Re: Bits from the experimental autobuilder team (or: For Those Who Care About Experimental...)

2006-04-12 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 09:28:27PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Hello World, > > As many of you undoubtedly know, experimental is autobuilt these days. ... > However, it will only work if the build-dependencies are fully > specified; i.e., if a package 'foo' in experimental requires another >

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-12 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 10622 March 1977, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > I'm trying to upload a new mailman package, but this is failing > utterly. Could someone please help me? Thanks in advance. Wrong place where you asked. The problem is the : in your .changes name. The match is: re_taint_free = re.compile(r"^[-+~/\.

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-12 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 10:08:21AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 10622 March 1977, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: >> I'm trying to upload a new mailman package, but this is failing >> utterly. Could someone please help me? Thanks in advance. > The problem is the : in your .changes name. The match i

Use clisp shiped with source or from Debian?

2006-04-12 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, I would like to pack Xindy an index processing system like makeindex. Xindy's source comes with clisp 2.33.2 and it is compiled at build time. I've got it managed to build with the clisp package from Debian. But I have little problem and saw the Debian package depends on X11. Upstream do not

Re: Use clisp shiped with source or from Debian?

2006-04-12 Thread Brian M. Carlson
On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 21:06 +, Joerg Sommer wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to pack Xindy an index processing system like makeindex. > Xindy's source comes with clisp 2.33.2 and it is compiled at build time. > > I've got it managed to build with the clisp package from Debian. But I > have littl

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 10:08:21AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > On 10622 March 1977, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > > >> I'm trying to upload a new mailman package, but this is failing > >> utterly. Could someone please help me? Thanks in advance. >

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 12:36:39PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 10:08:21AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > > On 10622 March 1977, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > > >> I'm trying to upload a new mailman package, but this is f

Bug#362040: ITP: rt2x00 -- RT2400/2500/2570 wireless network drivers

2006-04-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Hutchings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: rt2x00 Version : 2.0.0-b3 (would be 1.99+2.0.0b3 in Debian) Upstream Author : Mark Wallis et al * URL : http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/ * License : GPL Description :

Re: Use clisp shiped with source or from Debian?

2006-04-12 Thread Frank Küster
"Brian M. Carlson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I would like to pack Xindy an index processing system like makeindex. >> Xindy's source comes with clisp 2.33.2 and it is compiled at build time. >> >> I've got it managed to build with the clisp package from Debian. But I >> have little problem an

Re: Accepted mailman 2.1.5-8sarge3 (source sparc)

2006-04-12 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi, * Lionel Elie Mamane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060412 13:49]: > mailman (2.1.5-8sarge3) stable; urgency=high > . >* Don't delete other package's ucf-managed configuration files > (closes: #358575) > Files: > 2a02b24630b797a17c52380d299a4b2f 633 mail optional mailman_2.1.5-8sarge3.dsc >

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Which uses debian/changelog ... the ":" is used to indicate a "period", > > period can be used to use smaller upstream version if you increased it by > > error (or if you really need to use an older upstream version). > > > The period should be a sing

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-12 Thread Florian Weimer
* Raphael Hertzog: > Edit debian/changelog, and change the ":" by "+" and you're probably done. Shouldn't policy be updated to reflect this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-12 Thread Frank Küster
Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Raphael Hertzog: > >> Edit debian/changelog, and change the ":" by "+" and you're probably done. > > Shouldn't policy be updated to reflect this? Which part? 5.6.12 already talks about that. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectrosc

MIA Christoph Wegscheider?

2006-04-12 Thread MJ Ray
Does anyone know the current status of maintainer Christoph Wegscheider? Last maintainer uploads: * qiv 2005-05-23 (sponsor Thomas Viehmann cc'd) * potracegui 2005-05-01 (sponsor Bartosz Fenski cc'd) * rsnapshot 2005-04-14 (I sponsored this) Staging repository http://wegi.net/debian/ last modifie

Re: Reforming the NM process

2006-04-12 Thread Luca Capello
Hello! As someone in the NM queue... On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 18:59:44 +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > For 2.2, I'd recommend that NM's maintain a page about them on > wiki.d.org (my current applicant did that, and I found that rather > useful). In a glance you can see applicants that are not comited

Re: MIA Christoph Wegscheider?

2006-04-12 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 04:48:56PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > Does anyone know the current status of maintainer Christoph Wegscheider? I didn't hear anything for a long from him although there were some releases of potracegui I sponsored some time ago. regards fEnIo -- ,''`. Bartosz Fenski | ma

Re: Reforming the NM process

2006-04-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Luca Capello wrote: > > For 2.2, I'd recommend that NM's maintain a page about them on > > wiki.d.org (my current applicant did that, and I found that rather > > useful). In a glance you can see applicants that are not comited > > enough. > > I wouldn't measure an NM commitmen

Re: MIA Christoph Wegscheider?

2006-04-12 Thread Nico Golde
Hi MJ, * MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-04-12 22:29]: > Does anyone know the current status of maintainer Christoph Wegscheider? [...] Yes he is vanished and noone knows where he is. He was pretty active in the wmii project and did some stuff in debian. Some day he unsubscribed from the wmii

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-12 Thread Florian Weimer
* Frank Küster: > Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> * Raphael Hertzog: >> >>> Edit debian/changelog, and change the ":" by "+" and you're probably done. >> >> Shouldn't policy be updated to reflect this? > > Which part? 5.6.12 already talks about that. A colon is explicitly allowed

Re: Eiffel.

2006-04-12 Thread Florian Weimer
* Kari Pahula: > I can assume that Eiffel Software is arguing that anything compiled > with Eiffel Studio is a derived product and needs to be under GPL too. It seem like software compiled using Eiffel Studio links to the GPLed run-time library, so such a claim would make a lot of sense. The sit

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-04-12 Thread Miles Bader
Daniel Dickinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> - evince > > Any particular reason for not just using xpdf? Especially since xpdf seems to do a much better job of rendering many pdf documents... [Evince has nicer looking widgets though.] -Miles -- P.S. All information contained in the above le

per-architecture Provides field

2006-04-12 Thread Erast Benson
Hi, I'm thinking of the way to putback NexentaOS[1] changes some more. As far as OpenSolaris core is concerned, we need to provide virtual packages, like sunwxml and sunwlxsl to make native SVR4 packaging system dependency happy. I'm looking to the right way to do so. Bellow is the snippet from l

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-04-12 Thread Linas Žvirblis
Miles Bader wrote: >>> - evince >>> >> Any particular reason for not just using xpdf? > > Especially since xpdf seems to do a much better job of rendering many > pdf documents... [Evince has nicer looking widgets though.] Not only that, but Evince can be quite slow at rendering complex document

Re: Eiffel.

2006-04-12 Thread Daniel Baumann
Kari Pahula wrote: > I can assume that Eiffel Software is arguing that anything compiled > with Eiffel Studio is a derived product and needs to be under GPL too. > Not that I've investigated this myself at all. It is correct, parts of the runtime are in every binary, so every binary is a derivated

Bug#362216: ITP: stardict-english-czech -- Stardict package for English-Czech dictionary

2006-04-12 Thread Michal Čihař
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Michal Čihař" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: stardict-english-czech Version : 20060412 Upstream Author : Milan Svoboda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and many oth

Re: per-architecture Provides field

2006-04-12 Thread Loïc Minier
Hi, On Wed, Apr 12, 2006, Erast Benson wrote: > +Provides: sunwlxsl [solaris-i386] > Depends: ${shlibs:Depends} Why not simply use Provide: ${misc:Provides} and set misc:Provides to sunwlxsl on solaris-i386? Why not simply Provide: sunwlxsl all of the time, doesn't it provide sunwlxs

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Frank Küster: >> Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> * Raphael Hertzog: Edit debian/changelog, and change the ":" by "+" and you're probably done. >>> Shouldn't policy be updated to reflect this? >> Which part? 5.6.12 already talks a

Re: Use clisp shiped with source or from Debian?

2006-04-12 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Joerg Sommer wrote: > I've got it managed to build with the clisp package from Debian. But > I have little problem and saw the Debian package depends on X11. > Upstream do not support other versions than this one shipped with > the source and depending on the clisp package woul

Re: Reforming the NM process

2006-04-12 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit "Rudi Cilibrasi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I wonder if the same could be applied to Debian? (note I am not a > NM/DD yet) I think Debian has really taken off as a new nexus for open > source and would expect if it were possible to make a money > contribution to speed up the NM queue many wou

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 12 Apr 2006, Russ Allbery said: > Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> * Frank Küster: >>> Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Raphael Hertzog: > > Edit debian/changelog, and change the ":" by "+" and you're > probably done. > Shouldn't policy be updated to re

Re: Use clisp shiped with source or from Debian?

2006-04-12 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Joerg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I've got it managed to build with the clisp package from Debian. But I > have little problem and saw the Debian package depends on X11. Upstream > do not support other versions than this one shipped with the source and > depending on the clisp package wo