Re: [BUMP] r-cran-readstata13 had five weeks in NEW queue for two uploads

2017-10-14 Thread Chris Lamb
[Drpopping -release from CC, they are busy enough] Dirk, > [Thomas Lumley] is not listed in DESCRIPTION He has a copyright attribution in R/read.R IIRC but there may be other instances and other copyright holders. You would make the reference(s) in debian/copyright like any other package. > > c

Re: [BUMP] r-cran-readstata13 had five weeks in NEW queue for two uploads

2017-10-14 Thread Andreas Tille
[Sorry for pressing send to quick in my last posting] On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 09:59:49PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > > The passive-aggressive "we won't work on your package, and won't tell you > > why" is a wee bit annoying. > > This is an uncharitable interpretation of the situation. There is no

Re: [BUMP] r-cran-readstata13 had five weeks in NEW queue for two uploads

2017-10-14 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 14 October 2017 at 22:00, Adam D. Barratt wrote: | On Sat, 2017-10-14 at 12:59 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > Bumping this as my mail to ftpmaster went unanswered. | > | > Could someone please remind me who to ask about the NEW Queue?  It is | > causing | > me a FTBFS as I need this Build

Re: [BUMP] r-cran-readstata13 had five weeks in NEW queue for two uploads

2017-10-14 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 14 October 2017 at 21:59, Chris Lamb wrote: | Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | > The passive-aggressive "we won't work on your package, and won't tell you | > why" is a wee bit annoying. | | This is an uncharitable interpretation of the situation. There is no | deliberate witholding of informatio

Re: [BUMP] r-cran-readstata13 had five weeks in NEW queue for two uploads

2017-10-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 09:59:49PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > > The passive-aggressive "we won't work on your package, and won't tell you > > why" is a wee bit annoying. > > This is an uncharitable interpretation of the situation. There is no > deliberate witholding o

MBF: please drop transitional dummy package foo (if they were part of two releases or more)

2017-10-14 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, I'm doing an small mass bug filing against obsolete transitional packages which are at least marked "dummy transitional" since the jessie release, though many of them existed already in wheezy. I think it's rather undoubtful those are normal bugs we want to get rid off. According to a script

Re: [BUMP] r-cran-readstata13 had five weeks in NEW queue for two uploads

2017-10-14 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2017-10-14 at 12:59 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > Bumping this as my mail to ftpmaster went unanswered. > > Could someone please remind me who to ask about the NEW Queue?  It is > causing > me a FTBFS as I need this Build-Depends for an existing package which > itself > has reasonably

Re: [BUMP] r-cran-readstata13 had five weeks in NEW queue for two uploads

2017-10-14 Thread Chris Lamb
Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > The passive-aggressive "we won't work on your package, and won't tell you > why" is a wee bit annoying. This is an uncharitable interpretation of the situation. There is no deliberate witholding of information from you or any other maintainer; I — and the rest of the FT

Re: [BUMP] r-cran-readstata13 had five weeks in NEW queue for two uploads

2017-10-14 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 14 October 2017 at 14:47, James McCoy wrote: | On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 12:59:10PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > | > Bumping this as my mail to ftpmaster went unanswered. | > | > Could someone please remind me who to ask about the NEW Queue? | > [...] | > | > The passive-aggressive "we

Re: [BUMP] r-cran-readstata13 had five weeks in NEW queue for two uploads

2017-10-14 Thread James McCoy
On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 12:59:10PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > Bumping this as my mail to ftpmaster went unanswered. > > Could someone please remind me who to ask about the NEW Queue? > [...] > > The passive-aggressive "we won't work on your package, and won't tell you > why" is a wee bi

Bug#878577: ITP: r-cran-guerry -- maps, data and methods related to Guerry moral statistics

2017-10-14 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: r-cran-guerry Version : 1.6-1 Upstream Author : Michael Friendly, Stephane Dray * URL : https://cran.r-project.org/package=Guerry * License : GPL Programming Lang: GNU R Description :

[BUMP] r-cran-readstata13 had five weeks in NEW queue for two uploads

2017-10-14 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Bumping this as my mail to ftpmaster went unanswered. Could someone please remind me who to ask about the NEW Queue? It is causing me a FTBFS as I need this Build-Depends for an existing package which itself has reasonably wide-spread (for an R package) reverse dependencies. On 12 October 2017

Re: virtualbox-guest-utils as time server.

2017-10-14 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 10:52:04AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Hi Jörg, > > Not related to your question, but: > > On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 08:56:25PM +0200, Jörg Frings-Fürst wrote: > > Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig > > Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut. > > Statusinformationen w

Bug#878513: ITP: libqtdbusmock -- Library for mocking DBus interactions using Qt

2017-10-14 Thread Mike Gabriel
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mike Gabriel * Package name: libqtdbusmock Version : 0.7 Upstream Author : Pete Woods (https://launchpad.net/~pete-woods) * URL : https://launchpad.net/libqtdbusmock * License : LGPL-3 Programming Lang: C++ Descriptio

Re: virtualbox-guest-utils as time server.

2017-10-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 01:54:33PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 10:52:04AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > If you're going to use localisation (which is fine, I do too), then if > > you're trying to ask for help, please get into the habit of reproducing > > the bug u

Re: Mandates explicit -std=c++XY for c++ projects

2017-10-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 09:26:07AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 02:16:36PM +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > > On 10 October 2017 at 14:07, Gert Wollny wrote: > > > I think nobody would object if you set the flag to -std=c++98 for a > > > certain package, especially if u

Re: virtualbox-guest-utils as time server.

2017-10-14 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 10:52:04AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > If you're going to use localisation (which is fine, I do too), then if > you're trying to ask for help, please get into the habit of reproducing > the bug under LC_ALL=C: Unfortunately that doesn't help when you are reporting someth

Re: virtualbox-guest-utils as time server.

2017-10-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi Jörg, Not related to your question, but: On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 08:56:25PM +0200, Jörg Frings-Fürst wrote: > Hello, > > today I update my system I got the following messages: > > [quote] > $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade > Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig > Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut.