Bits from the PTS

2003-09-15 Thread Raphael Hertzog
of a complete news item. Here are a few examples of valid mails used to generate news items in the PTS. The first one adds a link to the cvsweb interface of debian-cd in the Static information section: From: Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Browse debian-cd

News about the Package Tracking System

2003-04-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi folks, I just made an important change to PTS. Since the PTS email adresses have been available on the web, they start collecting a significant quantity of spam. As a first measure to avoid them I decided that any email sent directly to the PTS should be auto-approved. Auto-approval is easy,

Introducing Alioth: SourceForge for Debian

2003-03-29 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi everyone, This message announces the birth of a new service: http://alioth.debian.org/ Alioth is a Sourceforge installation dedicated to Debian. Before going into details, I'd like to thank Roland Mas and Christian Bayle who packaged Sourceforge (and it's not something easy!). Special

First Bug Squashing Party for sarge

2002-08-26 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, during the upcoming week-end (Aug 30 - Sep 2), we'll have our first bug squashing party for sarge. Why now ? Because we aim to a short release cycle for sarge and because release critical bugs are already too numerous. If you were unhappy with the long time woody took to came out, it's a

Updated developers-reference available

2002-06-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, a new version of the developers-reference has been installed and is now available. The number of changes is so impressive that you may well read it completely (again). Some interesting changes are : - testing is documented - the Package Tracking System is documented - the new incoming is

Back to work !

2002-04-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello everybody, first I'd like to congratulate Bdale ! I also wish to thank Branden, it has been fun to be a competitor with you. I hope to see you again next year... :-) I also wish to thank everyone who voted for me. I'll try to honor your trust by managing the projects I proposed during the

Please test this woody cd image

2002-04-10 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello everybody, release is coming soon ... and we need a bit of feedback about a new feature we plan to use on CD1 of Debian woody for i386. This feature is the possibility to select a flavor to boot when you boot from CD1 (instead of booting from a different CD for each flavor). We have made

Looking for speakers for the First Debian Meeting

2000-04-29 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, we're looking for speakers for the First Debian Meeting that will be held during the Libre Software Meeting [1] at Bordeaux (France) from the 5th to the 9th of July 2000. The speakers may benefit from a financial help if they can't afford the trip. Feel free to propose yourself for any

Quality Charter for Debian Maintainers

1999-09-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
[ ObPrivate: I want to reach ALL developers, please don't respond to -private but on -devel or by private mail ] [ Reply to set to debian-devel ] Hi everybody, you can find on http://qa.debian.org/maintainer.html what I called a Quality Charter for the maintainers. It is a short concrete list

[INFO] About the perl upgrade

1999-07-29 Thread Raphael Hertzog
[ Reply-to set to debian-devel ] Hello everybody, the perl upgrade is almost finished now. The list of packages that have not yet been updated is below for your information. They are either waiting in Incoming to be installed or will be uploaded RSN (I hope). thoughts Two of them are NEW, this

Perl upgrade : part 2

1999-07-11 Thread Raphael Hertzog
[ Reply-to set to debian-perl, please respect it ] Hi everybody, the new perl is now in potato for about two weeks (in some days) and as expected not all maintainers did make the correct changes. All the maintainers who did not yet correct their packages must be aware that bugs with severity

[Warning] perl-5.005 is in the archive

1999-07-05 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, two persons already complained about perl-5.005 causing troubles on their system. That's perfectly normal, if you install perl-5.005 with tools like apt or dselect all packages depending on perl will get removed [1]. All those packages will need to be updated, their maintainers are already

[NEW] the debian-perl mailing-list

1999-04-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi developers, the debian-perl mailing-list has been created. The persons who maintain perl module packages are invited to join this list. Other people interested in Perl in general can also subscribe of course. The main purpose of this list will be to coordinate the work between the different