Re: Intention to drop sparc32 support for Lenny

2007-05-21 Thread Joe Buck
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:00:24PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > The sparc32 port has been struggling for some time. Last month Jurij > Smakov, currently the most active Debian Sparc porter, raised the question > if support sparc32 should be dropped for Lenny [1]. Fine, as long as you provide 32-bit

Re: New General resolution proposed

2007-02-12 Thread Joe Buck
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 07:10:36PM +, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:05:26AM -0800, Joe Buck wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:15:13PM -0600, Debian Project Secretary wrote: > > > This is a notification of a general resolution proposed on the

Re: New General resolution proposed

2007-02-12 Thread Joe Buck
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:15:13PM -0600, Debian Project Secretary wrote: > This is a notification of a general resolution proposed on the > debian-vote mailing list. On the 8th of February, in a message with > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> propos

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for October 22, 2004

2004-10-26 Thread Joe Buck
On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 06:30:02AM -0700, BugScan reporter wrote: > Bug stamp-out list for Oct 22 06:02 (CST) > > Total number of release-critical bugs: 726 ... > Number that are being ignored: 45 > Number on packages not in testing: 420 > Number concerning the next release (excluding ignored and

Trying to understand "updating orbit2 makes 79 packages unintallable ..."

2003-11-07 Thread Joe Buck
I'm trying to figure out the reason why orbit2 is blocked from testing, see http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=orbit2 I understand the problem in principle: there is/are some package/s that needs the older version of orbit2, and the other "uninstallable" packages depend on these. Ide

Re: Re: Advices on choosing a documentation license for an upstreamproject

2003-11-06 Thread Joe Buck
> Well, given you talk about being a pure GPL project, why not put your > documentation under the GPL as well? Even if you were writing in > plain text or in a WYSIWYG program, it's a reasonable choice. But > given you're writing in docbook, with a very clear > source-compiled-to-object mapping,

Re: Answers to "Why is package X not in testing yet?"

2003-05-15 Thread Joe Buck
Joe Buck wrote: > > However, the output is redundant in many cases. On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 08:37:45AM +0200, Björn Stenberg wrote: > Fixed now. Terrific! I'm impressed at your bug-fixing speed; there's a quick "fixed now" to almost every issue. This script is a h

Re: Answers to "Why is package X not in testing yet?"

2003-05-14 Thread Joe Buck
Really cool script. Thanks for doing it. However, the output is redundant in many cases. For example, http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=gnome-terminal repeats the same information for libgnome, gnome-vfs2, and other packages a number of times. This would seem simple to fix: just