Re: Important: Non-maintainer release flame!

1998-06-16 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
>Ian, should non-maintainer releases be allowed into frozen/unstable >without checking with the maintainer first? this is nothing where ian needs to do a statement : people should behave and help each other. in this case there was good will, but bad behaviour (i guess). please both : cool down a

Re: Important: Non-maintainer release flame!

1998-06-16 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
>Perhaps clearer guidelines on this would be useful. no ! people are not good at following guidelines. but computers are. so we need to move some thing to automatic stuff. something like a cvs server or so could help. andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: Important: Non-maintainer release flame!

1998-06-16 Thread Joel Klecker
At 16:10 -0700 1998-06-15, Dermot John Bradley wrote: >Joel as you can see from the CC: headers above this email is going out to >more than just yourself. The point(s) I'm making below I consider to be >important to the Debian project as a whole. > >As can be seen from bug #23367, you sent me an em

Re: Important: Non-maintainer release flame!

1998-06-16 Thread Johnie Ingram
"Dermot" == Dermot John Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dermot> I now see that you have uploaded a non-maintainer release of Dermot> this new version to master.debian.org! To be blunt I'm pissed Dermot> about this...indeed this is *not* the first time someone has Dermot> decided to do a non-m

Re: Important: Non-maintainer release flame!

1998-06-15 Thread Raul Miller
Dermot John Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought that a non-maintainer release was normally only done where > either a security hole needed to be fixed quickly or where a serious > problem existed with a package that the maintainer had not fixed for some > time. The previous version was

Important: Non-maintainer release flame!

1998-06-15 Thread Dermot John Bradley
Joel as you can see from the CC: headers above this email is going out to more than just yourself. The point(s) I'm making below I consider to be important to the Debian project as a whole. As can be seen from bug #23367, you sent me an email to tell me there was a newer version of gd than the mos