Re: Bug#457477: devscripts: [tagpending] Did not tag the bug.

2007-12-23 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 02:13:48 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Tools like reportbug work out of the box on my machine; I suppose that > it is because they recognise the DEBEMAIL environment variable, in which > there is a routable email adress to use. Do you think that tagpending > could use it? It

Re: RFS: libx86 (adopted package)

2008-02-08 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:38:15 +0100, David Paleino wrote: > > Meanwhile, could you explain the logic behind the version number 0.99-2+ds1. > > (I suppose one could also look up policy on this but I'm being lazy!) > Well. 0.99-2 because the archive already has 0.99-1. The "+ds1" part means > that >

Re: Updating a package; ediquette and procedure questions

2008-06-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:10:32 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > $ cp ggobi-2.1.7.tar.bz2 ggobi_2.1.7.orig.tar.bz2 > Debian provides many facilities in the `devscripts' package. One of them > is the uscan/uupdate programs. They need a special file in the source > package, `debian/watch', TTBOMK uup

Re: RFS: audio-cd (updated package, QA upload, RC bugfix)

2008-07-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:49:26 +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > > I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. > Maybe someone in the Pkg-Perl group has an interest in adopting this into > the group instead? Sounds like a good idea. I'll take a closer look at the package tomorrow. Ch

Re: I want to contribute to Debian

2008-08-27 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:14:06 +0200, Fabio Balzano wrote: > I want to help Debian and Great! > I need some advice where I can start, and where > I can find a contact to receive first job. An "easy" way for contributing to Debian way is to join one of the existing teams: http://wiki.debian.org/T

Re: RFS: pacpl (2nd attempt)

2008-09-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:55:44 +0200, Cristian Greco wrote: > It builds these binary packages: > pacpl - a multi-purpose audio converter/ripper/tagger script > > Long Description: > Perl Audio Converter is a tool for converting multiple audio types from one > format to another using various exter

Re: RFS: pacpl (2nd attempt)

2008-09-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:49:37 +0200, Cristian Greco wrote: > [ I apologize for the private mail to Gregor, it was an error of mine. ] [ No problem, actually I saw the one on -mentors before :) ] > > > I would be glad if someone reviewed and uploaded this package for me. > > Just a few remarks: >

Re: RFS: pacpl (2nd attempt)

2008-09-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:32:50 +0200, Cristian Greco wrote: > > I found two last small issues: > Fixed! Thanks, downloaded, checked and uploaded. Feel free to contact me via private mail for new uploads of this package. > > PS: I think this package would be a good candidate for the > > applicatio

Re: Prune scripts for dfsg-cleanup

2008-10-19 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:06:43 +0200, Robert Wohlrab wrote: > So can somebody provide some examples for such a script in a > debian package or give me some informations what they should with what. > I had different ideas. For example to extract the provided tar.gz, remove the > non-dfsg dir and re

repackaged .orig.tar.gz (was: RFS: libmsn)

2008-11-18 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:01:30 +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > Should I rename the directory in the .orig.tar and make > > tamper-checking more difficult, or not rename the directory in the > > .orig.tar and make tamper-checking easier? > You should not, dpkg-source copes well enough. True, on the

Re: repackaged .orig.tar.gz

2008-11-18 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:58:36 +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > > You should not, dpkg-source copes well enough. > > True, on the other hand the Developer's Reference suggests in > > 6.7.8.2: > > 4. should use -.orig as the name > > of the top-level directory in its tarball. > > Is this recom

Re: howto disable whiptail messages?

2005-08-07 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 11:09:18AM +0200, Ram Kumar DANGETI wrote: > The following manpage has the complete explanation of debconf. Setting > DEBIAN_FRONTEND to the required value could be useful for uninterrupted > installation. > http://linux.com.hk/PenguinWeb/manpage.jsp?section=7&name=debcon

Re: RFS: python-goopy

2005-08-22 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 08:45:19AM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > Is it all right to use sed -i? sed -i is supported only in sed 4+. I > guess it is..., then does my build need to depend on sed? I don't think so because sed is a build-essential packages: cf. /usr/share/build-essential/essential-pa

Re: PGP and GPG keys...

2005-11-13 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 02:58:16PM +0100, Daniel Widenfalk wrote: > I've verified that key works using the scripts posted by Christoph Berg. > The key is available when searching through the web interface on > keyserver.pgp.com. I guess it has not yet propagated to other servers? > > The key ID i

Re: changes to upstream sources/HOWTO patch

2005-12-19 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 10:56:24AM +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote: > I've noticed that some packages contain a debian/patches-dir and I'm curious > how this works. debian/patches is used by dpatch, the necessary information should be available in man dpatch. > Can someone explain to me how to app

Re: Interest in packaging GNU Shishi and GNU Generic Security Service?

2005-12-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 10:11:20AM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote: > I'm having some (for any Debian Developer surely) trivial problems > with the dependencies: Shishi's configure finds gnutls13 on my local > machine, but Debian doesn't have gnutls13 yet. So when I install the > packages on another

Re: Package's configure script

2005-12-25 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 01:32:53PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > I can't find any mention of the configure script of packages in > section 6 of the policy. Can somebody please point me to a reference > of how and when it is run (what arguments, etc)? AFAIK there is/can be a configure target

Re: Package's configure script

2005-12-25 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 09:24:38AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > AFAIK there is/can be a configure target in debian/rules. > Or, are you talking about ./debian/rules configure target, which > probably just calls ./configure, or maybe sets up some symlinks or > such? That's what I meant. grego

Re: ITP vexim

2006-01-22 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 12:16:25AM +0100, Daniel Knabl wrote: > > Are you planning on providing fully generalized "maintainer script" > > handling of the config files, or are conffiles sufficient? > I am trying this right now in ./debian/postinst: > cat /usr/share/doc/vexim/setup/mysql.sql |\ >

Re: create password in postinst

2006-01-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 07:04:33PM +0100, Daniel Knabl wrote: > > file:///usr/share/doc/debian-policy/ > > policy.html/ch-maintainerscripts.html#s-mscriptsinstact > Hm, I do understand that this is a very important and critical part of > the policy. But, due to my non-perfect English, it's hard to

RFS: libmail-gnupg-perl -- Perl module for processing email with GPG

2006-02-05 Thread gregor herrmann
I'm looking for a sponsor for the following package: Title: libmail-gnupg-perl -- Perl module for processing email with GPG ITP: #351470 Details: * Package name: libmail-gnupg-perl Version : 0.08 Upstream Author : Best Practical Solutions, LLC; Robert Spier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *

RFS: libmarc-perl -- Perl extension to manipulate MAchine Readable Cataloging records

2006-02-05 Thread gregor herrmann
I'm looking for a sponsor for the following package: Title: libmarc-perl -- Perl extension to manipulate MAchine Readable Cataloging records ITP: #351471 Details: * Package name: libmarc-perl Version : 1.07 Upstream Author : Chuck Bearden [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RFS: libnet-amazon-perl -- Perl framework for accessing amazon.com via SOAP and XML/HTTP

2006-02-05 Thread gregor herrmann
I'm looking for a sponsor for the following package: Title: libnet-amazon-perl -- Perl framework for accessing amazon.com via SOAP and XML/HTTP ITP: #351472 Details: * Package name: libnet-amazon-perl Version : 0.34 Upstream Author : Mike Schilli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL

Re: RFS: libmail-gnupg-perl -- Perl module for processing email with GPG

2006-02-05 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 11:17:18AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > I'm looking for a sponsor for the following package: > > Title: libmail-gnupg-perl -- Perl module for processing email with GPG > > ITP: #351470 > You just found it :) Wow thanks - that was quick ;-) And I'm really excited about th

Re: RFS: libmarc-perl -- Perl extension to manipulate MAchine Readable Cataloging records

2006-02-05 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 11:10:39AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > I'm looking for a sponsor for the following package: > > Title: libmarc-perl -- Perl extension to manipulate MAchine Readable > >Cataloging records > > ITP: #351471 > Uploaded. Thanks a lot. Unfortunately there's a problem

Re: questions and questions

2006-02-06 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 08:19:58AM -0500, Jim wrote: > It sounds like I should do some reading (thanks for the link) ... I'll > try and poke around this evening see what I can do ... Another good link for starting: http://www.debian.org/devel/join/ "How You Can Help" Cf. also several of the pag

Re: RFS: libmarc-perl -- Perl extension to manipulate MAchine Readable Cataloging records

2006-02-16 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 11:10:39AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: (Cross-"posting" debian-mentors and debian-perl, please choose appropriate list(s) for reply.) Hi Gunnar, I just wanted to ask if you have found the time to take a second look at libmail-gnupg-perl, libmarc-perl, and libnet-amazon-perl

RFS: multixterm -- drive multiple xterms separately or together

2006-02-20 Thread gregor herrmann
I'm looking for a sponsor for the following package: Title: multixterm -- drive multiple xterms separately or together ITP: #353777 Details: * Package name: multixterm Version : 1.8 Upstream Author : Don Libes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://expect.nist.gov/exam

Re: RFS: multixterm -- drive multiple xterms separately or together

2006-02-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 12:58:37PM +0100, Stefan Fritsch wrote: > > Title: multixterm -- drive multiple xterms separately or together > > ITP: #353777 > Standard question: Do you know clusterssh, which does pretty much the > same thing and is already in Debian? If no, I suggest you take look. T

Re: RFS: libmarc-perl -- Perl extension to manipulate MAchine Readable Cataloging records

2006-02-22 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 12:57:01PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > I just wanted to ask if you have found the time to take a second look > > at libmail-gnupg-perl, libmarc-perl, and libnet-amazon-perl [0] (or > > Dave's Emilda packages [1]). I guess at least the former just need a > > dpkg-buildpack

Re: RFS: multixterm -- drive multiple xterms separately or together

2006-02-27 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 11:10:03AM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > Thanks for your hint, I didn't know clusterssh. Just checked it out > > and it does pretty much the same (and has more options), so I close > > the ITP for multixterm hereby. > As I understand the description of "clusterssh" rig

Re: RFS: multixterm -- drive multiple xterms separately or together

2006-03-07 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 05:11:29PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: (shortening cc:-list) > > clusterssh opens xterms with ssh sessions, multixterm opens multiple > > xterms (with whatever contents). So if you want to control several > > xterms at the same time that are not ssh sessions multixterm

Re: [RFS] qterm: BBS client for X Window System written in Qt

2006-03-15 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 04:12:36PM +0800, LI Daobing wrote: > It's not lintian and linda clean. lintian report following > warnings[2], linda report similar warnings. I don't know what's the > most proper way to deal with these warnings. > > [2] > $ lintian qterm_0.4.0pre4-1_source.changes > W: q

Package in new queue needs update

2006-03-15 Thread gregor herrmann
One of my packages is in the new queue, and now it needs a tiny change (a library it build-depends on changes it's package name). Can I use the same Debian revision for the updated package or do I have to bump the revision number (or is there anything else to do this)? TIA, gregor -- .''`. htt

Re: Package in new queue needs update

2006-03-15 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 06:52:43PM +0100, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: > On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 02:17:17PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: > > One of my packages is in the new queue, and now it needs a tiny > > change [..] > Simply upload new package with bumped revision

RFS: fullquottel, mailtextbody, mimetic

2006-04-08 Thread gregor herrmann
I'm looking for a sponsor to upload the three packages listed below; my last sponsor is busy at the moment (thanks for your help until now!) therefore I'm asking here. The packages are: * fullquottel fullquottel is in testing and unstable, the new version fixes a wishlist bug (#356375), the only c

Re: Doing RFS on -mentors

2006-04-09 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 03:16:50PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > Normally I use wget --mirror --no-parent to get the source > > files. So if you do your RFS, enable directory listing on > > your server (or in package directory), post the exact link > > of every file in the mail so we can mark

Re: Doing RFS on -mentors

2006-04-10 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 12:30:10AM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: > Oh one moment you are right. I havent yet tried dget but is > dget just generating the file names by itself and downloads > it? No. man dget: "... it fetches the given URL and recursively any files referenced, if the URL points to

Re: RFS: fullquottel, mailtextbody, mimetic

2006-04-15 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 09:08:38PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: One week later I would like to politely ask again for sponsors for the following 3 packages: > * fullquottel > * mimetic > * mailtextbody > All packages can be downloaded from > http://www.toastfreeware.priv.at/

Re: RFS: fullquottel, mailtextbody, mimetic

2006-04-16 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 07:49:13PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > > * fullquottel > > fullquottel is in testing and unstable, the new version fixes a > > wishlist bug (#356375), the only change in the package is the > > description. > Uploaded. Thanks a lot! By coincidence Tony Mancill did an upl

Re: packaging a release

2006-04-29 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 01:27:10PM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > I'd like to build my debian packages out of my repository, so I've added the > following in my debian/rules... Is there a better, standardized way to do > this? (I've already looked at cvs-buildpackage, but I want to move away from

Re: RFC/RFS: bfilter, aspell-hr, myspell-hr

2006-06-17 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 01:58:29 +0200, Vedran Fura? wrote: > >> The upstream doesn't provide any version information so there shouldn't be > >> any problem if I fake new upstream releases: 1.0-1 -> 1.1-1 -> 1.2-1 . > > Can't you use dates then? Like MMDD-a? > No problem, but one question, just

Re: Access to alioth

2006-06-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 03:05:14PM +0530, Prasad Ramamurthy Kadambi wrote: > I'm ready with my package festival-te. How do I send it to alioth or any > other Debian server? Alioth is for (often collaboratively maintained) projects, I guess there's no registered festival-te project there. More inf

Re: Docs for svn-buildpackage

2006-06-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 22:36:02 +0530, Prasad Ramamurthy Kadambi wrote: > How do I upload package for debian-in.alioth.debian.org ? I have an account. > It would be helpful if you can point out docs for svn-buildpackage. Take a look at file:///usr/share/doc/svn-buildpackage/HOWTO.html/index.html HT

Re: Help with watch file

2006-08-04 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 16:45:42 -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: > I have one watch file with the following lines: > > version=3 > ftp://ftp.genetics.wustl.edu/pub/eddy/software/squid-(.*)\.tar\.gz > > Doing an uscan --verbose, I get: [..] > What is the correct line to get versions from a FTP di

Re: 2nd RFS: libmp3-tag-perl (MP3::Tag, a perl module for reading and writing ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags in mp3 files).

2006-08-04 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 05 Aug 2006 02:18:02 +0100, Ian Beckwith wrote: > I'm (still) seeking a sponsor for libmp3-tag-perl (MP3::Tag, a perl > module for reading and writing ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags in mp3 files). I'm not a DD, so I can't upload your package. But maybe you'd like to join the Debian Perl Group and

Re: How to register manpages?

2006-08-30 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:03:24 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > I have for all of my tools/packages manpages (de and fr too) and > using dh_installman wich works perfectly. > Now I have read I must register manpages from the "postinst" script. "Registering" sound a bit like doc-base. If I'm correct

Re: What to do with word documents ?

2006-09-17 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 19:19:09 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > I am working on a package which contains MSWord documents. I was wondering > the following questions: > 1) How can I know if they are redistributable at all, for instance if > they contain non-free fonts? TTBOMK MS Office files don't co

Re: my projects for debian ? - Answer to Martin

2006-09-18 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 00:01:27 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ok, thanks. But my tool dont need pipes and my pw.txt file looks like this: > password01 > pass02 > andmore > > pwgen output file looks likes: > password pass02 andmore [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ pwgen -1 10 10 > pwd [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$

Re: RFS: malaga (updated package)

2006-09-18 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:39:34 +0300, George Danchev wrote: > - convert doc-control to UTF-8 since it contains character (ö) which is not > present in iso-8859-1 if I'm not mistaken about the current encoding. 'ö' is longer in iso-8859-1 than utf-8 even exists ;-) But I agree that the files in deb

Re: RFS: libsbml

2007-02-05 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 08:19:31 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > indeed, I just noticed the following : > > sorbet???~???$ apt-cache show latex2html > Filename: pool/non-free/l/latex2html/latex2html_2002-2-1-20050114-5_all.deb > ^ > Do you think that there are other converters a

Re: Req: Info about how to build a webapp package.

2007-03-12 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:07:48 +0100, Dario Minnucci wrote: > Does anybody knows where to find some guidelines to build a 'web application > package'? http://webapps-common.alioth.debian.org/draft/html/ gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ | gpg key ID: 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : debian: the

Re: A french developper want help you :)

2007-03-29 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:31:28 +0200, Michel Barret wrote: Bonjour Michel, > My name is Michel. I want help Debian and as I'm computer studen maybe can > developpe for Debian! [..] > So can I help anybody? What can I make to Debian? Thanks for your offer! For getting ideas about how to get invo

Re: generating patches for debian packages

2007-04-12 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:43:51 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > I am looking for some tricks for generating patches for the debian source > packages. Take a look at interdiff and/or debdiff (in package devscripts). http://women.debian.org/wiki/English/AdvancedBuildingTips has some hints, too.

Re: Removing an obsolete symlink

2007-04-24 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:10:59 +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: > > I adopted a web application package that used to set a symlink under > > /var/www: /var/www/phpmyadmin -> /usr/share/phpmyadmin. This was not good: > > we shouldn't touch /var/www and not enable phpmyadmin without asking. > Why? What is

Re: RFS: smc

2007-04-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:23:27 +0200, Arnaud Fontaine wrote: > CEGUI::Exception: DynamicModule::DynamicModule - Failed to load module > 'libCEGUIDevILImageCodec.so': libCEGUIDevILImageCodec.so: cannot open shared > object file: No such file or directory > CEGUI Exception occurred : DynamicModule::

Re: RFS: QGFE QT Gnuplot Front End

2007-04-30 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:00:40 +0200, Giorgio Pioda wrote: > Download: http://web.ticino.com/gfwp/debian/qgfe-1.0/ I'm not a DD, but here go some short remarks on your package: * debian/README.Debian is an empty template and can possibly be removed. * All the debian/foo.ex files seem to be unuse

Re: mercurial (hg) equivalent of svn-buildpackage?

2007-05-07 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 07 May 2007 17:12:33 +0200, Rudi Cilibrasi, Ph.D. wrote: > I really enjoyed svn-buildpackage. Is there a similar system for hg / > Mercurial? $ apt-cache search --names-only "\-buildpackage" [..] hg-buildpackage - Suite to help with Debian packages in Mercurial archives (Never used it.

Re: Creating /usr/bin/ entries to scripts the right way

2007-07-30 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:17:06 +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > If the source package contains debian/bin/harvestman then debian/install > > can contain this line: debian/bin/harvestman usr/bin/ > Unfortunately, the source package does not contain such a file. Bart was talking about the _Debian_ _s

Re: package that depends from non-free package

2007-08-04 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 04 Aug 2007 13:25:53 +0200, Francesco Namuri wrote: > I'm trying to make a package that depends on xmame that is in non-free, > the program under GPL and so I think it can uploaded to main, If it depends on a package in non-free your package has to go to contrib. Cf. Debian Policy 2.2 >

Re: Bug#657100: Please add a sponsorship-requests pseudo-package

2012-01-25 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:24:27 +0100, Michael Stummvoll wrote: > On 24.01.2012 02:55, Michael Gilbert wrote: > > As for the usertag names, I came up with the following when writing > > support for this into reportbug: [..] > How would I tag a sponsorship request of an ITA-Package? It matches neith

Re: What to do if FTBFS bug is not reproducible?

2012-01-25 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:28:49 +0530, Vasudev Kamath wrote: > I'm working on to prepare QA upload for surf which is orphaned by its > previous maintainer. There is a FTBFS bug reported against this > package [1]. But I'm not able to reproduce this bug. Package builds > fine on the pbuilder clean chr

Re: sponsorship-requests

2012-01-30 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:51:47 -0500, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > > In practice, how does a request for sponsorship appear at > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=sponsorship-requests;dist=unstable > > ? > I'm CC'ing the list again, because I think this is worthwhile to > everyone (and

Re: sponsorship-requests

2012-01-30 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:35:53 +0100, Savvas Radevic wrote: > 1. If I have an already open bug in wnpp, do I close it or merge it with > the one in s-r (=sponsorship-requests)? No, they are independent. The WNPP bug is about the package itself, and the SR bug is about sponsoring. > 2. If I have a

Re: sponsorship-requests

2012-01-30 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:44:02 +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > We could ask listmasters to filter out BTS bot messages. Now, there > are certainly people (e.g. me) who do want to see control messages. > But they could always subscribe to sponsorship-requests via PTS. > What do others think? I'm happ to

Re: Should I split off arch independant part?

2012-02-09 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:00:55 -0600, Paul Elliott wrote: > The untimate source of my project is a windows programer who GPLed. He > thought > it would be a good idea to write the documentation in windows word .doc file! > Bad move. > The only free program that I can find to convert this document

Bug#659854: RFS: vpnc/0.5.3r512-1 - Cisco-compatible VPN client (new upstream snapshot)

2012-02-14 Thread gregor herrmann
tag 659854 + confirmed owner 659854 ! thanks On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:08:00 +0100, Florian Schlichting wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "vpnc": > dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/v/vpnc/vpnc_0.5.3r512-1.dsc > http://mentors.debian.net/package/vpnc This looks ver

Re: optional package in Build-Depends (how?)

2012-02-27 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 02:45:33 +1100, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > In case someone is tempted to try Build-Depends like "check | dpkg", > it doesn't work at all in pbuilder which is smart enough to notice that dpkg > is already installed so it never pulls 'check'. And it also doesn't work -- the other

Re: building for more than one distribution

2012-03-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:48:18 +0100, Dennis van Dok wrote: > Now I can think of several ways to fix this: > > - use something other than dinstall > - change the .changes file before using dput (breaks signing) > - use --debbuildopts=--changes-option=-Ddistribution=squeeze - change the distributio

Re: building for more than one distribution

2012-03-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 23:29:48 +0100, Dennis van Dok wrote: > > - change the distribution in debian/changelog before building: > > "debchange -D $dist " > Thanks, but this complicates my procedures. After calling debchange > I'm left with a modified tree and svn-buildpackage will complain I > have

Re: RFS: quickrdp/1.1.6-1 or how to proceed

2012-04-04 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:14:28 +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > dget uses dscverify to check the signature. dscverify only uses the > debian-keyring.gpg and debian-maintainers.gpg keyrings located in > /usr/share/keyrings by default, so it will not see any keys you imported > unless you tell it to

Bug#666566: RFS: liboauth/0.9.6-1

2012-04-08 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 15:47:44 -0400, Bilal Akhtar wrote: > liboauth (0.9.6-1) unstable; urgency=low > > * New upstream release (Closes: #650138) I can't confirm this. Both the bti in unstable and a bti rebuilt against 0.9.6-1 fail with liboauth0 0.9.6-1 installed with the same error as before

Re: Help needed to fix g++ 4.7 error [Was: Bug#667120: bowtie: ftbfs with GCC-4.7]

2012-04-22 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 22:15:04 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > similarly to the plink case I can not found an easy solution for this > problem. > alphabet.h:48:3: error: 'reverseInPlace' was not declared in this scope, and > no declarations were found by argument-dependent lookup at the point of >

Re: (un)patching patched files

2012-05-10 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 10 May 2012 11:22:46 +0200, Olе Streicher wrote: > 8<- > override_dh_autoreconf: > sed s/libast/libstarlink_ast/g -i Makefile.am > AUTOMAKE="automake --foreign" dh_autoreconf > > override_dh_clean: > sed s/libst

Re: (un)patching patched files

2012-05-10 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 10 May 2012 13:18:42 +0200, Olе Streicher wrote: > I have the same problem in another package: here, an executable is going > to be renamed, and therefore also the manpage. Additionally, the manpage > needs a patch. Since the manpage is renamed, unpatching it after build > fails. Not sur

Re: Can I adopt removed package?

2012-05-23 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 24 May 2012 10:27:58 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 7:58 AM, KURASHIKI Satoru wrote: > > I want to adopt this package because I'm planning to ITP > > the package (rt-extension-calendar) which depends on this > > library. > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?b

Re: d/copyright for mrtg-ping-probe (ITA)

2012-05-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 26 May 2012 13:48:21 -0400, Robert James Clay wrote: > > Then you can do also (from cdbs package): > > /usr/lib/cdbs/licensecheck2dep5 > I don't use cdbs myself, so that's something I'm not familiar with. > (Nor can I find how it's actually used, as there is no man page that I > can f

Re: RFS: fceu - Cross-platform Famicom/NES emulator (updated package)

2012-06-02 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 06 May 2012 23:26:43 +, Frédéric Brière wrote: > On Sun, 06 May 2012 20:01:27 +0200, Alexander Toresson wrote: > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.1.5-1 of the package > > "fceu". > What a coincidence, I was just about to send you an email with various > comments on yo

Re: Getting rid of control messages revisited

2012-06-03 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 24 May 2012 14:39:33 +0200, Arno Töll wrote: > What about creating a list as owner of the pseudo-package dedicated to > BTS traffic (including control messages) named > sponsorship-requests@l.d.o. Furthermore, the mentors list should still > get bug traffic (only). Therefore we would subsc

Re: [Help] New version of ImageJ does not build in pbuilder because of lacking DISPLAY variable

2012-06-04 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 12:37:45 +0200, Vincent Fourmond wrote: > >     [java] No protocol specified > >     [java] Exception in thread "main" java.lang.InternalError: Can't > > connect to X11 window server using ':0.0' as the value of the DISPLAY > > variable. > I had similar problems that I sol

Re: RFS: fceu - Cross-platform Famicom/NES emulator (updated package)

2012-06-10 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 14:28:39 +0200, Alexander Toresson wrote: > > - The changelog doesn't mention if this is a hostile takeover, a > >  friendly salvage or whatever of the package. > > I want this to be as friendly as possible, but so far Joe hasn't been > very responsive at all. In fact, even th

Bug#678935: RFS: coinor-ipopt/3.10.2-1.1 [NMU] [RC]

2012-06-25 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:04:13 +0200, Etienne Millon wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "coinor-ipopt". It contains > a fix for #662236 which caused its removal from testing. I looked at the package now, and there's one that doesn't make me happy: The "old" packages has: Depen

Re: RFS: new powertop version

2012-06-25 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:58:45 +0200, Julian Wollrath wrote: > since I offered Patrick Winnertz, the maintainer, to co-maintain about two > weeks ago and he was also CC'ed in parts of this thread but got no response > from him, I am hoping someone could sponsor my updates to the powertop > packag

Re: RFS: new powertop version

2012-06-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:29:09 +0200, Julian Wollrath wrote: > thank you for your comments. I uploaded a new version of my packaging to > http://rbw.goe.net/jw/ which addresses all of your comments. Thanks! > > - some other changes in d/control are also not mentioned > If you mean the dependency

Bug#678935: RFS: coinor-ipopt/3.10.2-1.1 [NMU] [RC]

2012-06-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 23:32:35 +0200, Etienne Millon wrote: > * gregor herrmann [120625 22:19]: > > The "old" packages has: > > Depends: libmumps-4.9.2 (>= 4.9.2) | libmumps-seq-4.9.2 (>= 4.9.2), ... > > After the changes the dependency is: > >

Re: Any script to populate debian/copyright file ?

2012-07-22 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 06:42:19 +, Bart Martens wrote: > I'm personally not a fan of DEP5, because I have not yet seen any benefits, > only more work for the packager, and less readable for humans than plain text. Side remark: I personally find a structured Copyright-Format 1.0 file much easier

Re: [RC bug fix] Sponsor needed

2012-08-10 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 22:05:02 +0100, Noel David Torres Taño wrote: > I need a sponsor in order to upload an updated package which resolves an RC > bug. > I'm quite surprised nobody has stepped in before. > Bug number is #681654. Why are you surprised? There's a dicsussion in the bug log that sho

Bug#689041: Re: Orthanc

2012-10-05 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 05 Oct 2012 16:24:14 +0200, Sebastien Jodogne wrote: > >* why libcurl4-gnutls-dev | libcurl4-nss-dev | libcurl4-openssl-dev ? > >shouldn't that be something simplier like libcurl4-dev ? libcurl-dev ? > >libcurl-ssl-dev ? > > If I use "libcurl4-dev", "libcurl-dev" or "libcurl-ssl-dev", I >

Bug#689219: RFS: libcdk5

2012-10-09 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 09 Oct 2012 20:30:22 +0200, Jose G. López wrote: > > I had a look at libcdk5 at mentors uploaded there on 2012-10-08 19:09. The > > file debian/copyright is not yet complete, see for example include/button.h > > with "Copyright 1999, Grant Edwards". The name Grant Edwards is also > > me

Re: uscan and git.gnome.org tags

2012-10-29 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 29 Oct 2012 23:40:30 +0100, Andreas Rönnquist wrote: > I am working on the devilspie package - which has a release mentioned > and linked in the last entry on Ross Burton's blog - > http://www.burtonini.com/ > > I do however have problems getting a watch-file reading the folder > where t

Bug#693613: RFS: doc-linux-fr/2005.08-1.1 [NMU] [RC] -- remove build-dep to allow removal

2012-11-18 Thread gregor herrmann
+ doc-linux-fr-2005.08/debian/changelog 2012-11-18 18:35:06.0 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,15 @@ +doc-linux-fr (2005.08-2) unstable; urgency=low + + * QA upload. + + [ Ivo De Decker ] + * Remove build-depends on mirror. Closes: 691570 + + [ gregor herrmann ] + * Set Maintainer to Debian QA Group

Bug#694737: RFS: libwmf/0.2.8.4-10.2 [NMU] [indirect RC] [MultiArch]

2012-11-29 Thread gregor herrmann
Control: tag -1 + pending On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:32:46 +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Please fix #677786 using the patch to the bug log in message #12. I > suggest delayed/7 to give the maintainer some more time to react. That > bug blocks RC bug #677762. Uploaded to DELAYED/7. Please close this

Bug#694872: Why was this bug closed?

2012-12-02 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 02 Dec 2012 17:08:24 +, Bart Martens wrote: > > lftp hasn't been uploaded or removed, so this bug shouldn't be closed. It > > might be a problem is some script, because mentors has 2 versions of lftp: a > > version for sid, and a version for testing-proposed-updates. > However, are you

Bug#695191: RFS: xarchiver/1:0.5.2+20090319+dfsg-4.1 [RC] [NMU]

2012-12-05 Thread gregor herrmann
tag 656301 + patch tag 692261 + patch On Wed, 05 Dec 2012 17:34:59 +0530, Kartik Mistry wrote: > On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Markus Koschany wrote: > > thanks for your interest in xarchiver. I haven't found a sponsor yet, so > > please go ahead! > Uploaded! Thanks for your work! Hm, where d

Bug#695191: RFS: xarchiver/1:0.5.2+20090319+dfsg-4.1 [RC] [NMU]

2012-12-06 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 06 Dec 2012 10:09:41 +0530, Kartik Mistry wrote: > On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 12:08 AM, Markus Koschany wrote: > > I think fixing the two minor bugs is covered by point 4 of the freeze > > policy. It's a win-win situation and it comes without altering one > > single line of code. > > http://r

Re: RFS: subnetcalc

2009-02-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:59:33 +0100, Thomas Dreibholz wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "subnetcalc". subnetcalc is a > simple > IPv4 subnet address calculator. For given IP address and netmask, it > calculates network address, broadcast address, maximum number of hosts and > h

Re: distributing precompiled binaries

2009-03-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:37:50 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I'd > personally tend to say that, doing the above and assuming my > characterization is correct, it would be okay to put that in main. Another precedent (and quite similar, since it's also an application for a mobile phone, just symbian i

Re: distributing precompiled binaries

2009-03-27 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:30:35 +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > > AFAICS the source package contains the source for > > gnapplet but it's not built but the pre-compiled .sis is installed > > into /usr/share/doc/gammu/symbian/. > I see. And gammu is in main? Yes, that's what `apt-cache policy gammu'

Re: distributing precompiled binaries

2009-03-27 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:54:12 +, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > > I suppose that's ok, but I'd check with the ftp-masters before > > uploading. > Alright, who should I contact? ftpmas...@debian.org? Yes, that's the official address according to http://www.debian.org/intro/organization Cheers, grego

Re: Templates for README.source

2009-04-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:45:39 +0200, Laurent Léonard wrote: > I'm searching for some "standard" templates for README.source about: > - DFSG changes > - Quilt usage (reference to /usr/share/doc/quilt/README.source ?) > - Other files removed from the original tarball for various reasons For packages

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