Re: NMUers: STOP BEING STUPID

2001-04-25 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:05:00AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I shouldn't have to add my name to the list of maintainers whose packages should never be NMUd. IS there such a list? I don't think there should be. Yes: http://bugs.debian.net/

Re: NMUers: STOP BEING STUPID

2001-04-25 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
Steve == Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Steve On 23-Apr-01, 18:52 (CDT), Sean 'Shaleh' Perry Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This would prevent the NMUers from doing things like debhelper/debconfizing packages without the maintainer's consent, as well as keep NMU

Re: NMUers: STOP BEING STUPID

2001-04-25 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Mark Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20010425 13:32]: It would be nice if this were more widely advertised (for example, it doesn't appear to be linked from http://qa.debian.org/). Such a list fixed. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NMUers: STOP BEING STUPID

2001-04-25 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 04:52:08PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: This would prevent the NMUers from doing things like debhelper/debconfizing packages without the maintainer's consent, as well as keep NMU bugs down. Well, but other problems like broken dependencies on binary packages dont

Re: NMUers: STOP BEING STUPID

2001-04-24 Thread Richard Braakman
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 04:52:08PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: So perhaps we need to come up with some more structure for the bug parties. Perhaps the right thing to do is have those involved create diffs of their work and place these in a repository for some group of devels

Re: NMUers: STOP BEING STUPID

2001-04-24 Thread Arthur Korn
Hi Richard Braakman schrieb: In that case the right repository could be a bugreport to the package involved. That way the diff submission is guaranteed. I agree with you that _something_ has to be done about catastrophal NMUs, but just stopping to NMU and only submitting diffs, even on

Re: NMUers: STOP BEING STUPID

2001-04-24 Thread Richard Braakman
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:32:42AM +0200, Arthur Korn wrote: Richard Braakman schrieb: In that case the right repository could be a bugreport to the package involved. That way the diff submission is guaranteed. I agree with you that _something_ has to be done about catastrophal NMUs, but

Re: NMUers: STOP BEING STUPID

2001-04-24 Thread Petr Cech
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:07:20AM +0300 , Richard Braakman wrote: In that case the right repository could be a bugreport to the package involved. That way the diff submission is guaranteed. If the diff turns though this doesn't catch broken build environment :(( like XF4.0.3 or obsolete

Re: NMUers: STOP BEING STUPID

2001-04-24 Thread Steve Greenland
On 23-Apr-01, 18:52 (CDT), Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This would prevent the NMUers from doing things like debhelper/debconfizing packages without the maintainer's consent, as well as keep NMU bugs down. NMUs should *never* change the build/install process to such an extent.

Re: NMUers: STOP BEING STUPID

2001-04-24 Thread John Goerzen
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I shouldn't have to add my name to the list of maintainers whose packages should never be NMUd. IS there such a list? I don't think there should be. Yes: http://bugs.debian.net/ The NMU was buggy, but with all due respect it appears that the

Re: NMUers: STOP BEING STUPID

2001-04-24 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Richard Braakman wrote: Ironically, it won't prevent the problem that sparked this thread, namely a weird build environment on the machine where the NMU is compiled. I would still love to see Source Only uploads becoming the standard way of getting new versions into the

Re: NMUers: STOP BEING STUPID

2001-04-24 Thread T.Pospisek's MailLists
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Richard Braakman wrote: Oh, I didn't mean _only_ sending the diff. It was an addendum to Shaleh's suggestion. The idea is to send the diff, then have someone else look at it, and then do the NMU. You could just drop the NMUed package into some public space

Re: NMUers: STOP BEING STUPID

2001-04-24 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 01:31:05PM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote: Ironically, it won't prevent the problem that sparked this thread, namely a weird build environment on the machine where the NMU is compiled. thanks to debootstrap, we no longer have any reason to not have a clean build

Re: NMUers: STOP BEING STUPID

2001-04-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:05:00AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: Again, I'm not ranting that NMUs occured. I'm ranting that they were not done correctly. Fair enough. It is irresponsible for developers to be using any packages which aren't in the archive to build packages, as happened in this

Re: NMUers: STOP BEING STUPID

2001-04-24 Thread Herbert Xu
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally I think the best way to avoid the problem is never to install non-official/pre-release packages. Which is good but then how are you supposed to test them :) Just install them in a chroot and you won't have to worry about it. -- Debian

NMUers: STOP BEING STUPID

2001-04-23 Thread John Goerzen
OK, I'm rather annoyed. Recently I'm doing squash bugs on my packages and I have had already THREE that have been broken by NMUs that occured over the past week. Not one of the NMUers mailed me before doing that. Only 1 actually filed a bug with a diff. Let's review, kids:

Re: NMUers: STOP BEING STUPID

2001-04-23 Thread John Goerzen
I should add: I appreciate the efforts of the QA team and those associated with it. I understand that mistakes happen and everyone is human. I do not gripe about NMUs. I gripe about NMUs done wrongly. Thanks. -- John

Re: NMUers: STOP BEING STUPID

2001-04-23 Thread Adrian Bunk
On 23 Apr 2001, John Goerzen wrote: ... Heed the advice therein: * Don't fix something that's not broken. * E-mail the maintianer. ... In general I do totally agree with you, but I want to add a small addition: A Debian bug-squashing party may involve your packages mail sent some time

Re: NMUers: STOP BEING STUPID

2001-04-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 02:40:30PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: OK, I'm rather annoyed. Recently I'm doing squash bugs on my packages and I have had already THREE that have been broken by NMUs that occured over the past week. I shouldn't have to add my name to the list of maintainers whose

Re: NMUers: STOP BEING STUPID

2001-04-23 Thread Steve Greenland
On 23-Apr-01, 17:26 (CDT), Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The NMU was buggy, but with all due respect it appears that the package had not been updated in a long time before that. The standards-version was really old and you were using pre-FHS path names. If the NMUer had followed

RE: NMUers: STOP BEING STUPID

2001-04-23 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 23-Apr-2001 John Goerzen wrote: OK, I'm rather annoyed. Recently I'm doing squash bugs on my packages and I have had already THREE that have been broken by NMUs that occured over the past week. So perhaps we need to come up with some more structure for the bug parties. Perhaps the

Re: NMUers: STOP BEING STUPID

2001-04-23 Thread Evan Prodromou
You can convince me to stop doing stupid things, but I refuse to stop being stupid. ~ESP -- Evan Prodromou [EMAIL PROTECTED]