Re: Ideas for additional large scale tests

On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 10:41 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Well, what I'm looking for is: > > [A] People with good ideas of tests that would improve Debian's > quality, or Free Software's quality in general One idea: double package rebuilds, second rebuild in the same non-cleaned chroot. The

Re: Rebuild results for 2007-05-01

On 5/3/07, Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I rebuilt all packages in sid/main on i386 as of yesterday. Logs of failures are on: http://people.debian.org/~lucas/logs/2007/05/rebuild.sid.i386/ Can main.txt and main.dd-list.txt also have HTML versions so that it is easier to get from th

Re: Rebuild results for 2007-05-01

[no need to CC me, I'm subscribed] On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 08:06 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > Can main.txt and main.dd-list.txt also have HTML versions so that it > > is easier to get from the list of failed packages to the specific > > failure logs? > > Err, it's easy to do for main.txt, but

Re: Removal suggestion: sanduhr

On 7/16/07, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is a gtk+1.2 application that has seen no upstream activity since 2004; it has 22 active users according to popcon, and there doesn't appear to be anything I would describe as a gtk+2.0 alarm clock in the archive, but it's one of only tw

Bug#433894: qa.debian.org: "Updating foo introduces new bugs:" links only to the first link

Package: qa.debian.org Severity: minor Tags: patch When a package introduces new bugs to testing, the "Updating foo introduces new bugs:" links only link to one bug of the whole lot. An example is here: http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/php4-ps.html I've attached a quick and dirty and _untested_

Bug#433894: qa.debian.org: "Updating foo introduces new bugs:" links only to the first link

On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 22:08 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > I'm almost sure it won't work: > > > > > > The XSL only consider the content of and you try to provide > raw text and items mixed. Ah :( > > I'm not sure it is the right approach, making all lines with links in them > > do

Re: autmatically generated watch file

On 8/6/07, Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am afraid I disagree: a watch file inside a package cannot be updated > without updating the package. That means watch files in packages in a > stable Debian release are not going to get updated, they are there just > to confuse people with

Re: Remove groovy

On Dec 10, 2007 7:14 AM, Moritz Muehlenhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It was reported to the Security Team, that groovy embeds a lot of packages, > > several of them security-sensitive: > > Since it's in contrib, it's not security-supported, but given the state of > > it (outdated, > > hard

Re: RFS: zynaddsubfx

On Dec 22, 2007 9:38 AM, Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > tim wrote: > > Has anyone pinged Eduardo recently? This is an important package, which > > needs proper maintainance. The upload should probably be sponsored via > > debian-multimedia rather than QA. Opinions, Offers? :) > > Its in

Bug#458329: PTS: don't show lintian link when there are no lintian warnings

Package: qa.debian.org Severity: wishlist Please don't add the lintian link unless there are some lintain warnings/errors/info for the package. An example of a package that doesn't need the link is here: http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/avelsieve.html -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWis

Bug#373218: PTS: should replace dashes with underscores in lintian anchors

lintian.debian.org replaces dashes in source package names with underscores. The PTS should do the same so that links to lintian.debian.org work properly. An example package: http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/chromium-data.html http://lintian.debian.org/reports/maintainer/[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://li

Re: How are packages associated with resigned debian developers handled?

On Jan 10, 2008 3:37 AM, Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm, debian-qa is not a maintainer, it's not like the QA Team maintains > packages, it is only a go-between maintainers IMHO. I don't really get > the part about group maintenance in this discussion... Historically the QA team has do

Re: remove xview?

On Jan 15, 2008 6:29 AM, Jack T Mudge III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sometimes I wish there were a security warning system in dpkg. Say, a user > loads up Synaptic (or Adept, depending), and when they try to install a > dangerous package -- maybe a server that opens ports by default -- they get

Bug#461000: packages.qa.debian.org: Status report bug list only links to one bug

forcemerge 433894 461000 thanks On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 09:13 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Anyone who want to look at the issue can check www/bin/excuses_to_xml.py. > The XML conversion has not been designed to handle mutiple URL per lines. > Maybe it should just copy over raw HTML in that parti

Re: RFS: alml 2005.01.01-3

On Jan 20, 2008 8:25 PM, Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, the upstream URL seems to have changed to > http://na.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/appuntilinux/ > there also seems to be a new upstream version. > > Is there any indication that anyone is actually using this except for the >

Bug#462470: PTS: don't show changelog-only ubuntu patches

Package: qa.debian.org Severity: wishlist I would like it if the PTS didn't link to changelog-only Ubuntu patches. Here is an example: http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/synfig.html http://patches.ubuntu.com/s/synfig/synfig_0.61.07-1build1.patch -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise sign

Bug#462627: PTS: don't show empty uploaders field

Package: qa.debian.org Severity: wishlist Please don't show the Uploaders field when it is empty. Examples: http://packages.qa.debian.org/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers.html http://packages.qa.debian.org/n/nsis.html -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is

Bug#462627: PTS: don't show empty uploaders field

On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 11:06 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 06:46:32PM +0900, Paul Wise wrote: > > Please don't show the Uploaders field when it is empty. > > I think in the beginning this was intentional (see the markup for the > None string

Bug#463050: qa.debian.org: please list packages in mentors.d.n in TODO section

Package: qa.debian.org Severity: wishlist I would like to see the PTS list packages on mentors.debian.net in the TODO section, with something like this: Sponsor version 1.2.3-4[1] from Debian contributor John Doe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1] here is the URL to the dsc on mentors. -- bye, pabs http

Bug#463050: qa.debian.org: please list packages in mentors.d.n in TODO section

On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 08:39 +0900, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 16:48 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > > - if there is a version to be sponsored on mentors.d.n that is greater > > than the latest available in (what? unstable? experimental? latest?) >

Bug#463050: qa.debian.org: please list packages in mentors.d.n in TODO section

On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 16:48 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > user [EMAIL PROTECTED] > usertag 463050 + pts > thanks > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 01:46:28PM +0900, Paul Wise wrote: > > I would like to see the PTS list packages on mentors.debian.net in the > > TODO s

Bug#443189: PTS: 443189: please use jeroen's buildd pages

Package: qa.debian.org Followup-For: Bug # I'd also like to see the PTS using jeroen's buildd status page instead of igloo's buildd status page since it is more useful. Is there any reason not to make this change or anything holding it up? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signatu

Bug#443189: PTS: 443189: please use jeroen's buildd pages

On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 13:50 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > URL please Sorry, should have repeated the URLs from the original bug report: http://buildd.debian.org/~jeroen/status/ http://buildd.debian.org/~jeroen/status/package.php?p=&suite=unstable > Anyhow the current "ports" link poin

Re: What to do if Homepage seems to have vanished

On Feb 17, 2008 4:59 PM, Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm maintaining the package fastdnaml and wanted to move the Homepage > information I putted into the long description formerly to the Homepage > tag of the control file. When doing so I verified that the home page is > correct b

Re: RFS: QA Upload: mined - Powerful text editor with extensive Unicode and CJK support (updated package)

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 4:39 AM, Mauro Lizaur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > originally (i.e. ~ 20 years ago), we took mined from the Minix > operating system which was a free academic project, > and the mined.doc file did not mention a copyright. > So no, I do not think the original author coul

Re: Sourceforge redirector proxy thing broken?

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Andrew Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was just trying to fix up a watch file for simpleproxy, which is hosted on > SourceForge, and I used the format the man page for uscan said to use, which > uses the qa.debian.org proxy. The thing is, that seems to be

Re: dag2html: a package in need of some love

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 9:48 PM, James Westby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is it even worth it? It's buggy, has a popcon of 12, and hasn't seen an > > upstream update since 2001?? My vote would be for removal. > > I agree, and I haven't seen any interest in picking it up. > > Would anyone

Re: RFS: QA Upload: eterm-themes -- Themes for Eterm, the Enlightened Terminal Emulator

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 11:46 PM, Barry deFreese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is a QA upload for eterm-themes with basically just updating the > maintainer to QA Group, bump standards, etc. Perhaps the pkg-e team would like to take it? Or request its removal or something? Anyone contacted

Re: apache 2

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 9:12 PM, Mirsad Todorovac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IMHO apache2 package should automatically detect whether there is > ProxyRequests in config and warn about including the corresp mod. > > Whadda you think? I think the appropriate place to ask this question would wit

Re: RFS: QA upload of oleo (1.99.16-11)

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:45 PM, Chris Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Lamb wrote: > > > I would suggest that the package is removed from the archive. Any > > objections? > > Thomas Viehmann (tomv_w) asked on IRC whether there was another program in > Debian which could import Oleo spr

Re: Reworking the http://qa.debian.org/ website

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In december, I worked a bit on the QA website[1]. I did some more work > on that, using the CSS already used for the PTS and for > release.debian.org. I'd like to see this added to the CSS: table.small { border-colla

Re: Checking for packages being built twice.

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 10:41 PM, Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mmh, wouldn't it be possible to analyze build logs and search for two > (or more) occurences of the same "text"? I can provide build logs for > all packages in Debian if someone is interested. Is there a tool doing >

Re: Reworking the http://qa.debian.org/ website

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 11:43 PM, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The gain is not worth the poorer appearance to me. Perhaps a different colour would be better? Something like this maybe: http://buildd.debian.org/~jeroen/status/package.php?p=mancala If not, no big deal, I'll ad

Bug#462470: PTS: don't show changelog-only ubuntu patches

On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 16:09 +, Scott James Remnant wrote: > Also note that the source to MoM/patches is public now (see the Code > tab), so if there's anyone on Debian's side who want to help out - feel > free to point it at them. This seems to be fixed now, Scott did you apply the fix? Shoul

Re: RFS: QA Uploads: epplets, libpam-foreground, tkdiff

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Barry deFreese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Epplets: > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/e/epplets/epplets_0.10.dfsg1-1.dsc > Was already uploaded once, got rejected for some missing copyright holders, > which I believe I have fixed. ( I believe anibal_

Re: [RFC] fixing sourceforge watch files

I found a while back that this URL redirects to the files page: http://sf.net/projects/foo/files Slightly more readable than the URL you used. Downside is the extra redirects (sf->sourceforge, files->showfiles.php). -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: MIA status on Jay Bonci.

2008/7/9 David Martínez Moreno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >Hello, QA team. Could anyone tell me (if any) the MIA status for Jay > Bonci > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>? I'd like to take over memcached, and he hasn't > replied to my mail or the bug reports. Any DD can look at MIA data: ssh merkel.debi

Bug#463050: qa.debian.org: please list packages in mentors.d.n in TODO section

On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 12:10 -0300, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 08:43:11AM +0900, Paul Wise wrote: > > > Perfect. Latest available in sid or experimental IMO. > > > > Actually, any version on mentors, since mentors tracks the archive and > > d

Bug#433894: qa.debian.org: "Updating foo introduces new bugs:" links only to the first link

s Team Uploaders Linas Žvirblis Paul Wise Bradley Smith Standards version 3.8.0 Priority op

Bug#499546: PTS: shouldn't suggest packaging new upstream release when it is waiting in NEW

Package: qa.debian.org Severity: normal The PTS currently shows a todo item about packaging new upstream releases even when that same version is already waiting in the NEW queue. Preferably it would not show the todo item in that case. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.as

Bug#499546: PTS: shouldn't suggest packaging new upstream release when it is waiting in NEW

An example of where it does is batik: http://packages.qa.debian.org/b/batik.html http://ftp-master.debian.org/new/batik_1.7-1.html -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: How to implement QA web pages for a certain set of packages

shows even less than the packages in SVN because some > maintainers are using our SVN but stay with maintenance of a single > person for certain reasons. DDPO supports subscribing to more packages, see the info here: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php and my page for an example: http://qa.debia

Re: How to implement QA web pages for a certain set of packages

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Paul Wise wrote: > >> DDPO supports subscribing to more packages, see the info here: >> >> http://qa.debian.org/developer.php > > So your suggestion would be to w

Re: How to implement QA web pages for a certain set of packages

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 3:47 AM, Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Paul Wise wrote: > I do not really want to subscribe and I also think that the general > mail address does not fit. We have different sections and we have people > who are working m

Re: How to implement QA web pages for a certain set of packages

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Paul Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://cvs.debian.org/wml/developer.wml?root=qa&view=markup Actually, looks like that moved to SVN: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/qa/trunk/wml/developer.wml?op=file&rev=0&sc=0 -- bye, pabs http://wik

Re: How to implement QA web pages for a certain set of packages

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes and this does not work as intended because we have one single > email address for more than one page to display (several sections). > Or would you suggest to use "fake" email addresses? IIRC it isn't possible to use a

Re: How to implement QA web pages for a certain set of packages

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (hope that these anchors links will be set - if not its probably easy > to create a patch.) Seems they are set, no patch needed. > So I will write a script that genereates this kind of subscribe > mails. Do you think th

Re: How to implement QA web pages for a certain set of packages

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ---> there is no such section > http://qa.debian.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Seems the team is already the maintainer of those packages so they end up in the main section. You'd need to patch DDPO to be able to split subscribe

Re: Group up orphaned packages in order to find adopter faster

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 5:12 AM, Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, I have seen these nice tools and I'm thinking about this. But I really > hope that the ideas to maintain screenshots more generally inside Debian > (there were several suggestions on the lists - but no implementation

Re: Group up orphaned packages in order to find adopter faster

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the hint. I really like this effort. But if I read: I'm 50% > done from my experience that the last 10% take 90% of the whole time I think > my poin "no implementation" (= no _currently_ _usable_ implementatio

Re: Orphaned packages that were not part of etch, take 2

On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Raphael Geissert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> php-openid - #501946 > > I'm not sure if this one should be removed. There's still the openid momentum > and there is (are?) some packages in mentors that depend on it. Perhaps the people who are packaging stuff that d

Re: Orphaned packages that were not part of etch, take 2

On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Cyril Brulebois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christoph Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (01/11/2008): >> Except for qtparted the popcon numbers are all pretty low. > > I just had a very quick look upstream, and last activity seems to have > happened in 2004. Upstream SVN ha

Bug#506203: QA: 506203: proposed patch

tags 506203 + patch thanks I propose this patch to fix this issue: Index: wml/developer.wml === --- wml/developer.wml (revision 2037) +++ wml/developer.wml (working copy) @@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ $initial = strtoupper(substr($log

Re: List of potential maintainers to contact

On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 4:19 AM, Sandro Tosi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! Here below the list of mia activities I've done; I'll go on with > this list in the next days. Can you clarify the meaning of "nice" wrt MIA stuff (for those not familiar)? >> 10. Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > nice

Bug#509416: PTS & DDPO: generic way to add and remove QA reports to PTS pages

Package: qa.debian.org Severity: wishlist I think a generic way to allow people (inc those not in the QA group) to add QA report links to each package with issues that QA report covers. I think a mail bot is the way to implement this, some ideas on that: To: pts-rep...@qa.d.o new broken-shlibs-l

Re: Custom Debian powerpc cd last yaboot 1.3.14

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Roberto Lahoud wrote: > why is this lenny dist come with such an old yaboot version? It appears as though the Debian yaboot team have not uploaded it since 2006, so yaboot looks like a candidate for being orphaned (and removed from Debian if no-one adopts it), C

Re: Custom Debian powerpc cd last yaboot 1.3.14

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 11:12 PM, Vincent Bernat wrote: > Is there any other way to boot on PPC without yaboot? quik, grub-ieee1275 seem to support some section of powerpc machines. The point is that yaboot needs to be better maintained, not that Debian would remove yaboot without also removing

Re: [Debootloaders-yaboot] Custom Debian powerpc cd last yaboot 1.3.14

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: > Is it reasonable to upload a new release during a freeze? Depends. However, there was about 2 years between the last package upload and the start of the lenny freeze. Anyway, I am sorry for being so rude. I hope you get some additions t

Re: sshguard: Is maintainer MIA?

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 6:02 AM, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > I'm trying to find out about Ernesto Nadir Crespo Avila, the maintainer > of sshguard, because the package is way out of date with upstream and > needs some love. > > I mailed Ernesto at his last known address a week ago, offering to >

Re: RFS: autoconf-archive

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Deng Xiyue wrote: > I'm now CCing debian-qa@lists.debian.org to query the MIA > status of Qingning Huo , and asking for suggestions > for the current situation: whether to continue this NMU or to > co-maintain the package. Thanks in advance. Last activity was 1s

Bug#509416: PTS & DDPO: generic way to add and remove QA reports to PTS pages

On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 13:32 +0100, Christoph Berg wrote: > Hmm, this sounds a bit overkillish. What if we do it the other way > round, and have the ability to display groups of packages in DDPO more > easily that are affected by something? I guess importing some of > pkgreport.cgi's abilities to l

Re: Links in DDPO

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:15 AM, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > 1. I discovered that the "More" option for binary packages under the > Buildd line in the DDPO pages seem broken; they point to the (now > missing) pages on ~igloo. See #506203 (has a patch since November, the patch needs a s/jeroen/luk/ no

Re: Removing orphaned packages from testing

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Barry deFreese wrote: > I'm struggling a little with this. Same. For example defoma has 113 rbdepends & 148 rdepends. Removing all of them would likely remove all fonts from Debian. I don't think it is acceptable to break testing this much. Perhaps removing al

Re: Removing orphaned packages from testing

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > I see many people interested in removing packages, I would like people > interested in finding maintainers for orphaned packages. It's a task > that can be done by everybody (no need to be DD/DM) and we should try to > recruit some volunte

Re: Removing orphaned packages from testing

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Raphael Geissert wrote: > If there are 148 packages there should be at least what, 20 maintainers? (I > would hope there are far more) why don't they, or the fonts team, adopt > defoma? or replace it with something else? 16 months of preparation of > squeeze shoul

Bug#516589: PTS: packages without an Ubuntu source package have invalid XHTML

Package: qa.debian.org Severity: normal Just noticed the linux-2.6 PTS page does not validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict. Here is the validation link: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fpackages.qa.debian.org%2Fl%2Flinux-2.6.html I've also attached the HTML file given by wget. This seems t

Re: Help with watch file (Was: gnumed-client: New upstream version available)

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: > So I wonder whether I missed some trick in my watch file or whether this > should rather be regarded as an uscan bug which should go back to the > directory with the next lower version number and scan the files there. Until uscan gets smart

Re: Help with watch file (Was: gnumed-client: New upstream version available)

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Paul Wise wrote: >> Until uscan gets smarter about cases like these, how about this? > > Should I file a wishlist bug report about this or is this work in progress > anyway? There doesn't appear

Re: Sponsor of xemeraldia

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 3:56 AM, Marco Rodrigues wrote: > Could someone sponsor the QA upload of xemeraldia? Perhaps the games team should adopt this one? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: Replacing defoma [was: Removing orphaned packages from testing]

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Paul Hardy wrote: > Do you have enough familiarity with defoma to put together a guide for > font maintainers to transition from defoma to whatever the alternative > will be?  Should we just use fontconfig for TrueType/OpenType fonts? > I use defoma for installing

Re: Help with watch file (Was: gnumed-client: New upstream version available)

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Paul Wise wrote: > >> Until uscan gets smarter about cases like these, how about this? >> >> version=3 >> http://www.gnumed.de/download/ \ >>  http://www.gnumed.de/downloads/client/[

Re: Roland Rosenfeld MIA?

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: > at Linux-Tage Chemnitz I've got a request from a user who reported > a bug including patch against xfig which did not recieved any > reesponse by the maintainer.  Looking at the bug page of Roland > I wonder whether he is MIA and his package

Re: Roland Rosenfeld MIA?

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 2:03 AM, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Luk Claes wrote: > >> I would rather think of forming an inter-distribution team (per package >> or globaly if that would make sense) to take over upstream. For >> bash-completion that worked out very well. > > That's wha

Re: piuparts PTS integration

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Holger Levsen wrote: > http://piuparts.debian.org is more or less back, (a bit polishing is still on > my todo before I'm comfortable announcing it on d-d-a) and I'm wondering how > to do the PTS integration. > > http://wiki.debian.org/piuparts#PiupartsandPTSinteg

Re: piuparts PTS integration

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Dienstag, 17. März 2009, Paul Wise wrote: >> I'd like to see such integration more generalised: >> http://bugs.debian.org/509416 > > This involves filing bugs, I don't want to do that automatically

Re: piuparts PTS integration

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > The problem is, a piuparts run on all packages in a distro now takes 4-6 > weeks, and Debian changes a lot, so there are bugs to be filed constantly. Is this something that could be outsourced to Grid5000 to speed it up? -- bye, pabs htt

Bug#520854: PTS: no longer lists the number of Ubuntu bugs

Package: qa.debian.org Severity: normal The PTS no longer lists the number of Ubuntu bugs in the Ubuntu section of the page. Here are a couple of examples (static copies attached): http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/chromium.html https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium http://packages.qa

Re: does /var/games have to be deleted on purge? (if it's empty..)

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 2:33 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: > I don't see much real benefit in going out of our way to remove /var/games > and it looks like it would be a bit annoying (at the least, require adding > purge code to all games that put files in /var/games that would usually > never be trigge

Re: does /var/games have to be deleted on purge? (if it's empty..)

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Mittwoch, 8. April 2009, Bill Allombert wrote: >> Unless policy is changed to make clear that /var/games can be removed >> at any time, and thus that package cannot just ship /var/games in the >> deb and expect it to be available when runn

Re: debian/watch sf redirector docs ?

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Sure, go ahead and see your watch files fail within a month, or whenever > sourceforge makes yet another change on their website. > It has already happened with the ftp mirror, the website, the > downloads.sf.net pages, now the rest of th

Re: debian/watch sf redirector docs ?

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Raphael Geissert wrote: > "Improving" is very subjective, but I do plan to make another attempt. I find the recent changes to be a vast improvement on the old web interface and the old set of features. > There was a ticket open which tried to reach an agreement

Re: script to query WNPP bugs using debtags

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 7:26 AM, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: > Perhaps someone could point out where from I can grab the code for > wnpp.debian.net? (see below why) See the first result here: http://www.google.com/search?q=wnpp.debian.net+code -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise --

Re: UDD news

On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: > I alsohave a question: I have read that carnivore tables are > used for MIA status but I have no idea how.  I'm considering > to add soem information about the maintainer to the blends bugs > pages and this would be interesting. That inform

Bug#506203: QA: 506203: proposed patch

On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 20:05 +0900, Paul Wise wrote: > I propose this patch to fix this issue: That patch has bitrotten since the URLs changed over time and oldpeople no longer runs PHP. I've attached a new patch. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise Index: wml/devel

Re: Debconf QA BOF summary / handling of orphaned packages

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Removal of orphaned packages > > The audience clearly want orphaned packages to be removed. I'm not quite > sure it's reasonable to do that. However, clearly, there's no opposition > to this idea. When snapshots

Re: Bug#541013: O: at -- Delayed job execution and batch processing

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > Anyone interested in co maintaining that?  Upstream is non existent, > there are quite some bugs in the bts and the package is priority > standard.  Doesn't sound like a package someone should adopt all alone. It is worth noting

Bug#545785: PTS: lintian link issues

Package: qa.debian.org Severity: normal User: qa.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: pts [Copies of all the html from the links below is in the attached tarball] The libicns PTS page links to lintian.d.o even though there are no lintian complaints for libicns: http://packages.qa.debian.org/

Re: No more userdir on merkel (Was: UDD upload-history update-command broken)

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Raphael Geissert wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 04:16:33PM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: >>> Am I the only one quite unhappy with this change? If I'm alone, no >>> problem, I'll find something else, but if we are a bit more, what do >>> you think about contacting D

Re: Gathering package upstream meta-data in the UDD. (was: Re: more formally indicating the registration URL)

This idea of extra metadata storage is really excellent. I'd like to suggest the following: Move this thread to debian-devel for a wider discussion. Move the upstream-metadata.yaml, Homepage, debian/watch out of source packages since they need to be able to change independently of the Debian pac

add information on what was adopted to the WNPP report?

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:28 AM, wrote: > Total number of orphaned packages: 683 (new: 20) > Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 147 (new: 0) > Total number of packages requested help for: 53 (new: 0) This is kinda depressing, it would be nice to see information on what was adopte

Re: RFC: organising focused BSPs

I consider this to be an absolutely excellent idea. We in the Debian Games team considered a similar concept: http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Parties Absolutely the main point of these is to get more/new people involved (especially those not yet involved in Debian), *not* to get stuff done. Getting

Re: RFC: organising focused BSPs

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 12:19 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > To make understand what this is about I suggest using a common name and > I don't think it would be wise to overload "BSP". I don't mind choosing > "Bug Day" for Debian too. If you like it, you can probably just go ahead > and announce

Re: How long does debtag information need to propagate to UDD

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: > So my question is: How to track the path the information on the public > DebTags interface to UDD?  I might try and read the code of the debtags > importer but my hope is somebody is able to give a quick answer and has > an idea who is real

Re: How to re-upload a removed package?

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 12:52 AM, Alejandro Rios wrote: > 1. Should I upload it to unstable or to proposed-updates? That depends on your intention. At the minimum, the security issue should be fixed in oldstable even though security support for it expires in February. For that you need to follow

Re: How long does debtag information need to propagate to UDD

On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 2:39 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > UDD imports debtags from > http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/*checkout*/debtags/tagdb/tags (that code > was written by zack). Should we do something else? It appears that those are the tags after approval by enrico, so that should be fine. Lo

Bug#562109: patch for maintainers-needed.pl

On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 00:44 +0100, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: > ps. I understand that maintainers-needed.pl isn't actively maintained (funny > that) and I'm not a DD to apply it myself, so I'm cc'ing Paul who's requested > the feature in the first place While I'm subscribed to debian-qa, I'm not a

add font review links to the PTS?

Hi all, pkg-fonts would like to add links from the PTS to our font review pages for each binary package containing a font. What information would the PTS need in order for us to add this? Here are some links to the review index, the review for ttf-dejavu-core and DejaVu Sans. http://pkg-fonts.ali

Re: add font review links to the PTS?

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I confess it is not clear to me the purpose of adding this to the > PTS. Or better, it is not clear to me in which part of the PTS you want > that. Do you want a link in the links section like the homepage > stuff. That would be reasona

Re: add font review links to the PTS?

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > OK then, we'll do the mapping binary -> source, we already have the > needed map. Great, thanks. >> How about something like this? (not sure if it is valid YAML) > > Nope, this one is structured "purpose"-first, package then. I'd pref

Re: Missing information about binary packages in new queue

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 03:03:24PM +0100, Torsten Werner wrote: >> Andreas Tille schrieb: >> > How do I get the short and long description of >> > the package acetoneiso which is currently in new? >> >> are you looking for >>

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