On 2008-03-05, Richard Hecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If the maintainer is truly MIA, that is a bigger issue than any
> single bug. Others have made this argument that we should
Yes. but luckily, we can do both at the same time (fixing bugs and
figuring out wether a maintainer is MIA)
And
Hi debian-mentors,
is there any guarantee as to the order in which the debconf .config
scripts are run when preconfiguring from apt? Specifically, are the
.config scripts of a package's dependencies run before the .config script
of the package itself?
I have an actual use case with request-tracke
Sune Vuorela wrote:
..
the maintainer is MIA and the package can be orphaned beforehand, fine
(but then it's no longer an NMU, it's a QA upload). Changing a SONAME is
*not* acceptable in an NMU without permission from the maintainer. It is
an especially bad idea when doing NMU's as part of a
Hi,
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 01:34:39PM +, Neil Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 12:37 +, Sune Vuorela wrote:
> > On 2008-03-05, Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >> of course is changing SONAMEs in a NMU appropriate if it is appropriate.
> > >
> > > That equates to a host
Hi!
I am still looking for a sponsor for tcng; either long-term or one-shot. If
someone would bother to review and/or upload the package, it would be great.
One of outstanding bugs is RC, and it has been waiting for an upload for
quite some time.
One question: newest lintian complains about doc
Neil Williams wrote:
On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 09:12 +, Neil Williams wrote:
Barry - what about the other packages by the same maintainer (quite a
few of them also have RC bugs)? The reason for orphaning orange applies
to the other packages too. (mia-query does show that voc is MIA).
I
On 2008-03-05, Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, fix known bugs but don't delay the RC bugs just to fix less
> important ones. That's perverse.
Do two uploads ;) - one to "now" and one to delayed.
> All I'm saying here is that sponsors should not expect NMUs to fix the
> full range
On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 12:37 +, Sune Vuorela wrote:
> On 2008-03-05, Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> of course is changing SONAMEs in a NMU appropriate if it is appropriate.
> >
> > That equates to a hostile hijacking. If the package is orphaned or if
> No it don't. it is just bugf
On 2008-03-05, Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> of course is changing SONAMEs in a NMU appropriate if it is appropriate.
>
> That equates to a hostile hijacking. If the package is orphaned or if
No it don't. it is just bugfixing. If it requires binary incompatible
changes to fix it, of c
On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 10:57 +, Sune Vuorela wrote:
> On 2008-03-04, Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Are sponsors going to start recommending changing SONAMEs in an NMU
> > next? Adding -dbg packages? Of course not, NMUs are different to typical
> > RFS activity.
>
> of course is c
On 2008-03-05, Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1. Let orange be removed from Lenny due to the existing RC bug, or
> 2. Let orange behave as it has in previous stable releases without
> fixing a bug that nobody seems to care about.
3. Fixing the bugs.
/Sune
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On 2008-03-04, Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Are sponsors going to start recommending changing SONAMEs in an NMU
> next? Adding -dbg packages? Of course not, NMUs are different to typical
> RFS activity.
of course is changing SONAMEs in a NMU appropriate if it is appropriate.
> Havin
On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 09:12 +, Neil Williams wrote:
> Barry - what about the other packages by the same maintainer (quite a
> few of them also have RC bugs)? The reason for orphaning orange applies
> to the other packages too. (mia-query does show that voc is MIA).
I'll follow up on that mysel
On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 23:20 +, Neil Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 16:07 +0900, Paul Wise wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Barry deFreese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Here is another one of my way too intrusive NMUs that closes RC bug
> > > #465633 and bug #400257
On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 12:48 +0900, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Neither orange in the archive nor the result of your NMU even work for
> > > zip files (with unzip installed) nor other files where it should work.
> > > >>From
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