Re: On building everything from source.

2013-12-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2013-12-28 at 08:11 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > The firmware-linux-free maintainer has verified that identical binaries > > can be built from source, but as you well know not all of the required > > cross-compilers are packaged in D

Re: On building everything from source.

2013-12-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > The firmware-linux-free maintainer has verified that identical binaries > can be built from source, but as you well know not all of the required > cross-compilers are packaged in Debian. Does that mean that firmware-linux-free should move to

Re: On building everything from source.

2013-12-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear FTP team, I would like to help processing the NEW queue. You can see at the following URL some of the reviews that I did in the past as part of my "peer review" proposal. - https://wiki.debian.org/CopyrightReview - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=one-copyright-review;use

Re: On building everything from source.

2013-12-27 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 06:44:41AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > So, shall we contact Lucas to tell him the good news that there is a new > member > in the FTP team ? There's a bit of process and no one gets rights right away. I'm not the one who makes these decisions, I just work on the team.

Re: On building everything from source.

2013-12-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 02:47:46PM -0500, Paul Tagliamonte a écrit : > > We do always look for new members of the ftpteam, please refer to > Ganneff's postings to all sorts of mailing lists on how to join the team. > It's quite an important team, and more help is always welcome. Hi Paul, if it i

Re: On building everything from source.

2013-12-27 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 12:29:09PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 2:23 AM, Charles Plessy wrote: > > I would welcome clearer rules to decide what is strictly required to be > > built > > from source. In particular, I would welcome something like "The maintainer > > decide

Re: On building everything from source.

2013-12-27 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 2:23 AM, Charles Plessy wrote: > I would welcome clearer rules to decide what is strictly required to be built > from source. In particular, I would welcome something like "The maintainer > decides, and can be overruled by the Technical Comittee if needed". What > follows

Re: On building everything from source.

2013-12-27 Thread Thorsten Alteholz
Hi Raphael, On Fri, 27 Dec 2013, Raphael Hertzog wrote: What's unpredictable is that your package might be refused not for the addition of the NEW binary but for because debian/copyright is not good enough for current standards of the ftpmasters while it was ok at the time it got accepted the fi

Re: On building everything from source.

2013-12-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2013-12-27 at 17:04 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > [Offlist] Only not... > On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > I would welcome something like "The maintainer > > decides, and can be overruled by the Technical Comittee if needed". > > That is what we have now, as usua

Re: On building everything from source.

2013-12-27 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 27 Dec 2013, Paul Wise wrote: > > the unpredictability of when a source package goes to NEW (that is, > > when the list of binary packages changes), > > That is entirely predictable and under the control of the Debian > package maintainer since it only changes when the maintainer updates >

Re: On building everything from source.

2013-12-27 Thread Paul Wise
[Offlist] On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Charles Plessy wrote: > I would welcome something like "The maintainer > decides, and can be overruled by the Technical Comittee if needed". That is what we have now, as usual other contributors will obviously question decisions made where they consider