Re: Re: Handling bugs properly

2008-04-18 Thread Filipus Klutiero
What is an ordinary bug submitter's recourse when a bug report is closed without resolution? The response sent to the poster is that a reasonable response must have been received (or a paraphrase); what happens then the response is missing? The exact phrasing is Their explanatio

Re: Re: Handling bugs properly (Was: Bug#474964: ...)

2008-04-18 Thread Filipus Klutiero
Closing valid bugs which were merely assigned to the wrong package isn't acceptable (though admitedly, it *is* better than just ignoring them entirely.) Closing a valid bug without fixing is generally wrong, like in this case, whether there is enough manpower to treat it or not. And if you have

Re: Handling bugs properly (Was: Bug#474964: ...)

2008-04-18 Thread Filipus Klutiero
I want to hear your opinion about the following question: If you think a bug does not belong to your package, do you think it is your duty as a maintainer to reassign to bug to the package it belongs to or do you think just closing the bug is fine? Closing a report merely because it is assigned

Bug#476746: ITP: libhtml-wikiconverter-mediawiki-perl -- Convert HTML to MediaWiki markup

2008-04-18 Thread Rene Mayorga
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Rene Mayorga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libhtml-wikiconverter-mediawiki-perl Version : 0.55 Upstream Author : David J. Iberri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-WikiConverter-MediaWiki/ * License

Bug#476734: ITP: qnapi -- open source client for www.napiprojekt.pl subtitles database

2008-04-18 Thread Patryk Cisek
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: qnapi Version: 0.1.5 Upstream Author: Krzemin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> License: GPLv2 or later (some parts are licensed under GPLv2 only) Homepage: http://krzemin.iglu.cz/qnapi www.napiprojekt.pl provides a data

Re: Handling bugs properly

2008-04-18 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > What is an ordinary bug submitter's recourse when a bug report is > closed without resolution? Reopen the bug once with more information, then if it's closed again without resolution, contact -devel or similar if they're convinced that it's a bug whic

Re: Handling bugs properly (Was: Bug#474964: ...)

2008-04-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: If anybody would confirm that this problem might belong to module-init-tools I would volunteer to take over the job of proper reassignment - but I just don't know exactly and "my experts in questions like this" just refuse proper communication. See #4

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-18 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:17:34 +0200, Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 01:44:55AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> >> > What if the library says "You must call /usr/bin/foo during >> >> > build"? >> >> >> >> How does the library say that? Why can't I just have gcc -o

Re: Handling bugs properly

2008-04-18 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:18:52 -0700, Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Closing valid bugs which were merely assigned to the wrong package > isn't acceptable My sentiments as well. > That said, as a submitter, you don't need to reopen the bug to > reassign it, and playing reopen g

Re: Handling bugs properly (Was: Bug#474964: ...)

2008-04-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 02:40:47PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: [...] > On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 I filed #474964 against linux-2.6: > Loads pcspkr and others even if explicitely excluded in modprobe.conf [...] > If anybody would confirm that this problem might belong to module-init-tools > I would vol

Re: Handling bugs properly (Was: Bug#474964: ...)

2008-04-18 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Andreas Tille wrote: > I want to hear your opinion about the following question: If you > think a bug does not belong to your package, do you think it is your > duty as a maintainer to reassign to bug to the package it belongs to > or do you think just closing the bug is fine?

Re: ${devlibs:Depends} results in libstdc++6-4.1-dev

2008-04-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Andreas Tille wrote: I get even at these days 3.4.6 (which is strange anyway) but which gives no explanation for the 4.1 dependency I faced. Hi, I just found out the reason for the problem and most probably it is really the same reason as reported in bug If I apply the f

Re: [Fwd: Call for contributions on forges / debian development infrastructure for LSM/RMLL (France, July)]

2008-04-18 Thread Olivier Berger
Sorry, copy-paste error.. meant to fwd to [EMAIL PROTECTED] :( Friday effect probably. Le vendredi 18 avril 2008 à 18:42 +0200, Olivier Berger a écrit : > Salut. > > Bien-sûr, pour les français/francophones proches, ce sera encore plus > simple de faire le déplacement... > > A vos contributions

[Fwd: Call for contributions on forges / debian development infrastructure for LSM/RMLL (France, July)]

2008-04-18 Thread Olivier Berger
Salut. Bien-sûr, pour les français/francophones proches, ce sera encore plus simple de faire le déplacement... A vos contributions ;) Cordialement, Message transféré De: Olivier Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> À: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Sujet: Call for contributions on forges

Call for contributions on forges / debian development infrastructure for LSM/RMLL (France, July)

2008-04-18 Thread Olivier Berger
Hello. I'm requesting contributions from Debian developpers wishing to present / discuss the topic of the development infrastructure used in the Debian project (as well as the software forges), at the forecoming Libre Software Meeting (LSM/RMLL), held in Mont-de-Marsan (France) early July 2008 (1-

Debian "feature requests" wanted

2008-04-18 Thread martin f krafft
Hi folks, for the upcoming Hackontest here in Switzerland, we are still looking for more feature requests: http://www.hackontest.org/index.php?action=Root-projectDetail%2815%29 The idea is that random teams might implement these features in the hope that their implementation wins a prize. They

Re: yorick-yeti built on mips but not installed after two weeks

2008-04-18 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Thibaut Paumard] > One of my packages, [1]yorick-yeti has been [2]built successfully on > all official platforms, including [3]mips on Fri 28 Mar, but the mips > package is still [2]not installed on the archive. It is held out of > Lenny for this reason. I sent an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tu

Re: missing package conflicts

2008-04-18 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 08:58:52PM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote: > I will file bugs soon (hopefully before leaving on [VAC] on 18/4). One > interesting question is: against which of the conflicting packages > should the bug be filed? The less popular one according to popcon? The > more recent one in t

Handling bugs properly (Was: Bug#474964: ...)

2008-04-18 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I want to hear your opinion about the following question: If you think a bug does not belong to your package, do you think it is your duty as a maintainer to reassign to bug to the package it belongs to or do you think just closing the bug is fine? My understanding of handling bugs is that

Re: [pkg-boost-devel] Bug#473752: Bug#473752: Boost 1.35 has been released

2008-04-18 Thread Domenico Andreoli
Hi, On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 04:13:05PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 03:13:15PM -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > > > > If you guys need some help, I can try updating the packaging for 1.35. > > Packaging is not the issue, however. I think I can do that over the > w

Princy Webmanager wants to chat

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