Re: a2ps borders problem after upgrade
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 10:23:32PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 11:15:10AM +, Colin Watson wrote: Why is there no release-critical bug filed if it's unreleaseable in its current form? There are bugs filed against all of the stupidities of the CVS version that was uploaded. None of them are mine, so it's not my place to upgrade or downgrade them. Individually they're not RC, but the total would seem to be telling. I ask because we have over 1 packages in Debian, and it's impossible to keep track of unreleaseable things when people just mention them on mailing lists. The way to communicate to the release team that something shouldn't be released is to have an RC bug. (speaking as a release assistant) The DPL banged on the apsfilter maintainer, and we went from one that worked but had several wishlist and minor bugs, to one that has a grave bug filed and doesn't work. Then *he* vanished again. Perhaps if the DPL bangs on the a2ps maintainer, the reverse will occur, since we already have the broken one. Well, Martin wasn't doing that with his DPL hat on, but as a QA person. I'm sure you could mail him about both of these, though ... Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: a2ps borders problem after upgrade
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 09:12:33PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 10:58:16PM -0500, Petr Vanek wrote: i am trying to find out what happened with a2ps in unstable. recently after upgrade it does not react to command line switches like --borders=no , so i always print borders and headers even i don't want to. i suspect changes in config files, but am unable to find the new way of setting it up - neither on local man/doc files or a2ps homepage. There is no new way... as you'll note if you actually bother to look at the BTS, there are numerous bugs filed since the maintainer uploaded a broken CVS version and then effectively disappeared. IMHO Sarge shouldn't release with this mess in it, but I'm not the release manager. Why is there no release-critical bug filed if it's unreleaseable in its current form? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: a2ps borders problem after upgrade
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 11:26:35PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 09:12:33PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: There is no new way... as you'll note if you actually bother to look at the BTS, there are numerous bugs filed since the maintainer uploaded a broken CVS version and then effectively disappeared. IMHO Sarge shouldn't release with this mess in it, but I'm not the release manager. Step back to the non-CVS version and you'll be fine. You think you need to be running unstable, so you know how to do that, right? I sent the maintainer and debian-qa emails a while ago asking them to just revert to the N-1 version in sid and put this horribly broken one in experimental or something. The reason why that didn't happen is because reverting is painful: you have to introduce an epoch, which then has to stay around in the package's version number forever. Or else you have to introduce some very ugly versioning scheme. Has anyone actually investigated the bugs and come up with fixes? Perhaps upstream? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: a2ps borders problem after upgrade
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 11:16:16AM +, Colin Watson wrote: Has anyone actually investigated the bugs and come up with fixes? Perhaps upstream? Well, a2ps hasn't had an upstream release (v4.13) since March 2000, and I don't know where it's CVS lives, or I'd look and see when the last commit was. For me, anyway, it's feature-complete, so it's not like I need anything beyond a working 4.13 (well, a fix for the stupid spaces-in-filenames bug would be nice). Googling... ah, it's hosted on Savannah. That makes sense, should have thought of that on my own. ^_^ Last entry in its ChangeLog is dated 2003-01-15. None of the craziness that was apparently done to it in the uploaded version is described therein. Archives of its mailing list are apparently dead. I haven't tried mailing the upstream maintainer. -- Marc Wilson | Growing old isn't bad when you consider the [EMAIL PROTECTED] | alternatives. -- Maurice Chevalier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: a2ps borders problem after upgrade
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 10:58:16PM -0500, Petr Vanek wrote: i am trying to find out what happened with a2ps in unstable. recently after upgrade it does not react to command line switches like --borders=no , so i always print borders and headers even i don't want to. i suspect changes in config files, but am unable to find the new way of setting it up - neither on local man/doc files or a2ps homepage. There is no new way... as you'll note if you actually bother to look at the BTS, there are numerous bugs filed since the maintainer uploaded a broken CVS version and then effectively disappeared. IMHO Sarge shouldn't release with this mess in it, but I'm not the release manager. Step back to the non-CVS version and you'll be fine. You think you need to be running unstable, so you know how to do that, right? -- Marc Wilson | The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Scratch a lover and find a foe! -- Dorothy Parker, | Ballad of a Great Weariness signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: a2ps borders problem after upgrade
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 09:12:33PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 10:58:16PM -0500, Petr Vanek wrote: i am trying to find out what happened with a2ps in unstable. recently after upgrade it does not react to command line switches like --borders=no , so i always print borders and headers even i don't want to. i suspect changes in config files, but am unable to find the new way of setting it up - neither on local man/doc files or a2ps homepage. There is no new way... as you'll note if you actually bother to look at the BTS, there are numerous bugs filed since the maintainer uploaded a broken CVS version and then effectively disappeared. IMHO Sarge shouldn't release with this mess in it, but I'm not the release manager. Step back to the non-CVS version and you'll be fine. You think you need to be running unstable, so you know how to do that, right? I sent the maintainer and debian-qa emails a while ago asking them to just revert to the N-1 version in sid and put this horribly broken one in experimental or something. I'm getting tired of keeping it on hold since September. Can't a DD simply snag the N-1 version from snapshot.debian.net and fix it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
a2ps borders problem after upgrade
hello, i am trying to find out what happened with a2ps in unstable. recently after upgrade it does not react to command line switches like --borders=no , so i always print borders and headers even i don't want to. i suspect changes in config files, but am unable to find the new way of setting it up - neither on local man/doc files or a2ps homepage. any idea? -- bye Petr - Petr Vanek . ./\. Camphill Communities Ontario .. _|\| |/|_ .. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] .. \/... http://vanous.penguin.cz ... __ ... Angus, Ontario, CANADA .. / ... - http://biodynamika.cz http://camphill.on.ca http://camphill.penguin.cz Registered linux user #217487 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
