Re: Aren't there any checks in place to prevent a package from becoming uninstallable?

2011-02-28 Thread Ben Finney
jida...@jidanni.org writes: > > "BF" == Ben Finney writes: > > BF> Why is Auntie Nelda using the unstable repository? Is she > BF> comfortable running an OS from a repository with no promises about > BF> stability? If not, who advised her to do that? > > Let's find out, > http://www.youtube.c

Re: Aren't there any checks in place to prevent a package from becoming uninstallable?

2011-02-28 Thread jidanni
> "BF" == Ben Finney writes: BF> Why is Auntie Nelda using the unstable repository? Is she comfortable BF> running an OS from a repository with no promises about stability? If BF> not, who advised her to do that? Let's find out, http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=auntie+nelda http:/

Re: Aren't there any checks in place to prevent a package from becoming uninstallable?

2011-02-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sonntag, 27. Februar 2011, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Or just advise sid users to have testing in their sources.list ;) is that something worth to be put on http://www.debian.org/releases/ or http://www.debian.org/releases/sid/ ? It absolutly sounds reasonable to me but I'm not tracking uns

Re: Aren't there any checks in place to prevent a package from becoming uninstallable?

2011-02-27 Thread Ben Finney
jida...@jidanni.org writes: > Well OK, but can't the package owners get a friendly mail once a day > "yoo hoo Holmes, your package is now broken" They can monitor the package's QA page. > lest they relax at the beach totally unaware one day Auntie Nelda > might suddenly have the urge to use thei

Re: Aren't there any checks in place to prevent a package from becoming uninstallable?

2011-02-27 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2011-02-27, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Lars Wirzenius wrote: >> We don't care if something is temporarily uninstallable in unstable. The >> only way to prevent that from happening would be to keep packages from >> entering unstable unless all their dependencies are in

Re: Aren't there any checks in place to prevent a package from becoming uninstallable?

2011-02-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 03:49:43PM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Aren't there any checks in place to prevent a package from becoming > uninstallable? E.g., bug #615530, #615528. We have tool to detect that and we periodically monitor the uninstallable packages in the various s

Re: Aren't there any checks in place to prevent a package from becoming uninstallable?

2011-02-27 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 04:42:28PM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Well OK, but can't the package owners get a friendly mail once a day > "yoo hoo Holmes, your package is now broken", lest they relax at the > beach totally unaware one day Auntie Nelda might suddenly have the urge > to use their

Re: Aren't there any checks in place to prevent a package from becoming uninstallable?

2011-02-27 Thread jidanni
Well OK, but can't the package owners get a friendly mail once a day "yoo hoo Holmes, your package is now broken", lest they relax at the beach totally unaware one day Auntie Nelda might suddenly have the urge to use their package in a hurry? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@list

Re: Aren't there any checks in place to prevent a package from becoming uninstallable?

2011-02-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 27 feb 11, 16:15:40, Paul Wise wrote: > > Something that might work would be to keep the old source/binary > packages around (as well as the new ones) until nothing depends on > them. IIRC the release team have the ability to (temporarily) have > multiple versions of a source package in tes

Re: Aren't there any checks in place to prevent a package from becoming uninstallable?

2011-02-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > We don't care if something is temporarily uninstallable in unstable. The > only way to prevent that from happening would be to keep packages from > entering unstable unless all their dependencies are in unstable already, > and that would pr

Re: Aren't there any checks in place to prevent a package from becoming uninstallable?

2011-02-27 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On su, 2011-02-27 at 15:49 +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Aren't there any checks in place to prevent a package from becoming > uninstallable? > E.g., bug #615530, #615528. We don't care if something is temporarily uninstallable in unstable. The only way to prevent that f

Aren't there any checks in place to prevent a package from becoming uninstallable?

2011-02-26 Thread jidanni
Aren't there any checks in place to prevent a package from becoming uninstallable? E.g., bug #615530, #615528. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://l