Re: Changes to Debian Maintainer upload permissions

2012-09-27 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 23/09/2012 17:49, Joachim Breitner wrote: we need to upload all450 packages with no source change That's called a binNMU and is very simple to schedule, as you already know ;) In the OCaml team, we have the very same issue and we try to avoid arch:all packages for libraries and

Re: Changes to Debian Maintainer upload permissions

2012-09-27 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 23/09/2012 17:49, Joachim Breitner wrote: Hi, Am Sonntag, den 23.09.2012, 15:59 +0200 schrieb Joerg Jaspert: The DM flag (and in future ACL) shows that one trusts that one DM to do a good job on that one package. Extending it like this DM may upload all packages of [whateverbiglist] is just

Re: Changes to Debian Maintainer upload permissions

2012-09-25 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le lundi 24 septembre 2012 23:53:01, Kurt Roeckx a écrit : On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 07:33:03PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: package X would depend on the maintainer field of the packages *already* in Debian, not the one in the package he uploads. Just the way it is at One way to read

Re: Changes to Debian Maintainer upload permissions

2012-09-24 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 07:13:08PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: (BTW, source only uploads anyone? Then I can easily do the uploads on my own and need neither the DDs nor the DMs in my team to do what computers can do better.) If it's happening often enough, you may want to think about

Re: Changes to Debian Maintainer upload permissions

2012-09-24 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Joachim Breitner] Would it be possible to extend the syntax to specify lists of packages not by name, but by Maintainer, e.g. pkg-haskell-maintainers@l.a.d.o? Bonus points if such an assigment is expanded at dinstall time, so that the statement “DM 1234 may upload all packages owned by

Re: Changes to Debian Maintainer upload permissions

2012-09-24 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Montag, den 24.09.2012, 11:59 -0500 schrieb Peter Samuelson: [Joachim Breitner] Would it be possible to extend the syntax to specify lists of packages not by name, but by Maintainer, e.g. pkg-haskell-maintainers@l.a.d.o? Bonus points if such an assigment is expanded at dinstall

Re: Changes to Debian Maintainer upload permissions

2012-09-24 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 07:33:03PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: Hi, Am Montag, den 24.09.2012, 11:59 -0500 schrieb Peter Samuelson: [Joachim Breitner] Would it be possible to extend the syntax to specify lists of packages not by name, but by Maintainer, e.g.

Re: Changes to Debian Maintainer upload permissions

2012-09-23 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Gergely Nagy (alger...@madhouse-project.org): Yep, that is one of the solutions I mentioned earlier. Therefore, if a DM does care, migrating to the new system is by all means possible, and they have very little to do, they will not be punished for another person's absence or mistake.

Re: Changes to Debian Maintainer upload permissions

2012-09-23 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Sat, 2012-09-22 at 10:06:35 +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: This new interface replaces the old DMUA field. The old field will stop working on the 24th of November 2012, from then on only packages explicitly granted upload permission to their DMs using the interface described here will

Re: Changes to Debian Maintainer upload permissions

2012-09-23 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 12978 March 1977, Joachim Breitner wrote: Would it be possible to extend the syntax to specify lists of packages not by name, but by Maintainer, e.g. pkg-haskell-maintainers@l.a.d.o? Not with the current setup. We have a m:n relation between DMs and source packages. It's an interesting idea

Re: Changes to Debian Maintainer upload permissions

2012-09-23 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Sonntag, den 23.09.2012, 15:59 +0200 schrieb Joerg Jaspert: The DM flag (and in future ACL) shows that one trusts that one DM to do a good job on that one package. Extending it like this DM may upload all packages of [whateverbiglist] is just wrong. (Of course this is just

Re: Changes to Debian Maintainer upload permissions

2012-09-23 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 09/23/2012 11:49 PM, Joachim Breitner wrote: Also, the real time-consuming work for us is when we need to upload all450 packages with no source change, or a trivial one. Someone assigned with such task as modifying (even trivially) and uploading 450 packages should definitively be(come) a

Re: Changes to Debian Maintainer upload permissions

2012-09-23 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Montag, den 24.09.2012, 00:26 +0800 schrieb Thomas Goirand: On 09/23/2012 11:49 PM, Joachim Breitner wrote: Also, the real time-consuming work for us is when we need to upload all450 packages with no source change, or a trivial one. Someone assigned with such task as modifying

Re: Changes to Debian Maintainer upload permissions

2012-09-22 Thread Arno Töll
Hi, On 22.09.2012 10:06, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: We are using this opportunity to clean up the DM database and will not convert any of the DMUA flags to the new format, but two months ought to be enough for any active DM to ensure their sponsor DDs have set the new permission. please don't.

Re: Changes to Debian Maintainer upload permissions

2012-09-22 Thread Gergely Nagy
Arno Töll a...@debian.org writes: On 22.09.2012 10:06, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: We are using this opportunity to clean up the DM database and will not convert any of the DMUA flags to the new format, but two months ought to be enough for any active DM to ensure their sponsor DDs have set the

Re: Changes to Debian Maintainer upload permissions

2012-09-22 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 11:56:54AM +0200, Arno Tröll wrote: Hi, On 22.09.2012 10:06, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: We are using this opportunity to clean up the DM database and will not convert any of the DMUA flags to the new format, but two months ought to be enough for any active DM to

Re: Changes to Debian Maintainer upload permissions

2012-09-22 Thread Gergely Nagy
Paul Tagliamonte paul...@debian.org writes: If any DM asks me to, and they can show they've made uploads (with DMUA) before this announcement for that package, and that they've not broken things in a gnarly gnarly way (and if their sponsor is VAC, MIA or otherwise not here), I don't think I'd

Re: Changes to Debian Maintainer upload permissions

2012-09-22 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Samstag, den 22.09.2012, 10:06 +0200 schrieb Ansgar Burchardt: During the FTPMaster meeting last week we have implemented the new interface for managing DM permissions[1]. very cool stuff, this makes DMs much more useful in teams with a large amount of packages, thanks a lot! Would it