Re: The horde of sloppy maintainers is a myth. Maybe not. Maybe yes.

2009-11-16 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Adam Majer | The obvious answer is it did not. On the contrary, it allows | questionably built packages into Sid potentially breaking other | package's dependencies. Consider, | | 1. libfoofoo maintainer uploads with binary and new ABI for AMD64 | 2. libfoofoo FTBFS | 3. ubberapp

Re: The horde of sloppy maintainers is a myth. Maybe not. Maybe yes.

2009-11-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 02:18:16AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois a écrit : Nice to see you assert your gut feeling is right and that stupid people are candid enough to believe in myths. When you change your mind and actually start caring, try and check what you're talking about, try and dig up

Re: The horde of sloppy maintainers is a myth. Maybe not. Maybe yes.

2009-11-12 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org (12/11/2009): I am not the one who calls people sloppy, stupid or candid on this list. You started talking about people being non sloppy, that was not my language. (Or maybe I didn't dig enough to find another mention of it earlier in the thread, my bad should

Re: The horde of sloppy maintainers is a myth. Maybe not. Maybe yes.

2009-11-12 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:45:36PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org (12/11/2009): Look at e.g. the history of non-buildability for Alastair McKinstry's packages. udunits[1,2] comes to mind. (Note I don't think I'm a carebear, but that I'm not that used to YELLING

Re: The horde of sloppy maintainers is a myth. Maybe not. Maybe yes.

2009-11-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:45:36PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois a écrit : 1. https://buildd.debian.org/build.cgi?pkg=udunits 2. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=545653 3. https://buildd.debian.org/build.cgi?pkg=hdf-eos4 4. https://buildd.debian.org/build.cgi?pkg=hdf-eos5 Hi

The horde of sloppy maintainers is a myth.

2009-11-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 06:16:03PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois a écrit : Packages that are uploaded nowadays and that fail to build *everywhere* because of missing *trivial* Build-Depends (think autofoo, pkg-config, libstuff-dev when the package is stuff-related, etc.) would rather make me think

Re: The horde of sloppy maintainers is a myth. Maybe not.

2009-11-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Playing-with-the-subject-season? Alright. Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org (12/11/2009): I do not think that such a list would contain more than 10 names after removing the MIA DDs. Most of the aggressivity on Debian Planet, and most of the examples I received in private in the past point at