Re: Giving developers access to requeue package imports [Was: Ubuntu Platform developers BOF session?]

2013-11-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 03:32:38PM -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Nov 13, 2013, at 11:32 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: > >But I think it would be more interesting to get a permanent fix for this > >bug: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/udd/+bug/714622 > >This accounts

Re: Giving developers access to requeue package imports [Was: Ubuntu Platform developers BOF session?]

2013-11-13 Thread Steve Langasek
are wrong. This single bug accounts for just under half of all importer failures, and is a failure scenario that the importer *could*, with sufficient smarts, resolve automatically. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Deb

Re: Libvirt packaging branch OUT-OF-DATE

2013-01-15 Thread Steve Langasek
by an import failure with no associated bug. Filing a bug against UDD would seem to be appropriate. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: Fixing import errors and discouraging pushes

2012-12-04 Thread Steve Langasek
ting, because I think source branches have a lot of benefit > over apt-get source by themselves. They do, but those aren't actually the options I'm picking between. I'm picking between being able to use lp:ubuntu/$package as the VCS for the packages I maintain, and having to main

Re: Fixing import errors and discouraging pushes

2012-12-03 Thread Steve Langasek
s been discussed in the past, but somehow never implemented. I don't understand the reasons for that. Is it because no one who understands the code has time to make the change? Are people not convinced that such a change is correct? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and

Re: The Packaging Guide Needs Your Help

2011-08-11 Thread Steve Langasek
to document all possible ways that packages can be put together, thus leaving would-be developers with no guidance about how packages *should* be put together, and it's my fervent hope that the packaging guide will avoid this trap. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever