Re: Is a bug RC relevant if it has an influence on the health of a person

2010-09-09 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Hi, Le 09/09/10 21:40, Andreas Tille a écrit : > On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 04:11:50PM +0200, Thibaut Paumard wrote: >> And please, make all possible effort to warn your users about the >> potential risk of using or having used the buggy version. And even if >> it's only "I'm not sure, but it may wel

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Work-needing packages report for Sep 10, 2010

2010-09-09 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 512 (new: 11) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 130 (new: 2) Total number of packages reques

Re: Rapidly evolving end-user apps (Was: chromium not in Squeeze: a bit of communication needed?)

2010-09-09 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2010-09-09, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Also, I have found that Pidgin would really have been a valid candidate > for volatile: after few months, Yahoo, MSN and other networks are > changing, and it becomes simply impossible to log into these networks > unless you upgrade Pidgin (or some of its pro

Re: Is a bug RC relevant if it has an influence on the health of a person

2010-09-09 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 04:11:50PM +0200, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > And please, make all possible effort to warn your users about the > potential risk of using or having used the buggy version. And even if > it's only "I'm not sure, but it may well be serious enough to KILL > PEOPLE", bloody hell, w

Re: Is a bug RC relevant if it has an influence on the health of a person

2010-09-09 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 09/09/2010 08:38 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 04:43:53PM +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: >> Right. I was wondering why Andreas didn't contact the Release Team >> to have our opinion on the subject. IMO, it qualifies as an RC bug >> and the diff (0.7.8 ??? 0.7.9) doesn't look h

Re: problem with cowbuilder and ccache in sid

2010-09-09 Thread Christoph Goehre
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 06:35:03PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > Did you had also sudo in the update? If yes, see the NEWS file, there > was a change regarding the handling of $HOME and $MAIL. See: > > http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/sudo/news/20100908T204747Z.html > > Does this helps? Un

Re: Is a bug RC relevant if it has an influence on the health of a person

2010-09-09 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 04:43:53PM +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > Right. I was wondering why Andreas didn't contact the Release Team to have > our opinion on the subject. IMO, it qualifies as an RC bug and the > diff (0.7.8 ??? 0.7.9) doesn't look huge. It's even reasonable and acceptable, > once doc

Re: Bug#596229: ITP: lazyscripts -- A stupid scripts management tool and non official package installer

2010-09-09 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi there, Jon Dowland wrote: > Are you the upstream author? Are Thomas Goirand and Billy Zhe-Wei > Lin the same person? I was at the "Hacking Thursday" of the "Shanghai Linux User Group", and I was trying to show "Billy Zhe-Wei", a Taiwanese living in Shanghai, how he could package his applicatio

Re: Rapidly evolving end-user apps (Was: chromium not in Squeeze: a bit of communication needed?)

2010-09-09 Thread Thomas Goirand
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > PS regarding the other part of this thread about how to support, via >backports, what I would call "rapidly evolving end-user apps", it is >surely a worthwhile discussion, more general than Chromium. I believe >it would be worth to have it elsewhere (e.g. -de

Re: Any chance to redo an upload to unstable which should have went to experimental?

2010-09-09 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 06:18:56PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 12233 March 1977, Andreas Tille wrote: > > I intended to upload this package to experimental, but just forgot to > > change the target distribution. Is there any other chance to change > > this rather than uploading a > > >gn

Re: problem with cowbuilder and ccache in sid

2010-09-09 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Hi Christoph On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 06:24:36PM +0200, Christoph Goehre wrote: > since the last update run in my sid cowbuilder, ccache didn't work fine. > So, how to debug? I just print out the $PATH and $CCACHE_DIR vars with > debian/rules and I wounder. It looks like this: > > sid cowbuilder:

Bug#596241: ITP: ase -- Allegro Sprite Editor

2010-09-09 Thread Oscar Morante
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Oscar Morante * Package name: ase Version : 0.8.1-beta Upstream Author : David Capello * URL : http://www.aseprite.org/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : Allegro Sprite Editor ASE (Allegro Spri

problem with cowbuilder and ccache in sid

2010-09-09 Thread Christoph Goehre
Hi, since the last update run in my sid cowbuilder, ccache didn't work fine. So, how to debug? I just print out the $PATH and $CCACHE_DIR vars with debian/rules and I wounder. It looks like this: sid cowbuilder: PATH is: /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games CCACHE

Re: Any chance to redo an upload to unstable which should have went to experimental? [

2010-09-09 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 12233 March 1977, Andreas Tille wrote: > - Forwarded message from Andreas Tille - > From: Andreas Tille > To: debian-devel-chan...@lists.debian.org > Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:32:12 + > Subject: Accepted gnumed-client 0.8.1-1 (source all) > gnumed-client (0.8.1-1) unstable; urgen

Re: Is a bug RC relevant if it has an influence on the health of a person

2010-09-09 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 09/09/2010 16:11, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > > You have a bug that could potentially kill people? Fix it, upload ASAP > and contact the security and release teams. And I don't care if it's > not the "normal procedure" and if it can piss off people, it's not > nearly as important as Doing What

Re: Bug#595820: ITP: woof -- A small, simple, stupid webserver to share files

2010-09-09 Thread Andrea Gasparini
Long Description: Woof (Web Offer One File) is a tool to copy files between hosts. It can serve a specified file on HTTP,just for a given number of times, and then shutdown. It can be easily used to share files across the computers on a net, and given that the other ends should have just a b

Re: Is a bug RC relevant if it has an influence on the health of a person

2010-09-09 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Hi guys, This thread is just surrealistic. Le 09/09/10 15:17, Andreas Tille a écrit : > On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 10:34:09PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: >> >From your description, I'd guess one of ???causes serious data loss??? (??? >> ???critical???) > > Strictly speaking I do not really regard the

Re: Is a bug RC relevant if it has an influence on the health of a person

2010-09-09 Thread Jon Dowland
serious -- "in the package maintainer's or release manager's opinion, makes the package unsuitable for release." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201009

Re: Bug#596229: ITP: lazyscripts -- A stupid scripts management tool and non official package installer

2010-09-09 Thread Jon Dowland
> From: Thomas Goirand ... > Upstream Author : Billy Zhe-Wei Lin, 林哲瑋 (billy3321, 雨蒼) > Are you the upstream author? Are Thomas Goirand and Billy Zhe-Wei Lin the same person? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Bug#596229: ITP: lazyscripts -- A stupid scripts management tool and non official package installer

2010-09-09 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 08:42:39PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Billy Zhe-Wei Lin 林哲瑋 > > * Package name: lazyscripts > Version : 0.2.3.7 > Upstream Author : Billy Zhe-Wei Lin, 林哲瑋 (billy3321, 雨蒼) > > * URL : http://www.l

Re: Bug#596229: ITP: lazyscripts -- A stupid scripts management tool and non official package installer

2010-09-09 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Donnerstag, 9. September 2010, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Billy Zhe-Wei Lin 林哲瑋 > > * Package name: lazyscripts > Version : 0.2.3.7 > Upstream Author : Billy Zhe-Wei Lin, 林哲瑋 (billy3321, 雨蒼) > * URL : http://www.lazyscri

Re: Is a bug RC relevant if it has an influence on the health of a person

2010-09-09 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Thu Sep 09 14:42, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > Rather than RC (which is only about whether the severity of the bug is > > sufficient to delay the release of Debian), what is the severity of the > > bug? > > AFAIK, this is not the sort of package that would delay Debian's > release. At worst

Re: Is a bug RC relevant if it has an influence on the health of a person

2010-09-09 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 10:34:09PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > >From your description, I'd guess one of ???causes serious data loss??? (??? > ???critical???) Strictly speaking I do not really regard the problem in #596219 as a data loss - the available data are just not properly handled which can

Bug#596229: ITP: lazyscripts -- A stupid scripts management tool and non official package installer

2010-09-09 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Billy Zhe-Wei Lin 林哲瑋 * Package name: lazyscripts Version : 0.2.3.7 Upstream Author : Billy Zhe-Wei Lin, 林哲瑋 (billy3321, 雨蒼) * URL : http://www.lazyscripts.org * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: Python, bash Descrip

Re: Is a bug RC relevant if it has an influence on the health of a person

2010-09-09 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 14:34, Ben Finney wrote: > Andreas Tille writes: > >> with GNUmed we currently have a case where a bug is not RC regarding >> the computer system and would not match our criterion of RC bugs. > > Rather than RC (which is only about whether the severity of the bug is > suffi

Re: Is a bug RC relevant if it has an influence on the health of a person

2010-09-09 Thread Ben Finney
Andreas Tille writes: > with GNUmed we currently have a case where a bug is not RC regarding > the computer system and would not match our criterion of RC bugs. Rather than RC (which is only about whether the severity of the bug is sufficient to delay the release of Debian), what is the severity

Re: Is a bug RC relevant if it has an influence on the health of a person

2010-09-09 Thread Carsten Hey
* Karsten Hilbert [2010-09-09 13:07 +0200]: > Filed a bug: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=596219 > > but reportbug did not let me specify either of RC / critical > / grave / serious / security ... I just set this to serious. It may take some minutes until the BTS is up

Re: Bug#595820: ITP: woof -- A small, simple, stupid webserver to share files

2010-09-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 04:58:21PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Incoming code of possible security significance should be reviewed for > at least common classes of security holes. Instead, we get a thread where > the ITPer is required to prove that nothing in Debian can do what his > package does. Yo

Re: Is a bug RC relevant if it has an influence on the health of a person

2010-09-09 Thread Karsten Hilbert
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 12:38:05PM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > > Here comes the bug: GNUmed will, given appropriate > > circumstances, OVERWRITE the first allergy against Sugar. ... > > You die in hospital because of a second anaphylactic > > reaction to Sugar. > [...] > > Altho

Re: Any chance to redo an upload to unstable which should have went to experimental?

2010-09-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-09-09 11:35 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > - Forwarded message from Andreas Tille - > > From: Andreas Tille > To: debian-devel-chan...@lists.debian.org > Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:32:12 + > Subject: Accepted gnumed-client 0.8.1-1 (source all) > > gnumed-client (0.8.1-1) unsta

Re: Is a bug RC relevant if it has an influence on the health of a person

2010-09-09 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 09.09.2010 11:58, gregor herrmann wrote: On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:40:49 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: with GNUmed we currently have a case where a bug is not RC regarding the computer system and would not match our criterion of RC bugs. However, the influence of this bug might harm the health o

Re: Is a bug RC relevant if it has an influence on the health of a person

2010-09-09 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Thu Sep 09 12:03, Karsten Hilbert wrote: > Here comes the bug: GNUmed will, given appropriate > circumstances, OVERWRITE the first allergy against Sugar. Sounds like "grave: , or causes data loss, ..." to me, which is RC. I was also going to suggest it could be considered a sec

Re: Is a bug RC relevant if it has an influence on the health of a person

2010-09-09 Thread Michael Tautschnig
[...] > > Here comes the bug: GNUmed will, given appropriate > circumstances, OVERWRITE the first allergy against Sugar. > > Three years later, Debian 10 has been released and you > return because of FatigueFromPackaging. > > I prescribe Sugar, which usually helps against > FatigueF

Re: Is a bug RC relevant if it has an influence on the health of a person

2010-09-09 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 11:58, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:40:49 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > >> with GNUmed we currently have a case where a bug is not RC regarding the >> computer system and would not match our criterion of RC bugs.  However, >> the influence of this bug migh

Thinking about bundles

2010-09-09 Thread Nicholas Bamber
I have been looking into the packaging of bundles - that is packages that have multiple upstream sources. There was recently an article on the subject: http://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/09/07/how-to-use-multiple-upstream-tarballs-in-debian-source-packages/ . However one must notice this quote: "T

Re: Is a bug RC relevant if it has an influence on the health of a person

2010-09-09 Thread Karsten Hilbert
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 11:40:49AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > with GNUmed we currently have a case where a bug is not RC regarding the > computer system and would not match our criterion of RC bugs. However, > the influence of this bug might harm the health of patients of the > doctor who migh

Re: Is a bug RC relevant if it has an influence on the health of a person

2010-09-09 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:40:49 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > with GNUmed we currently have a case where a bug is not RC regarding the > computer system and would not match our criterion of RC bugs. However, > the influence of this bug might harm the health of patients of the > doctor who might use

Re: Any chance to redo an upload to unstable which should have went to experimental?

2010-09-09 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 11:54:31AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 11:35:16AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > I intended to upload this package to experimental, but just forgot to > > change the target distribution. Is there any other chance to change > > this rather than upl

Re: Any chance to redo an upload to unstable which should have went to experimental?

2010-09-09 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 11:35:16AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > I intended to upload this package to experimental, but just forgot to > change the target distribution. Is there any other chance to change > this rather than uploading a > >gnumed-client (1:0.7.9-1) unstable; >gnumed-client

Is a bug RC relevant if it has an influence on the health of a person

2010-09-09 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, with GNUmed we currently have a case where a bug is not RC regarding the computer system and would not match our criterion of RC bugs. However, the influence of this bug might harm the health of patients of the doctor who might use this version of GNUmed. If needed upstream will give some mo

Any chance to redo an upload to unstable which should have went to experimental? [Was: Accepted gnumed-client 0.8.1-1 (source all)]

2010-09-09 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, - Forwarded message from Andreas Tille - From: Andreas Tille To: debian-devel-chan...@lists.debian.org Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:32:12 + Subject: Accepted gnumed-client 0.8.1-1 (source all) -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 gnumed-client (0.8.1-1) unstable; urgenc

Re: Bugs in Backported Packages

2010-09-09 Thread Alexander Wirt
Rene Engelhard schrieb am Thursday, den 09. September 2010: > On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 01:22:24PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > 1: It's certainly a bug in the backported package using debhelper > > improperly; it may also be an additional wishlist bug in debhelper. > > I disagree, the backported

Re: Bugs in Backported Packages

2010-09-09 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 01:22:24PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > 1: It's certainly a bug in the backported package using debhelper > improperly; it may also be an additional wishlist bug in debhelper. I disagree, the backported package uses debhelper correctly. Especially if you don't use the back