On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 08:55:09AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 08:53:53AM +0100, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > and he was very much annoyed that he was getting bugreports for an X > > > version that he didn't make. > > > > sure, but there is my name and email in the changelog file, this should > > appear in the maintainer field, isn't it ? > > Nope. Doesn't work that way, the one in the control file will. > > > actually i checked, my packages are in potato, branden's one in slink, > > there should be no problem, that's what unstable is for, and we should > > not use experimental for this kind of things, at least that's what > > written in the developper doc, or even the policy, don't remember well. > > Um. Branden also has packages in potato.
???? no X packages at least, no x source that i could find ???? bash-2.02$ lftp ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/source/x11 cd ok, cwd=/debian/dists/potato/main/source/x11 lftp> ls xfree* lrwxrwxrwx 1 ftp ftp 62 Jan 8 1999 xfree86_3.3.2.3a-8.1.diff.gz -> ../../../../slink/main/source/x11/xfree86_3.3.2.3a-8.1.diff.gz lrwxrwxrwx 1 ftp ftp 58 Jan 8 1999 xfree86_3.3.2.3a-8.1.dsc -> ../../../../slink/main/source/x11/xfree86_3.3.2.3a-8.1.dsc lrwxrwxrwx 1 ftp ftp 62 Jan 8 1999 xfree86_3.3.2.3a.orig.tar.gz -> ../../../../slink/main/source/x11/xfree86_3.3.2.3a.orig.tar.gz and i doubt he has powerpc packages, so my upload should cause him no problem, also he didn't respond to me when i wrote to him ... > > > so i thought, ... > > > > but we need 3.3.3.1 for powerpc, and it is against the DFSG to make a > > source less upload of such stuff. > > > > also i don't think using the X packages of the japanese debian folk is > > not the solution, we need true 3.3.3 and up packages in main debian, if > > branden has no time for that, ok, he says it, and people like me will > > jump in, and make the packaging, under his direction would be best. X > > is to huge a package to handle alone. ANd this will not help him in his > > current flamewar about the X reorg. > > If you hadn't noticed, I've had 3.3.3 packages in my home directory for > months. I am waiting to pester Branden about them until slink X is why you don't say it then, there have been people asking for a newer X since ages, and it would have saved me lot of time doing this stuff. and the current X packages, as well as the other packages that we could download from somewhere are incompatible with the current state of base. This is a grave problem, i think ... > fixed, because every one of the changes he needs to make to it will > also need to be made to 3.3.3.1. It only introduces confusion to have > both versions packaged. sure, ... you upload a doted debian version to potato, let's say -0.1, like my packages, so no clash with branden's stuff, and then when he feels like he has time for it, he just check your stuff, and uploads a full debian version (-1 in this case) and your packages will get removed automatically. At least that should be the way to go, and is it not like that that xfree-3.3.2.3a-8.1 was downloaded, with fixes for m68k ? If branden would have had a xfree package in potato, then i guess my packages would have gone to experimental instead ... Friendly, Sven LUTHER
