Re: Use of the -devel-announce list

1999-05-12 Thread Ben Pfaff 
Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

   Question: would it be worth making -devel-announce a moderated list?

Could we just add some sort of mail filter rule that forces a
Reply-To: to be set, and either adds Reply-To: debian-devel or returns
the mail to the sender with an explanation if none is set (depending
on how BOFHish we want to be).

Use of the -devel-announce list

1999-05-12 Thread Julian Gilbey 
Please can I encourage anyone posting to -devel-announce to ensure
that they have set the Reply-To: field to something sensible, and to
encourage anyone replying to a -devel-announce posting to check where
they are sending their reply.  (Hint: -devel-announce is usually not
appropriate!)

This is meant to be a very low volume announcement list, and it would
be good to keep it that way.

Question: would it be worth making -devel-announce a moderated list?

   Julian

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

  Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Debian GNU/Linux Developer.  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   -*- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP public key. -*-

Re: Uploading to pandora (nonus)

1999-05-12 Thread Joost Kooij 
Hi,

On Wed, 12 May 1999, Samuel Tardieu wrote:

> The following doesn't work, I must have missed something obvious.

[snip]

Try: 

deb http://pandora.debian.org potato/non-US main contrib non-free

It Works For Me(tm).

Cheers,


Joost

Re: Uploading to pandora (nonus)

1999-05-12 Thread Samuel Tardieu 
On 11/05, Guy Maor wrote:

| Because nonus is now divided into main, non-free, and contrib, you
| must specify this in the distribution or section, just as you do for
| an upload to master.

What should be put in sources.list files?

The following doesn't work, I must have missed something obvious.

deb http://nonus.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-us/main non-us/contrib no
n-us/non-free

nor does the following

deb http://nonus.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable main contrib non-free

Uploading to pandora (nonus)

1999-05-12 Thread Guy Maor 
Many of you are confused because you are getting messages that your
packages are new when they really aren't, or perhaps dinstall is
rejecting them because it can't find the orig.tar.gz.

Because nonus is now divided into main, non-free, and contrib, you
must specify this in the distribution or section, just as you do for
an upload to master.

So specify the section as `non-us/non-free' or `non-us/contrib'.  It's
fine to put something after that if you want to, `non-us/non-free/web'
for example.  It will just be ignored.

Also, many people find it very useful to run `dinstall -n foo.changes'
to verify that their upload is ok.  dinstall is at
/org/non-us.debian.org/scripts/dinstall/dinstall on pandora and
~maor/dinstall/dinstall on master.


Guy