On Nov 24, 2007 7:44 PM, Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ramakrishnan, Mohammed, Jaldhar, Kartik,
Hi all, Please read me inline. > It's been pointed out that Kartik's latest upload of linhdd has included > an i386 binary in arch:all package, and explicitly overriden the lintian > warning for it (see the mail quoted below). That seems pretty dodgy. Yes. Its pretty bad. I agree. And deeply apologize. > Kartik what possible reason did you have for overriding the lintian > error report, rather than changing your package to remove the error? linhdd introduce binary abs_fdisk which was modified copy of fdisk from new version 0.4. It was arch:all before that too, and previous maintainer set it to arch:all saying 'it will save achieve space'. Since, it was working fine with 0.3, linhdd now depends on modified copy of fdisk, abs_fdisk. I fixed this by adding upstream provided copy of it. > Did > you ask anyone's advice before doing so? Why are you asking for the > removal of linhdd now (Bug#452629), instead of *fixing* the package, > eg, by making the package architecture specific instead of arch:all and > either the binary built as part of debian/rules, or simply using the > fdisk that's already packaged as part of util-linux? As suggested to me, I did removal of linhdd. To fix this bug, we have to build util-linux and I think its too much and probably wrong to have fdisk stay in /usr/bin. > Ramakrishnan, how did your sponsorship checking miss both this error > and the RC bug (442093) the previous upload introduced by the i386 > binary's absence? > > Mohammed and Jaldhar, as advocates (and AM) of Kartik, do you have > anything to add here? > > For the record, Ramakrishnan also seems to have sponsored uploads of the > following packages for Kartik that are still present in the archive: > of festival, festival-doc, fontypython, speech-tools, tagtool, and > uni2ascii. His only other sponsored upload still in the archive is kpsk > 1.0.1-3 in sarge for Sebastian Muszynski. > > Kartik is listed as maintainer of: > > aspell-gu | Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ayttm | Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > bake | Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > blast | Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > chmlib | Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > clara | Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > dvdrtools | Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > festival | Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > festival-doc | Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > fontypython | Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > freetalk | Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > gnome-specimen | Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > gtkdiskfree | Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > kphotobymail | Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ldtp | Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ldtp-doc | Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > libyahoo2 | Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > linhdd | Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > mpy-svn-stats | Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > pygtkmvc | Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > pyslide | Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > recoll | Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > scanmem | Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > sitecopy | Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > speech-tools | Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > tagtool | Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > tepache | Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > uni2ascii | Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > xchm | Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > xmms-crossfade | Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > xmountains | Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > xosview | Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 06:49:24PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > >> dm:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >> Full name: Kartik Mistry > > >I don't know if that was such a good idea, see #452464 > > Wow, the linhdd package is *special*. Based on initial analysis of > > this package, please remove: > > * the DM (Kartik Mistry) from the keyring (he clearly needs to learn > > more before he should be allowed to upload directly) > > * the upload rights of the sponsor (Ramakrishnan M > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) who uploaded this to incoming without any > > suitable level of checking. This is a *much* more important problem > > IMHO. > > * the package itself > > The package contains an i386 binary (abs_fdisk)in a binary-all > > package, directly installed from a binary that comes in the upstream > > source packages. To accompany that, there are the following > > highlights: > > * a README.Debian stating > > "linhdd also has binary called 'abs_fdisk' which is used for linhdd > > working correctly. util-linux is provided for its source. > > "To save archive space, the package is set to Architecture: > > all. Please do not report this as a bug on the mentioned > > architectures." > > * a lintian.override file to suppress errors about it > > * "changed" source files that claim to be used in fdisk and abs_fdisk > > I expect a *much* higher standard of packages in our archive, and I > > hope I'm not alone here. -- Cheers, -------------------------------------------------- Kartik Mistry | 0xD1028C8D | IRC: kart_ kartikm.wordpress.com | blog.ftbfs.in -------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
