Re: RFS: zynaddsubfx

2007-12-23 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2007-12-23, Free Ekanayaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > >> Sorry, wrong terminology. It's a very useful multimedia application, >> which many people use and would expect to find in Debian. Therefore it >> is worth making the extra effort to keep it well maintained IMO. The >> point being t

Re: Reopening an ITP or opening a new one?

2008-01-18 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-01-18, Iván Forcada Atienza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --yLVHuoLXiP9kZBkt > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Hi mentors!! > > I am interested in kgtk application [1]. After a search, I've found t

Re: RFS: kde4-style-qtcurve

2008-02-04 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-02-04, Salvatore Ansani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "kde4-style-qtcurve". > > * Package name: kde4-style-qtcurve > Version : 0.55.2-1 > Upstream Author : Craig Drummond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : > h

Re: RFS: kde4-style-qtcurve

2008-02-05 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-02-05, Salvatore Ansani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to change package_name-version-1 to package_name-version-2 before > upload on mentors ??? I don't think that is needed. /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

Re: Requests for sponsors to upload NMUs

2008-03-05 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-03-04, Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are sponsors going to start recommending changing SONAMEs in an NMU > next? Adding -dbg packages? Of course not, NMUs are different to typical > RFS activity. of course is changing SONAMEs in a NMU appropriate if it is appropriate. > Havin

Re: RFS: NMU: orange -- extracts CAB files from self-extracting installers

2008-03-05 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-03-05, Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. Let orange be removed from Lenny due to the existing RC bug, or > 2. Let orange behave as it has in previous stable releases without > fixing a bug that nobody seems to care about. 3. Fixing the bugs. /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Requests for sponsors to upload NMUs

2008-03-05 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-03-05, Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> of course is changing SONAMEs in a NMU appropriate if it is appropriate. > > That equates to a hostile hijacking. If the package is orphaned or if No it don't. it is just bugfixing. If it requires binary incompatible changes to fix it, of c

Re: Requests for sponsors to upload NMUs

2008-03-05 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-03-05, Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, fix known bugs but don't delay the RC bugs just to fix less > important ones. That's perverse. Do two uploads ;) - one to "now" and one to delayed. > All I'm saying here is that sponsors should not expect NMUs to fix the > full range

Re: Requests for sponsors to upload NMUs

2008-03-05 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-03-05, Richard Hecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If the maintainer is truly MIA, that is a bigger issue than any > single bug. Others have made this argument that we should Yes. but luckily, we can do both at the same time (fixing bugs and figuring out wether a maintainer is MIA) And

Re: RFS: wordpress

2008-04-20 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-04-20, Andrea De Iacovo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > They're all solved in 2.5.0 (already in sid) and someone is solved > also in 2.3. However I'm waiting fort hte first package upload to > close a buch of bugs. Etch is 2.0 series /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: "Fixing" source-contains-cvs-{conflict-copy,control-dir}

2008-06-07 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-06-07, David Paleino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any opinion about this? Is there a consensus on how to behave? Is that a ma= > tter > of taste? Leave it and educate upstream. /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: RFS: plasma-netgraph

2008-08-28 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-08-28, Salvatore Ansani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "plasma-netgraph". > > * Package name: plasma-netgraph >Version : 0.3-1 >Upstream Author : John Varouhakis > * URL : http://code.google.com/p/iv

Re: Trying to understand patch management - in combination with version control

2008-09-02 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-09-02, Andreas Schildbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, when I (or a co-maintainer) check out the project from SVN, I get > (as expected) a nearly empty project directory, containing just the > debian directory. But, how am I supposed to actually create the patches > that go into debian

Re: Trying to understand patch management - in combination with version control

2008-09-09 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-09-09, Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> while quilt push ; do quilt refresh ; done >> quilt new 05_README_changes.diff >> quilt edit README >> quilt refresh > > I assume you have set QUILT_PATCHES=3Ddebian/patches in ~/.quiltrc for > this to work properly? yes. along with a lot

Re: Quilt and patches directory

2008-09-14 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-09-14, Raphael Geissert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Russ Allbery wrote: > >> Raphael Geissert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> if [ -e ${where}debian/rules -a -d ${where}debian/patches ]; then export QUILT_PATCHES=debian/patches >>> >>> Shouldn't it be

Re: Packaging with CMake

2008-10-05 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-10-05, Laurent Léonard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --nextPart1380824.HK0hGSmbvk > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Content-Disposition: inline > > Hi,=20 > > I try to build the package kio-ftps, but the 0.2 version (for KDE

Re: Packaging with CMake

2008-10-05 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-10-06, Jose Luis Blanco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If your question is how to build a Debian package... I don't know about any > "standard" procedure. I had to do such one package and I created a dummy > "configure" scripts which in turn calls "cmake" with some proper variables > set. >

Re: Packaging with CMake

2008-10-06 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-10-06, Robin Cornelius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > cmake does not have a proper clean target in the unix makefiles in > generates, which is a pain. Or not one that cleans as you would fully > expect. It does keep its working files in the current directory so a > the way i have done this is

Re: Packaging with CMake

2008-10-06 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-10-06, Robin Cornelius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Sune Vuorela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > roduces working debs and keeps the orig.tar.gz clean too. >>> >>> This does seem a little dirty which makes me think i'm

Re: RFS: kio-ftps-kde4

2008-10-07 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-10-07, Laurent Léonard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --nextPart1512095.XNzvprD9R2 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Content-Disposition: inline > > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "kio-ftps-kde4".

Re: RFS: kio-ftps-kde4

2008-10-07 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-10-07, Laurent Léonard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What's with all those commented dh_ foo lines in the rules file ? > > Mmm it's default dh_ commands, I suppose I have to delete what I don't need= > ? They clutter reading of the rules file, no reason to keep them around. > >> >> You a

Re: RFS: kio-ftps-kde4

2008-10-08 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-10-08, Laurent Léonard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --nextPart1282828.IVFam4LvNy > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Content-Disposition: inline > > Can I simply update the package after the modifications or do I have to=20 >

Re: RFS: kio-ftps

2008-11-01 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-11-01, Sandro Tosi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Laurent, > > On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 16:04, Laurent L?onard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Dear mentors, >> >> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "kio-ftps". > ... >> kio-ftps - an ftps KIO slave for KDE 4 > > Did you consider joining

Re: Preferred version format for svn revisions?

2008-11-09 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-11-09, Guido Loupias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Could someone tell me if there is a preferred version format for svn > revisions? > Right now I have something like +svn. If it is a snapshot after a release, I also do that. If it is a snapshot leading up to a release, I would

Re: Listing dependencies with specific versions

2008-12-09 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-12-09, Paul Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I doubt that - merely adding a new symbol is NOT a bug, let alone >> release-critical. > > Right, but not bumping shlibs at the same time is an RC bug AFAIK. I agree. /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: RFS: kita2

2008-12-27 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-12-27, Hiroyuki Yamamoto wrote: > > Upstream Author: Hideki Ikemoto > * URL: http://kita.sourceforge.jp/ Looking at this page, without much japanese knowledge, it looks like a kde3 application > * License: The MIT License > Section: net > Language: Ruby > Description: Ruby based

Re: RFS: kita2

2008-12-28 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-12-28, Hiroyuki Yamamoto wrote: > Hi, > > Sune Vuorela wrote: >> On 2008-12-27, Hiroyuki Yamamoto wrote: >>> Upstream Author: Hideki Ikemoto >>> * URL: http://kita.sourceforge.jp/ >> >> Looking at this page, without much japanese k

Re: RFS: kita2

2008-12-28 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-12-28, Hiroyuki Yamamoto wrote: >>> How about kde4? >> >> KDE4 has nice ruby bindings, currently available in experimental. > > Oh, thanks. > When kde4 has entered in sid, kita2 should depend on korundum4 package. > http://packages.debian.org/experimental/korundum4 It needs more work tha

Re: RFS: kita2

2008-12-29 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-12-29, Junichi Uekawa wrote: >> It needs more work than just change the dependencies to make it work >> with korundum4 > > Are we talking about a package which only exists in experimental > replacing the version in sid? Yes. and the replacement is planned ASAP. > Let the version which

Re: Closing bugs, incrementing release number, and uploads to mentors.debian.net

2009-01-18 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-01-19, Ben Finney wrote: > * When fixing bugs that prevented a previous release (e.g. one made to > mentors.debian.net) from making it into Debian (e.g. because the > sponsor requires further changes), recommended practice is to > increment the release number and make a new changelog

RFS - kommando - ITP #336607

2005-11-01 Thread Sune Vuorela
Hi! I have built kommando, a kde wheel menu. It gives quicker access to some programs - and it is a nice piece of showoff-eyecandy ;) http://mirror.pusling.com/kommando-rfs/ I have had people using the package for some time now - but I think it is a so cool program that it should enter debian.

Re: RFS - kommando - ITP #336607

2005-11-01 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2005-11-01, Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - the debian/copyright lacks the years of copyright Fixed > - insane number of Build-Depends - are they all necessary? Maybe not. working on this - it was the 'shortcut' mentioned in new maintainers guide - maybe it was wrong to use it. It

Re: RFS - kommando - ITP #336607

2005-11-01 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2005-11-02, Ana Guerrero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it fails. You must change it to: > > Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 3.0.0), kdelibs4-dev fixed that. > -The program is a systray app, so it would be good to Recommend: kicker Quite reasonable; will add that. > > -Some files are placed in in

Re: statist - terminal based statistics

2005-11-02 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2005-11-02, Jakson A. Aquino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think that I don't need the files below: > > dirs postinst.ex preinst.ex statist-default.ex > compat postrm.exprerm.ex > > Can I delete them? Try ;) - or at least move them to somewhere else ;) (compat are needed) /Sune

Re: RFS - kommando - ITP #336607

2005-11-06 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2005-11-06, Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the package looks a lot better now. Thanks for your work. I have just > uploaded the package. Thank you. Unfortunatly, it got rejected due to no orig.tar.gz-file. > Some minor things you may want to look at for your next revision: > > Yo

Re: Question about skim.

2005-11-12 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2005-11-13, sebastien marbrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have two solutions, the first one is to install both sarge and sid but this > is a dirty work, I am also thinking about making the packages in a chrooted > environnement but I have never done that so far. > Can you give some advice

repack upstream sources or overrides ?

2005-11-14 Thread Sune Vuorela
Hi! I am working on #338554 - and I am almost there. I have one big problem, though. Upstream did not run make distclean before releasing the tarball. Of course, linda and lintian complains about this. Should I add overrides for lintian warnings and linda _errors_ to address this problems - or i

Re: repack upstream sources or overrides ?

2005-11-15 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2005-11-15, Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe a bit offtopic but I looked at #338554 and noticed that there are > now several different naming schemes for kwin window decorations: I am working on this too. /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: repack upstream sources or overrides ?

2005-11-15 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2005-11-15, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Obviously you didn't read > > file:///usr/share/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices.en.html#s-bpp-origtargz I have read that - and yes - I think repacking is not in normal best practice. But I sure don't override linda _errors

Re: repack upstream sources or overrides ?

2005-11-15 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2005-11-15, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "fakeroot debian/rules binary" directly won't get bitten. Other than > that, I would do nothing - it is a bug, therefore a lintian override is > inappropriate, but it is not serious enough to justify messing with the > tarball. So you sugg

RFS - kde window decoration powder

2005-12-10 Thread Sune Vuorela
Hi! I have now a package ready to close my ITP: #338554 It is not lintian clean - upstream did not run make distclean before releasing - so lintian complains about some files being present - but they are removed in the clean tag. Linda complains about the same thing. Only fix for this is repackin

Re: RFS - kde window decoration powder

2005-12-13 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2005-12-10, Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please add the years of copyright holding in ./debian/copyright. Also Done. > consider adding, at least to ./debian/rules and ./debian/copyright, a > phrase like "Modifications are a work of Sune Vuorela during the

Re: RFS - kde window decoration powder

2005-12-14 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2005-12-14, Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The templates have a liberal license. Your modifications, if not > trivial, are copyright you, and it would be good to note that. It I will describe my modifications as really trivial. adding --disable-rpath to one line - and remove some

Re: RFS - kde window decoration powder

2005-12-21 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2005-12-10, I wrote: > I have now a package ready to close my ITP: #338554 > > It is not lintian clean - upstream did not run make distclean before > releasing - so lintian complains about some files being present - but > they are removed in the clean tag. Linda complains about the same thing. >

RFS: kde-style-comix

2006-01-02 Thread Sune Vuorela
I have this teeny weeny package called kde-style-comix, which gives a nice widget style and window decorations to your kde. It closes a one year old itp: #286205 the package is located here: http://mirror.pusling.com/comix-rfs/ and it is almost lintian clean. upstream provides CVS-dir, which lint

Re: Removing an ITP

2006-01-11 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2006-01-11, Bram Neijt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How long is some time ago. I have the same "problem" and was wondering > when a RFS should be seen as dead? So what is the avarage time it > takes for a new package to become sponsored? My packages has taken a couple of weeks. 1) post rfs. 2)

Re: RFS: dsbltesters

2006-01-26 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2006-01-26, Al Nikolov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I assumed though that ITP should be closed after that the package was become > ready and was appeared in the pool. I'm i wrong? It should be closed in the changelog. Then it will automagically be closed when package get build. /Sune Vice Pres

Re: NEW queue

2006-03-07 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2006-03-07, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > They process NEW binary packages quite fast, within one to three days to > my impression. that _WAS_ also my impression ... but having a package stuck for more than two months without any notices have changed my impression. (look on top-8 o

Re: Closing #338657

2006-03-10 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2006-03-10, Marco Cabizza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only error i get is binary-without-manpage because the package > actually has no manpage. That task is quite easy to solve ;) Just write a man page ... perhaps help2man can help you /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

RFS - two icon sets for kde - kde-icons-gorilla and kde-icons-korilla

2006-04-22 Thread Sune Vuorela
Hi! I have a couple of ITPs where I finally got the two packages in shape to close http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=348101 and http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=348103 They are quite similar, it is only approx. the name that differs. And the packaging is quite easy

Problems with leftovers from unregistering alternatives

2006-04-25 Thread Sune Vuorela
Hi ! I have just recieved a bug: #364742 - and piuparts is as always right. Something fails in removing alternatives again. /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme pointing into alternatives # update-alternatives --display x-cursor-theme x-cursor-theme - status is auto. link currently points to /

Re: Problems with leftovers from unregistering alternatives

2006-04-25 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2006-04-26, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what does update-alternatives --list x-cursor-theme list in this case? It shows nothing. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# update-alternatives --list x-cursor-theme [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# > It really looks to me like a u-a bug, not a bug in the callin

Re: Problems with leftovers from unregistering alternatives

2006-04-25 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2006-04-26, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, if update-alternatives --list shows nothing, and symlinks are left in > place on the filesystem, that sounds like a bug in u-a to me. But shouldn't a bug in u-a be easy to reproduce ? I tried something minimal: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# f

Re: Problems with leftovers from unregistering alternatives

2006-04-25 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2006-04-25, Sune Vuorela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have just recieved a bug: #364742 - and piuparts is as always right. > Something fails in removing alternatives again. I had a typo in my prerm script. Will fix it soon. if someone does a 's/ComixCursorss/ComixCursor

Re: RFS - two icon sets for kde - kde-icons-gorilla and kde-icons-korilla

2006-05-01 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2006-04-22, Sune Vuorela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I have a couple of ITPs where I finally got the two packages in shape to > close > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=348101 and > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=348103 > &

Re: RFS - two icon sets for kde - kde-icons-gorilla and kde-icons-korilla

2006-05-28 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2006-05-01, Sune Vuorela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2006-04-22, Sune Vuorela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I have a couple of ITPs where I finally got the two packages in shape to >> close >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport

RFS: kwin-style-crystal - transparant window decoration

2006-05-28 Thread Sune Vuorela
Hi! I have a package ready for kwin-style-crystal. ITP: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=364360 Source: kwin-style-crystal Section: kde Priority: optional Maintainer: Sune Vuorela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.0.0), autotools-dev, kdebase-dev

RFS - kde-style-polyester

2006-05-28 Thread Sune Vuorela
ITP: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=338635 Source: polyester Section: kde Priority: optional Maintainer: Sune Vuorela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5.0.0), automake1.9, autoconf, libtool, kdelibs4-dev (>= 4:3.2), kdebase-dev (>= 4:3.2) St

Re: RFS - kde-style-polyester

2006-05-28 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2006-05-28, Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> And the package is here: >> http://mirror.pusling.com/polyester-rfs/ > > Could you name the source package "kde-style-polyester", too? I find it > confusing when source and binary packages have totally different names. Sure. Reuploadet.

Re: RFS - two icon sets for kde - kde-icons-gorilla and kde-icons-korilla

2006-05-28 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2006-05-28, Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> http://mirror.pusling.com/kgorilla > > Just checking kde-icons-korilla. Lintian is right: > > E: kde-icons-korilla; The font Gah. I just did something to the packages now. /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

RFS - kwin-style-dekorator -- window decoration for kde using png images

2006-06-25 Thread Sune Vuorela
Hi! I am looking for comments - and hopefully a sponsorship - for kwin-style-dekorator. Source: kwin-style-dekorator Section: kde Priority: optional Maintainer: Sune Vuorela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), autotools-dev, kdebase-dev Standards-Version: 3.7.2 Pack

Re: RFS - kwin-style-dekorator -- window decoration for kde using png images

2006-07-01 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2006-06-25, Sune Vuorela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking for comments - and hopefully a sponsorship - for > kwin-style-dekorator. > > Source: kwin-style-dekorator > Section: kde > Priority: optional > Maintainer: Sune Vuorela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: RFS - kwin-style-dekorator -- window decoration for kde using png images

2006-07-02 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2006-07-01, George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looks correct... a couple of extra things you may want to correct anyway: > - since nothing goes to usr/{s}bin you don't need the debian/dirs file, so > you > can safely remove it. Removed. > - also remove the last two commented lines i

Re: Bug#284039: kdetv: existing debian packages

2006-07-03 Thread Sune Vuorela
On Sunday 02 July 2006 21:45, Zsolt Rizsanyi wrote: > OTOH I don't really like the idea of manually trimming down the size of the > diff.gz. I have not manually trimmed down the size. I have just chosen the relevant parts of the patches to the autofoo generated files and only applied them. > Al

Re: shc -- #335278 broken packaging -- non-DD NMU prepared

2006-07-13 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2006-07-13, Nigel Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>From memory, aren't NMU's (even more so, non-DD NMU's) only meant to > fix RC bugs? Not new upstream releases? 0-day nmus are to fix RC bugs. /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: File permissions

2006-09-11 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2006-09-11, James Healy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The upstream tarball has an examples directory which I am installing > into the package using dh_installexamples. None of the examples are > shell scripts or ELF binaries, yet they seem to untar with executable > permissions. > > What is the b

Re: File permissions

2006-09-11 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2006-09-11, Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think exec bit in a tarball is right. Best way is to repack upstream > sources. No. Upstream should only be repacked in rare cases like when it contains non-free materials. /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: general packaging question

2006-11-14 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2006-11-14, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How would I then add entry of the old changelog into the current knetstats > package i.e. 1.6.2 ? > > I hope there is a proper way to tackle such situations. apt-get install devscripts man uupdate it does exactly what you ask for. /S

Re: RFS: dnshistory

2006-11-26 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2006-11-26, Matthias Julius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm, the opinion on this matter seems to be somwhat devided. Some > people suggest the revision should be increased every time an upload > is made to a public place like mentors.d.n. I have only seen "keep -2 if you uploaded somewhere th

Re: Opinions on CDBS amongst sponsors

2006-12-11 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2006-12-11, Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What are the problems with CDBS (apart from debian/control automation)? The biggest problem are the layers of obscurity added by cdbs and the fact that the best docs are diving into the source. (and the fact that there has been some cdbs r

Re: Recurring "please do" patterns in debian-mentors

2007-01-01 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2007-01-01, Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess not since this is not defined in the policy. Maybe=20 > if Homepage becomes a real control field. with two spaces it is formatted on the web like this: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/kde/yakuake with one space like this: http://p

Re: reasons why downgrades are Not Supported

2007-01-14 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2007-01-14, Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > maintscripts often don't support downgrades just because downgrading has > always > been advertised as "not guaranteed to work", so very few maintainers put the > additional effort and clutter into their code. It is not about 'additional e

Re: extra-license-file best pratices

2007-01-26 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2007-01-26, Andrea Bolognani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2. Edit the Makefile only in the Debian package, commenting out the > offending > lines > > 3. Remove the file in debian/rules, *after* installing it I would go for 3) it is the easiest - and often fiddling around with upstr

Re: How to put a license (question) in preinst/debconf

2007-03-16 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2007-03-16, Daniel Leidert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > What would you choose and why? If there is a need for a click-wrap license - look at the sun java packages. But if the license don't require click-wrap, I would just ship it in debian/copyright. People should know that non-free stuff

Re: Native package versus orig

2007-03-18 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2007-03-18, Michael Rasmussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi mentors, > > When packaging for Debian you have two distinct ways of doing it, > native versus orig. > > My question is, if I am in close contact with upstream and upstream > always adds my patches to upstream source is there then a

Re: quilt, cdbs, dpatch, but is there even simpler ?

2007-03-21 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2007-03-21, Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The easiest way to manage patches I know is cdbs, but I was not brave > enough to study wether it is possible to separate this feature from the > others. It is possible to use cdbs patchsys in non-cdbs packages, but it is very ugly and I

Re: Are (c)debootstrap broken ?

2007-05-09 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2007-05-09, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > chrooting into the dir, the error is that base-files postinst > cannot find awk. mawk had indeed been configured earlier. So, while > /etc/alternatives/awk exists, and points to mawk, there is no symlink > /usr/bin/awk created.

Re: Symbol-versioning a C++ library

2007-05-25 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2007-05-25, Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Bas Wijnen: > >> This is slightly off-topic, for which I apologise. It's just that I >> learned about symbol versioning during my NM process, and nobody outside >> Debian seems to understand what it is. :-( > > *sigh* It's a bit sad that

Re: RFS: klthemes

2007-05-27 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2007-05-27, Jabka Atu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Package name: klthemes > Version : 1.003-1 > Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > * URL : scex.sf.net > * License : GPLv3 > Section : contrib/kde Why contrib?? > > It builds these binary packa

Re: RFS: ntfs-3g (updated package)

2007-08-08 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2007-08-08, Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm, I have something crap to ask... > > As you may have noticed, wxwidget 2.8 is not available in Debian. > However Mathias Klose maintain it in Ubuntu... > > Would you sponsor my wx2.8 ubuntu sync uploads ? Please coordinate with

Re: RFS: xawtv (updated package)

2007-08-15 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2007-08-15, Krzysztof Burghardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > xawtv-plugin-qt - quicktime plugin for xawtv and motv Has this been fixed in a way that doesn't make it segfault all the time? And become buildable with newer libquicktime? (I was the one hacking the quicktime plugin out of the packa

Re: RFS: kopete-otr 0.6-1

2007-09-12 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2007-09-12, Raphael Geissert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/09/2007, Francesco Cecconi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tuesday 11 September 2007, Raphael Geissert wrote: >> > On 10/09/2007, Francesco Cecconi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > Dear DD, >> > > >> > > I am looking for a sponso

Re: Reason for Failed build on some arch only

2007-10-03 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2007-10-03, Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > My package Xosview is failed to build on (atleast) two arch with same > reason. Following are links from buildd. Hi! Did you actualy read the logs? It says quite clearly: your config.guess and config.sub is outdated. Find newer ve

Re: Help needed to fix gcc 4.7 bug in jellyfish package

2012-05-02 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2012-05-02, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to fix the problem in the jellyfish package but the general > hints given did not helped me really. Any more precise help to fix > this problem: > > parse_dna.cc:97:3: error: narrowing conversion of '-3' from 'int' to 'const > uint_t {aka con

Re: Bug#672268: RFS: kde-gtk-config/2.0-1 [ITP] -- KDE configuration module for GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3.x style selection

2012-05-11 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2012-05-09, Boris Pek wrote: > My regular sponsor is very busy now and I am looking for a sponsor for my new > package "kde-gtk-config". > Description : KDE configuration module for GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3.x style > selection first, kde configuration modules are packaged as kde-config-foo

Re: Bug#672268: RFS: kde-gtk-config/2.0-1 [ITP] -- KDE configuration module for GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3.x style selection

2012-05-11 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2012-05-11, Boris Pek wrote: > kde-config-gtk-style does not allow to: > * select themes for Gtk 3.x applications > * preview available themes for Gtk 2.x and Gtk 3.x applications > * custmize toolbars and menus for Gtk applications > * select icon themes for Gtk applications > * download and a

Re: Bug#674717: RFS: qpdfview/0.2.2-1 [ITP]

2012-05-26 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2012-05-26, Benjamin Eltzner wrote: > Package: sponsorship-requests > Severity: wishlist > > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "qpdfview" > > * Package name: qpdfview >Version : 0.2.2-1 >Upstream Author : Adam Reichold > * URL : https

Re: Bug#669565: RFS: gammaray/1.1.0-1 [ITP] -- Tool for examining the internals of Qt application

2012-08-12 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2012-08-10, Felix Geyer wrote: > On 10.08.2012 16:47, Jakub Adam wrote: >>> debian/patches/gammaray-probe-versioned-soname.patch: >>> >>> Why do you set a SONAME for gammaray_probe? >>> When gammaray changes the ABI custom plugins will break anyway >>> since you can't install different versions

Re: Maintainer address for collab-maint team maintained packages

2012-11-19 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2012-11-19, Arno Töll wrote: > That said, I'd be very glad to have some mailing list Debian service > different to lists.d.o for such lightweight list management purposes. wasn't there a teams.dn ? /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: libv8: library without SONAME

2009-02-09 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-02-09, Antonio Radici wrote: > Hi, > as part of ITP #497701 I'm packaging libv8, a high-performance > java script library written by Google and used in Chrominum, the > open source version of the Chrome browser. > > The source code is taken directly from the SVN tags here: > http://v8.goog

Re: debian/control

2009-03-15 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-03-15, Laurent Guignard wrote: > On dim, 15 mar 2009 13:57:40 +0100, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: >> Hello, > > Hello, > >> >> I am not sure what to fill to "Section" in control file for my new package I >> am building. >> Program is small easy CLI utility generating sound (pink and white noise)

Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-19 Thread Sune Vuorela
Hi! After a discussion on #debian-mentors and other places, I will not sponsor packages using the copyright file format described on http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat It is a too complex, overengineered solution to a very minor issue. It is not easy readables for humans It is ugl

Re: RFS: kita2

2009-04-06 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-03-21, Hideki Yamane wrote: > On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 12:42:43 +0900 > Junichi Uekawa wrote: >> > So instead of adding a package to be removed soon after it is clear of >> > NEW, I suggest not adding it at all. >> >> So, it's been two weeks, is there a working kde4? > > How's about korundum

Re: RFS: katimon

2009-04-16 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-04-17, Stefanos Harhalakis wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "katimon". > > * Package name: katimon > Version : 1.0.2-2 > Upstream Author : me > * URL : http://www.v13.gr/proj/katimon/ > : also available from

Re: questions regarding libmimelib1 as seperate source package

2009-04-26 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-04-25, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 3:02 AM, Jonas Meurer wrote: > >> I intend to maintain libmimelib1 as a seperate source package now that >> kdepim 3.5.9 has been removed from debian/unstable. > > What does lurker link against on other distros that have moved to KDE4? Ub

Re: RFS: valkyrie

2009-05-09 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-05-08, LI Daobing wrote: > there is a proposed copyright format in [2], you also can use that format. > > [2] http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/ Note that this is just a proposal and many people don't like it, so please don't take it too serious. And some people won't sponsor packages with

Re: RFS: krecipes (updated package)

2009-05-19 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-05-19, Matthias Julius wrote: > I would really appreciate if someone could either help me to get my > krecipes package into Debian. > > I am just not quite sure whether it is OK to hijack a package like > that from an unresponsive packaging team. Should I ask QA to orphan > the package?

Re: RFS: krecipes (updated package)

2009-05-19 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-05-19, Matthias Julius wrote: > I just noticed that he actually cross-posted his messages to > pkg-kde-talk. There seems to be a little more human presence. Next > time I'll post there. That's *NOT* a sponsering list, but sending sponsoring requests there is the straight road into getti

Re: RFS: krecipes (updated package)

2009-05-19 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-05-19, Matthias Julius wrote: > Barry deFreese writes: > >> Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: >>> I'm not a DD, but I think the correct way is to ping MIA team about it >>> and then after 2 weeks time you ping them again and they do a little >>> chat and come up with a solutions usally in your favo

Re: Updated packge on m.d.n (was: RFS: kde-plasmoid-yawp)

2009-05-23 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-05-22, John Stamp wrote: > On Friday 22 May 2009 11:12:36 am Kai Wasserbäch wrote: >> Dear mentors, >> an updated package of kde-plasmoid-yawp has been uploaded to >> mentors.debian.net, the new dgetable URL is: >> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/k/kde-plasmoid-yawp/kde-pl >>a

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