Weird removal messages sent by britney without enough user friendly details - Was: Re: python 2.7 in wheezy

2011-10-07 Thread Olivier Berger
Hi. Le jeudi 06 octobre 2011 à 21:26 -0400, David Prévot a écrit : Le 06/10/2011 20:43, Peter Samuelson a écrit : [Olivier Berger] For users, which don't read d-d-a and receive such emails (below), it's a bit unclear what's really happening, IMHO :-/ Ummm ... don't we strongly

Re: python 2.7 in wheezy / removal messages without reason

2011-10-07 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
David Prévot taf...@debian.org wrote on 2011-10-06 21:26: Sure: “All developers are expected to be subscribed to this list.” [0], but Oliver was referring to “users”. On the other hand, his example mail (To: duplic...@packages.debian.org) is obviously sent to developers, so I'd guess no harm

Re: python 2.7 in wheezy / removal messages without reason

2011-10-07 Thread Ben Finney
Joachim Wiedorn ad_deb...@joonet.de writes: But nevertheless I had to analyse the removing of my package (duply). After a while Why did it take so long? Aptitude shows immediately that ‘duply’ was to be removed because ‘duplicity’ was to be removed; and looking one step further, that

Re: python 2.7 in wheezy / removal messages without reason

2011-10-07 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote on 2011-10-08 07:34: Why did it take so long? Aptitude shows immediately that ‘duply’ was to be removed because ‘duplicity’ was to be removed; and looking one step Usually I use Debian Stable as productive system. So aptitude would be not a help. I

Re: python 2.7 in wheezy

2011-10-07 Thread peter green
Ummm ... don't we strongly encourage all package maintainers to read d-d-a? If not, we should. It is very low traffic and sometimes important. Sure: “All developers are expected to be subscribed to this list.” [0], but Oliver was referring to “users”. On the other hand, his example mail (To:

Re: python 2.7 in wheezy

2011-10-06 Thread Olivier Berger
Hi. Le jeudi 06 octobre 2011 à 12:40 +0200, Julien Cristau a écrit : Hi, as of the just finished britney run, the /usr/bin/python symlink points to python2.7 in wheezy. In this process, a number of packages had to be removed from testing to avoid more waiting time and complications.

Re: python 2.7 in wheezy

2011-10-06 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Olivier Berger] For users, which don't read d-d-a and receive such emails (below), it's a bit unclear what's really happening, IMHO :-/ Ummm ... don't we strongly encourage all package maintainers to read d-d-a? If not, we should. It is very low traffic and sometimes important. -- Peter

Re: python 2.7 in wheezy

2011-10-06 Thread David Prévot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Le 06/10/2011 20:43, Peter Samuelson a écrit : [Olivier Berger] For users, which don't read d-d-a and receive such emails (below), it's a bit unclear what's really happening, IMHO :-/ Ummm ... don't we strongly encourage all package