Re: Handling of poorly maintained and useless packages

2007-10-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 06:05:39PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 12:33:41PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > If I am a user of one of these packages who may have the skill to adopt > > it or may know someone who can, I may want to know about its orphaning. > > At current, this

Re: Handling of poorly maintained and useless packages

2007-10-13 Thread Raphael Geissert
Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 08:46:22AM +, Holger Levsen wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Saturday 13 October 2007 09:22, Pierre Habouzit wrote: >> > Perfect example of a useless buggy package in debian. Anyone needing >> > dak uses the svn snapshot because the one in the archive

Bug#446521: ITP: ebug-http -- Devel::ebug::HTTP - web front end for the Devel::ebug Perl debugger

2007-10-13 Thread Peter Makholm
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ebug-http Version : 0.31 Upstream Author : Leon Brocard, C<< <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Devel-ebug-HTTP/ * License : as Perl itself (GPL or

Re: developer access to amd64 system

2007-10-13 Thread Jay Berkenbilt
Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 12:36:04PM -0400, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: >> So, what am I missing? How do I get access to an amd64 system to fix >> this problem? > > try the sid_amd64_pure chroot ;) Thanks! Okay, now how was I supposed to know about that? :-) -

Re: developer access to amd64 system

2007-10-13 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 12:36:04 -0400, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: > > Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I'm afraid I must be missing > something. I have an amd64-specific bug in one of my packages, and I > don't have an amd64 system. According to db.debian.org/machines.cgi, > pergolesi is sup

Re: developer access to amd64 system

2007-10-13 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 12:36:04PM -0400, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: > So, what am I missing? How do I get access to an amd64 system to fix > this problem? try the sid_amd64_pure chroot ;) Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

developer access to amd64 system

2007-10-13 Thread Jay Berkenbilt
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I'm afraid I must be missing something. I have an amd64-specific bug in one of my packages, and I don't have an amd64 system. According to db.debian.org/machines.cgi, pergolesi is supposed to be an amd64 with developer access, but it looks like it's config

Re: Handling of poorly maintained and useless packages

2007-10-13 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 08:46:22AM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Saturday 13 October 2007 09:22, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > Perfect example of a useless buggy package in debian. Anyone needing > > dak uses the svn snapshot because the one in the archive is old and > > deprecated. > >

Re: Handling of poorly maintained and useless packages

2007-10-13 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 12/10/2007 Raphael Geissert wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > > > If I am a user of one of these packages who may have the skill to adopt > > it or may know someone who can, I may want to know about its orphaning. > > At current, this is going to be noted on -devel. > > > > I would like a message o

Re: Handling of poorly maintained and useless packages

2007-10-13 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 13 October 2007 09:22, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Perfect example of a useless buggy package in debian. Anyone needing > dak uses the svn snapshot because the one in the archive is old and > deprecated. I think you are on a wrong track here. It might be an example of a poorly mai

Re: Handling of poorly maintained and useless packages

2007-10-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 12:33:41PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > If I am a user of one of these packages who may have the skill to adopt > it or may know someone who can, I may want to know about its orphaning. > At current, this is going to be noted on -devel. > > I would like a message on the user

Re: Handling of poorly maintained and useless packages

2007-10-13 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 02:37:50AM +, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Steve Greenland wrote: > > > On 12-Oct-07, 02:13 (CDT), Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >> Proposed workflow > >> - > >> Suspicious packages are found by combining different metrics into a > >> scor