Re: [Suggestion] Reject Mail to ITP Bug

2008-08-26 Thread Paul Wise 
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Kartik Mistry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I have seen that many packages are rejected from NEW [1] due to either
 licensing or poor packaging and we know the reasons [2] too.

 It will be very helpful if Rejection is also mailed to ITP (where it
 apply) so, that anyone can look at actual reason and fix problem
 (packaging, contacting upstream for license issues etc).

Sounds good, you might want to ask the ftpmasters if they are willing
to do that, or implement some other solution.

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Re: [Suggestion] Reject Mail to ITP Bug

2008-08-26 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez 
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 04:10:38PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
 
  It will be very helpful if Rejection is also mailed to ITP (where it
  apply) so, that anyone can look at actual reason and fix problem
  (packaging, contacting upstream for license issues etc).
 
 Fine.
 
 If you
 
  - get a uniform (and not too hard) way to know which ITP(s) belong to
the package we just process, if any,

That can be easily determined by looking in the .changes for the
closes field.  If more than one, you can check to see which has ITP
in the title.  If there is no closes, then assume that there is no ITP
and that's it.

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Re: [Suggestion] Reject Mail to ITP Bug

2008-08-26 Thread Thomas Viehmann 
Hi,

Kartik Mistry wrote:
 I have seen that many packages are rejected from NEW [1] due to either
 licensing or poor packaging and we know the reasons [2] too.

 It will be very helpful if Rejection is also mailed to ITP (where it
 apply) so, that anyone can look at actual reason and fix problem
 (packaging, contacting upstream for license issues etc).
Any developer can read them on the ftp-master mirror on merkel.

Personally, I'm not sure that I'd be too excited to have reject mails
archived on the BTS when I'm on the receiving end, but I guess that's
just me. In most of the cases they would seem to add little value to the
ITP bug.

Kind regards

T.
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Re: [Suggestion] Reject Mail to ITP Bug

2008-08-26 Thread Reinhard Tartler 

Joerg Jaspert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 [1] sane does not mean
 - assume that every uploader does it right and closes ITPs in
   changelog (or even mention them),
 - parsing wnpp bug data everytime


How about BCC'ing the reject mail to a mailing list with a public,
web-browsable archive?

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Re: [Suggestion] Reject Mail to ITP Bug

2008-08-26 Thread Kartik Mistry 
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Reinhard Tartler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 How about BCC'ing the reject mail to a mailing list with a public,
 web-browsable archive?

Yes, even publicly available report is also fine.

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[Suggestion] Reject Mail to ITP Bug

2008-08-25 Thread Kartik Mistry 
Hi,

I have seen that many packages are rejected from NEW [1] due to either
licensing or poor packaging and we know the reasons [2] too.

It will be very helpful if Rejection is also mailed to ITP (where it
apply) so, that anyone can look at actual reason and fix problem
(packaging, contacting upstream for license issues etc).

For example, I was looking for why 'command-not-found' package got
rejected, found no way until I speak and discuss to package uploader
(#418613)

Thanks in advance.

[1] http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html
[2] http://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html

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