Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers

2014-11-12 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-11-12 02:14, Don Armstrong wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2014, Christian Kastner wrote: Going even further, what would you see as possible solutions for augmenting bug reports tagged 'entry-point' with the information I mention in first post, ie: On 2014-11-09 20:20, Christian Kastner wrote:

Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers

2014-11-12 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Christian Kastner deb...@kvr.at wrote: I'd argue it's good enough for the task itself, but searching for areas to contribute to could still be improved significantly. I agree. For example, given the following list of motivations a new contributor might have

Re: Making entry-point nee gift a real BTS tag [Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers]

2014-11-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Don Armstrong wrote: The existing help tag is really for bugs for which the maintainer needs or wants help; these are basically a superset of entry-point, and bugs which are more difficult than it would be reasonable for a new contributor to help. I suppose it would be

Bug#765958: marked as done (RFS: python-riemann-client/5.1.1-1 [ITP#764739])

2014-11-12 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 12 Nov 2014 16:24:42 + with message-id e1xoaio-0004eb...@quantz.debian.org and subject line closing RFS: python-riemann-client/5.1.1-1 [ITP#764739] has caused the Debian Bug report #765958, regarding RFS: python-riemann-client/5.1.1-1 [ITP#764739] to be marked as done.

Re: Making entry-point nee gift a real BTS tag [Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers]

2014-11-12 Thread Stéphane Aulery
Le mardi 11 novembre 2014 à 03:54:50, Don Armstrong a écrit : On Wed, 12 Nov 2014, Stéphane Aulery wrote: Le mardi 11 novembre 2014 à 03:07:31, Don Armstrong a écrit : The existing help tag is really for bugs for which the maintainer needs or wants help; these are basically a superset

Depends on exact version

2014-11-12 Thread Daniel Lintott
I have a package which is split into two sources (a server and gui). The server version should match the gui version (upstream version) at all times. Because of this when I'm creating the meta-package that will depend on both the gui and server, should be versioned to to be the same upstream

Re: Depends on exact version

2014-11-12 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi Daniel, On 12.11.2014 22:30, Daniel Lintott wrote: I have a package which is split into two sources (a server and gui). The server version should match the gui version (upstream version) at all times. Because of this when I'm creating the meta-package that will depend on both the gui and

Re: Depends on exact version

2014-11-12 Thread Roger Light
Hi Daniel, Could you try ${binary:Version} instead? Cheers, Roger On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 9:30 PM, Daniel Lintott dan...@serverb.co.uk wrote: I have a package which is split into two sources (a server and gui). The server version should match the gui version (upstream version) at all times.

Re: Depends on exact version

2014-11-12 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 12 Nov 2014, Roger Light wrote: Could you try ${binary:Version} instead? (= ${binary:Version}) can break binNMUs. Be careful. -- One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows

Re: Making entry-point nee gift a real BTS tag [Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers]

2014-11-12 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 12 Nov 2014, Stéphane Aulery wrote: Le mardi 11 novembre 2014 à 03:54:50, Don Armstrong a écrit : On Wed, 12 Nov 2014, Stéphane Aulery wrote: Le mardi 11 novembre 2014 à 03:07:31, Don Armstrong a écrit : The existing help tag is really for bugs for which the maintainer needs

changes file issue when packaging for backports

2014-11-12 Thread quidame
Hi, I try to backport bilibop_0.4.22 source package (native). If only changes from 0.4.22 to 0.4.22~bpo70+1 are copied in to the changes file, lintian complains with the 'backports-changes-missing' error tag [1]. If I add -v0.4.21 dpkg-genchanges, the resulting changes file says: Priority:

Re: changes file issue when packaging for backports

2014-11-12 Thread quidame
Oops, not Priority: but Urgency: quidame quid...@safe-mail.net wrote: Hi, I try to backport bilibop_0.4.22 source package (native). If only changes from 0.4.22 to 0.4.22~bpo70+1 are copied in to the changes file, lintian complains with the 'backports-changes-missing' error tag [1]. If I

Re: Making entry-point nee gift a real BTS tag [Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers]

2014-11-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes: In fact, I believe they should be mostly disjoint. As a maintainer, I welcome help on all bugs. When I tag a bug help it's because I believe that I don't have the skills to fix it by myself and that external help is really needed to make some

Bug#769375: RFS: lightmdeditor/1.0-2 [ITP]

2014-11-12 Thread Bhavyanshu Parasher
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package lightmdeditor * Package name : lightmdeditor Version : 1.0-2 Upstream Author: Bhavyanshu Parasher a...@bhavyanshu.me * URL :