Andrey Rahmatullin writes:
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 09:02:30AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> > In this thread I want to discover: How can I find out what's
> > happening and why the Debian archive is no longer sending me any
> > email messages about my package up
Russ Allbery writes:
> Ben Finney writes:
>
> > The trouble is, I can only guess, because there are no messages from
> > anything in the Debian archive telling me what went wrong.
>
> My recollection is that if the signature on the upload is invalid, we
> intentionall
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Russ Allbery writes:
> Ben Finney writes:
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> > It may be “bare debian” is meant to cover this; but I don't
> > recognise the comment “requires use of quilt and similar tools”
> > because I've never needed to use Quilt for this.
>
> How do you hand
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repository, or whatever.
Perhaps that needs to be stated louder or more consistently?
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es. The separation is useful
and much easier to maintain when the repositories are separate.
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Vincent Bernat writes:
> ❦ 8 avril 2019 14:46 +10, Ben Finney :
>
> >> yes, it can be done, but it is a lot more work for individual
> >> packagers.
> >
> > Sure. And, on the other hand, providing an APT repository for arbitrary
> > packages of unknown
Ben Finney writes:
> Peter Silva writes:
>
> > With debian, it's kind of all or nothing. Etiher you're in Debian,
> > and it gets built on every platform using the build farm, or it's
> > not, so you get no help at all.
>
> That doesn't
Peter Silva writes:
> On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 11:10 PM Ben Finney wrote:
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> > If one needs to keep a close eye on changes to make sure they can
> > still be installed even on a years-old OS, the resulting packages
> > can be placed in a custom repository set up
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that the statement is not true
(and then do as you (Adrian) did to show how you know it's not true).
I hope that helps!
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that information from the
source package. But let's dispose now of the “it's no use” claim;
that's simply false, so some other justification will be needed.
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at meet the preference you expressed above?
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Paul Gevers writes:
> Hi,
>
> On 03-03-18 11:57, Ben Finney wrote:
> > A large code base with complex interacting works of copyright can be
> > broken into smaller packages, that are each individually easier to
> > review and pass through NEW; either built as separ
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tory to the
salsa.debian.org host, to continuing to serve the repository at the
published ‘anonscm.debian.org’ URL?
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Simon McVittie writes:
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2017 at 23:10:51 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> > expecting to find “complete copyright holder information” such
> > that we can be confident it *is* complete, solely in the upstream source
> > is a folly, in my experience.
>
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(automatic?) notification when the package they maintain is not
presenting a compatible ‘debian/rules’ build interface?
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like this is pointless.
Thank you, that's all well put.
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ps://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/851sodkbsc@benfinney.id.au>.
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"Adam D. Barratt" writes:
> On 2017-06-14 9:48, Ben Finney wrote:
> > For those who (like me) had difficulty with some of these steps, here's
> > how I eventually got it done:
>
> Out of curiosity, which step(s)? They all seem fairly
> self-explanatory, bu
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Christopher Clements writes:
> On Sat, Mar 04, 2017 at 03:36:58PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> >I think the best explanation is that the entire message ??? complaint and
> >quoted part ??? were composed and sent by the spammer themselves.
>
> Oh, the "original" mess
ocuments changed to conform to the DFSG, and then they can be included
without violating or changing our social contract.
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Ben Finney writes:
> Wouter Verhelst writes:
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> > […] for future reference, this is ridiculously easy for anyone who's
> > a Debian Developer or otherwise has an account on alioth […]
> Thank you.
I completely overlooked the section about personal Git
nonscm.debian.org’ URL?
I'd like to be able to use the resulting URL in the “VCS-Git” field of
the package.
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Simon McVittie writes:
> On Mon, 13 Feb 2017 at 09:42:32 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> > I'm in agreement with Ian that the “write the documentation
> > (including the changelog) along with the change it describes”
> > workflow should have full support from our too
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his particular library in Debian when there are apparently
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Ben Finney writes:
> Howdy all,
My apologies for sending this to ‘debian-devel’. The problem is real and
is worth discussing, but that message's tone was rather more angry than
I wanted.
> When I ask about some of these[0], […]
That reference was to a footnote I forgot to include
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Adam Borowski writes:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 05:35:34AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Andrey Rahmatullin writes:
> >
> > > On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 06:55:45PM +0100, Galbo Branbert wrote:
> > > > Thanks for the info, didn't know that the transitio
k’.
Is there a bug report I've missed which addresses this?
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Ben Finney writes:
> The adjective “dependent” is IMO fine, so perhaps the noun phrase
> “dependent package” is a good candidate. It's not the single word
> you're looking for, but maybe it is unambiguous for the purpose?
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/366158/n
Emilio Pozuelo Monfort writes:
> On 29/12/16 20:49, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Where is the canonical specification of the commands accepted by
> > ‘dak’?
>
> See gregor's link, or read the source:
>
> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/mirror/dak.git/tree/daklib/comm
ually and carefully) with the ‘dput-ng’
maintainers to make this request redundant :-)
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Afif Elghraoui writes:
> Hi, Ben,
Thanks for the feedback. One specific suggestion appears to already have
a bug report; I'm redirecting this sub-thread there.
> على الثلاثاء 27 كانون الأول 2016 20:31، كتب Ben Finney:
> > The ‘dput-ng’ package is one alternative that is so
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On 27-Dec-2016, James Cowgill wrote:
> On 26/12/16 21:36, Ben Finney wrote:
> >> .commands file has invalid Commands line: cancel
> >> ../pytest-django_2.9.1-2.1_amd64.changes
> >> debsign: .commands file appears to be invalid. see:
> >> ftp://ftp.upload.deb
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Ben Finney writes:
> I am preparing a new version of ‘dput’ that stops using ‘/usr/bin/gpg’,
> and instead uses the GPGME library for GnuPG operations.
> […]
> If your packaging workflow has unusual signing practices, or an unusual
> GnuPG configuration, your help will be especia
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