Re: alsa-lib qa-doublebuild release goal in lenny

2009-02-12 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
severity 505088 important thanks Lionel Elie Mamane lio...@mamane.lu writes: Maintainer has put it to severity minor (not sure why: because it applies only to nanosecond timestamp filesystems? because he thought it did not apply to the version in lenny?), which I consider too low. Not

Orphaning some perl packages

2008-12-27 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
retitle 456924 O: libgstreamer-perl -- Perl interface to the gstreamer noowner 456924 thanks Heya, In my quest to get rid of tasks I don't have the motivation to actually work on, I want to give up some of my packages. Basically, there are three groups: Packages that are just fine and need a

Bug#497703: Please remove python-happydoc from lenny

2008-09-09 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Chris Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please remove python-happydoc (2.1-6) from lenny - it is RC buggy (copyright issues) and does not work with the version of Python in lenny. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dak rm -Rns testing python-happydoc Working... done. Will remove the following packages from

Re: suite tags (Re: Doing some stable QA work)

2008-08-15 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: *** proposal *** For the purposes of determining buginess, setting a distribution tag limits the bugginess of a package in distribtions to the intersection of the distributions and the version-based bugginness of a package. This means that a bug that

Re: Layout of the Ultimate Debian Database, and the quest for example queries

2008-08-03 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Sandro Tosi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The GSOC is slowly coming to its end, and all the sources, which we definitely wanted to import are imported. If you want to have a look at the layout of the database (which possibly will be changed), go to [1] and have a look. Furthermore, you can see

Re: Orphaned packages that were not part of etch

2008-07-30 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Frank Lichtenheld [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've reassigned the bugs to ftp.debian.org for packages that should be removed from Debian completly. I would suggest the following removals from testing at this point: # #491892: RoQA; NPOASR, orphaned remove hg-buildpackage/1.0.4.1 # #491891:

Bug#412839: openmotif is not autobuilt, misses several archs (ia64, mipsel, s390)

2008-07-22 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: according to a relatively high popcon stat and the fact that my package arb just depends from libmotif3 I tried to care a little bit for openmotif. So I added XS-Autobuild: yes to the debian/control header because I was not able to detect any reason

Bug#483179: PTS: please link to Ubuntu Launchpad bugs page

2008-05-28 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Joerg Jaspert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 11399 March 1977, Sandro Tosi wrote: *I* wouldnt want that, for the simple reason that its an overview about your package in Debian, not Debian + any possible derivative where people would like a link to. Ok, but then why on the PTS I can see the

Bug#483179: PTS: please link to Ubuntu Launchpad bugs page

2008-05-28 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Joerg Jaspert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 11399 March 1977, Marc Brockschmidt wrote: Ok, but then why on the PTS I can see the patches applied in Ubuntu? :) Maybe because they aren't hidden in some non-free crap software? As long as Launchpad is non-free one shouldn't think about using or

Re: co-mentor wanted for a QA GSOC project

2008-03-01 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Stefano Zacchiroli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 01:07:11PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: However, I would prefer to share the mentoring with someone else, in case I get too busy with other things at some point. Is someone interested? I'm interested in seeing this project

Re: Some ideas from the Supporting 15.000 packages BoF

2007-06-26 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Jérémy Bobbio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * When packages look abandonend, fill a RC bug saying if you don't close this bug in a month, will ask for removal. = That was done already done by the QA team. It was done a long time ago, another run wouldn't hurt. The reactions were mostly

Re: RFC: use readable $(cmd) syntax instead of unreadable `cmd`

2007-02-10 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Jari Aalto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [wether to use $() or ``] Le't call this wishlist if we need to be pedantic. I would still call this a bug from a QA perspective. Quality is more than valid syntax. This is not a bug. Not even wishlist. Even discussing this issue is a senseless waste of

Re: Can we remove 44bsd-rdist?

2006-08-16 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Mohammed Adnène Trojette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Even though it hasn't been orphaned for a long time, 44bsd-rdist: * is RC-buggy, * has only 5 users according to popcon, * was last uploaded in 2002. What do you think? Please file a removal bug. Marc -- BOFH #420: Feature was not

Let's remove coda, coda-doc

2006-05-28 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Heya, coda and coda-doc are both orphaned, rc-buggy and have almost no popcon users. They're also only in experimental. Though there is an ITA, there was no progress in the last year. So I'd propose to remove it - if it ever gets packaged properly again, it should be no problem to send it

NMU for qcad

2006-01-21 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
libqcad0 package, move static libs to libqcad0-dev (and change +that to arch: any) and fix deps. (Closes: #321671) + * Fix link to homepage in Description (Closes: #282206) + + -- Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat, 21 Jan 2006 18:06:09 +0100 + qcad (2.0.4.0-1-2.1) unstable; urgency

Let's remove libgnome-gnorba-perl!

2006-01-20 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Heya, As a first step to a world without perl bindings for Gtk/Gnome 1.X, we should remove libgnome-gnorba-perl. No rdepends, no users, rc-buggy (xlibs-dev transition), no maintainer. Marc -- Fachbegriffe der Informatik - Einfach erklärt 63: professionelles Arbeiten Netscape ist nicht

Re: international Debian work meetings in Extremadura, Spain, during 2006

2006-01-02 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Andreas Schuldei [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-12-06 16:27]: These are the dates that we can have gatherings there: - April 19-23. Is there any interest in a QA meeting, maybe in April? That seems to near to debconf6. What about the weekend in September?

Re: Tracking of recently filed QA bugs

2005-09-17 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Le lundi 12 septembre 2005 à 01:06 +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt a écrit : Frank and I checked a bunch of very old packages and filed some bugs about them - I just added usertags for my bugs to make tracking easier. Bugs that propose to remove

Re: Tracking of recently filed QA bugs

2005-09-13 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To see what I've done until now, look at this page: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=proposed-orphan,proposed-removal;[EMAIL PROTECTED];pri0=tag:proposed-removal,proposed-orphan

Re: Tracking of recently filed QA bugs

2005-09-12 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To see what I've done until now, look at this page: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=proposed-orphan,proposed-removal;[EMAIL PROTECTED];pri0=tag:proposed-removal,proposed-orphan This is more sophisticated (though the URI is ugly

Tracking of recently filed QA bugs

2005-09-11 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Heya, Frank and I checked a bunch of very old packages and filed some bugs about them - I just added usertags for my bugs to make tracking easier. Bugs that propose to remove the package and give the maintainer some time to react are now tagged proposed-removal, bugs that ping the maintainer and

Re: Is it possible to sign keys?

2005-07-29 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Tobias Toedter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tuesday 19 July 2005 17:25, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: Therefore a Debian-QA-MiniConf will be organized at the Technical University of Darmstadt[2] from the 9th to the 11th of September. are you also planning a keysigning party during that event? No,

Re: Idea for maintaining packages up for adoption

2005-07-22 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The effort to upload a package is still the same: Integrating patches into a package is something every DD should be able to do (either using the .diff.gz directly or by leaving the patch management

Re: Idea for maintaining packages up for adoption

2005-07-21 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But building packages from a suvbersion repository can be done automatically. So yes, we could provide automatically unofficial packages to the users. And furthermore it would be trivially simple for a DD to upload a new package... Right, because

Re: Idea for maintaining packages up for adoption

2005-07-14 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Frank Lichtenheld [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 3) There are about 1000 Debian developers and thousands of Debian users out there. 4) Not one of them has offered to maintain dvidvi, not you, not the maintainers of the packages that depend on it I

Re: Debian QA Meeting in Germany

2005-03-21 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Martin Zobel-Helas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could all of you who plan to participate list these weekends from beginning of July (after Debconf) 'til end of September, where you definitifly will NOT be able to participate, so we get an overview when it fits for most of us. OK, I can't

Re: Bug-squashing party soon?

2004-07-07 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
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 release of sarge. The RC bug list is scary, and we need to mobilize people into cutting it down a lot. Though i like

Re: guile-oops

2004-06-25 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Francesco P. Lovergine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 12:06:33PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 11:42:10AM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 10:32:42AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: So I go to try and prepare a QA upload

Re: Need some help with xirssi

2004-03-17 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Andrew Pollock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [xirssi build problems] gcc-3.2: /usr/lib/perl/5.8.2/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a: No such file or directory Now I can see why it's failing (this version of Perl isn't what's in unstable) but I can't see why it's deciding this version of Perl is the