Re: Questions about testing

2001-01-02 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 07:03:44AM +, John O Sullivan wrote: > On Tue, 02 Jan 2001 05:38:36 Branden Robinson wrote: > > I don't have any concrete recommendations for how to take this into > > account, but I certainly think that a 14-day waiting period for > > packages like these is excessive.

Re: Questions about testing

2001-01-02 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, John O Sullivan wrote: > On a slightly related topic, packages that are updated everyday are a > big headache for those of us that are living at the end of a modem, > because we have to update many 10's of packages a day == lots of > downloading. Its not a problem these days, b

Re: Questions about testing

2001-01-02 Thread John O Sullivan
On Tue, 02 Jan 2001 05:38:36 Branden Robinson wrote: > > Consider that when I manage to hork up X, I know about it within > hours of > dinstall. Likewise, a few days ago when Wichert busted the vim > postinst, > he was told about it quite fast indeed. > > I don't have any concrete recommendation

Re: Questions about testing

2001-01-01 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 02:15:29PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > The idea is that for a package to get into testing it should: > > * be synchronised across architectures > * have all its dependencies met, and not break the dependencies > of other packages > * not have any

Re: Questions about testing

2001-01-01 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 02:04:51PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >>"Anthony" == Anthony Towns writes: > Anthony> Well, even Joey Hess has slipped up in his religious debconf > Anthony> uploads and had four or five delays longer than a fortnight > Anthony> between updates. Basically, though,

Re: Questions about testing

2001-01-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Anthony" == Anthony Towns writes: Anthony> Well, even Joey Hess has slipped up in his religious debconf Anthony> uploads and had four or five delays longer than a fortnight Anthony> between updates. Basically, though, at some point the Anthony> maintainer has to decide "I'm happy with this

Re: Questions about testing

2000-12-31 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 01:22:32AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > then you need to either update sparc and alpha, or you need to bug the > ftpadmins to remove the binaries from those architectures if the package Actually If I look at the ftp.denian.org Bug List there are quite a lot of open bugs, a

Re: Questions about testing

2000-12-31 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 12:14:01PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > 1. What arches are required (supposing the package is arch: any) so that >the package can go in testing ? Is arm required ? It's a little more dynamic than that, actually. Basically, all you need to do is make sure that the pac

Questions about testing

2000-12-31 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, now that testing is in place I have several questions and remarks. Maybe it would be great to put such a FAQ (I remember seeing a short one on DWN) somewhere online with a link from the developers corner on the website. 1. What arches are required (supposing the package is arch: any) so that