Re: Debconf QA BOF summary / handling of orphaned packages

2009-07-30 Thread Thomas Viehmann
s usually show more age, quirks, and lack of features compared to their currently maintained counterparts. That said, I'm all for meritocracy, so maybe Barry and Chris should have the most say when they do the most QA uploads. (Hi Bas.) Cheers T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehm

Re: Debconf QA BOF summary / handling of orphaned packages

2009-08-02 Thread Thomas Viehmann
n half of the non-orphaned packages as well when it comes to fixing bugs. But as things are like they are -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Debconf QA BOF summary / handling of orphaned packages

2009-08-02 Thread Thomas Viehmann
int in trying to convince us not to do this for some > packages where this makes sense (because we don't want to remove > it as it still has a high-popcon). Thanks for clarifying that. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Ranking of the worst maintainers

2004-11-04 Thread Thomas Viehmann
l in terms of polite communication. I'm not quite prepared to accept as fact that insulting people is the preferred way to improve Debian. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, <http://thomas.viehmann.net/>

Propose to remove phpgroupware-napster

2005-08-21 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi. If noone objects, I'd like to file a bug requesting removal of phpgroupware-napster. It's outdated, obsolete, and abandoned. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

RM: phpgroupware-napster; RoQA: orphaned, obsolete, abandoned

2005-08-26 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi, please remove phpgroupware-napster. It isn't useful, upstream dropped it a long time ago, and it's dead debian-wise as well. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Re: #332919 Still not fixed

2005-11-23 Thread Thomas Viehmann
7;m shying away from NMUing a package I don't know at all. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: #332919 Still not fixed

2005-11-24 Thread Thomas Viehmann
tag 332919 + pending thanks I'm presently uploading Thijs' NMU. Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 09:15:29PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: [build-problem] > This is an accidental dependency on i386 only due to a samba misbuild. It > should be fixed as soon as

Re: xlibs-dev transition; packages with adjusted dependencies needing upload

2006-01-14 Thread Thomas Viehmann
ner has demands Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xlibs-dev transition; packages with adjusted dependencies needing upload

2006-01-14 Thread Thomas Viehmann
g the bugs you already fixed in an upload as "pending"? > This way it is much easier to keep track of the ones that still need > work. I think they're all tagged fixed now and I'm off for the day. I'll tag pending when I get back to uploading stuff. Kind regards T. --

Re: xlibs-dev transition; packages with adjusted dependencies needing upload

2006-01-14 Thread Thomas Viehmann
ext-dev, x-dev). Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: round 2 xlibs-dev transition; packages with adjusted dependencies needing upload

2006-01-15 Thread Thomas Viehmann
ng packages are "hard" to NMU, because of some > problem like another FTBFS or the package being native when it should > not be. I'm untagging these 'patch' now. Illnativeness is not too much of a problem per se, only annoying. Cheers T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http:

Re: NMU upload sponsor required for asciijump

2006-01-16 Thread Thomas Viehmann
lluded to? - for NMUs, please do attach a diff of your modifications (e.g. interdiff between the two diff.gz files) Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NMU upload sponsor required for asciijump

2006-01-16 Thread Thomas Viehmann
nge are not appropriate for an NMU. (Unless the maintainer explicitly agrees.) Otherwise, the NMU looks OK, if you fix those, I can do the upload. Kind regards T. 1. http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-pkgs.en.html#s-nmu -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIB

orphan asciijump?

2006-01-16 Thread Thomas Viehmann
7;t respond in due time you could orphan[1] / take over the package. Kind regards T. 1. http://debid.vlsm.org/share/Debian-Doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch-beyond-pkging.en.html The echolon part doesn't apply here. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: round 2 xlibs-dev transition; packages with adjusted dependencies needing upload

2006-01-16 Thread Thomas Viehmann
: wmix > #347042: qiv waiting on maintainer comment > #347041: quark maintainer wants to do himself > #347074: tleenx2 Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: security bug needs upload along with xlibs-dev transition Re: Bug#346856: intent to upload sponsored NMU to fix xlibs-dev bug

2006-01-17 Thread Thomas Viehmann
in build. pbuilder-buildpackage/i386 $Id: pbuilder-buildpackage-funcs,v 1.28 2005/12/21 11: -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#346856: security bug needs upload along with xlibs-dev transition Re: Bug#346856: intent to upload sponsored NMU to fix xlibs-dev bug

2006-01-19 Thread Thomas Viehmann
ngelog that no changes were necessary for updating the standards version. Please do so yourself on future upgrades. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PNG crush NMU

2006-01-27 Thread Thomas Viehmann
ks like the current maintainer of libpng is also the author of pngcrush, so there might be a chance of getting some good advice there. Kind regards T. P.S.: I've CCed the bug and d-qa, please delete any CCs as you see fit. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSU

Propose to orphan drawmap, ploticus, ploticus-doc, zope-zshell - maintainer MIA

2006-03-08 Thread Thomas Viehmann
him for about half a year. I've sent a ping (private with cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) in January but received no response. If there aren't any objections, I'll orphan the packages next week. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Propose to orphan drawmap, ploticus, ploticus-doc, zope-zshell - maintainer MIA

2006-03-09 Thread Thomas Viehmann
y, I've picked the month where I do date arithmetic with 4 weeks...). Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Propose to orphan drawmap, ploticus, ploticus-doc, zope-zshell - maintainer MIA

2006-03-09 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > James, the maintainer of drawmap, ploticus, ploticus-doc, zope-zshell James has replied (promptly and) privately and kindly given his OK to the orphaning, noting that zope-zshell should likely be removed and cautioning adopters of drawmap that upstream might be a

Re: Orphaned packages with very low popcon numbers

2006-06-11 Thread Thomas Viehmann
ed packages as much as possible. It's not as if we want to forcibly delete the packages from our user's machines, we'd just acknowledge that they aren't maintained anymore. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Orphaned packages with very low popcon numbers

2006-06-12 Thread Thomas Viehmann
uch preferable than displaying the package as a choice to users who aren't stuck with it yet. Kind regards T. P.S.: I'll drop the CC to you if you drop the one to me. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#379063: DDPO: include data about versions in Ubuntu

2006-07-20 Thread Thomas Viehmann
sily reached. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#379063: DDPO: include data about versions in Ubuntu

2006-07-21 Thread Thomas Viehmann
at the lack of a good contact information has bugged me also for bpo. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#379063: DDPO: include data about versions in Ubuntu

2006-07-21 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Alexander Wirt wrote: >> Note that the lack of a good contact information has bugged me also for bpo. > (Do you know: http://www.backports.org/~formorer/) No, I didn't. Thanks! Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Bug#380440: ddpo: could use all uids on key for regularly maintained

2006-07-30 Thread Thomas Viehmann
severity: wishlist package: qa.debian.org Hi, could packages (co-) maintained with uids on the key in the Debian keyring be shown as such (e.g. my Debian account is tviehmann but I use my regular mail address for uploads, so q.d.o/d?login=tviehmann looks "wrong")? Kind regards T.

Re: QA packages with really high popcon numbers :-)

2006-09-18 Thread Thomas Viehmann
table? I don't think stable would have a fast changing set of RC bugs or packages. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dvipng

2006-10-29 Thread Thomas Viehmann
r this and urgent fixes for stuff I sponsored, but probably not frequent updates with 5k diffs). Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dvipng

2006-10-29 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Thomas Viehmann wrote: > - I'm a bit suspicious about the man-page symlink. Does this actually > work or should the symlink have .gz instead? After having tried: dh_compress does the correct magic... Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSC

Re: How to detect packages autobuilt against debhelper 5.0.14?

2006-11-04 Thread Thomas Viehmann
2>/dev/null | grep -q dh_installinit && (dpkg --contents $x | grep '\./etc/init.d/.' > /dev/null || echo "problem $x") ; done Of course, one could do more sophisticated checking by looking for the specific init script mentioned in the postinst. Kind regards T. --

Bug#418978: closed by Christoph Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Re: Bug#418978: devscripts: [uscan] Sourceforge redirector does not work - uses hard coded heanet.dl.* domain)

2007-04-14 Thread Thomas Viehmann
kages use watch files. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Removal candidates

2007-09-29 Thread Thomas Viehmann
stallations zsh3.0 -- A shell with lots of features - has zsh to replace it - only 38 popcon installations - last maintainer upload 2005-11-04 On the up side, there would still be 314 packages in Debian to attended to. Kind regards Thomas -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ --

Bug#457190: qa.debian.org: selecting default CSS layout for PTS

2007-12-20 Thread Thomas Viehmann
nyway. > [12:26] yeah, that javascript thing look workable, it doesn't depend > on any server-side generated content > [12:26] though I'll leave that up to zack, zobel you might want to > file wishlist bug for that with the pointer How about cookie + let mod_rewrite rewrit

Bug#457190: qa.debian.org: selecting default CSS layout for PTS

2007-12-22 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Thomas Viehmann wrote: >> How about cookie + let mod_rewrite rewrite a default.css URI based on the >> ocokie? That would eliminate the need for JavaScript. (Needs apache2, though, >> AFAICT.) > That's a nice idea, but

Please take down junk QA pages

2007-12-31 Thread Thomas Viehmann
from qa.d.o/developer.php) was unanswered, so I would like ask you as the alioth admins to disable the cron job (?) and move the public_html to deactivate the pages as a QA measure of this QA attempt. Kind regards T. 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/11/msg00096.html -- Thomas Viehmann,

Re: Please take down junk QA pages

2008-01-01 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Thomas Huriaux wrote: > Disabled. Thanks, T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: plr 1:8.2.0.7-3

2008-01-19 Thread Thomas Viehmann
src/makefiles/pgxs.mk is the correct fix as opposed to making libpq-dev's pg_config return the correct path and making plr depend on a fixed version of libpq-dev. Kind regards Thomas -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: RFS: alml 2005.01.01-3

2008-01-20 Thread Thomas Viehmann
upstream URL seems to have changed to http://na.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/appuntilinux/ there also seems to be a new upstream version. Is there any indication that anyone is actually using this except for the upstream author? Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/

Re: RFS: alml 2005.01.01-3

2008-01-20 Thread Thomas Viehmann
e can tell whether and which changes you made in order to adapt to the standards. But hey, I do trade an RC bug against a lintian error. Kind regards T. P.S.: For the plr package, it might be nice if you could write something about how to test it. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net

Re: RFS: alml 2005.01.01-3

2008-01-20 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Barry deFreese wrote: > Thanks. I don't know if you got it but the upload was rejected because > I made it a non-native package and it can't find the orig.tar.gz. I was > thinking this morning that I'm not sure that is even viable since it is > the same version. Is that allowable?? My bad, I for

Re: RFS: QA Upload -- quiteinsane

2008-02-09 Thread Thomas Viehmann
very wrong and needs to be redone. It misses copyright statements and even copyright holders (e.g. Trolltech). On the other hand, in debian/control: . Author: Michael Herder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> does not belong in the description. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://th

Re: RFS: QA Upload -- quiteinsane

2008-02-09 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Barry deFreese wrote: >> Here is another QA upload. Closes 1 bug and does some package clean-up >> / standards update. > Your changes all look great (it's not quite done building yet, but you will > have > done that), maybe we can

Re: RFS: QA Upload -- quiteinsanegimpplugin

2008-02-10 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Barry deFreese wrote: > Since I did quiteinsane I figured it was only right to fix up > quiteinsanegimplugin. Fixes 1 bug and some package clean-up / standards > updates. Including fixing up similar debian/copyright issues to > quiteinsane. Uploaded. Thanks! Kind regards T

Re: Debian upload monitor

2008-05-02 Thread Thomas Viehmann
token, and a way to track its usage is the least that we should have. Whether it belongs to QA or ftp-master, is what I'm trying to find out. Well, if there everyone wanted these mails, it would be trivial to send them unconditionally instead of conditionally. Kind regards T.

Re: [RFC] fixing sourceforge watch files

2008-06-17 Thread Thomas Viehmann
ion page! Is it just me or would keeping the redirector/or the "magic url" and just change uscan's interpretation prevent trouble next time SF changes it's systems? We'd probably want to fix the redirector for backwards compatibility when it breaks for some time... Kind

Re: Maintainer of xosd and perlipq MIA?

2008-08-23 Thread Thomas Viehmann
hat your proposed NMU is quite extensive in scope, possibly even stretching the instructions in the developer's reference. As for the orphaning, I would recommend getting the experts for the BaPaSe involved (randomly CCing Barry, hi!). Similar comments probably apply for the other pack

Re: Bug#279824: Removal impact of perlftlib was big for truetype package creation

2008-09-05 Thread Thomas Viehmann
a better idea to fix some RC bugs now and drop defoma as soon as lenny is out the door. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

defoma needs work, probably, but is unlikely to go away

2008-09-06 Thread Thomas Viehmann
eeds some work that might change it fairly drastically. Again, sorry for misrepresenting the state of defoma, if it wakes someone up, the better. :) Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

was an intermittent problem that is gone now

2008-10-02 Thread Thomas Viehmann
problems go away on their own. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#500744: marked as done (qa.debian.org: no more popcon graph since move of people.debian.org)

2008-10-04 Thread Thomas Viehmann
which will be linked to the original bug by merging, but not by closing the duplicate. In this case, it probably doesn't matter much, but please don't just close duplicates in the Debian BTS in the future. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Processed: Please remove libconfig from the Archive

2008-11-19 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi, it has been requested to remove libconfig from the archive. However, there is one (remaining) reverse dependency: xbattbar-acpi Either someone needs to adopt libconfig or xbattbar-acpi needs to go as well. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Bug#507288: mails to $pkg@p.d.o should also be send to Uploaders:

2008-12-02 Thread Thomas Viehmann
rce people to have an additional point of failure. It is easy enough to filter out these two classes mail and forward the remainder to whoever, so changing ftp-master and bugs should not be a precondition. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Package removals and PROP_RM

2008-12-05 Thread Thomas Viehmann
e good guidelines for whoever you recruit to help you. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Trying to fix some packages maintained by QA team

2008-12-10 Thread Thomas Viehmann
s, one earlier this month and you can search the lists (particularly QA) for "bapase". Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]