Bug#681836: PTS: link to l10n status should be moved from i18n.debian.net to i18n.debian.org

2012-07-16 Thread Christian Perrier
Package: qa.debian.org Severity: normal The packages' l10n status pacges are no longer generated on i18n.debian.net but on i18n.debian.org So, anywhere where http://i18n.debian.net appears, it should reference http://i18n.debian.org -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefer

Bug#681836: PTS: link to l10n status should be moved from i18n.debian.net to i18n.debian.org

2012-07-17 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Mehdi Dogguy (me...@dogguy.org): > Not yet, because the migration isn't finished yet : If you check [1], > you'll notice a lot of i18n.debian.net entries that don't exist. Their > .org equivalent exists though. I guess you have to fix your scripts first. Just fixed. > Besides, the old w

Re: automated tests or builds for d-i

2012-11-04 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Holger Levsen (hol...@layer-acht.org): > so i'm lucking for an easier target first: automatic d-i-manual builds > triggered on every commit to svn trunk? would that be useful? *that* is definitely useful. Along with failure reports sent to -boot, that would be perfect. Another interesti

Re: Bug#750000: console-setup: unowned files after purge (policy 6.8, 10.8)

2014-05-31 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Holger Levsen (hol...@layer-acht.org): > Package: console-setup > Version: 1.108 > Severity: important > User: debian-qa@lists.debian.org > Usertags: piuparts piuparts.d.o Kudos for bug #75. First time that piuparts wins a "round" bug number in the silly "nice" bug number contest:

Bug#352200: PTS: please allow displaying bin NMUs

2006-02-10 Thread Christian Perrier
Package: qa.debian.org Severity: wishlist >From IRC: 08:25 < bubulle> hmmm, /me wonders whether #352166 (shadow FTBFS on hppa) shoul djust be closed or not. It seems that there's been a binNMU this morning but I have no clue about who did it and whether this just says the FTBFS was a problem on t

Re: Mass bug filing: non-UTF8 debian/{control.changelog}

2007-11-17 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Bas Zoetekouw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi! > > I'm planning to file bugs for packages that use non-UTF-8 encodings in > debian/control and/or debian/copyright. copyright or changelog? Or both? signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Mass bug filing: non-UTF8 debian/{control.changelog}

2008-03-03 Thread Christian Perrier
if necessary). > > I should remark here that almost all of the work was done by Christian > Perrier. I merely reported most of the bugs; Christian fixed most of > them. Sure but your work helped *a lot* for this. I just found those issues a few weeks and decided that I would give

Orphan tgif?

2008-03-26 Thread Christian Perrier
(Please CC me to replies) I got this when I wrote to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]": I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below. For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster. If you do so, please include this problem re

Re: dag2html: a package in need of some love

2008-04-01 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting James Westby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > For the geneweb part I am Ccing Christian. Christian, do you know of > anybody that would be interested in the dag2html package? Would it > be worth contacting your upstream? I don't have any real idea of who could be interested in it. However, on sho

Re: dag2html: a package in need of some love

2008-04-02 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting James Westby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Is it an updated version, or still the same code do you know? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/debian/geneweb/geneweb-5.01/dag2html> ls -l total 88 -rw--- 1 bubulle bubulle 1936 jan 1 2006 dag2html.1 -rw--- 1 bubulle bubulle 42802 déc 13 2005 dag2ht

Re: dag2html: a package in need of some love

2008-04-02 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Barry deFreese ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Christian Perrier wrote: >> Quoting James Westby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> >> >>> Is it an updated version, or still the same code do you know? >>> >> >> >> >> >> > I&#x

Bug#484873: packages.qa.debian.org: should it still list oldstable?

2008-06-06 Thread Christian Perrier
Package: qa.debian.org Severity: normal As of now, oldstable is no longer supported (security-wise). I wonder whether it should still be listed on p.q.d.o pages in such situations, which might be misleading to out users. (side comment: I think that the drop of support for oldstable has not been

Re: For those who care about bts-link: call for adoption

2008-11-10 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Pierre Habouzit ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, > > As some of you may know, I've been the original creator of bts-link[0]. > Though, I have currently neither the motivation, nor the time to > maintain it, or run it on a regular basis[1]. > > I believe bts-link has become an important piece of

Re: For those who care about bts-link: call for adoption

2009-01-05 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Sandro Tosi (mo...@debian.org): > I'd be very welcome to maintain it, in the QA architecture, but I need > some guidance in the setup on merkel and stuff like this. Any news about this ? bts-link is seriously missing, now, for those of us who heavily work with their upstream's BTS (hint

Re: For those who care about bts-link: call for adoption

2009-01-05 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Sandro Tosi (mo...@debian.org): > Sadly no, mainly because I was waiting for a sort of approval/ack from > QA team, that never came (I don't know if it's needed, but I saw it as > a source of courtesy). Well, maybe just because nobody in the QA team felt in charge of providing you with a

Bug#352200: PTS: please allow displaying bin NMUs

2009-07-21 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Stefano Zacchiroli (z...@debian.org): > Maybe, what can be done, is to add a pop-up on version numbers for > specific releases which shows binNMU versions only for the > architectures which have some. Still, doing that would require > downloading version information for all architectures,

Potentially abandoned packages

2009-09-21 Thread Christian Perrier
During last weeks, my l10n NMU campaign went on the following packages that seem more or less abandoned: canna: last maintainer upload March 2007, two NMUs since then, several trivial lintian fixes nethack: last maintainer upload Nov 2006, 6 NMUs since then, several trivial lintia

xfonts-wqy

2009-09-24 Thread Christian Perrier
This package lists Cai Qian as maintainer but (s)he's no longer active and the @debian.org address bounces. Antony Fok is listed as Uploader. I suggest the package to be orphaned unless Antony steps up as maintainer. PS: I have an l10n NMU that's being cooked up. It will probably clean out triv

Re: Too much disruptive NMUs

2010-05-22 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Ana Guerrero (a...@debian.org): > I know this is done with the best intentions but if you think the package > is in bad shape or neglected by the maintainer then it might better write > to mia@, debian-qa@ or open a bug asking whether the package should be > orphaned (or even removed).

My work method for the current l10n non-maintainer uploads campaign

2005-01-22 Thread Christian Perrier
(CC'ed to -qa as this may be seen as some kind of QA work) Some of you have noticed the "NMU campaign" (NMU==non-maintainer upload, ie building an uploading a package while you're indeed not the official maintainer for it) currently running for fixing longstanding l10n bugs (up to now debconf tran

Offer to take over the shadow package (passwd and login binary packages)

2005-03-13 Thread Christian Perrier
Hello folks, The shadow package is officially maintained by Karl Ramm, with assistance by Sam Hartman. It is the source package for "login" and "passwd", two important pieces of Debian base system. I have helped Karl in collecting the package translations (both debconf and programs translations)

Re: Offer to take over the shadow package (passwd and login binary packages)

2005-03-13 Thread Christian Perrier
> > I have announced in many places my intent to take over the package > > development, which I'm in fact doing since mid 2004 (with NMUs). > > Would you also take over xscreensaver and maybe let me co-maintain it? I'm afraid I have to decline. More packages would be, for me, a bit too much and

Re: Bug#200115: Patch somewhat flawed

2003-07-24 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Frank Lichtenheld ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > If it is really unmaintained currently, I'll try the new patch sent by > > Denis and then upload a NMU. > > No need to do that. I have prepared a QA Upload for it[0] and will > incorporate Denis' patch today. If you want I can send it to you > to

Process for doing a "QA upload"

2003-09-12 Thread Christian Perrier
(please CC me to answers) Is there a documentation somewhere about the Correct way to do a QA upload. In fact, I even don't know whether what I intend to do *is* a QA upload ;.. :-)

Re: Process for doing a "QA upload"

2003-09-14 Thread Christian Perrier
cxhextris (1.0-23.2) unstable; urgency=low * Non-maintainer upload * Fixed the fuzzy translation in fr.po. Closes: #206345 -- Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 26 Aug 2003 09:44:22 +0200 cxhextris (1.0-23.1) unstable; urgency=low * NMU (orphaned package, so no maint

Re: Bug#283961: chpasswd ignores system MD5 configuration

2004-12-03 Thread Christian Perrier
> > The chpasswd program ignores the system MD5 setting in /etc/pam.d/passwd > > (also tried MD5_CRYPT_ENAB in /etc/login.defs) and instead hashes all > > passwords with DES. In the case of compromise of /etc/shadow, this > > greatly increases the ease with which attackers can crack back passwords