Re: bug wrangling: strict ordering of 'affects' during merges?

2023-02-17 Thread Russ Allbery
ets the metadata of all of the other bugs to match the first one. I usually only try one round of merge fixing before resorting to forcemerge for fiddly little disagreements like this. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Thoughts on trying to remove old and unused lintian tags?

2022-12-01 Thread Russ Allbery
if they're also frequently overridden. (All of that being said, one of the problems with Lintian development right now is that the test suite takes an excessively long time to run, and it would be nice to improve that. I'm dubious that we can delete enough tags and thus tests to make a huge difference, but it does help.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Merging some Lintian MRs

2022-11-26 Thread Russ Allbery
since it's been years since I've worked on Lintian, but some of those MRs looked pretty obvious, so I'm merging the ones where I'm reasonably sure that I won't break anything. Someone can always revert if I make a mistake. :) Axel, please let me know when (I wo

Re: [pkg-gnupg-maint] What do we do about GnuPG 1.4 in debian?

2022-04-30 Thread Russ Allbery
control messages until the software to issue signatures with the old key is no longer supported.) [1] https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/usefor/other/pgpverify I kept meaning to write an RFC but never got around to it. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: What do we do about GnuPG 1.4 in debian?

2022-04-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise writes: > On Fri, 2022-04-29 at 17:04 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Yes, verifying signatures using obsolete keys or obsolete algorithms >> which are no longer supported in GnuPG 2. > and nothing other than GnuPG 1 supports these keys? I'm personally not aware

Re: What do we do about GnuPG 1.4 in debian?

2022-04-29 Thread Russ Allbery
2 keys: 84 gpg: unchanged: 17 (I'm not intending this to be an argument for keeping GnuPG 1.x. The forcing factor of Debian dropping support for the old keys may even be useful. But it may be helpful for judging the impact.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: http:// vs. https:// in machine readable copyright file

2017-01-03 Thread Russ Allbery
mantically "wrong" thing and suggest people switch to using https even though that's not a "different" standard. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Bug#780797: Package modifying a user-modified config file? [Bug #780797]

2015-03-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Vincent Lefevre writes: > On 2015-03-21 13:14:08 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Correct. The Policy statement is about preserving user changes, not >> about never touching any file that a user has modified in any way. The >> package is free to modify unchanged portions of t

Re: Package modifying a user-modified config file? [Bug #780797]

2015-03-21 Thread Russ Allbery
er the benefit of the change is worth the disruption of changed behavior on upgrades. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87egoif6r3@hope.eyrie.org

Re: No x-www-browser virtual package

2014-11-18 Thread Russ Allbery
x27;t set) is to use www-browser. > How to solve this problem? Simply by asking managers of packages of > graphical browsers to point to the correct virtual package > (x-www-browser)? > Is this appropriate? All this stuff badly needs to be documented in Policy, and then we can point mai

Re: Making "entry-point" nee "gift" a real BTS tag [Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers]

2014-11-12 Thread Russ Allbery
ke some progress. +1. I use help as a sort of variant of wontfix. It means that I'm not opposed to a fix for that bug, but I'm not going to work on it, either because I don't have the time or I don't have the necessary skills. Therefore, unless someone else works on it, it&#

Re: reportbug reports are not sent

2014-09-18 Thread Russ Allbery
ued, not > sent, so it shows up via 'mailq' and can be removed via 'exim4 -Mrm > ' so that it won't get sent when setting the QUEUERUNNER > back to 'combined'. I believe this is a per-user default, so if you had previously run reportbug on that system, y

Re: reportbug reports are not sent

2014-09-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Joseph Herlant writes: > Reportbug sends mails via your local mail server by default. Pretty sure this isn't true any more, is it? I think it's now using the submit port and sending mail directly to a Debian host. (Of course, that's unstable/testing; stable may be too old fo

Re: invalid and duplicate architectures

2014-05-23 Thread Russ Allbery
context? > Dpkg::Arch::get_valid_arches, which looks at /usr/share/dpkg/*table I'm pretty sure that Lintian already uses that data to check whether architectures are valid (I vaguely remember working on that code), but it may well be that the existing check doesn't get t

Re: Dealing with emacs21 (and related) bugs [was: Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer]

2014-05-15 Thread Russ Allbery
re of that this morning before I have to go do other work. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.

Bug#733410: PTS: include backports uploads in news

2013-12-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: qa.debian.org Severity: wishlist Now that the backports archive has been integrated more completely into the regular Debian archive, it would be great to see uploads to backports show up in the news section of the PTS. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testi

Re: Huge list of broken Vcs-Svn entries in control files

2013-08-28 Thread Russ Allbery
no way inside the protocol to redirect the client. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: h

Bug#716699: PTS: dont ask to consider packaging a version which is already in experimental

2013-07-12 Thread Russ Allbery
uch better at ignoring things they've been told to ignore than humans are. (More implementation work, though.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: Bug#699936: PTS: clang archive recompilation links

2013-02-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise writes: > On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 6:14 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Given that it's reporting failures, personally I'd kind of like to have >> it in todo, but maybe there aren't enough people who are interested >> yet? > Probably "problems&

Re: Bug#699936: PTS: clang archive recompilation links

2013-02-08 Thread Russ Allbery
om the PTS point of view, clang is yet another buildd > toolchain. Given that it's reporting failures, personally I'd kind of like to have it in todo, but maybe there aren't enough people who are interested yet? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie

Re: [DEP 12] Why chosing YAML.

2013-01-25 Thread Russ Allbery
L, for example), but that starts feeling kind of silly. I suppose another possibility is to define the deb822 field value as having as its contents a nested deb822 document and do something like: References: Author: Name Surname Url: http://example.org/ . Author: Other Name

Re: [DEP 12] Why chosing YAML.

2013-01-05 Thread Russ Allbery
mats and two different parsers in code that operates on Debian packages is worth the benefits of YAML. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87hamwvz2e@windlord.stanford.edu

Re: DEP 12: Per-package machine-readable metadata about Upstream

2013-01-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise writes: > On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:59 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Of course, the other issue that this DEP raises is how much sense it >> makes to put all this stuff in the source package, either in >> debian/control or in a new file, given that most of these fiel

Re: DEP 12: Per-package machine-readable metadata about Upstream

2013-01-03 Thread Russ Allbery
run it would be nice if it would take over some of the metadata requirements of debian/copyright (all the stuff that isn't actual legal notices, basically). We currently have that information spread across multiple files; if we're going to go to the work of introducing a new file

Re: Intend to change lintian.d.o/qa-list.txt

2012-12-29 Thread Russ Allbery
the additional tag types), it was apparently fairly easy to change the consumers. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Bug#696254: qa.debian.org: PTS has outdated current policy version

2012-12-19 Thread Russ Allbery
eze. If we would want > different or less messages on PTS during freeze, then this goes wider > than just the messages about standards-version. Is this a good summary > of what we discussed so far ? Sounds right to me. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie

Bug#696254: qa.debian.org: PTS has outdated current policy version

2012-12-19 Thread Russ Allbery
ersion without > further changes is not wrong. I'm happy to go with this policy if the release team is okay with it. My understanding is that they'd rather people not do this, which is where my hesitation comes from. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <ht

Re: Bug#684356: carnivore: has multiple id's for same e-mail address

2012-08-10 Thread Russ Allbery
e. However, I must admit that, other than as demostrations of strict standards compliance, I've never met a mail system in the real world that delivered varient capitalizations to different people. I've heard of some that bounced some capitalizations as an anti-spam measure, but that

Re: Maintainer responsible for or only doing maintenance?

2012-06-01 Thread Russ Allbery
people who discuss this sort of thing on debian-mentors. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Checks for urls in packages - extend lintian

2012-05-18 Thread Russ Allbery
rinciple (even apart from the issue of requiring network access). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

Re: Quilt bug or needs repackaging?

2012-04-27 Thread Russ Allbery
m tarball, since dpkg-source doesn't agree with that. If you make the debian directory at the same level as SAINT_v2.3.3 and __MACOSX, everything, including quilt, will work (although of course you'll have to change the packaging to actually work in the SAINT_v2.3.3 directory).

Re: Quilt bug or needs repackaging?

2012-04-27 Thread Russ Allbery
sn't actually use quilt, though; it uses its own internal, mostly-compatible logic, which is simpler than everything that quilt can do. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: (semi) automatic check for broken links in package descriptions

2012-04-26 Thread Russ Allbery
hable over a longer period, like a week. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87vckmfp4g@windlord.stanford.edu

Bug#665247: PTS: suggests packaging new upstream that was already packaged

2012-03-22 Thread Russ Allbery
available: 4.1.0, you should consider packaging it. but per the top of news: [2012-03-17] Accepted 4.1.0-1 in unstable (low) (Russ Allbery) (which was five days ago). -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (

Re: DEP-2: Debian Package Maintenance Hub

2012-01-28 Thread Russ Allbery
ke NMU detection would break and the actual identity of the maintainer isn't preserved in the package metadata, both of which I think are important. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@list

Re: Load on udd.d.o

2011-10-25 Thread Russ Allbery
t gone. We're currently instead in a similar bubble around cloud computing, and I'm sure we could get quite a few donations from cloud companies for similar reasons, but unfortunately those donations are much harder for Debian to use since they don't have the same sort of on

Re: Lintian as a static analysis framework

2011-07-08 Thread Russ Allbery
aging area, or some combination of the two. I don't really want us to go hog-wild with lots of additional Lintian add-on packages, since that could make things a bit confusing. We may even want to build everything from the Lintian source package, and just break things out into separ

Re: [poll] Ubuntu column on DDPO visible by default?

2010-08-26 Thread Russ Allbery
hem. I point users at the PTS all the time. They contain really valuable information for anyone running Debian that isn't available anywhere else. The PTS is usually a better overall view of a package for someone who knows something about Debian and is looking for specific details than package

Re: Possible lintian issues with ftp-master

2010-08-22 Thread Russ Allbery
! Thank you. That may well be what's going on. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Possible lintian issues with ftp-master

2010-08-16 Thread Russ Allbery
erned with, so they're unrelated to the acceptance of your package. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: [poll] Ubuntu column on DDPO visible by default?

2010-08-03 Thread Russ Allbery
e curret DDPO table goes *well* off the right edge of the screen for me on a 1680x1050 display, which is not exactly a netbook. Nine columns (everything from binary packages on) are entirely off the side of the screen. And that's not with what I consider a very large font. --

Re: Some thoughts about fields in UDD

2010-07-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Andreas Tille writes: > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 04:32:15PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Well, I think it's just capturing everything in the Sources list. >> Having that consistency where everything is captured does seem like a >> nice feature to me. > Lucas answer

Re: Some thoughts about fields in UDD

2010-07-08 Thread Russ Allbery
s-perl | perl | main | > mailto:r...@debian.org Whoops, that's a bug. Forgot to fix that before I uploaded the private package I'd been maintaining to Debian proper. Thanks! -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> --

Re: debcheck: "Arch: all" package pulls non-linux package by Recommends

2010-05-30 Thread Russ Allbery
reebsd ones where the recommended package > doesn't exist. That's not a meaningful thing to do for an arch: all package. You should always get the same arch: all package regardless of the build architecture, or it's not really arch: all. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

Re: Bug#583489: qa.debian.org: Please provide 1.0 (explicit) and 1.0 (implicit) information

2010-05-28 Thread Russ Allbery
it, which hurts the project for all the things that Lintian looks at that aren't controversial. Because of that, Lintian tends to be fairly conservative on anything that people seem to be debating (although we don't always manage). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://

Re: does /var/games have to be deleted on purge? (if it's empty..)

2010-01-04 Thread Russ Allbery
anually copying out the configuration file. If purging the package deletes databases, this removes that tactic as an option. * Whether it makes sense given Debian semantics or not, users just don't expect removing packages to, from their perspective, destroy data. Other distributi

Re: does /var/games have to be deleted on purge? (if it's empty..)

2010-01-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Manoj Srivastava writes: > On Sun, Jan 03 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: >> and what the requirements of a package are around preserving or >> removing its data other than log files and configuration files on >> purge? If so, that would be the relevant place to talk ab

Re: does /var/games have to be deleted on purge? (if it's empty..)

2010-01-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Responding to a message from last April that had been sitting in my to-process queue. Holger Levsen writes: > On Montag, 6. April 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I don't see much real benefit in going out of our way to remove >> /var/games and it looks like it would be a bit an

Bug#545785: PTS: lintian link issues

2009-12-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Stefano Zacchiroli writes: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:57:27AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >>> Russ (assuming that "info" messages are the only missing ingredient to >>> implement this given request): would it be problematic to add an extra >>> column t

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-11-02 Thread Russ Allbery
able to not allow people to upload packages with obvious and easily-correctable errors even if they're not must directives, although I suppose we could implement that by upgrading all such errors to must in Policy. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Bug#549115: PTS: please also display backports.org versions

2009-09-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: qa.debian.org Severity: wishlist In the versions section of the page, could you also add versions from backports.org if there are any? This information is available in the DDPO but not in the PTS right now, which means a separate click through to check the backports.org version number.

Bug#549114: PTS: please link to backports buildd status

2009-09-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: qa.debian.org Severity: wishlist In the buildd links on the PTS page for a package, could you also link to the backports buildd status pages if there's a backported version of a package? These are at experimental.ftbfs.de/new, which is a hard URL to find with Google if one doesn't rememb

Re: Bug#545785: PTS: lintian link issues

2009-09-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Lucas Nussbaum writes: > On 10/09/09 at 14:37 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Out of curiosity, how is UDD gathering this data? (I don't want to >> accidentally break it.) > Using http://lintian.debian.org/lintian.log Oh, okay, so it reparses the lintian log. Yeah, th

Re: Bug#545785: PTS: lintian link issues

2009-09-10 Thread Russ Allbery
ow is UDD gathering this data? (I don't want to accidentally break it.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#545785: PTS: lintian link issues

2009-09-10 Thread Russ Allbery
't already was that I wasn't sure if I'd break any software that consumed that file. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#545785: PTS: lintian link issues

2009-09-09 Thread Russ Allbery
s at present. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: lintian errors/warnings on ddpo-by-mail emails

2009-04-27 Thread Russ Allbery
, but there are a bunch of certainty: certain tags with a bunch of overrides, which is clearly wrong. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#523282: qa.debian.org: Email address in package overview is case-specific

2009-04-09 Thread Russ Allbery
ry purposes, but it's possible to configure mail software to not do so. I don't know what this implies about what the QA software should do, but Lintian, for instance, would not consider those two addresses as matching because of that standard. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

Re: does /var/games have to be deleted on purge? (if it's empty..)

2009-04-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Sven Joachim writes: > On 2009-04-06 19:59 +0200, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I'm curious why it wasn't removed. /var/games is normally shipped in >> each of the packages that provides files in /var/games, so dpkg would >> normally remove it automatically once the la

Re: does /var/games have to be deleted on purge? (if it's empty..)

2009-04-06 Thread Russ Allbery
unowned, which implies to me that either some package created it in a maintainer script rather than just including the directory in the deb or you're running into the bug that I ran into with openafs where dpkg lost track of the owner of a directory (I can't find the bug number at the momen

Re: Removing orphaned packages from testing

2009-02-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Lucas Nussbaum writes: > On 17/02/09 at 20:46 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> If we're talking about a group of people taking collective >> responsibility for keeping orphaned packages kicking along, I guess I'm >> not sure how that differs from what we already have

Re: Removing orphaned packages from testing

2009-02-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Sorry, this was actually supposed to go to debian-qa and I failed to pay attention to what my mail client was doing. Russ Allbery writes: > Raphael Geissert writes: >> Russ Allbery wrote: > >>> If I don't have time to do a proper job of maintaining the package, I &

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

2008-12-22 Thread Russ Allbery
s would sit in RFA for some time, since often they're listed there because the DD is no longer personally using the package, often for reasons that mean the package is being used less in general.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNS

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

2008-12-21 Thread Russ Allbery
#x27;d be curious to see the results. Maybe, similar to low-threshold-NMU, it would work best if it started as an opt-in system? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.or

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

2008-12-20 Thread Russ Allbery
ut for every package they uploaded for pkg-perl. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#507288: mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] should also be send to Uploaders:

2008-11-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Hutchings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 13:50 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> currently, mails send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] are only send to the address >>> listed >>> in maintain

Bug#507288: mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] should also be send to Uploaders:

2008-11-29 Thread Russ Allbery
und it by splitting mail based on the To and Cc headers instead of the standardized List-Id header, but that's not as clean. I have no objections to this being added if there's some way to turn it off. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Bug#507288: mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] should also be send to Uploaders:

2008-11-29 Thread Russ Allbery
the maintainer is a mailing list and Uploaders are the people who do the uploads, doesn't it? I generally want to get such mail only once, via the mailing list. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: Better team maintenance of orphaned packages

2008-08-26 Thread Russ Allbery
ng stuff would not reside only on my local disk but in a > commonly accessible VCS and the location to this VCS is clearly > mentioned in the VCS fields of the control file. Why not just use collab-maint for this? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~e

Bug#243729: machine parseable version of lintian output

2008-08-07 Thread Russ Allbery
l avoid bothering you in the future with > this request :) Will do. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#243729: machine parseable version of lintian output

2008-08-07 Thread Russ Allbery
lames for a given source package. To > do that I would need a machine parseable version of the lintian output. > > Is there anything like that available somewhere? I wouldn't like having > to scrape HTML ... http://lintian.debian.org/lintian.log -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Orphaned packages that were not part of etch

2008-07-22 Thread Russ Allbery
kages with no > severe bugs, with active upstreams, and with a good number of users > shouldn't be the target of a 'hard' (i.e. preventing it from being > shipped in stable) cleanup. The packages you're listing by and large don't meet that criteria. > DFSG: >&g

Re: Bug#490688: gnus: Old alpha version shouldn't be included in lenny

2008-07-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Mika Tiainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 13 Jul 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: >> This package is useful for emacs21 users, as it's considerably newer >> than what was included in emacs21. I agree that it's not useful for >> emacs22 users (and indeed isn&#

Re: Bug#490688: gnus: Old alpha version shouldn't be included in lenny

2008-07-13 Thread Russ Allbery
ms. I don't believe it's horribly buggy or unstable, alpha label nonwithstanding. If emacs21 is going to be removed from the archive before the release, we may not need this package, provided that the xemacs packages released with lenny have a newer version. -- Russ Allbery ([EM

Bug#485085: RE : Bug#485085: qa.debian.org: TODO page debian policy check list

2008-06-09 Thread Russ Allbery
amed references. > > But I know nothing about docbook so I can not help reformating all the > policy. Indeed, this is exactly why it's hard. (Plus, it's DebianDoc-SGML, not DocBook.) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Bug#485085: qa.debian.org: TODO page debian policy check list

2008-06-09 Thread Russ Allbery
The links should really be generated automatically somehow (and the section numbers should be automatically resolved), but this is not at all easy to do at the moment. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#485085: qa.debian.org: TODO page debian policy check list

2008-06-08 Thread Russ Allbery
e's a web variant of "upgrading-checklist.gz" > contained in the Debian policy. There is an HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the debian-policy package source. It's not currently shipped in the package, but we could add it easily enough. I'm not sure that it&

Re: removing etch transitional packages

2008-04-03 Thread Russ Allbery
b5 is a similar case; I think that one is safe to remove. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2008-03-02 Thread Russ Allbery
ow why that would cause lintian to misdiagnose this tag. It may be easy to fix. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2008-03-02 Thread Russ Allbery
blems, but those weren't release goals. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#466515: PTS: "you should include ."

2008-02-19 Thread Russ Allbery
tches. Either they should be applied or the patch tag should be removed from those bugs. and: X bug in the Bug Tracking System is tagged as having a patch. Either it should be applied or the patch tag should be removed from that bug. for X == 1. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: What to do if Homepage seems to have vanished

2008-02-18 Thread Russ Allbery
a user trying to pick between multiple packages that may solve their problem. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#465674: lintian link doesn't work for packages with '-' in the name

2008-02-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: qa.debian.org > Severity: normal > > For the lintian link '-' needs to be converted to '_' I just need to ugprade lintian on lintian.d.o, since this modification is really wrong. -- Russ Allbery (

Bug#464155: packages.qa.d.o (package-specific pages): browsers want to save, not display, update-excuses

2008-02-05 Thread Russ Allbery
rg could be fixed to serve .html.gz files with a Content-Type of text/html and a Content-Encoding of gzip, which browsers should then cope with. I've found that adding: RemoveType .gz AddEncoding gzip .gz is sometimes necessary to get Apache to recognize this correctly. -- Russ Al

Re: New lintian pages available for testing

2008-01-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 04:16:22PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> * There are two reports for each maintainer. The one under maintainer, > What did you decide for the lists related to the two kind of reports we > discussed in

Re: New lintian pages available for testing

2008-01-03 Thread Russ Allbery
tim hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> If you want to take a look at how good (or bad) the templates look, the >> ones that generated those pages are in: >> >> /org/lintian.debian.org/lintian-test/reporting/templates >> >>

Re: New lintian pages available for testing

2008-01-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Thijs Kinkhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thursday 3 January 2008 01:16, Russ Allbery wrote: >> http://lintian.debian.org/reports-testing/ > > This looks good in general, it's a clear improvement over what we have. Thanks! >> * The HTML pages are now t

New lintian pages available for testing

2008-01-02 Thread Russ Allbery
er seen overwrite the report of the previous maintainers. This particularly affects packaging teams, since our packaging teams have a regrettable tendency to use many different variations of the team name in their packages. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.e

Re: List of packages which should probably be Architecture: all

2008-01-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 08:04:44PM +, Pierre Habouzit wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 07:58:24PM +, Raphael Geissert wrote: >>> Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>libgss-dbg (U) >>>shi

Bug#373218: PTS: should replace dashes with underscores in lintian anchors

2008-01-01 Thread Russ Allbery
the XHTML 1.0 spec and the HTML 4.01 spec both say that they're fine. If you want to work around this until the next lintian release, that's of course fine, but lintian will be fixed so that the current links will work. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.ey

Re: Bug#458329: PTS: don't show lintian link when there are no lintian warnings

2007-12-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 10:10:35AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Note that you can tell whether a package has lintian warnings or errors >> based on the contents of <http://lintian.debian.org/reports/qa-list.txt>. >>

Bug#458329: PTS: don't show lintian link when there are no lintian warnings

2007-12-30 Thread Russ Allbery
e qa-list.txt as-is and generate a second full list with more columns, or add more columns to the existing file. Probably the former to be safe. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lintian.debian.org should also list co-maintained packages

2007-12-24 Thread Russ Allbery
les used internally by lintian, but it shouldn't be *too* much work. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lintian.d.o updated, link change

2007-12-22 Thread Russ Allbery
up with a weird e-mail address, but the vast majority shouldn't need to be escaped. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Coordinate time for the lintian URL updates

2007-12-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Okay, lintian is finishing its daily run for today right now, and as >> soon as that finishes, I'll kick off the full archive run. It should >> be done sometime on Sat

Re: Coordinate time for the lintian URL updates

2007-12-21 Thread Russ Allbery
gt; require an up-to-the minute synchronization ;-) Okay, lintian is finishing its daily run for today right now, and as soon as that finishes, I'll kick off the full archive run. It should be done sometime on Saturday afternoon (US Pacific time), judging from past experience.

Coordinate time for the lintian URL updates

2007-12-20 Thread Russ Allbery
e the breakage in links from the PTS and developer pages, so I want to coordinate with you a good time to do this. Could you let me know when would be a good time to do the switch, assuming that the archive run needs to start about a day and a half in advance of when the new URLs will be live? --

Bug#457169: no, they are great

2007-12-20 Thread Russ Allbery
et didn't touch the font size > at all. That way everyone can choose the base font size that suites > their situation best, once, in the browser config, and every page will > be good for them. Yes, exactly. Enthusiastically seconded. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Hard coded package names in lintian

2007-12-16 Thread Russ Allbery
t the most likely result will be that we'll just drop nearly all GTK 1.0 software from the archive entirely, not that anything that hasn't already moved to GTK 2.0 will actually do so. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSU

Re: Hard coded package names in lintian

2007-12-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, libglib1.2ldbl, libgtk1.2 and maybe libgd2-xpm would qualify to be > included? libgd2-xpm isn't even in oldlibs and there's no hint in the package description that it shouldn't be used. Is it really being phased out

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