Re: Nitpicking in the NEW queue.

2013-09-10 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi Paul, Le Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 09:12:42AM -0400, Paul Tagliamonte a écrit : > > README.Source would surely get my attention (as would README.Debian). Acutally, I do not know what is missing from README.Debian to justify the existence of this package. It runs a script each time a kernel pack

Re: Nitpicking in the NEW queue.

2013-09-03 Thread Gergely Nagy
Raphael Hertzog writes: > On Tue, 03 Sep 2013, Luca Falavigna wrote: >> 2013/9/3 Paul Wise : >> > Reading Charles' mail I had a thought; how about accepting buggy >> > packages (unless the issues make them non-distributable) and file RC >> > and other bugs if there are DFSG or other issues? >> >

Re: Nitpicking in the NEW queue.

2013-09-03 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 03 Sep 2013, Luca Falavigna wrote: > 2013/9/3 Paul Wise : > > Reading Charles' mail I had a thought; how about accepting buggy > > packages (unless the issues make them non-distributable) and file RC > > and other bugs if there are DFSG or other issues? > > Although this could be possible,

Re: Nitpicking in the NEW queue.

2013-09-03 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
Hey Charles, On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 05:43:52PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Hi Paul, > > first of all, please let me clarify that the reason why I answered on our core > mailing list is not to fingerpoint if or not you are wrong, but becase this is > the only way I have to see if others agree

Re: Nitpicking in the NEW queue.

2013-09-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
Paul Wise wrote: >Reading Charles' mail I had a thought; how about accepting buggy >packages (unless the issues make them non-distributable) and file RC >and other bugs if there are DFSG or other issues? Why should we rush to let more broken stuff into the archive? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge,

Re: Nitpicking in the NEW queue.

2013-09-03 Thread Luca Falavigna
2013/9/3 Paul Wise : > Reading Charles' mail I had a thought; how about accepting buggy > packages (unless the issues make them non-distributable) and file RC > and other bugs if there are DFSG or other issues? Although this could be possible, a second upload would be needed anyway (hopefully in a

Re: Looking for ideas for merging a micro package... (was: Nitpicking in the NEW queue.)

2013-09-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Vincent Danjean wrote: > Never mind. My current problem is that I have no idea which current > package to contact to ask for a inclusion. It is not important enough > to be included in packages such as util-linux and few (no?) system/devel > packages already have

Re: Nitpicking in the NEW queue.

2013-09-03 Thread Paul Wise
Reading Charles' mail I had a thought; how about accepting buggy packages (unless the issues make them non-distributable) and file RC and other bugs if there are DFSG or other issues? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.or

Looking for ideas for merging a micro package... (was: Nitpicking in the NEW queue.)

2013-09-03 Thread Vincent Danjean
Le 02/09/2013 06:12, Paul R. Tagliamonte a écrit : > Respectfully - when we add micro (under Size 100 packages) the amount of > metadata added to every mirror and every users machine is almost as much as > the package contents. > > This is a very common request (make sure this really needs to be

Re: Nitpicking in the NEW queue.

2013-09-03 Thread Charles Plessy
(Long answer, but I promise to limit my messages in this thread). Le Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 01:08:12PM -0400, Paul Tagliamonte a écrit : > > Yes. For the record, this day when Charles sent this mail, I was working > in NEW from early in the morning to about 9:00 at night. I don't want > thanks or e

Re: Nitpicking in the NEW queue.

2013-09-02 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 12:47:02AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 09/02/2013 07:38 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Adding to this. I know Paul personally very well and I don't think that > > he'd maliciously reject a package. > > I don't think so either. > > Though what happens is tha

Re: Nitpicking in the NEW queue.

2013-09-02 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 09/02/2013 07:38 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Adding to this. I know Paul personally very well and I don't think that > he'd maliciously reject a package. I don't think so either. Though what happens is that Charles is being frustrated because of the current waiting time in the NEW q

Re: Nitpicking in the NEW queue.

2013-09-02 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Paul, On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 12:12:09AM -0400, Paul R. Tagliamonte wrote: > > I would like that the FTP team please refrain from giving cheap side > > comments > > Um.. > > > or ask cheap questions in its rejection emails (have you noticed that the > ITP > > bug was originally submitted

Re: Nitpicking in the NEW queue.

2013-09-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! On 09/02/2013 06:04 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: It would have been nice if you'd done such an inspection before you uploaded and wasted the ftp-team's time doing multiple reviews. I fully agree. I don't think it's a bad thing at all to thoroughly check the package, even for minor problems.

Re: Nitpicking in the NEW queue.

2013-09-01 Thread Paul R. Tagliamonte
On my phone, excuse the Cc and (I'm guessing HTML mail) Hi, Charles. On Sep 1, 2013 10:59 PM, "Charles Plessy" wrote: > > Answering on a broader audience because I think that there is really a drift > from ensuring archive integrity to massive and arbitrary top-down nitpicking. > > Le Mon, Sep 0

Re: Nitpicking in the NEW queue.

2013-09-01 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Monday, September 02, 2013 11:58:41 Charles Plessy wrote: > Answering on a broader audience because I think that there is really a drift > from ensuring archive integrity to massive and arbitrary top-down > nitpicking. > Le Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 01:00:17AM +, Paul Richards Tagliamonte a écrit

Nitpicking in the NEW queue.

2013-09-01 Thread Charles Plessy
Answering on a broader audience because I think that there is really a drift from ensuring archive integrity to massive and arbitrary top-down nitpicking. Le Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 01:00:17AM +, Paul Richards Tagliamonte a écrit : > > Hello, maintainer, > > I'm sorry, but I've rejected your pa