Re: Would like a sponsor to upload the new version of python-foolscap

2010-01-28 Thread Scott Kitterman
> Elliot Murphy writes: > >> It's rather obnoxious to assume I didn't communicate as an individual >> asking for assistance. When I did that, jwilk told me to add the >> package to the list of packages in the topic waiting to be reviewed, >> as is the standard operating procedure for the DPMT. It'

Re: RFS: python-whisper

2010-01-28 Thread Scott Kitterman
> Elliot Murphy writes: > >> (Sorry for top-posting, android does not allow me any other option). > > I wonder why people who use Android keep on doing this an apologising > for it, instead of the far superior options: > > * don't use Android, and/or > * agitate for this Android bug to be fixed.

Re: RFS: python-whisper

2010-01-28 Thread Ben Finney
Elliot Murphy writes: > (Sorry for top-posting, android does not allow me any other option). I wonder why people who use Android keep on doing this an apologising for it, instead of the far superior options: * don't use Android, and/or * agitate for this Android bug to be fixed. -- \

Re: RFS: python-whisper

2010-01-28 Thread Elliot Murphy
Thanks for that pointer. I have a couple packages that I need to convert which were already published in other archives, so this is very handy. (Sorry for top-posting, android does not allow me any other option). -- Elliot Murphy | https://launchad.net/~statik/ On Jan 28, 2010 6:48 PM, "Ben Finn

Re: Would like a sponsor to upload the new version of python-foolscap

2010-01-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Ben Finney wrote: > I would think a separate task tracker would be more appropriate; the > channel topic should remain primarily descriptive of the topic of the > channel, after all. I'd strongly suggest the use of PET (package entropy tracker) written by the Pe

Re: Would like a sponsor to upload the new version of python-foolscap

2010-01-28 Thread Ben Finney
Elliot Murphy writes: > It's rather obnoxious to assume I didn't communicate as an individual > asking for assistance. When I did that, jwilk told me to add the > package to the list of packages in the topic waiting to be reviewed, > as is the standard operating procedure for the DPMT. It's also

Re: Would like a sponsor to upload the new version of python-foolscap

2010-01-28 Thread Ben Finney
Tristan Seligmann writes: > Are you even in the channel? Often, yes. > The topic of the channel seems like a perfectly reasonable place for > this kind of list, too, so I'm not sure why you object to it so > strongly. I would think a separate task tracker would be more appropriate; the channel

RFS: foolscap (updated package)

2010-01-28 Thread Elliot Murphy
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.5.0+dfsg-1 of my package "foolscap". It builds these binary packages: python-foolscap - object-capability-based RPC system for Twisted Python The upload would fix these bugs: 567145 The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: -

Re: Would like a sponsor to upload the new version of python-foolscap

2010-01-28 Thread Tristan Seligmann
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:50 AM, Ben Finney wrote: > Elliot Murphy writes: > >> I've added foolscap to the /topic in #debian-python > > That strikes me as a rather obnoxious thing to do. Why change the topic > for the whole channel, rather than just communicating as an individual > asking for ass

Re: Would like a sponsor to upload the new version of python-foolscap

2010-01-28 Thread Elliot Murphy
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > That strikes me as a rather obnoxious thing to do. Why change the topic > for the whole channel, rather than just communicating as an individual > asking for assistance? It's rather obnoxious to assume I didn't communicate as an individual aski

Re: Would like a sponsor to upload the new version of python-foolscap

2010-01-28 Thread Ben Finney
Elliot Murphy writes: > I've added foolscap to the /topic in #debian-python That strikes me as a rather obnoxious thing to do. Why change the topic for the whole channel, rather than just communicating as an individual asking for assistance? > but I didn't know where to say about the testing th

Re: RFS: python-whisper

2010-01-28 Thread Ben Finney
Elliot Murphy writes: > Today I have switched python-whisper to use python-support instead of > python-central […] Be aware that, for an package that was *already* in Debian, you would need to modify your maintainer scripts to clean up after the mess left by ‘python-central’ in previous versions

Would like a sponsor to upload the new version of python-foolscap

2010-01-28 Thread Elliot Murphy
Hi! Zooko (the upstream developer) filed #567145 asking for python-foolscap to be updated to the new 0.5.0 release. I have committed a new changelog entry for this, test built and installed a package using svn-buildpackage after running get-orig-source to obtain a correctly modified tarball, and

Re: RFS: python-whisper

2010-01-28 Thread Elliot Murphy
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Elliot Murphy wrote: > Dear mentors and python-module-packagers, > > I joined the team recently, injected my package into svn, and have now > uploaded it to mentors. The package looks lintian-clean, and my test > installations have worked OK. I'll gladly fix anythin

Re: Ongoing Python Transition: related FTBFSes

2010-01-28 Thread Luk Claes
Matthias Klose wrote: > On 28.01.2010 12:50, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> Scott Kitterman (17/12/2009): >>> I believe that we are getting close to uploading Python 2.6 to >>> Unstable and dropping Python 2.4 as a supported Python version. If >>> we finish preparations in the next week, are there any

Re: Ongoing Python Transition: related FTBFSes

2010-01-28 Thread Matthias Klose
On 28.01.2010 12:50, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Scott Kitterman (17/12/2009): I believe that we are getting close to uploading Python 2.6 to Unstable and dropping Python 2.4 as a supported Python version. If we finish preparations in the next week, are there any ongoing transitions a python2.6/pyt

Re: Ongoing Python Transition: related FTBFSes

2010-01-28 Thread Scott Kitterman
> Scott Kitterman (17/12/2009): >> I believe that we are getting close to uploading Python 2.6 to >> Unstable and dropping Python 2.4 as a supported Python version. If >> we finish preparations in the next week, are there any ongoing >> transitions a python2.6/python- defaults upload would entang

Re: Ongoing Python Transition: related FTBFSes

2010-01-28 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 at 12:50:24 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > FWIW, here are some FTBFSes I've reported lately, which look due to > this transition: [...] ... and for those who care about FTBFSs, the binNMUs of pygtk are also all failing (either due to #548211 or not waiting for python2.6-gobjec

Re: Ongoing Python Transition: related FTBFSes

2010-01-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Scott Kitterman (17/12/2009): > I believe that we are getting close to uploading Python 2.6 to > Unstable and dropping Python 2.4 as a supported Python version. If > we finish preparations in the next week, are there any ongoing > transitions a python2.6/python- defaults upload would entangle tha