Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 12:10:54AM +0100, JanC wrote: > On 1/17/06, Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How about renaming Maintainer to Debian-Maintainer in Ubuntu's binary > > packages, and having a specific Ubuntu-Maintainer? > > This should probably happen in a way that all (or most

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-20 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 07:08:38PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > I keep hearing this, but I really don't believe it. In Debian, "Maintainer" > means "An individual or group of people primarily responsible for the > on-going well being of a package". As I understand it, in Ubuntu, the MOTUs > hav

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 09:20:33AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 07:08:38PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > I keep hearing this, but I really don't believe it. In Debian, "Maintainer" > > means "An individual or group of people primarily responsible for the > > on-going w

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 07:24:57PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 09:20:33AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 07:08:38PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > > I keep hearing this, but I really don't believe it. In Debian, > > > "Maintainer" > > > means "A

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-20 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 07:24:57PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 09:20:33AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > In practice, it doesn't work out to mean the same thing, however. Most of > > the packages in universe are maintained only by the Debian maintainer, and > > The thing

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-20 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 07:35:55PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Arg, and to make matters worse, this discussion is CCed to a > closed-moderated-list, Matt, this is really not a friendly way to have a > conversation. I didn't add the CC to ubuntu-motu, nor the one to debian-project. I've merely par

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 09:20:33AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 07:08:38PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > I keep hearing this, but I really don't believe it. In Debian, "Maintainer" > > means "An individual or group of people primarily responsible for the > > on-going w

device discovery question before doing a motherboard upgrade.

2006-01-20 Thread water modem
I have given up searching the Debian sites and Google and usenet groups for the answer to a simple question. If I want to upgrade a Sarge 2.6 install to a new motherboard without re-installing Debian What do I run before or after the hardware upgrade to force device discovery to be repeate

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-20 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 07:13:31AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 09:20:33AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 07:08:38PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > > I keep hearing this, but I really don't believe it. In Debian, > > > "Maintainer" > > > means

Re: device discovery question before doing a motherboard upgrade.

2006-01-20 Thread Christoph Haas
On Friday 20 January 2006 21:02, water modem wrote: > I have given up searching the Debian sites and Google and usenet groups > for the answer to a simple question. > If I want to upgrade a Sarge 2.6 install to a new motherboard without > re-installing Debian "Sarge" is the name of the 3.1 sta

Re: device discovery question before doing a motherboard upgrade.

2006-01-20 Thread Floris Bruynooghe
[ Cc'd since I don't know if you're subscribed to the list, no Mail-Followup-To: header ] On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 02:02:57PM -0600, water modem wrote: > I have given up searching the Debian sites and Google and usenet groups > for the answer to a simple question. This question should really go t

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 12:41:49PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 07:13:31AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 09:20:33AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > By way of example, the Debian maintainer is equipped to answer questions > > > like "why is the

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-20 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 08:31:44AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > All you'll get is the loud minority having a whinge then, no matter what the > outcome. It will certainly beat the hell out of continuing this thread. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 01:40:11PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 08:31:44AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > All you'll get is the loud minority having a whinge then, no matter what the > > outcome. > > It will certainly beat the hell out of continuing this thread. It wil

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 10:54:40AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 07:35:55PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > Arg, and to make matters worse, this discussion is CCed to a > > closed-moderated-list, Matt, this is really not a friendly way to have a > > conversation. > > I didn'

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 10:46:51AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 07:24:57PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 09:20:33AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > In practice, it doesn't work out to mean the same thing, however. Most of > > > the packages in u

Hi, request to remove spammed links from http://lists.debian.org/

2006-01-20 Thread Koen de Jong
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