Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?

2007-09-07 Thread Michael Meskes
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 02:03:28PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > Are we talking about the same upstream here? The ones that knew the > package seemingly from the get go and then AFTER it made it into the archive > threatened with a lawyer because the package was named virtualbox > instead of virt

Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?

2007-09-06 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Holger Levsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, > > I'm happy to hear that the team maintainance aspect of this seems to have > been > resolved on IRC. Thanks to those involved! Indeed. I don't know who had the initiative of setting up that IRC discussion to solve that "dispute" but (s)he des

Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?

2007-09-06 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, I'm happy to hear that the team maintainance aspect of this seems to have been resolved on IRC. Thanks to those involved! On Wednesday 05 September 2007 14:26, Josselin Mouette wrote: > If there are restrictions on the package name, this definitely looks > like something all Debian developer

Re: Agreement between parties achieved on IRC (Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?)

2007-09-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 05:33:40PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > Just a quick note to say that after some discussion in #debian-devel > involving Daniel, Patrick, and Michael, and fostered by various DDs > (azeem, buxy, Ganneff, myself), a solution to resolve this situation was > achieved. > Can

Agreement between parties achieved on IRC (Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?)

2007-09-05 Thread Adeodato Simó
Just a quick note to say that after some discussion in #debian-devel involving Daniel, Patrick, and Michael, and fostered by various DDs (azeem, buxy, Ganneff, myself), a solution to resolve this situation was achieved. In particular, development will return to the pkg-virtualbox Alioth project (P

Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?

2007-09-05 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 02:49:25PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 05 Sep 2007, Patrick Winnertz wrote: > > This was no good work which was quicked hacked together. > I'm sorry, but when I upload a new upstream release of Django, I don't > check every new file. > It's all good that you do

Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?

2007-09-05 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 11:39:42AM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Michael Meskes wrote: > > I have no idea what Daniel really did on the package. > I did about 90% of the inital packaging. Which just left the last 90% of the packaging, I guess. > Patrick uploaded removed me from changelog in the

Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?

2007-09-05 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 05 Sep 2007, Patrick Winnertz wrote: > This was no good work which was quicked hacked together. I'm sorry, but when I upload a new upstream release of Django, I don't check every new file. It's all good that you do it, but it's not necessarily a requirement and I find it hard to blame da

Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?

2007-09-05 Thread Daniel Baumann
Patrick Winnertz wrote: > The upload after the debconf shows me that you doesn't really check what > you do there. This package was done and uploaded by Phillip, not me. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: ht

Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?

2007-09-05 Thread Daniel Baumann
Patrick Winnertz wrote: > I add it to the svn you removed it and when i ask you why you do it, you > told me that the tarballs doesn't belong into svn. you never mention any > other place where to put the tarball. > > The only thing you mentioned were debian/rules upstream to build it, so > t

Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?

2007-09-05 Thread Michael Meskes
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 02:01:39PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > My point is, that it is, of course, a serious error, but not a critical > one. It may have not been put well enough in words by me. I cannot speak for our ftp admins here, but I definitely would call this very critical if I was one

Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?

2007-09-05 Thread Michael Meskes
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 02:08:47PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Michael Meskes wrote: > > Are we talking about the same upstream here? > > i did answer to this question to michael in private (nda reasons). You're kidding right? This has to be a joke. Please tell me it is. Or is there another em

Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?

2007-09-05 Thread Patrick Winnertz
Am Mittwoch, 5. September 2007 14:01:39 schrieb Daniel Baumann: > Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > NO. There is absolutely no reason to *knowingly* upload a non-free > > tarball, even named ".dfsg". > > For the records: I did *not* knowingly see that one. Yes. bt a simply "find . -type f | sort > /tmp/new

Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?

2007-09-05 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 05 septembre 2007 à 14:08 +0200, Daniel Baumann a écrit : > Michael Meskes wrote: > > Are we talking about the same upstream here? > > i did answer to this question to michael in private (nda reasons). If there are restrictions on the package name, this definitely looks like something

Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?

2007-09-05 Thread Julien BLACHE
Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Are we talking about the same upstream here? > > i did answer to this question to michael in private (nda reasons). Please post this explanation to -private. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Public key a

Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?

2007-09-05 Thread Patrick Winnertz
Am Mittwoch, 5. September 2007 12:54:23 schrieb Daniel Baumann: > tarballs can be produced with the invokation of 'debian/rules upstream'. > > it is debatable if the upstream tarball has to be inside the svn, rather > than the alioth webspace (which I recommended you to do instead). other > teams,

Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?

2007-09-05 Thread Daniel Baumann
Michael Meskes wrote: > Are we talking about the same upstream here? i did answer to this question to michael in private (nda reasons). -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~da

Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?

2007-09-05 Thread Michael Meskes
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 11:39:42AM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Upstream is generally cooperative and understands the problems, hence I > see this a bit more relaxed (for the next few days only, until it's > sorted out). However, if ftp-master do disagree, I'll can re-upload > 1.4.0, superseeding

Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?

2007-09-05 Thread Daniel Baumann
Joerg Jaspert wrote: > NO. There is absolutely no reason to *knowingly* upload a non-free > tarball, even named ".dfsg". For the records: I did *not* knowingly see that one. > "Yay, Upstream understands the problem, lets upload non-free crap to main" > does > not work. My point is, that it is,

Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?

2007-09-05 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11133 March 1977, Michael Meskes wrote: Not rating the act of adding/removing maintainers in an upload, just one thing: > But he not just added himself, he also changed some packaging stuff and > upgraded to a new upstream version. This seems to be done in a hurry as > he missed some licensing

Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?

2007-09-05 Thread Daniel Baumann
Patrick Winnertz wrote: > I started to check in the dfsg- tarball and you remove it again from the > svn... who should a team work on a package if they doesn't use the same > tarball at all? tarballs can be produced with the invokation of 'debian/rules upstream'. it is debatable if the upstream

Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?

2007-09-05 Thread Patrick Winnertz
Am Mittwoch, 5. September 2007 11:39:42 schrieb Daniel Baumann: > I did about 90% of the inital packaging. I removed one line from the changelog.. sorry for this. I'll readd it within the next upload. > Patrick uploaded removed me from changelog in the two last uploads > (virtualbox 1.4.0svn4130-

Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?

2007-09-05 Thread Daniel Baumann
Michael Meskes wrote: > I have no idea > what Daniel really did on the package. I did about 90% of the inital packaging. Can be seen on http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-virtualbox/ > I cannot find him in the > changelog file. Patrick uploaded removed me from changelog in the two last uploads (vir