Re: Re: less is somehow in a sour state

2010-08-02 Thread Fabian Greffrath
I don't see how you can really have packages maintained by more than one person. I reckon the always has to be one person responsible. So I was wondering exactly what extra privileges those persons would have. -- To

Re: less is somehow in a sour state

2010-08-02 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mo, 02 Aug 2010, Nicholas Bamber wrote: > I don't see how you can really have packages maintained by more than one > person. I reckon the always has to be one person responsible. So I was Google that for me??? http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/PackagingProject http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Col

Re: less is somehow in a sour state

2010-08-02 Thread Nicholas Bamber
I don't see how you can really have packages maintained by more than one person. I reckon the always has to be one person responsible. So I was wondering exactly what extra privileges those persons would have. Norbert Preining wrote: On Mo, 02 Aug 2010, Nicholas Bamber wrote: So you would w

Re: less is somehow in a sour state

2010-08-02 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mo, 02 Aug 2010, Nicholas Bamber wrote: > So you would want an extra control field "extra-contacts" being a list > of emails that would receive the same emails as the maintainer but would > have no special privileges with respect to uploading or ownership of the > package except possibly t

Re: less is somehow in a sour state

2010-08-02 Thread Nicholas Bamber
So you would want an extra control field "extra-contacts" being a list of emails that would receive the same emails as the maintainer but would have no special privileges with respect to uploading or ownership of the package except possibly to orphan the package in some circumstances. Or perhap

Re: less is somehow in a sour state

2010-08-01 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 06:46:44PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > No, *cc:ing* the maintainer on a mail sent to *debian-devel* does not make > it clear that the question is directed *at the maintainer*. Formally you are right, but I would consider a maintainer as "not really interested" if he miss

Re: less is somehow in a sour state

2010-07-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 10:40:21AM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Fr, 30 Jul 2010, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 10:15:52AM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > > > On Fr, 30 Jul 2010, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > > Is there any plan to update less sooner or later, or is an NM

Re: less is somehow in a sour state

2010-07-30 Thread Norbert Preining
On Fr, 30 Jul 2010, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 10:15:52AM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > > On Fr, 30 Jul 2010, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > Is there any plan to update less sooner or later, or is an NMU including > > > > the patch for #572228 acceptable? > > > > I don't thi

Re: less is somehow in a sour state

2010-07-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 10:15:52AM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Fr, 30 Jul 2010, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > Is there any plan to update less sooner or later, or is an NMU including > > > the patch for #572228 acceptable? > > I don't think you should NMU for a wishlist bug without explicit

Re: less is somehow in a sour state

2010-07-30 Thread Norbert Preining
On Fr, 30 Jul 2010, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Is there any plan to update less sooner or later, or is an NMU including > > the patch for #572228 acceptable? > > I don't think you should NMU for a wishlist bug without explicit consent of > the maintainer. Yes, and? That is the reason why I asked i

Re: less is somehow in a sour state

2010-07-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 07:26:06PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > One of the most used programs for me at least is less, but it is > in a sour state. Since ages no updates, the BTS contains patches for > eg supporting xz. > Is there any plan to update less sooner or later, or is an NMU including

Re: less is somehow in a sour state

2010-07-29 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 07:26:06PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > Is there any plan to update less sooner or later, or is an NMU including Instead of just doing random NMUs I'd suggest to move it under group maintenance svn://svn.debian.org/svn/collab-maint/deb-maint/less/trunk/ Anibal, wou

Re: less is somehow in a sour state

2010-07-29 Thread LI Daobing
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 18:26, Norbert Preining wrote: > One of the most used programs for me at least is less, but it is > in a sour state. Since ages no updates, the BTS contains patches for > eg supporting xz. > > Is there any plan to update less sooner or later, or is an NMU including > the pa