Re: Shellshock? Maemo?
 

Happened to me too. I assume the request ends in someone's overflowing inbox and they can easily miss it. Just send another request if you don't get a response in a couple of days.

Re: Shellshock? Maemo?
 

Hi reinob,

did you try this?
Log in to maemo.org with your garage account.
Go to the package site you want to maintain, e.g.
http://maemo.org/packages/view/rsync/
and push the button 'Request to be maintainer of this package'

Re: Shellshock? Maemo?
 

It's sad to see how Reinob can't be able to upload these type of packages to the repository.

Re: Shellshock? Maemo?
 

I guess he'll be able to with the help of our techstaff

Re: Shellshock? Maemo?
 

Yes. I wouldn't worry much (hey we *do* have good people around here -- we must not forget that).

The packages I (might) want to upload are not so critical (for that we have CSSU, even if I don't use it..). This is just stuff *I* use on my N900 (talking openssh and rsync mainly) where i want to have an up-to-date version.

I have seen that rsync is unmaintained, openssh is version 5.1 from 2009, nano is a giant mess (nano, nano-tiny, nano-opt, nano-2.0.7) with versions that crash or unexpectedly chop lines (hint: word wrapping is something you do *visually*, *non-destructively*, especially if you're editing code for pete's sake!).

for bash we have { bash, bash2 (diablo only), bash3, bash4 and bash4-opt }, all of them hopelessly out of date.

I don't know if the people listed as maintainers for those packages still exist or give a flying duck about the packages they maintain, perhaps techstaff should ping all maintainers and see if the pong. Otherwise *plonk* (sorry, I'm particularly poetic today. Must be the headache).

Anyway, it's not so bad. It's good enough that the version of bash in our "ancient" N900 is (if we want) more recent that the one in most "modern" computers in this world.

Cheers.

Re: Shellshock? Maemo?
 

@reinob
i have sent an email to the current bash4 maintainer a few days ago, but so far i haven't received any reply.
If you wish you could try again.
Usually is the new maintainer that should ask the old one if he is still interested maintaining the package.
Then, you can push the button "request to be the maintainer".

Re: Shellshock? Maemo?
 

Technically they should end in my inbox and it usually takes one or two days untill I get to them, but I didn't get emails for the past 2 months regarding that form ...

Re: Shellshock? Maemo?
 

Sorry, I should have been clearer. My case was not that recent. It was some 6 months ago and was quickly resolved after a follow-up.

Re: Shellshock? Maemo?
 

@reinob
Which is the situation about the request to be maintainer of the bash4 package?

Re: Shellshock? Maemo?
 

Thanks for the reminder. I sorta forgot the issue. My plan-B was to simply set-up an sftp-accessible folder where people can download stuff. I prepared it, but didn't actually post about it.

I'll add it to my to-do list for this week to check/request maintainership for bash4.
(note that the above doesn't mean much, but at least it exerts a bit of pressure on me, so I might actually do it :)

Re: Shellshock? Maemo?
 

I have just sent an e-mail to the maintainer of bash4 (you did as well a few months ago). I'll give it a week and then I'll take over.

I still have to get a clear picture of the whole debian-maemo-upload process. I can compile and install, but have no real experience with debian packaging. Maemo garage and autobuilder are still a mistery to me (what they do, how, and why we need them).

But I think I'll manage...

Re: Shellshock? Maemo?
 

I got the OK from Kaj-Michael Lang (THANKS!), so I've requested to be maintainer of bash4.

I'm trying to understand the whole debian-maemo packaging conspiracy :) so to simplify a bit I'm testing uploading another program to extras-devel. It's called sysrpl and you should *NOT* touch it (it's a forth-like programming language copy-catting the SysRPL language found in good calculators).

I hope I don't break the autobuilder (I've read about it happening from time to time).

Will keep you posted.

Re: Shellshock? Maemo?
 

OK so the autobuilder didn't work (or rather, it did but the build failed) and I didn't get any e-mail. Using google I found the autobuilder log (https://garage.maemo.org/builder/fre...log.FAILED.txt), which tells me that I need curses.h, so I guess I need to make it depend on libcurses5-dev. Will try again one of these days.

Re: Shellshock? Maemo?
 

E-mails haven't come through for a while.
You can check the latest builds for errors here
https://garage.maemo.org/pipermail/e...uldron-builds/

Re: Shellshock? Maemo?
 

Well, emails from garage "should" arrive and also the mail server seems to be of the same opinion. If it doesn't happen again please ping techstaff in the usual ways.

Re: Shellshock? Maemo?
 

I've been getting builder emails all the time. Two yesterday. Not reinob's though. Selective mail server? Incorrectly set up reinob's account?

(FYI, builder sends emails to everybody, not just the person who started the build. I found it a bit odd at first but got used to it in the end.)

Re: Shellshock? Maemo?
 

No e-mails here. (Since very long time. That long I do not remember if I received those overall build mails. For sure I did receive for my own.)

Re: Shellshock? Maemo?
 

I guess it was a misunderstanding. I understood that the one uploading the package gets an e-mail. This is not the case.

I have now subscribed to the cauldron-whatever list and now I get an e-mail whenever the autobuilder compiles anything (it's OK, it's not so much :).

So curses is OK. Now I need libgmp which I happen to have locally compiled. So now I have to upload libgmp to extras-devel and, recurse as necessary, and then continue.

And this is just for my really-simple program. Did I say I don't like the autobuilder stuff? :)

EDIT: libgmp3-dev was there already, so I added it as build dependency, and the autobuilder worked! :)

Re: Shellshock? Maemo?
 

Yep. misunderstanding .
That is what I had done before. And some day (un)intentionally must have unsubscribed (the reason for no e-mails ;) forgot that).
Soory for noise.

--
more total offtopic noise, but as we are at mailing lists:
Has anyone ever seen this list?
I guess yes ;), but not me :eek: (after 5 years!)