Re: Outrageous Maintainer

2005-05-08 Thread Tim Cutts
On 4 May 2005, at 6:39 pm, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 04:35:25PM +0100, Tim Cutts wrote: On 1 May 2005, at 8:53 am, Wouter Verhelst wrote: True. However, it does no harm to add the conflicts, while it does make it easier for your users. When presented with a bug in another pac

Re: Outrageous Maintainer

2005-05-04 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 04:35:25PM +0100, Tim Cutts wrote: > On 1 May 2005, at 8:53 am, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > >True. However, it does no harm to add the conflicts, while it does make > >it easier for your users. When presented with a bug in another package > >that completely breaks mine (rather

Re: Outrageous Maintainer

2005-05-04 Thread Tim Cutts
On 1 May 2005, at 8:53 am, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 12:38:41AM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 06:45:26PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: But you remove the package from testing doesn't mean we won't have users with it installed since it was

Re: Outrageous Maintainer

2005-05-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 12:38:41AM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 06:45:26PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > But you remove the package from testing doesn't mean we won't have > > users with it installed since it was present there so, IMHO, the > > Confl

Re: Outrageous Maintainer

2005-05-01 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 09:56:42AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 10:04:35PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > A Replaces without a Conflicts is I think always wrong. > > No, absolutely not. See policy, section 7.5, for details -- especially > section 7.5.1. Policy i

Re: Outrageous Maintainer

2005-05-01 Thread Mowgli
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Just some respoces: (There is several quotings from several people.) 1st the tecnical: Josselin Mouette: > As I understand the issue, I have to agree with the maintainer: the > conflict statement should be added in the wxwidgets 2.5 packages,

Re: Outrageous Maintainer

2005-05-01 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 10:04:35PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> A Replaces without a Conflicts is I think always wrong. > > No, absolutely not. See policy, section 7.5, for details -- especially > section 7.5.1. Still leaves the following pro

Re: Outrageous Maintainer

2005-05-01 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Adam M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > >>Klaus Ethgen wrote: >> >> >> >>>The according bug is #306608. >>> >>> >> >>This is a bug, though possibly not in the libwxgtk2.4-python package. If >>the relevant maintainers (libwxgtk2.4-python, wxpython2.5.3) and bug >>s

Re: Outrageous Maintainer

2005-05-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 10:04:35PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > A Replaces without a Conflicts is I think always wrong. No, absolutely not. See policy, section 7.5, for details -- especially section 7.5.1. -- The amount of time between slipping on the peel and landing on the pavement is

Re: Outrageous Maintainer

2005-05-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 12:38:41AM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 06:45:26PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > But you remove the package from testing doesn't mean we won't have > > users with it installed since it was present there so, IMHO, the > > Confl

Re: Outrageous Maintainer

2005-04-30 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 06:45:26PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > But you remove the package from testing doesn't mean we won't have > users with it installed since it was present there so, IMHO, the > Conflict is need. The bug is in the other package, packages are not required to wor

Re: Outrageous Maintainer

2005-04-30 Thread Otavio Salvador
> "steve" == Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: steve> On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 03:06:31PM -0400, sean finney steve> wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 08:30:38PM +0200, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > >> The according bug is #306608. >> having read through the bug report, it

Re: Outrageous Maintainer

2005-04-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 03:06:31PM -0400, sean finney wrote: > On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 08:30:38PM +0200, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > > The according bug is #306608. > having read through the bug report, it seems to me the appropriate thing > to have done all along was add a Conflicts statement, which re

Re: Outrageous Maintainer

2005-04-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Klaus Ethgen wrote: > >> The according bug is #306608. > > It looks like the issue there (trying to quickly read through it) is if > package libwxgtk2.4-python nedds to declare a Conflicts: with package > wxpython2.5.3. The reason being that both pr

Re: Outrageous Maintainer

2005-04-30 Thread Adam M.
Anthony DeRobertis wrote: >Klaus Ethgen wrote: > > > >>The according bug is #306608. >> >> > >This is a bug, though possibly not in the libwxgtk2.4-python package. If >the relevant maintainers (libwxgtk2.4-python, wxpython2.5.3) and bug >sumitters can't work out a solution, then ask the Tech

Re: Outrageous Maintainer

2005-04-30 Thread sean finney
On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 04:36:29PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Wrong. The other package has a broken replaces header, without the required > conflicts header it needs to have. yeah, looks like i was. that said, the rest of my response (this should be forwarded to the tech committ

Re: Outrageous Maintainer

2005-04-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, sean finney wrote: > having read through the bug report, it seems to me the appropriate thing > to have done all along was add a Conflicts statement, which really does > no harm and does resolve the issue. Wrong. The other package has a broken replaces header, without the req

Re: Outrageous Maintainer

2005-04-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
(reply to public mail sent to d-devel). On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > The problem is that I do not know how to handle with a bug. The > maintainer of this bug is not in the mood to fix the bug he rather > slight the submitters (not only me) in the bugreport and also by private > mail.

Re: Outrageous Maintainer

2005-04-30 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Klaus Ethgen wrote: > The according bug is #306608. It looks like the issue there (trying to quickly read through it) is if package libwxgtk2.4-python nedds to declare a Conflicts: with package wxpython2.5.3. The reason being that both provide a /usr/bin/helpviewer. First off, this is a tad bit

Re: Outrageous Maintainer

2005-04-30 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 30 avril 2005 à 15:06 -0400, sean finney a écrit : > On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 08:30:38PM +0200, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > > The according bug is #306608. > > having read through the bug report, it seems to me the appropriate thing > to have done all along was add a Conflicts statement, which

Re: Outrageous Maintainer

2005-04-30 Thread sean finney
On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 08:30:38PM +0200, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > The according bug is #306608. having read through the bug report, it seems to me the appropriate thing to have done all along was add a Conflicts statement, which really does no harm and does resolve the issue. HOWEVER, that said, th

Outrageous Maintainer

2005-04-30 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, this is a maybe bit OT mail to this List but I think as improoving the quality of debian is a bit toppic of the list. The problem is that I do not know how to handle with a bug. The maintainer of this bug is not in the mood to fix the bug he r