Re: For those who care about debian-devel-announce

2006-01-18 Thread Erinn Clark
* Brendan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006:01:18 14:54 -0500]: > This thread is a huge waste of bandwidth. Can't you boys compare pickles > somewhere else? This gets, (what's the expression?) a big ole fat PLONK. Sorry sweetie, I'm not a boy and have no pickle to compare. -- off the chain like a rebe

Re: For those who care about debian-devel-announce

2006-01-18 Thread Erinn Clark
* Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006:01:18 20:23 +0100]: > Michael Poole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Joerg Jaspert writes: > >> On 10538 March 1977, Martin Schulze wrote: > >>> Since this mail also mentions Andrews sarcastic posting > >>> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-anno

debbugs tangent (was Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing)

2005-12-22 Thread Erinn Clark
* Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005:12:22 09:14 -0800]: > (debbugs's strong point is handling a small > number of bugs on *lots* of different packages; I find it somewhat > difficult to follow when dealing with a *lot* of bugs on a single > package.) OT for this thread, but: do you notice th

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-22 Thread Erinn Clark
* Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005:12:22 08:10 +0100]: > > > Bureaucracy is often designed to do lots of things "better" and it often > > > doesn't achieve them. It creates needless hassle, more 'paperwork', and > > > has very few benefits besides making people feel like they've done >

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-21 Thread Erinn Clark
* Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005:12:21 17:32 +0100]: > Erinn Clark wrote: > > There are plenty of people who are maintaining packages alone > > that are doing an excellent job > > True. However, the issue in question is whether or not it would be > bett

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-21 Thread Erinn Clark
* Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005:12:21 12:23 +0100]: > I don't think that it is ridiculous to require that every package have a > team behind it---i.e., at least two maintainers. First, if someone can't > find ONE other person willing to be named as a co-maintainer of a given > package the

Re: Complaint about #debian operator

2005-12-11 Thread Erinn Clark
* Erinn Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005:12:11 19:43 -0500]: [...] Oops, this was meant for -project. Apologies for the noise. -- off the chain like a rebellious guanine nucleotide -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: Complaint about #debian operator

2005-12-11 Thread Erinn Clark
* Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005:12:11 16:32 -0800]: > On Saturday 10 December 2005 12:07 pm, Josh Rehman wrote: > > > As for being warned, I was told that because my discussion was about > > ubuntu I should stop. Because I felt my discussion was not about > > ubuntu, I did not feel that

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread Erinn Clark
* Erinn Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005:12:09 12:45 -0500]: > * Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005:12:09 17:48 +0100]: > > Le vendredi 09 d?cembre 2005 ? 12:07 +1000, Anthony Towns a ?crit : > > > Ingo's burnt a fair number of bridges wrt buildd i

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread Erinn Clark
* Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005:12:09 13:27 -0600]: > I'm surprised you think raising ones voice civilly in concern > about a problem area in Debian is not playing nicely with others. Is > your contention that some volunteers are so much more equal than > others that no vo

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread Erinn Clark
* Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005:12:09 12:47 -0600]: > Err, so if a NM candidate speaks as openly as some DD's do, > they get threatened with having their applications cancelled because > of them speaking their minds? What is this, a munich beer hall in > 1933? Isn't the p

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread Erinn Clark
* Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005:12:09 17:48 +0100]: > Le vendredi 09 d?cembre 2005 ? 12:07 +1000, Anthony Towns a ?crit : > > Ingo's burnt a fair number of bridges wrt buildd issues; I'm sorry, > > but I don't really care if volunteers decline to work with people who're > > obnoxious

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-23 Thread Erinn Clark
* Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005:11:23 18:40 +0100]: > On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:34:41 +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar > >Just to provide some statistics about dpkg-sig usage, as I got curious > >about it too: > > > >In the archive, 525 out of 283283 .deb's are dpkg-sig'd (0.19%). There > >are 8 d

Re: I am still on the keyring. With my old key.

2005-11-23 Thread Erinn Clark
* Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005:11:23 11:07 +0100]: > What are you trying to do instead? If you might have noticed, we have > _just_ _another_ ftpmaster situation _right_ _now_, and from handling > of #339686 by a member of the DPL team I don't get the impression that > the DPL team actuall

Re: State of gcc 2.95 use in Debian unstable

2005-11-16 Thread Erinn Clark
* Dave Carrigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005:11:16 07:33 -0800]: > I am quite sure that there are Debian *users* out there that have legacy > code that only builds under gcc 2.95 (or more likely g++ 2.95) and they > haven't ported it to a newer C compiler because there is no business > case for it.

Re: lyx

2005-09-23 Thread Erinn Clark
* Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005:09:23 18:11 -0300]: > From memory, lyx is a major mess that FTBFS with gcc4 in very horripilant > ways, uses yada, and is otherwise NMU-unfriendly IMHO. But it has been some > time since I tried to build it. The build system has been change

Re: lyx

2005-09-23 Thread Erinn Clark
* Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005:09:23 11:19 -0700]: > > lyx is one of the lingering packages that uses libqt3-mt but hasn't > been rebuilt with the new versions. What is the current NMU policy > for such packages? Hi Thomas, AIUI, there are lyx packages ready, but there was a p

Re: Bug#292183: ITP: gtkpizza -- Pizza takeaway managment program written in gtk

2005-01-25 Thread Erinn Clark
* Guglielmo Dapavo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005:01:25 17:08 +0100]: > Description : Pizza takeaway managment program written in gtk ^ management. -- off the chain like a rebellious guanine nucleotide signature.asc

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-02 Thread Erinn Clark
* Fernanda Giroleti Weiden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004:12:02 12:28 -0200]: > I'll paste here a part of a message from Hellen on Debian-women mailing > list. I'm sure you will read and think a little bit about. > > "It is also the type of discussion that deterred me > from becoming involved in Debi