Bug#509416: PTS & DDPO: generic way to add and remove QA reports to PTS pages

2008-12-21 Thread Paul Wise
Package: qa.debian.org Severity: wishlist I think a generic way to allow people (inc those not in the QA group) to add QA report links to each package with issues that QA report covers. I think a mail bot is the way to implement this, some ideas on that: To: pts-rep...@qa.d.o new broken-shlibs-l

Re: Self-assessment of the quality of the maintenance work

2008-12-21 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 06:19:26PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > The collation of all those data will give us a better view on the > maintenance status of each package and it could be displayed on the PTS. > We could also use those info to direct new contributors to help in > existing packages i

Re: Self-assessment of the quality of the maintenance work

2008-12-21 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:16:28AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > The best results are achieved if everyone participates so I'd rather find > ways to make it painless for everybody first. But knowing how diverse the > opinions are, we will probably have to do something like this. There's no way

Re: Self-assessment of the quality of the maintenance work

2008-12-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 11:28:17 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > That's going to be a lot of fairly mindless paperwork for someone who's > > the member of a large, active team with a lot of packages. > Agreed. I'm not sure what's the best way to handle this. > Maybe the form should make it easy to g

Re: Self-assessment of the quality of the maintenance work

2008-12-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Hertzog writes: > Agreed. I'm not sure what's the best way to handle this. > > Maybe the form should make it easy to give the same answers to all > packages that are maintained by a given team ? We could use easily > identify the team by finding out an email that matches @lists\. in >

Re: Monitoring debian/shlibs.local files?

2008-12-21 Thread Loïc Minier
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > (generated by the Makefile in ~kibi/shlibs-check.git, on gluck.) attached dd-list with uploaders sed -n '/^#/!s/:$//p' mapping.list | dd-list -i -u -- Loïc Minier Guenter Geiger (Debian/GNU) jack-audio-connection-kit (U) rezound Jacek Śli

[Fwd: Considering package removal [glademm]]

2008-12-21 Thread Christoph Egger
Hi all! As suggested by KiBi I am forwarding this here to get your opinion about removing this package. Thanks Christoph Original-Nachricht Betreff: Considering package removal [glademm] Weitersenden-Datum: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:23:20 + (UTC) Weitersenden-Von: debian-men

Re: Monitoring debian/shlibs.local files?

2008-12-21 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Cyril Brulebois (21/12/2008): > OK, since it doesn't look like useless, I'll look into it and report > back in a moment. Attached, a list (103 source packages) based on the contents of gluck:/org/lintian.debian.org/laboratory/source/*/debfiles/shlibs.local (generated by the Makefile in ~kibi/shl

Re: Monitoring debian/shlibs.local files?

2008-12-21 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Loïc Minier (21/12/2008): > I'm all for it; over time I came across a bunch of broken packages > due to shlibs.local files, or simply with the risk of these files > bitrotting and causing issues later. OK, since it doesn't look like useless, I'll look into it and report back in a moment. Mraw, K

Re: Monitoring debian/shlibs.local files?

2008-12-21 Thread Loïc Minier
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > I'm wondering whether it might be a good idea to track those in source > packages, so as to make sure bugs got filed, and that those files go > away. Having a fixed shlibs file would be profitable to all packages > linking against this library, rather

Re: Propose remove waproamd from lenny

2008-12-21 Thread Luk Claes
Hi Maybe this package should be removed from unstable? Cheers Luk Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > I have just been trying to make roaming wireless work on my laptop and > came across waproamd, which sounded great. However, further digging > reveals that it has been obsoleted upstream and the origin

Monitoring debian/shlibs.local files?

2008-12-21 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hello, context: debian/shlibs.local can be used to work around broken shlibs files (Policy §8.6.5). Bugs are supposed to be filed, then fixed, and shlibs.local files should then disappear. I'm wondering whether it might be a good idea to track those in source packages, so as to make sure bugs got

Re: please unblock net-snmp

2008-12-21 Thread Filippo Giunchedi
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 12:05:40PM +0100, Filippo Giunchedi wrote: > As per subject. As you might have figured out, this was a mistake. 13:26 godog: :) @ your -qa mail :) 13:27 KiBi: heh, I should properly wake up before looking at RCs :) 13:28 :) filippo -- Filippo Giunchedi - http://esau

please unblock net-snmp

2008-12-21 Thread Filippo Giunchedi
As per subject. Relevant diff: diff -u net-snmp-5.4.1~dfsg/debian/snmpd.init net-snmp-5.4.1~dfsg/debian/snmpd.init --- net-snmp-5.4.1~dfsg/debian/snmpd.init +++ net-snmp-5.4.1~dfsg/debian/snmpd.init @@ -40,12 +40,12 @@ start) echo -n "Starting network management services:" if [ "$SNM

Re: Self-assessment of the quality of the maintenance work

2008-12-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 06:19:26PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > I would like to propose something new that would partially supersede > the work done by the MIA team and that would also generate new > information somehow related to the topic of WNPP. Well, I like the principle (who having a feel

Re: Self-assessment of the quality of the maintenance work

2008-12-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 20 Dec 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: > Raphael Hertzog writes: > > > The basic idea is quite simple, we want to ensure that each package is > > maintained as well as possible and for this we need to ensure that > > it has one or more active maintainer(s). Hence every X months, each > > mainta

Re: Self-assessment of the quality of the maintenance work

2008-12-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 21 Dec 2008, Filippo Giunchedi wrote: > I like the general idea, here are a few points/questions: > > Have a procedure to not receive the mail in the future (perhaps making it > possible to (manually, via email?) re-enable at some later time) The best results are achieved if everyone part

Re: Self-assessment of the quality of the maintenance work

2008-12-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 20 Dec 2008, Enrico Zini wrote: > I quite liked the idea of allowing to set such attributes in the control > file because, rather than looking like someone putting their nose on how > one maintains packages, they are a handy way to document the > maintainer's intentions with the package, pr