Re: plea to sponsees about announcing location of packages

2006-07-27 Thread Damyan Ivanov
Christoph Haas написа: > Damyan Ivanov meant the long description. And that is not contained in > the .dsc or .changes file. So I believe the short description is > sufficient to get an idea of what the package is doing at a glance. That's right. Unfortunatelly "long description" is not so well-

Re: plea to sponsees about announcing location of packages

2006-07-27 Thread Christoph Haas
On Thursday 27 July 2006 13:30, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.07.27.1150 +0100]: > >> If you are sponsoring packages that's just a one-time action. Then > >> sponsorees can tell you that a new package is available on >

Re: plea to sponsees about announcing location of packages

2006-07-27 Thread Frank S. Thomas
On Thursday 27 July 2006 13:14, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > On Thursday 27 July 2006 12:58, Eddy Petrişor took the opportunity to write: > > As oposed to none?! And you don't have to do that with every package > > that is self hosted. > > The vast majority of RFSes on this list, at least lately, seem

Re: plea to sponsees about announcing location of packages

2006-07-27 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.07.27.1150 +0100]: > >> If you are sponsoring packages that's just a one-time action. Then >> sponsorees can tell you that a new package is available on >> mentors.debian.net and you just run "apt-get update && apt-g

Re: plea to sponsees about announcing location of packages

2006-07-27 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.07.27.1150 +0100]: > If you are sponsoring packages that's just a one-time action. Then > sponsorees can tell you that a new package is available on > mentors.debian.net and you just run "apt-get update && apt-get source > foobar". IMHO it's p

Re: plea to sponsees about announcing location of packages

2006-07-27 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Thursday 27 July 2006 12:59, Thijs Kinkhorst took the opportunity to write: > On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 12:48 +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > > > > What's wrong with apt-get source? > > > > > > You have to add a line to /etc/apt/sources.list to make it work. > > > > Yes, but only once. It's still a

Re: plea to sponsees about announcing location of packages

2006-07-27 Thread Christoph Haas
On Thursday 27 July 2006 12:28, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Magnus Holmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.07.27.1124 +0100]: > > > Or just dget > > > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main//pkg.dsc > > > > > > instead of the paragraph speaking about "apt-get source". > > > > What's

Re: plea to sponsees about announcing location of packages

2006-07-27 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Magnus Holmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.07.27.1148 +0100]: > Yes, but only once. It's still a useful alternative for anyone > that checks out source packages from mentors.debian.net regularly. Sure, an alternative, but it also requires you to run apt-get update every time. I definit

Re: plea to sponsees about announcing location of packages

2006-07-27 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 12:48 +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > > > What's wrong with apt-get source? > > > > You have to add a line to /etc/apt/sources.list to make it work. > > Yes, but only once. It's still a useful alternative for anyone that > checks out source packages from mentors.debian.net re

Re: plea to sponsees about announcing location of packages

2006-07-27 Thread Eddy Petrişor
On 27/07/06, Magnus Holmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 27 July 2006 12:28, martin f krafft took the opportunity to write: > also sprach Magnus Holmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.07.27.1124 +0100]: > > > Or just dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main//pkg.dsc > > > > >

Re: plea to sponsees about announcing location of packages

2006-07-27 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Thursday 27 July 2006 12:28, martin f krafft took the opportunity to write: > also sprach Magnus Holmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.07.27.1124 +0100]: > > > Or just dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main//pkg.dsc > > > > > > instead of the paragraph speaking about "apt-get source

Re: plea to sponsees about announcing location of packages

2006-07-27 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Magnus Holmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.07.27.1124 +0100]: > > Or just dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main//pkg.dsc > > > > instead of the paragraph speaking about "apt-get source". > > What's wrong with apt-get source? You have to add a line to /etc/apt/sources.li

Re: plea to sponsees about announcing location of packages

2006-07-27 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 13:16, Damyan Ivanov took the opportunity to write: > It would be good if this is used in mendors.d.n-generated RFS > templates. (Christof Haas CC-ed). Something like: > > Or just dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main//pkg.dsc > > instead of the paragraph spe

Re: plea to sponsees about announcing location of packages

2006-07-25 Thread Christoph Haas
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 13:54, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 13:30 +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > > I'm open to suggestions. The importer that processes uploaded packages > > just takes into account the *.dsc and *.changes files AFAIK. None of > > them contain the one-line descript

Re: plea to sponsees about announcing location of packages

2006-07-25 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 13:30 +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > > And being on the whishlist line, May long description be included in > > the RFS templates too? > > I'm open to suggestions. The importer that processes uploaded packages just > takes into account the *.dsc and *.changes files AFAIK. No

Re: plea to sponsees about announcing location of packages

2006-07-25 Thread Christoph Haas
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 13:16, Damyan Ivanov wrote: > Matthew Palmer написа: > > On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 10:46:47AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > >> Matthew, could we please add this to the FAQ? > > > > It shall be done. I'll also note about dget (which is a little-known > > tool, I think). > >

Re: plea to sponsees about announcing location of packages

2006-07-25 Thread Christoph Haas
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 11:46, martin f krafft wrote: > I am sure you've heard about dget: pass it a .dsc file and it will > download the source package. This is vastly better than having to > browse to a directory and select the files by hand. > > Thus I kindly ask all sponsees to always include t

Re: plea to sponsees about announcing location of packages

2006-07-25 Thread Damyan Ivanov
Matthew Palmer написа: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 10:46:47AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: >> Matthew, could we please add this to the FAQ? > > It shall be done. I'll also note about dget (which is a little-known tool, > I think). It would be good if this is used in mendors.d.n-generated RFS temp

Re: plea to sponsees about announcing location of packages

2006-07-25 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.07.25.1107 +0100]: > It shall be done. I'll also note about dget (which is > a little-known tool, I think). You rock, thanks a lot! -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: plea to sponsees about announcing location of packages

2006-07-25 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 10:46:47AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > Matthew, could we please add this to the FAQ? It shall be done. I'll also note about dget (which is a little-known tool, I think). - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

plea to sponsees about announcing location of packages

2006-07-25 Thread martin f krafft
Hi, I am sure you've heard about dget: pass it a .dsc file and it will download the source package. This is vastly better than having to browse to a directory and select the files by hand. Thus I kindly ask all sponsees to always include the full path to the .dsc file in sponsor request emails.