Re: what's keeping python2.6? why is Josselin acting like a deaf man when his packages contain critical bugs?

2009-07-07 Thread Jan Geboers
Sandro, sorry again if my comments seemed harsh and a bit too personal, I was having a rough day and was a bit annoyed by the lack of response to any of my prodding. I'll do my best to assist where I can, Piotr has been so kind to help me get started on updating the python-pymssql package. Also,

Re: what's keeping python2.6? why is Josselin acting like a deaf man when his packages contain critical bugs?

2009-07-06 Thread Nicolas Chauvat
Hi, On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 07:34:21PM +0200, Jan Geboers wrote: But if both the python maintainer and the maintainer of the individual package can't be bothered to reply to e-mails or read their bug report that is marked critical, Every day, each and every one of us receives *tons* of

Re: what's keeping python2.6? why is Josselin acting like a deaf man when his packages contain critical bugs?

2009-07-06 Thread Jan Geboers
If tens or hundreds of people are asking the same question maybe it would be a good idea to state a public answer to said question on the python mailing list? If a maintainer is having difficulties with something, it is his responsibility to file a request for help if I remember correctly. On

Re: what's keeping python2.6? why is Josselin acting like a deaf man when his packages contain critical bugs?

2009-07-06 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Jan Geboers, 2009-07-06] If tens or hundreds of people are asking the same question maybe it would be a good idea to state a public answer to said question on the python mailing list? If a maintainer is having difficulties with something, it is his responsibility to file a request for help

Re: what's keeping python2.6? why is Josselin acting like a deaf man when his packages contain critical bugs?

2009-07-06 Thread Nicolas Chauvat
On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 12:06:15PM +0200, Jan Geboers wrote: If tens or hundreds of people are asking the same question maybe it would be a good idea to state a public answer to said question on the python mailing list? Yes, it would be. Asking such a question on this list, you have a much

Re: what's keeping python2.6? why is Josselin acting like a deaf man when his packages contain critical bugs?

2009-07-06 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hi Jan, On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 19:34, Jan Geboershiding@gmail.com wrote: thanks for replying. you're welcome. I dont have much time right now to prepare a large piece on this, but I wanted to say that I have tried to contact Josselin, both by email and debian bug report, but no success

what's keeping python2.6? why is Josselin acting like a deaf man when his packages contain critical bugs?

2009-07-05 Thread Jan Geboers
Hi team python, I am quite curious to hear what is keeping python2.6 from entering debian sid? It's a rock solid release, which has seen many bugfixes, and is the fastest python version ever. The package in experimental has had only 2 bugreports, both are fixed. Please, instead of putting so much

Re: what's keeping python2.6? why is Josselin acting like a deaf man when his packages contain critical bugs?

2009-07-05 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hello Jan, I would like to reply politely: sorry if I will not be able to (or the resulting words don't look like), the intention is this :) On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 11:00, Jan Geboershiding@gmail.com wrote: Hi team python, I am quite curious to hear what is keeping python2.6 from entering

Re: what's keeping python2.6? why is Josselin acting like a deaf man when his packages contain critical bugs?

2009-07-05 Thread Jan Geboers
Hi Sandro, thanks for replying. I dont have much time right now to prepare a large piece on this, but I wanted to say that I have tried to contact Josselin, both by email and debian bug report, but no success so far. I also tried to get in touch with Matthias Klose with regard to the state of the

Re: what's keeping python2.6? why is Josselin acting like a deaf man when his packages contain critical bugs?

2009-07-05 Thread Ben Finney
Jan Geboers hiding@gmail.com writes: Personal attacks are not my intention, I hope my point of view isn't interpreted as such, If that is truly what you want, then you must realise that paragraphs like this: Taking into account Josselin's charming personality I'm quite sure that he