Package: wnpp Severity: normal I've just orphaned the piuparts package. I can't promise to spend any time on it myself in the next few months, so it's better to be explicit about this.
See also http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/09/msg01068.html Alastair McKinstry offered to help, but I've concluded that I don't want to even be an uploader for now. I don't know if Alastair wants to adopt the package. Bill Allombert also replied; I'm not happy about the direction Bill wants to take piuparts, but, hey, since I'm not going to do any work on it, it's not really appropriate that I make any decisions, either. In other words, I do not intend to pick my successor(s). piuparts.cs.helsinki.fi needs to be put into use again. This involves making the package installable on sarge, because piuparts-master needs to run on sarge, and a chroot won't do without setting things up in complicated ways, and then it's better to just make the package installable directly. In addition, you need root access on the machine, to be able to run the slave, and you'd probably best talk to debian-admin about that. I had hoped that people would start using piuparts themselves, before uploading, but based on the number of failures piuparts.cs.helsinki.fi tends to find (when it does run), I'm not confident that the need for a centralized service will go away anytime soon. In addition to just running piuparts on the machine, you need to report bugs based on any failures it finds (only those that are real ones; piuparts sometimes fails for non-bugs, e.g., mirroring problems). Just putting log files up so that people can browse them doesn't work, the problems don't get fixed. lintian.debian.org has shown that. (And for those wondering why I'm on an orphaning spree: I am overcommited with regard to time and responsibilities, and am fixing this by getting rid of all the responsibilities I can. Any predictions of my leaving Debian are premature.) The package description is: piuparts tests that .deb packages (as used by Debian) handle installation, upgrading, and removal correctly. It does this by creating a minimal Debian installation in a chroot, and installing, upgrading, and removing packages in that environment, and comparing the state of the directory tree before and after. piuparts reports any files that have been added, removed, or modified during this process. . piuparts is meant as a quality assurance tool for people who create .deb packages to test them before they upload them to the Debian package archive. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-486 Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
