Re: Purpose and policy of the future backports.debian.org.

2010-06-30 Thread Joey Hess
Alexander Wirt wrote: > I'm strongly against that. I want packages properly tested and in your own > interest you should wait for testing migration of your packages. (of course > there can be exception, but not in general). > > I want well tested packages in bpo (which means tested by users, not

Re: Purpose and policy of the future backports.debian.org.

2010-06-30 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Bernd Zeimetz 2010-06-30 <4c2b6f9b.8030...@bzed.de> > > I have another question: backports-user is quite high traffic, but to upload > > backports it is required to be subscribed. Will this change for > > backports.debian.org? Will the users be invited to use the BTS? > > 80 messages in a mont

Re: Purpose and policy of the future backports.debian.org.

2010-06-30 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 06/30/2010 02:53 PM, Charles Plessy wrote: > Hello again, > > I have another question: backports-user is quite high traffic, but to upload > backports it is required to be subscribed. Will this change for > backports.debian.org? Will the users be invited to use the BTS? 80 messages in a month

Re: Purpose and policy of the future backports.debian.org.

2010-06-30 Thread Alexander Wirt
Charles Plessy schrieb am Wednesday, den 30. June 2010: > Hello again, > > I have another question: backports-user is quite high traffic, but to upload > backports it is required to be subscribed. Will this change for > backports.debian.org? Will the users be invited to use the BTS? Not, currentl

Re: Purpose and policy of the future backports.debian.org.

2010-06-30 Thread Charles Plessy
Hello again, I have another question: backports-user is quite high traffic, but to upload backports it is required to be subscribed. Will this change for backports.debian.org? Will the users be invited to use the BTS? Cheers, -- Charles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.

Re: Purpose and policy of the future backports.debian.org.

2010-06-30 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Andrei Popescu [2010-06-30 13:10:20 CEST]: > On Mi, 30 iun 10, 12:58:25, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > I'm strongly against that. I want packages properly tested and in your own > > interest you should wait for testing migration of your packages. (of course > > there can be exception, but not in gen

Re: Purpose and policy of the future backports.debian.org.

2010-06-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 30 iun 10, 13:18:59, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > > > Maybe the backports upload queue could automatically put the package on > > hold until the unstable package has migrated to testing. > Send patches :) Sorry, should have mentioned it's just an ideea of mine and I posted it for the benef

Re: Purpose and policy of the future backports.debian.org.

2010-06-30 Thread Alexander Wirt
Andrei Popescu schrieb am Wednesday, den 30. June 2010: > On Mi, 30 iun 10, 12:58:25, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > Charles Plessy schrieb am Wednesday, den 30. June 2010: > > > > > > When I asked about relaxing the rules, I was in particular thinking about > > > upload of backports prepared by the o

Re: Purpose and policy of the future backports.debian.org.

2010-06-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 30 iun 10, 12:58:25, Alexander Wirt wrote: > Charles Plessy schrieb am Wednesday, den 30. June 2010: > > > > When I asked about relaxing the rules, I was in particular thinking about > > upload of backports prepared by the original maintainer, before testing > > migration. For instance in s

Re: Purpose and policy of the future backports.debian.org.

2010-06-30 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 19:47:52 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > When I asked about relaxing the rules, I was in particular thinking about > upload of backports prepared by the original maintainer, before testing > migration. I, for one, certainly hope this one won't be relaxed. Cheers, Julien

Re: Purpose and policy of the future backports.debian.org.

2010-06-30 Thread Alexander Wirt
Charles Plessy schrieb am Wednesday, den 30. June 2010: Hi, *snip* > Thanks for the fast answer! > > First of all, I would like to make clear that I am not trying to bikeshed > xulrunner: I am more self-centered than this and was only thinking on how to > use backports.debian.org for the Debia

Re: Purpose and policy of the future backports.debian.org.

2010-06-30 Thread Charles Plessy
> > The current upload policy is well adapted to the fact that a backport can be > > maintained by a different person from the official package maintainers. But > > when backports are prepared by the same team as the main package, can the > > rules > > be relaxed ? > I don't understand this questi

Re: Purpose and policy of the future backports.debian.org.

2010-06-29 Thread Alexander Wirt
Hi, > Dear Alexander, backport.org people, and everybody, > > If I understand correctly, it is planned to incorporate the backports.org > service as an official Debian repository. Thats true. > > I would like to know if the policy of use for backports.debian.org has already > been discussed, d