Re: Information

2007-12-25 Thread Thomas Goirand
elog in debian/rules). Don't forget to write "* New upstream release" each time you increment the 0.1 part of your version number. I hope that helps you and save your time to search in documentations. Thomas Goirand -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

libdbi Debian packages

2008-01-05 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi, I have received this from my upstream. Should I consider adding a /etc/ld.so.conf.d/libdbd.conf ? Thomas Original Message Subject: libdbi Debian packages Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 23:19:23 +0100 From: Markus Hoenicka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Thomas, I've

How to have automated versionning with the php5-cli (=XXX) | php5-cgi (=XXX) | libapache2-mod-php5 (=XXX)

2008-01-29 Thread Thomas Goirand
w can I make it so I have this php5 package version automated in my dependencies? Thomas Goirand -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to have automated versionning with the php5-cli (=XXX) | php5-cgi (=XXX) | libapache2-mod-php5 (=XXX)

2008-01-29 Thread Thomas Goirand
Mike Hommey wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 05:14:07PM +0800, Thomas Goirand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to build a package for eaccelerator. As most of the time, we >> do put things in production on our servers BEFORE attempting

Ask for removal of a binary package: how?

2008-02-27 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi, My source package, dtc, is now NOT producing a dtc binary package, because I wanted to avoid conflict with the "Device Tree Compiler", and because I wanted people to read the package description before installing. So I have the following problem now: http://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=d

Re: Ask for removal of a binary package: how?

2008-02-27 Thread Thomas Goirand
Mike Massonnet wrote: > http://wiki.debian.org/ftpmaster_Removals Thanks, However, I saw here: http://ftp-master.debian.org/~jeroen/rene-full.txt Not Built from Source - * dtc_0.28.2-1 builds: dtc-common, dtc-core, dtc-cyrus, dtc-postfix-courier, dtc-stats-daemon, dtc-toas

Re: Need some tips on building Debian packages

2008-05-31 Thread Thomas Goirand
Paul Johnson wrote: > While testing > this out, I realize I've made some mistakes while attempting to revise > the Makefile to match the packaging requirements. It appears to me > that I have to 1) move the debian directory to a safe place, 2) erase > the code tree, 3) untar a fresh copy, 4) copy

Re: New Packager question again: can you point me to a not flawed package?

2008-05-31 Thread Thomas Goirand
Paul Johnson wrote: >> At some point, >> I'm hoping to be able to generate format 3.0 packages from Git in some way >> that exposes the way that I'm actually working to other people working on >> packages. > > I can't understand why you would do it this way. Seems like it would > lead to hard-to

How to detect an upgrade from an older version of a package

2008-07-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
t/policy way to know from what version my package is upgrading, so my postinst can run smoothly? Thomas Goirand -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to detect an upgrade from an older version of a package

2008-07-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > IANADD. > > Policy 6.6.3 says > > "If the package is being upgraded, call: > > new-preinst upgrade old-version > " > Is it what you are seeking? That wont give me the version number from which I'm upgrading from, will it? Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: How to detect an upgrade from an older version of a package

2008-07-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: > Additional (might be more to his interest, because he talked about his > postinst) it says: > > " > postinst configure most-recently-configured-version > " > > If a package is upgraded the most-recently-configured-version is usually > identical to old-version. It isn't

Re: How to detect an upgrade from an older version of a package

2008-07-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
Don Armstrong wrote: > The right way to do this is to test the SQL database itself if it > needs to be updated. [Indeed, ideally the module itself would handle > upgrading itself if it was running an earlier version.] > > > Don Armstrong Yes, mod_log_sql should be able to upgrade itself, we know

Re: How to detect an upgrade from an older version of a package

2008-07-15 Thread Thomas Goirand
Vincent Bernat wrote: > Another solution is to use dbconfig-common. You get for free a lot of > things, including: > - automatic upgrade of database (but it relies on package versions) > - debconf questions already written (and already translated) Wrong. dbconfig-common is for apps, not for s

Re: RFS: paris-traceroute (updated package)

2008-07-31 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hervé Rousseau wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.92-dev-2 > of my package "paris-traceroute". > > It builds these binary packages: > paris-traceroute - New version of well known tool traceroute What's the advantage of paris-traceroute comparing to the ol

Using debconf-set-selections in my package script

2008-08-29 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi, My package depends pure-ftpd, but only when it's using the standalone mode, which is annoying as this is NOT the default. Am I allowed to use debconf-set-selections somewhere in my package script to set it correctly? If yes, where's the correct place? I guess in the debian/config scripts? Tho

Re: Using debconf-set-selections in my package script

2008-08-29 Thread Thomas Goirand
Neil Williams wrote: > On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 15:37 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> Hi, >> >> My package depends pure-ftpd, but only when it's using the standalone >> mode, which is annoying as this is NOT the default. > > There may be a good reason why thi

Re: dbconfig-common

2008-09-17 Thread Thomas Goirand
Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: > dbconfig-common is documented fairly well. I do not agree with this statement. There are dark areas in the doc, particularly nowhere, it's telling how to get a root user on MySQL, and some packages might need it. Also, it's author never replied to my emails. Thomas -

Re: dbconfig-common

2008-09-17 Thread Thomas Goirand
Richard Laager wrote: > On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 01:00 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: >>> dbconfig-common is documented fairly well. >> I do not agree with this statement. There are dark areas in the doc, >> particularly nowhere, it's tell

Re: dbconfig-common

2008-09-18 Thread Thomas Goirand
Richard Laager wrote: > On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 02:40 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> Why do you think no app would need it? > > I never claimed this. > >> How about something that does mysql backups, or manages MySQL accounts? >> I have made 2 packages that

apt-proxy, apt-cacher & approx

2008-09-21 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi, We've been using apt-proxy for about a year, and then found it quite buggy. So we moved to using apt-cacher. Now we have loads of problems with apt-cacher as well (like currently, a recurring tzdata size mismatch error). I was wondering if approx is any better than the other two. Did any of yo

Re: apt-proxy, apt-cacher & approx

2008-09-22 Thread Thomas Goirand
Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > I just use squid and it works like charm. > > > regards, > Holger I has a quite long discussion with my employee about it, and I really don't think that Squid is appropriate. First, I would have to deal with many ACL to make it limited to the Debian r

Needing a sponsor for our web hosting packages

2006-10-23 Thread Thomas Goirand
in the main debian tree, then I'll do the work, I'm highly motivated. Thomas Goirand -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFPXsWl4M9yZjvmkkRAvRKAJ9feEIOGtCWoD4rEBQZwUPHm1

[ANNOUNCE] Domain Technologie Control v0.23

2006-10-24 Thread Thomas Goirand
jects). Thomas Goirand, GPLHost CEO - -- Web: http://www.gplhost.com GPLHost:>_ Open source hosing worldwide Web spaces featuring GPL control panel and Xen VPS Locations in Singapore, Sydney, Los Angeles, Florida, Paris and Israel -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Commen

Using the user nobody in my package

2006-11-15 Thread Thomas Goirand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I am working with Daniel Baumann so my package can be uploaded to Debian. He has helped me really a lot, and I want to thanks him so much in here, publicly, for doing so. With him, I now understand a lot more about how debian packaging, and I d

Re: Using the user nobody in my package

2006-11-16 Thread Thomas Goirand
be matching, because you are managing them all. This works in a ONE company env, but it doesn't work if the panel is spread to many users like we are trying to do (if shipped under standard Debian (Etch???)). Thanks all for your replies, seems you all agreed that it was a design error to us

Re: Using the user nobody in my package

2006-11-17 Thread Thomas Goirand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc Haber wrote: > > This is ongoing documentation work, see > http://wiki.debian.org/AccountHandlingInMaintainerScripts > As far as I can see, this doc gives (IHMO) no real directions and says that it's under discussion on how to get UIDs... I'm

Re: Tone-of-voice used by sponsors

2007-01-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
Jens Peter Secher wrote: > Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> if you insist on keeping the useless stuff, i consider the package as to >> ugly according to my mesures of beauty, and hence i'm not sponsoring it. > > I think it would be better if you toned down this > do-as-I-say-or-I-

Re: Tone-of-voice used by sponsors

2007-01-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > I agree. However, I think the issue concerns the "requirement" that > someone's preferences be followed. For example, it is one thing to say, > "I can't sponsor your package because you use cdbs and I don't know > anything about it." It is completely different to say,

Re: Tone-of-voice used by sponsors

2007-01-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > "Muammar Wadih El Khatib Rodriguez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> In the other hand I don't think he has something to change, I really >> do appreciate all the work he does and how he does. He imposes a high >> quality standard when he sponsors a package. > > Erm.

Few questions

2007-01-29 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi! I have few questions that would help me to solve things in my package. I have package1 and package2 being same but with different dependencies, so the user can choose between them. First, if my package produces many binaryies, is it ok to do symlinks of the postinst if they are same. Like: d

Re: Few questions

2007-01-29 Thread Thomas Goirand
Neil Williams wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:08:39 +0800 > Thomas Goirand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have few questions that would help me to solve things in my >> package. I have package1 and package2 being same but with different >> dependencies, so

Re: Few questions

2007-01-29 Thread Thomas Goirand
Neil Williams wrote: > So these are two packages built from the same source? There is > one .diff.gz and one .dsc for both? > > That is quite different to how it sounded originally - where you had > two source packages, not two binaries from the same source. Sorry, I'm stupid, I should have say i

Re: Few questions

2007-01-31 Thread Thomas Goirand
Thomas Goirand wrote: > Neil Williams wrote: >> I haven't tried that way of doing it - try viewing the packages in >> deb-gview and make sure that the each postinst is a real file >> within the Debian data of the .deb. > > I know it works as I had a look with &q

Re: Few questions

2007-02-01 Thread Thomas Goirand
Justin Pryzby wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 10:00:13PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> Package: package1 >> Replaces: package2 >> [...] >> >> Package: package2 >> Replaces: package1 >> >> The only thing that differs from both packages are depe

Re: Few questions

2007-02-02 Thread Thomas Goirand
Kevin B. McCarty wrote: >> So can I write: >> >> Package: package1 >> Conflicts: package2 >> Replaces: package2 >> [...] >> Package: package2 >> Conflicts: package1 >> Replaces: package1 >> Provides: package1 > > That should work quite well. If any third-party packages want to depend > on either

Re: alioth project creation problem

2007-02-12 Thread Thomas Goirand
Kevin Coyner wrote: > I'm trying to create a new project on alioth for a package that is > presently considered native Debian and that I have become the > maintainer for [mailcheck]. > > Unfortunately, alioth won't create the new project and instead gives > back the Error message: > > ERROR:

Is Daniel Baumann available?

2007-02-27 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi! I read here that D. Baumann was busy. I was wondering if any of you had some news, as I sent him my software for sponsor. If he was busy, I might submit here. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RFS: dtc

2007-02-27 Thread Thomas Goirand
about the package itself, I'm available for chatting about it. My IDs are here: http://www.gplhost.com/gplhost-contact.html Kind regards Thomas Goirand -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is Daniel Baumann available?

2007-02-27 Thread Thomas Goirand
Daniel Baumann wrote: > Thomas Goirand wrote: >> I read here that D. Baumann was busy. > > Where did your read that? Sorry about that. I did read it in this list, but couldn't recall when. To all: please forget about my request for sponsorship. > The last thing

Re: Bug#414477: dtc config ask for mysql login/pass, and it's useless on debian

2007-03-12 Thread Thomas Goirand
Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Package: dtc > Severity: important > > > have a look at /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. > > also consider using dbconfig-common to do simple mysql manipulations, > as you are duplicating a lot of work here (In a bad way). > > Note that this is debconf abuse and could even

backports.org became really shitty for php5-mysql and mysql-server-5.0

2007-03-17 Thread Thomas Goirand
st, and finally that I'm sure someone will be able to point me to the right people, and hopefully have a correction of this problem uploaded. Thomas Goirand -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: backports.org became really shitty for php5-mysql and mysql-server-5.0

2007-03-18 Thread Thomas Goirand
Craig Sanders wrote: > On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 03:20:59AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> I want to cry about this issue... >> >> Few weeks ago, it was possible to setup php5, mysql5 and apache2 in >> sarge using the backports. But seems few weeks (maybe 1 week ?), if

Re: backports.org became really shitty for php5-mysql and mysql-server-5.0

2007-03-18 Thread Thomas Goirand
Craig Sanders wrote: > On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 09:57:49PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: if you're using backports.org, you may as well be using unstable. >>> I do, but for development purposes only, like many. If it's about me, I >>> use apache 1.3, php4 and mysql4.0 because I don't need anythin

Re: backports.org became really shitty for php5-mysql and mysql-server-5.0

2007-03-18 Thread Thomas Goirand
Ok, it's all my bad it seems... :( [mysqld] old_passwords = false # inserted by debconf Again, sorry for me being stupid and writing to the wrong list... Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Using dbconfig-common for a package that needs root access to MySQL

2007-03-20 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hello, Somebody submitted #414477 against my package, which needs root access to MySQL. My question is simple: can dbconfig-common grant root access to MySQL? Thomas Goirand -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Where to mount a temporary partition in scripts?

2007-03-24 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hello, My package dtc-xen, needs to mount partitions of the Xen VMs for which it's doing the setup. Previously, it was creating a /xen folder, but an up-to-date lintian produces an error about /xen in debian/dirs. Where do you think it's the most appropriate place to do that? I like a LOT to use

Re: Where to mount a temporary partition in scripts?

2007-03-24 Thread Thomas Goirand
martin f krafft wrote: > Make a temporary directory with tempfile: > > TMPDIR="$(tempfile -d -p dtcxen -s mnt)" > trap "umount -l $TMPDIR; rmdir $TMPDIR" 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 > mount ... $TMPDIR > [...] > umount $TMPDIR > rmdir $TMPDIR > trap - 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 11 1

Re: Where to mount a temporary partition in scripts?

2007-03-24 Thread Thomas Goirand
Russ Allbery wrote: > If I were you, I'd document in README.Debian how the administrator can > mount the images in /xen (or perhaps /srv/xen) and perhaps provide some > configuration that makes it simple for the sysadmin to do so. For the FHS > reasons, it shouldn't be the default (perhaps the adm

Re: staying in stable but compiling for sid

2007-04-13 Thread Thomas Goirand
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > The easiest idea is to run two machines one with unstable and one with > stable. But I dont have the luxury of running two machines. Use vmware/kvm/xen/uml/qemu/whatever... so you can run virtual machines (very small ones should be ok for doing small developments and

RFS: dtc (updated package)

2007-07-12 Thread Thomas Goirand
ain/binary-i386/sbox-dtc_1.11-1.dsc France: ftp://ftp.gplhost.fr/debian/dists/sid/main/binary-i386/sbox-dtc_1.11-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Thomas Goirand -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

RSF: dtc (updated package)

2007-07-12 Thread Thomas Goirand
ain/binary-i386/dtc-xen_0.3.0-1.dsc Singapore: ftp://ftp.gplhost.sg/debian/dists/etch/main/binary-i386/dtc-xen_0.3.0-1.dsc France: ftp://ftp.gplhost.fr/debian/dists/etch/main/binary-i386/dtc-xen_0.3.0-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Thomas Goirand -- To UNS

RSF: dtc (updated package)

2007-07-12 Thread Thomas Goirand
26.2-1.dsc France: ftp://ftp.gplhost.fr/debian/dists/sid/main/binary-i386/dtc_0.26.2-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Thomas Goirand -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Wrong subject in my previous posts

2007-07-12 Thread Thomas Goirand
Sorry, I just post 3 requests with the same subject. Please have a look in the body of the message. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RFS: sbox-dtc (updated package with pending RC bugfix)

2007-07-20 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi there ! As Daniel Baumann do not sponsor packages anymore, im looking for someone who can sponsor and upload my package of sbox-dtc. Files are here: ftp://ftp.gplhost.com/debian/dists/sid/main/binary-i386/sbox-dtc_1.11-1.dsc Thanks and bye, Thomas Goirand -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

RFS: php-html-progress2

2007-07-27 Thread Thomas Goirand
/mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/php-html-progress2/php-html-progress2_2.3.0-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Thomas Goirand If this is an update to a package that is alread

Re: RFS: php-html-progress2

2007-07-28 Thread Thomas Goirand
Christoph Haas wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 03:42:55PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "php-html-progress2". >> >> * Package name: php-html-progress2 >> Version : 2.3.0-1 >> Upstream Author : L

Re: missing file in php-net-ipv4 in official package

2007-07-30 Thread Thomas Goirand
istency. This is the role of both the maintainer, and the sponsor. If anybody is interested about this idea and want to work with me doing it, let me know. One of the subjects that I'd like to discuss is what tool to use to parse the file. Maybe php itself as it can be called from shell? Thomas Goirand -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: info about puiparts [was: Sponsor Checklist]

2007-07-31 Thread Thomas Goirand
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hmm. Since the DD/sponsor is the one who creates the uploaded > packages, they do not have to insis; they can just make it so. I hope > DD's do the actual tend build/clean/rebuild/piuparts-run personally. > Therefore I actually am only insistent on the sources

RFS: php-http-upload

2007-08-05 Thread Thomas Goirand
ource repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/php-http-upload/php-http-upload_0.9.1-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Thomas Goirand -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: RFS: php-http-upload

2007-08-05 Thread Thomas Goirand
Jonny Lamb wrote: > On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 03:15 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "php-http-upload". > > One little thing: > > Your only changelog entry contains "Initial release (Closes: #)". You've > simply

RFS: Many php-* packages to be updated: php-auth-http php-compat php-config php-crypt-cbc php-event-dispatcher php-html-common php-html-select php-image-barcode php-net-ping php-net-portscan php-xml-r

2007-08-06 Thread Thomas Goirand
s - RSS parser http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/php-xml-rss/php-xml-rss_0.9.10-3.dsc I would be glad if someone could uploaded these packages for me. Once again, don't get scarred by the amount of package, they are very small, and are built the same way. Kind regards Thomas Goirand

Re: RFS: Many php-* packages to be updated: php-auth-http php-compat php-config php-crypt-cbc php-event-dispatcher php-html-common php-html-select php-image-barcode php-net-ping php-net-portscan php-x

2007-08-06 Thread Thomas Goirand
e 3.01 when the sources notice a 2.02 license, so I did the mistake. Sorry, this is corrected. I have also separated "License:" and "Copyright notice:" which is IMHO better. I have re-uploaded all package to the same location. Note that, except for php-html-select that is the in

Re: RFS: php-http-upload

2007-08-07 Thread Thomas Goirand
Nico Golde wrote: > Hi, > * Thomas Goirand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-08-06 13:31]: > [...] >> Thanks for having a look and if you can sponsor the upload. > > I am sorry but I won't sponsor any php package, but since > the package is in a good shape I hop

Re: RFS: Many php-* packages to be updated: php-auth-http php-compat php-config php-crypt-cbc php-event-dispatcher php-html-common php-html-select php-image-barcode php-net-ping php-net-portscan php-x

2007-08-07 Thread Thomas Goirand
Gregory Colpart wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 02:41:11PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> I knew them, and used them a lot in the past, but as I am doing the >> packaging using "pear install" and some rm, I thought it would be more >> consistent l

Re: RFS: Many php-* packages to be updated: php-auth-http php-compat php-config php-crypt-cbc php-event-dispatcher php-html-common php-html-select php-image-barcode php-net-ping php-net-portscan php-x

2007-08-08 Thread Thomas Goirand
Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: >>> http://webapps-common.alioth.debian.org/draft-php/html/ch-php-libs.html#s >>> -php-libs-pear >> This is a VERY good idea, and I think it will help a lot to improve the >> pear package. Thanks for writing this. > > I currently maintain some PEAR packages and would be inte

Re: php4 in lenny and Depends

2007-08-12 Thread Thomas Goirand
Kevin Coyner wrote: > I have a package that I maintain that has a dependency on php4-cgi > or php5-cgi. > > If I remember correctly php4 will not be in lenny. Correct me if I > was dreaming and misunderstood this. > > If I am correct, then in any future repackagings of my packages for > lenny, do

RFS: xmms-pulse

2007-09-21 Thread Thomas Goirand
s-pulse - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/x/xmms-pulse/xmms-pulse_0.9.3-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Thomas Goirand -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

RFS: dtc (updated package)

2007-09-24 Thread Thomas Goirand
//mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/dtc/dtc_0.26.4-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Thomas Goirand -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&

RFS: dtc-xen (updated package)

2007-09-24 Thread Thomas Goirand
ian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/dtc-xen - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/dtc-xen/dtc-xen_0.3.0-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me.

Re: RFS: dtc (updated package)

2007-09-25 Thread Thomas Goirand
Simon Richter wrote: > Hi, > > Thomas Goirand wrote: > >> I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.26.4-1 >> of my package "dtc". It's been now a long time that I'm searching for a >> sponsor, as my old sponsor decided to stop sponsori

Re: RFS: xmms-pulse

2007-09-27 Thread Thomas Goirand
Daniel Baumann wrote: > Thomas Goirand wrote: >> I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. > > Thomas (explicitly cc'ed to make sure he gets the mail), > > if you report a wnpp bug with reportbug, it gets automatically cc'ed to > debian-deve

RFS: tumgreyspf

2007-10-09 Thread Thomas Goirand
non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/t/tumgreyspf/tumgreyspf_1.28-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Thomas Goirand -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New packaging advice, manpages and binary additions

2007-10-15 Thread Thomas Goirand
First, I'm not a DD, just I try to maintain some packages. So don't take my advices as facts. Robin Cornelius wrote: > Hi everyone, trying to create a new debian package but have a few > queries. I'm trying to create a new package for an app that i use that > I would like to see in debian, and ho

ITA: libdbi + libdbi-drivers (updated packages)

2007-10-24 Thread Thomas Goirand
ers/libdbi-drivers_0.8.2-1-1.dsc Both packages appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 312115, 326748 I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Thomas Goirand -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mentors.debian.net reloading

2007-10-26 Thread Thomas Goirand
resources are a problem: nobody said that you _had_ to host mentors > yourself. If a server is needed, we could provide it as sponsorship. Something like a core 2 quad core (Q6600) running Xen with few gigabytes of RAM could be provided if it's needed to have such power, and if it can he

Re: mentors.debian.net reloading

2007-10-27 Thread Thomas Goirand
Henrik Andreasson wrote: > And a possibillity to "vote" for the package maybe, then a sponsor can > use that information if the want in the decission what packages to sponsor? I don't like this idea at all. With that, what you will see is that maintainers that have lots of friends, or that are ma

Re: mentors.debian.net reloading

2007-10-27 Thread Thomas Goirand
Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Thomas Goirand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (28/10/2007): >> With that, what you will see is that maintainers that have lots of >> friends, or that are maintaining famous packages, will get a high >> score. > > The opposite is true too. Infam

Re: mentors.debian.net reloading

2007-10-28 Thread Thomas Goirand
Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Is dtc considered an (almost) perfect (simple) package from your point > of view? No. It's far from perfect, and all but simple. And also, I consider it VERY outdated in the archive, I wish my corrections were uploaded. Anyway, why are you talking about it? It's completely

Re: mentors.debian.net reloading

2007-10-28 Thread Thomas Goirand
Ondrej Certik wrote: >> Perhaps even for PPA-like services. >> I'm thinking a similar way (using a Python web framework - although a >> different one). > > Yeah, unforutunately there are several good python frameworks. But I > don't mind any framework, as long as its going to work. Do you know ab

Re: ITA: libdbi + libdbi-drivers (updated packages) 2nd try, please consider!

2007-11-03 Thread Thomas Goirand
/main/l/libdbi-drivers/libdbi-drivers_0.8.2-1-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Thomas Goirand -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ITA: libdbi + libdbi-drivers (updated packages) 2nd try, please consider!

2007-11-04 Thread Thomas Goirand
Albert Lash wrote: > For what its worth, I was *just* searching for this package yesterday. > I ran into a problem with the one from the outside repository needing > the older mysql client. What do you mean??? > Does this one work with the newer client > library by chance? Do you mean libmysqlcl

Re: ITA: libdbi + libdbi-drivers (updated packages) 2nd try, please consider!

2007-11-25 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi Paul, Thanks a lot for your help. Paul Wise wrote: > Please don't ship config.guess/config.sub changes in your diff.gz, > instead build-depend on autotools-dev, replace the files before > calling configure and restore the original versions on clean. What I did is this: config.status: configu

Re: ITA: libdbi + libdbi-drivers (updated packages) 2nd try, please consider!

2007-11-26 Thread Thomas Goirand
Paul Wise wrote: > On Nov 26, 2007 4:36 PM, Thomas Goirand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Paul Wise wrote: >>> You might want to support noopt too. >> What's that? > > Like nostrip, but ensures that the package is build with no > optimisation (gcc -O0)

Re: service helper package

2007-11-26 Thread Thomas Goirand
Stephen Gran wrote: >>> # Check whether we were configured to not start the services. >>> check_for_no_start() { >>> if [ "$SERVICE_DISABLED" = "yes" ]; then >> This is such a broken behavior. Initscripts are enabled and disabled in >> the configuration of the init system. > > That's not quite

Re: service helper package

2007-11-26 Thread Thomas Goirand
Eric Lavarde wrote: > Hi, > > Thomas Goirand wrote: >> Stephen Gran wrote: >>>>> # Check whether we were configured to not start the services. >>>>> check_for_no_start() { >>>>> if [ "$SERVICE_DISABLED" = "yes" ]

Re: ITA: libdbi + libdbi-drivers (updated packages) 2nd try, please consider!

2007-11-28 Thread Thomas Goirand
Paul Wise wrote: > On Nov 26, 2007 4:36 PM, Thomas Goirand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I suspect (didn't check) that you are missing some copyright info >>> since there are lots of upstream authors, but only one copyright >>> holder. >>

Re: libdbi upload still missing leading to broken libapache-mod-log-sql (was: automatically parseable debian/copyright)

2007-11-29 Thread Thomas Goirand
, thanks to Paul Wise for his work and others that gave me meaningful advices on IRC. Thomas Goirand -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Compatibility between BSD make and GNU make

2007-12-11 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi, I'd like to set conditions on variables in a make file to do: ifndef $(APP_DIR) APP_DIR=/usr/share endif This works on Debian, however on FreeBSD, it doesn't work, and I have to write this: .ifndef $(APP_DIR) APP_DIR=/usr/share .endif Is there something that is compatible with both that I

Re: RFS: policyd-weight (10th try)

2012-02-17 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 02/17/2012 03:13 AM, Werner Detter wrote: >> Did you ask zigo who sponsored your last upload? >> > sure i did. But he just became a father so he had no time left for uploading > the package. > Also, I'm busy with other packages, and did that last upload because I thought it was importan

Re: debian/rules default

2012-02-27 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 02/27/2012 05:09 PM, Gergely Nagy wrote: > Jerome BENOIT writes: > > >> Hello List: >> >> What should be the default target for debian/rules ? >> > I usually make a help target (or something similar) and make that the > default. But now that you reminded me, I always wanted to make it >

Re: A "Review & Mentor" team

2012-03-15 Thread Thomas Goirand
with sponsors - sponsors wont get flooded with packages they don't care about - sponsors will not miss software they do care about Of course, this is only an idea that I'm throwing, and I'm not raising hand for the implementation, but at the same time, the ones who have worked on tags and

Re: [RFR] - Multiple (4) PEAR packages needed by PHPUnit - Was: [RFR] - PHP_Timer (Needed by phpunit)

2012-03-26 Thread Thomas Goirand
> > Could you (or someone else) take a look at it? If you don't mind, I'd like to make sure that the pear-phpunit-channel package is in good shape and uploaded before moving to the others. Experience showed me that this is the best way to save time. Thanks for your interest in doing these

Re: Debian-friendly upstream best practices?

2012-03-29 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 03/28/2012 05:25 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > - is it reasonable for the upstream repo to have a Debian branch, > inverting the normal use-case of git-buildpackage? e.g gbp.conf: > > [DEFAULT] > upstream-branch=master (not upstream) > debian-branch=debian (not master) >

Re: Debian-friendly upstream best practices?

2012-03-29 Thread Thomas Goirand
When I'm at it, you might want to have a look here: http://wiki.debian.org/GitPackagingWorkflow Cheers, Thomas On 03/28/2012 05:25 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > > > I am involved in several projects where I am either the founder of the > project (e.g. dynalogin) or a contributor with full access

Re: Dependencies for FastCGI

2012-04-18 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 04/17/2012 11:43 AM, Stefan Ott wrote: > Hey mentors > > I have a question concerning one of my packages (fookebox). It > currently depends on "libapache2-mod-wsgi | httpd-wsgi" since it's a > web application that is typically called through WSGI. As requested in > #667838, I now added the confi

Bug#673438: RFS: libjs-swfupload/2.2.0.1-1 [ITP]

2012-05-19 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/19/2012 02:00 AM, Christian Welzel wrote: > dget -x > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/libj/libjs-swfupload/libjs-swfupload_2.2.0.1-1.dsc > > Hi, Your package contains a pre-built version of swfupload.swf. Please remove that file from your source package, it should be built fr

Bug#673438: RFS: libjs-swfupload/2.2.0.1-1 [ITP]

2012-05-19 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/19/2012 02:00 AM, Christian Welzel wrote: > Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command: > > dget -x > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/libj/libjs-swfupload/libjs-swfupload_2.2.0.1-1.dsc > > Oh, and besides this, building your package twice fails. P

Bug#673438: RFS: libjs-swfupload/2.2.0.1-1 [ITP]

2012-05-22 Thread Thomas Goirand
) unstable; urgency=low * Initial release (Closes: #602253, #609110) -- Christian Welzel Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:11:09 +0100 You are *not* documenting your work in this file, you are documenting changes in Debian. Since the software has never been in Debian, a single initial entry in your debia

Re: RFS: libapache2-mod-socket-policy-server 0.0.7-1 [NEW] -- An Apache2 module for serving Adobe socket policies.

2012-08-13 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi, I'm quite sure I did sponsor this package once. So I looked in it, in order to sponsor again. But it's not in SID. What happened to it? Why it's not in SID anymore? Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: RFS: libapache2-mod-socket-policy-server 0.0.7-1 [NEW] -- An Apache2 module for serving Adobe socket policies.

2012-08-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
On Tue Aug 14 2012 02:22:11 PM CST, Patrick Matthäi wrote: > Am 14.08.2012 08:13, schrieb Thomas Goirand: > > Hi, > > > > I'm quite sure I did sponsor this package once. > > So I looked in it, in order to sponsor again. But it's not in SID. > > What

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