Re: Out of Date Package and Maintainer Absence

2012-10-03 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 10:27:22PM -0700, Vincent W. Chen wrote: > I am willing to co-maintain the package with Manoj, or even maintain > it by myself if he's no longer interested in dealing with it. But > since there has been no reply from him I now turn to the list: any > suggestion on what I sho

Out of Date Package and Maintainer Absence

2012-10-03 Thread Vincent W. Chen
Hi, My questions involve bug #684395 and the FVWM package. Though the bug is only severity: wishlist, I do hope to see newer version make it to Wheezy, seeing as how the last NMU was on 2012 May 5 and the last update by maintainer Manoj was on 2010 Jun 8. As indicated in the bug report, the curren

Bug#689553: ITP: erlang-meck -- mocking library for Erlang

2012-10-03 Thread Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu * Package name: erlang-meck Version : 0.7.2 Upstream Author : Adam Lindberg * URL : https://github.com/eproxus/meck.git * License : Apache 2.0 Programming Lang: erlang Description : mocking libr

Bug#689547: ITP: libcredis -- Credis is a client library in plain C for communicating with Redis servers.

2012-10-03 Thread Dave Rawks
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dave Rawks * Package name: libcredis Version : 0.2.3 Upstream Author : Jonas Romfelt * URL : https://code.google.com/p/credis/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description : Credis is a client library in plain

Bug#689546: ITP: libcredis -- Credis is a client library in plain C for communicating with Redis servers. Redis is a high performance key-value database.

2012-10-03 Thread Dave Rawks
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dave Rawks * Package name: libcredis Version : 0.2.3 Upstream Author : Jonas Romfelt * URL : https://code.google.com/p/credis/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description : Credis is a client library in plain

symlink vs. directory "conflicts"

2012-10-03 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Hi, we recently had a thread here about missing copyright files due to bad transition from /usr/share/doc/directory to /usr/share/doc/symlink->other_directory, a lot of bugs were filed and are getting fixed. There are also more complicated^Wmessed up cases like sendmail that has maintainer scripts

Re: Comments+blank line in debian/control: Clarification in policy or MBF?

2012-10-03 Thread Guillem Jover
On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 11:48:10 +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > On 2012-10-03 11:01, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > > But then either all build infrastructure (and also lintian) don't use > > debian/control, or all these tools tolerate that blank line (with the > > exception > > of pbuilder). > > Linti

Re: Comments+blank line in debian/control: Clarification in policy or MBF?

2012-10-03 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-10-03 12:02, Michael Tautschnig wrote: >> On 2012-10-03 11:01, Michael Tautschnig wrote: >>> [...] >>> >>> But then either all build infrastructure (and also lintian) don't use >>> debian/control, or all these tools tolerate that blank line (with the >>> exception >>> of pbuilder). >>> >>>

Re: [Pkg-dia-team] Bug#689293: dia menu entry should use /usr/bin/dia not /usr/bin/dia-normal

2012-10-03 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi! Thanks you for your report! On 01/10/12 10:30, Andre Naujoks wrote: > The installation of dia should add a menu entry to start dia with the > link in /usr/bin/dia, so the choice of the alternatives system is taken > into account. > > Currently /usr/bin/dia-normal is used, which bypasses the

Bug#689504: ITP: libterm-clui-perl -- Perl module offering a Command-Line User Interface

2012-10-03 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mathieu Malaterre * Package name: libterm-clui-perl Version : 1.66 Upstream Author : Peter J Billam * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Term-Clui/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Perl Description : Perl module o

Bug#689496: ITP: refdb-perlmod -- RefDB-perlmod module for perl

2012-10-03 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mathieu Malaterre * Package name: refdb-perlmod Version : 1.2 Upstream Author : Markus Hoenicka * URL : http://refdb.sf.net * License : GPL Programming Lang: Perl Description : RefDB-perlmod module for perl Per

Bug#689495: ITP: refdb-sru -- RefDB-SRU module for perl

2012-10-03 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mathieu Malaterre * Package name: refdb-sru Version : 0.7 Upstream Author : Markus Hoenicka * URL : http://refdb.sf.net * License : GPL Programming Lang: Perl Description : RefDB-SRU module for perl Module for

Bug#689494: ITP: refdb-client -- RefDB-Client module for perl

2012-10-03 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mathieu Malaterre * Package name: refdb-client Version : 1.18 Upstream Author : Markus Hoenicka * URL : http://refdb.sf.net * License : GPL Programming Lang: Perl Description : RefDB-Client module for perl Perl

Re: Comments+blank line in debian/control: Clarification in policy or MBF?

2012-10-03 Thread Michael Tautschnig
> On 2012-10-03 11:01, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > > [...] > > > > But then either all build infrastructure (and also lintian) don't use > > debian/control, or all these tools tolerate that blank line (with the > > exception > > of pbuilder). > > > > Best, > > Michael > > > > Lintian's parser

Re: Comments+blank line in debian/control: Clarification in policy or MBF?

2012-10-03 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-10-03 11:01, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > [...] > > But then either all build infrastructure (and also lintian) don't use > debian/control, or all these tools tolerate that blank line (with the > exception > of pbuilder). > > Best, > Michael > Lintian's parser ignores empty lines before

Re: Comments+blank line in debian/control: Clarification in policy or MBF?

2012-10-03 Thread Michael Tautschnig
> Le Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 11:00:54PM +0200, Jakub Wilk a écrit : > > * Michael Tautschnig , 2012-10-01, 14:25: > > >>By policy, blank lines separate paragraphs, comments are > > >>discarded, so we end up with an empty first paragraph. Policy, > > >>however, requires that the *first* paragraph conta

Bug#689479: ITP: refdb-perlmod -- RefDB-perlmod module for perl

2012-10-03 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mathieu Malaterre * Package name: refdb-perlmod Version : 1.2 Upstream Author : Markus Hoenicka * URL : http://refdb.sf.net * License : GPL2+ Programming Lang: Perl Description : RefDB-perlmod module for perl P