Re: Changelog issues with (among others) tkdiff 1:3.08-4

2003-06-01 Thread Brian Nelson
Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Issues that lintian reports are, in most cases, bugs. Bugs that you >> have fixed should be explicitly described in the changelog. After all, >> lintian reports many di

Changelog issues with (among others) tkdiff 1:3.08-4

2003-05-31 Thread Brian Nelson
Adrian Bridgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Changes: > tkdiff (1:3.08-4) unstable; urgency=low > . >* lintian fixes Issues that lintian reports are, in most cases, bugs. Bugs that you have fixed should be explicitly described in the changelog. After all, lintian reports many different

Re: [OT?] Re: Managing package sources with subversion?

2003-05-29 Thread Brian Nelson
Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 10:12:28AM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: >> I use subversion for some things, but I haven't moved my Debian >> package repositories over yet because I've just had too many problems >> w

Re: Managing package sources with subversion?

2003-05-29 Thread Brian Nelson
"Marcelo E. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was looking for some pointers about managing package sources with > subversion. I've got a grasp of the basics and I have looked at a > couple of examples (most notably Branden's SVN repository for the > XFree86 packages). My main concern

Re: Accepted bwidget 1.6.0-1 (all source)

2003-05-27 Thread Brian Nelson
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 12:15:37PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > >> 1. To show others, especially NM's, what not to do. NM's mostly learn >>by example, and I think it helps to ensure they don't follow bad >

Re: Accepted bwidget 1.6.0-1 (all source)

2003-05-27 Thread Brian Nelson
Christian Kurz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Brian > > On [26/05/03 23:13], Brian Nelson wrote: >> Anselm Lingnau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] >> >* Closes: #159971, #124472, #147059, #70184. > >> Umm, no, the changelog is for listing

Re: Accepted bwidget 1.6.0-1 (all source)

2003-05-27 Thread Brian Nelson
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 08:39:50AM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: >> > Perhaps a separate, concise message to debian-devel-announce? >> >> I doubt it would help. I see changelog abuse as an act of laziness, not >> ig

Re: Accepted bwidget 1.6.0-1 (all source)

2003-05-27 Thread Brian Nelson
Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon 26 May 2003, Brian Nelson wrote: > >> Umm, no, the changelog is for listing changes (*change* log, get it?), >> not for just closing bugs without any reason given whatsoever. >> >> Why do so many seem to have

Re: Bug#190302: Misusage of changelog!

2003-05-27 Thread Brian Nelson
Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 10:47:15PM +1200, Nick Phillips wrote: >> If your changelog merely says "New upstream version, closes: #123 #456", >> it's no help whatsoever, and I will (rightly) think that you suck. > > This is debian-devel: as

Re: Accepted bwidget 1.6.0-1 (all source)

2003-05-27 Thread Brian Nelson
reopen 159971 reopen 124472 reopen 147059 reopen 70184 thanks Anselm Lingnau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Format: 1.7 > Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 01:15:33 +0200 > Source: bwidget > Binary: bwidget > Architecture: source all > Version: 1.6.0-1 > Distribution: unstable > Urgency: low > Maintainer: An

Re: Accepted directory-administrator 1.3.5-1 (i386 source)

2003-05-22 Thread Brian Nelson
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 10:10:28PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: >> * Francesco Paolo Lovergine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030522 21:35]: >> > Ugh, also this one. Do not use changelog for closing fixed bugs. >> > Do it using BTS directly. >> >> The developers r

Re: Accepted directory-administrator 1.3.5-1 (i386 source)

2003-05-22 Thread Brian Nelson
Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 11:55:36PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: >> It's much more helpful to write this as: > > yes of course, but the question is where the line between helpfulness and > usefulness is :) > > At least I think it is not a good idea to tal

Re: Accepted directory-administrator 1.3.5-1 (i386 source)

2003-05-22 Thread Brian Nelson
Guido Trotter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 12:31:14PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: >> > directory-administrator (1.3.5-1) unstable; urgency=low >> > . >> >* New Upstream Version (closes: #176227, #188308, #90276) >> >>

Re: Accepted ptkei 1.18.0-4 (all source)

2003-05-22 Thread Brian Nelson
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 21 May 2003 12:24:42 -0700, Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> reopen 192068 thanks > >> John O'Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 21:

Re: Accepted directory-administrator 1.3.5-1 (i386 source)

2003-05-21 Thread Brian Nelson
Guido Trotter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Format: 1.7 > Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 17:31:23 +0200 > Source: directory-administrator > Binary: directory-administrator > Architecture: source i386 > Version: 1.3.5-1 > Distribution: unstable > Urgency: low > Maintainer: Guido Trotter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Accepted ptkei 1.18.0-4 (all source)

2003-05-21 Thread Brian Nelson
reopen 192068 thanks John O'Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Format: 1.7 > Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 21:40:18 +0100 > Source: ptkei > Binary: ptkei > Architecture: source all > Version: 1.18.0-4 > Distribution: unstable > Urgency: low > Maintainer: John O'Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Changed

Re: Firebird 0.6

2003-05-20 Thread Brian Nelson
Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Everyone, > > From the amount of mail I've gotten I guess people will be > interested. I've uploaded mozilla-firebird_0.6-1 to my personal apt > repository at http://people.debian.org/~eric/debian/. Just add: > > deb http://people.debian.org/~eric/debi

Re: Accepted pointless 0.3-3 (i386 source)

2003-05-19 Thread Brian Nelson
reopen 193287 reopen 193286 thanks Marco Presi (Zufus) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Format: 1.7 > Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 20:30:39 +0200 > Source: pointless > Binary: pointless > Architecture: source i386 > Version: 0.3-3 > Distribution: unstable > Urgency: low > Maintainer: Marco Presi (Zufus) <

Re: Debian conference in the US?

2003-05-19 Thread Brian Nelson
Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> What are other developers' feelings on the matter these days? > > If we're doing "let's have a conf where we normally don't" how about we > have it on the US's east coast aswell. I'd personally argue for the > nothern Virginia are myself. > > Too many con

Re: security in testing

2003-05-16 Thread Brian Nelson
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 10:40:10AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > >> On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:06:47AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: >> > release >> > (Or "released version", "baseline") A version of >> > a piece of software which has been m

Re: i386 compatibility & libstdc++

2003-04-25 Thread Brian Nelson
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 08:51:41AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: >> Should Debian further support the i386 target, or make (at least i486) >> the default for code generation? Asking because I'm unsure how to >> provide the libstdc++5 package. > > Realist

Re: Problems mixing debconf and ucf in a perl script

2003-04-25 Thread Brian Nelson
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 15:26:46 -0700, Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> I'm trying to implement ucf in a perl postinst script, but I'm >> running into problems due to debconf's fuckage with the f

Re: Accepted xt 0.9.1-1 (i386 source)

2003-04-24 Thread Brian Nelson
Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Format: 1.7 > Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 15:07:10 +0100 > Source: xt > Binary: xt > Architecture: source i386 > Version: 0.9.1-1 > Distribution: unstable > Urgency: low > Maintainer: Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Changed-By: Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Accepted cyphesis-cpp 0.2.0+0.2.1rc1-4 (i386 source all)

2003-04-24 Thread Brian Nelson
Michael Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Format: 1.7 > Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 13:30:39 + > Source: cyphesis-cpp > Binary: cyphesis-cpp-mason cyphesis-cpp cyphesis-cpp-clients > Architecture: source i386 all > Version: 0.2.0+0.2.1rc1-4 > Distribution: unstable > Urgency: low > Maintainer: Mic

Problems mixing debconf and ucf in a perl script

2003-04-24 Thread Brian Nelson
I'm trying to implement ucf in a perl postinst script, but I'm running into problems due to debconf's fuckage with the file descriptors, I think. I call stop() as soon as I'm done interfacing with debconf, but that doesn't seem to be good enough when I get to ucf. First, I tried system("/usr/b

Re: Adopting aethera (Email and PIM application for KDE)

2003-04-22 Thread Brian Nelson
Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is anyone interested in adopting aethera (WNPP bug #152941)? The > version in Debian doesn't work with KDE3 but there's a new upstream > which only uses QT. It looks completely non-free, AFAICT. No source, no license... -- I don't know half of yo

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-20 Thread Brian Nelson
Chris Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I followed Release Managers request on how to deal with the libvorbis > mess, if you have a problem with how it was dealt with bring it up on > irc. You should know this already but a message was sent out a week in > advance to the libvorbis breakage occu

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-20 Thread Brian Nelson
Chris Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Of course as you already know emacs includes so many thing unrelated to > editing that anyone using it has already decided they don't mind the > bloat. *OT* Really is there any argument that a psychoanalysis program > in an editor is not bloat? By the wa

Re: curl, testing and gcc-3.2 (?)

2003-04-14 Thread Brian Nelson
Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Matthias Urlichs writes: > >> Maybe it's time to force gcc-3.2 into testing..? > > No, it should go in after binutils gets into testing. What has happened to Chris Chimelis? He seems to be missing since early February, and the last 6 uploads of binut

Re: aspell

2002-12-09 Thread Brian Nelson
Ari Pollak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are there any plans to package the new GNU Aspell (0.50.x) for Debian? Yes. In fact, you can find packages here if you wish to test it out and see how it breaks gtkspell :) : http://bignachos.com/~nelson/debian/ The main thing holding it back is I'm wai

Re: New maintainer behaviour with NMU and LogJam's hijacking

2002-11-30 Thread Brian Nelson
Andrew Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 06:36:06PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: >> On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 17:50, Ari Pollak wrote: >> > Didn't you sponsor the upload? >> >> No, that was me... > > This Colin & Colin confusion has been quite contagious this season, > hasn't i

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-25 Thread Brian Nelson
"Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 08:41:43PM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote: >> So, debian is coming the netbsd of Linuxes.. Sure a novel goal to >> support rare hardware, but why does ot have to come at the expense >> of commodity hardware owners? > > That's an i

Re: Ask yourself some questions

2002-11-21 Thread Brian Nelson
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 02:07:23PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: >> > Well, a likelihood is not a certainly. I, for one, certainly agree with >> > him that kissing girls is a goodness that beats the hell out of card >> > games... >> >> Not me!

Re: isync vs mailsync

2001-09-05 Thread Brian Nelson
heard mail is/has been completely broken in cvs recently. I've tried almost all the options mentioned in this thread (mutt + mailsync, mozilla, gnus) and have settled on gnus. It's really nice once you get it to behave. -- Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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