templating system (e.g. Perl's Template Toolkit
looks reasonable enough) as a bare minimum. But right now I really
don't feel like rewriting almost all of debcheck to achieve that ...
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On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 07:59:12PM +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Dec 2019, Colin Watson wrote:
> > Both this and debhelper-compat are cases of versioned Provides (although
> > one is typically found in Build-Depends and one in Depends, but it works
> > out much
debcheck.php?dist=sid&list=main-only-No-Standards-Version&arch=ANY>
I've made a merge request which should fix this:
https://salsa.debian.org/qa/qa/merge_requests/26
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at are cases of versioned Provides (although
one is typically found in Build-Depends and one in Depends, but it works
out much the same way). I've made a merge request that should fix this:
https://salsa.debian.org/qa/qa/merge_requests/25
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d on packages with
> lower priority, and the FTP masters have changed the priorities of all
> libraries to optional.
I've made a merge request which should fix this:
https://salsa.debian.org/qa/qa/merge_requests/24
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irror 1:2.21 (and 1:2.22 fixes a regression
from a little while ago that affected mirroring jessie).
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s currently in collab-maint and I see no reason to change
that, so I don't at all mind if anyone else wants to help as well.
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t; currently is bdmurray.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, I did so:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/merge-o-matic/+bug/1525497
>
> And I'm ccing Brian and Colin to bring their attention to this request.
Our outgoing mails should go to the right pl
t had time to deal with it
over the last couple of days (Debian developer in having a social life
shocker!), but in brief I intend to revert the offending change in its
entirety as it's clearly causing far more trouble than it can possibly
be worth. I'll post further rationale when
or refactoring.
Wouldn't a better approach be to resurrect the existing service as-is
for the sake of the people who want to use it today, and *then* worry
about getting somebody to reimplement it on top of a different
framework?
Sorry,
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it to flip back to the default master branch?
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t a hierarchy of manual pages has
gone away entirely (e.g. no more /usr/share/man/pt) and remove the
corresponding database. Could somebody file a bug on man-db for this, or
reassign/clone an existing bug? I wasn't sure if there was already a bug
report fo
Package: qa.debian.org
http://wiki.debian.org/LowThresholdNmu says:
38. Colin Watson - (all packages) - except: base-passwd - Comaintainers
welcome - check: base-passwd comaintainers are welcome
However, http://packages.qa.debian.org/b/base-passwd.html says:
Maintainer Colin Watson
the same?
I don't know about hol88-library, but grub builds with -m32 on amd64.
Nevertheless, it's still architecture-dependent; it builds different
binaries on Linux and the Hurd, and also the grub package should not be
in Packages for architectures to which it hasn't been ported.
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ion given a binary package, I feel that
a Lintian test risks prompting inexperienced maintainers to err on the
side of incaution and set an incorrect Architecture field. I appreciate
the zeal involved in cleaning up those packages which are any when they
should be all, but is a Lintian test for
-or -name '*.la' -or -name '*.a' \) -print0 2>/dev/null
> 22798 Illegal instruction | xargs -0r chmod 644
> dh_fixperms: command returned error code
> ...
This happens sometimes on powerpc, apparently due to a kernel bug. The
build just needs to be retried. It is
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 02:10:04PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> mail/aliases is outdated, needs cvs up (not very important change)
I've done this, since it affected me.
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ly just a transient
failure on the autobuilder (and be very sure that this has been fully
diagnosed before uploading yourself, otherwise we're just setting
ourselves up for problems the next time there's a sourceful upload),
surely we can't possibly have a shortage of developers with
ase packages up to 'fileutils'. Probably the script
> taht generates that is messed up and breaks there..
Who reverted my changes? Grr.
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On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 04:56:52PM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
> Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I'd like to announce a bug-squashing party this weekend, with a view to
> > having them often and regularly (perhaps every weekend) until the
&
I'd like to announce a bug-squashing party this weekend, with a view to
having them often and regularly (perhaps every weekend) until the
release of sarge. The RC bug list is scary, and we need to mobilize
people into cutting it down a lot.
Any objections?
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On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 09:51:05PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Colin Watson wrote:
> > Do it in the clean target.
>
> But then the source tarball does not look like the source archive
> as checked out of CVS ...
I don't think this is a problem. C
configure target might be too late.
Do it in the clean target.
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b is to create
DEBIAN/control in each binary package, which becomes part of
control.tar.gz in the .deb when dpkg-deb --build is run.
It does not create .dsc files; that's dpkg-source's job.
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a diff to the current package and use that as the Debian diff. And
> when you build -3, include the new .orig.tar, but it will need another
> name as the one currently in the archive. (Ugh, messy.)
Shouldn't need another name: "visualos_1.0.4-2.tar.gz" !=
"visualos_1.0.4.orig.tar.gz".
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On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 01:19:28PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-20 12:06]:
> > If as maintainer you want your package not to be released but to remain
> > in unstable, then file a serious bug on the package to that effect and
ct and
tell the release team.
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ot;Valid candidate" only means that it
goes on to the next set of checks after the obvious and fast checks.
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ssed.
What's so important about it that justifies that?
(It needs to be killed, not processed, in my opinion.)
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ckages.qa.d.o
master's mirror is still being updated for the time being. However, I
agree that packages.qa should move to merkel.
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inst removing this; it's very useful for buildds.
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robably require syncing
> a file from a nonrestricted host to spohr.
Done. Use /org/bugs.debian.org/bugsquash/claims/ on master as before;
it's synced at 15-minute intervals at the moment (10, 25, 40, 55).
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to be for emacs20 judging
by the version number, so shouldn't it get an upstream update too?
I removed it from testing a few days ago.
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e
> removed on the last run.
>
> Perhaps there's some way to schedule the (apparently daily) update of these
> so that it happens shortly *after* the testing scripts run?
The first of those runs every six hours. It shouldn't get too much out
of date.
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g9.html
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On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 04:59:32AM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> Perhaps more urgently, the RC bug #203923 has been ignored for too long.
> (It might be downgradable, however.)
Seems we happened to look at this at roughly the same time ...
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ter is case-sensitive" bugs.
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" are
different e-mail addresses, and it's correct for debbugs to treat them
differently. The part that should be case-insensitive is the domain
part, so "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
should be considered equal.
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ocale is not set or set to C all the 'extra'
> charaters are not displayed properly.
Perhaps set LC_NUMERIC and LC_TIME to C, then?
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g is painful: you
have to introduce an epoch, which then has to stay around in the
package's version number forever. Or else you have to introduce some
very ugly versioning scheme.
Has anyone actually investigated the bugs and come up with fixes?
Perhaps upstream?
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he comment in my
GPG signature includes my name, and people could verify the signature
against debian-keyring from the debian-devel-changes archives if they
wanted.
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On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 05:30:00PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-30 17:47]:
> > Is it worth keeping iraf-ibin? It only suggests iraf, but I thought I'd
> > ask.
>
> And iraf-noaobin?
See my post earlier in this thread
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 11:21:29AM -0600, Zed Pobre wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 02:59:41PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > This does indeed seem to be the case. I've marked iraf (and necessarily
> > iraf-noaobin too) to be removed from testing; it'll have a chance to
7;ll have a chance to
return if its release-critical bugs are fixed soon.
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ps this needs a little update in near future.
This file is controlled by the ftpmasters; here's a bug report.
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On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 04:01:01PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> >Apparently his last activity in the BTS was 28 October; maybe mail him
> >and ask if he needs help?
>
> Your tools are better than mine. What are you using to get information?
aintainers file synchronization for the BTS
hasn't yet been restored following the compromise, so we're doing it by
hand.
Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] about problems with the BTS rather
than mailing lists such as debian-qa.
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On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 08:21:32PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> Hmm, I just realized that if klecker stays restricted, we'll have to
> move qa (or at least mia) to another host.
Ideally all of qa.
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phan all his packages.
Apparently his last activity in the BTS was 28 October; maybe mail him
and ask if he needs help?
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ith CVSROOT set
to :ext:cvs.debian.org:/cvs/qa (i.e. no username, assume username on
cvs.debian.org is the same as on qa.debian.org) and people can update it
by hand.
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Can I just suggest that the "wanting to help" should come well before
talk of being MIA? Active-but-busy developers would rightly take
exception to being called missing-in-action; I don't think the term
should be thrown around too lightly.
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work. I'll ask
> -admin about this, but you can check your jobs in the meantime.
Mine look OK, but there's no point in me enabling them until,
respectively, people.debian.org, lintian.debian.org, and /cvs/qa are
back up.
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e qa.debian.org as it would be
to arrange to change the page to say that it's being restored. :)
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g. Thank you.
You should only make something a native Debian package if it was written
specifically for Debian. It's pretty much always wrong to take something
that has had a separate upstream life and make it native.
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8, and #211308 are blocking a newer
version of lm-sensors from entering testing.
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g. The two
systems have similar needs, although their goals might differ a bit. I
have to say that I really dislike PHP though, and don't really want it
running on master ...
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On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 10:29:27AM -0700, Marc Singer wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 09:37:51AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 06:20:15PM -0700, Marc Singer wrote:
> > > I'd like to build against sid on a machine (ia64) I don't own but
oper's manual using fakeroot. It
> failed because it could not find a package. Perhaps, this is a bug in
> debootstrap. Is that method supposed to work?
Use dchroot to access chroots on Debian machines. You will not be able
to install packages yourself.
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On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 06:40:36PM +1000, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-07 09:12]:
> > I spoke to him; he did a pass over all his Debian packages a few months
> > ago and was sure he'd uploaded a new version of userv then, so the
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 08:51:37AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 10:42:43PM -0400, Joe Nahmias wrote:
> > Package: userv
> > Maintainer: Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Suggestion: remove package, mark DD emeritus (?)
> > Analysis:
different e-mail address) has been
updated quite recently.
userv is NOT replaceable with sudo; its security properties are very
different. Please don't remove it :)
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ork with him), just remarkably busy.
I'll talk to him.
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months before the
scheduled sarge release, now is the time to work on stabilizing the
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it crashed less than
> everything else. What's the procedure for removing packages from the
> archive?
File a bug on ftp.debian.org asking for it to be removed.
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On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 11:52:19AM +0200, Martin Quinson wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 09:37:43PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 07:55:36AM +0200, Martin Quinson wrote:
> > > Is it possible to roll back the previous version of gv in testing
> >
g here?
Testing migration is still happening, and is likely to keep going for
some time.
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On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 06:08:24PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 05:49:48PM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
> > It needs the Packages files from unstable and the BTS database.
>
> Hmm, is the BTS database openly available?
No, sorry.
-
I'm afraid, because there are sometimes privacy
concerns about the information there.
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o debian-qa saying
that you're working on it. If somebody is currently in the process of
adopting the package (and please do check this), then you should contact
them to make sure you aren't duplicating work. Otherwise, fixing
orphaned package bugs is definitely a useful thing to do.
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On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 08:46:26AM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> Also Colin, could you please set fhs-update g+w, otherwise cvs-update
> will whine if there's something to do.
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ftp-update is trying to get files for potato, which no longer exists on
ftp-master. We should ditch oldstable from debcheck and anything else
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On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 06:39:20PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> Hi, Colin Watson wrote:
> > Bugs should never be closed automagically. Feel free to investigate such
> > bugs and make sure they only apply to potato, though.
> >
> > http://bugs.debian.org/tag:potat
haps you should talk to him
first ...
(BTW, it hasn't been 209 days with RC bugs, because #180679 was only
upgraded to serious 15 days ago. It's not clear to me that #204615 ought
to be grave.)
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On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 03:20:02AM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:46:14AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > I suggest that you don't waste your time on trying to do this until we
> > implement bug ownership.
>
> Ok, I suppose
should be mailed to on changes.
I suggest that you don't waste your time on trying to do this until we
implement bug ownership.
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e
> relevant source.
I don't think there's anything official; it's a useful but not
particularly canonical or documented service run out of Ben Collins'
home directory.
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\bfixed\b/ or $severity =~
/\bfixed\b/) {
+ my %tags = map { $_ => 1 } split ' ', $tags;
+ if ($tags{pending} or $tags{fixed} or $severity eq 'fixed') {
$stats{$sources{$p}}{"fixed"}++;
$stats_real{$sources{$p}}{"fixed"}++;
$stats{$sources{$p}}{"fixed"}-=$nb_merge;
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On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 02:49:06PM +0200, Artur R. Czechowski wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 12:17:20PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > Here is the canonical list of tags (from /etc/debbugs/config on master):
> > @gTags = ( "patch", "wontfix", &
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 10:30:55AM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote:
> Quoting Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 09:46:36PM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote:
> > > I haven't found any way in the BTS to tell that a bug has been fixed
>
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 09:51:54AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> * Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030825 06:20]:
> > On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 02:29:16AM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> > > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > > Sounds like the '
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 02:29:16AM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Sounds like the 'fixed-upstream' tag added a few days ago.
>
> This tag seems to be not on http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#tags,
I committe
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 09:46:36PM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote:
> I haven't found any way in the BTS to tell that a bug has been fixed
> upstream (usually CVS HEAD).
Sounds like the 'fixed-upstream' tag added a few days ago.
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ble, IMHO. It's because it's so
widespread that browsers feel the need to perpetuate it by making it
still work, but we shouldn't make that worse.
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space-separated list of any bug numbers that are
merged with this one.
There'll be a better interface for this "soon", with any luck.
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On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 06:51:32PM +0200, Robert Lemmen wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 04:32:12PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > It's on cvs.debian.org, project root qa, data/wnpp/gen-orphaned and
> > wml/orphaned.wml.
>
> thanks, should have looked there first.
>
aned.wml.
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On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 12:38:58AM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 03:47:03PM +0200, Martin Quinson wrote:
> >> So, I guess that's it, the FHS transition is completed !!
> >>
> >> Could someone confirm th
is being a bit of a pain for plotutils in testing at the moment.
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On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 01:22:34PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> What seems important to me: To tag any of the bugs of the removed
> packages as "woody" or close them, whatever is appropriate.
Personally, I think it's generally better to just close them.
Chee
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 12:13:31PM +0200, Martin Godisch wrote:
> BTW: Where can I find the PTS CVS repository?
cvs.debian.org, project root qa, module pts.
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r of their maintainers' activity; there may well be
dependencies that they can't do much about. If you wanted to use it as a
guideline for manually searching for inactive maintainers then of course
that would be a different matter.
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estricted to group qa, not the usual group webwml.
Somebody would have to figure out how to deal with the various
dynamically generated pages on qa.debian.org as well. To be honest, I
think it might be more trouble than it's worth, considering (as you say)
the expected audience.
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On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 12:00:31AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 11:57:14PM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote:
> > Package: qa.debian.org
> > Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-09
> > Severity: minor
> >
> > All
> >
> > should s
On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 11:55:37AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 11:22:38AM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> > >> Daniel Schepler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > And here's the patch...
> >
> > can someone from -qa ple
HD space and I can't upgrade my chroot right now.
I'm working on it now.
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On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 04:05:51PM +0200, Martin Quinson wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 02:18:27PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 03:00:45PM +0200, Martin Quinson wrote:
> > > (and remove that buggy page from the qa webserver :)
> >
> &
mg1-dev
build-dependency; once that and nsd are in testing then I think
everything will be complete. It would probably be worth quickly checking
sid too to make sure things aren't about to regress again.
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that buggy page from the qa webserver :)
No. I spotted the recently introduced nsd problem because fhs.html told
me about it.
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reason for problems like this.
What's the file size and md5sum of the .deb you've downloaded? Are they
consistently or inconsistently wrong?
P.S. this list is "quality assurance" rather than "questions and
answers"; you might be better off asking this kind of thing to
;s going to be a while until a fixed xdelta2 is available, then
perhaps we should temporarily drop xdelta2 from testing and let it back
in once it's fixed. Anthony, what do you think?
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be towards leaving bugs open
until agreement is reached.
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