Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-14 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 11:50:14AM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: What I'd like to see is no more new items added to that list without someone signing up and taking responsibility for them. What I really want to see more than anything with that list is for each and every item to have at least

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-14 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I suggest having __two__ lists: a wishlist and a worklist (with the latter being the existing TODOlist) A decent idea, since items can be moved back and forth as needed. -- Stig Sandbeck Mathisen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-14 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 02:55:48PM +0200, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I suggest having __two__ lists: a wishlist and a worklist (with the latter being the existing TODOlist) A decent idea, since items can be moved back and forth as needed. I've

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-12 Thread Max Vozeler
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 08:06:29PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: Nevertheless, we're indeed currently working on such a framework as you mention. On our list of tests to run are currently install tests (with liw's piuparts), rebuild tests (with pbuilder I think) and lintian (perhaps linda,

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-12 Thread Max Vozeler
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 09:44:07PM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: On 11/07/2005 Max Vozeler wrote: On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 02:33:12PM +0200, Javier wrote: - Encrypted root/swap on the d-i installation. I'm planning to work on this- probably during the next few weeks. I hope to also get

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-12 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 12/07/2005 Max Vozeler wrote: On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 09:44:07PM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: please consider to support luks too. the current cryptsetup package supports only dm-crypt from christophe saout. luks from clemens fruhwirth has many advantages over plain dm-crypt, and i guess

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-11 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: If this compromises their effectiveness, then they deserve every consequence of their laziness. A programmer being lazy does not mean sloppy, unprofessional, incompetence. I think you do not have a concept of what that statement was meant to

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-11 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 08:25:11AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: This is a huge list, with probably 0 chances of getting accomplished. How about this: remove every single item from the list, and only add items when there are people who sign up to be responsible for the work

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-11 Thread Jochen Voss
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 08:33:42AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: 7. Fix up the all the silly typos made in every BTS email sent so far and retransmit. (note: this is after the BTS has decided to respond). ! [1] 8. upload the changes to source code. 9. realize that I

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-11 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello Manoj, On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 08:30:57PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Yeah. I should have realized the level of audience I was trying to talk to. I'll try to speak in words of fewer syllables the next time around. You are actively damaging the project with remarks like

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 10:17:56 +0100, Jochen Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 08:33:42AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: 7. Fix up the all the silly typos made in every BTS email sent so far and retransmit. (note: this is after the BTS has decided to respond).

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 10:29:46 +0100, Jochen Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hello Manoj, On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 08:30:57PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Yeah. I should have realized the level of audience I was trying to talk to. I'll try to speak in words of fewer syllables the next time

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 09:59:52 +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Providing a list of things that need to be worked on, even if not Release Critical, is a good thing IMHO. Umm. I think that such a list has already grown too large to be of value; I can come

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-11 Thread David Nusinow
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 04:56:15AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Thanks, but I'm not a random bystander. Even if I were, I don't see how a compiled TODO for the distribution hinders development or rather, as seen in the previous thread, encourages discussion between developers.

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-11 Thread Max Vozeler
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 02:33:12PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: - Encrypted root/swap on the d-i installation. I'm planning to work on this- probably during the next few weeks. I hope to also get together with Wesley Terpstra and talk about how we can make the framework usable

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-11 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Jochen Voss [Mon, Jul 11 2005, 10:17:56AM]: Are we sure we want someone who is routinely this incompetent to help with bug triage? Seems to me we would be bette off without such substandard help; anyone this incompetent is probably creating more problems than

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-11 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 06:58:15PM +0200, Max Vozeler wrote: A first step could be to make the lintian.d.o scripts run on a lintian.d style directory of scripts, if that sounds reasonable to the people who run that service (Josip Rodin?). That would make it pretty easy to build lists of

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-11 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Friday 08 July 2005 14.33, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: TODO: Should this be in   http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?ReleaseProposals ? It's http://wiki.debian.net/?EtchTODOList - which contains a short disclaimer on its difference vs. ReleaseProposals. Manoj: Mere wishlists by

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-11 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Saturday 09 July 2005 00.39, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 03:49:36PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: IMHO, we should keep dummy packages around for at least two releases, to support upgrades which skip one release. In practice, upgrades that skip a release are not

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-11 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Monday 11 July 2005 09.59, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 08:25:11AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: This is a huge list, with probably 0 chances of getting accomplished. How about this: remove every single item from the list, and only add items

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-11 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ma, 2005-07-11 kello 19:40 +0200, Eduard Bloch kirjoitti: To be honest, I had a similar idea before: every upload has to be approved by at least one additional Debian developer. This would decrease the probability for really broken uploads (because of stupid mistakes or beeing on drugs or

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-11 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 11/07/2005 Max Vozeler wrote: On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 02:33:12PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: - Encrypted root/swap on the d-i installation. I'm planning to work on this- probably during the next few weeks. I hope to also get together with Wesley Terpstra and talk about

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 07:40:23PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: #include hallo.h * Jochen Voss [Mon, Jul 11 2005, 10:17:56AM]: Are we sure we want someone who is routinely this incompetent to help with bug triage? Seems to me we would be bette off without such substandard help;

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-10 Thread Brian May
Manoj == Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] (va, manoj) writes: Manoj ! [1] ??? Manoj ! [2] ??? Manoj Are we sure we want someone who is routinely this Manoj incompetent to help with bug triage? Seems to me we would Manoj be bette off without such

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-10 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 09:55:23 +1000, Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Manoj == Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] (va, manoj) writes: Manoj ! [1] : 7. Fix up the all the silly typos made in every BTS email sent so :far and retransmit. (note: this is after the BTS has decided to :

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-10 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 04:16:40PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Sat, 9 Jul 2005 22:47:45 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: If these are good settings for dupload, why is it not included in the package as the default configuration for dupload? Good by

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-10 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 04:19:55 -0400, Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 04:16:40PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Sat, 9 Jul 2005 22:47:45 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: If these are good settings for dupload, why is it not included in the

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-09 Thread Brian May
Santiago == Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Santiago Well, I consider the idea that old bugs deserve more Santiago attention than new bugs (or non-old bugs) completely Santiago flawed. I wonder how many old bugs are either fixed (but not marked as fixed) or irrelevant (if

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, This is a huge list, with probably 0 chances of getting accomplished. How about this: remove every single item from the list, and only add items when there are people who sign up to be responsible for the work involved in actually seeing that item come to fruition? Mere

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 20:13:57 +1000, Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: 1. Review bugs in web browser. 2. Identify questionably bug that you haven't already looked at before today. Hint: have a local notebook that you mark bugs you look at. 3. Inspect bug report, in new window,

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-09 Thread Christian Perrier
Dunno which section of your list this should pertain but Enforce the use of po-debconf for debconf templates is in my mind. This probably needs a few s/SHOULD/MUST in the policy so that we can file RC bugs on packages which still use the old style debconf l10n system. There are few of these and,

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 9 Jul 2005 07:28:47 +0200, Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Dunno which section of your list this should pertain but Enforce the use of po-debconf for debconf templates is in my mind. This probably needs a few s/SHOULD/MUST in the policy so that we can file RC bugs on

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-09 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Manoj Srivastava] 4. Make dupload obsolete, and replace with dput. Make dput the default in debrelease. I think dput would have prevented me uploading my unsigned package. ~/.dupload.conf: $preupload{'changes'} = 'gpg --verify %1'; $preupload{'sourcepackage'} = 'j=$(echo %1 | tr

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 9 Jul 2005 22:47:45 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: If these are good settings for dupload, why is it not included in the package as the default configuration for dupload? Good by whose criteria? Yours? Mine? Joe random Developer's? What is more important

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-09 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 7/9/05, Manoj Srivastava va, manoj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 9 Jul 2005 22:47:45 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: If these are good settings for dupload, why is it not included in the package as the default configuration for dupload? Good by whose

How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-08 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
Well, since the thread I started has calmed down and since there's a lot of people at HEL [1] with (probably) a lot of spare time in their hands that would be better spent hacking than in the sauna here's my (revised) wishlist for Etch. I've added additional items pointed out in the thread

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-08 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 08, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Feel free to add any other wishlists (or discuss any one of them). I'll try to track the subsequent thread and keep the list current somewhere... Make hotplug depend on udev (this simplifies a lot the hotplug scripts). --

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-08 Thread Santiago Vila
I'm going to disagree with two points here. On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: - _No_ bugs in base packages (well, at least no old bugs). Base system should be upgraded to latest upstream (forward patches!) this includes PAM, modutils... * Base packages should

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-08 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 7/8/05, Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure, old bugs may be the symptom that the maintainer is MIA, that the upstream maintainer is MIA, and similar things that we should of course track as well, but it does not mean that an old bug is worse in any way than a new bug (eveything

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-08 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 02:40:55PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Jul 08, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Feel free to add any other wishlists (or discuss any one of them). I'll try to track the subsequent thread and keep the list current somewhere... Make hotplug

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-08 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 08, Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Feel free to add any other wishlists (or discuss any one of them). I'll try to track the subsequent thread and keep the list current somewhere... Make hotplug depend on udev (this simplifies a lot the hotplug scripts). No you

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-08 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 07:07:20PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Jul 08, Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Feel free to add any other wishlists (or discuss any one of them). I'll try to track the subsequent thread and keep the list current somewhere... Make hotplug

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-08 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 08 juillet 2005 à 14:40 +0200, Marco d'Itri a écrit : On Jul 08, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Feel free to add any other wishlists (or discuss any one of them). I'll try to track the subsequent thread and keep the list current somewhere... Make

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-08 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 08, Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * was far too fragile, with races all over the place which make some things work correctly some of the time and not at all on the next reboot, The solution to these problems is to use RUN rules (what once were dev.d scripts). * requires

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 03:49:36PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: [...] - Remove _all_ out of date dummy packages! (see #308711 and other bugs!) Note: Almost done by ftp-masters, some pending and needs to be reviewed to remove