.d.n, only the two more recents close ITP bugs. Would it be better practice if I issue a new Debian revisions for the 3 others after opening an ITP bug, with a changelog closing the latter? Curiously, Pierre -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP 0xD9D50D8A signature

RFS: mt19937, bordeaux-threads, salza-png, cl-vectors, vecto

2007-10-01 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Hi, As an interesting Common Lisp library was published some days ago, I packaged it with its dependencies that are not yet in Debian. The library itself is Vecto, a high-level lbrary for vector drawing based on CL-Vectors (low-level vector drawing) and Salza-PNG (PNG writer), its other dependenci

Re: RFS: mt19937, bordeaux-threads, salza-png, cl-vectors, vecto

2007-10-01 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Now my five packages close their ITP bug: vecto - http://bugs.debian.org/444729 cl-vectors - http://bugs.debian.org/444910 salza-png - http://bugs.debian.org/444778 bordeaux-threads - http://bugs.debian.org/444911 mt19937 - http://bugs.debian.org/444912 Documentally, Pierre -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ITP bugs

2007-10-02 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Neil Williams dies 02/10/2007 hora 09:57: > > ITP bugs are not required. > ITP bugs are required by most sponsors. As DD's, you and I are free to > skip ITP bugs but maintainers needing sponsorship should file an ITP. Indeed there's very valuable information layed out in a very friendly w

Re: removing bogus directories in my package

2003-08-27 Thread Pierre THIERRY
> both look sub-optimal to me, could anyone give me advice on this, > please? You could just use presint install/upgrade old-version to remove those directories, if they are empty... See policy 6.5 Quickly, le Moine Fou -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP 0xD9D50D8A pgp8PV6PEVaOH.pgp Description: PGP

Re: removing bogus directories in my package

2003-08-27 Thread Pierre THIERRY
> both look sub-optimal to me, could anyone give me advice on this, > please? You could just use presint install/upgrade old-version to remove those directories, if they are empty... See policy 6.5 Quickly, le Moine Fou -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP 0xD9D50D8A pgp0.pgp Description: PGP sign