On Monday, April 01, 2013 01:07:32 AM Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > The residents of #debian-uk are pleased to announce that, in conjunction > with our friendly FTP masters, dak-roulette has just been activated in cron > on ftp-master.debian.org targetting unstable and no particular maintainer. > > I enclose the documentation for your reference. > > __________________________________________________________________________ > dak-roulette(1) > dak-roulette(1) > > NAME > dak-roulette - play roulette with the Debian archive > > SYNOPSIS > dak-roulette [options] > > DESCRIPTION > dak-roulette plays roulette with the Debian archive, removing > packages at random under the correct conditions. > > Following invocation, the 'gun' is loaded with a single bullet > and aimed at a randomly-chosen package. The gun is fired. If the bullet > finds its mark, the package is removed and the maintainer notified. > > Various switches can influence the behaviour of dak-roulette. > > OPTIONS > -f, --fill-gun > Fill the gun, leading to certain removal and the ensuing > enter‐ tainment. > > -q, --quiet > Do not notify the maintainer of the removed package. By > default a standard mail is sent. > > -s suite, --suite=suite > Act on the specified suite, by default unstable. > > --allow-important > Allow dak-roulette to remove packages with priority > important and lower from the archive. By default, only standard, optional > and extra packages are targets. > > --allow-required > Allow dak-roulette to remove packages with priority required > and lower from the archive (implies --allow-important). > > --pick-on=email > Limit the list of targets to those maintained by a > particular maintainer, identified by email. > > -n, --miss > Deliberately miss the target, but print what would have > happened (dry run). > > FILES > /etc/dak/roulette-notify.txt > Default message body to send to maintainers of removed > packages. > > NOTES > dak-roulette is best run from cron for maximum entertainment. > > AUTHORS > dak-roulette was born out of a sense of mischief shared by the > inhabi‐ tants of #debian-uk and #debian-ftp. > > This manual page was written by Jonathan Wiltshire <j...@debian.org> > and distributed under the GNU General Public License, version 2. > > The author takes no responsibility for any consequences resulting > from use of this program. > > 2013-04-01 > dak-roulette(1)
Excellent. What's the interval on the cron runs? If we get lucky, this could get us to a release really soon. Scott K -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2128657.P5FHgtjACH@scott-latitude-e6320
