Re: How to best reach the users of a package?

2006-08-06 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Saturday 05 August 2006 21:20, martin f krafft wrote: >> I envision a tool (warning: braindump ahead) that we install *by >> default* on a standard system, which uses cron to wake up once a day > > I think that installing it by default is not really an op

Re: How to best reach the users of a package?

2006-08-06 Thread Peter Van Eynde
Alle Saturday 05 August 2006 21:20, martin f krafft ha scritto: > So I made a mistake in the mdadm version currently in testing, and > published [0] to -testing and -user at the same time as I uploaded > a new version. Hello, Thinking as a mere user, the first thing I would do is check the bug re

Re: Bit from the Stable Release Team

2006-08-06 Thread Noèl Köthe
Am Donnerstag, den 03.08.2006, 22:40 +0200 schrieb Andreas Barth: > add that suite to their /etc/apt/sources.list; it is still not > recommended for everyone, and packages in proposed-updates are not yet > released. http://www.de.debian.org/releases/stable/errata Then we should remove the part w

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Re: How to best reach the users of a package?

2006-08-06 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 03:57:22PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Roland Mas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Yeah, I hadn't thought of that. But, ehm, since news bits can be > > classified per source package, they could be generated once a day, fed > > to dak and friends, in the pool and pushed

Re: How to best reach the users of a package?

2006-08-06 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 12:38:31PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > per second (assuming even distribution). That is not an irrelevant > amount of traffic even with static web pages, never mind dynamically > generated, customized RSS feeds. Just a diff in addition to what has already been said on th

Re: How to best reach the users of a package?

2006-08-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.06.1457 +0100]: > I wonder how much it would confuse apt and its friends if we simply > piggybacked the information onto the Packages records by adding a new > field (with the entire text or just an URL), but without bumping the > version num

Re: How to best reach the users of a package?

2006-08-06 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Roland Mas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Yeah, I hadn't thought of that. But, ehm, since news bits can be > classified per source package, they could be generated once a day, fed > to dak and friends, in the pool and pushed to the mirrors. I wonder how much it would confuse apt and its friends

Re: How to best reach the users of a package?

2006-08-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 12:36:59PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Roland Mas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.06.1114 +0100]: > > Yeah, I hadn't thought of that. But, ehm, since news bits can be > > classified per source package, they could be generated once a day, fed > > to dak and frie

Re: LSB 3.1 status for etch

2006-08-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 01:28:04PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > What does the LSB 3.1 say about amd64 and libdirs? Does it require lib > to contain 32bit libs? Does this same question apply to other 64bit arches, like sparc64 or powerpc64 for example ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNS

Re: How to best reach the users of a package?

2006-08-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Roland Mas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.06.1114 +0100]: > Yeah, I hadn't thought of that. But, ehm, since news bits can be > classified per source package, they could be generated once a day, fed > to dak and friends, in the pool and pushed to the mirrors. Yes, definitely. We should u

Re: How to best reach the users of a package?

2006-08-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.06.0516 +0100]: > The service is attractive, but mailing to root... To my great regret, > on many machine, mail to local users does not get read these days It would be configurable, just like cron-apt and apt-listchanges are. -- Please

Re: LSB 3.1 status for etch

2006-08-06 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
What does the LSB 3.1 say about amd64 and libdirs? Does it require lib to contain 32bit libs? MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to best reach the users of a package?

2006-08-06 Thread Roland Mas
Lars Wirzenius, 2006-08-06 11:40:06 +0200 : > One million users polling once day, causing one kilobyte of HTTP > traffic, results in 30 gigabytes of traffic per month, and about 11 > hits per second (assuming even distribution). That is not an > irrelevant amount of traffic even with static web pa

Re: How to best reach the users of a package?

2006-08-06 Thread Lars Wirzenius
su, 2006-08-06 kello 11:33 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli kirjoitti: > Regarding how to implement it, the most interesting part seems to be > creating the server side part of the service and make DDs use it. I > agree with the user comment about using RSS for that. One million users polling once day, c

Re: How to best reach the users of a package?

2006-08-06 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 08:20:55PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > I envision a tool (warning: braindump ahead) that we install *by > default* on a standard system, which uses cron to wake up once a day > and check online for important announcements regarding all installed > packages, and mails the

Re: How to best reach the users of a package?

2006-08-06 Thread Joseph Neal
Hi. User Here. RSS would be great, actually. It may not be the flashing red light you're looking for, but a feed or two for each suite announcing critical updates would be very much appreciated. Maybe you could ship Firefox (or all the aggregators in the archive) with something like that