On Tue, 17 May 2005 11:35:56 +1000, Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Howdy mentors, I'd like to submit patches for a couple of packages
that currently use hand-rolled debian/rules files.
Are the packages in question buggy, or you just find hand
rolled files aesthetically
On Tue, 17 May 2005 12:07:01 -0400, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
This best practice fails miserably if the maintainer is not always
perfectly responsive. As soon as the maintainer goes on vacation (or
MIA) and gets a security hole or RC bug in his package, the more
nonstandard their
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] (va, manoj) writes:
I find myself agreeing, except that I feel that way as soon as
people get away from tried and tested POSIX commands and
dpkg-dev. There are far more people who are competent with cp,
install, mv, make, and other common POSIX
On 20050517T120043-0400, Joey Hess wrote:
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
If I were to receive a bug report, say wishlist severity, containing a
patch that rewrites one of my packages' debian/rules to use debhelper, I
would be very upset: it would feel like an insult toward my style of
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 01:16:02AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
I could, but in charity I shall not, point to cases where the
helper packages are used as a crutch, with the developer having no
idea what was going on , and copying rules files around, engaging in
cargo cult
Autoquote Carran
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
I appreciate the build system for certain red hat and suse packages not
being arcane and distribution specific when I try and incorporate
changes made in packages on those distributions, and I tend to return
the favour.
Grep through the rpm book for all the %
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
I prefer to have these command (usually, mv, cp, gzip, etc)
explicitly present, so one does not have to go looking through the
library to guess what is being done.
Wow, here it is 2005, a whole 8 years since debhelper was introduced and
Manoj still doesn't
Debian Mentors,
I would like to renew my request for sponsorship of the cyrus2courier program
I recently packaged:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2005/05/msg00245.html
-Roberto
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On 5/18/05, Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The configure flags for compiling libgc are: --disable-threads
--disable-shared --enable-cplusplus (obviously with --disable-threads
toggled for the different tests). I'm also running on a
single-processor machine.
Not a hyperthreaded Xeon,
I am interested in becoming a DD. I have asked for sponsorship
for a couple of package I created. chora2, which fulfills an
outstanding RFP, was graciously sponsored by Anibal (Thanks,
Anibal!). It is now in the NEW queue.
My question is what is the next step? I figured that this was
probably
Hi,
I'm looking for a sponsor for my project, Plash:
Plash (the Principle of Least Authority shell) is a replacement Unix
shell which lets the user run Linux programs with access only to the
files and directories that they need to run.
The syntax is similar to Bash, but with some
Hello debian-mentors,
I would like to know what I should do about this email I received from the
maintainers of a upstream package I would like to package.
I understand his reasons for not supporting third-party package. I won't pull
their arms into changing the way they release updates. I
On 18-May-2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
I guess that at some point I need to do the identy verification
step. How does that go? Do I locate some DDs near me and drop
them an email and see if they are willing to sign my gpg key?
As suggested by the documents you've been reading, your
Michael == Michael K Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Michael On 5/18/05, Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The configure flags for compiling libgc are: --disable-threads
--disable-shared --enable-cplusplus (obviously with --disable-threads
toggled for the different tests). I'm also
On Wednesday 18 May 2005 08:06, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
I find myself agreeing, except that I feel that way as soon as
people get away from tried and tested POSIX commands and
dpkg-dev. There are far more people who are competent with cp,
install, mv, make, and other common POSIX
Among the first steps: make sure you can sign emails properly. Your
signature failed to verify on all your posts.
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* martin f krafft [Thu, 19 May 2005 01:19:02 +0200]:
Among the first steps: make sure you can sign emails properly. Your
signature failed to verify on all your posts.
Check your side, martin, verified fine here.
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* Roberto C. Sanchez [Wed, 18 May 2005 18:03:23 -0400]:
I guess that at some point I need to do the identy verification
step. How does that go? Do I locate some DDs near me and drop
them an email and see if they are willing to sign my gpg key?
Yes, that's right. You can check
On 19-May-2005, martin f krafft wrote:
Among the first steps: make sure you can sign emails properly. Your
signature failed to verify on all your posts.
All signatures in this thread so far have verified fine for me.
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Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
I am interested in becoming a DD. I have asked for sponsorship
for a couple of package I created. chora2, which fulfills an
outstanding RFP, was graciously sponsored by Anibal (Thanks,
Anibal!). It is now in the NEW queue.
My question is what is the next step? I
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
I guess that at some point I need to do the identy verification
step. How does that go? Do I locate some DDs near me and drop
them an email and see if they are willing to sign my gpg key?
One of the links I referred to earlier is
http://nm.debian.org/gpg_offer.php
Richard A. Hecker wrote:
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
I am interested in becoming a DD. I have asked for sponsorship
for a couple of package I created. chora2, which fulfills an
outstanding RFP, was graciously sponsored by Anibal (Thanks,
Anibal!). It is now in the NEW queue.
My question
Hello debian-mentors,
I would like to know what I should do about this email I received from the
maintainers of a upstream package I would like to package.
I understand his reasons for not supporting third-party package. I won't pull
their arms into changing the way they release updates. I
Greetings DDs,
I am interested in becoming a new DD myself and am in need of
having my gpg key signed. Your addresses are all listed as
being in the Ohio area on the page the Adeodato referred me
to below.
If any or all of you would be willing to meet me to sign my key,
I would appreciate it.
Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote:
On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 03:10:24PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
A sponsorship for this package would be much appreciated.
Package name: cyrus2courier
License: BSD (w/ annoying advertising clause)
Description: converts Cyrus mailbox format to Maildir
On 18-May-2005, François-Denis Gonthier wrote:
I would like to know what I should do about this email I received
from the maintainers of a upstream package I would like to package.
The topic of other parties redistributing one's software can be
touchy. Above all, remain polite and calm in your
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also sprach Adeodato Simó [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.05.19.0137 +0200]:
Check your side, martin, verified fine here.
also sprach Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.05.19.0211 +0200]:
All signatures in this thread so far have verified fine for me.
That's curious. My setup works, and it has
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