Re: MBF: switching away from homepage pseudo-header

2011-02-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
[ adding -qa for the neglected-packages-busting part ] On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 03:59:33PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > My own reading of this thread is that we can go ahead with this MBF. > You can find attached the template and actual package list, ready for > mass-bug invocation. Barring n

Re: MBF: switching away from homepage pseudo-header

2011-02-14 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 13 février 2011 à 17:57 +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit : > IMHO one upload per Debian release with a recent Standards-Version > should be done for every package. It shows that the maintainer is > active and continues to be interested in the package. Given that our > release cycle is >

Re: MBF: switching away from homepage pseudo-header

2011-02-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:23:46PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > > PS lintian has a warning-level tag about that [2], which reports 250 > >packages vs 279 reported by my script. I'll check where the > >differences come from before actually reporting the bugs. > > > Isn't the lintian warni

Re: MBF: switching away from homepage pseudo-header

2011-02-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 02:36:02PM +0100, Luca Capello wrote: > >> That might also be a sign of packages lacking love, maybe some of them > >> should be orphaned or dropped instead? I used the "Missing homepage field in debian/control" on the Blends tasks pages to enable some QA work which finally

Re: MBF: switching away from homepage pseudo-header

2011-02-13 Thread Luca Capello
Hi there! On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 12:31:54 +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:27:34PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> Stefano Zacchiroli (13/02/2011): >> > I hereby propose a mass bug filing, severity minor, requesting >> > migration to the proper debian/control field.

Re: MBF: switching away from homepage pseudo-header

2011-02-13 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:27:34PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Stefano Zacchiroli (13/02/2011): > > I hereby propose a mass bug filing, severity minor, requesting > > migration to the proper debian/control field. > > That might also be a sign of packages lacking love, maybe some of them > sho

Re: MBF: switching away from homepage pseudo-header

2011-02-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Stefano Zacchiroli (13/02/2011): > I hereby propose a mass bug filing, severity minor, requesting > migration to the proper debian/control field. That might also be a sign of packages lacking love, maybe some of them should be orphaned or dropped instead? KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digit

Re: MBF: switching away from homepage pseudo-header

2011-02-13 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:12:51 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > PS lintian has a warning-level tag about that [2], which reports 250 >packages vs 279 reported by my script. I'll check where the >differences come from before actually reporting the bugs. > Isn't the lintian warning enou

MBF: switching away from homepage pseudo-header

2011-02-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Upgrading my own server to Squeeze, I've stumbled upon some stats that I've been maintaining for quite a while. One of them is about how Debian packages declare upstream homepage, by using either the old "Homepage" pseudo-header in package description or the new field as per policy §5.6.23, or both