Bug#160529: ASK is RFPed

2003-10-01 Thread Robert Millan
Hi, On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 12:04:21AM -0400, Marco Paganini wrote: > > Do you refer to /usr/bin/ask.py and such? You can't set these as conffiles, > > since all stuff in /usr could well be read-only. > > No. This one is immutable. The templates are in fact text files that the > average user may

Bug#160529: ASK is RFPed

2003-09-30 Thread Marco Paganini
Hi Robert, > Ah, ok. Safely ignorable, it's for upgrading from pre-FHS packages IIRC. Just > make sure your docs are in /usr/share/doc/ and not in /usr/doc/. OK. Perfect. > > I fixed this one. The problem is that when I packaged ASK for the first > > time, > > the "python" package meant "Python

Bug#160529: ASK is RFPed

2003-09-28 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 03:42:51PM -0400, Marco Paganini wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 04:25:03PM +, Robert Millan wrote: > > > I'm not sure if you should remove them. Please paste the full lintian > > warning. > > W: ask: prerm-does-not-remove-usr-doc-link Ah, ok. Safely ignorable, it's

Bug#160529: ASK is RFPed

2003-09-28 Thread Marco Paganini
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 04:25:03PM +, Robert Millan wrote: > I'm not sure if you should remove them. Please paste the full lintian > warning. W: ask: prerm-does-not-remove-usr-doc-link N: N: The technical committee chose the symlink transition method to move N: from FSSTND to FHS. This t

Bug#160529: ASK is RFPed

2003-09-28 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 03:27:53PM -0400, Marco Paganini wrote: > > > I did and it just says: > > > > > > W: ask: prerm-does-not-remove-usr-doc-link > > > W: ask: postinst-does-not-set-usr-doc-link I forgot to say you should pass "-i" to lintian, so that it outputs the full warning/error message

Bug#160529: ASK is RFPed

2003-09-27 Thread Marco Paganini
> > I did and it just says: > > > > W: ask: prerm-does-not-remove-usr-doc-link > > W: ask: postinst-does-not-set-usr-doc-link > > Not really important. Is there a way to "remove" these, just like in lint? Something inside the package itself that tells lintian to ignore those? > > W: ask: readme

Bug#160529: ASK is RFPed

2003-09-26 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 06:09:18PM -0400, Marco Paganini wrote: > Hi Robert, Hi. > I did and it just says: > > W: ask: prerm-does-not-remove-usr-doc-link > W: ask: postinst-does-not-set-usr-doc-link Not really important. > W: ask: readme-debian-is-debmake-template Either remove README.Debian

Bug#160529: ASK is RFPed

2003-09-26 Thread Marco Paganini
Hi Robert, > I suggest you keep it in the Subject, but not replacing the original one. For > example if my message has subject "Foobar", then the response could be > something like "Re: foobar (blah)", where "blah" is the code number. That is an option as well. But if that's the case, I'll have t

Bug#160529: ASK is RFPed

2003-09-26 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 09:55:01AM -0400, Marco Paganini wrote: > Hi Robert, Larry, > > > It does indeed sound a lot like spam; I wouldn't be surprised if I just > > deleted it without even reading the body. > > > > Maybe you could make it contain the original Subject? A standard response > > pre

Bug#160529: ASK is RFPed

2003-09-23 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 08:07:51PM -0400, Marco Paganini wrote: > > It could be. The subject was probably something like: > > Please Confirm (#12345678901234567890123456789012) > > Some people argue it looks a lot like spam. In any case, the email remained > queued and I was able to "fish" it ou

Bug#160529: ASK is RFPed

2003-09-23 Thread Marco Paganini
Hello Robert, > I don't have any anti-spam system as of now, but I do recieve a lot of junk > mail, so I could have mistakenly deleted it. What was the subject? It could be. The subject was probably something like: Please Confirm (#12345678901234567890123456789012) Some people argue it looks a

Bug#160529: ASK is RFPed

2003-09-22 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 11:43:47AM -0400, Marco Paganini wrote: > Hello Robert, Larry, > > First of all, my sincere apologies for taking so long to respond. I've been > traveling frequently and for some reason, the original sender (Robert?) did > not respond to the confirmation message. I believe

Bug#160529: ASK is RFPed

2003-09-21 Thread Marco Paganini
Hello Robert, Larry, First of all, my sincere apologies for taking so long to respond. I've been traveling frequently and for some reason, the original sender (Robert?) did not respond to the confirmation message. I believe your anti-spam system classified the confirmation as spam and you never sa

Bug#160529: ASK is RFPed

2003-09-01 Thread Robert Millan
retitle 160529 RFP: ask -- Active Spam Killer thanks Ok, It's been a week and got no response from Marco Paganigi. I won't package or even sponsor ASK in such a situation. I'm retitling this bug to RFP. -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in t