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 mainta

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 H

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 (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 in bugreports.

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

2009-11-12 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Charles Plessy (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 that be the case.

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

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 (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 the same perso