Re: Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-05-31 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Jonas Smedegaard (31/05/2012): > I have heard before the argument of the sponsor having responsibility, > but in reality I have *never* heard of sponsors actually being held > responsible for anything but the concrete upload of a specific > packaging release. Suggested reading: http://bugs.debi

Please investigate orphaning/removing the diffmon package

2012-06-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hello, looking at dbs-using packages, diffmon looks like something that isn't really maintained: - last maintainer upload in 2002 - 5 NMUs in a row since then, first in 2006 I'd appreciate being kept in the loop, whatever the outcome is. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signatu

Re: Grub 2.00 in testing?

2013-07-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
(Adding -qa@ to the loop.) Paul Wise (2013-07-22): > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > > rmadison now defaults to querying UDD by default > > There is a projectb mirror accessible from qa.d.o, so we could rewire > the madison CGI to look at t

Re: Grub 2.00 in testing?

2013-07-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Paul Wise (2013-07-23): > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > > Possibly anything popping up in Built-Using. Random example: > > kibi@arya:~$ \rmadison busybox -s stable,testing,unstable > > Looks correct: > > pabs@quantz:~$ zcat >

Broken links/redirections due to URL encoding issues

2013-09-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, xorg-server's PTS page[1] links to the oldstable-bpo .dsc[2] and that one returns broken results 1. http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xorg-server.html 2. http://http.debian.net/debian-backports/pool/main/x/xorg-server/xorg-server_1.10.4-1~bpo60+1.dsc wget is happy for IPv4, but 404's for IPv

Re: Broken links/redirections due to URL encoding issues

2013-09-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi again, Raphael Geissert (2013-09-30): > Apologies, it is fixed now. IPv6 is currently served by a different instance > running a new codebase - hence the differente results. ah, that explains. Seems to be OK now for the following URLs at least: http://http.debian.net/debian-backports/pool

Getting backports news into the PTS / ddc@ vs. dbc@

2014-01-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, the news section on the PTS[1] seems to be built upon data received from ddc@. It looks like backports changes go to dbc@ instead[2]; asking Paul about it on IRC, he was wondering whether that was set in stone, or possible/a good idea to change at some point. Depending on the answer, I suspect

Bug#750905: qa.debian.org: broken links to patch-tracker

2014-06-08 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Vincent Lefevre (2014-06-08): > Package: qa.debian.org > Severity: normal > > http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/dragonegg.html has 2 patch-tracker > links, but patch-tracker.debian.org can't be found. Well, the problem surely isn't qa.d.o, right? https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/05/msg0

Bug#757349: tracker.debian.org: please sort binary packages

2014-08-07 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Package: tracker.debian.org Severity: normal Hi, the list of binary packages isn't sorted yet, which makes it uneasy to browse for packages shipping a long list of binaries. Examples: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/parted and even worse: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/linux Mraw, KiBi. --

Bug#757350: tracker.debian.org: please don't limit box height

2014-08-07 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Package: tracker.debian.org Severity: normal Hi, at the moment the "binaries" and "news" boxes are the last ones "vertically" in their respective columns. I don't think limiting their heights is a good idea because you get to scroll inside each box if you need to look at this or that binary, or a

Bug#757351: tracker.debian.org: regression from old-pts: RFH source packages aren't listed

2014-08-07 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Package: tracker.debian.org Severity: normal Hi, here's what tracker.d.o says for debian-installer, under "action needed": | The package depends on source packages which need a new maintainer. | 6 bugs tagged patch in the BTS | lintian reports 2 warnings while old-pts is a bit more helpful: | Th

Bug#757357: tracker.debian.org: regression from old-pts: links to F&P bugs

2014-08-07 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Package: tracker.debian.org Severity: normal Hi, here's another regression from old-PTS. Both tools list "F&P: 2" for debian-installer, but the link is only correct in old-PTS: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=debian-installer&archive=no&pend-inc=pending-fixed&pend-inc=fixed&r

Bug#757351: tracker.debian.org: regression from old-pts: RFH source packages aren't listed

2014-08-07 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Raphael Hertzog (2014-08-07): > On Thu, 07 Aug 2014, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Something like this would be nice: > > | The package depends on source packages which need a new maintainer: > > | dosfstools (#756088), elilo (#707112), hfsutils (#60) > > > >

Bug#757427: rmadison: fails to mimick dak ls output

2014-08-07 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Package: qa.debian.org Severity: normal Hi, out of curiosity I tried rmadison from devscripts for a change and got this output: | kibi@arya:~$ \rmadison partman-lvm | partman-lvm | 74 | squeeze/main/debian-installer | all | partman-lvm | 74 | squeeze | source | partman-lv

Re: Sources required by Built-Using break multiple assumptions?

2014-08-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hello Guillem, Guillem Jover (2014-08-22): > Hi! > > I was mightily confused when I saw that supposedly dpkg 1.17.12, which > had an RC bug filed and had not spent enough time to transition had > “migrated” [M], w/o any sign of MIGRATION mail, nor any release team > hint directive. > > This is

Bug#757427: rmadison: fails to mimick dak ls output

2015-07-16 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi again, Cyril Brulebois (2014-08-08): > out of curiosity I tried rmadison from devscripts for a change and got > this output: > | kibi@arya:~$ \rmadison partman-lvm > | partman-lvm | 74 | squeeze/main/debian-installer | all > | partman-lvm | 74 | squeeze

Re: Testing d-i for stable-p-u

2015-10-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Steven Chamberlain (2015-10-05): > Does anyone test d-i for stable-proposed-updates? If so, how? > It seems rather difficult currently. Around p-u time, when d-i's been built (uploaded or binNMUd) against p-u. > You could build the d-i jessie branch from Git, or get release-candidate > sta

Bug#841984: tracker.debian.org: comment appears on tracker pages

2016-10-24 Thread Cyril Brulebois
://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dpkg Looking at the git history, it seems a comment going multiline triggered this. Proposal to fix that attached. KiBi. >From 6d37120adefe7eb22f585db6e12dc612c0c94f51 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cyril Brulebois Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 01:59:53 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Fix multil

Bug#843944: tracker.debian.org: please add “changes” anchor in news entries

2016-11-10 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Package: tracker.debian.org Severity: wishlist Hi, It would be nice if an anchor could be added on the “Changes:” line of the news entry. For example, when trying to point to recent grub2 changes, this link would lead to a page full of descriptions (one for each binary): https://tracker.debian.

Bug#843944: tracker.debian.org: please add “changes” anchor in news entries

2016-11-10 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Control: tag -1 patch Cyril Brulebois (2016-11-11): > It would be nice if an anchor could be added on the “Changes:” line of > the news entry. For example, when trying to point to recent grub2 > changes, this link would lead to a page full of descriptions (one for > each binary

Bug#843944: tracker.debian.org: please add “changes” anchor in news entries

2016-11-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Paul Wise (2016-11-11): > On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > > I think the attached patch should do the job. > > > > But I suspect the following bits from the CSS might need updating (the > > naked “a” part notably), since this anchor gets

Mole web interface?

2007-11-21 Thread Cyril Brulebois
ource=apache2 [Not found] Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois pgp1m8qVHV8Y7.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Mole web interface?

2007-11-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
e/seedsymbols Since I'm no early adopter WRT several-package-build-breaking tools or features, I skipped that part. -- Cyril Brulebois pgpDxVLKaUec8.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Updated Debian Maintainers Keyring

2007-11-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
a to avoid possible duplicates. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois pgpbNs95DsQp5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Feature request for edos.debian.net

2007-12-01 Thread Cyril Brulebois
sults/unstable/latest/ 2. http://edos.debian.net/edos-debcheck/unstable.php The idea is to use those diffs to try and trigger give-backs for packages that FTBFS'd because of B-D being uninstallable. TIA. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois pgpknwalwprj0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Feature request for edos.debian.net

2007-12-01 Thread Cyril Brulebois
le, then do some comparisons, and feed that data into a database tracking the (un)installability of the build dependencies. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois pgp8xsGa7Ayi7.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Feature request for edos.debian.net

2007-12-07 Thread Cyril Brulebois
packages. From my (very humble) point of view, that'd help speed up the (automatic) give-backs. I'm currently testing my scripts in a “real environment” with kfreebsd-*, although more work is still needed. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois pgpVWSZBbPr0D.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2008-01-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
ecause the package should be Architecture: all. Hm, what about checking their *content*? What about listing *binary* packages? Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois pgpUJCSRAnypb.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2008-01-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
lly a reason to ask for making it become an Architecture: all package… -- Cyril Brulebois pgpnLpdLvfZDx.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2008-01-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
contain some false positives (although there's usually a reason/bug > causing the package to be listed). Maybe there's rather a bug in your process. Instead of speaking of “plenty of greps”, you might want to expose the code / algorithm you used. -- Cyril Brulebois pgpZsXlXzkGjZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2008-01-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
On 02/01/2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Though after a second thought, -dbg should probably not have empty > Depends line. After a third thought, I still fail to see what that has to do with being Architecture: all or any. -- Cyril Brulebois pgpTQTr7Qidre.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2008-01-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
at was happening on 64-bit architectures, where 32-bit shared objects were (unsuccessfully) tried to be used. -- Cyril Brulebois pgpfwRfoIussv.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2008-01-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
ecommends: (or maybe even Suggests:)? By using e.g. Recommends: you ensure every package is installed in the normal/default/whatever_you_call_it case, but still leave the possibility to the user to only install what s/he really needs. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois pgpPoTF1gGbMC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS: zynaddsubfx

2008-01-08 Thread Cyril Brulebois
On 09/01/2008, Robert Vogel wrote: > Couldn't find this link...Is it ok ? Uploaded already: | Subject: Accepted zynaddsubfx 2.2.1-4.1 (source i386) Keeping only lists in To:, list policy blah blah. -- Cyril Brulebois pgpxH6VuOSzfM.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2008-01-10 Thread Cyril Brulebois
SV), not stripped | … cut … > Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >grub (U) Again… > Masahito Omote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >libuim-data Sounds reasonable. > Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >grub (U) > Jason Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2008-01-10 Thread Cyril Brulebois
omes to being “Architecture: all” or “Architecture: any”: its *content* (but you know that, I've been repeating this from the very beginning). -- Cyril Brulebois pgpepixF2jE2I.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS: QA Uploads

2008-01-26 Thread Cyril Brulebois
uilt one and the “Barry one”) binaries are the same. Could it be that these NEEDED dependencies previously came from extra linking and/or from extra Libs in pkgconfig files (or similar), now moved to Libs.private? Note that xmlrpc-c is in a strange shape (build states), I'm contacting seanius through private mail about that. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois pgpBUZFBDTfcJ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#463949: Buildd logs (more) "can't find package rott_ in the database."

2008-02-04 Thread Cyril Brulebois
ctures: > http://people.debian.org/~igloo/status.php?packages=rott > This page is very interesting and I suggest adding it to the PTS > page. But then, please do not call it 'more' again... ;) Indeed, it's a quite good overview of build states. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois pgpwPIPG45NKF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#443189: PTS: 443189: please use jeroen's buildd pages

2008-02-07 Thread Cyril Brulebois
age at a time, while igloo's can display all packages of a given maintainer. But I really love Jeroen's. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois pgp7ge3sTBnhd.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Where to find manpages to work on?

2008-02-26 Thread Cyril Brulebois
n list. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois On 26/02/2008, David Montanes wrote: > Bonsoir, Bonsoir, > je vous écris en tant que jeune étudiant en Master informatique dans > le cadre d'un projet de Logiciel Libre. cette liste est anglophone, merci de bien vouloir rédiger un message en anglais la p

Re: RFS: QA Upload: eterm-themes -- Themes for Eterm, the Enlightened Terminal Emulator

2008-03-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
e, all debhelper | 5.0.42 |stable | source, all debhelper | 6.0.5 | testing | source, all debhelper | 6.0.10 | unstable | source, all So, unless you're backporting for oldstable, that's quite safe. -- Cyril Brulebois pgp79HWW8qJ1K.pgp Description: PGP signature

[PTS] Tiny glitch (extra space ) on “All bugs” count

2008-06-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, on the right side of the PTS pages, one can notice there's a space between “All bugs (graph)” and the following “:”. It looks like it's due to the following lines in the XSL file: [ ./pts/www/xsl/pts.xsl ] 331 ) 332 which leads to a considered-meaningful space at least under konque

Re: RFS: goal-dash NMU's

2008-07-04 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Vincent Bernat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (03/07/2008): > I will upload them as soon as ftp-master is back. Just in case, you can always use the DELAYED/* queues on gluck. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#490683: qa.debian.org: package ktechlab has no new bugs

2008-07-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Georges Khaznadar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (13/07/2008): > Here are the two wrong assertions: > > 1- ktechlab (source, i386, alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, ia64, mips, >mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc) has new bugs! > > The link points to > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=pkg&da

Re: RFS: kino (NMU) fixes 2 goal for lenny bashism and piuparts warning

2008-07-20 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Francesco Namuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (20/07/2008): > The upload would fix these bugs: 455021, 489619 > > I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. As former NM, I'd advise Cc-ing the RFS to the package maintainers. Some will veto the NMU, and it's better if they do so in reply to th

[DONE] Re: RFS: cmatrix (updated package, QA upload)

2008-07-26 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Sandro Tosi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (26/07/2008): > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.2a-3 > (QA upload) of package "cmatrix". Uploaded, thanks. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: adopting maxima

2008-07-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
David Bremner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (27/07/2008): > Riku Voipio kindly uploaded my NMU, so there is no reason to rush the > adoption. If Camm does not veto the idea in the next few (2? 3? 4?) > weeks, I propose take over as maintainer (along with anyone who wants > to help) under the umbrella of deb

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

2008-09-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Paul Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (25/09/2008): > Not entirely sure, but I think in the QA CVS repo: > http://cvs.debian.org/wml/developer.wml?root=qa&view=markup I guess it could be pruned? (Assuming migration to SVN kept history.) Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#500744: qa.debian.org: no more popcon graph since move of people.debian.org

2008-10-01 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Damien Raude-Morvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (01/10/2008): > Since move of p.d.o to a new machine [1], popcon graph are "404 Not > Found" [2]. > > Those reports was hosted on Ian "igloo" Lynagh account on p.d.o for a > long time and I would like to thanks him for this service. > > But, IMHO, thoses gr

Bug#501660: Package list for my login is incomplete

2008-10-09 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Daniel Leidert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (09/10/2008): > [1] http://qa.debian.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&comaint=yes See , it very much looks like something's wrong, given the “Packages overview for <>”. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signa

Re: Orphaned packages that were not part of etch, take 2

2008-11-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Christoph Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (01/11/2008): > Except for qtparted the popcon numbers are all pretty low. I just had a very quick look upstream, and last activity seems to have happened in 2004. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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

2008-11-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (30/11/2008): > > Why? Uploaders are probably subscribed to the PTS, *or* the > > maintainer is a mailing list. > > not always. dpkg-reconfigure $user, then. Not a PTS bug, at least seen from here. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Suggested removal: xwhois [was: Bug#507944: xwhois: segfaults on start in get_servers()]

2008-12-07 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Submitter put back in recipient list… Steve Cotton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (06/12/2008): > xwhois.h: > #define BUFSIZE 1024 > > struct serverent { > char *name; > char *comment; > } servers[256]; > > > get_servers(): > /* >* Set all struct members to NULL. >

Monitoring debian/shlibs.local files?

2008-12-21 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hello, context: debian/shlibs.local can be used to work around broken shlibs files (Policy §8.6.5). Bugs are supposed to be filed, then fixed, and shlibs.local files should then disappear. I'm wondering whether it might be a good idea to track those in source packages, so as to make sure bugs got

Re: Monitoring debian/shlibs.local files?

2008-12-21 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Loïc Minier (21/12/2008): > I'm all for it; over time I came across a bunch of broken packages > due to shlibs.local files, or simply with the risk of these files > bitrotting and causing issues later. OK, since it doesn't look like useless, I'll look into it and report back in a moment. Mraw, K

Re: Monitoring debian/shlibs.local files?

2008-12-21 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Cyril Brulebois (21/12/2008): > OK, since it doesn't look like useless, I'll look into it and report > back in a moment. Attached, a list (103 source packages) based on the contents of gluck:/org/lintian.debian.org/laboratory/source/*/debfiles/shlibs.local (generated by the M

Re: Monitoring debian/shlibs.local files?

2009-01-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Raphael Geissert (28/01/2009): > So, what exactly should be checked? and what's the status of this > proposal? Dunno for others, but I for one am busy processing NMs and fixing RC bugs, I don't think any immediate action is needed at this point. (But moving on would be appropriate once lenny is

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

2009-04-16 Thread Cyril Brulebois
jeffrey.ratcli...@gmail.com (16/04/2009): > What about some possibility for the QA software to recognise multiple > email addresses as belonging to the same person? Every DD that > switches to using a @debian.org address must have this irritation. login=Surname usually helps. Mraw, KiBi. signa

Re: Bugs tagged edos-relation-warning

2009-04-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Holger Levsen (18/04/2009): > I wonder why you filed these bugs with severity "normal": > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=edos-relation-warning;users=trei...@debian.org Looking at this list: - #468423 and #468425 got minor, rationale was given. - #404339 is normal, but the same

Re: debian/watch sf redirector docs ?

2009-05-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Olivier Berger (11/05/2009): > Hi. o< > Is there any docs about the "Debian qa sf redirector" that can be used > in debian/watch (apart from man uscan) ? > > I'm looking for a way to state which "package" must be selected... > > For instance, for mantis, using > "http://sf.net/mantisbt/mantisb

Re: debian/watch sf redirector docs ?

2009-05-12 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Olivier Berger (12/05/2009): > Le lundi 11 mai 2009 à 12:33 +, Bart Martens a écrit : > > Not that I know of. DD's can read the source code. > > And non-DDs ? ... something available somewhere in SVN on alioth by any > chance ? http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/qa/trunk/wml/watch/ Mraw, KiBi.

Re: Debian Science taking over cimg-dev?

2009-05-30 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Andreas Tille (29/05/2009): > I realised that cimg-dev package was not updated since nearly two > days. OH MY! :D Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#534281: nosql: uninstallable on ia64, alpha, GNU/kFreeBSD

2009-06-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Petr Salinger (23/06/2009): > Package: nosql > Severity: serious > Version: 4.0.14-4 > User: glibc-bsd-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org > Usertags: kfreebsd > > Hi, > > current version have hardcoded dependency on libc > as Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.3-1). > This cannot be satisfied on some architectures

Re: Bug#534281: nosql: uninstallable on ia64, alpha, GNU/kFreeBSD

2009-06-30 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Jan Hauke Rahm (30/06/2009): > That would be an idea, low popcon and so on... I can provide a (hopefully) > fixed package, tough. If anyone of the QA team is willing to upload it, find > it here: > > http://downloads.jhr-online.de/qa/ Got uploaded, and built properly, thanks! Mraw, KiBi.

Re: Bug#485538: xcb: FTBFS: Using imake without Build-Depends on xutils-dev

2009-07-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
sing “rm -f Makefile” instead of “rm Makefile” in the +clean target (Closes: #533965). + * debian/control: Move the Homepage where it belongs. + + -- Cyril Brulebois Sun, 19 Jul 2009 03:30:22 +0200 + xcb (2.4-4) unstable; urgency=low * Applied patch from CVS (http://software.schmorp.de/) di

Re: Debconf QA BOF summary / handling of orphaned packages

2009-08-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Lucas Nussbaum (31/07/2009): > On 30/07/09 at 17:16 +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: > > IMHO it would be nice to aim at a release without oraphaned packages. > > That's totally unrealistic. Indeed. Quick examples which may come to mind: - xulrunner and all gecko-based pakages. - webkit and all depe

Re: Debconf QA BOF summary / handling of orphaned packages

2009-08-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Thomas Viehmann (02/08/2009): > The packages are still on archive.d.o if they ever made a release (and > soon more finely grained on snapshots). The typical package did not > get nontrivial updates in a release cycle before it was removed, so > the version on archive.d.o will be just as good as th

Re: Debconf QA BOF summary / handling of orphaned packages

2009-08-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Stefano Zacchiroli (02/08/2009): > This seems to be a recurring proposal. I raised it 1 year ago (IIRC, > sorry I'm too lazy right now to look the reference) and Raphael > Hertzog pointed out to me that way before he advanced the same > proposal. Sorry for that, missed it/them. > The counter-arg

Re: Debconf QA BOF summary / handling of orphaned packages

2009-08-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Lucas Nussbaum (05/08/2009): > Actually, the counter-argument is that we don't want to make it > *harder* to do a QA upload. Currently, it's "apt-get source ; make > change ; dput". If we used a VCS, we would have to create: - a process > to auto-import orphaned packages into the VCS - procedures

Re: Bug#541013: O: at -- Delayed job execution and batch processing

2009-08-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Alexander Reichle-Schmehl (11/08/2009): > Anyone interested in co maintaining that? Upstream is non existent, > there are quite some bugs in the bts and the package is priority > standard. Doesn't sound like a package someone should adopt all alone. If time permits, yes. Mraw, KiBi. signatur

Re: Time for a new maintainer for Auctex?

2009-08-14 Thread Cyril Brulebois
David Bremner (13/08/2009): > I guess two of the NMUs are internationalization issues, so I don't > really how indicative they are of lack of maintanence. On the other > hand, the package has 22 lintian warnings, and sits at policy 3.7.2, > which makes it likely to have some RC bugs. Don't talk

Bug#559626: experimental buildd link possibly broken?

2009-12-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Jay Berkenbilt (05/12/2009): > For the last week or more, the "exp" buildd link at > packages.qa.debian.org doesn't work since experimental.debian.net is > not responding. I don't know if experimental.debian.net is just > temporarily down or whether there has been some change to the > infrastruct

Please investigate removal of basilisk2

2009-12-06 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, basilisk2 was already spotted once as being in a very bad shape[1]. It is currently only built on a few architectures[2], and has been FTBFSing for 1.5 year[3]. Riky is also wondering[4]. 1. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=45;bug=309501 2. https://buildd.debian.org/status/p

Please investigate removal of adolc

2009-12-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, please investigate removal of adolc, which has been RC-buggy since August 2008 (#496490), without any single reply from the maintainer, even though Neil Williams tried to give him a hand. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#496490: Please investigate removal of adolc

2009-12-15 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Barak A. Pearlmutter (15/12/2009): > > even though Neil Williams tried to give him a hand. > > He did? I'd be happy to have a co-maintainer. He did: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496490#8 Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#576240: say what ITP means right there in the report

2010-04-08 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Holger Levsen (08/04/2010): > I believe our webpages should be self sustained and understandable > without external parties. Like by typing “ITP” in the “search” box on http://www.debian.org/ which leads to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/index.*.html pages? That makes me think we're performing

Re: gob2_2.0.16-3_amd64.changes ACCEPTED

2010-04-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Mark Brown (28/04/2010): > I'm orphaning the package. What part of that makes you think I'm > going to be interested in fixing random lintian warnings? Random lintian warnings (and errors) like the ones you're generating by orphaning the package in an improper manner? If you're not used to that

Removing mlview?

2010-07-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, I just came across mlview which seems to be a candidate for removal: #500940 and http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=500940#10 in particular. It's been almost 2 years now, time to get rid of it entirely? (Cc welcome if you want me to read your replies.) Mraw, KiBi. signature.a

ISE on qa.d.o through rmadison

2010-11-09 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, as requested in the following message: | k...@bowmore:~$ rmadison xserver-xorg-video-glide | | | 500 Internal Server Error | | Internal Server Error | The server encountered an internal error or | misconfiguration and was unable to complete | your request. | Please contact the server admini

Re: Description-less packages file

2012-02-08 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Philipp Kern (08/02/2012): > On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 08:30:47AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > > Regarding squeeze: Could somebody give some reasons for refusing an > > additional field in the Packages files? It is hard to cope with "it > > is unlikely". A yes or no would be more helpful to find

Re: Bug#633393: galan must use shlibs for the recommends

2012-02-19 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Adrian Bunk (09/07/2011): > Package: galan > Version: 0.3.0+beta4-2.1 > Severity: serious > > <-- snip --> > > $ grep ^Recommends: debian/control > Recommends: ladspa-plugin, libasound2, esound, libesd0, libvorbis0a, > libvorbisfile3, libgl1-mesa-swx11, libglu1-mesa, libgtkgl2.0-1, jack-rack

Re: Bug#652840: Build-depends on obsolete lazarus-src-0.9.30

2012-02-19 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Luca Falavigna (20/12/2011): > Package: facturlinex2 > Version: 2.0.1-1 > Severity: serious > > Your package build-depends on lazarus-src-0.9.30, no longer built on top of > lazarus source package. Consider replacing it with lazarus-src-0.9.30.2 > instead. Trying with that latter package: | $ de

Bug#1055269: udd: bugs.cgi does not show bugs for source packages in non-free-firmware

2023-11-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
ware at all, e.g.: CONSTRAINT check_component CHECK ((component = ANY (ARRAY['main'::text, 'contrib'::text, 'non-free'::text]))) Things like udd/ftpnew_gatherer.py could almost work by accident since that's using .startswith() (but then assigning "non-free"

Bug#1055269: udd: bugs.cgi does not show bugs for source packages in non-free-firmware

2023-11-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
ting/unstable. > The same happens for other packages in non-free-firmware (see #1038610 > for example). https://github.com/dondelelcaro/debbugs/issues/2 then. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -