Re: New sections

2011-12-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Joerg Jaspert writes: > metapackages, which is for metapackages so that apt can do special > handling on them. Should this section also get transitional packages, or should those stay in oldlibs? I'm guessing the latter, but they're technically also metapackages. -- Russ Allbery

New sections and frontend behaviour [Was: Re: New sections]

2011-12-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joerg Jaspert writes: > metapackages, which is for metapackages so that apt can do special > handling on them. On IRC Joerg mentioned that transitional packages could/should also go to the metapackages section. The reasoning being that both metapackages and transitional packages s

Re: FTBFS bugs against binary packages

2011-12-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Wolodja Wentland writes: > Hello, > > we are seeing an increasing number of users in #debian-next asking about FTBFS > bugs that are reported by apt-listbugs during upgrades. Most of those users > are not familiar with acronyms such as FTBFS or if these bugs apply to their > setup. > > The underl

Re: Bug#650975: r8168: does not belong in a stable release

2011-12-04 Thread Patrick Matthäi
Am 04.12.2011 19:41, schrieb Julien Cristau: > Source: r8168 > Severity: serious > > (x-debbugs-cc to pmatthaei and debian-release) > > Hi, Hey, thanks for submitting! > > I've been blocking this package from entering testing, but as Patrick > Matthäi questions that choice I'm filing this bug

Re: Donation

2011-12-04 Thread VieuxGeek DuSystem
Thats note a spam she want give a donation. Le 3 déc. 2011 22:04, "Andreas Moog" a écrit : > On 12/03/2011 09:52 PM, Daniel Martí wrote: > > Scam in french, asking for money. Is there any way to avoid spam in this > > list? > > For starters, by not including a fullquote of the SPAM. Then by > fo

Re: Distribution and support for Debian-502-i386-netinst

2011-12-04 Thread George Danchev
On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:38:35 +, Ian Campbell wrote: On Sat, 2011-12-03 at 19:35 +, Philipp Kern wrote: On 2011-12-03, Marc Haber wrote: > On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 18:58:55 + (UTC), Philipp Kern > wrote: >>On 2011-12-02, Marc Haber wrote: >>> I also support this and think it is a really

New sections

2011-12-04 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Hi following the 3 bugs I close with this mail I just created new sections in our 3 archives. That is, introspection, which is for "GObject introspection data" (or whatever other subsystem is doing something similar to it in the future) education, which is for educa

Re: Distribution and support for Debian-502-i386-netinst

2011-12-04 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2011-12-03 at 19:35 +, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2011-12-03, Marc Haber wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 18:58:55 + (UTC), Philipp Kern > > wrote: > >>On 2011-12-02, Marc Haber wrote: > >>> I also support this and think it is a really good idea. But please > >>> keep x.y.z-1 around an