Re: Debian-Gentoo collaboration on GNU/Hurd ports

2003-03-27 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:55:32PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > The only problem with this is that patches that we create from the > > buildd go automatically to the BTS. > you mean FTBFS bug reports? Yes. > > The problem is that Debian bugs should never really go upstream. > > Debian's gli

Re: Debian-Gentoo collaboration on GNU/Hurd ports

2003-03-27 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 12:18:35AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > we could get a list for that an generic porting discussion. where should > > i ask for a new list of the Hurd project? > I am happy to have such a list for discussing that topic. I just don't know > if the savannah interface f

Re: Debian-Gentoo collaboration on GNU/Hurd ports

2003-03-27 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:55:32PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > we could get a list for that an generic porting discussion. where should > i ask for a new list of the Hurd project? I am happy to have such a list for discussing that topic. I just don't know if the savannah interface for mailing l

Re: Debian-Gentoo collaboration on GNU/Hurd ports

2003-03-27 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:46:25PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > tags for bug reports will be created when I (or some other hacker) feel the > > need for it. How and which tags are created follows an undocumented pattern > > that only exists in my head (and even there only vaguely). > > I just

Re: Debian-Gentoo collaboration on GNU/Hurd ports

2003-03-27 Thread Jon Portnoy
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:48:12PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 03:39:32PM +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > > > > One should use the glibcbug utility to report bugs for offical > > releases and to report bugs on a CVS version you send an mail to > > libc-alpha or something

Re: Debian-Gentoo collaboration on GNU/Hurd ports

2003-03-27 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 06:59:01AM -0800, Jeff Bailey wrote: > > Please create a new list for that. It's bad enough that this thread is > cross-posted, but I hang out on help-hurd so I can help newbies. > Flooding that list with patches is likely to significantly decrease the > likelyhood that I

Re: Debian-Gentoo collaboration on GNU/Hurd ports

2003-03-27 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 01:45:30PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 01:33:31PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > fine! i still like having a separate list of api-porting-related bugs in > > debian BTS, but as Marcus said Savannah is the canonical place. > > I hope you aer tal

Re: Debian-Gentoo collaboration on GNU/Hurd ports

2003-03-27 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 03:39:32PM +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > > One should use the glibcbug utility to report bugs for offical > releases and to report bugs on a CVS version you send an mail to > libc-alpha or something with the bug report. yes, but we're looking for a way to have a "filter

Re: Debian-Gentoo collaboration on GNU/Hurd ports

2003-03-27 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 01:33:31PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > help-hurd seems appropriate for general discussion of porting issues, > > unless someone has a problem with that. > fine for me. what if we use a tag to indicate clearly the message is a > porting patch? eg, if we put "[ported]"

Re: Debian-Gentoo collaboration on GNU/Hurd ports

2003-03-27 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
- the Glibc savannah site [1] doesn't have an entry for bugs. what do the libc people here (Roland? :)) think about creating one? >From the glibc project at savannah: These pages are only for maintaining the Web pages of the GNU C Library. One should use the glibcbug utility to report

Re: Debian-Gentoo collaboration on GNU/Hurd ports

2003-03-27 Thread Jon Portnoy
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 01:33:31PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: [snip] > > fine for me. what if we use a tag to indicate clearly the message is a > porting patch? eg, if we put "[ported]" or the like in subject it'll be > made sure we don't forget to look at it and forward it to the respective bts

Re: Debian-Gentoo collaboration on GNU/Hurd ports

2003-03-27 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 01:33:31PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > fine! i still like having a separate list of api-porting-related bugs in > debian BTS, but as Marcus said Savannah is the canonical place. I hope you aer talking about bugs in the Hurd and GNU Mach (and MiG, and whatever other compon

Re: Debian-Gentoo collaboration on GNU/Hurd ports

2003-03-27 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 05:18:22PM -0500, Jon Portnoy wrote: > > Of course, for a while we're going to be playing some serious catch-up - > Debian has, what? Five years of work behind their Hurd port? However > we'd be happy to engage in mutual contributions. well, that just means there are fiv