Re: Request for review, geoip-database-contrib

2010-12-29 Thread Ludovico Cavedon
On 12/29/2010 05:59 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Justin B Rye (j...@edlug.org.uk): > >>> If you choose not to update the database automatically, you can do it by >>> hand >>> by running the command geoip-database-contrib_update as root. >> >> That looks okay. > > I'd recommend quotin

Re: Request for review, geoip-database-contrib

2010-12-29 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Justin B Rye (j...@edlug.org.uk): > > If you choose not to update the database automatically, you can do it by > > hand > > by running the command geoip-database-contrib_update as root. > > That looks okay. I'd recommend quoting the program name (with single quotes, which we standardi

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Release notes addition for Xen support in Debian

2010-12-29 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 12/29/2010 07:40 PM, Justin B Rye wrote: > Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: >> Thomas, if you don't mind, i still would like to tweak the text a bit. > > Most of your changes look to me like definite improvements, except: > >>> This does not happen under GRUB 2 in Squeeze. Instead, the non-Xen >>> k

Re: Request for review, geoip-database-contrib

2010-12-29 Thread Ludovico Cavedon
On 12/28/2010 11:55 PM, Justin B Rye wrote: > an "uploader" (or some such). Maybe just: > > Description: GeoLite binary database downloader > > Or then again maybe I'm trying too hard and we'd be better of with: > > Description: downloader for the GeoLite binary database > I'd like to have

Re: Release notes addition for Xen support in Debian

2010-12-29 Thread Justin B Rye
Julien Cristau wrote: >> Do we know *how* it's broken? It always works for me - is that >> because I don't use GNOME? >> > It removes packages instead of upgrading them. Or just never finds an > upgrade path and bails out. Or takes 10 broken propositions before it > finds something vaguely acce

Re: Release notes addition for Xen support in Debian

2010-12-29 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 12:00:49 +, Justin B Rye wrote: > Julien Cristau wrote: > > Well the recommendation changed because aptitude's behaviour on upgrades > > from one release to the next was already broken for etch→lenny, and > > isn't better for lenny→squeeze. > > Do we know *how* it's br

Re: Release notes addition for Xen support in Debian

2010-12-29 Thread Justin B Rye
Julien Cristau wrote: > Well the recommendation changed because aptitude's behaviour on upgrades > from one release to the next was already broken for etch→lenny, and > isn't better for lenny→squeeze. Do we know *how* it's broken? It always works for me - is that because I don't use GNOME? Meanw

Re: Release notes addition for Xen support in Debian

2010-12-29 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:40:46 +, Justin B Rye wrote: > Julien Cristau wrote: > >>> Why would you do that? > >> > >> I can't tell you the rationale; I'm just trying to follow the > >> recommendations in the paragraph Adam pointed at*: > > > > I think mostly it means aptitude's curses inter

Re: Release notes addition for Xen support in Debian

2010-12-29 Thread Justin B Rye
Julien Cristau wrote: >>> Why would you do that? >> >> I can't tell you the rationale; I'm just trying to follow the >> recommendations in the paragraph Adam pointed at*: > > I think mostly it means aptitude's curses interface. But in any case > for installing a single package it doesn't matter.

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Release notes addition for Xen support in Debian

2010-12-29 Thread Justin B Rye
Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > Thomas, if you don't mind, i still would like to tweak the text a bit. Most of your changes look to me like definite improvements, except: >> This does not happen under GRUB 2 in Squeeze. Instead, the non-Xen >> kernel will boot by default. > > This behavior changed

Re: Release notes addition for Xen support in Debian

2010-12-29 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 00:07:15 +, Justin B Rye wrote: > Julien Cristau wrote: > > Justin B Rye wrote: > >> for the immediately subsequent xen 4.0 install we should be telling > >> them to switch back to aptitude. > > > > Why would you do that? > > I can't tell you the rationale; I'm just t

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Release notes addition for Xen support in Debian

2010-12-29 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
[ Dropping debian-release@ as that does not need to be discussed there, adding debian-doc, they edit the release notes ] Hi, Thomas, if you don't mind, i still would like to tweak the text a bit. > > [...many English corrections...] > 4.7.4. Xen upgrades > > In Lenny, if you installed Xen, th