Re: Excessive wait for DAM - something needs to be done

2003-07-17 Thread David B Harris
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 21:33:11 -0700 (PDT) tony mancill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, this thread should probably be on newmaint, so I'm cross-posting it there. Please follow-up on newmaint. Replied to debian-newmaint@lists.debian.org, Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpbV9LOVYaBg.pgp

Re: Excessive wait for DAM - something needs to be done

2003-07-16 Thread David B Harris
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 21:50:18 +0100 Matt Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adam Heath wrote: On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Jamin W. Collins wrote: 2000-12-17 - Eray Ozkural [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nm.debian.org/nmstatus.php?email=erayo%40cs.bilkent.edu.tr * DAM Comment: Have asked applicant

Re: Excessive wait for DAM - something needs to be done

2003-07-16 Thread David B Harris
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 18:47:57 -0700 Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 21:42:45 -0400 David B Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Getting rid of that examination would be very detrimental to Debian as a whole, and will likely result in some very, very unpleasant things

Re: Excessive wait for DAM - something needs to be done

2003-07-16 Thread David B Harris
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 21:33:11 -0700 (PDT) tony mancill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, this thread should probably be on newmaint, so I'm cross-posting it there. Please follow-up on newmaint. Replied to [EMAIL PROTECTED], Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Excessive wait for DAM - something needs to be done

2003-07-16 Thread David B Harris
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 21:50:18 +0100 Matt Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adam Heath wrote: On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Jamin W. Collins wrote: 2000-12-17 - Eray Ozkural [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nm.debian.org/nmstatus.php?email=erayo%40cs.bilkent.edu.tr * DAM Comment: Have asked applicant

Re: Excessive wait for DAM - something needs to be done

2003-07-16 Thread David B Harris
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 18:47:57 -0700 Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 21:42:45 -0400 David B Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Getting rid of that examination would be very detrimental to Debian as a whole, and will likely result in some very, very unpleasant things

Guide to update_excuses.html?

2003-05-04 Thread David B Harris
, will try to remove [ [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~/ ]$ grep-excuses ipband ipband (0.7.2-1 to 0.7.2-1.1) Maintainer: David B Harris 262 days old (needed 10 days) Valid candidate Depends: ipband libpcap [ [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~/ ]$ gqmpeg I'm rather confused about especially, I can't find any

Re: problems with debconf

2003-03-29 Thread David B Harris
On Thu Mar 27, 07:46pm +0100, Frank Küster wrote: # apt-get --purge remove netenv [...] Yes, this should purge your debconf questions. However, his is left as an exercise to the maintainer; there's a handy db_purge command after you've sourced /usr/share/debconf/confmodule.sh which purges

Re: How to mantain a package... easily

2003-03-12 Thread David B Harris
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 09:53:37 +0100 Jaime Robles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mean... could it be possible to execute any command with any parameter like:update_from_sources new_sources.tar.gz to generate the same debian package in the easy way? :-) 'apt-get install devscripts; man uupdate'

Re: How to mantain a package... easily

2003-03-12 Thread David B Harris
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 09:53:37 +0100 Jaime Robles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mean... could it be possible to execute any command with any parameter like:update_from_sources new_sources.tar.gz to generate the same debian package in the easy way? :-) 'apt-get install devscripts; man uupdate'

Re: virtual-package-depends-without-real-package-depends rsh-client

2003-02-09 Thread David B Harris
On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 02:57:33 + Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Preferred alternatives for virtual packages should come first, not second. Yeah, could have sworn :) msg08560/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: virtual-package-depends-without-real-package-depends rsh-client

2003-02-09 Thread David B Harris
On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 02:57:33 + Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Preferred alternatives for virtual packages should come first, not second. Yeah, could have sworn :) pgpZiqz4dLNCa.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: virtual-package-depends-without-real-package-depends rsh-client

2003-02-08 Thread David B Harris
On Sat, 8 Feb 2003 17:14:01 -0700 (MST) Bob Proulx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have reduced the problem to this small example which illustrates the problem I am having. Package: myserverbundle Architecture: all Section: admin Priority: optional Depends: rsh-client

Re: virtual-package-depends-without-real-package-depends rsh-client

2003-02-08 Thread David B Harris
On Sat, 8 Feb 2003 17:14:01 -0700 (MST) Bob Proulx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have reduced the problem to this small example which illustrates the problem I am having. Package: myserverbundle Architecture: all Section: admin Priority: optional Depends: rsh-client

Re: Packaging pekwm

2003-01-05 Thread David B Harris
On Sun, 05 Jan 2003 18:59:32 -0800 David Frey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's how I got started. I have been looking at various window manager packages. I still can't figure out how my menu-method is supposed to get copied over. Install it in debian/rules, using /usr/bin/install. And when I

Re: intentions to work on ImageJ

2002-11-26 Thread David B Harris
On 26 Nov 2002 16:01:04 +0100 i'd like to pack ImageJ -Image Processing and Analysis in Java- , and as suggested in the Developer's Reference: you should post about your intentions to work on something to avoid duplicated effort i'm posting to debian-mentors about my intentions and to find

Re: intentions to work on ImageJ

2002-11-26 Thread David B Harris
On 26 Nov 2002 16:01:04 +0100 i'd like to pack ImageJ -Image Processing and Analysis in Java- , and as suggested in the Developer's Reference: you should post about your intentions to work on something to avoid duplicated effort i'm posting to debian-mentors about my intentions and to find

Re: intentions to work on ImageJ

2002-11-26 Thread David B Harris
On 26 Nov 2002 17:42:37 +0100 Paolo Ariano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks, i've seen that there is ITP of ImageJ in 2000 but the author is unreachable, so i posted another ITP. Good, good. (With the caveat that Colin mentioned.) pgpjL7dBN89FA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: File a bug against my own package?

2002-11-20 Thread David B Harris
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 11:19:34 -0500 Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, the changelog doesn't really matter, as few people ever look at it. I strongy object to both of these assertions. Developers, myself included, read changelogs constantly, and it is important for them to be

Re: File a bug against my own package?

2002-11-20 Thread David B Harris
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 11:19:34 -0500 Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, the changelog doesn't really matter, as few people ever look at it. I strongy object to both of these assertions. Developers, myself included, read changelogs constantly, and it is important for them to be

Re: dealing with dead projects

2002-09-22 Thread David B Harris
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 00:34:45 -0700 (PDT) Sam Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a package, xmms-liveice, which is very, very unstable. The upstream author has moved on to other projects, and doesn't seem particularly interested in making the code work better. It's an xmms plugin,

Re: dealing with dead projects

2002-09-22 Thread David B Harris
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 00:34:45 -0700 (PDT) Sam Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a package, xmms-liveice, which is very, very unstable. The upstream author has moved on to other projects, and doesn't seem particularly interested in making the code work better. It's an xmms plugin,

Re: What version number should I put in Depends: ?

2002-02-26 Thread David B Harris
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Re: What version number should I put in Depends: ?

2002-02-26 Thread David B Harris
) -- ,__. | David B. Harris, Systems administrator | http://www.terrabox.com | | [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://eelf.ddts.net | |==| | Clan Barclay motto: Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death