RFS: gvb

2008-06-13 Thread Pietro Battiston
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gvb". * Package name: gvb Version : 1.1-1 Upstream Author : Pietro Battiston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : https://poisson.phc.unipi.it/~battiston/gvb * License : GPL Section : sc

Re: RFS: gvb

2008-06-13 Thread Pietro Battiston
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 After writing this, I found a wonderful FAQ saying I should add informations to make the package interesting, so I'm answering to myself. Pietro Battiston ha scritto: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "

RFS: gvb (updated package)

2008-06-21 Thread Pietro Battiston
wanted to spot the fact that now it is). Last version is here: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gvb/gvb_1.1.2-1.dsc Pietro Battiston P.S: what is gvb? gvb is a nice graphical app to simulate vibrations and waves on a string/membrane. Its niceness is due to the use of gtk and cai

Re: RFS: gvb

2008-06-22 Thread Pietro Battiston
he second: why?) > but I had time to briefly look at it and here are some comments: > > On Sunday 22 June 2008 10:31, Pietro Battiston wrote: >> This seems to me the right place to look if there is someone >> interested in sponsoring a package I made. > > still, you should

Re: How to not break dependant packages

2008-07-17 Thread Pietro Battiston
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thibaut Paumard ha scritto: > I guess you are running unstable: you have to expect those > glitches. It should not happen in testing or stable. Please forgive my ignorance: why shouldn't it happen in testing? (I mean: by what control mechanism?) Pi

Non free license?

2008-12-19 Thread Pietro Battiston
(in particular the third condition) is not enough free? Notice that if this is the problem, I could try to contact upstream, or package an old GPLed version of the library (see [3]). (or just rewrite the _2_ function that I use from that library...) thank for you help Pietro Battiston [0]: http

Still the rejected package

2008-12-20 Thread Pietro Battiston
Hello, an ftp master told me that I can find the reason of the rejection of the package I'm working on (python-shapely, for those who didn't read the "Non free license?" thread) in folder /srv/ftp.debian.org/queue/reject/ of server merkel.debian.org. It should be a file named python-shapely_1.0.4-

Re: Still the rejected package

2008-12-20 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno sab, 20/12/2008 alle 12.36 +0100, Cyril Brulebois ha scritto: > Pietro Battiston (20/12/2008): > > I'm not the maintainer, the maintainer doesn't answer to my emails, I > > don't know who the sponsor was, the ftp-masters didn't answer to my > >

Re: Still the rejected package

2008-12-20 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno sab, 20/12/2008 alle 09.49 -0600, Carlo Segre ha scritto: > Hi Pietro > > On Sat, 20 Dec 2008, Pietro Battiston wrote: > > > Anyway, I'm starting to think that the effort of this "autopsy" is > > bigger than it's worth: I have nearly fi

Re: sponsorship-requests

2012-01-31 Thread Pietro Battiston
think it could be an incentive for people just seeking for advice (and then potentially getting caught by the interesting discussions) to not subscribe, or to unsubscribe quickly... Also, it would make the archives look a bit more like garbage, and hence less valuable as documentation source. Piet

Re: sponsorship-requests

2012-01-31 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno mar, 31/01/2012 alle 11.32 -0500, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio ha scritto: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 4:58 AM, Pietro Battiston > wrote: > > ¹ By the way, I guess creating a filter which catches all - and only - > > debian-mentors emails is not trivial at all with emai

RFS: nautilus-scripts-manager

2009-07-16 Thread Pietro Battiston
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "nautilus-scripts-manager". * Package name: nautilus-scripts-manager Version : 1.2-1 Upstream Author : Pietro Battiston (me) * URL : http://www.pietrobattiston.it/nautilus-scripts-manager * License

Re: [Fwd: Re: Denemo]

2009-08-16 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno dom, 16/08/2009 alle 18.49 +0200, Pietro Battiston ha scritto: > Notice that today if a Debian user wants to use denemo, the best thing > to do is certainly to use the package at [1], as far as: where [1] = http://mirror.lihnidos.org/GNU/savannah/denemo/debian/ Pietro Bat

[Fwd: Re: Denemo]

2009-08-16 Thread Pietro Battiston
d here, since I'm changing version and packaging tools (however, doing a NMU that doesn't bring in last upstream version would be pointless, and I personally won't learn CDBS). Just to be clear, I don't want to blame Gunter for anything: he's just busy, stop. I just want denemo in

RFS: nautilus-scripts-manager (2nd try)

2009-08-18 Thread Pietro Battiston
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "nautilus-scripts-manager". * Package name: nautilus-scripts-manager Version : 1.2-1 Upstream Author : Pietro Battiston (me) * URL : http://www.pietrobattiston.it/nautilus-scripts-manager * License

Re: [Fwd: Re: Denemo]

2009-08-19 Thread Pietro Battiston
t" would also be an admissible response... but _how much time_? And then? thanks Pietro [0]: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2009/08/msg00308.html P.S: please CC me too, I'm in -mentors but not in -devel Il giorno dom, 16/08/2009 alle 18.49 +0200, Pietro Battiston ha scritto:

Re: .mo files in source package

2009-09-01 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno mer, 02/09/2009 alle 14.12 +0800, Paul Wise ha scritto: > On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Ludovico > Cavedon wrote: > > > are .mo file considered source, i.e. is an upstream tarball containing > > .mo files ok? > > > > Or is it necessary to have .po files? > > > > If .po files are necess

Re: RFS: gerix-wifi-cracker-ng

2009-09-02 Thread Pietro Battiston
I'm not a Debian Developer, but I have the impression I was able to compile perfectly your package without the need to install python-dev... which indeed is not needed by ordinary _python_ programs, but only by (C) extensions. So I think you could remove the unnecessary python-dev from build-depen

Re: RFS: gerix-wifi-cracker-ng

2009-09-02 Thread Pietro Battiston
I don't pretend to be a packaging guru, but I have the slight impression that your package is lintian clean thanks to some bug in lintian: - version is 1.0.0 ... and it is not a native package. But moreover, it seems like on the original page (which is http://backtrack.it/~emgent/hackstuff/Gerix-W

Re: Menu entries not appearing

2009-09-03 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno gio, 03/09/2009 alle 13.42 +0200, Alessandro Dentella ha scritto: > Hi, > > I tried to add a menu entry for application 'sqledit', but the entry does > not > appear if I use standard menu entry in debian as: > > ?package(python-sqlkit):needs="X11" section="Applications/Office"\ >

Re: [Fwd: Re: Denemo]

2009-09-05 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno mer, 19/08/2009 alle 19.19 +0200, Patrick Matthäi ha scritto: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Pietro Battiston schrieb: > > Rogério's mail ([0]) gave me desire to insist. > > > > Now I'm being much more clearer and short:

Re: [Fwd: Re: Denemo]

2009-09-05 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno sab, 05/09/2009 alle 09.50 +0200, Pietro Battiston ha scritto: > Il giorno mer, 19/08/2009 alle 19.19 +0200, Patrick Matthäi ha scritto: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Pietro Battiston schrieb: > > > Rogério&#

Re: [Fwd: Re: Denemo]

2009-09-05 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno sab, 05/09/2009 alle 10.03 +0200, Pietro Battiston ha scritto: > Il giorno sab, 05/09/2009 alle 09.50 +0200, Pietro Battiston ha scritto: > > Il giorno mer, 19/08/2009 alle 19.19 +0200, Patrick Matthäi ha scritto: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE

Re: Test of a package on a specific architecture

2009-09-12 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno ven, 11/09/2009 alle 21.31 +0200, Jérémy Lal ha scritto: > VirtualBox supports 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts, > provided you have a cpu that supports virtualization. > Are there any 32 bit cpus around which support virtualization?! Pietro > > On 11/09/2009 21:17, Laurent Guignard w

Re: Test of a package on a specific architecture

2009-09-12 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno sab, 12/09/2009 alle 13.33 +0200, Laurent Guignard ha scritto: > On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:35:39 +0200, Pietro Battiston wrote: > > Il giorno ven, 11/09/2009 alle 21.31 +0200, Jérémy Lal ha scritto: > > > VirtualBox supports 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts, > > &

Re: RFS: pdftk (major NMU, fixes RC bugs)

2009-09-14 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno lun, 14/09/2009 alle 22.20 +0200, Johann Felix Soden ha scritto: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my NMU of the package "pdftk". > > In the last month, I sent two mails to its maintainer (Aurélien GÉRÔME) > concerning his package/this NMU but got no reply. > > To solv

(non-)upstream changelog

2009-11-05 Thread Pietro Battiston
Hello, the developers of an app I'm packaging, denemo (www.denemo.org) do not use (it is there, but not updated since months) the file ChangeLog. However, they do keep a list of changes, which they published, for the last release, in their site and on the mailing list, and which content would be t

Re: (non-)upstream changelog

2009-11-05 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno gio, 05/11/2009 alle 23.20 +0100, Sandro Tosi ha scritto: > Hi, > > 2009/11/5 Pietro Battiston : > > Hello, > > the developers of an app I'm packaging, denemo (www.denemo.org) do not > > use (it is there, but not updated since months) the file ChangeLog.

scrollkeeper/rarian

2009-11-12 Thread Pietro Battiston
I fear, obsolete - makefiles. I'd really like to avoid both those. thank you for any hint Pietro Battiston [0]: http://scrollkeeper.sourceforge.net/documentation/writing_scrollkeeper_omf_files/ar01s05.html signature.asc Description: Questa è una parte del messaggio firmata digitalmente

git-import-dsc and deleted files

2009-12-02 Thread Pietro Battiston
Hello, if in sid I do: apt-get source poedit git-import-dsc poedit_1.4.2-5.dsc cd poedit git-buildpackage , it will complain about a lot of deleted files. What's happening?! Shouldn't git-import-dsc import and commit _all_ changes in the debian source package, even deletions? Pietro signatur

Re: RFS: hexalate

2009-12-21 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno lun, 21/12/2009 alle 21.13 +0800, Tang Ke ha scritto: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "hexalate". > > * Package name: hexalate >Version : 1.0.0-1 > [...] > The upload would fix these bugs: 561801 As it was pointed out in this bug, hexalate

Re: original package changelogs

2010-01-10 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno dom, 10/01/2010 alle 22.58 +0800, Paul Wise ha scritto: > I assume you are talking about the upstream ChangeLog rather than > debian/changelog. > > The only standard I am aware of for that is the one described in the > GNU coding standards document[1]. The suggested document doesn't men

Re: RFS: openshot

2010-01-15 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno ven, 15/01/2010 alle 13.45 +0800, Paul Wise ha scritto: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Jonathan Thomas > wrote: > > > openshot - Non Linear Video Editor using Python and MLT > > [...] > The Glade format and library is obsolete, please switch to GtkBuilder. > IIRC you can do this

Re: RFS: go

2010-03-19 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno ven, 19/03/2010 alle 10.08 +0100, Adam Borowski ha scritto: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 01:25:21PM +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote: > > On Thursday 18 March 2010 11:27:16 Ivan Wong wrote: > > > * Package name: go > > > > It builds these binary packages: > > > go - Google's Go pro

Re: RFS: 'snap2' rsync-based backup program with GUI

2010-06-11 Thread Pietro Battiston
Sorry if I express my maybe unrequested opinion, but my search of a really usable backup software ([0]) lately made me think that maybe (hopefully) writers of backup software would appreciate some more feedback. Il giorno ven, 11/06/2010 alle 01.18 -0600, Lloyd Standish ha scritto: > You may alrea

Re: Packages with DMUA but no DM (was: Re: RFS: mpg321 (updated package with AudioScrobbler support))

2010-06-28 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno lun, 28/06/2010 alle 11.44 +0200, Michal Čihař ha scritto: > [...] I > just did not expect somebody would add DMUA while not being DM ... > lesson learned. > Just curiosity, but... why is this a problem? I mean: couldn't a DD say "I trust you on this package but you're still not DM - I

Re: Packages with DMUA but no DM (was: Re: RFS: mpg321 (updated package with AudioScrobbler support))

2010-06-28 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno lun, 28/06/2010 alle 11.44 +0200, Michal Čihař ha scritto: > [...] I > just did not expect somebody would add DMUA while not being DM ... > lesson learned. > Just curiosity, but... which lesson? I mean: couldn't a DD say "I trust you for this package but you're still not DM - I set th

Re: RFS: gpick

2010-09-06 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno gio, 05/08/2010 alle 16.34 -0500, Elías Alejandro ha scritto: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gpick". > > * Package name: gpick > Version : 0.2.2-1 > Upstream Author : Albertas Vyšniauskas > * URL : http://code.google.com/p/gpick

Re: RFS: gpick

2010-09-07 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno mar, 07/09/2010 alle 01.15 -0500, Elías Alejandro ha scritto: > Hi, > On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 12:11:30AM +0200, Pietro Battiston wrote: > > I can't say I have made a deep review - just compiled, tried the app and > > looked at some files. But I must say the app i

git-buildpackage and patches

2010-09-17 Thread Pietro Battiston
Hello, I like git-buildpackage a lot. But I don't understand what's "the right way" to manage patches. The git-buildpackage manual suggests it's gbp-pq, which works on a separate branch. I would have nothing against this approach, if it worked transparently. Instead, when I "import" and then "exp

Re: Uploading during freeze time

2010-10-12 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno mar, 12/10/2010 alle 08.55 -0500, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso ha scritto: > On 11 October 2010 19:02, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso writes: > > > > >> The *real* problem is that labelling Firefox 3.6 as "experimental" is > >> downright silly. > > > > Hm, okay. I guess I'

Re: Uploading during freeze time

2010-10-12 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno mar, 12/10/2010 alle 13.59 -0500, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso ha scritto: > 2010/10/12 Pietro Battiston : > > But before this conversation goes on forever - which is tipically what > > happens when people think they are debating on methods and techniques > > while in

Re: RFS: tictactoe

2010-11-05 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno ven, 05/11/2010 alle 15.35 +0100, Innocent De Marchi ha scritto: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "tictactoe". > > * Package name: tictactoe > Version : 0.8.1-6 > Upstream Author : Daniel Lichtenberger > * URL : http://perplex.sc

RFS: gallery-uploader 2.3-1

2010-11-12 Thread Pietro Battiston
est, please contact me in private so I can provide him the credentials for a test account. Kind regards Pietro Battiston signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

localization & documentation files locations

2010-11-24 Thread Pietro Battiston
Hello. 1) The package I'm working on¹ "spontaneously" installs localization (.mo) files in /usr/share/pyshared/sqlkit/locale instead than /usr/share/locale, so I patched it to install in the latter. But now I should also patch the app to find them in the new location... and noticing that i.e. pack

Re: localization & documentation files locations

2010-11-24 Thread Pietro Battiston
Either I was not clear or I don't understand your answers. Il giorno mer, 24/11/2010 alle 11.30 +, Jonathan Wiltshire ha scritto: > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 05:29:34PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > On 11/24/2010 04:04 PM, Pietro Battiston wrote: > > > 2) If I w

Re: RFS: LeechCraft

2010-12-16 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno gio, 16/12/2010 alle 12.17 +0300, Daniel Guzanoff ha scritto: > Short description: > > LeechCraft is a free modular "Internet client" application. > > LeechCraft allows to browse the web, read RSS/Atom feeds, download > files via BitTorrent, HTTP, FTP and DC, automatically stream,

Re: Re: installing an end user editable file

2011-02-14 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno lun, 14/02/2011 alle 19.38 +, james frize ha scritto: > Hey mentors, > > Firstly, thanks for all the help so far. > > I like the idea of having a default copy of the file used by my > program, as suggested by Lars and PJ, so I've altered my source code > to use a default file and al

Re: RFS: tinycalc

2011-04-20 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno mar, 19/04/2011 alle 22.51 +0530, Neha Bhende ha scritto: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "tinycalc". > > * Package name: tinycalc > Version : 0.1-1 > Upstream Author : Rocco Folino I think there's a typo here ("autistici", not "autilsici"

Remotely downloaded javascripts in documentation

2011-05-09 Thread Pietro Battiston
Hello, a package of mine, sqlkit (currently only in experimental) provides a documentation in html format which, when browsed, tries to use several javacript applets which the browser retrieves from remote. Though that's a fairly common behaviour for most of the webpages we daily browse, I guess i

Re: New Backup Application

2011-05-20 Thread Pietro Battiston
ott answered is valid. I think it is fair to add that if you want to make people interested in ((helping) packaging) your project, mentioning the name and a website/code repository address seems to be a good move. (more OT, so if you're interested let's continue the discussion off-list: http:/

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

2011-07-27 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno mar, 26/07/2011 alle 15.38 -0400, Asheesh Laroia ha scritto: > On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Julien Valroff wrote: > > As from the maintainer "personal package archive" page, I understand > > that binary packages will be made publicly available? The page states > > 'deb ...' entries in sources.l

Re: AGPL (was Re: Please try expo.debian.net)

2011-07-27 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno mer, 27/07/2011 alle 22.06 +0200, Adam Borowski ha scritto: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:03:03PM -0400, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote: > > Launchpad is most certainly free software (though it would have to be > > re-branded, the icons/images are not free). [0]: > > > > "Canonical Ltd ("C

Re: Tracking RFSs as bugs

2011-09-06 Thread Pietro Battiston
ewing, neither in asking for sponsorship/reviews, but my very humble opinion is that _this_ is the right approach, the only "systemic" one that can change things. Except that I would require at least 2 reviews of other packages, not just one. Pietro Battiston -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: What version of debian to develop debian packages?

2011-09-29 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno gio, 29/09/2011 alle 13.21 +0530, Rustom Mody ha scritto: > > > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Paul Waring wrote: > On 29/09/11 03:03, Michael Shuler wrote: > On 09/28/2011 08:54 PM, Paul Elliott wrote: > > Wha

Re: berlios closing; where should my projects escape to?

2011-10-18 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno mar, 18/10/2011 alle 10.44 +0200, Patrick Matthäi ha scritto: > Am 18.10.2011 10:42, schrieb Paul Elliott: > > On Tuesday, October 18, 2011 01:22:15 AM Paul McEnery wrote: > >> On 18 October 2011 06:02, Paul Elliott > >> wrote: > >>> [...] > >>> > >>> Any suggestions? > >> > >> GitHub?

Re: Howto create a Repo?

2011-12-20 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno mar, 20/12/2011 alle 09.05 +0100, Teus Benschop ha scritto: > May you clarify your wish to create and maintain a Debian "repository"? > It is about the word 'repository'. If you wish to create and maintain a > 'package', then it would be clear. Teus. If i understand the question, "Do PPA

Re: How to test the presence of packages ?

2012-01-03 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno mar, 03/01/2012 alle 18.56 +0100, fre...@free.fr ha scritto: > > - Mail original - > De: "Michael Shuler" > À: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org > Envoyé: Mardi 3 Janvier 2012 18:44:42 > Objet: Re: How to test the presence of packages ? > > On 01/03/2012 11:38 AM, fre...@free.fr

Bug#788844: RFS: gbutils/5.6.6-1 [ITP]

2015-06-15 Thread Pietro Battiston
wnload the package with dget using this command: dget -x \ http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gbutils/gbutils_5.6.6-1.dsc or the packaging git repository with git clone git://anonscm.debian.org/collab-maint/gbutils.git Regards, Pietro Battiston -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-me

Re: Bug#788844: RFS: gbutils/5.6.6-1 [ITP]

2015-06-30 Thread Pietro Battiston
/06/2015 alle 16.11 +0200, Pietro Battiston ha scritto: > Package: sponsorship-requests > Severity: wishlist > > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gbutils" > > * Package name: gbutils >Version : 5.6.6-1 >Up

Re: Bug#788844: RFS: gbutils/5.6.6-1 [ITP]

2015-07-10 Thread Pietro Battiston
Hi Tomasz, thank you very much for your careful review. Il giorno mar, 30/06/2015 alle 13.58 +0200, Tomasz Buchert ha scritto: > On 30/06/15 12:35, Pietro Battiston wrote: > > > > [...] > > Hi, > here are a few notes: > > * you install manpages 2 times Ouch!

Re: Bug#788844: RFS: gbutils/5.6.6-1 [ITP]

2015-07-15 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno dom, 12/07/2015 alle 20.38 +0200, Tomasz Buchert ha scritto: > On 11/07/15 00:37, Pietro Battiston wrote: > > Hi Tomasz, > > > > thank you very much for your careful review. > > > > Il giorno mar, 30/06/2015 alle 13.58 +0200, Tomasz Buchert ha >

Re: Bug#788844: RFS: gbutils/5.6.6-1 [ITP]

2015-07-20 Thread Pietro Battiston
Hi Tomasz, Il giorno dom, 19/07/2015 alle 21.59 +0200, Tomasz Buchert ha scritto: > On 15/07/15 15:11, Pietro Battiston wrote: > > Il giorno dom, 12/07/2015 alle 20.38 +0200, Tomasz Buchert ha > > scritto: > > > On 11/07/15 00:37, Pietro Battiston wrote: > > > &