On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 04:00:51PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Instead, tools grew to tolerate commas here rather than treat them as
> separators (because they would mishandle the erroneous packages).
Is this the main problem with fixing the Policy? Does someone have a plan
with this?
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WBR, wRA
On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 03:19:51PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > > As just someone who mostly maintains one package (fio - flexible I/O
> > > tester) I can certainly understand how you feel about that Lucas
> > > removed you as a maintainer.
> >
> > But that didn't happen, unless you put di
On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 05:13:08PM +0200, Alex Mestiashvili wrote:
> Team maintained packages usually have team's name and mailing list in
> the "Maintainer:" field and possibly multiple "Uploaders:".
Sure. And either they convey some info with that (like Python teams do) or
not.
And somebody might
Hello,
On Wed, Apr 18 2018, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Personally I would prefer to manage maintainership via a separate
> database to the archive, perhaps tracker. Something would have to
> automatically generate Maintainer and/or Uploaders for the benefit of
> old consumers.
I think we all want thi
Sean Whitton writes ("Re: problems in gjots2 and Debian"):
> [stuff]
I don't object to any of that.
Personally I would prefer to manage maintainership via a separate
database to the archive, perhaps tracker. Something would have to
automatically generate Maintainer and/or
Hello Ian,
On Wed, Apr 18 2018, Ian Jackson wrote:
> IMO it would be better to abolish Uploaders in favour of fixing the
> original spec bug in Maintainers. Also, easier, because as a
> practical matter, there is a lot of software that will fail if it
> fails to find a Maintainer field but won't
On 04/18/2018 05:01 PM, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2018-04-18 at 10:53, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2018-04-18 at 10:45 -0400, The Wanderer wrote
>>
>>> On 2018-04-18 at 05:55, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
>
But that didn't happen, unless you put different meaning into
Maintainer a
Am Mittwoch, den 18.04.2018, 14:55 +0500 schrieb Andrey Rahmatullin:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 11:23:23AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > As just someone who mostly maintains one package (fio - flexible
> > I/O tester) I can certainly understand how you feel about that
> > Lucas removed you as
The Wanderer writes ("Re: problems in gjots2 and Debian"):
> If it really is intended that the listed Maintainer be on an equal
> footing with any and all listed Uploaders, and there's no semantic
> difference between these fields - just the arbitrary limitation that one
&
On 2018-04-18 at 10:53, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-04-18 at 10:45 -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
>
>> On 2018-04-18 at 05:55, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
>>> But that didn't happen, unless you put different meaning into
>>> Maintainer and Uploaders.
>>
>> If you don't assign different mea
The Wanderer writes ("Re: problems in gjots2 and Debian"):
> On 2018-04-18 at 05:55, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> > But that didn't happen, unless you put different meaning into
> > Maintainer and Uploaders.
>
> If you don't assign different meanings to &qu
On Wed, 2018-04-18 at 10:45 -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2018-04-18 at 05:55, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 11:23:23AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> >
> > > As just someone who mostly maintains one package (fio - flexible
> > > I/O tester) I can certainly underst
On 2018-04-18 at 05:55, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 11:23:23AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
>
>> As just someone who mostly maintains one package (fio - flexible
>> I/O tester) I can certainly understand how you feel about that
>> Lucas removed you as a maintainer.
>
Hi Andrey.
Andrey Rahmatullin - 18.04.18, 11:55:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 11:23:23AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > As just someone who mostly maintains one package (fio - flexible I/O
> > tester) I can certainly understand how you feel about that Lucas
> > removed you as a maintainer.
>
>
Rolf,
you have made your point about the conflict that arose about a package
which you may or may not have been maintaining. Fair enough.
However, from your last two messages, it seems to me that you feel
wronged by active members on this mailing list in quite a few ways
beyond what has been happ
On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 11:23:23AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> As just someone who mostly maintains one package (fio - flexible I/O
> tester) I can certainly understand how you feel about that Lucas removed
> you as a maintainer.
But that didn't happen, unless you put different meaning in
Dear Rolf.
Rolf Leggewie - 18.04.18, 07:19:
[…]
> @ALL, it seems like no matter what I say, no matter how I explain my
> reasons, I cannot convince quite a number of people. So, I plan not
> to waste my time on trying anymore. Steve is much better of getting
> to the relevant points anyhow. I c
On 18.04.2018 13:19, Rolf Leggewie wrote:
> I get all this for maintaining a number of packages for 10+ years in
> Debian
BTW, one of the first packages if not THE first package was gjots2. And
I had to go through a lengthy and cumbersome MIA process to take over.
Seems like the rules do not app
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