Re: Stale ITAs done

2002-01-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 03:16:19PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > 2) There are some wnpp bugs "fixed in NMU". I haven't got a clue >what that's supposed to mean. Typically a screw-up, where somebody made a maintainer upload which looked like an NMU because the names in debian/control an

microwindows build status

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
microwindows is not building on powerpc, but I don't know why. The bug report filed seems wrong to me, and the buildd report at http://buildd.debian.org/stats/?arch=powerpc&state=Dep-Wait reports: libs/microwindows_0.88pre11-4: Dep-Wait by schmitz-pb [optional:uncompiled] Dependencies: freet

Re: Stale ITAs done

2002-01-03 Thread Grant Bowman
* Thomas Bushnell, BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020103 15:10]: > Ok, I've gone through all the ITAs on the wnpp list and used Adrian's > algorithm. > [...] Thanks Thomas! -- -- Grant Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Stale ITAs done

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Ok, I've gone through all the ITAs on the wnpp list and used Adrian's algorithm. Two more wnpp maintenance questions: 1) There are a metric ton of ITPs. *Something* should be done. But I don't know what. 2) There are some wnpp bugs "fixed in NMU". I haven't got a clue what that's suppo

Re: qa.debian.org website status

2002-01-03 Thread Grant Bowman
* Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011219 02:11]: > On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 07:56:12PM -0800, Grant Bowman wrote: > > > > Why aren't these pages in the debian-wml CVS with the rest of the > > > > Debian WWW site? It is due to the PHP generated charts? > > > > > > > > http://qa.debian.org

Re: old ITAs

2002-01-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
On 1 Jan 2002, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > So Adrian Bunk seems to have done the last run-through of this, and > there are a number of packages for which the last mention was his "do > you really still want to adopt this?"--so, Adrian, what's the status? > I don't want to collide with your work.

Re: incorrect QA maintainer addresses

2002-01-03 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 01:57:23AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > You're right, but you certainly shouldn't do uploads just for the sake > > of changing the maintainer field. Fix the maintainer field with other > > bugs (or lintian warnings or update to the latest policy) and then it's > >

Re: Bug 121459

2002-01-03 Thread Michael Schmitz
> See the referenced bug. It first craps out when looking for libnano-X.a which is in devel/libmicrowindows0-fb-dbg or devel/libmicrowindows0-x11-dbg. Ditto for libmwdrivers.a. Looks like it build depends on itself and needs special bootstrapping? Other problems: needs sys/io.h which appears to

suggestion for testing_probs.html

2002-01-03 Thread Daniel Glassey
Hullo, On http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/testing_probs.html would it be possible to link the names of source packages e.g. * Binaries from cannot be installed: to the relevant debcheck page on the qa website http://qa.debian.org/debcheck.php?dist=testing&package= This should help tracki

Re: incorrect QA maintainer addresses

2002-01-03 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Bas Zoetekouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20020103 11:45]: > Hmm, maybe lintian should warn for wrong QA maintainer addresses. There's a bug filed about this already (#126687). -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: incorrect QA maintainer addresses

2002-01-03 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 01:57:23AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > You're right, but you certainly shouldn't do uploads just for the sake > > of changing the maintainer field. Fix the maintainer field with other > > bugs (or lintian warnings or update to the latest policy) and then it's > >

Re: incorrect QA maintainer addresses

2002-01-03 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Thomas! You wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] was the right address some months ago ... the > > mail (bug reports) is still delivered here. So not much is lost. > > Indeed. It's mostly record keeping and BTS simplicity that I'm > concerned about. Hmm, maybe lintian should warn for wrong QA maint

Re: incorrect QA maintainer addresses

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 09:09:10PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG écrivait: > > However, many packages have debian-qa@lists.debian.org, and a few have > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] was the right address some months ago ... the > mail (bug r

Re: very old orphaned packages

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Thomas Bushnell, BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20020102 21:24]: > > a package has been orphaned for three months, it's moved from the > > main archive to the "project/orphaned" directory. And, after > > There is no project/orphaned. What we should be

Re: very old orphaned packages

2002-01-03 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Thomas Bushnell, BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20020102 21:24]: > a package has been orphaned for three months, it's moved from the > main archive to the "project/orphaned" directory. And, after There is no project/orphaned. What we should be doing before woody is released is go through the listing

Re: incorrect QA maintainer addresses

2002-01-03 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 09:09:10PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG écrivait: > However, many packages have debian-qa@lists.debian.org, and a few have > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] was the right address some months ago ... the mail (bug reports) is still delivered here. So not much is lost. >

Re: very old orphaned packages

2002-01-03 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Thomas! You wrote: > http://qa.debian.org/documentation/qa.html/ch-rules.html > > This says that for packages with Priority: lower than standard, after > a package has been orphaned for three months, it's moved from the main > archive to the "project/orphaned" directory. And, after another y

Re: Why is slapd listed as base?

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For the purposes of the freeze, standard includes everything that is in > a tasksel task, and all of their dependencies. Ah, now I understand. Thanks for clarifying.

Re: Why is slapd listed as base?

2002-01-03 Thread Joey Hess
Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: > > > Why is slapd listed in http://base.debian.net/? Probably because it has the same source package as libldap2, on which exim depends. > And also, there are many "optional" packages listed in > standard.debian.net.

Bug 121459

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
See the referenced bug. I would be happy to try and fix this myself, but I don't have access to a powerpc running sid. If someone could either work on fixing this and submit a patch, or alternatively, point me at a powerpc sid box, then I'd work on it myself. Please CC me and debian-qa directly

Re: Why is slapd listed as base?

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: > Why is slapd listed in http://base.debian.net/? And also, there are many "optional" packages listed in standard.debian.net. What's up with these two pages?

Why is slapd listed as base?

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Why is slapd listed in http://base.debian.net/?