[gentoo-dev] net-mail/mailman needs a new maintainer

2006-04-12 Thread Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen
net-mail/mailman is without an ebuild maintainer and has an open security bug #129136 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129136 Anyone willing to take care of this package in the future, please update metadata.xml and CC yourself on the bug. -- Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen Gentoo Linux Secu

Re: [gentoo-dev] enroll users for testing packages

2006-04-12 Thread Daniel Goller
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 09:48 -0400, Stephen P. Becker wrote: > > didn't he ask for people who know a particular application very well? > > If you actually read the GLEP, you will note that there is a provision > to expand the idea to include herd testers. someone might like to help with testing o

Re: [gentoo-dev] slots and libraries.

2006-04-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 12:55, foser wrote: > Adding workarounds like preserve_old_lib* should only be a temporary > measure. right ... i dont even like mentioning their existence, but i shudder to think what ebuild writers would code in the place of using these functions ... -mike -- gentoo-

Re: [gentoo-dev] slots and libraries.

2006-04-12 Thread foser
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 17:27 +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > While this also does not stand any chance to win a beauty contest, this > would also be acceptable to me. The only thing I want is things not > starting to fail without a good reason. A new version of a library is on > itself not a good

Re: [gentoo-dev] slots and libraries.

2006-04-12 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 15:54, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > While I agree that SLOT's are not perfect, they were created to solve > > this problem too. If another working solution is found, that is ok > > for me too. But I don't want to just find my binary stops working > > because some of its libr

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Gentoo theming during bootup

2006-04-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 09:56, Duncan wrote: > Maybe make him the documentation and help section icon? Or the icon for > contact information (Gentoo developer listing, etc)? Something. by explaining his presence, we hurt him just leave him be ! -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Gentoo theming during bootup

2006-04-12 Thread Duncan
Curtis Napier posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 18:50:42 -0400: > Jan Kundrát wrote: >> >> 17:33 <@jkt|> drobbins: actually, it has been mentioned in the recent >> thread on -dev ML that you own the copyright or something of the flying >> saucer on w.g.o >> [...] >

Re: [gentoo-dev] slots and libraries.

2006-04-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 03:38, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > On Tuesday 11 April 2006 19:13, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Tuesday 11 April 2006 10:52, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > > > Please remember, this is the reason we have SLOTS > > > > no it isnt > > > > you're complaining about lack of a portage fea

Re: [gentoo-dev] enroll users for testing packages

2006-04-12 Thread Stephen P. Becker
didn't he ask for people who know a particular application very well? If you actually read the GLEP, you will note that there is a provision to expand the idea to include herd testers. i think there is a big difference between agreeing to test one particular package since they know it very w

Re: [gentoo-dev] slots and libraries.

2006-04-12 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 19:13, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Tuesday 11 April 2006 10:52, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > > Please remember, this is the reason we have SLOTS > > no it isnt > > you're complaining about lack of a portage feature to track ABI's and > urging the use of hacks in ebuilds to work a