Bug#468825: bfr: Please remove hardlinks from package

2008-03-01 Thread James Westby
Package: bfr Version: 1.6-1 Hi, The bfr package contains hardlinks. In fact it links together the upstream changelog and the Debian changelog. This is causing some issues trying to represent the package in a VCS, and it would be great if an upload could be done that removed the links. Thanks, J

Bug#468825: bfr: Please remove hardlinks from package

2008-04-30 Thread James Westby
severity 468825 serious thanks Hi, It was pointed out to me that this actually violates Debian Policy, section 4.8. I think this warrants a serious severity, but I'm not absolutely sure that "may not" as used in that section is equivalent to a "must". Thanks, James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#506500: gnuift: Missing --install argument to libtoolize call

2008-11-21 Thread James Westby
Package: gnuift Version: 0.1.14-9 Severity: normal User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usertags: origin-ubuntu jaunty Hi, As shown at http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19643691/buildlog_ubuntu-jaunty-i386.gnuift_0.1.14-9_FAILEDTOBUILD.txt.gz this package can fail to build as the libtoolize call will remove

Bug#507282: xmcd: Missing mode to open() calls with O_CREAT

2008-11-29 Thread James Westby
Package: xmcd Version: 2.6-21 Severity: normal Tags: patch User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usertags: origin-ubuntu jaunty ubuntu-patch Hi, open(2) states that a mode must be specified when the O_CREAT flag is specified, there are a few cases where you package does not do that. Attached is a patch to spe

Bug#451631: adonthell: Fix to work with python2.5

2007-11-17 Thread James Westby
Package: adonthell Severity: normal Tags: patch User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usertags: origin-ubuntu hardy The attached patch from Matthias Klose fixes the package to work with python2.5. The latest version can also be grabbed from http://patches.ubuntu.com/a/adonthell/extracted/04_python2.5.diff It

Bug#452000: apt-spy: Build-Depends on obsolete libcurl3-openssl-dev

2007-11-19 Thread James Westby
Package: apt-spy Version: 3.1-16 Hi, apt-spy Build-Depends on libcurl3-openssl-dev, which is no longer a package and is provided by libcurl4-openssl-dev. Rebuild tests of the archive have presumably ensured that it builds with this, so it should be safe to just move to the new package. Thanks,

Bug#376626: Please stop Build-Depending on automake

2006-07-03 Thread James Westby
le: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) diff -u kdoc-2.0a54/debian/changelog kdoc-2.0a54/debian/changelog --- kdoc-2.0a54/debian/changelog +++ kdoc-2.0a54/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +kdoc (2.0a54-3.1) unstable; urgency=low + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Remove the unneccesar

Bug#376718: Please stop Build-Depending on automake

2006-07-04 Thread James Westby
Remove the unneccesary Build-Depends on automake + + -- James Westby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 2 Jul 2006 23:24:55 +0100 + kdoc (2.0a54-3) unstable; urgency=low * QA upload. diff -u kdoc-2.0a54/debian/control kdoc-2.0a54/debian/control --- kdoc-2.0a54/debian/control +++ kdoc-2.0a54/debia