Re: Bits from the WNPP: RFH tag

2004-08-03 Thread Paul Hampson
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 03:21:45PM +1000, Ben Burton wrote: > > > > It's not much of a justification -- it basically amounts to "my way is > > > right" followed by a personal insult to anyone who disagrees. > > > > Hmm. I feel you may not have read the first two paragraphs of that, and > > have o

Re: Bits from the WNPP: RFH tag

2004-08-02 Thread Paul Hampson
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 01:02:10PM +1000, Ben Burton wrote: > > Does Debian have a specific policy about this? 'cause I don't > > think either (s)he or his/her type replacements are nearly as > > aesthetic... > Well I tend to use "they" / "their" myself, which is in fairly common > usage. e.g.:

Re: Bits from the WNPP: RFH tag

2004-08-02 Thread Paul Hampson
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 07:57:13PM +1000, Ben Burton wrote: > > (Replying to d-devel as per m-f-t and d-qa as per request). > > Thanks for your work with the RFH tag; this is a great idea. > > One request though: Could you please change the the tag description to > use gender-neutral language?

Re: NMU request for net-snmp

2003-04-27 Thread Paul Hampson
On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 04:31:54PM -0700, Daniel Schepler wrote: > Paul Hampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Anyway, I just want to draw someone's attention to the > > net-snmp package (libsnmp5 and snmpd for example) which has > > three RC bugs against it,

NMU request for net-snmp

2003-04-01 Thread Paul Hampson
(I'm CC-ing the NMU'er of ucd-snmp in case he's interested and not subscribed to debian-qa. Hello Daniel! And obviously the package maintainer. Hello David.) I hope this is the right place to ask Anyway, I just want to draw someone's attention to the net-snmp package (libsnmp5 and snmpd for e

Re: Bug #178060: debian/copyright incorrent... Tagging for testing query.

2003-03-12 Thread Paul Hampson
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 04:26:06PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 12:46:10AM +1100, Paul Hampson wrote: > > Bug #178060 (in libxml2) is holding libxml2 2.5.3-1 out of > > testing, compared to 2.4.24-1. > > > > The question is, since this is also t

Re: Bug #178060: debian/copyright incorrent... Tagging for testing query.

2003-03-12 Thread Paul Hampson
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 03:15:03PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: > On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Paul Hampson wrote: > > > Bug #178060 (in libxml2) is holding libxml2 2.5.3-1 out of > > testing, compared to 2.4.24-1. > > > > The question is, since this is also true of 2.4

Bug #178060: debian/copyright incorrent... Tagging for testing query.

2003-03-12 Thread Paul Hampson
Bug #178060 (in libxml2) is holding libxml2 2.5.3-1 out of testing, compared to 2.4.24-1. The question is, since this is also true of 2.4.24-1 (I just checked then) would it be bad to tag this bug with 'sarge' as well as 'sid'? Am I right in thinking that a bug tagged 'sarge' is ignored by the te