Re: If you can't describe what the package is, you probably should not Intend To Package it.

2017-01-31 Thread Philip Hands
Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes: > Adam Borowski writes ("Re: If you can't describe what the package is, you > probably should not Intend To Package it."): >> On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 12:17:29PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: >> > Mayb

Re: If you can't describe what the package is, you probably should not Intend To Package it.

2017-01-31 Thread Ian Jackson
Adam Borowski writes ("Re: If you can't describe what the package is, you probably should not Intend To Package it."): > On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 12:17:29PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > Maybe adding a note stating 'this content is autogenerated and should > > be hand-re

Re: If you can't describe what the package is, you probably should not Intend To Package it.

2017-01-31 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 12:17:29PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Jordi Mallach dijo [Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 12:38:18PM +0100]: > > I know dh-make-golang creates an "ITP template" that you edit to > > correct/improve the autogenerated stuff, and the description comes > > directly from the README.md in

Re: If you can't describe what the package is, you probably should not Intend To Package it.

2017-01-31 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Hi Jordi, Jordi Mallach dijo [Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 12:38:18PM +0100]: > I know dh-make-golang creates an "ITP template" that you edit to > correct/improve the autogenerated stuff, and the description comes > directly from the README.md in the github repo. I wonder if the nodejs > stuff does

Re: If you can't describe what the package is, you probably should not Intend To Package it.

2017-01-31 Thread Ben Finney
Ben Finney writes: > Howdy all, My apologies for sending this to ‘debian-devel’. The problem is real and is worth discussing, but that message's tone was rather more angry than I wanted. > When I ask about some of these[0], […] That reference was to a footnote I forgot to

Re: If you can't describe what the package is, you probably should not Intend To Package it.

2017-01-31 Thread Jordi Mallach
El dt 31 de 01 de 2017 a les 21:44 +1100, en/na Ben Finney va escriure: > Howdy all, > > If your Intention To Package a work for Debian is not accompanied by > an > appropriate description of the package, I argue you do not yet know > what > the package is well enough to file that ITP. > > A lot

If you can't describe what the package is, you probably should not Intend To Package it.

2017-01-31 Thread Ben Finney
Howdy all, If your Intention To Package a work for Debian is not accompanied by an appropriate description of the package, I argue you do not yet know what the package is well enough to file that ITP. A lot of the recent Intent To Package reports for Node.js pacakge have come with *terrible*