Re: Is an autogenerated configure shell script non-editable source

2022-12-09 Thread Bart Martens
On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 11:58:56AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Bart Martens writes: > > > That file may be available online for this particular software. The > > debate is about whether such configure.ac file must be included in the > > distributed package for making th

Re: Is an autogenerated configure shell script non-editable source (Was: Bug#1025739: hmmer2: missing source for configure)

2022-12-09 Thread Bart Martens
On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 04:07:30PM +0100, Alexander Sulfrian wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 01:14:40PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > > I would consider asking upstream about this for sure but the code is in > > maintenance mode and there is no Git repository to step back in history. > >

Re: 'The' timestamp of a snapshot of deb.debian.org

2022-09-18 Thread Bart Martens
On Sun, Sep 18, 2022 at 01:56:14PM +0200, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > Hi Roland, > > Quoting Roland Clobus (2022-09-18 10:58:37) > > I'm looking for 'the' timestamp of the Debian Archive, which will allow me > > to > > virtually travel through time to re-generate a specific state o

Re: Changed Github download URLs are affecting lots of existing watch files

2021-03-27 Thread Bart Martens
On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 12:26:29PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Bart, > > On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 07:38:17AM +0100, Bart Martens wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 11:43:27PM +0100, Yadd wrote: > > > Le 26/03/2021 à 22:38, Andreas Tille a écrit : > > > > An

Re: Please respect Freeze Policy

2014-12-04 Thread Bart Martens
On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 10:00:38AM +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Le jeudi, 4 décembre 2014, 07.46:25 Bart Martens a écrit : > > On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 10:42:54AM +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > > > Le mercredi, 3 décembre 2014, 10.20:32 W. Martin

Re: Please respect Freeze Policy

2014-12-03 Thread Bart Martens
on: Yes, it is OK to use experimental for new upstream releases during the freeze, as mentioned in the freeze policy. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141204074625.gb26...@master.debian.org

Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-29 Thread Bart Martens
license questions applies. Regards, Bart Martens -- 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/20130630050659.ga3...@master.debian.org

Re: parsable copyright format 1.0 (jessie release goals)

2013-05-11 Thread Bart Martens
er spent on developing tools to extract the copyright and license information from the upstream sources, in my opinion. If we develop a really smart tool, then most debian/copyright can be fully generated automatically in a format designed to be well readable by humans. Regards, Bart Mar

Re: epoch fix?

2013-05-08 Thread Bart Martens
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 10:16:28AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 08 mai 2013 à 05:04 +0000, Bart Martens a écrit : > > Michael Biebl wrote : > > > The usage of really (...) that you don't have to fix all r-deps to include > > > the the epoch in the B

Re: epoch fix?

2013-05-07 Thread Bart Martens
's behavior too easily, because that could instantly break those tools if those tools don't use dpkg itself for version comparisons. Peter Green wrote : > Not to mention that just because the debian archive only cares about version > numbers within the last few releases does not mean o

Re: libravatar in the BTS [Re: bugs.debian.org: something's wrong...]

2013-03-20 Thread Bart Martens
sed concerns. Anyhow thanks for your excellent work on the bts. The bts is really important to Debian, so your contributions are making a big difference for Debian. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Re: bugs.debian.org: something's wrong...

2013-03-20 Thread Bart Martens
yesterday..) Since you ask, I suggest to disable it now and enable it later only after opt-in. Regards, Bart Martens -- 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/20130320181719.gg28...@master.debian.org

Re: debian/* license of non-free packages

2013-01-10 Thread Bart Martens
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 01:46:52PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 05:54:28PM +0000, Bart Martens wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 09:29:07AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > Actually, all of those cases are equivalent, and in all of those cases the >

Re: debian/* license of non-free packages

2013-01-10 Thread Bart Martens
that the copyright of any patch submitted without any explicit copyright and license statement is transferred (given) to the copyright holders of the upstream software. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

Re: debian/* license of non-free packages

2013-01-10 Thread Bart Martens
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 08:43:27AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 06:50:57AM +0000, Bart Martens wrote: > > > For the packages I maintain, I now refrain from doing so when the > > > contents of > > > the debian directory are trivial. > &

Re: debian/* license of non-free packages

2013-01-09 Thread Bart Martens
anyone. Nick Andrik's question is about which license can be used for the debian/* files for this non-free package, since he got feedback that the GPL would not be compatible with the non-free license of this upstream software. I guess that http://www.debian.org/misc/bsd.license could be used

Re: Mass bug filling about proprietary code of adobe in our type1 fonts

2012-11-25 Thread Bart Martens
he future release is active. It's nitpicking depending on how serious one takes the DFSG. Bug reports are free to be active whenever they want. Let's not discourage bug reporters by calling them nitpickers and by giving the impression that the bug reports would be less welcome dur

Re: Mass bug filling about proprietary code of adobe in our type1 fonts

2012-11-25 Thread Bart Martens
mitting RC bugs just to get wheezy released sooner, then we would be hiding problems, and we agreed on not doing that in the Social Contract. Let's not discourage submitting new RC bugs but encourage everyone to get RC bugs fixed to get wheezy released. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSU

Re: Mass bug filling about proprietary code of adobe in our type1 fonts

2012-11-25 Thread Bart Martens
we want it out but because we're not allowed to redistribute it, not even in section non-free. Regards, Bart Martens -- 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/20121125140703.ge26...@master.debian.org

off topic (Re: major linux problems summary 2012)

2012-11-04 Thread Bart Martens
for "help and discussion among users of Debian": http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ Regards, Bart Martens -- 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/20121104115056.gb6...@master.debian.org

Re: [PROPOSAL v2] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-11-02 Thread Bart Martens
On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 01:58:28PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 4:48 AM, Bart Martens wrote: > >> wine: http://bugs.debian.org/585409 (new upstream pushed via nmu) > > > > This is a good example where talking helped to gather all views on all

Re: [PROPOSAL v2] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-11-02 Thread Bart Martens
On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 07:10:06PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Bart Martens wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 06:41:24PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > >> Maybe an example will help get us on the same page. Russ seems to > >>

Re: [PROPOSAL v2] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-11-01 Thread Bart Martens
of an issue themselves and that they are given the chance | to review and correct your patch, because they can be expected to be more aware | of potential issues which an NMUer might miss. It is often a better use of | everyone's time if the maintainer is given an opportunity to uplo

Re: [PROPOSAL v2] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-11-01 Thread Bart Martens
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 07:16:56PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Bart Martens wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 09:32:40AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > >> How to solve the following problem: Assume a package with wishlist bugs > &g

Re: [PROPOSAL v2] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-31 Thread Bart Martens
s is "a rather common case" ? Sometimes there are good reasons to not package a newer upstream release, see for example bugs 672568 and 687690. Sometimes the maintainer is simply gone, see for example bug 671890. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@

Re: [PROPOSAL v2] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-27 Thread Bart Martens
r packages which seem abandoned by the maintainer, and to submit ITA-bugs for packages he/she wishes to salvage. Sounds revolutionary, but in reality this is more or less already happening. Thoughts ? Comments ? Am I overlooking something ? Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-26 Thread Bart Martens
#x27;t object to adding a mandatory minimum waiting period, although in some obvious cases it will lead to a pointless delay. Regards, Bart Martens -- 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/20121027041826.ga5...@master.debian.org

Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages - full maintainer without restrictions

2012-10-26 Thread Bart Martens
Allbery and Nikolaus Rath wrote above. When a package is clearly not maintained, then it should be orphaned, so that a new contributor can become full package maintainer without any restrictions on the allowed changes. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-d

Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages - maintainer's objection

2012-10-26 Thread Bart Martens
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 01:58:55PM +0200, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > Le 26/10/2012 08:46, Bart Martens a écrit : > > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 12:45:21PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > >> Gergely Nagy wrote: AIUI, with the current > >> proposal, as long as three DDs think

Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages - no ACKs nor NACKs, timeout, defaulting to no

2012-10-26 Thread Bart Martens
it puts an end to it, > which the current proposal doesn't.) I would not object against including this in the text. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listma

Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages - need for ACKs, default no orphaning

2012-10-26 Thread Bart Martens
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 09:59:16AM +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote: > Bart Martens writes: > > >> > I think that sufficient DDs will review the ITOs. Note that most work is > >> > already done by the ITO submitter. Sponsoring a package at mentors > >> > (

Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages - goal

2012-10-26 Thread Bart Martens
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 04:12:03PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 10/26/2012 01:09 PM, Bart Martens wrote: > >I expect the cc to debian-qa to draw sufficient DD's attention. > >And the ACKs are about agreeing on marking a package as orphaned. > >That's the easy pa

Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages - sponsoring

2012-10-26 Thread Bart Martens
the non-DD can adopt the package with full maintainership. Much easier to sponsor. Regards, Bart Martens -- 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/20121026071211.gm10...@master.debian.org

Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages - liberal NMUs

2012-10-25 Thread Bart Martens
k obviously unmaintained packages as orphaned. If you want NMUs to be more liberal, then please write a proposal for modifying the NMU procedure and feel free to discuss it in a separate thread. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages - maintainer's objection

2012-10-25 Thread Bart Martens
> >to > >filing an ITO. > > AIUI, with the current proposal, as long as three DDs think it should be > orphaned, the maintainer's objection is irrelevant. I would send a "NACK because the maintainer objects", and I trust other DDs subscribed to debian-qa to do the

Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages - only for obvious cases

2012-10-25 Thread Bart Martens
ntion which I am > prepared to commit to providing". It's quite another to say "this > package is in need of attention but I'm not going to do anything other > than say it's a problem". It is, in my opinion, also useful to identify problems even without solving th

Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages - getting orphaned packages marked as such

2012-10-25 Thread Bart Martens
a developer who notices the problem; > - a prospective maintainer. I fully agree with all the above with "s/developer/person/". Regards, Bart Martens -- 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/20121026063112.gi10...@master.debian.org

Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages - skipping pointless delay

2012-10-25 Thread Bart Martens
or objections For how long ? The proposal includes collecting ACKs so that any pointless delay can be skipped, resulting in the package being salvaged sooner. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages - without objection versus requiring ACKs

2012-10-25 Thread Bart Martens
pproach allows to reach a consensus in a shorter time, so that for obvious cases the salvaging can proceed without pointless delay. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas.

Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages - need for sufficient ACKs

2012-10-25 Thread Bart Martens
th, did not > receive enough ACKs, but nobody NACKed, you can still proceed. I join Steve L. with wanting a consensus, so the package can be orphaned only when there are sufficient ACKs. I expect the cc to debian-qa to draw sufficient attention from DDs, so I don't expect any problem with th

Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages - delay for maintainer to react

2012-10-25 Thread Bart Martens
e "two activities" as explained here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/10/msg00261.html Regards, Bart Martens -- 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/20121026055602.ge10...@master.debian.org

Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-25 Thread Bart Martens
oser to a consensus on the proposal. The proposal is about an "intent to orphan", which is in obvious cases easy to find a consensus on. The real salvaging (the hard work) happens via the existing ITA procedure. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@list

Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-25 Thread Bart Martens
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 01:50:10PM +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote: > Bart Martens writes: > > On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 01:58:16PM +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote: > >> Steve Langasek writes: > >> > >> > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 02:40:39PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wr

Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-25 Thread Bart Martens
o more work. I expect the cc to debian-qa to draw sufficient DD's attention. And the ACKs are about agreeing on marking a package as orphaned. That's the easy part. The salvaging part goes via the existing ITA procedure. That's the hard part. Regards, Bart Martens -- 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/20121026050907.gb10...@master.debian.org

Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-24 Thread Bart Martens
ntainance longer, decreasing the distributions overall > quality. It's not so complicated to find three DDs to agree with the ITO. > > As said elsewhere in the thread, the process needs to be easy and > efficient. Hunting ACKs is neither easy, nor efficient. The proposed text is

Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-24 Thread Bart Martens
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 02:59:09PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 10/24/2012 11:55 AM, Bart Martens wrote: > >On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 01:40:16PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > >>>I fear a bit the situation "nobody care enough to comment", being > >>>

Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-23 Thread Bart Martens
's then incumbent on the person looking > to orphan the package to rattle the cage and get developers to pay > attention. I agree with Steve on this. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-23 Thread Bart Martens
package. After all, We should prioritize the > distribution's quality higher than the ownership of packages. I'm with Lucas on this. > > - > > [1] Original thread on salvaging packages on -devel@ > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/09/m

Re: Hijacking^W^W^W^W^W^WSalvaging packages for fun and profit: A proposal

2012-10-14 Thread Bart Martens
ntal overlap. > > With that done, I do not see the point of waiting an extra month. I don't know where to look for such signal for non-DDs. I think that we should still allow one month delay in less obvious cases. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-req

Re: Hijacking^W^W^W^W^W^WSalvaging packages for fun and profit: A proposal

2012-10-14 Thread Bart Martens
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 08:20:36AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 11/10/12 at 05:50 +0000, Bart Martens wrote: > > And the maintainer does not respond within one month after the the third > > second. > > I'm not sure about this delay. This procedure should be used f

Re: Hijacking^W^W^W^W^W^WSalvaging packages for fun and profit: A proposal

2012-10-14 Thread Bart Martens
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 11:27:03AM +0200, Arno Töll wrote: > Hi, > > On 11.10.2012 07:50, Bart Martens wrote: > >> - the submitter of the "intent to orphan" bug must Cc > >> debian...@lists.debian.org, and file the bug with severity:serious (this > &

Re: Hijacking^W^W^W^W^W^WSalvaging packages for fun and profit: A proposal

2012-10-14 Thread Bart Martens
animous consensus, and taking it to the TC in other cases. (I wrote something similar in my previous message.) > I don't think we should introduce > voting on the quality of other DD's package maintenance. Actually I don't see any problem with peer reviews. As long as the quality of

Re: Hijacking^W^W^W^W^W^WSalvaging packages for fun and profit: A proposal

2012-10-14 Thread Bart Martens
proposer does not manage to attract support or even positive comments, > then >it either signals unwritten problems, or it asks the question whether the > package >should really stay in Debian. I'm OK with adding an expiration date or a maximum duration. What maximum durati

Re: Hijacking^W^W^W^W^W^WSalvaging packages for fun and profit: A proposal

2012-10-10 Thread Bart Martens
case of backfire, people following the procedure would have the > backing of a recommended procedure described in a semi-official document. I agree that the procedure should at least be included in developers-reference. I have no strong opinion on whether a GR would be needed. > > So, an

Re: Hijacking^W^W^W^W^W^WSalvaging packages for fun and profit: A proposal

2012-10-01 Thread Bart Martens
judge between an unwanted hijack and a welcome salvage. Regards, Bart Martens -- 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/20121001110005.gd3...@master.debian.org

Re: Hijacking^W^W^W^W^W^WSalvaging packages for fun and profit: A proposal

2012-09-30 Thread Bart Martens
creation of a review community for > these kind of actions on -qa. Mumble mumble... Posting them on -qa sounds like a good idea to me. Can you elaborate on that "side-effect" ? I don't understand that part. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: Hijacking^W^W^W^W^W^WSalvaging packages for fun and profit: A proposal

2012-09-28 Thread Bart Martens
d. After the package is orphaned, the rest of the "salvaging" fits in the existing procedures. Regards, Bart Martens -- 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/20120928175223.ga2...@master.debian.org

dm upload permissions

2012-09-28 Thread Bart Martens
ntainer or Uploaders. Regards, Bart Martens -- 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/20120928085341.gb8...@master.debian.org

Re: mass bug filing about packages with empty /usr/share/doc/$package/ (no copyright file)?

2012-09-21 Thread Bart Martens
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 02:35:40PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > On 2012-09-16 18:36, Bart Martens wrote: > >> I'm offering help, but only for part of the work : I could write a perl > >> script > >> that periodically scans the logfiles and submits additional

Re: mass bug filing about packages with empty /usr/share/doc/$package/ (no copyright file)?

2012-09-16 Thread Bart Martens
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 01:57:04PM +, Bart Martens wrote: > On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 03:12:09PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > > I'm afraid I don't have the time right now to thoroughly analyze these > > logs and report all the bugs, so some help would be welcome. &g

Re: mass bug filing about packages with empty /usr/share/doc/$package/ (no copyright file)?

2012-09-16 Thread Bart Martens
> during a test with piuparts I noticed your package misses the copyright > file after an upgrade from squeeze to wheezy, which is a violation of > Policy 12.5: > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s-copyrightfile > > After the upgrade /usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE/

support request (Re: volume control not working:debian 6.0.4)

2012-09-09 Thread Bart Martens
k : http://www.debian.org/support Regards, Bart Martens -- 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/20120910054854.ga1...@master.debian.org

Re: Some doubts about patching

2012-07-28 Thread Bart Martens
so, my key is not in keyring.debian.org, > is there a problem? Anyone can report a bug without signature. Regards, Bart Martens -- 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/20120728094825.gf6...@master.debian.org

Re: intent to orphan zynaddsubfx

2012-07-27 Thread Bart Martens
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 10:01:08AM +0200, Alessio Treglia wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Bart Martens wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I intend to orphan zynaddsubfx. Before doing that I invite two additional > > DD's > > to conf

intent to orphan zynaddsubfx

2012-07-26 Thread Bart Martens
is prod for 997d 2009-11-08: ok for 6m; left only only zynaddsubfx Regards, Bart Martens -- 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/20120727055804.gb29...@master.debian.org

Re: "Hijacking packages for fun and profit" BoF at DebConf

2012-07-21 Thread Bart Martens
tainer. Anyone can submit this "intent to orphan". At least three DD's second the "intent to orphan" on the same bug report with a cc to the maintainer. And the maintainer does not respond within one month after the the third second. Comments ? Reg

Re: "Hijacking packages for fun and profit" BoF at DebConf

2012-07-20 Thread Bart Martens
point I don't see enough reasons to limit or end the ability of any DD to upload any package. Other than all the above, I have read interesting ideas on objective criteria in Steve McIntyre's report. Basically my point of this e-mail is that I welcome a debate on changi

Re: Concerns and Challenges of Squeeze and Ongoing Elements

2012-07-03 Thread Bart Martens
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 08:50:20PM -0400, John L. Males wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ladies and Gentlemen, I replied to John in detail via a private e-mail. Summary : I suggested John to report every problem via bug reports. Regards, Bart Mart

Re: Improving our response to "duplicate" packages in Debian

2012-06-28 Thread Bart Martens
ression is that consensus is growing towards what Guus wrote. But this impression may be colored by the fact that I happen to agree with what Guus wrote. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: Improving our response to "duplicate" packages in Debian

2012-06-28 Thread Bart Martens
epen wrote is quite reasonable and good for Debian. An ITP is, in my opinion, just an "intent to package", and thereby only an intent to take responsibility on the maintenance of the mentioned package. Anyone can do the effort to find good reasons to object against the ITP, and that is O

Re: duplicates in the archive

2012-06-25 Thread Bart Martens
t; package we already have. Anyone can do the analysis of comparing alternatives already in Debian. > Triaging bugs requires that the bugs are > tested for validity before spending more time on the fix. No point > putting the wrong fix into the archive. True. > > However, I

Re: duplicates in the archive

2012-06-24 Thread Bart Martens
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 10:18:00PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 20:48:43 + > Bart Martens wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 10:21:39PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > Le dimanche 24 juin 2012 à 20:42 +0200, Arno Töll a écrit : >

Re: duplicates in the archive

2012-06-24 Thread Bart Martens
l maintained and all used, then 43 is acceptable, in my opinion. Regards, Bart Martens -- 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/20120624204843.ga22...@master.debian.org

Re: duplicates in the archive

2012-06-24 Thread Bart Martens
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 08:48:48PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 18:45:54 + > Bart Martens wrote: > > > About allowing new packages in Debian in general : On the one hand you have > > a > > point that Debian should not collect any free

Re: duplicates in the archive

2012-06-24 Thread Bart Martens
t it is OK to have multiple implementations of the same/similar functionality in Debian, and over time the popcon stats may indicate that a newer package wins over an older package. It is, in my opinion, not always possible to judge the potential of a package before it has been in De

Re: pre-MIA quest for Patrick Winnertz (winnie-at-d.o)

2012-05-31 Thread Bart Martens
ot sure but I don't think that the MIA team would orphan italc, because Patrick Winnertz is not MIA. It would be nice to get some feedback from Patrick Winnertz about this. First priority is to fix the FTBFS bug 671489. If you intend to update italc to the newest upstream release, then plea

Re: MIA check: Patrick Winnertz

2012-05-26 Thread Bart Martens
's an upload on 16 November 2011: http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/lustre/news/2016T130707Z.html Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Ar

Re: BTS and the missing 'invalid' tag

2009-06-21 Thread Bart Martens
to mark something as "I will not fix" if actually > there's nothing to fix. +1 > I'm curious to know how other maintainers have > addressed such cases in BTS. A workarond is using the tag "wontfix" combined with retitling the bug to something general like "

Re: Let’ s turn DEP5 into something useful

2009-06-13 Thread Bart Martens
r for machines to read debian/copyright and more on machines generating a human-readable debian/copyright. The program "licensecheck" in package "devscripts" is a good start to find licenses. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: tarball in tarball: opinions

2008-07-05 Thread Bart Martens
n update package foo-1.2.3-4 to foo-1.2.3+debian-1 or something similar. > > Advice welcome. My advice is that you use the packaging style conforming to debian-policy that you feel most comfortable with. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: packages up for adoption

2008-05-22 Thread Bart Martens
On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 13:36 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Bart Martens wrote: > > Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'll no longer be maintaining the following packages. I plan to orphan > > > them next week and hope to find new maintainers fo

Re: packages up for adoption

2008-05-22 Thread Bart Martens
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll no longer be maintaining the following packages. I plan to orphan > them next week and hope to find new maintainers for them before then. > > aalib I'll adopt aalib. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

let's not yet hijack this package (Re: Intend to hijack xchat-xsys)

2008-03-12 Thread Bart Martens
more listened on BTS. > If you have fixes for existing bugs in the bts, then please post the fixes to the bts. Regards, Bart Martens signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Is Davide Puricelli MIA?

2008-01-08 Thread Bart Martens
extensions [2] that aren't compatible with that > > version of Chicken anymore. > > Hi Ivan, > > I'm not MIA (I still read -devel and I follow the project life), but > you're right, I'm not really active in the packages field. > > I'm planning

Re: Proposed consensus: reporting lintian overrides

2008-01-05 Thread Bart Martens
hing else like this > that comes up later, if we have anything). Great, I'll use that -q option. > > Does that sound consistent with the sentiments on the thread to everyone? No objection from me. Thanks for asking debian-devel for opinions. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Opinions needed: reporting lintian overrides

2008-01-02 Thread Bart Martens
for this > feature one way or the other. Here are the options: > > * Show the N: line with a count of overrides per package by default and > provide an option to suppress this output if someone wants. > > * Don't show the N: line by default and provide an option to turn

use of "Uploaders:" field for team maintained packages

2007-10-20 Thread Bart Martens
ers:" per package maintained by the team. It more accurately reflects who's caring about the packages. Other opinions? Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-23 Thread Bart Martens
edssponsor.html This list shows only packages - sitting at Mentors, - with a newer version at Mentors than in Debian unstable, - with an ITP or ITA. So this list does not include packages with RFS messages on debian-mentors. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit access to webwml files (Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams)

2007-05-30 Thread Bart Martens
agree with giving cvs commit access to the webwml files to all DD's, or, to encourage all DD's to request that access. Regards, Bart Martens > I would also like the project to move away from CVS and > use something more friendly that can effectively enable bigger changes &g

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-27 Thread Bart Martens
On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 13:31 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 11:58:54PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 11:20:53PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > > On Saturday 26 May 2007 23:07, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > > > and the debian-www team is recovering from th

Re: packages newer in Ubuntu than in Debian

2007-05-10 Thread Bart Martens
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 19:47 +0200, Amir Tabatabaei wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 08:01 +0200, Bart Martens wrote: > > Should be better now. If you still see false positives, then I'm very > > interested. > > There is no gaim in unstable any more, but

Re: packages newer in Ubuntu than in Debian (reduced false positives)

2007-05-10 Thread Bart Martens
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 18:07 +1000, Paul Wise wrote: > On 5/10/07, Bart Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Should be better now. > > http://people.debian.org/~bartm/borg/outdated.html > > Excellent. For even more usefulness points, this could be integrat

Re: packages newer in Ubuntu than in Debian (reduced false positives)

2007-05-10 Thread Bart Martens
tly repored. [0] http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/picard.html [1] http://people.debian.org/~bartm/borg/outdated.html [2] http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html Regards, Bart Martens signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: packages newer in Ubuntu than in Debian (reduced false positives)

2007-05-09 Thread Bart Martens
On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 08:14 +0200, Bart Martens wrote: > On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 23:16 -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Bart Martens] > > > I've thought about adding an column for the versions in experimental, > > > but that is not a high priority to me because

Re: packages newer in Ubuntu than in Debian

2007-05-09 Thread Bart Martens
On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 12:16 +0200, Bart Martens wrote: > On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 11:57 +0200, Bart Martens wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 11:49 +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > > * Bart Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-05-01 11:21]: > > > > Another app

Re: Bug#422137: ITP: 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 -- l33t h4x0r numb3r

2007-05-06 Thread Bart Martens
iced that there's a typo in your "fingerprint" mentioned in your e-mail signature. It should be 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0, right? You might want to fix that, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Are popcon stats per package and arch possible?

2007-05-05 Thread Bart Martens
On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 10:40 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Michael Hanke] > > I wonder whether it is possible to get information about which > > package is installed/used on a particular architecture. > > It is possible, but it isn't done at the moment. We do not store the > data needed to

Re: packages newer in Ubuntu than in Debian (reduced false positives)

2007-05-03 Thread Bart Martens
On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 23:16 -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > [Bart Martens] > > I've thought about adding an column for the versions in experimental, > > but that is not a high priority to me because this does not change > > that Debian Unstable is outdated for the li

Re: packages newer in Ubuntu than in Debian (reduced false positives)

2007-05-01 Thread Bart Martens
On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 20:36 +0200, Luca Capello wrote: > Hello! > > On Tue, 01 May 2007 14:02:16 +0200, Bart Martens wrote: > > I have updated the list to hide packages with identical upstream > > version numbers but with different epochs. This might hide some > > rea

wxwidgets2.8 (Re: packages newer in Ubuntu than in Debian)

2007-05-01 Thread Bart Martens
On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 21:28 +0200, "Adam Cécile (Le_Vert)" wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Bart Martens a écrit : > > Hi Package Maintainers (DD's and non-DD's), > > > > Now that Etch is released to stable, many

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