Re: Release-critical bugs, and #97671

2002-04-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Ian" == Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ian> Looking at the situation, I think that the definition of `serious' bug Ian> report is rather unhelpful and does not match up with the use of Ian> `must' or `required' in policy. Incidentally, I think the serious severity was inve

Re: Release-critical bugs, and #97671

2002-04-26 Thread Anthony Towns
It's not clear to me why tech-ctte discussions seem to not get cc'ed to the appropriate bug number properly. See also the discussion for the pcmcia-cs bug, much of which happened on the list rather than in the bug report. On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 01:34:26AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > But, the idea

Re: Technical Committee: decision on #119517?

2002-04-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Ian" == Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ian> Manoj Srivastava writes ("Re: Technical Committee: decision on #119517?"): >> From reviewing the bug report, Ian Jackson sided with the >> maintainer, with the opinion that not all binaries shipped with a >> package need work when the dep

Re: Release-critical bugs, and #97671

2002-04-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Ian" == Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ian> Looking at the situation, I think that the definition of Ian> `serious' bug report is rather unhelpful and does not match up Ian> with the use of `must' or `required' in policy. What makes you say that? Serious is defined as a vi

Re: Can we reject HTML mail ?

2002-04-26 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Ian Jackson wrote: > Eh ? I thought we'd unmoderated the list. mmm, in that case you are probably looking at old spam that pre-dates the spamassasin setup. I haven't got any on the ctte list since then.. Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Can we reject HTML mail ?

2002-04-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Jason Gunthorpe writes ("Re: Can we reject HTML mail ?"): > On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Is there any software on lists.debian.org that could bounce all HTML > > mail sent to debian-ctte ? debian-ctte is getting a hideous amount of > > spam. It's clogging our mailboxes and making t

Re: Release-critical bugs, and #97671

2002-04-26 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 01:34:26AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Currently it says: > > serious > is a severe violation of Debian policy (that is, it violates a > "must" or "required" directive), or, in the package > maintainer's opinion, makes the package unsuitable for

Release-critical bugs, and #97671

2002-04-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Branden Robinson writes ("Re: Processed: yawn"): > reassign 97671 tech-ctte,xutils > thanks > > Anthony has offered no basis for his latest manipulation of my bug list > aside from the derisive remark in the Subject:. > > I am requesting the Technical Committee's resolution of this dispute > under

Stuff to put on the committee web page

2002-04-26 Thread Ian Jackson
I propose to put the following stuff on our web page: (in no particular order) * List of members and name of the chairman * Link to the constitution * Link to the debian-ctte archives * Link to the BTS page * Instructions for how to contact the committee * What to expect when you contact the comm

Re: Can we reject HTML mail ?

2002-04-26 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Ian Jackson wrote: > Is there any software on lists.debian.org that could bounce all HTML > mail sent to debian-ctte ? debian-ctte is getting a hideous amount of > spam. It's clogging our mailboxes and making the archives unuseable. Hmm. It seems I'm not getting unmoderate

Re: Technical Committee: decision on #119517?

2002-04-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Manoj Srivastava writes ("Re: Technical Committee: decision on #119517?"): > From reviewing the bug report, Ian Jackson sided with the > maintainer, with the opinion that not all binaries shipped with a > package need work when the dependencies are satisfied. Dale Scheetz, > Jason Guntho

Re: Can we reject HTML mail ?

2002-04-26 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Ian Jackson wrote: > Is there any software on lists.debian.org that could bounce all HTML > mail sent to debian-ctte ? debian-ctte is getting a hideous amount of > spam. stick this in the procmailrc filters on murphy: :0 * ^Content-Type: *text/html.* /dev/null -- _

Re: Technical Committee: decision on #119517?

2002-04-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Branden Robinson writes ("Technical Committee: decision on #119517?"): > Over six months ago, on 2001-11-14, Bug #119517 was submitted to the > Technical Committee for a ruling. No member of the Technical Committe > has participated in any public discussion of this bug (at least in the > bug logs

Can we reject HTML mail ?

2002-04-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Is there any software on lists.debian.org that could bounce all HTML mail sent to debian-ctte ? debian-ctte is getting a hideous amount of spam. It's clogging our mailboxes and making the archives unuseable. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Technical Committee

2002-04-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Firstly, I'd like to apologise to everyone here for not stepping up to the job of Chairman as quickly as I ought to done. From now on I'm rearranging my schedule to ensure that I'll read and deal with tech-ctte mail at least twice a week, which should prove a useful response time. So, having said