Orphaning discus (need help)

2006-09-21 Thread Ron Farrer
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Hello,

I am orphaning the package discus. However, I no longer have a GPG key
in the keyring as it was revoked because of a GPG bug involving 4096-bit
keys. So I need someone to help with getting it marked as orphaned. This
message is signed with my old key if anyone still has it in their
personal keyring.

CC me on replies as I am no longer subscribed to debian-devel.

Thank you,
Ron
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Accepted discus 0.2.9-1 (all source)

2003-11-09 Thread Ron Farrer
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Format: 1.7
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 23:48:27 -0800
Source: discus
Binary: discus
Architecture: source all
Version: 0.2.9-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Ron Farrer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Changed-By: Ron Farrer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Description: 
 discus - Pretty version of df(1) command.
Closes: 217478
Changes: 
 discus (0.2.9-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Initial release. (closes: #217478)
Files: 
 40bc401bfd646bf2a482e6c8b30e4de7 482 utils extra discus_0.2.9-1.dsc
 ed47a8e78e5e5c476948eb25868669c2 14517 utils extra discus_0.2.9-1.tar.gz
 6e0b11ea991986f5d9ca7d8272e11f86 9244 utils extra discus_0.2.9-1_all.deb
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Accepted:
discus_0.2.9-1.dsc
  to pool/main/d/discus/discus_0.2.9-1.dsc
discus_0.2.9-1.tar.gz
  to pool/main/d/discus/discus_0.2.9-1.tar.gz
discus_0.2.9-1_all.deb
  to pool/main/d/discus/discus_0.2.9-1_all.deb


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dinstall problem?

2001-05-03 Thread Ron Farrer

hello;

One of my packages, uptime-applet, seems to have vanished. Or has it?
Apparently something went wrong during the dinstall and I never got an
email saying INSTALLED like usual. Looking on auric, I see the
package IS there (uptime-applet_0.2.0-4) in the pool. However using
the CGI search on packages.debian.org does not show it (package isn't
found). The package was duploaded (to unstable) on April 20th. There
is also an open bug against uptime-applet that 0.2.0-4 closes, but it
is still open... I looked at the changes file and don't see anything
wrong and I don't suspect there is since it IS in the pool. Can anyone
shead some light on this? 

TIA,
Ron

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Re: dinstall problem?

2001-05-03 Thread Ron Farrer
Anthony Towns (aj@azure.humbug.org.au) wrote:

 It doesn't appear to be available for i386.
snip
 The p.d.o CGI probably only looks at i386 packages. silo doesn't show up
 either, eg.

That explains it! Ok, now I can sleep better. :)

 93713 is closed, though: it's the build-depends bug which was also closed
 in -3.

Yup, and herein lies my mistake. I said to close an already closed bug
(doh!) What I REALLY meant to do was close #93109, I'll take care of
that later. Had I bothered to notice the bug was under a DIFFERENT
number, that would have been ok. Ohh well, not the end of the
world...

 HTH.

Yup, thanks.

Ron

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Re: dinstall problem?

2001-05-03 Thread Ron Farrer
Julian Gilbey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

 And just drop a note to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to do it ;-)

Yup, already done. Although the developers-reference says to mail the
.changes file (section 10.4, last paragraph.)

Ron

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Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-13 Thread Ron Farrer
Steve Greenland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

 Which is it? Do your friends want the newest bleeding edge stuff, or
 do they want stability? They can't have both at the same time! Oh, I
 see, the want the newest, but they want us to call it stable.

I don't know.. IMO unstable is often more stable then any rathat
release! I don't care personally what it's called as long as it works.
You are right they want it to be called stable. 

 Why is is this basic distinction so hard to explain to people? Testing
 and reliability take time. During that time, new features are going to
 show up in various parts of the system. Along with those new features
 come compatibility and reliability problems. You can either have the new
 features, or you can have a tested, stable, reliable *system*. *YOU*
 *CAN'T* *HAVE* *BOTH*.

I don't know why it's impossible to get it through their thick skulls,
but it is. When I finally upgraded to potato it was because I needed a
newer kernel to work with two pieces of hardware that was unsupported by
2.0 and also to add software compatilbity with Tru64 UNIX. I was also
using serveral things, ipmaq to name one, that were semi broken with
slink and a 2.2 kernel. Currently the stable release cycle seems to be
about every 14 months, which is far too long to keep up with %25 of new
hardware. I don't care to have the absolute most bleeding edge. OTO I
don't want to upgrade a server, to support new/additional hardware, to
something that is *known* to be unstable. 

So we end up with a loose-loose situation... 


JMO,

Ron 



Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-12 Thread Ron Farrer
Josip Rodin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

 Slink is called `stable' for a reason. It's not obsolete for people who
 just want a stable distribution.
 
 Of course, it is obsolete for people who want a nice GNOME (or especially
 KDE) environment, or those who own Athlons or other hardware the kernel
 provides, etc, etc.
 
 It seems that the number of those to whom slink is useful outweighs the
 number of those to whom it isn't.

I disagree! (surprise ;) I personally know of about ~4 people who were
turned away from slink because GNOME and KDE were so OLD. I personally
got around this by running potato (unstable then), but most people don't
WANT to run unstable! IMO to be the greatest use to the users the
release cycle should be about every ~6 months. If it can't be done then
there needs to be more maintainers/devlopers so it can. 

Again, all JMO.

Ron