Re: Packaging a new release of released SW, not considered by the DM?

2012-06-01 Thread Svante Signell
On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 17:40 -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Svante Signell dijo [Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:45:13PM +0200]: It's *usually* not what you want to do. There are several cases where different versions of the same program are available in Debian, and I am unfamiliar with the case at

Re: Packaging a new release of released SW, not considered by the DM?

2012-06-01 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Friday 01 June 2012 09:16:35 Svante Signell wrote: Regarding DMs the non-responsiveness of some of them is frustrating, they don't bother to comment on any of the bug reports. Is that the way a DM is supposed to work? I don't think so. And with the recent discussions on d-devel about

Re: Packaging a new release of released SW, not considered by the DM?

2012-06-01 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Hi Svante, On 12-06-01 at 09:16am, Svante Signell wrote: Regarding DMs the non-responsiveness of *some* of them is frustrating, they don't bother to comment on _any_ of the bug reports. Is that the way a DM is supposed to work? And with the recent discussions on d-devel about hijacking etc

Packaging a new release of released SW, not considered by the DM?

2012-05-31 Thread Svante Signell
Hi, A Short question. Is it possible to ITP a new release of some software not being even considered by the DM, for whatever reason. Wishlist bugs are submitted, etc. According to if there is no reply of bug reports, there seems to be no interest at all from the DM to package that piece of SW,

Re: Packaging a new release of released SW, not considered by the DM?

2012-05-31 Thread Samuel Thibault
Svante Signell, le Thu 31 May 2012 22:22:21 +0200, a écrit : A Short question. Is it possible to ITP a new release of some software not being even considered by the DM, for whatever reason. It's normally not a good thing to do. ITP is also not what you mean here, BTW. Wishlist bugs are

Re: Packaging a new release of released SW, not considered by the DM?

2012-05-31 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Svante Signell dijo [Thu, May 31, 2012 at 10:22:21PM +0200]: Hi, A Short question. Is it possible to ITP a new release of some software not being even considered by the DM, for whatever reason. Wishlist bugs are submitted, etc. According to if there is no reply of bug reports, there seems

Re: Packaging a new release of released SW, not considered by the DM?

2012-05-31 Thread Svante Signell
On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 16:20 -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Svante Signell dijo [Thu, May 31, 2012 at 10:22:21PM +0200]: Hi, A Short question. Is it possible to ITP a new release of some software not being even considered by the DM, for whatever reason. Wishlist bugs are submitted, etc.

Re: Packaging a new release of released SW, not considered by the DM?

2012-05-31 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Svante Signell dijo [Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:45:13PM +0200]: It's *usually* not what you want to do. There are several cases where different versions of the same program are available in Debian, and I am unfamiliar with the case at hand, but it's usually where a specific older version of a