On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 01:02:34AM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
However, I'm not sure I agree that a backup is totally
useless in the case of celestia. What happens if you're on vacation,
woody is released tomorrow and a RC bug is filed on celestia today and
noone cares to upload a fixed
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 01:02:34AM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
useless in the case of celestia. What happens if you're on vacation,
woody is released tomorrow and a RC bug is filed on celestia today and
noone cares to upload a fixed package? Similarly, if you were really
busy for a
Le Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 12:30:12PM -0400, Joey Hess écrivait:
I would like to see this oft-requested feature, but in the meantime
there is nothing to prevent you as a backup maintainer from seeing every
bug for every package you backup maintain. debian-bugs-dist + procmail.
Trivial.
Of
Le Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 07:55:43PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr écrivait:
I think we should try to implement that scheme at least for packages in
base and standard... but why not go ahead and try to do it for all
packages?
Yes, this is a long term thing to do ... it will be quite a logical
step
Raphael Hertzog wrote:
There's several things that have to be done :
- be able to subscribe other people to a package bug list (in this case
the people listed in the Uploaders field), there should be some
automation here, otherwise beeing in the Uploader field won't change
anything as
* Marcelo E. Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20010902 21:26]:
* wmaker. It's not a complex package, but it operates under
several
* celestia. Simple. Very limited scope. Not many configuration
options.
Would I like to find a co-maintainer for wmaker? Yes. Celestia?
No. My criteria
I think it's a great idea. I also note that quite a few base packages
already have multiple or backup maintainers -- dpkg, boot-floppies, and
tasksel come to mind. I've also been unofficial backup maintainer for
some other packages in the past and I doubt I'm alone. Formalizing this
and using the
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think it's a great idea. I also note that quite a few base packages
already have multiple or backup maintainers -- dpkg, boot-floppies, and
tasksel come to mind. I've also been unofficial backup maintainer for
some other packages in the past and I doubt
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 07:55:43PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
During the base freeze preparations in the last few weeks, a problem
Debian has always had became apparent again. Since Debian is a
distributed, volunteer run project it is hard to tell whether a maintainer
is doing Debian work
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm having a hard time getting it to work though. I tried Uploaders with
dpkg 1.9.17 and no go:
dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown information field Uploaders in input
data in general section of control info file
It needs to be in the source section of the
James Troup wrote:
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm having a hard time getting it to work though. I tried Uploaders with
dpkg 1.9.17 and no go:
dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown information field Uploaders in input
data in general section of control info file
It needs to be
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That's how I tried it, no go. dpkg-gencontrol does not contain the
word '[Uu]ploaders' on my system either.
Oh, right, yah, okay; it appears it was only dpkg-source that was
patched. The dpkg-gencontrol is just a warning though, the Uploaders
field still
During the base freeze preparations in the last few weeks, a problem
Debian has always had became apparent again. Since Debian is a
distributed, volunteer run project it is hard to tell whether a maintainer
is doing Debian work at the moment. In the freeze, it is often crucial to
get a bug fixed
Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
- Bugs could get fixed sooner since more people are working on the
package. This would help us meeting our release goals.
The Mythical Man Month, of which Debian is exemplary[0]. Given enough
eyes, all bugs are shallow, of which Debian is
How are things going to get better if new things like this aren't tried?
It'll certainly knock out some issues in sponsorship and NM... If your
only objections are those of the improbability of getting it to work, let
Martin run with it and find out for hisself.
On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Marcelo E.
[ your Mail-Followup-To is still leaving the list out ]
John Galt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How are things going to get better if new things like this aren't
tried? It'll certainly knock out some issues in sponsorship and
NM... If your only objections are those of the improbability of
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 10:57:06PM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
I ought to listen to Zinsser and use shorter words
Only with Galt.
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