Important: Non-maintainer release flame!

1998-06-16 Thread Dermot John Bradley
Joel as you can see from the CC: headers above this email is going out to more than just yourself. The point(s) I'm making below I consider to be important to the Debian project as a whole. As can be seen from bug #23367, you sent me an email to tell me there was a newer version of gd than the

Re: Important: Non-maintainer release flame!

1998-06-16 Thread Raul Miller
Dermot John Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought that a non-maintainer release was normally only done where either a security hole needed to be fixed quickly or where a serious problem existed with a package that the maintainer had not fixed for some time. The previous version was

Re: Important: Non-maintainer release flame!

1998-06-16 Thread Johnie Ingram
Dermot == Dermot John Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dermot I now see that you have uploaded a non-maintainer release of Dermot this new version to master.debian.org! To be blunt I'm pissed Dermot about this...indeed this is *not* the first time someone has Dermot decided to do a

Re: Important: Non-maintainer release flame!

1998-06-16 Thread Joel Klecker
At 16:10 -0700 1998-06-15, Dermot John Bradley wrote: Joel as you can see from the CC: headers above this email is going out to more than just yourself. The point(s) I'm making below I consider to be important to the Debian project as a whole. As can be seen from bug #23367, you sent me an email

Re: Important: Non-maintainer release flame!

1998-06-16 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
Perhaps clearer guidelines on this would be useful. no ! people are not good at following guidelines. but computers are. so we need to move some thing to automatic stuff. something like a cvs server or so could help. andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Important: Non-maintainer release flame!

1998-06-16 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
Ian, should non-maintainer releases be allowed into frozen/unstable without checking with the maintainer first? this is nothing where ian needs to do a statement : people should behave and help each other. in this case there was good will, but bad behaviour (i guess). please both : cool down