Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-12 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 12 ian 11, 10:55:34, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Drake Wilson wrote: > > > Which upstream bug trackers, if any, would make the above not work? > > Sourceforge and probably Gforge/FusionForge trackers. > > The only tracker I'm aware of which would work is Trac, som

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-12 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 11 janvier 2011 à 23:54 +, brian m. carlson a écrit : > I've noticed a trend lately that I am often asked to forward the bugs I > report to the Debian BTS upstream, either by the maintainers or > automatically by a bug script. I believe, and I continue to believe, > that maintainers

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-12 Thread Antonin Kral
* Drake Wilson [2011-01-12 08:09] wrote: > Quoth Paul Wise , on 2011-01-12 10:55:34 +0800: > [among other responses] > > Sourceforge and probably Gforge/FusionForge trackers. > > > > The only tracker I'm aware of which would work is Trac, some instances > > of which allow anyone to put in anyone

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-12 Thread Roland Mas
Drake Wilson, 2011-01-11 20:19:34 -0700 : [...] > This doesn't leave much in the way of good options: > > - Having the user report bugs twice [...] > - Having the maintainer be the reporter of record for upstream [...] > - Having the maintainer forward the bug report but make the user the >

Re: debconf translations broken in multiple packages

2011-01-12 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 07:53:09AM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > > Many of these packages errors are direct or indirect consequences of > > my l10n work during the lenny-squeeze release cycle. > > > > Direct when the last uploaded version is an NMU of mine.. > > > > Indirect when a maintainer

Bug#609772: ITP: osmpbf -- Java access library for OpenStreetMap PBF file format

2011-01-12 Thread Giovanni Mascellani
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: osmpbf Version: 1.1 Upstream Author: Scott A. Crosby. URL: http://github.com/scrosby/OSM-binary License: LGPL-3+ Description: Java access library for OpenStreetMap PBF fil

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-12 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2011-01-11, brian m. carlson wrote: > I've noticed a trend lately that I am often asked to forward the bugs I > report to the Debian BTS upstream, either by the maintainers or > automatically by a bug script. I believe, and I continue to believe, I have considered to take this one step furthe

Re: [vu...@gnome.org: Cross-distro meeting about application installer]

2011-01-12 Thread David Kalnischkies
(re-adding debian-project@ to the loop so both lists have the attendees info) On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 10:33, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 11:58:05AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >> We're organizing a cross-distro meeting in January to discuss the >> "application installe

Bug#609791: ITP: light-themes -- Radiance and Ambiance themes for GNOME desktop

2011-01-12 Thread Adnan Hodzic
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Adnan Hodzic * Package name: light-themes Version : 0.1.8.4 Upstream Author : Ubuntu Artwork Team * URL : https://launchpad.net/light-themes * License : (CCPL) Programming Lang: Description : Radiance and Ambi

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-12 Thread brian m. carlson
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 09:15:41PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > I think it is perfectly fine for a user to submit a bug report to > the Debian BTS first. They may not always be equipped to know what > is a Debian and what is an upstream bug. And I also think it ought > to be perfectly valid for t

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-12 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Ben Finney dijo [Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 04:01:46PM +1100]: > (...) > > I'm adding zero value here. Zero. It is a huge and frustrating waste > > of my time. > > Not in my view. I appreciate the Debian package maintainer acting in the > interest of “lower the barrier for each Debian user of this packa

ITP: facturlinex2 -- Billing application, storage and sale POS

2011-01-12 Thread Nicolás López de Lerma Aymerich
Package: facturinex2 Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicolas Lopez de Lerma Aymerich * Package name : facturlinex2debian-de...@lists.debian.org Version : 2.0.0 Upstream Author : Nicolas Lopez de Lerma Aymerich * URL : http://facturlinex.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description: Billing appl

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-12 Thread Ian Jackson
John Goerzen writes ("Re: Forwarding bugs upstream"): > I'm going to have a slightly different viewpoint on this. I agree with John, basically. > I'm adding zero value here. Zero. [...] Some people have replied suggesting scenarios where the Debian maintainer is adding something. That's fine

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-12 Thread Ian Jackson
brian m. carlson writes ("Re: Forwarding bugs upstream"): > On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 09:15:41PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > > I think it is perfectly fine for a user to submit a bug report to > > the Debian BTS first. They may not always be equipped to know what > > is a Debian and what is an upst

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 02:56:35PM +, brian m. carlson wrote: [...] > Also, if the BTS won't CC me when someone responds > to the bug (even with an account), there is zero chance of me reporting > the bug upstream, since I have better things to do with my life than > constantly checking a slew

Re: DEP5: CANDIDATE and ready for use in squeeze+1

2011-01-12 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On ma, 2011-01-10 at 10:56 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > So, the only timeframe during which the problem can be experienced is > from now to the solution of #609160. I wonder if it is really worth to > address this issue properly---by changing either the intended usage of > Format: or by addin

"Mass" (non invasive) NMUs planned to fix debconf translations broken in multiple packages

2011-01-12 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubu...@debian.org): > I have ready NMUs for most of the affeted packages. I can upload them > soon. My plans are to upload before the end of the upcoming week-end an NMU for each of the affected package(s). I currently have: astk_1.8.0-1.2 bandwidthd_2.0.1+cvs200909

Bug#609819: ITP: drupal6-thm-nokia-mobile -- nokia_mobile themes for Drupal 6

2011-01-12 Thread Al Nikolov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Al Nikolov * Package name: drupal6-thm-nokia-mobile Version : 1.3 Upstream Author : Andrea Trasatti (http://drupal.org/user/170041) * URL : http://drupal.org/project/nokia_mobile * License : GPL Programming Lang: PHP

network-manager rant

2011-01-12 Thread Anssi Kolehmainen
Hi all, I just updated packages (which upgraded network-manager to 0.8.1-6) and then rebooted computer. I was greeted with a five minute wait while ntpd tried to query dns which was broken since network-manager decided to start, ignore bridge mappings, do dhcp on physical port of the bridge (which

Bug#609820: ITP: pyxnat -- interface to access neuroimaging data on XNAT servers

2011-01-12 Thread NeuroDebian Team
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: NeuroDebian Team * Package name: pyxnat Version : 0.6.2 Upstream Author : Yannick Schwartz * URL : http://packages.python.org/pyxnat * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description : interface to access neu

Bug#609821: ITP: drupal6-mod-charts-graphs -- charts_graphs modules for Drupal 6

2011-01-12 Thread Al Nikolov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Al Nikolov * Package name: drupal6-mod-charts-graphs Version : 2.6 Upstream Author : Irakli Nadareishvili (http://drupal.org/user/96826) * URL : http://drupal.org/project/charts_graphs * License : GPL Programming Lang:

Re: "Mass" (non invasive) NMUs planned to fix debconf translations broken in multiple packages

2011-01-12 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 19:43 +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > My plans are to upload before the end of the upcoming week-end an NMU > for each of the affected package(s). > > I currently have: fwiw, from a quick look at the list, at least boxbackup would need a t-p-u upload in order to get fixed

Bug#609823: ITP: drupal6-mod-swftools -- swftools modules for Drupal 6

2011-01-12 Thread Al Nikolov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Al Nikolov * Package name: drupal6-mod-swftools Version : 2.5 Upstream Author : Stuart Greenfield (http://drupal.org/user/54866) * URL : http://drupal.org/project/swftools * License : GPL Programming Lang: PHP Descri

Bug#609824: ITP: drupal6-mod-flashnode -- flashnode modules for Drupal 6

2011-01-12 Thread Al Nikolov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Al Nikolov * Package name: drupal6-mod-flashnode Version : 3.1 Upstream Author : Stuart Greenfield (http://drupal.org/user/54866) * URL : http://drupal.org/project/flashnode * License : GPL Programming Lang: PHP Desc

Bug#609826: ITP: drupal6-mod-views-charts -- drupal6-mod-views-charts

2011-01-12 Thread Al Nikolov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Al Nikolov * Package name: drupal6-mod-views-charts Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Irakli Nadareishvili (http://drupal.org/user/96826) * URL : http://drupal.org/project/views_charts * License : GPL Programming Lang: P

Bug#609827: ITP: drupal6-mod-views-groupby -- views_groupby modules for Drupal 6

2011-01-12 Thread Al Nikolov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Al Nikolov * Package name: drupal6-mod-views-groupby Version : 1.0-rc2 Upstream Author : Irakli Nadareishvili (http://drupal.org/user/96826) * URL : http://drupal.org/project/views_groupby * License : GPL Programming L

Bug#609834: ITP: deap -- Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms in Python

2011-01-12 Thread Miriam Ruiz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Miriam Ruiz * Package name: deap Version : 0.6 Upstream Author : DEAP Development Team * URL : https://code.google.com/p/deap/ * License : LGPL-3+ Programming Lang: Python Description : Distributed Evolutionary

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-12 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Sune: On Wednesday 12 January 2011 14:27:23 Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2011-01-11, brian m. carlson wrote: > > I've noticed a trend lately that I am often asked to forward the bugs I > > report to the Debian BTS upstream, either by the maintainers or > > automatically by a bug script. I believ

Bug#609840: ITP: libitext5-java -- Java Library to create and manipulate PDF on the fly

2011-01-12 Thread Andrew Ross
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Ross * Package name: libitext5-java Version : 5.0.5 Upstream Author : Bruno Lowagie, Paulo Soares, et al. * URL : http://itextpdf.com/ * License : Various: AGPL-3, LGPL, BSD, Apache 2.0 Programming Lang: Java

Re: network-manager rant

2011-01-12 Thread Kris Deugau
Anssi Kolehmainen wrote: Hi all, I just updated packages (which upgraded network-manager to 0.8.1-6) and then rebooted computer. I was greeted with a five minute wait while ntpd tried to query dns which was broken since network-manager decided to start, ignore bridge mappings, do dhcp on physica

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-12 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2011-01-12, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: >> I have considered to take this one step further. Close bugs reported in >> Debian BTS with a severity of important or less that is a bug that >> should primarily be fixed upstream. > > Will this mean that the problem will somehow disappear from Debian? Be

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-12 Thread Ben Finney
Ian Jackson writes: > I think it is always reasonable for the maintainer to forward the bug > upstream. > > But what I think is bad is _demanding_ or _requiring_ the maintainer > to forward the bug upstream. If they don't want to do that for > whatever reason then asking the submitter to do so

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-12 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Sune Vuorela wrote: >> Will this mean that the problem will somehow disappear from Debian?  Because >> if it's a problem detected within Debian it's my feeling that it will have to >> be tracked within Debian till the problem is in Debian no more. > > No. but it i

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Finney writes: > Indeed, the Debian project can't demand or require any work of anyone. I > think it's perfectly acceptable for any such volunteer to refuse to do > the work. > But if they do refuse, then to what extent is that person accomplishing > the maintainer role? I feel like it's ra

Re: List of override disparities

2011-01-12 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:47:17PM +0100, Luca Falavigna wrote: > Policy § 2.5 [0] states packages must not depend on other packages with > lower priority values. In order to better adhere to it, FTP Team > recently implemented a new tool that generates a list of override > disparities[1] daily. >

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-12 Thread Ben Finney
Russ Allbery writes: > What I think many people are saying in this thread is that, among all > the things that a Debian package maintainer could do to improve the > package and user experience of those using the package, being a > go-between for Debian bug reporters and upstream is something they

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-12 Thread Felipe Sateler
On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:56:56 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > I think it is always reasonable for the maintainer to forward the bug > upstream. > > But what I think is bad is _demanding_ or _requiring_ the maintainer to > forward the bug upstream. If they don't want to do that for whatever > reason t

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-12 Thread Ian Jackson
Olaf van der Spek writes ("Re: Forwarding bugs upstream"): > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Sune Vuorela wrote: > >> Will this mean that the problem will somehow disappear from > >> Debian? Because if it's a problem detected within Debian it's my > >> feeling that it will have to be tracked wi

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-12 Thread Ian Jackson
Felipe Sateler writes ("Re: Forwarding bugs upstream"): > On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:56:56 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > I think it is always reasonable for the maintainer to forward the bug > > upstream. > > > > But what I think is bad is _demanding_ or _requiring_ the maintainer to > > forward the b

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-12 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: > But in this case I don't think we should be "expecting" maintainers to > necessarily shepherd bug reports upstream.  I don't think a maintainer > who fails to do so is failing in their job as maintainer. > > The maintainer should decide whether

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-12 Thread Ben Finney
Ian Jackson writes: > As I understand it we are not in danger of having infrastructure > capacity problems at the BTS due to these bugs, and the maintainers > who think they are a very low priority don't want to see them can > easily arrange that with the pretty sophisticated filtering and > sear

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-12 Thread Ian Jackson
Olaf van der Spek writes ("Re: Forwarding bugs upstream"): > Maybe some tools (PTS) should warn about bugs that are older than X > days and are still unclassified? That's just a way to make more noise. They show up in the BTS searches already. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-req

Bug#609849: ITP: nevernote -- An open source clone designed to interact with Evernote.

2011-01-12 Thread Vincent Cheng
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Vincent Cheng * Package name: nevernote Version : 0.9.6 Upstream Author : Randy Baumgarte * URL : http://nevernote.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: Java Description : An open source clone des

Bug#609850: ITP: python-mongoengine -- A Python Document-Object Mapper for working with MongoDB

2011-01-12 Thread Janos Guljas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Janos Guljas * Package name: python-mongoengine Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Harry Marr * URL : http://mongoengine.org/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : A Python Document-Object Mapper fo

Re: List of override disparities

2011-01-12 Thread Raphael Geissert
Luca Falavigna wrote: > Policy § 2.5 [0] states packages must not depend on other packages with > lower priority values. In order to better adhere to it, FTP Team > recently implemented a new tool that generates a list of override > disparities[1] daily. There's also: http://qa.debian.org/debchec