Re: List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-27 Thread Ondrej Certik
> I find it easy enough to do: > > $ sudo apt-get update > $ apt-src -bi install $package > > apt-src will then "install" the source of the package into the current > working directory, then "b"uild it, and then "i"nstall the resulting > binaries. > > This works just fine for me with the deb-src me

Re: List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-26 Thread Raphael Geissert
On 26/07/07, Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 07:50:49PM +1000, Paul TBBle Hampson wrote: > > Your title= tagging has unfortunately barfed on my name, due > > to the "TBBle" in it causing the quoted string to terminate > > early. > > Well, I don't think this page i

Re: List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-26 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 07:50:49PM +1000, Paul TBBle Hampson wrote: > Your title= tagging has unfortunately barfed on my name, due > to the "TBBle" in it causing the quoted string to terminate > early. Well, I don't think this page is necessary anymore, since better options to check this are avail

Re: List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-26 Thread Paul TBBle Hampson
On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 06:35:06PM +0200, Bart Martens wrote: > Here's also a list of packages needing a sponsor. > http://people.debian.org/~bartm/borg/needssponsor.html Your title= tagging has unfortunately barfed on my name, due to the "TBBle" in it causing the quoted string to terminate early.

Re: List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-23 Thread Bart Martens
On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 09:30 +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Also, the list is a HTML page, with every package having a link. The > > link points to the RFS message in the Debian Mentors archive. > > > > See it at: > > http://www.ee.iitm.ac.in/~ee03b091/M

Re: List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-23 Thread Frank Küster
Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, the list is a HTML page, with every package having a link. The > link points to the RFS message in the Debian Mentors archive. > > See it at: > http://www.ee.iitm.ac.in/~ee03b091/Mentors/output.html I fear there are some false positives. For examp

Re: List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-22 Thread Ondrej Certik
I find it easy enough to do: $ sudo apt-get update $ apt-src -bi install $package apt-src will then "install" the source of the package into the current working directory, then "b"uild it, and then "i"nstall the resulting binaries. Thanks for the tip. This is actually very comfortable and wor

Re: List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-22 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, Ondrej Certik wrote: The actual discussion came up when we talked about whether the current GR on non-DDs with upload permissions is good or bad for Debian. And we agreed that Debian lacks a lot of packages just because the poor package maintainer (tm) didn't find a sponso

Re: List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-22 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Sonntag, den 22.07.2007, 21:01 +0200 schrieb Ondrej Certik: [..] > I think it would also help, if > there was some official repository for unnoficial packages, so that I > (as non-DD) could just upload my package to mentors (which I can now) > and then just add the "deb" line (not just "deb-src

Re: List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-22 Thread Ondrej Certik
The actual discussion came up when we talked about whether the current GR on non-DDs with upload permissions is good or bad for Debian. And we agreed that Debian lacks a lot of packages just because the poor package maintainer (tm) didn't find a sponsor in time. Yes, that is the most difficult p

Re: List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-22 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 07:37:13PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: > [...] > Thanks for your work! But basically you do work that already > had been done by mentors.debian.net. Ok not everyone is > using this service but it would be good if they would. Ah, you get beaten in the race quite often! ;-)

Re: List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-22 Thread Christoph Haas
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 07:37:13PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: > Hi, > * Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-22 19:26]: > > (Cross posted to debian-devel, debian-mentors) > > Dear Debian developers, > > > > I have written a few crude and rudimentary scripts to find an > > approximate list of p

Re: List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-22 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-22 19:26]: > (Cross posted to debian-devel, debian-mentors) > Dear Debian developers, > > I have written a few crude and rudimentary scripts to find an > approximate list of packages which have been or have _not_ been > sponsored despite an RFS to d

List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-22 Thread Kumar Appaiah
(Cross posted to debian-devel, debian-mentors) Dear Debian developers, I have written a few crude and rudimentary scripts to find an approximate list of packages which have been or have _not_ been sponsored despite an RFS to debian-mentors. The program generates bad output if the RFS mailer has n