Re: RFS: magicfilter (updated package)
Hi, Russ.
On Aug 04 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
Rogério Brito wrote:
Ooops. Fixed. The updated sources are again at the same address.
Uploaded. Thank you!
Thank you for being so kind to sponsor the package.
Rogério Brito.
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Re: RFS: magicfilter (updated package)
Hi, Russ and other mentors.
On Aug 03 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br writes:
I have one off-topic comment: I've seen some well known maintainers
do some things without the rigor that mentors apply to prospective
maintainers.
Yes. It's a little frustrating.
Frustrating is indeed the right word.
I see some weaknesses in the way that Debian is currently structured and
I think that I will write a longer e-mail about that (things that are
easily changed). Let's hope that I have the energy for that.
dget
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/magicfilter/magicfilter_1.2-62.dsc
It looks like there's an accidental change to the timestamp for the
previous release in debian/changelog:
Ooops. Fixed. The updated sources are again at the same address.
Thanks, Rogério Brito.
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Re: RFS: magicfilter (updated package)
Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br writes: On Aug 03 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br writes: I have one off-topic comment: I've seen some well known maintainers do some things without the rigor that mentors apply to prospective maintainers. Yes. It's a little frustrating. Frustrating is indeed the right word. I see some weaknesses in the way that Debian is currently structured and I think that I will write a longer e-mail about that (things that are easily changed). Let's hope that I have the energy for that. Code review is well-known to significantly improve quality. People who need sponsored uploads get code review by the sponsor, so those packages end up being of higher quality. Full Debian developers aren't required to seek code review, so on average the packages are of lower quality. Code review takes a lot of time, so requiring it for every package in Debian probably isn't feasible. But it's the code review of the sponsoring process that results in most of the quality improvements. Team-based packaging also gets at least some code review, particularly if committed patches are sent to the team mailing list. Ooops. Fixed. The updated sources are again at the same address. Uploaded. Thank you! -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: RFS: magicfilter (updated package)
Hi, Russ.
On Aug 02 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br writes:
|* Fix magicfilter dj550c truncates with dj670c (sometimes):
| no problems printing the attached file and marked unreproducible for
| almost 7 years. (Closes: #33666)
|* magicfilter works fine with Linux = 2.6. (Closes: #250715)
Did something change about the magicfilter package in this new release
that fixes these two bugs? If not, they don't belong in debian/changelog.
I get your point here (and I fixed them in the package and already
closed them in the BTS and I agree with the rationale behind them).
I have one off-topic comment: I've seen some well known maintainers do
some things without the rigor that mentors apply to prospective
maintainers.
Wouldn't it be the case to require said maintainers to shape up their
skills so that their packages improve and, as a side effect, the quality
of the overall distribution increases?
Anyway, back to my package in question, the sources are again fixed at
mentors.d.n, which can be found at:
dget
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/magicfilter/magicfilter_1.2-62.dsc
Thanks for your advice,
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Re: RFS: magicfilter (updated package)
Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br writes: I have one off-topic comment: I've seen some well known maintainers do some things without the rigor that mentors apply to prospective maintainers. Yes. It's a little frustrating. Wouldn't it be the case to require said maintainers to shape up their skills so that their packages improve and, as a side effect, the quality of the overall distribution increases? It would be nice (modulo disagreements within the project about best practices). However, Debian doesn't really have a mechanism to do so at present. Anyway, back to my package in question, the sources are again fixed at mentors.d.n, which can be found at: dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/magicfilter/magicfilter_1.2-62.dsc It looks like there's an accidental change to the timestamp for the previous release in debian/changelog: @@ -12,7 +23,7 @@ from a homebrew build to a debhelper + quilt package management (and this will take care of some lintian warnings of the pedantic level). - -- Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br Thu, 07 May 2009 03:44:17 -0300 + -- Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:28:18 -0300 magicfilter (1.2-60.1) unstable; urgency=low Please upload again with that fixed and I'll sponsor this. Thank you for your work on the package! -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
RFS: magicfilter (updated package)
Dear mentors,
I have adopted the magicfilter package some time ago and I am now fixing
some quite long-standing bugs (you can see for yourself in the list
below). I am, therefore, looking for a sponsor for the new version
1.2-62 of my package magicfilter.
Please, keep in mind that, as this package will soon be upgraded to a
new upstream version, I have left the build system that the original
maintainer created.
The new versions of the package will use a brand new build system based
on debhelper.
Well, these are the contents of the .changes file:
,[ magicfilter_1.2-62_amd64.changes ]
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| Hash: SHA1
|
| Format: 1.8
| Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:52:36 -0300
| Source: magicfilter
| Binary: magicfilter
| Architecture: source amd64
| Version: 1.2-62
| Distribution: unstable
| Urgency: low
| Maintainer: Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br
| Changed-By: Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br
| Description:
| magicfilter - automatic printer filter
| Closes: 33666 101010 250715 294485 295293
| Changes:
| magicfilter (1.2-62) unstable; urgency=low
| .
|* debian/control:
| + promote djtools, recode to recommends. (Closes: #101010, #295293)
| + demote enscript to recommends. (Closes: #294485)
| + add a2ps and mpage as alternatives to enscript.
| + wrap the recommends line.
| + change Standards-Version to 3.8.2 (no changes needed).
|* Fix magicfilter dj550c truncates with dj670c (sometimes):
| no problems printing the attached file and marked unreproducible for
| almost 7 years. (Closes: #33666)
|* magicfilter works fine with Linux = 2.6. (Closes: #250715)
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`
The package appears to be mostly lintian clean (with the latest lintian
from unstable).
The upload would fix these bugs: 33666, 101010, 250715, 294485, 295293
(as seen above).
The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
- URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/magicfilter
- Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main
contrib non-free
- dget
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/magicfilter/magicfilter_1.2-62.dsc
I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me.
Kind regards, Rogério Brito.
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Re: RFS: magicfilter (updated package)
Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br writes: |* Fix magicfilter dj550c truncates with dj670c (sometimes): | no problems printing the attached file and marked unreproducible for | almost 7 years. (Closes: #33666) |* magicfilter works fine with Linux = 2.6. (Closes: #250715) Did something change about the magicfilter package in this new release that fixes these two bugs? If not, they don't belong in debian/changelog. debian/changelog is for documenting *changes* to the package. It is not a general bug-closing service. Bugs that you're closing without changes to the package should instead be closed by mailing nnn-d...@bugs.debian.org. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
