Re: Debian-AI

2008-01-06 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:20:26 -0600 (CST) Andrew Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The benefits are great because the quality of the packages remains high. > > Irregardless of the package quality, the software itself, able to > execute, load libraries, and run, or the dataset itself, confer

Re: Debian-AI

2008-01-06 Thread Andrew Dougherty
> The benefits are great because the quality of the packages remains high. Irregardless of the package quality, the software itself, able to execute, load libraries, and run, or the dataset itself, confers great benefits to anyone who specifically requires those capabilities the software provides,

Re: Faster shutdown and the ubuntu "multiuser" update-rc.d extention

2008-01-06 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:10:03AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Gabor Gombas > > | On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 12:14:15PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > | > | > It's fairly common to add a sleep in restart to (try to) deal with > | > issues such as reopening a socket. > | > | But if the listening s

Re: Opinions needed: reporting lintian overrides

2008-01-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
Thijs wrote: >On Saturday 5 January 2008 14:43, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> As you might expect (as I was the requester for this feature) I'd >> *really* prefer the former option. My initial reasoning for it is that >> I want to make it immediately visible to sponsors if a package has >> suppressed li

Re: pkg-$GROUP on Alioth: please whitelist messages from BTS

2008-01-06 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Tollef Fog Heen said: > * Stephen Gran > > | The only reason is that I can't see how to do it in mailman. AFAICT it's > | not easy to set that as a blanket default for all lists. If you can se > | how, feel free to ping me on #alioth or off list and I'll set it up.

Re: pkg-$GROUP on Alioth: please whitelist messages from BTS

2008-01-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Stephen Gran | The only reason is that I can't see how to do it in mailman. AFAICT it's | not easy to set that as a blanket default for all lists. If you can se | how, feel free to ping me on #alioth or off list and I'll set it up. Something like: add GLOBAL_PIPELINE.insert(1, 'Debian')

Re: Debian-AI

2008-01-06 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 11:41 -0600, Andrew Dougherty wrote: > The issue of "automatic packaging" is IMHO a red-herring. Even if the > rough packages are done completely by hand, the problem remains that > there is a lot of useful, properly licensed software for which no > package exists. Consequen

Re: Debian-AI

2008-01-06 Thread Andrew Dougherty
From: Isabel Drost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Debian-AI Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 11:17:28 +0100 > If your goal is to provide a comprehensive repository of AI software, I think > you have forgotten some rather important AI projects on your list. You might > want to have a look at the following

Re: Availability of wanna-build sources

2008-01-06 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 10:49:36PM +, Luk Claes wrote: > Roger Leigh wrote: > > Hi folks, > > Hi Roger > > > The wanna-build (sbuild, buildd) sources in use on the Project's > > buildd infrastructure is maintained by Ryan Murray and is available > > From an SVN repository at > > > > http:/

Re: Availability of wanna-build sources

2008-01-06 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Roger Leigh wrote: >> Does anyone know where the sources for the current version of >> wanna-build in use on our buildds may be found? > The current version is the one of the repository you mentioned. If you > mean the experimental version, well I suppose tha

Re: pkg-$GROUP on Alioth: please whitelist messages from BTS

2008-01-06 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Tollef Fog Heen said: > * Stephen Gran > > | I've just told mailman on alioth to look at the envelope sender for > | figuring out who mail is coming from. This means that most lists can > | just add debbugs@ and dak@ to the allowed email list and it will pretty > | m

Re: pkg-$GROUP on Alioth: please whitelist messages from BTS

2008-01-06 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 12:42:20AM +0100, Luca Capello a écrit : > > Can we make mandatory the Alioth/PackagingProject guidelines for mailing > list as maintainer (point 2.3) [1] (also Alioth/FAQ, point 2.5 [2])? I > don't ask for completely open mailing lists, but at least moderated. Dear all,

Re: pkg-$GROUP on Alioth: please whitelist messages from BTS

2008-01-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Stephen Gran | I've just told mailman on alioth to look at the envelope sender for | figuring out who mail is coming from. This means that most lists can | just add debbugs@ and dak@ to the allowed email list and it will pretty | much do the right thing. This will break things if the normal |

Re: Opinions needed: reporting lintian overrides

2008-01-06 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Saturday 5 January 2008 14:43, Steve McIntyre wrote: > As you might expect (as I was the requester for this feature) I'd > *really* prefer the former option. My initial reasoning for it is that > I want to make it immediately visible to sponsors if a package has > suppressed lintian warnings. If

Re: Faster shutdown and the ubuntu "multiuser" update-rc.d extention

2008-01-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Gabor Gombas | On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 12:14:15PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: | | > It's fairly common to add a sleep in restart to (try to) deal with | > issues such as reopening a socket. | | But if the listening socket is still open then some apache module may | still be doing disk I/O/databas

Re: Faster shutdown and the ubuntu "multiuser" update-rc.d extention

2008-01-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Felipe Sateler | If there are daemons which don't need to save state, or do useful work on | shutdown (and thus don't need an init script)... why bother with TERMing them | instead of directly KILLing them? As an example, an ftpd or smtpd could then close the connection with «service going dow