Re: Removing packages perhaps too aggressively?

2018-02-03 Thread Bill Blough
On Sat, Feb 03, 2018 at 02:01:38AM -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Saturday, February 03, 2018 08:20:02 AM Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Making RM requests as visible as orphaned packages > > (e.g. in a weekly debian-devel post) would help here. > > So your in favor of shaming DDs to improve their beh

Re: Help with watch file

2016-12-23 Thread Bill Blough
On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 03:13:34PM +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Fri, 2016-12-23 at 08:37 -0500, James McCoy wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 05:42:43PM -0500, Bill Blough wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 12:40:26PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > > suffers

Re: Help with watch file

2016-12-22 Thread Bill Blough
On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 12:40:26PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > suffers rather from leaning toothpick syndrome. Does the > `downloadurlmangle' support Perl's ability to handle nonstandard > delimiters ? Using something other than / means that / does not need > to be \-escaped. { } are often a goo

Re: Help with watch file

2016-12-21 Thread Bill Blough
On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 09:33:29PM +, Ghislain Vaillant wrote: > Dear all, > > I am trying to write a watch file suitable for fetching tarballs from a > *link* published on a GitHub release page [1]. It seems this link > points to a different location on Amazon S3 [2]. > > [1] https://github.

Binary naming conflict

2014-02-05 Thread Bill Blough
Greetings, I've started packaging PasswordSafe (a GUI password manager) which ships a binary named pwsafe. Oldstable contains the pwsafe package (a command line password manager based on an earlier version of PasswordSafe) which also ships a binary named pwsafe. The policy says: "Two differ