Hi Ian,
Thanks for taking the time to reply.
> > > All I was trying to do was to establish was whether you're being
> > > lazy/unhelpful or is there a policy which I've missed as, [...]
I admit that I should have allowed a third possibility here.
> There is a third possibility which is that the
Ummm ... don't we strongly encourage all package maintainers to read
d-d-a? If not, we should. It is very low traffic and sometimes
important.
Sure: “All developers are expected to be subscribed to this list.” [0],
but Oliver was referring to “users”. On the other hand, his example mail
(To:
Ben Finney writes:
> That will be good, but we still need to make a lot of noise about this.
> It's ludicrous that any idiot with a lawyer can bring down a resource
> like the site hosting Olsen timezone data, even temporarily.
ado took the site down voluntarily (almost certainly), so there's re
Ben Finney wrote on 2011-10-08 07:34:
> Why did it take so long? Aptitude shows immediately that ‘duply’ was to
> be removed because ‘duplicity’ was to be removed; and looking one step
Usually I use Debian Stable as productive system. So aptitude would be
not a help. I looked on packages.qa.debia
Correct gpg signature this time:
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I am pleased to announce the unofficial Debian monthly testing snapshot
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h
Joachim Wiedorn writes:
> But nevertheless I had to analyse the removing of my package (duply).
> After a while
Why did it take so long? Aptitude shows immediately that ‘duply’ was to
be removed because ‘duplicity’ was to be removed; and looking one step
further, that ‘duplicity’ was to be remov
Russ Allbery writes:
> Weaver writes:
>
> > This Intellectual property rubbish is beginning to make me angry. What
> > now? Are we expected, each and everyone of us, supposed to pay a
> > stipend to some johnny-come-lately opportunist?
>
> > http://blog.joda.org/2011/10/today-time-zone-databas
Julien Cristau writes ("Re: New package doesn't fix the problem in the old
version"):
> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 18:40:10 +0100, Raf Czlonka wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 06:09:18PM BST, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> > > * this is a colossal waste of time.
> >
> > All I was trying to do was to es
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On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 18:40:10 +0100, Raf Czlonka wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 06:09:18PM BST, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> > my opinion..
> [cut]
> > * unstable and *testing* users are supposed to be able to cope with
> > the one or other glitch, if they don't, they use stable.
>
> I know
On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 06:09:18PM BST, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> my opinion..
[cut]
> * unstable and *testing* users are supposed to be able to cope with
> the one or other glitch, if they don't, they use stable.
I know that, thank you. I've been doing that for nearly a decade.
> * this is
no problem Christian -- apologies accepted ;)
thanks for chiming in on the topic.
On Sat, 01 Oct 2011, Christian Brenner wrote:
> Hello Mr. Halchenko,
> I have to apologize to you for my last mail. It seems my mind was
> wandering somewhere else. As Mr. Biebl, was pointing out, you only
> respon
On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 05:26:03PM BST, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
> As I had problems of understanding this first let me recap the
> situation:
>
> git-stuff before 5-1 created a buggy file when getting installed that
> is still causing problems when git-stuff 7-1 is installed.
>
> So it's not so m
the facts..
* #640016 was introduced in version 2-1 on 2011-08-02.
* #640016 was reported on 2011-09-01 and fixed on 2011-09-01 in
version 5-1.
* version 4-1 with the bug migrated on 2011-08-23 to testing,
version 7-1 without the bug migrated on 2011-09-17 to testing.
* testing
* Raf Czlonka [111007 17:17]:
> While the new package indeed does not contain the bug itself when
> installed as a new package on a system which hadn't had it before,
> it does not fix the bug if installed on a system with the older version.
As I had problems of understanding this first let me re
* Дмитрий Матросов [111007 16:27]:
> But in the section 7.7 of Debian policy manual:
> > clean, build-arch, and binary-arch
> >Only the Build-Depends and Build-Conflicts fields must be satisfied when
> >these targets are invoked.
> > build, build-indep, binary, and binary-indep
> >The
David Prévot wrote on 2011-10-06 21:26:
> Sure: “All developers are expected to be subscribed to this list.” [0],
> but Oliver was referring to “users”. On the other hand, his example mail
> (To: duplic...@packages.debian.org) is obviously sent to developers, so
> I'd guess no harm is done for ou
Weaver writes:
> This Intellectual property rubbish is beginning to make me angry. What
> now? Are we expected, each and everyone of us, supposed to pay a
> stipend to some johnny-come-lately opportunist?
> http://blog.joda.org/2011/10/today-time-zone-database-was-closed.html
It's already bac
Hi all,
Recently I filed a bug report against git-stuff[0] which itself been
closed with the explanation that it's a duplicate of an earlier bug[1]
which itself has been closed by the maintainer claiming it had been
fixed in version 5-1.
While the new package indeed does not contain the bug itsel
Hello.
Not sure this is correct maillist, though. I can't clearly understand
dependencies between debian/rules binary and build targets.
Let's assume, that both 'build-arch' and 'build-indep' targets provided.
In the Debian policy manual section 4.9 written:
> The build target should depend on
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Hi.
Le jeudi 06 octobre 2011 à 21:26 -0400, David Prévot a écrit :
> Le 06/10/2011 20:43, Peter Samuelson a écrit :
> >
> > [Olivier Berger]
> >> For users, which don't read d-d-a and receive such emails (below),
> >> it's a bit unclear what's really happening, IMHO :-/
> >
> > Ummm ... don't we
This Intellectual property rubbish is beginning to make me angry.
What now?
Are we expected, each and everyone of us, supposed to pay a stipend to
some johnny-come-lately opportunist?
http://blog.joda.org/2011/10/today-time-zone-database-was-closed.html
Regards,
Weaver.
--
"In a world without
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Jakub Adam writes:
> With this additional support, a vast repository of C/C++ code can be
> checked out, built, and maintained under the CDT rather easily without
> having to resort to the command line.
Nice!
[Maybe "having to resort" is a bit judgemental in tone, though ...]
-miles
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