Re: debian-qa-private list, web pages on QA

1999-11-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sat, Nov 06, 1999 at 04:04:07PM +0100, Josip Rodin écrivait: Vincent is not moderator of debian-qa-private and as such not yet ~ ITYM subscriber? Or is this a read-only list for some, and read-write for the committee members? Yes debian-qa-private is a public list

Re: Gregory Stark

2001-09-05 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 01:24:35PM +0200, Mikael Andersson écrivait: I have tried to get in contact with Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] since mid of Jun, but still no success. I have asked on debian-private, but no one else have told me that the have succeded in contacting him. Looking at

Bug#527899: removal of package fails

2009-06-03 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 02 Jun 2009, Chris Taylor wrote: This patch fixes the removal bug in sqlrelay. It simply removes all sqlrelay files and the directory from /etc. -Chris --- a/debian/sqlrelay.postrm +++ b/debian/sqlrelay.postrm @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ set -e case $1 in remove|purge)

Bug#485169: Source format 3.0 (quilt) allowed in testing/unstable

2009-11-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
[ Same message sent in bcc to all remaining FTBFS with new source format ] Hello, the new source format 3.0 (quilt) is now allowed in testing/unstable and having all packages buildable with the new format is a release goal (http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/NewDebFormats). Thus it would be

Bug#553314: alltray: Show/Hide function and close button don't work

2010-02-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi Ignace, if you mail only 553...@bugs.debian.org the original bug submitter won't get a copy and you won't get an answer. Use 553314-submit...@bugs.debian.org or directly use group reply in the archive mbox that you can download on the web. Cheers, On Sat, 13 Feb 2010, Ignace Mouzannar wrote:

Bug#571982: alltray: no tray icon; no way to get program in question back out of tray

2010-02-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
severity 571982 important thanks On Sun, 28 Feb 2010, Lucas wrote: Package: alltray Version: 0.70-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable alltray iceowl --st --na causes Iceowl to start, but no icon actually appears in the system tray and there's no way to get the

Bug#514305: smarty: Please sync the install path with Ubuntu

2010-08-15 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: I agree that given that Ubuntu has made this rather poor decision, we're only left with this inelegant way forward to unify the packages again. Obviously we cannot have this changed for Squeeze anymore, so it'll have to be postponed for a bit.

Bug#484940: adonthell-data: FTBFS when converted to new source format 3.0 (quilt): due to patches that require -p0

2008-06-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
-dev_1.14.20_all.deb -- Raphael Hertzog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#484977: adonthell: FTBFS when converted to new source format 3.0 (quilt): patches file created by .diff.gz

2008-06-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
/2008/04/msg4.html [2] the upcoming dpkg-dev 1.14.20 is more tolerant with patches, you can grab it here if you want to try with that version: http://people.debian.org/~hertzog/packages/dpkg-dev_1.14.20_all.deb -- Raphael Hertzog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#485158: apt-spy: FTBFS when converted to new source format 3.0 (quilt): patch depends on changes from the diff.gz

2008-06-08 Thread Raphael Hertzog
if you want to try with that version: http://people.debian.org/~hertzog/packages/dpkg-dev_1.14.20_all.deb -- Raphael Hertzog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#485169: jack-tools: FTBFS when converted to new source format 3.0 (quilt): patch files contained in tarballs

2008-06-08 Thread Raphael Hertzog
://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/04/msg4.html [2] the upcoming dpkg-dev 1.14.20 is more tolerant with patches, you can grab it here if you want to try with that version: http://people.debian.org/~hertzog/packages/dpkg-dev_1.14.20_all.deb -- Raphael Hertzog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#485336: imlib: FTBFS when converted to new source format 3.0 (quilt): invalid patch

2008-06-08 Thread Raphael Hertzog
://people.debian.org/~hertzog/packages/dpkg-dev_1.14.20_all.deb -- Raphael Hertzog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#486955: might be caused by a dpkg-dev regression?

2008-06-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 19 Jun 2008, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Hi, I figured this out too late, but it seems that all those bugs are caused by a dpkg-dev regression. Bug#486987: sugar-toolkit: FTBFS: new copyright notices Bug#486979: sugar-datastore: FTBFS: new copyright notices Bug#486975:

Re: Adding RM support to PTS

2005-01-26 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le mercredi 26 janvier 2005 à 18:51 +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar a écrit : Hi Raphael, I'd like to have support for removal requests in the PTS. I think I can technically add that myself, but won't do it without your permission, of course. Hi Jeroen, I'd be happy if you provide me a

Bug#268418: PTS: Please make latest news pages have static URLs

2005-04-27 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le mardi 26 avril 2005 à 21:36 +0200, Filippo Giunchedi a écrit : Thijs Kinkhorst wrote on 26-04-2005 11:55: I'm willing to fix this sometime if someone can point me to the sources of the PTS. check http://cvs.debian.org/pts/?cvsroot=qa having MMDDhhmm as the filename for the news

How to improve Debian : offering help for buggy pakages

1998-12-26 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, i've just written a little perl script which generates a list of packages ordered by the number of bugs ! This list could be used by new developers (like me) to find out a package they could help by correcting bugs/by adopting it/etc. You can find this list here (it's automatically updated

Re: RFC: Debian Quality Assurance Group

1999-04-23 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 08:05:41PM +0200, Josip Rodin écrivait: You are completely missing the point. It is not written anywhere that QA Group members MUST do anything after the specified periods, but that they MAY do something after the specified period of time. Today, they actually can't do

Re: RFC: Debian Quality Assurance Group

1999-04-24 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sat, Apr 24, 1999 at 12:04:50AM +0200, Josip Rodin écrivait: Is this written clear enough now? We obviously need a native English speaker to read the text and find any wrong/awkward/unusual expressions/words. It's fine for me but ... I'm not really sure... people can get in situations

Re: Processed: Fixed in NMU libapache-asp-perl 0.11-2

1999-07-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 10:28:48PM +0200, Torsten Landschoff écrivait: Who is maintaining dinstall? It's just crazy that it does not notice this package being maintained by the QA team - I think it should close bugs of packages maintained by debian-qa. It's one of the ftpmasters, Guy Maor.

Bug#40829: No more libmd5-perl ! [was:Re: Bug#40829: remove package from potato...]

1999-07-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 07:12:52PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrivait: The libmd5-perl package should be removed from potato. It has been totally superseded by libdigest-md5-perl, which represents a significant upgrade upstream. The people who have packages which depend on libmd5-perl must be

Bug#40829: remove package from potato...

1999-07-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 07:12:52PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrivait: The libmd5-perl package should be removed from potato. It has been totally superseded by libdigest-md5-perl, which represents a significant upgrade upstream. libapache-asp-perl has been corrected. You (the ftpmaster) will

Re: interested in orphaned package

1999-07-11 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 04:58:10PM -0700, michael écrivait: Hello, I saw that electric-fence is on the list of orphaned packages, and I would be interested in volunteering to be it's maintainer. Instead of sending your request to wnpp, you could have looked in the Packages.gz file and you

[New maintainer] Working for Debian and becoming a registered Debian developer

1999-07-22 Thread Raphael Hertzog
[ Large crosspost to start the discussion, please reply to debian-devel only. Simply respect the reply-to. ] Hello everybody, you may or not be aware that getting a Debian developer is quite long. I want to propose a solution to facilitate the integration of new Debian developers. It's quite

Re: Patch for bash

1999-08-27 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 04:40:41PM -0400, Michael Stone écrivait: I'm a little concerned about creating the link in the postinst, as that part of the install (IIRC) can be delayed for various reasons. (And it would be a Bad Thing to risk losing /bin/sh for an indefinite period of time.) Can

Quality Assurance in Debian

1999-09-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, I didn't want to announce this today but since Joey has brought up a hot topic on -devel this morning, I feel that it's time to make public what some people (me, Christian Kurz, Tortsten Landschoff, Josip Rodin, Vincent Renardias and Martin Joey Schulze) have prepared for resurrecting

Re: Quality Assurance in Debian

1999-09-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 04:30:45PM +, David Coe écrivait: Let's do it. How can I help? I agree we shouldn't have to vote on this; Actually what I need is a much better main page for the QA web site : http://tux.u-strasbg.fr/~raphael/qa/ I need a text explaining how people can work for

Re: brief thoughts on org/qa.debian.org

1999-09-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 01:25:06AM -0400, Johnie Ingram écrivait: Well I don't know if those internal problems/suggestion does interest people on debian-qa ... but since you posted there ... * For qa-bot: for consistency a single-word command should be provided for everything, e.g helpme

Re: brief thoughts on org/qa.debian.org

1999-09-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 06:30:13AM -0400, Johnie Ingram écrivait: Raphael Is a package name enough for the Prospectives Packages ? Yes, the rest can be determined with scripts. Huh ? I thought about prospectives packages, ie software that is not yet packaged for Debian ... I suppose that you

Re: brief thoughts on org/qa.debian.org

1999-09-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 10:33:29AM -0400, Johnie Ingram écrivait: That could be done, but I like to keep separate the cases where the maintainer still cares slightly -- otherwise it would be unclear how much can be asked of the person in the control file. This is something like a reluctantly

Re: brief thoughts on org/qa.debian.org

1999-09-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 04:35:43PM +0200, Josip Rodin écrivait: Should I ask for the creation of such a mailing list ? Once it is created I can easily add the list in the different aliases ... Yes, several of them should be created, depending on what people need. I think all mails (or

Re: Debian membership (with a twist)

1999-10-03 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 04:46:25AM +, Yves Arrouye écrivait: Now, what is funny is that I was a member of Debian until 1997, when I left France. If you look at the list of packages that are orphaned and that Debian QA wants an owner for, there are two I authored, and would get back

Re: Bugs in packages maintained by Debian QA Group

1999-10-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 04:57:14PM -0400, Raul Miller écrivait: Anyone know how to find these bugs? bugs.debian.org/9wm gives me a 404. Usually that means no bugs against the package.. Not it's a bug in the URL redirector written for bugs.debian.org, the problem is that the first char is a

Re: mmm and ocamltk80 (Re: Debian sponsor)

1999-10-11 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 10:39:58AM +0200, Torsten Landschoff écrivait: I do not speak french also. Perhaps Raphael could help? What should I precisely do to help ? Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog 0C4CABF1 http://tux.u-strasbg.fr/~raphael/ pub CD Debian :

Re: mmm and ocamltk80 (Re: Debian sponsor)

1999-10-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 12:50:48AM +0200, Torsten Landschoff écrivait: We need to evaluate the license of ocamltk (right?). The english translation seems to be non-free but perhaps the translation if wrong. Where (precisely) can I find this license ? I rapidly looked at www.inria.fr and didn't

Offering gnome-core

1999-10-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
[ Followup in debian-devel, please respect it ] Hi people, i've adopted gnome-core some weeks ago, i've cleaned and checked most of the bugs with the help of Christian Marillat. But it's a big package (in fact many little packages) and you always get new bug reports. I'd like that my

Re: data-dumper missing? (Re: request that base gets testing by test groups

1999-11-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 09:38:01AM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer écrivait: Well, perl-base seems to work, can anyone remind areas where it *may* fail so I can test? A script with use POSIX will fail. data-dumper is apparently missing from your base (it should not). The bug seems to be on

Re: data-dumper missing? (Re: request that base gets testing by test groups

1999-11-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 12:55:46PM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer écrivait: A script with use POSIX will fail. OK, it means POSIX is not in perl-base. No, POSIX is in perl-5.005-base. But some files (autosplit.ix at least) are missing. * Is it a problem? For who? POSIX is needed for the i18n

Re: [thierry.laronde: cgi-scripts introduces potential security holes]

2000-01-15 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 04:25:35PM +0100, Thierry Laronde écrivait: Package: cgi-scripts Severity: critical This orphaned package is, at the moment, inconsistent, lacking documentation, giving scripts that are now almost useless, and placing in /cgi-bin/ Bourne Shell scripts invoking

Re: What Debian-qa policy for sorting packages?

2000-01-23 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 02:13:38PM +0100, Thierry Laronde écrivait: I have made a suggestion for this (Cf dpkg | dselect| apt : Debian-qa fields planned ? thread). Without going thus far, an admin could/should check if he wants to keep packages that are not provided by the selected set of apt

Re: package sysutils_1.3.6.1.deb depends perl5 ??

2000-01-31 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 06:58:55PM +0100, Gabriele Kayser écrivait: Hallo Remco, Hi, No, the problem is not solved, because this packages ar named perl an *NOT* perl5. If I try to install package sysutils_1.3.6.1.deb I get Dependency-Problem-Message, because on my system is no

Re: [thierry.laronde: util-linux (hwclock): bug #37036 reassigned to shellutils (date)]

2000-02-03 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 06:13:15PM +0100, Thierry Laronde écrivait: I have sent some control bugs messages, to close 3 bugs, and to reassign one (the one attached). I have put, as comments, the explanations about the decisions taken. I thought that these mails will be put verbatim in the

Re: Quality advice : split `hwclock' from util-linux ?

2000-02-03 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 08:07:37PM +0100, Thierry Laronde écrivait: Hello, Hi, I have made a bit of cleaning in the BTS about the bugs open against util-linux. With Vincent benediction ? Anyway if what you did is right then nobody will complain. :) The problem is that 15 (25%) bugs are

Re: Quality Assurance for Potato needed

2000-03-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 01:01:01AM +0100, Martin Schulze écrivait: . Are all dependencies and recommends fulfilled within every respective priority fulfilled? There are many many problems for packages within optional extra priorities but for standard higher, there isn't as much. Some

Re: hwtools going multiarch

2000-03-25 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 04:52:14PM +0100, Josip Rodin écrivait: On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 04:09:11PM +0100, Eric Delaunay wrote: but it is not declared orphaned (could be a bug in Debian web pages). Yes, a bug in the BTS. No, it's a bug in the override file. Dear ftpmaster, could you remove

[fh@debian.org: Need help with bug in libnet-dns-perl]

2000-03-31 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello dear people, could someone with a good knowledge of perl have a look at this problem ? That's the kind of work we (as the QA group, however debian-perl is cced since we may find perl guru over there) should be able to do... help maintainers when they requested it. Florian, did you try to

Maintainers needed for freeciv, dcd and lletters

2000-04-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
[ Follow up on debian-qa ] Hi dear developers, Lalo Martins decided to leave the project and as such, his packages must be adopted by valuable maintainers (who can afford the time to fix the backlog of bugs). 3 sources packages are concerned : - dcd (a command line CD player) - lletters (GTK

Re: Maintainers needed for freeciv, dcd and lletters

2000-04-05 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 05:23:01PM -0500, Steve Gore écrivait: not for long..) If Tony is willing to sponsor me on this, I'll take it. Sorry, but Jules Bean is taking it over. Lalo already had taken care of the future maintainers ... BTW, aren't the freeciv-gtk and freeciv-xaw3d packages

Re: Bug 20594

2000-04-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 09:44:37PM +0100, M.C. Vernon écrivait: I was looking at our bug list, and came across this one, which is a reference to a patch to make libregex0 work with emacs18. Given we don't ship emacs18, shall I close this bug? You're a QA member, it's up to you to decide. :)

Re: cucipop's postinst. bug #51359

2000-05-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Wed, May 17, 2000 at 09:19:52AM +0400, Michael Sobolev écrivait: Today I decided to upgrade cucipop package and found the same message I reported in bug #51359. I even provided the fix, but since then it was not fixed. What can be done in this case? Fix it yourself upload the fixed

Re: apache-ssl and mysql on pandora

2000-07-16 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 09:59:23AM +0800, Peter Crystal écrivait: Erm? 'We' ? Yeah, those that try to make Debian evolve ... :) Actually, I support Nils, we really need to put something up for the Project Page. Nils me took a look at SourceForge last sunday and it offers most of what we

Re: Debian Bug Revision System

2001-01-09 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 06:07:29PM +, Luis Arocha -data- écrivait: I haven't received any feedback to my last posts to debian-qa. Is anybody interested in the correct closing classification of bugs? Is anybody interested in the Bug Revision System or am I losing my time? No, you're not

Re: Debian Bug Revision System

2001-01-09 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 12:29:44PM +, Mark Brown écrivait: Of course, if the BTS could be available through a SQL (or LDAP? Ben ?) server, it would even be better/simpler for you ... The BTS is avaliable through LDAP - see reportbug for an example of using it like that. I know I heard

Re: Need for a test suite

2001-02-03 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 08:06:14PM +0100, Christian Kurz écrivait: On 01-02-01 Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: up the release process? The answer is at least partially evident: we need people actually doing QA. It looks like Raphael, whom, AFAIK, was playing QA coodinator, got caught up in

Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-05-10 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, May 10, 2001 at 06:46:02PM +0200, Adrian Bunk écrivait: The only problem with roxen2 seems to be that it's being held up by pike7 that waits for imlib (or it will become uninstallable on alpha) that waits for libpng (or it will become uninstallable on powerpc) that is only 6/10 days

Re: more about /usr/share transition

2001-05-16 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Wed, May 16, 2001 at 08:48:14AM +0200, Martin Quinson écrivait: I think we could make a dh_fhs, which insert the code fragment given in the policy in the files, and move anything still in /usr/doc or /usr/man to /usr/share. Why ? debhelper does already do all this stuff. What do you think

Re: more about /usr/share transition

2001-05-16 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Wed, May 16, 2001 at 10:53:17AM +0200, Adrian Bunk écrivait: Sorry, but these are serious bugs. We want to have /usr/doc symlinks for _all_ our packages in woody. Why ? What does it gain us ? I'm against submitting more more RC bugs that are not worth it considering that we don't have the

Re: [MAILER-DAEMON@murphy.debian.org: failure notice]

2001-05-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Fri, May 18, 2001 at 01:30:47PM +0200, Josip Rodin écrivait: The Maintainer: field of the gtoaster package is broken. Yup it lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] I still don't really understand why we did that change. Either you're working on -qa and you're interested in what

Re: Let's close down the QA committee

2001-07-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 07:25:30AM -0400, Paul Wright écrivait: I don't think you understand what Debian-QA is actually doing. If you would pay closer attention to the debian-qa list, you would discover that [...] I don't understand why someone's first post to a (any) Debian mailing list

Re: kernel-sources

2001-07-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 04:29:41AM +0200, David Spreen écrivait: well, perhaps herbert xu will listen to you, he doesn't listen to me. That's not really a way to handle problems. My problem is the following, I do not know why it is necessary to modify the kernelsource from upstream so much,

Re: Let's close down the QA committee

2001-07-24 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 06:24:07AM -0400, Michael Stone écrivait: On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 05:00:36AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Who has the authority to remove a package in this state, and forestall angry complaints should the maintainer come back some years in the future? Well, the

Re: notes on packages mentioned

2001-07-24 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 04:49:05AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode écrivait: Jordi Mallach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: infocom, int-fiction, jlex, libggidemos, propsel, rocks-n-diamonds, xserver-ggi: this maintainer looks like completely MIA. I see tbm has noticed already : infocom was

Re: Let's close down the QA committee

2001-07-24 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 07:55:13AM -0400, Michael Stone écrivait: The QA committee was designed to play such a role. Sorry. The committee may have been designed that way, but it never had any more authority to act than any maintainer already has. (IOW, a QA Yes, that's true, but many

Re: Request: upload of gcompris_0.6.3-1

2001-08-02 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 11:19:48AM +0200, Yann Dirson écrivait: I have packaged a new version of gcompris, fixing a RC bug for hppa. Unfortunately, I still have a slow RTC modem line and pay for communications. The signed source package is at http://people.debian.org/~dirson/ Could someone

Bug#268418: PTS: Please make latest news pages have static URLs

2004-08-27 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Quoting Jeroen van Wolffelaar: The latest news feature on the PTS has details as http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/spamassassin/news/2.html etc. However, on a new news item, all news will shift one place, and the most recent one will be called '1.html'. This makes linking to items quite

Idea for maintaining packages up for adoption

2005-07-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, I gave a talk about Debian-QA last week during the Libre Software Meeting in Dijon. At the end we had an interesting discussion concerning the packages which have a very small userbase and for which we have troubles to find a maintainer : oprhaned/unmaintained packages ! I discussed this

Idea for maintaining packages up for adoption

2005-07-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
(Resent, sorry if you get this mail twice... I sent the initial message to a wrong email address and i've been blocked by crossasssin) Hello, I gave a talk about Debian-QA last week during the Libre Software Meeting in Dijon. At the end we had an interesting discussion concerning the packages

Re: Idea for maintaining packages up for adoption

2005-07-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
[ Moving the discussion to debian-qa where it belongs, setting the reply-to accordingly ] Le mardi 12 juillet 2005 à 11:58 +0200, Frank Lichtenheld a écrit : I think you are mixing two things here that should not be mixed, sponsoring non-DDs and handling orphaned packages. Either a package has

Re: Idea for maintaining packages up for adoption

2005-07-14 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le mercredi 13 juillet 2005 à 17:33 -0400, Michael Stone a écrit : On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 07:27:58PM +0200, Benjamin Bayart wrote: If you think it is satisfactory, then, well, perhaps there is nothing to change and I'm wrong on that. But if you think it have to be improved, my proposition is

Re: Idea for maintaining packages up for adoption

2005-07-14 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le mercredi 13 juillet 2005 à 13:16 -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : I would be willing to maintain dvidvi, and a few similar random packages like that that I don't use personally but that have a set of users that want them and supply patches for them, once I get through the NM process. While I'm

Re: Idea for maintaining packages up for adoption

2005-07-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le lundi 18 juillet 2005 à 16:36 +0200, Martin Schulze a écrit : Raphael Hertzog wrote: I discussed this with Benjamin Bayart who is a TeX expert and gave me some examples concerning some small packages like dvi2dvi. He's not willing to go through NM to become a Debian Maintainer because

Re: The PTS should list Ubuntu patches

2005-07-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le lundi 18 juillet 2005 à 10:42 -0700, Matt Zimmerman a écrit : I recommend linking to the index of Ubuntu patches grouped by maintainer, now provided by Joachim Breitner. Well the PTS is package oriented so the grouping by maintainer doesn't make sense. It would make sense however for the

Re: Idea for maintaining packages up for adoption

2005-07-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le mardi 19 juillet 2005 à 10:34 +0200, Benjamin BAYART a écrit : and I can't see how the proposal will add anything that can't already be done if you have active users developers. The main difference is between having developpers and having Debian-developpers. When you say a package is

Re: The PTS should list Ubuntu patches

2005-07-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le mardi 19 juillet 2005 à 11:15 -0400, Joey Hess a écrit : Please don't do that. Ubuntu's 1.5 mb patch for base-config is thuroughly useless (as I've mentioned before) and if the PTS starts nagging me about it, I'll have to stop using the PTS. Agreed, that's why it's better to simply provide

Re: The PTS should list Ubuntu patches

2005-07-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le mardi 19 juillet 2005 à 11:46 -0400, Joey Hess a écrit : Why are changes made by one particular derived debian distribution so important that they should be singled out by the PTS? Because they're doing a good job and because those changes are done by DD ... and because the interest of both

Re: Idea for maintaining packages up for adoption

2005-07-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le mercredi 20 juillet 2005 à 09:19 -0400, Michael Stone a écrit : efforts. And, yes, a patch in a BTS is only accessible to developpers, not to users. Users does not know how to apply a patch and compile a program, this is why they use a distribution. bullshit alertSo, ordinary users can't

Re: The PTS should list Ubuntu patches

2005-07-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le mercredi 20 juillet 2005 à 23:44 +0100, tim hall a écrit : Last Wednesday 20 July 2005 16:10, Robert Lemmen was like: so i'd say: a good way to notify maintainers of patches against their packages (apart from the bts) is probably cool. making it ubuntu-specific or (yuck!) applying these

Re: Idea for maintaining packages up for adoption

2005-07-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le mercredi 20 juillet 2005 à 17:52 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG a écrit : Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But building packages from a suvbersion repository can be done automatically. So yes, we could provide automatically unofficial packages to the users. I'm fine

Re: Idea for maintaining packages up for adoption

2005-07-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le mercredi 20 juillet 2005 à 19:52 +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt a écrit : Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But building packages from a suvbersion repository can be done automatically. So yes, we could provide automatically unofficial packages to the users. And furthermore

Re: Idea for maintaining packages up for adoption

2005-07-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le jeudi 21 juillet 2005 à 08:41 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : I'm fine with that, but I'm against making them official packages. That's not your call. The DD who checks the package decides if he wants to upload it or not. What's the difference between your proposal and : - Some

Re: Tracking of recently filed QA bugs

2005-09-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi Marc, Le lundi 12 septembre 2005 à 01:06 +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt a écrit : Heya, Frank and I checked a bunch of very old packages and filed some bugs about them - I just added usertags for my bugs to make tracking easier. Bugs that propose to remove the package and give the

Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
[ Sorry for the crosspost, but the subject is of interest to many people ] Hello everybody, following the last discussion at the Debian-QA meeting on Darmstadt, it appears that the proposal called Collaborative maintenance is of generic interest : - for Debian sponsors and Debian mentors - for

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello Daniel, Le lundi 19 décembre 2005 à 08:24 +0100, Daniel Holbach a écrit : - team maintenance with SVN is more and more popular, and a good web interface above a SVN repo of Debian packages would help all those teams I'd be in favour or a bzr solution, not because of random

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le lundi 19 décembre 2005 à 11:04 +0100, Christoph Haas a écrit : This infrastructure is seriously needed in Debian because: - team maintenance with SVN is more and more popular, and a good web interface above a SVN repo of Debian packages would help all those teams If there is a

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2006-01-05 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi Stefan, On Wed, 04 Jan 2006, Stefan Potyra wrote: I'll just try to restart the discussion with a proposal: Currently I maintain one package (min12xxw, see [1]) for ubuntu, have filed an ITP (#334093) in debian but haven't tried hard enough to find a sponsor yet. Since this package is

Re: Is Christian Bayle [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIA? Can we remove crystalspace?

2006-01-16 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Justin Pryzby wrote: Is Christian Bayle [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIA? No, he isn't. I discuss with him regularly. Can we remove crystalspace? I'll leave that up to him to reply. :-) Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux :

Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

2006-02-01 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Lars Wirzenius wrote: I'm all for a CSS based layout. For automated use of the data, however, wouldn't it make sense to provide some kind of interface that is suitable for automated use? XML-RPC, or whatever, I'm not familiar with the technologies in question. An

Re: Data access for the PTS (Was: Re: Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout)

2006-03-01 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 01 Mar 2006, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: I suppose frankie was speaking about something like a SOAP interface or alike, in order to be able to query the PTS remotely, within a script. Personally I think SOAP is overrated, overhyped, or both. But as the PTS uses XML to store its

Re: Data access for the PTS (Was: Re: Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout)

2006-03-01 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 01 Mar 2006, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: Erm, I didn't want to do that, because it'll open up base/ for everyone to crawl, including spambots. And all the mails are there without any headers removed, including internal PTS addresses that should not be exposed, to avoid spam causing

Bug#311964: How to handle pseudo packages

2006-03-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
The PTS should download a list of pseudopackages so that it avoids giving the current warning. The list is available via rsync: buxy Heya, could you guys please export the etc/pseudo-packages.* files via HTTP so that the PTS can always grab the reference version of those files ? dondelelcaro

Re: RM: oonsoo -- RoQA; orphaned for 500+ days, many alternatives

2006-03-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Matej Vela wrote: retitle 275774 RM: oonsoo -- RoQA; orphaned for 500+ days, many alternatives reassign 275774 ftp.debian.org block 202764 by 275774 block 356098 by 275774 Is this a new policy to block (RC) bug by the request of removal bug ? I find this rather strange

Re: RM: oonsoo -- RoQA; orphaned for 500+ days, many alternatives

2006-03-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Matej Vela wrote: It's just something I've started doing to make these bugs easier to ignore on http://bugs.debian.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]. I find this rather strange ... why not simply CC the bug greports so that anyone trying to fix it will discover that the package is

Re: Testing system upgrade from sarge to etch

2006-03-14 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Lars Wirzenius wrote: I've just ran it, and with the exception of lpr, there were no problems. lpr does cause a problem, but it seems to be because the chroot does not contain /proc and the preinst that runs on upgrade calls start-stop-daemon, which fails due to the lack

Bug#357593: PTS: New package shown as old package

2006-03-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 18 Mar 2006, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 09:35:51AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 01:27:59PM +0100, Miguel Gea Milvaques wrote: This package is no longer part of any Debian distribution. Thus you won't find much information here. The

Bug#357593: PTS: New package shown as old package

2006-03-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: I don't see your point right now. The PTS page is only created once the package is in unstable. At that point, you can't have the removed page. No, the page is also created when there is news, but no unstable package *yet*. So it's either

Bug#359905: PTS: unsubscription fraud possible

2006-04-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, MJ Ray wrote: I probably need to understand how mail gets into the system better before I can see how to prepare the bounce handler. That's easy to check. Login in master and check /org/packages.qa.debian.org/mail/. I don't understand how that could do per-user

Would like to have (regular) report from the QA team

2006-04-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, everybody in Debian likes to have news from the various groups doing interesting Debian work and I think that we should aim to get regular Bits from the QA team (or similar) posted to d-d-a. I suggest to use a wiki page to collect items that are interesting for such a report. Please check

Bug#370087: Please include the package description.

2006-06-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 03 Jun 2006, Goswin Brederlow wrote: Package: packages.qa.debian.org Severity: wishlist Please include the packages description on packages.qa.debian.org. Why? IMO it's not necessary: 1/ The packages.debian.org link in the title will in 2 clicks bring you to the description of the

Bug#378972: qa.debian.org: mia-history does not work

2006-07-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Frank Küster wrote: Package: qa.debian.org Severity: normal The qa page links to section 7.4 in the developers' reference which says that there is a tool mia-history to query the MIA database. First of all, I would have expected that this is in the path, and I would

Bug#389775: please change experimental buildd link with something more descriptive

2006-09-27 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Bernhard R. Link wrote: Package: qa.debian.org Severity: wishlist The experimental Buildd Logs link does not only list experimental package versions but also non-release archs, thus confusing people into thinking there is nothing interesting when there are no

Re: Bug#391023: XS-Vcs-field splitting into XS-Vcs-source XS-Vcs-dpkg

2006-11-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, Geert Stappers wrote: The text tells about the (upstream) source by using the generic name package, the example tells about the Debian directory. So fix the wording... and don't change everything when there has been some serious discussion on -devel and when lots of

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