Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2006-01-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Matthew Palmer writes (Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]): On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 10:50:54AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: It irritates us all. But I'd rather have substandard patches submitted (just don't expect me to not go medieval

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 12:55:45PM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote: They could just as well do their changes directly in the debian archive, and have the ubuntu guys only recompile, or maintain the ubuntu-specific patches which should *not* go into debian. That is provided the debian

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 03:26:09PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Sven Luther wrote: I have no idea how ubuntu works internally, but my believe, since they (canonical) pay people all around the world, and they don't have structures locally to do the official hiring, they are forced to hire

Re: Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-16 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 08:29:20AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 10:00:22PM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 15.12.2005, 15:39 +0100 schrieb Sven Luther: Sounds like a very good idea, and fully in the scope of Utnubu. Some questions: * Is it common

Re: [Utnubu-discuss] Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-16 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Joachim Breitner wrote: I don't think there is much gain - an attached patch is not much better than a link, and might annoy people with limited bandwidth. It is *MUCH* better to attach a patch than to paste a link, unless as others said, you're talking about 1MB

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 01:06:51PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 01:57:12PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: I don't disagree. I would much rather every ubuntu change had a corresponding patch filed in the BTS, Every relevant change put into the BTS would be nice, yes.

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 04:17:32 +0100 Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 01:06:51PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: There's I screwed up because I made a mistake, and there's I screwed up because I don't actually know what

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Reinhard Tartler
On 12/15/05, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 01:06:51PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 01:57:12PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: I don't disagree. I would much rather every ubuntu change had a corresponding patch filed in the BTS, Every

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 11:57:37AM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote: On 12/15/05, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 01:06:51PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 01:57:12PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: I don't disagree. I would much rather every

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 04:17:32AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 01:06:51PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: There's I screwed up because I made a mistake, and there's I screwed up because I don't actually know what I'm doing, but I screwed up because I didn't care about

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Isaac Clerencia
On Thursday 15 December 2005 11:57, Reinhard Tartler wrote: Please give a reference to this directive. I am part of the MOTU team, and have never heared about such a directive. May be I've been a FUD victim too, but I've also heard that directive some months ago. Best regards -- Isaac

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Reinhard Tartler
On 12/15/05, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every relevant change put into the BTS would be nice, yes. Filing Notice that it is official ubuntu directive to *NOT* do that, that is to not send patches directly to the BTS, Please give a reference to this directive. I am

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Reinhard Tartler
On 12/15/05, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is their choice to fork with (possibly) too small manpower to keep up. They could just as well do their changes directly in the debian archive, and have the ubuntu guys only recompile, or maintain the ubuntu-specific patches which should

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 12:18:16PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: They could just as well do their changes directly in the debian archive, and have the ubuntu guys only recompile, or maintain the ubuntu-specific patches which should *not* go into debian. A good idea for Ubuntu to ease this would be

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 12:46:41PM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote: It is true that some MOTUs don't consider submitting to debian bts as priority because of bad experiences they had because of unresponsive and unhelpful Debian Maintainers. How much extra work is it to submit a patch one has

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Matthew Palmer wrote: OTOH, I've seen a number of ubuntu patches which were blatantly wrong, where the maintainer clearly didn't grok the package they were changing. *This* irritates me mightily. The reason, as given by a MOTU when I asked It irritates us all. But

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 10:50:54AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Matthew Palmer wrote: OTOH, I've seen a number of ubuntu patches which were blatantly wrong, where the maintainer clearly didn't grok the package they were changing. *This* irritates me

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 12:46:41PM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote: On 12/15/05, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every relevant change put into the BTS would be nice, yes. Filing Notice that it is official ubuntu directive to *NOT* do that, that is to not send patches

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 12:55:45PM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote: On 12/15/05, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is their choice to fork with (possibly) too small manpower to keep up. They could just as well do their changes directly in the debian archive, and have the ubuntu

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 02:12:35PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: That said, it may be different for ubuntu employees and random maintainers. Ubuntu does not have any employees. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 02:40:37PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 02:12:35PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: That said, it may be different for ubuntu employees and random maintainers. Ubuntu does not have any employees. Canoncal has. Greetings Marc, suppressing the remark

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 02:54:11PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: If the ubuntu patch database is public, and the patches therein DFSG-free licensed, why don#t we establish an automatism which moves patches from the Ubuntu patch database to the Debian BTS? The Utnubu[1] project was started at

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 02:40:37PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 02:12:35PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: That said, it may be different for ubuntu employees and random maintainers. Ubuntu does not have any employees. Those guys that get money for ubuntu work. No need to

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 03:00:29PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 02:54:11PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: If the ubuntu patch database is public, and the patches therein DFSG-free licensed, why don#t we establish an automatism which moves patches from the Ubuntu

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Andrew Saunders
On 12/15/05, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ubuntu is setup internally to circumvent social charges I don't understand this statement. Could you please explain what you mean? -- Andrew Saunders

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 03:00:26PM +, Andrew Saunders wrote: On 12/15/05, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ubuntu is setup internally to circumvent social charges I don't understand this statement. Could you please explain what you mean? I have no idea how ubuntu works internally,

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 03:00:26PM +, Andrew Saunders [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On 12/15/05, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ubuntu is setup internally to circumvent social charges I don't understand this statement. Could you please explain what you mean? My best

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Joey Hess
Sven Luther wrote: I have no idea how ubuntu works internally, but my believe, since they (canonical) pay people all around the world, and they don't have structures locally to do the official hiring, they are forced to hire independent worker, who pay their social charges and stuff

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Joey Hess
Reinhard Tartler wrote: Notice that it is official ubuntu directive to *NOT* do that, that is to not send patches directly to the BTS, Please give a reference to this directive. I am part of the MOTU team, and have never heared about such a directive. There was a large thread on

Re: [Utnubu-discuss] Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, (I just got the mails to utnubu-discuss, so bear with me) Am Donnerstag, den 15.12.2005, 15:39 +0100 schrieb Sven Luther: The process was to be manually though, the idea is to scan incoming mails to the BTS, which would notice an URL to an ubuntu patch, and auto-attach it (and complain

Re: [Utnubu-discuss] Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Joey Hess
Joachim Breitner wrote: I don't think there is much gain - an attached patch is not much better than a link, and might annoy people with limited bandwidth. It's SOP in Debian to attach patches to bug reports. I might consider doing otherwise if the patch exceeded 1 megabyte. (And yes, I'm on

Re: [Utnubu-discuss] Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Donnerstag, den 15.12.2005, 16:13 -0500 schrieb Joey Hess: Joachim Breitner wrote: I don't think there is much gain - an attached patch is not much better than a link, and might annoy people with limited bandwidth. It's SOP in Debian to attach patches to bug reports. I might

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 15 December 2005 04:03 am, Marc Haber wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 12:18:16PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: They could just as well do their changes directly in the debian archive, and have the ubuntu guys only recompile, or maintain the ubuntu-specific patches which should *not*

Re: [Utnubu-discuss] Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Joey Schulze
Joachim Breitner wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 15.12.2005, 15:39 +0100 schrieb Sven Luther: The process was to be manually though, the idea is to scan incoming mails to the BTS, which would notice an URL to an ubuntu patch, and auto-attach it (and complain loudly to the submitter if the URL

Re: [Utnubu-discuss] Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 10:00:22PM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote: Hi, (I just got the mails to utnubu-discuss, so bear with me) Am Donnerstag, den 15.12.2005, 15:39 +0100 schrieb Sven Luther: The process was to be manually though, the idea is to scan incoming mails to the BTS, which

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 09:23:36PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: On Thursday 15 December 2005 04:03 am, Marc Haber wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 12:18:16PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: They could just as well do their changes directly in the debian archive, and have the ubuntu guys only

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-14 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 01:57:12PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: I don't disagree. I would much rather every ubuntu change had a corresponding patch filed in the BTS, Every relevant change put into the BTS would be nice, yes. Filing everything in the BTS would result in a lot of patch,wontfix

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-14 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 01:06:51PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: There's I screwed up because I made a mistake, and there's I screwed up because I don't actually know what I'm doing, but I screwed up because I didn't care about doing a quality job is on a whole other level. I have much