Re: PERL MAINTAINERS SUCK - COMPLETE MORONS

2001-01-10 Thread Daniel Martin
Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, if someone would like to configure the MTA that runs bugs.debian.org to send CC's of all bug mail to another address, ... You mean something other than signing up for debian-bugs-dist and parsing the resulting traffic? I realize that

Re: PERL MAINTAINERS SUCK - COMPLETE MORONS

2001-01-10 Thread Ola Lundqvist
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 04:06:35PM -0800, Ralph Jennings wrote: The problem is not that easy to solve I think. Basicly the problem is that you upgrade a tool that the install program depends on. If you install the perl-5.6 package before anything alse things will probably work just fine. The

Re: PERL MAINTAINERS SUCK - COMPLETE MORONS

2001-01-10 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 09:01:40AM -0500, Daniel Martin wrote: Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, if someone would like to configure the MTA that runs bugs.debian.org to send CC's of all bug mail to another address, ... You mean something other than signing up for

Re: PERL MAINTAINERS SUCK - COMPLETE MORONS

2001-01-10 Thread Adam Heath
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 09:01:40AM -0500, Daniel Martin wrote: Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, if someone would like to configure the MTA that runs bugs.debian.org to send CC's of all bug mail to another address, ...

PERL MAINTAINERS SUCK - COMPLETE MORONS

2001-01-09 Thread Adam Heath
Package: perl-5.6 Severity: critical Scenario: Install new machine with potato. Configure all packages that come with a default minimal install. Run dpkg --get-selections on a working half-potato/half-sid machine. Run dpkg --set-selections on the new machine. apt-get dselect-upgrade. perl

Re: PERL MAINTAINERS SUCK - COMPLETE MORONS

2001-01-09 Thread Ron Rademaker
Hmm, isn't sid called UNSTABLE, that means that if you want use it, there is a risk that things aren't exactly perfect (don't take perfect to seriously). Not that long ago I upgraded one of my machines from woody to sid, now it's running perl 5.6 and I didn't have any trouble upgrading at all!

Re: PERL MAINTAINERS SUCK - COMPLETE MORONS

2001-01-09 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Ron Rademaker wrote: Hmm, isn't sid called UNSTABLE, that means that if you want use it, there is a risk that things aren't exactly perfect (don't take perfect to seriously). Not that long ago I upgraded one of my machines from woody to sid, now it's running perl 5.6 and

Re: PERL MAINTAINERS SUCK - COMPLETE MORONS

2001-01-09 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Adam! You wrote: ANY package that is needed by the packaging system(and this does not only include dpkg support scripts, but debconf, and some maintainer scripts, including adduser) biblinkNEEDS TO NOT BREAK PERIOD./blink/i/b Please calm down. If your specific thing doesn't work, OK,

Re: PERL MAINTAINERS SUCK - COMPLETE MORONS

2001-01-09 Thread Jordi Mallach
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 04:50:05PM +0100, Ron Rademaker wrote: Hmm, isn't sid called UNSTABLE, that means that if you want use it, there is a risk that things aren't exactly perfect (don't take perfect to seriously). That doesn't solve that perl's official maintainer broke the packages quite

Re: PERL MAINTAINERS SUCK - COMPLETE MORONS

2001-01-09 Thread Ron Rademaker
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Jordi Mallach wrote: On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 04:50:05PM +0100, Ron Rademaker wrote: Hmm, isn't sid called UNSTABLE, that means that if you want use it, there is a risk that things aren't exactly perfect (don't take perfect to seriously). That doesn't solve that

Re: PERL MAINTAINERS SUCK - COMPLETE MORONS

2001-01-09 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Ron Rademaker wrote: I checked BTS and the bug wasn't in BTS. Because the indices only run every 12 hours. Check 81679. BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK Version: 3.12 GCS d- s: a-- c+++ UL P+ L !E W+ M o+ K- W--- !O M- !V PS-- PE++ Y+ PGP++ t* 5++ X+ tv b+ D++ G e

Re: PERL MAINTAINERS SUCK - COMPLETE MORONS

2001-01-09 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 10:16:09AM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Ron Rademaker wrote: I checked BTS and the bug wasn't in BTS. Because the indices only run every 12 hours. Check 81679. I thought the reason for switching from the generated HTML to CGIs was so that the

Re: PERL MAINTAINERS SUCK - COMPLETE MORONS

2001-01-09 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Matt Zimmerman wrote: I thought the reason for switching from the generated HTML to CGIs was so that the pages could be dynamically generated, and we wouldn't have this problem. you're correct, that is the reason. But the indices take too long to fully dynamically

Re: PERL MAINTAINERS SUCK - COMPLETE MORONS

2001-01-09 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 11:42:06AM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Matt Zimmerman wrote: I thought the reason for switching from the generated HTML to CGIs was so that the pages could be dynamically generated, and we wouldn't have this problem. you're correct, that is the

Re: PERL MAINTAINERS SUCK - COMPLETE MORONS

2001-01-09 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Matt Zimmerman wrote: It's long past time that the BTS had a real database backend. Since the code is being actively worked on, I assume there are reasons why this isn't feasible yet. Do you know what they are? Is there any way I can help? I have code that imports the

Re: PERL MAINTAINERS SUCK - COMPLETE MORONS

2001-01-09 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 11:54:23AM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Matt Zimmerman wrote: It's long past time that the BTS had a real database backend. Since the code is being actively worked on, I assume there are reasons why this isn't feasible yet. Do you know what they

Re: PERL MAINTAINERS SUCK - COMPLETE MORONS

2001-01-09 Thread Ralph Jennings
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 04:54:11PM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: [snip] ANY package that is needed by the packaging system(and this does not only include dpkg support scripts, but debconf, and some maintainer scripts, including adduser) biblinkNEEDS TO NOT BREAK PERIOD./blink/i/b [snip] BTW:

Re: PERL MAINTAINERS SUCK - COMPLETE MORONS

2001-01-09 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 09:52:41AM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: BTW. Why didn't you post a bug report about this? I did, I only bcc'd it to [EMAIL PROTECTED], so that replies wouldn't spam the bts. I filed the critical Bug Report #80197 20 days ago... even the old perl packages where broken