Re: Some questions about Debian

2007-09-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 01:12:59 +0200, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> Try baz get http://arch.debian.org/arch/private/srivasta/grab/fvwm> A >> simple shell script can then update all the bested projects when it >> is time for the next build. > $ baz get > http://arch.debian.org/arch/pri

Re: Some questions about Debian

2007-09-23 Thread Ondrej Certik
> Any particular reason this seems to be targeted only to svn/git, > and seems to be (based on the name) biased towards svn? It can very > easily be adapted to Arch, as well, and I am sure bzr and darcs should > be easily added. Given that, vcsbuildstat could be a better name. No, we wa

Re: Some questions about Debian

2007-09-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:32:18 +0200, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> Up again, but I haven't published the answers yet. I will as soon as >> I'll have the "next step" figured out. > BTW, I noticed you are a Ubuntu developer, do you use PPA? I would > like to have it in Debian, so I am

Re: Some questions about Debian

2007-09-23 Thread Ondrej Certik
> Up again, but I haven't published the answers yet. I will as soon as > I'll have the "next step" figured out. BTW, I noticed you are a Ubuntu developer, do you use PPA? I would like to have it in Debian, so I am working on it [1], [2], but very slowly, don't have much time. Ondrej [1] http://c

Re: Some questions about Debian

2007-09-23 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 23/09/07 at 16:01 +0200, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > - Do you think that this initiative is interesting? > > Yes, I think this initiative is very interesting, because those are > details that I think are the most important, yet it's very difficult > to get those from the respective webpages (like

Re: Some questions about Debian

2007-09-23 Thread Ondrej Certik
> - Do you think that this initiative is interesting? Yes, I think this initiative is very interesting, because those are details that I think are the most important, yet it's very difficult to get those from the respective webpages (like debian.org, etc.). I am unable to connect to [1] though, s

Re: Some questions about Debian

2007-09-22 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, martin f krafft wrote: > > How many "pieces of software" do you have in your distribution? Do you > > distinguish between "source packages" and "binary packages"? (if yes, > > give numbers for both). Are there subdivisions in the set of packages (by > > kind of support, by

Re: Some questions about Debian

2007-09-22 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.09.21.0619 +0100]: > I'm involved both in Debian and Ubuntu development, and I'm often > frustrated by how little I know about the other distributions. > After discussing this in a blog post[1], I got the impression that > I wasn't alone in that

Some questions about Debian

2007-09-20 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, Following my blog post about communications between distros[1], I contacted openSUSE and Fedora developers and had a lot of interesting answers. I'd like to get answers to the same questions from Debian developers. [1] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=250 I could probably write the answ

Re: Some questions about Debian developers

2003-04-12 Thread Christian Surchi
On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 02:52:23AM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > > There is no reason to blame people that wants to be anonymous. > > Anonymity and privacy should be rights all over the world. > > F^WBlaming people is a right, too :P Destroying absurd commonplaces too! ;-) -- Christian Surchi,

Re: Some questions about Debian developers

2003-04-12 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 02:28:23AM +0200, Christian Surchi wrote: > On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 12:59:05AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > People who don't use their real names are either too stupid or too > > embarrassed by what they are saying. Either way, reading the mail they > > send merely wast

Re: Some questions about Debian developers

2003-04-12 Thread Christian Surchi
On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 12:59:05AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > People who don't use their real names are either too stupid or too > embarrassed by what they are saying. Either way, reading the mail they > send merely wastes valuable seconds. There is no reason to blame people that wants to be

Re: Some questions about Debian developers

2003-04-12 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 06:56:51PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People who don't use their real names are either too stupid or too embarrassed by what they are saying. Either way, reading the mail they send merely wastes valuable seconds. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield

Re: Some questions about Debian developers

2003-04-12 Thread Bob Proulx
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 1) What kind of developing does a Debian developer? Are you developing the > packages (*.deb files)? Yes. But that is only part of the entire task. > I ask because I want to understand why this is so complicated. There are > "apt"-scripts to create *.deb-files fro

Some questions about Debian developers

2003-04-12 Thread debian_noob
Dear Debian Developers, I am very new to Debian and know I want to dive deeper into Debian. For this I have some questions: 1) What kind of developing does a Debian developer? Are you developing the packages (*.deb files)? I ask because I want to understand why this is so complicated. There are