Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-18 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On 18.08.2011 18:26, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > While you are at it: can you also make clickable the URL of the > project homepage that appears in this field (my package just used as > an example): > > Info:Homepage: https://github.com/qnikst/k

Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-18 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 05:13:42PM +0200, Arno Töll wrote: > I fixed that. Actually the problem was, that the watch-file plugin > checked the wrong exit status and thought uscan failed. The new > (correct) behavior is, not to display uscan output at all, unless there > was a problem with it. > > T

Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-18 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Stanislav, On 18.08.2011 15:57, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > For some reason, the report of uscan is shown as a "Warning:", > however, there is actually nothing to be warned about in it: it just > says that the package is found on upstream's websit

Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-18 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
Hello, On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 09:13:04AM -0400, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > I agree that this is a bug. I just filed a bug report: > > https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=313293&group_id=100127&atid=413115 > > We're working through issues and making reasonably good progress.

Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-17 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2011-08-11 10:50, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > > Okay! > > As of Thu Aug 11 08:47:29 UTC 2011, mentors.debian.net now runs the > Debexpo code. thanks to asheesh (with big cheers) for doing all the work. i really appreciate it. i believe that the few

Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-16 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 13 Aug 2011, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 04:50:42AM -0400, Asheesh Laroia wrote: As of Thu Aug 11 08:47:29 UTC 2011, mentors.debian.net now runs the Debexpo code. FTP upload should be working. There is a cron job that looks for FTP-based uploads every 30 minutes.

Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-16 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Excerpts from Stanislav Maslovski's message of Sat Aug 13 06:12:53 -0400 2011: > On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 01:48:31PM +0400, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > > I guess, the HTTP-based method does not have this absurd 30 minutes > > long delay... Trying to login and sort things out... > > Noticed one mor

Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-14 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 14/08/11 at 17:07 +0400, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > Well, then it is a shame that the system has not been given even a > slight test since all these years... On 14/08/11 at 17:18 +0400, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > You shold have asked for external testing and help *BEFORE* switching > mentor

Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-14 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
Hi, On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 04:34:17PM +0200, Arno Töll wrote: > On 14.08.2011 15:18, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > > But *you* provided the function in the web interface to delete the > > uploaded package. > > FTR: I didn't. That "you" above supposed to mean "people who care about debexpo and t

Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-14 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Stanislav, On 14.08.2011 15:18, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > But *you* provided the function in the web interface to delete the > uploaded package. FTR: I didn't. > You shold have asked for external testing and help *BEFORE* switching > mentors.

Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-14 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 10:57:30PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Andrew Starr-Bochicchio writes: > > > I've always been told (and it has been repeatedly mentioned on this > > very list) that packages should only bump their version numbers for > > versions that actually entered the official archives.

Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-14 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 01:51:45PM +0200, Arno Töll wrote: > In fact, until very recently we had no support to upload the same source > package several times at all, so the status quo is already an > improvement. As far as I can tell, there are the following problems with > (multiple) uploads of th

Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-14 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 01:00:50PM +0200, Arno Töll wrote: > > ... still points to old package! > > Seems like the transition to the new system was done in a hurry... > > One could argue, this is by design. It is not supported to re-upload a > new package with the same Debian version to official a

Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-14 Thread Ben Finney
Andrew Starr-Bochicchio writes: > I've always been told (and it has been repeatedly mentioned on this > very list) that packages should only bump their version numbers for > versions that actually entered the official archives. There are some sponsors who prefer what you say here, and there are

Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-14 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14.08.2011 13:37, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote: > That seems like a very bad design decision for a site dedicate to the > iterative process of review then. I sort of agree, although I wasn't involved at all in this part of Expo. We certainly acce

Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-14 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
On 2011-08-14 07:37, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote: > That seems like a very bad design decision for a site dedicate to the > iterative process of review then. I've always been told (and it has > been repeatedly mentioned on this very list) that packages should only > bump their version numbers for

Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-14 Thread Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
> On 13.08.2011 18:16, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: >> ... still points to old package! > > One could argue, this is by design. It is not supported to re-upload a > new package with the same Debian version to official archives either. That seems like a very bad design decision for a site dedicate to

Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-14 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On 13.08.2011 18:16, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > ... still points to old package! > Seems like the transition to the new system was done in a hurry... One could argue, this is by design. It is not supported to re-upload a new package with the sa

Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-13 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 03:18:06PM +0200, Alessandro Ghedini wrote: > Another problem I see, is that if I upload a package (with the same version) > twice, the second upload gets ignored. Even if I delete the package, and > then re-upload it, I see only the first upload. The old mentors updated th

Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-13 Thread Alessandro Ghedini
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 02:12:53PM +0400, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 01:48:31PM +0400, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > > I guess, the HTTP-based method does not have this absurd 30 minutes > > long delay... Trying to login and sort things out... > > Noticed one more thing on

Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-13 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 01:48:31PM +0400, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > I guess, the HTTP-based method does not have this absurd 30 minutes > long delay... Trying to login and sort things out... Noticed one more thing on the page with the information about the uploaded package (look below for the t

Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-13 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 04:50:42AM -0400, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > As of Thu Aug 11 08:47:29 UTC 2011, mentors.debian.net now runs the > Debexpo code. > > FTP upload should be working. There is a cron job that looks for > FTP-based uploads every 30 minutes. This provides compatibility with > the /e

Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-11 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011, Ben Finney wrote: Asheesh Laroia writes: * I'm importing all the data onto expo.debian.net over the next day. […] Here's what to expect, by the end of Thu Aug 11: Please note times in UTC, so users around the globe can know when you mean :-) Okay! As of Thu Aug 11

Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-10 Thread Ben Finney
Asheesh Laroia writes: > * I'm importing all the data onto expo.debian.net over the next day. […] > Here's what to expect, by the end of Thu Aug 11: Please note times in UTC, so users around the globe can know when you mean :-) (This also goes for any announcements you make on the websites the

Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-10 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011, Michael Tautschnig wrote: Hi Asheesh, [...] If you upload a new package to mentors.debian.net before the end of Thu Aug 11, then your package might get lost. If you find that's the case, just re-upload it. Couldn't you put a big fat banner on mentors.debian.net during

Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-10 Thread Michael Tautschnig
Hi Asheesh, [...] > > If you upload a new package to mentors.debian.net before the end of > Thu Aug 11, then your package might get lost. If you find that's the > case, just re-upload it. > Couldn't you put a big fat banner on mentors.debian.net during migration time? I've noticed that there is

News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-10 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Hi all debian-mentors people, The Debexpo code is just about ready for prime-time. We're doing the migration now. Here's the plans for mentors.debian.net's migration onto newer software called debexpo: * I'm importing all the data onto expo.debian.net over the next day. * Once Christoph Ha