On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 02:00:42AM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote:
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 11:54:05PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
Software has bugs, it's a fact of life. New software is more likely to
have unknown bugs that affect more people. What makes the Helix packages
so nice is the
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 12:29:32AM +1100, Donovan Baarda wrote:
packages into unstable. Helix is too stable for unstable, and too unstable
for stable.
Not exactly true, as Helix Gnome is usually more cutting-edge than unstable
Gnome.
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On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 04:06:49PM -0500, David Starner wrote:
packages into unstable. Helix is too stable for unstable, and too unstable
for stable.
Not exactly true, as Helix Gnome is usually more cutting-edge than
unstable Gnome.
In my experience, it's had a bug report to fix
Joseph Carter wrote:
Software has bugs, it's a fact of life. New software is more likely to
have unknown bugs that affect more people. What makes the Helix packages
so nice is the turnaround time for fixes. I don't know how they do it,
but they do.
Maybe they have a dinstall delay of less
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 11:54:05PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
Software has bugs, it's a fact of life. New software is more likely to
have unknown bugs that affect more people. What makes the Helix packages
so nice is the turnaround time for fixes. I don't know how they do it,
but they do.
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 12:29:32AM +1100, Donovan Baarda wrote:
I believe the infamous aalib affair actualy came out of a wishlist
bugreport submitted to them by a user; the then frozen potato aalib was too
low a version to meet all the helix dependencies. This meant people like me
had to pull
G'day Joey,
I'm not subscribed to debian-devel, but wanted to add some comments on this
issue after reading the web archives. Because I'm not subscribed, I dunno if
my Cc to the list will work, in which case you can forward this to the list
as you see fit.
IMHO, the entire reason Helix exists as
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Peter Teichman wrote:
I have one question. What is the preferred way for me to handle our
gtk package? This is a library package that we actually apply some
patches to for a slightly nicer user interface.
Well, we don't have much provision for flavors of shared
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 10:08:43PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
Don't do this. If you're hellbent on forking Debian packages just for the
sake of doing so, or spraying them with Helix musk, then name the packages
appropriately.
helix-gnomecc
helix-gnome-core
helix-gdm
In the case of
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 10:02:04PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
No, there is no difference between our apps and the upstream in most
cases. We do brand gnome-core and gdm, but those are the only packages
I can think of offhand. Those are only graphics changes, substituting
some of our
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 10:12:56PM -0700, Ryan Murray wrote:
stable Debian releases only have security changes and critical bugfixes going
into them once released. I feel that the security/bugfix is more important
than any of the extras offered in the Stormix packages, so your suggestion
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 04:48:19PM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote:
That is one mechanism of creating a private namespace, isn't another
Setting the origin to something other than Debian?
Please see elsewhere in this thread for my other remarks on this subject.
An Origin field is a great idea.
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 01:28:18AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 10:12:56PM -0700, Ryan Murray wrote:
stable Debian releases only have security changes and critical bugfixes
going
into them once released. I feel that the security/bugfix is more important
than
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Branden Robinson wrote:
That is one mechanism of creating a private namespace, isn't another
Setting the origin to something other than Debian?
Please see elsewhere in this thread for my other remarks on this subject.
An Origin field is a great idea.
We have one,
Le Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 03:07:03PM -0500, Joseph Carter écrivait:
Perhaps the existing Gnome maintainers interested could help by working on
the packages in CVS? This takes some load off of Peter who is currently
trying to do the whole Debianization process as well as upstream work
himself
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 10:02:04PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
No, there is no difference between our apps and the upstream in most
cases. We do brand gnome-core and gdm, but those are the only packages
I can think of offhand. Those are only graphics changes, substituting
some of our
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 01:20:48AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Branden Robinson wrote:
That is one mechanism of creating a private namespace, isn't another
Setting the origin to something other than Debian?
Please see elsewhere in this thread for my other
PT == Peter Teichman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
PT This solution looks like the best one. I'll start rebuilding our
PT packages immediately.
Don't forget to put this field in debian/control:
Send-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Christian
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 03:50:08PM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote:
PT == Peter Teichman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
PT This solution looks like the best one. I'll start rebuilding our
PT packages immediately.
Don't forget to put this field in debian/control:
Send-To: [EMAIL
Previously Christian Marillat wrote:
Don't forget to put this field in debian/control:
Send-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Where did that come from That won't do anything at all and will make
dpkg-gencontrol complain loudly at you.
Wichert.
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On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 01:20:48AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
3) Libraries - All possible effort should be made to make Debian the
primary source of libraries. Period full stop. This is so important
because of what we are seeing with helix and their special library
Christian Marillat [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Don't forget to put this field in debian/control:
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Whoa! What packages understand this, and where is it documented?
Christian
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JG Whoa! What packages understand this, and where is it documented?
Sorry this is a error.
The right place for this is in:
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