Re: Upload priorities for NEW packages (was: Bug#827933: RFS: yabar/0.4.0-3 [ITP])

2016-08-03 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi >I agree.  Something known to be >buggy shouldn't be uploaded >anywhere >other than maybe experimental.  When >I talked about low priority in my >previous e-mail, I meant to refer to >disruptive and major changes as you >describe.  Thanks! I would say *everything* is buggy by definition. The

Upload priorities for NEW packages (was: Bug#827933: RFS: yabar/0.4.0-3 [ITP])

2016-08-02 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 12:19:55AM +0200, Jack Henschel wrote: > Thanks for the explanation. Unfortunately, neither Section 4.4 [1] nor > 5.6.17 [2] explain when which urgency should be used (so I just used > the lowest one). Is there documentation for this elsewhere? > [1]

Re: Priorities

2003-01-18 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, martin f krafft wrote: Can you please shine some light on section 2.2 of the Policy? I understand required and important, but the phrasing of optional and extra are a little cumbersome. I think my packages may not all have the right priorities and before I go and fix them

Re: Priorities

2003-01-18 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, martin f krafft said: Can you please shine some light on section 2.2 of the Policy? I understand required and important, but the phrasing of optional and extra are a little cumbersome. I think my packages may not all have the right priorities and before I go

Re: Priorities

2003-01-18 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, martin f krafft wrote: Can you please shine some light on section 2.2 of the Policy? I understand required and important, but the phrasing of optional and extra are a little cumbersome. I think my packages may not all have the right priorities and before I go and fix them

Re: Priorities

2003-01-18 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, martin f krafft said: Can you please shine some light on section 2.2 of the Policy? I understand required and important, but the phrasing of optional and extra are a little cumbersome. I think my packages may not all have the right priorities and before I go

Priorities

2003-01-17 Thread martin f krafft
Can you please shine some light on section 2.2 of the Policy? I understand required and important, but the phrasing of optional and extra are a little cumbersome. I think my packages may not all have the right priorities and before I go and fix them, I need to understand... Aren't almost all

Priorities

2003-01-17 Thread martin f krafft
Can you please shine some light on section 2.2 of the Policy? I understand required and important, but the phrasing of optional and extra are a little cumbersome. I think my packages may not all have the right priorities and before I go and fix them, I need to understand... Aren't almost all

Priorities

2002-06-18 Thread Jeff Bailey
When perusing debian-devel recently, I noticed an email indicating that one of my packages, mailutils, has the wrong priority (Perhaps ones day I'll understand why people talk about bugs instead of simply filing them... *sigh*) So my question is, How are priority important and required selected?

RE: Priorities

2002-06-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 18-Jun-2002 Jeff Bailey wrote: When perusing debian-devel recently, I noticed an email indicating that one of my packages, mailutils, has the wrong priority (Perhaps ones day I'll understand why people talk about bugs instead of simply filing them... *sigh*) So my question is, How are

Priorities

2002-06-18 Thread Jeff Bailey
When perusing debian-devel recently, I noticed an email indicating that one of my packages, mailutils, has the wrong priority (Perhaps ones day I'll understand why people talk about bugs instead of simply filing them... *sigh*) So my question is, How are priority important and required selected?

RE: Priorities

2002-06-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 18-Jun-2002 Jeff Bailey wrote: When perusing debian-devel recently, I noticed an email indicating that one of my packages, mailutils, has the wrong priority (Perhaps ones day I'll understand why people talk about bugs instead of simply filing them... *sigh*) So my question is, How are

Priorities

2002-04-30 Thread Peter Karlsson
Hi! I just got serious bugs filed against two of my packages about dependencies on packages with lower priorities. In one case it is correct (a package with optional depending on one with extra), but in one case all the packages are set to extra in my control files, so I can't really understand

Re: Priorities

2002-04-30 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20020430T055257+0100, Peter Karlsson wrote: I just got serious bugs filed against two of my packages about dependencies on packages with lower priorities. In one case it is correct (a package with optional depending on one with extra), but in one case all the packages are set to extra

Re: Priorities

2002-04-30 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 10:01:23AM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: Either the bug is a mistake or the ftpmasters have overridden your package's priority. One common reason for this to happen is that the maintainer changes the priority of the package in the control file - the archive

Priorities

2002-04-30 Thread Peter Karlsson
Hi! I just got serious bugs filed against two of my packages about dependencies on packages with lower priorities. In one case it is correct (a package with optional depending on one with extra), but in one case all the packages are set to extra in my control files, so I can't really understand

Re: Priorities

2002-04-30 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20020430T055257+0100, Peter Karlsson wrote: I just got serious bugs filed against two of my packages about dependencies on packages with lower priorities. In one case it is correct (a package with optional depending on one with extra), but in one case all the packages are set to extra in my

Re: Priorities

2002-04-30 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 10:01:23AM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: Either the bug is a mistake or the ftpmasters have overridden your package's priority. One common reason for this to happen is that the maintainer changes the priority of the package in the control file - the archive

Newbie Questions about Mentors and Package Priorities

2000-06-05 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
I sent my application to new-maintainer last week, and now i have a few questions. How long should i expect to wait to hear from them? Will i be assigned a mentor or do i need to find one myself? I've package sqwebmail (http://www.inter7.com/sqwebmail/) and pybiff

RE: Newbie Questions about Mentors and Package Priorities

2000-06-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 05-Jun-2000 Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: I sent my application to new-maintainer last week, and now i have a few questions. How long should i expect to wait to hear from them? Will i be assigned a mentor or do i need to find one myself? New maintainer just opened and we have quite a queue