Re: Bug#841294: Overrule maintainer of "global" to package a new upstream version

2016-11-30 Thread Wookey
On 2016-11-30 16:56 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > On to some questions it raises for me: > > > Optionally, "htags" can generate a dynamic index (which reduces disk > > space usage) but requires an http server setup to be able to serve the > > pages. In this scenario, you will also need to be able

Re: Bug#841294: Overrule maitainer of "global" to package a new upstream version

2016-11-30 Thread Wookey
On 2016-11-30 11:39 -0500, Sam Hartman wrote: > That is, I disagree with you that I need to address the question of > htags and figure out whether htags users are being impacted. > That might have been true for one release. > But over a longer time frame, the really strong presumption is that we

Bug#841294: Overrule maintainer of "global" to package a new upstream version

2016-11-30 Thread Punit Agrawal
On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 4:56 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > Punit Agrawal writes ("Bug#841294: Overrule maintainer of "global" to package > a new upstream version"): >> In offline discussions with Wookey, we came to the realisation that >> reading the various bug

Bug#841294: Global Ballot Thoughts

2016-11-30 Thread Sam Hartman
I'd really like to see the TC offer at least the following advice: 1) We believe that strong evidence is required to hold back integrating new versions of software like global. The burden of proof is on those who propose not to update, not on those who would like Debian to contain current

Bug#841294: Overrule maintainer of "global" to package a new upstream version

2016-11-30 Thread Ian Jackson
Punit Agrawal writes ("Bug#841294: Overrule maintainer of "global" to package a new upstream version"): > In offline discussions with Wookey, we came to the realisation that > reading the various bug reports (including this one) it is not very > clear how global (upstream) is structured, the

Bug#841294: Overrule maitainer of "global" to package a new upstream version

2016-11-30 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Ron" == Ron writes: Ron> Hi OdyX, Ron> On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 03:23:47PM +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> I've been mostly VAC, and only now found enough time to properly >> read through this bug log. In the interest of

Bug#841294: Overrule maintainer of "global" to package a new upstream version

2016-11-30 Thread Punit Agrawal
On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 5:19 PM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > The TC had an IRC meeting yesterday [0], and I (was) volunteered to wrap up > the different outcome possibilities, which would help forming our opinions. > Not all these options are exclusive, or would need an actual