Re: Nitpicking in the NEW queue.

2013-09-10 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi Paul, Le Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 09:12:42AM -0400, Paul Tagliamonte a écrit : README.Source would surely get my attention (as would README.Debian). Acutally, I do not know what is missing from README.Debian to justify the existence of this package. It runs a script each time a kernel

Re: Nitpicking in the NEW queue.

2013-09-03 Thread Charles Plessy
(Long answer, but I promise to limit my messages in this thread). Le Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 01:08:12PM -0400, Paul Tagliamonte a écrit : Yes. For the record, this day when Charles sent this mail, I was working in NEW from early in the morning to about 9:00 at night. I don't want thanks or even

Re: Nitpicking in the NEW queue.

2013-09-03 Thread Paul Wise
Reading Charles' mail I had a thought; how about accepting buggy packages (unless the issues make them non-distributable) and file RC and other bugs if there are DFSG or other issues? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Nitpicking in the NEW queue.

2013-09-03 Thread Luca Falavigna
2013/9/3 Paul Wise p...@debian.org: Reading Charles' mail I had a thought; how about accepting buggy packages (unless the issues make them non-distributable) and file RC and other bugs if there are DFSG or other issues? Although this could be possible, a second upload would be needed anyway

Re: Nitpicking in the NEW queue.

2013-09-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
Paul Wise wrote: Reading Charles' mail I had a thought; how about accepting buggy packages (unless the issues make them non-distributable) and file RC and other bugs if there are DFSG or other issues? Why should we rush to let more broken stuff into the archive? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge,

Re: Nitpicking in the NEW queue.

2013-09-03 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
Hey Charles, On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 05:43:52PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Hi Paul, first of all, please let me clarify that the reason why I answered on our core mailing list is not to fingerpoint if or not you are wrong, but becase this is the only way I have to see if others agree to

Re: Nitpicking in the NEW queue.

2013-09-03 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 03 Sep 2013, Luca Falavigna wrote: 2013/9/3 Paul Wise p...@debian.org: Reading Charles' mail I had a thought; how about accepting buggy packages (unless the issues make them non-distributable) and file RC and other bugs if there are DFSG or other issues? Although this could be

Re: Nitpicking in the NEW queue.

2013-09-03 Thread Gergely Nagy
Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes: On Tue, 03 Sep 2013, Luca Falavigna wrote: 2013/9/3 Paul Wise p...@debian.org: Reading Charles' mail I had a thought; how about accepting buggy packages (unless the issues make them non-distributable) and file RC and other bugs if there are DFSG

Re: Nitpicking in the NEW queue.

2013-09-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! On 09/02/2013 06:04 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: It would have been nice if you'd done such an inspection before you uploaded and wasted the ftp-team's time doing multiple reviews. I fully agree. I don't think it's a bad thing at all to thoroughly check the package, even for minor problems.

Re: Nitpicking in the NEW queue.

2013-09-02 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Paul, On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 12:12:09AM -0400, Paul R. Tagliamonte wrote: I would like that the FTP team please refrain from giving cheap side comments Um.. or ask cheap questions in its rejection emails (have you noticed that the ITP bug was originally submitted as a

Re: Nitpicking in the NEW queue.

2013-09-02 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 09/02/2013 07:38 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Adding to this. I know Paul personally very well and I don't think that he'd maliciously reject a package. I don't think so either. Though what happens is that Charles is being frustrated because of the current waiting time in the NEW

Re: Nitpicking in the NEW queue.

2013-09-02 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 12:47:02AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 09/02/2013 07:38 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Adding to this. I know Paul personally very well and I don't think that he'd maliciously reject a package. I don't think so either. Though what happens is that

Re: Nitpicking in the NEW queue.

2013-09-01 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Monday, September 02, 2013 11:58:41 Charles Plessy wrote: Answering on a broader audience because I think that there is really a drift from ensuring archive integrity to massive and arbitrary top-down nitpicking. Le Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 01:00:17AM +, Paul Richards Tagliamonte a écrit :

Re: Nitpicking in the NEW queue.

2013-09-01 Thread Paul R. Tagliamonte
On my phone, excuse the Cc and (I'm guessing HTML mail) Hi, Charles. On Sep 1, 2013 10:59 PM, Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org wrote: Answering on a broader audience because I think that there is really a drift from ensuring archive integrity to massive and arbitrary top-down nitpicking. Le