Bug#623212: ncpfs: Causes kernel tracelog with kernel 2.6.38

2011-04-18 Thread Andreas Tille
Subject: ncpfs: Causes kernel tracelog with kernel 2.6.38 Package: ncpfs Version: 2.2.6-8 Severity: normal Hello, since using linux-image-2.6.38-2-amd64 from testing I observed kernel tracelogs when trying to access a Novell drive mounted via ncpfs. The following text was found in

Bug#347958: Fails to establish pppoe connection

2006-01-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Marco d'Itri wrote: reassign 347958 pppoeconf Well, do you think this is caused by a broken config file? Looks like you did not already configure your ethernet connection and pppoeconf is not correctly configuring /etc/network/interfaces to raise eth1 before starting

Bug#347958: Fails to establish pppoe connection

2006-01-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Marco d'Itri wrote: Well, do you think this is caused by a broken config file? Yes. I tried to investigate into it and have to admit that it was *not only* a broken config file. Well, my question is quite simple: How can I get a solid working configuration? auto isp

Bug#347958: Fails to establish pppoe connection

2006-01-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Marco d'Itri wrote: What further information would you need? A detailed log showing what does not work (tcpdump and ppp.log are a good start). Well, you got the ppp.log in one of my previous mails (from a working and a non-working version). I'll prepare tcpdump if this

Bug#347958: Fails to establish pppoe connection

2006-01-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Marco d'Itri wrote: A detailed log showing what does not work (tcpdump and ppp.log are a good start). Attached is the promissed tcpdump output. Just ask me for further infromation. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de tcpdump.tgz Description: GNU

Bug#347958: Fails to establish pppoe connection

2006-01-19 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Jan 16, Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ping 193.175.81.44 --- failed I do not know what your problem is, but the PPP session is successfully negotiated and even DNS queries are exachanged. Your pings to 193.175.81.44 are rejected

Bug#740549: ovito: New upstream version available (new maintainer team needed)

2014-03-02 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: ovito Severity: minor Hi, the ovito package seems to be unmaintained despite the fact that it looks quite interesting for chemistry or science in general. So I keep DebiChem and Debian Science teams in CC whether they might be interested in packaging the latest version of Ovito[1]

Bug#378978: Open Motif needs some love

2008-07-21 Thread Andreas Tille
. # The reson for the following overrides is just to make sure that the pure # number of these man page problems might hide any other more relevant # problem in the package and thus they are overriden for the moment. # Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] motif-clients: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr

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

2008-07-21 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, 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 inside the license that might forbid

Re: openmotif override disparity

2008-07-21 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Debian Installer wrote: There are disparities between your recently accepted upload and the override file for the following file(s): libmotif-dev_2.2.3-3_i386.deb: package says section is non-free/libdevel, override says non-free/devel. Either the package or the override

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

2008-07-22 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: Done. Great! Many thanks for the quick response Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#517793: closed by Andreas Tille ti...@debian.org

2009-04-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Ben Finney wrote: Andreas, there is already a package (with a later version) which does all of this except the list bullet characters, *and* adopts the package, closing Bug#451712. It is awaiting a sponsor. $ dget

Bug#195322: fastlink: Incorrect Maintainer: field

2003-06-02 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 30 May 2003, Colin Watson wrote: Package: fastlink Version: 4.1P-fix88-2 Severity: normal I was about to do a QA upload of fastlink to fix RC bug #194913, but then I noticed that it already has a maintainer despite having Maintainer: Debian QA Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] in its control

Status of apt-listbugs

2005-06-01 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I just detected apt-listbugs which at first view sounds a very reasonable tool which should be made more public. At second view which included a view to http://bugs.debian.org/apt-listbugs with a lot of long standing bugs, some of them tagged patch and some of them seem easy to fix I

Re: Removing old orphaned packages?

2005-06-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Martin Michlmayr wrote: findimagedupes -- Finds visually similar or duplicate images [#218699] * Orphaned 590 days ago * Package orphaned 360 days ago. I'll have a look at it especially because there is a C++ version available at the web page. So even if it is orphaned

Re: remaining FHS bugs

2001-07-10 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Jordi Mallach wrote: pccts: completely unmaintained. Should be orphaned/removed right away. Seems so. I checked if NMU would makes sense but decided to don´t touch it. picasm: besides it looks it should be in main, it's pretty abandoned. Same as above. vtprint: Rich, can

Re: Ranking of the worst maintainers

2004-11-04 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Riku Voipio wrote: True. That list looks to me like the list of the most used packages (dpkg, mount and glibc at the top...) By taking popcon.debian.org statistics into account, the list will probably look quite a bit different. It still won't take in account the work done

Re: Ranking of the worst maintainers

2004-11-04 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Thomas Viehmann wrote: help. Perhaps we might focus on the ranking numbers 100 to 500 and forget the top most because it is hard to automatically handle these. What's next? Having an IRC bot that will randomly insult developers with open bugs in their packages, with the

Helping bussy maintainers (Re: Ranking of the worst maintainers)

2004-11-05 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Michael Stone wrote: On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 09:46:38PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: Please explain your understanding of the relation of the words a) help - as I wroteand b) insult - as you interpreted my mail Have you checked the thread title lately? Thanks, you

Re: The PTS should list Ubuntu patches

2005-07-20 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Santiago Vila wrote: It should not be a bug to do things differently than Ubuntu. For this purpose there is the wontfix tag. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: The PTS should list Ubuntu patches

2005-07-21 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Raphael Hertzog wrote: I expect Demudi to be able to provide patches in the BTS, no ? Or do they have the same resource problem than Ubuntu where a few maintainers are doing so many modifications ? If my information about DeMuDi is correct they try to port back all their

Matthew Vernon MIA (Was: biosquid and Hmmer)

2005-07-28 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I attach a mail of Nelson A. de Oliveira in the end of this mail and ask for your advise. Nelson is in the NM queue and I'm sponsoring his packages. He did a great job in the past and I want to hear your opinion about my suggestion: IMHO it would be best to start with group maintainance.

Re: Matthew Vernon MIA (Was: biosquid and Hmmer)

2005-07-30 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, Steve Langasek wrote: I think that if such a change is made to the Uploaders: field of a package without the maintainer's approval, this means that instead of just hijacking the package, you've hijacked the package and then *lied* about it. It isn't comaintenance unless

Re: Candidates for removal

2005-09-29 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Nathanael Nerode wrote: These packages are candidates for removal by virtue of having been sitting in unstable without being in 'testing' for very long periods. It has a few false positives for packages which were kicked out of testing recently, but they are pretty good

Re: Can we remove xpcd?

2006-01-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Justin Pryzby wrote: Can we remove xpcd? Hmmm, I would prefer if the long standing bugs with patches would be fixed. Package reported obsolete upstream Even if reported obsolete this package is know to be robust in showing Kodak PCDs while other programs sometimes

Re: Bug#357020: dict-wn: could not be installed when running alternative for dictd

2006-03-15 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I just want to hear Debian-QA opinion whether serpento is worth keeping or whether its sense (i18n problems of dictd which are known to be solved) is not valid any more and we should drop the package. Thanks for your opinions Andreas. On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Mark van Eijk wrote:

Re: pngcrush and bugs 331068, 338659, 355693, 352177, 330026

2006-03-22 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Alexander Schmehl wrote: I have no strong feelings about pngcrush. Just used it a couple of times in the past and might need such a tool in the future, while not knowing of similar tools. It seemed to me, that no one else wanted it, so I steped in. I'm sponsoring pngnq

Re: Bug#357020: dict-wn: could not be installed when runningalternative for dictd

2006-07-18 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, at http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2006/03/msg00089.html I asked whether we might want to remove serpento. I'd vote for it but my question was ignored. Any opinions? Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Bug#357020: dict-wn: could not be installed when runningalternative for dictd

2006-08-01 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-07-18 15:06]: http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2006/03/msg00089.html I asked whether we might want to remove serpento. I'd vote for it but my question was ignored. Any opinions? I suggest you ask

Re: Bug#357020: dict-wn: could not be installed when runningalternative for dictd

2006-08-10 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-08-01 17:13]: What would you think about stop building the dict-wn package? Well, I'd really like for Bob Hilliard to comment given that he maintains dict. Bob pointed out to me in private that I had the

Re: Let's remove odontolinux

2006-10-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: Combined, I don't think fixing the RC bug(s) is worth the effort for the package in its current state. Even as Debian-Med adictive person I would say: When you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. So lets

Status of serpento (Was: Status of your packages)

2007-12-11 Thread Andreas Tille
wrote: On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 01:23:34AM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-07-18 15:06]: http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2006/03/msg00089.html I asked whether we might want to remove serpento. I'd vote for it but my question was ignored. I am working

Re: Oldlibs transitions, and some old packages.

2007-12-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Kumar Appaiah wrote: I am trying to help out by finding rdepends of packages in the oldlibs section, and am hoping that cleaning up the oldlibs section could be made a Lenny release goal (distant dream). You should probably define cleaning up oldlibs more precisely. I

Re: How are packages associated with resigned debian developers handled?

2008-01-09 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Given Matthew's reasons for resigning, I think it would be respectful to spare him the emails Well, if there is no better communication channel than e-mail I would go for it starting: I would like to consider your wish to not to get any Debian

What to do if Homepage seems to have vanished

2008-02-17 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I'm maintaining the package fastdnaml and wanted to move the Homepage information I putted into the long description formerly to the Homepage tag of the control file. When doing so I verified that the home page is correct but failed. The project seems to have vanished from the web. I have

Re: What to do if Homepage seems to have vanished

2008-02-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Jack T Mudge III wrote: AFAICT, it would seem that didiwiki is in this group as well. I found plenty of links to it's nonexistant homepage. It's a frusterating situation, since most users (myself included) expect to be able to go to the homepage and find out more about the

Re: [RKI-Spam-Verdacht]Re: What to do if Homepage seems to have vanished

2008-02-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Alexander Schmehl wrote: Well, I would say, that if only usefull purpouse of the homepage was to download the tarball, than you can just drop the homepage header; appearently the user has no nead for the tarball ;) Well, you are right that there is no need to point to a

Re: Re: What to do if Homepage seems to have vanished

2008-02-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Alexander Schmehl wrote: No, I meant archive.org (not .com as I wrote previously, sorry). They archive web pages like a library (see for example http://web.archive.org/web/19970502070835/http://www.debian.org/), and maybe the have the documentation pages of your software

Re: What to do if Homepage seems to have vanished

2008-02-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Alexander Schmehl wrote: Well, a third and fourth alternative would be to download the documentation from archive.org, and (assuming you have the right for distribution) but them in a -doc package or put it on

Re: What to do if Homepage seems to have vanished

2008-02-19 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: One low-tech thing that one could do is just put, in the package long description, a note that the software is dead upstream. Personally, I think that's often information worthy of being in the long description; one purpose of the long description,

Re: CtSim (Was: wxwindows2.4)

2008-03-12 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Barry deFreese wrote: I tried this a while back also. Kevin is upstream bye the way. Last time I spoke with him via e-mail, he was more interested in wx2.8 or 3.0 but now that he is the proverbial last man standing he might be persuaded, I don't know. Well, I don't

Bug#483179: reopen 483179, PTS: please do *not* link to Ubuntu Launchpad bugs page

2008-06-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Ana Guerrero wrote: reopen 483179 retitle 483179 PTS: please *do not* link to Ubuntu Launchpad bugs page thanks ... 09:41 buxy ana: and accept my decision as PTS maintainer ... About buxy's second sentence, it is not at all a way to finish a discussion. Accept my

Bug#489861: QA page doesn't work for metapackages

2008-07-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: science-physics on http://qa.debian.org/developer.php should do this, but it returns the page http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?task=science-physics which says No information available for Task: science-physics. I wonder why you think this should

Re: Bug#489861: QA page doesn't work for metapackages

2008-07-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Chris Walker wrote: What I want is a way of keeping an eye on packages in one of these metapackages to see that they are at least vaguely up to date and not full of RC bugs. I was then going to add it to http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience in the hope that scientists will

Bug#489861: Fwd: Bug#489861: QA page doesn't work for metapackages

2008-07-19 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Chris Walker wrote: Yes exactly what I was after - except that it doesn't track the upstream versions. Well, this is a subject for my (your ;-)) todo list. BTW, would you regard it reasonable to split the bug pages according to single tasks or not. Currently the page

Re: Fwd: Bug#489861: QA page doesn't work for metapackages

2008-07-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Chris Walker wrote: I guess you want this http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/bugs.php for Debian Science, right? Yes exactly what I was after - except that it doesn't track the upstream versions. BTW, we also track upstream versions via

Re: RFS: gcal (updated package, QA Upload)

2008-08-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 16 Aug 2008, Sandro Tosi wrote: On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 11:22, Vincent Bernat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would have prefered that you converted the package to some patch management system but since this is a QA upload, I have uploaded it anyway. Yeah, it's a good idea, and

Better team maintenance of orphaned packages (Was: Bug#492503: marked as done (ITA: feh -- imlib2 based image viewer))

2008-08-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Your message dated Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:47:03 + with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Bug#492503: fixed in feh 1.3.4.dfsg.1-2 has caused the Debian Bug report #492503, regarding ITA: feh -- imlib2 based image viewer to be

Re: Better team maintenance of orphaned packages

2008-08-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: Why not just use collab-maint for this? Good question - I was just as unaware about this project as I was about wnpp-alert script. :-( Is it just me that I'm ignorant about important pieces of information or is it just not well enough advertised?

Re: Better team maintenance of orphaned packages (Was: Bug#492503: marked as done (ITA: feh -- imlib2 based image viewer))

2008-08-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: This idea cames up on a regular basis. I think that the consensus is that it's better to simply use the Debian archive as VCS. When you change/fix something in an orphaned package, just upload ;) Well, OK, this might make some sense if you just not

Re: Better team maintenance of orphaned packages

2008-08-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote: You probably do not follow the low volume debian-news mailing list See http://lists.debian.org/debian-news/2006/msg00016.html Well, yes, I do not follow this list. I've thought d-d-a is enough. It is a little bit hard to decide which channel

How to implement QA web pages for a certain set of packages

2008-09-24 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I would like to ask for comments on my plan to find a reasonable way to produce QA pages for a certain set of packages. The idea behind this is that David Paleino has created nice pages for Debian Med at http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/qareport.cgi which is an adaptation of

Re: How to implement QA web pages for a certain set of packages

2008-09-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Paul Wise wrote: DDPO supports subscribing to more packages, see the info here: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php So your suggestion would be to write a CGI script that obtains the packages in question and feed this as argument to

Re: How to implement QA web pages for a certain set of packages

2008-09-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Paul Wise wrote: Er, you didn't read down the page far enough (see the Subscribing to Packages heading). Whenever you want a new package to be monitored by DDPO for your team, send a mail: I do not really want to subscribe and I also think that the general mail address

Re: How to implement QA web pages for a certain set of packages

2008-09-25 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Paul Wise wrote: IIRC it isn't possible to use addresses that are not in Maintainers or Uploaders with DDPO. I guess DDPO isn't for you then. OK. This directs the mail to the DDPO mail bot: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This sets the user to the Debian Med packaging team:

Re: How to implement QA web pages for a certain set of packages

2008-09-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Paul Wise wrote: (hope that these anchors links will be set - if not its probably easy to create a patch.) Seems they are set, no patch needed. Yes, you are right. But it seems that this method does not in all cases work reliable: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Sep 25

Re: Group up orphaned packages in order to find adopter faster

2008-10-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Enrico Zini have ad for a while some code which find package similarities, in fact I believe it is the one used on packages.debian.org to show similar packages. H, what means similar packages? I really can not imagine some code that detects

[OT] Re: announce pure blends (Re: Group up orphaned packages in order to find adopter faster

2008-10-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Holger Levsen wrote: If this has left the state of discussion and has become a fact, can we have a mail on d-d-a about this please?! Yes, we can and we will have. I just need some time for recovering from offline backlog - I hope to get something out at the weekend.

Re: Group up orphaned packages in order to find adopter faster

2008-10-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Enrico Zini wrote: You bet. You can do it by looking for packages with similar tags, or clustering them according to similarity in the description. Or both. Ahh, detecting similarities based on tags - sure, what else should I have expected if it was code from Enrico.

Re: Group up orphaned packages in order to find adopter faster

2008-10-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Enrico Zini wrote: No, not just tags: Xapian has features to compute similarity based on whatever you index: you can put popcon into the mix, or dependencies, or keywords from /usr/share/{doc,man}, or whatever really. Shame on you that you did not reported about this in

Re: Group up orphaned packages in order to find adopter faster

2008-10-29 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Paul Wise wrote: Yes, I have seen these nice tools and I'm thinking about this. But I really hope that the ideas to maintain screenshots more generally inside Debian (there were several suggestions on the lists - but no implementation as far as I know :-(). Once this is

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

2008-12-22 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Raphaël, I like your proposal in principle, but I see some problem with group maintenance. While I'm in principle a supporter of group maintenance I do not see how it should work with your proposal. Who in the group will be addressed by your proposal? You are talking about a passive

Re: [RFS] QA upload of ncpfs merging all Ubuntu changes

2009-01-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, James Westby wrote: Some fixes had built up in Ubuntu's ncpfs package, and as the package is QA maintained I rolled a proposed update for Debian. Would someone kindly review and sponsor my package at http://people.ubuntu.com/~jamesw/packages/ncpfs_2.2.6-6/ncpfs_2.2.6-6.dsc

Re: [RFS] QA upload of ncpfs merging all Ubuntu changes

2009-01-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, James Westby wrote: E: ncpfs source: outdated-autotools-helper-file contrib/php/config.sub 2003-10-07 E: ncpfs source: outdated-autotools-helper-file contrib/php/config.guess 2003-10-07 These I should have fixed I realise. Yes. W: ncpfs: binary-without-manpage

Yet another list statistics for debian-qa

2009-01-17 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, as you can read in my lightning talk at DebConf http://people.debian.org/~tille/talks/200808_lightning/ I did some investigation on who is frequently posting on our mailing lists. I now created graphs until end of last year and write a short summary for those lists I regard worth a

Re: [RFS] QA upload of ncpfs merging all Ubuntu changes

2009-01-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, James Westby wrote: I have just put an updated package at http://people.ubuntu.com/~jamesw/packages/ncpfs_2.2.6-6/ncpfs_2.2.6-6.dsc Thanks. Just uploading the sponsored package. The remaining lintian issues are: W: ncpfs source: ancient-libtool contrib/php/ltmain.sh

Re: UDD and DEHS (Was: Please provide a simple example)

2009-02-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Well, January is over. ;-) Any news regarding watch file information. erm, no, unfortunately. Want to work on it? :-) I prefer to work on things I have enough knowledge first - perhaps some people who harvested watch file information at other

Re: UDD and DEHS (Was: Please provide a simple example)

2009-02-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Adeodato Simó wrote: http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.822 Looks good. Any hint how to reasonably obtain description of binaries long_description of binaries homepage license(perhaps) The html page has links to

Re: UDD and DEHS (Was: Please provide a simple example)

2009-02-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Are you interested in DEHS (whether a given package is up-to-date or not), or in the raw debian/watch content? I think two fields of information are needed: boolean is_up_to_date text upstream_version from packages table if you have

UDD schema for new queue

2009-02-13 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I would like to include information about packages residing in the new queue into Blends tasks pages. Because I decided to use UDD as main source of information for these pages I would like to inject information about new queue into UDD first. I've got a hint to

Re: UDD schema for new queue

2009-02-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Or should we rather start to just move the information of http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.822 into UDD for the moment and wait. Yeah, it would make sense to: - add all the info from new.822 to UDD - file a bug about exporting the other missing

Normalising UDD to some extend?

2009-02-18 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I realised that UDD contains several entries in the packages table with only different architecture. Did I missed something or would it make sense to create a lookup table CREATE table package_architecture_lookup ( package text, architecture text, ); and remove the

Re: Normalising UDD to some extend?

2009-02-19 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: and remove the architecture column from the packages table? Packages can have different put any other field here on different architectures, so you would lose information by doing that. If this is the case (I just trust you) my suggestion is not

Re: Normalising UDD to some extend?

2009-02-19 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Well, Depends: can obviously change between architectures. And there's no reason why other fields wouldn't be different as well, since control files are generated on a per-arch basis during the build process. OK, I'm definitely convinced in this

Re: Normalising UDD to some extend?

2009-02-19 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Having a big single table might be a performance win compared to several shorter tables that you would often need to join. Yes - I kept this in mind but wanted t hear your opinion about this. Also, during import, for each package, you would need to

Re: QA debtags tags

2009-02-22 Thread Andreas Tille
information Andreas Tille wanted from DEHS in UDD? Quote from http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2009/02/msg00027.html I think two fields of information are needed: boolean is_up_to_date text upstream_version If you think more information makes sense it is fine - but these two fields

Help with watch file (Was: gnumed-client: New upstream version available)

2009-02-22 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, DEHS is reporting new versions of GNUmed with the current watch file which says: http://www.gnumed.de/downloads/client/([\d\.]+)/GNUmed-client\.(.*)\.tgz These new versions are only release candidates (0.4-rc\d) which should not be packaged (as I agreed with upstream). So I might live

Re: Help with watch file (Was: gnumed-client: New upstream version available)

2009-02-23 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Paul Wise wrote: So I wonder whether I missed some trick in my watch file or whether this should rather be regarded as an uscan bug which should go back to the directory with the next lower version number and scan the files there. Until uscan gets smarter about cases like

Re: Help with watch file (Was: gnumed-client: New upstream version available)

2009-02-23 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Paul Wise wrote: There doesn't appear to be a bug open about it and IMO such a feature would probably be useful so I'd suggest filing one. #516704 Thanks Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Bug#516704: devscripts: uscan should parse not only directory with highes version number

2009-02-23 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Adam D. Barratt wrote: I believe this boils down to basically the same request as #375138, which has been marked wontfix for a couple of years. I admit this seems to be the same problem - sorry fo not verifying BTS properly. I haven't merged them yet as I'm undecided as

collab-qa: udd/sql/debvercmp.sql (Was: UDD and DEHS)

2009-02-25 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Andreas Tille wrote: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/dist/main/i18n/ and injects the following structure in UDD: package, language, version, distribution, release, component (='main'), description, long_description Sounds good. Maybe reorder them a bit

Re: collab-qa: udd/sql/debvercmp.sql (Was: UDD and DEHS)

2009-02-25 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Andreas Tille wrote: Regarding the version number I found http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/collab-qa/udd/sql/debvercmp.sql?view=markup which contains a function which implements `dpkg --compare-versions` in SQL which would be really handy for my task. Unfortunately

Re: collab-qa: udd/sql/debvercmp.sql (Was: UDD and DEHS)

2009-03-02 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: The plan is to switch to Roger Leigh's work in UDD as well, but someone needs to do the work, and unfortunately, i'm very busy currently. See http://git.debian.org/?p=users/rleigh/sbuild.git;a=tree;f=db;hb=81fd39259953853632a7d0e2198cfc745d270fe3 for

Re: Help with watch file (Was: gnumed-client: New upstream version available)

2009-03-02 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Paul Wise wrote: Until uscan gets smarter about cases like these, how about this? version=3 http://www.gnumed.de/download/ \ http://www.gnumed.de/downloads/client/[\d\.]+/GNUmed-client\.([\d\.]+)\.tgz Hmmm, this worked as long as 0.3.10 was the latest version but now

Re: UDD and DEHS (Was: Please provide a simple example)

2009-03-02 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Looks good. Any hint how to reasonably obtain description of binaries long_description of binaries homepage license(perhaps) Regarding (short) description I have this file generated daily using UDD available for

Roland Rosenfeld MIA?

2009-03-14 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, at Linux-Tage Chemnitz I've got a request from a user who reported a bug including patch against xfig which did not recieved any reesponse by the maintainer. Looking at the bug page of Roland I wonder whether he is MIA and his packages should be taken over by Debian QA. Kind regards

Re: Roland Rosenfeld MIA?

2009-03-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Roland Rosenfeld wrote: You're right, I don't have too much time for Debian at the moment, but I don't think I'm MIA. Fine. But xfig is a special case. I'm waiting for the upstream maintainer who sent me a pre release of his package without public releasing it and

Re: Roland Rosenfeld MIA?

2009-03-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Luk Claes wrote: I would rather think of forming an inter-distribution team (per package or globaly if that would make sense) to take over upstream. For bash-completion that worked out very well. That's what I mean. I have no idea whether per package or globaly is

UDD gatherer for DDTP translations

2009-03-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: It depends on your data source. I'm not familiar with DDTP. If (package, version) is enough as a primary key, let's just use that. I commited a ddtp importer to collab-qa/udd. It is based on DDTP translation files which are enriched by the package

Re: UDD gatherer for DDTP translations

2009-03-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On 17/03/09 at 08:51 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: 2. sql/ddtp.sql Create the table in UDD. Some fields contain comments. I wonder whether we should relay on the inline comments in this file or whether we should implement COMMENT

Re: UDD gatherer for DDTP translations

2009-03-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Andreas Tille til...@rki.de wrote:  To tackle this I tried to calculate MD5 sums of the package descriptions  which turned out quite error prone.  The code became hard to read hacky  and not really reliable

Re: Python code to retrieve all open wnpp bugs

2009-03-23 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, David Paleino wrote: Aww... and I thought I had wrote an useful program. :( Neverminds, going back to my NEW gui (yes, NEW, the queue :) Might be the same here: I'm currently busy writing a NEW queue UDD gatherer. So at some point in time it might be better to base your

[UDD] Table packages contains field 'task'

2009-05-08 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, what is the method / policy to fill the field 'task' in the table packages of UDD? If I try for example udd=# SELECT CASE WHEN length(task) 60 THEN task ELSE substring(task for 56) || '...' END AS tasks, count(*) from packages group by task limit 30; tasks

Udd not accessible via psql after move to other host

2009-05-15 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, the UDD wiki page [1] gives the following advise: o From merkel.debian.org: /usr/lib/postgresql/8.3/bin/psql 'service=udd' This gives a psql session - but it seems not to be the up to date UDD: ti...@merkel:~$ /usr/lib/postgresql/8.3/bin/psql -q 'service=udd' udd= \d packages ERROR:

Re: Udd not accessible via psql after move to other host

2009-05-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:10:22AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: ti...@merkel:~$ /usr/lib/postgresql/8.3/bin/psql -q 'service=udd' udd= \d packages ERROR: column reltriggers does not exist LINE 1: SELECT relhasindex, relkind, relchecks, reltriggers, relhasr...

Re: Udd not accessible via psql after move to other host

2009-05-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:26:34AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: could you add that to the wiki? Done. DSA and alioth admins are aware of it. Fine. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

[UDD] debversion type does not work with MAX aggregate function

2009-05-16 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, if I try for instance SELECT MAX(version) FROM packages WHERE package = 'gcc' GROUP BY version order by version desc; max 4:4.3.3-5 4:4.3.3-3 4:4.3.2-2 4:4.2.4-5 4:4.1.1-15 (5 rows) I get several maximum versions of the package gcc. Am I missing something or

Re: [UDD] debversion type does not work with MAX aggregate function

2009-05-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 08:42:25PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: Is it possible that the GROUP BY is making the max() function operate on the versions within each group (which will be identical due to being grouped), therefore returning multiple group results? Yes, I think I was somehow tricked

[UDD] Encoding problems with unicode strings

2009-05-22 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I observed encoding problems when reading descriptions from UDD if they do contain non-ASCII characters and I wonder what I might do wrong. Here is a little test program which queries for some descriptions I found to be problematic:

Re: [UDD] Encoding problems with unicode strings

2009-05-22 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 06:36:39PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: UDD just has the descriptions from Packages.gz, which supposedly are in UTF-8. If your destination (a file, terminal, whatever) should be receiving UTF-8, you can just pass them unmodified, eg.: for row in curs.fetchall():

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