Working with the tools - or around/against the tools

2008-07-03 Thread Sune Vuorela
[Proposal to change how we do stuff] Hi! Currently, when working with the changelog, we seem to in the team to have our own specific style, a style that requires to adapt the changelog from the style generated with usually recommended tools like dch and uupdate. Every time I work around a tool

Re: Working with the tools - or around/against the tools

2008-07-03 Thread Matthew Rosewarne
On Thursday 03 July 2008, Sune Vuorela wrote: > So please. Let us adopt the way dch does it so we don't have to change and > adapt the changelog all the time. This also have the advantage that doing > automatic processing, dch can do the changelog handling instead of own > scripts. We should at l

Re: Working with the tools - or around/against the tools

2008-07-03 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 06:04:36PM +0200, Sune Vuorela wrote: > [Proposal to change how we do stuff] > > Hi! > > Currently, when working with the changelog, we seem to in the team to have > our > own specific style, a style that requires to adapt the changelog from the > style > generated wit

Re: Working with the tools - or around/against the tools

2008-07-03 Thread Sune Vuorela
On Thursday 03 July 2008 20:46:00 Ana Guerrero wrote: > > Now speak up - and by the way, I will consider this as accepted if no one > > speaks against it within the next weeks or so. > > This is not a nice way of handling stuff... so I send a mail with big > changes the week you are off on holida

Re: Working with the tools - or around/against the tools

2008-07-03 Thread Modestas Vainius
Hi, Thursday 03 July 2008, Ana Guerrero rašė: > I do not care at all about using +++ Name or [ Name ] but when more than a > person have worked in the package I like uploading it as a team upload as > we have done until now. So not ok about changing that. However, current practise is not consisten

Re: Working with the tools - or around/against the tools

2008-07-03 Thread Pino Toscano
Hi, Alle giovedì 03 luglio 2008, Modestas Vainius ha scritto: > Thursday 03 July 2008, Ana Guerrero rašė: > > I do not care at all about using +++ Name or [ Name ] but when more than > > a person have worked in the package I like uploading it as a team upload > > as we have done until now. So not

Re: Working with the tools - or around/against the tools

2008-07-03 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 09:12:18PM +0200, Sune Vuorela wrote: > > On Thursday 03 July 2008 20:46:00 Ana Guerrero wrote: > > > > Now speak up - and by the way, I will consider this as accepted if no one > > > speaks against it within the next weeks or so. > > > > This is not a nice way of handling

Re: Working with the tools - or around/against the tools

2008-07-03 Thread Matthew Rosewarne
On Thursday 03 July 2008, Modestas Vainius wrote: > Most of these tasks can be automated by dch if the standard layout is used. > However, dch behaviour depends on having the name of the real maintainer in > the changelog maintainer field to transform personal entry to the team > entry. So what is

Re: Working with the tools - or around/against the tools

2008-07-03 Thread Modestas Vainius
Hi, Friday 04 July 2008, Matthew Rosewarne rašė: > I was thinking perhaps that a few team names/addresses could be specified > in the devscripts conf. dch would always use multimaint mode for those > addresses and preserve the team address at the bottom of the changelog > entry. > > Any other ide

Classic Debian problem

2008-07-03 Thread Ana Guerrero
So, we have in the Qt/Debian team the classic Debian problem of 2 developers not getting along. It started on IRC some time ago and lately has spilled on this mailing list. It has been there for some time now, but it grow a lot with the past KDE3/KDE4 in lenny issue. It is killing my fun of worki

Re: Working with the tools - or around/against the tools

2008-07-03 Thread Fathi Boudra
Hi, IMHO, I prefer dch multimaintainer mode implementation. by the way, we can start to use this scheme manually, no need to wait for dch changes. package (1.2.3-4) experimental; urgency=low [ Joe User ] * doing foo * doing bar [ Jane Hacker ] * Something third * Something fourth