Bug#246153: RFA: unison -- file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows

2004-05-27 Thread Robert McQueen
On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 21:17, Sylvain LE GALL wrote: > Hello, > > That was me who propose you to take care of the package... I am not a DD > and cannot say i can upload the package ( i need a sponsor ). > > I will inject it in svn of ocaml-maint and correct the bugs i can next > monday. The new u

Bug#246153: RFA: unison -- file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows

2004-05-21 Thread Sylvain LE GALL
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 02:02:15PM +0100, Robert McQueen wrote: > On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 15:17, Nicolas Boullis wrote: > > I think that a user who has unison-stable on debian n+1 and who wants it > > to work with a debian n machine will install the package with the same > > name... > > > > Nicola

Bug#246153: RFA: unison -- file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows

2004-05-21 Thread Nicolas Boullis
Hi, On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 02:02:15PM +0100, Robert McQueen wrote: > On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 15:17, Nicolas Boullis wrote: > > I think that a user who has unison-stable on debian n+1 and who wants it > > to work with a debian n machine will install the package with the same > > name... > > > > N

Bug#246153: RFA: unison -- file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows

2004-05-21 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Sven Luther writes: > > even though I was the person who issued the first ITA, I gave up > > that intention entirely when the ocaml-maint team expressed the > > wish to adopt the package. > Well, just go ahead, adopt the package, As I said, I gave up that intention entirely. Regards, Jens.

Bug#246153: RFA: unison -- file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows

2004-05-21 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 03:14:55PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Robert McQueen writes: > > > you've still not uploaded a new package > > Whom exactly are you (Robert) talking to? JFTR, even though I was the > person who issued the first ITA, I gave up that intention entirely > when t

Bug#246153: RFA: unison -- file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows

2004-05-21 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Robert McQueen writes: > you've still not uploaded a new package Whom exactly are you (Robert) talking to? JFTR, even though I was the person who issued the first ITA, I gave up that intention entirely when the ocaml-maint team expressed the wish to adopt the package. Have you (the ocaml ma

Bug#246153: RFA: unison -- file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows

2004-05-21 Thread Robert McQueen
On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 15:17, Nicolas Boullis wrote: > I think that a user who has unison-stable on debian n+1 and who wants it > to work with a debian n machine will install the package with the same > name... > > Nicolas This all sounds very hopeful... However, you've still not uploaded a new

Bug#246153: RFA: unison -- file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows

2004-05-05 Thread Robert McQueen
On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 16:40, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > I didn't know this, and it sounds completely and utterly sick. Is > there a chance of getting a more reasonable approach (such as taking > care of backwards compatibility) out of upstream? > > Regards, Jens. I don't know, or really care that

Bug#246153: RFA: unison -- file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows

2004-05-02 Thread Sylvain LE GALL
Hello, On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 09:10:15AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 05:17:12AM +0100, Robert McQueen wrote: > > direction of synchronisation with woody boxes. Accordingly we will need > > three source packages: > > * unison, which builds two transition binary packa

Bug#246153: RFA: unison -- file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows

2004-05-02 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Robert McQueen writes: > The problem with unison is that as far as I am aware, each version > is protocol incompatible with all other versions I didn't know this, and it sounds completely and utterly sick. Is there a chance of getting a more reasonable approach (such as taking care of backw

Bug#246153: RFA: unison -- file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows

2004-05-02 Thread Robert McQueen
On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 08:10, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I suggest not to use version number neither in source package names nor > in binary package ones. It would delay archive entering due to the need > of manual processing and this would happen each time we will need to > upload a new unison ver

Bug#246153: RFA: unison -- file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows

2004-05-02 Thread Nicolas Boullis
Hi, On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 03:06:18PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > That means that unison-stable from debian n+1 would be compatible with > > unison-devel from debian n? That sounds quite odd... > > What does sound odd exactly? If it's just the name ... who cares? If > you're instead wo

Bug#246153: RFA: unison -- file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows

2004-05-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 01:30:10PM +0200, Nicolas Boullis wrote: > > upload a new unison version. Why don't simply use some symbolic names? > > "unison" is fine for the transition package, for the other two dunno, > > maybe unison-devel or unison-latest and unison-stable. > That means that unison-s

Bug#246153: RFA: unison -- file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows

2004-05-02 Thread Nicolas Boullis
Hi, On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 09:10:15AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 05:17:12AM +0100, Robert McQueen wrote: > > direction of synchronisation with woody boxes. Accordingly we will need > > three source packages: > > * unison, which builds two transition binary packages

Bug#246153: RFA: unison -- file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows

2004-05-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 05:17:12AM +0100, Robert McQueen wrote: > direction of synchronisation with woody boxes. Accordingly we will need > three source packages: > * unison, which builds two transition binary packages "unison", which > * unison-2.9.1, which builds two binary packages "unison-2.9.1

Bug#246153: RFA: unison -- file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows

2004-05-02 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Robert McQueen writes: > Sylvain Le Gall from the pkg-ocaml-maint team on Alioth asked me on > ICQ if the team could take over the package. Fine with me. Regards, Jens. -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz pe j'qbpbe! Le veux aimeb et mqubib panz je pézqbpbe je djuz tqtaj!

Bug#246153: RFA: unison -- file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows

2004-05-01 Thread Robert McQueen
On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 09:10, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Dear Rob, > > I've been a user of unison for quite some time, and therefore more > than happy to answer your request for adoption of the package. I'm > not sure whether I fully understand your intentions for the gtk -> > gtk2 transition, but t

Bug#246153: RFA: unison -- file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows

2004-04-27 Thread Robert McQueen
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I've not been using unison very much so I'd quite like someone else to look after it and do what I've had planned for a while. Upstream have released no new stable versions, but the beta version (2.9.20) has Gtk2 support, so should be made available in sid and hopefu