Re: CTTE IRC Meeting reminder: date -d 'July 26 2012 17:00 UTC'

2012-07-26 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Don Armstrong wrote: > Just a reminder that the next CTTE IRC meeting is at: > date -d 'July 26 2012 17:00 UTC' > on #debian-ctte on irc.debian.org. Summary: http://meetbot.debian.net/debian-ctte/2012/debian-ctte.2012-07-26-16.59.html Logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/debian-

Bug#681687: missing mime entry

2012-07-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 04:48:59PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Josselin Mouette writes ("Bug#681687: missing mime entry"): > > Le jeudi 26 juillet 2012 à 12:50 +0100, Ian Jackson a écrit : > > > 4. We do not disagree with the Release Team's assessment that > > > the failure of the evince pack

Re: TC GRS

2012-07-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery writes: > Ian Jackson writes: >> I have merged the git repo I had which contained the GR drafts into >> the TC git repo, so they're now here: >> git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/debian-ctte.git >> Given our current workload of other items I think we should put this >> on the

Re: TC GRS

2012-07-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson writes: > I have merged the git repo I had which contained the GR drafts into > the TC git repo, so they're now here: > git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/debian-ctte.git > Given our current workload of other items I think we should put this > on the back burner. We should revi

Re: Bug#681834: network-manager, gnome, Recommends vs Depends

2012-07-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson writes: > Russ Allbery writes: >> As I understand it, the timeline here looks something like: >> 1. network-manager was a Recommends in squeeze. >> 2. GNOME maintainers get a bunch of bugs from confused users who don't >>install Recommends for some reason and then don't get netw

Bug#681687: missing mime entry

2012-07-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Josselin Mouette writes ("Bug#681687: missing mime entry"): > Le jeudi 26 juillet 2012 à 12:50 +0100, Ian Jackson a écrit : > > 4. We do not disagree with the Release Team's assessment that > > the failure of the evince package to provide a mime type > > entry is a release critical bug.

Re: Bug#681687: missing mime entry

2012-07-26 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 12:53:41PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > 2) Change all mime files to .desktop files (where possible), and > > >have update-mime read the .desktop file. > > and 2 afterwards. > > I don't think we should prejudge this at this stage. We don't need a > decision on this n

Bug#681687: missing mime entry

2012-07-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 26 juillet 2012 à 12:50 +0100, Ian Jackson a écrit : > 4. We do not disagree with the Release Team's assessment that > the failure of the evince package to provide a mime type > entry is a release critical bug. Before you vote on that: with the maintainer’s hat, I’d appreciate

Re: Bug#681834: network-manager, gnome, Recommends vs Depends

2012-07-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Russ Allbery writes ("Re: Bug#681834: network-manager, gnome, Recommends vs Depends"): > As I understand it, the timeline here looks something like: > > 1. network-manager was a Recommends in squeeze. > > 2. GNOME maintainers get a bunch of bugs from confused users who don't >install Recomme

TC GRS

2012-07-26 Thread Ian Jackson
I have merged the git repo I had which contained the GR drafts into the TC git repo, so they're now here: git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/debian-ctte.git Given our current workload of other items I think we should put this on the back burner. We should revisit it when we are a bit less bu

Re: CTTE IRC Meeting reminder: date -d 'July 26 2012 17:00 UTC'

2012-07-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Don Armstrong writes ("CTTE IRC Meeting reminder: date -d 'July 26 2012 17:00 UTC'"): > Just a reminder that the next CTTE IRC meeting is at: > date -d 'July 26 2012 17:00 UTC' > on #debian-ctte on irc.debian.org. Thanks for the reminder. It's possible that I might be there, but unlikely. Sorr

Bug#681687: missing mime entry

2012-07-26 Thread Ian Jackson
I hereby propose the following TC resolution (and withdraw my previous version): 1. The Technical Committee agrees with Neil McGovern's analysis of the situation regarding evince's missing mime type entry. 2. If changes are desirable to our system for dealing with mime type entries

Re: Bug#681687: missing mime entry

2012-07-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Neil McGovern writes ("Re: Bug#681687: missing mime entry"): > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 01:26:36PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > So I think there are 3 options for wheezy: > > 1) Have update-mime read the .desktop file, but don't update > >any packages to replace mime files with .desktop files.

Re: Bug#681687: missing mime entry

2012-07-26 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 01:26:36PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > So I think there are 3 options for wheezy: > 1) Have update-mime read the .desktop file, but don't update >any packages to replace mime files with .desktop files. > 2) Change all mime files to .desktop files (where possible), and >

Re: Bug#681687: missing mime entry

2012-07-26 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 09:58:37AM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 01:51:32PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > If it's the solution that the TC decide on to resolve the issue, it > > > sounds like something we could work with, at least imho, from what I've > > > seen so far.

Bug#681687: missing mime entry

2012-07-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Neil McGovern writes ("Bug#681687: missing mime entry"): > However, I really do think that pushing in a system wide change at this > stage in the release is not desireable at all, so woudn't be happy to > see it in Wheezy. If we wanted to do this, it should have been started > about two years ago.

Bug#681687: missing mime entry

2012-07-26 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 01:51:32PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > If it's the solution that the TC decide on to resolve the issue, it > > sounds like something we could work with, at least imho, from what I've > > seen so far. I've CCed -release for any further comments, as I don't > > know how