Re: PERL MAINTAINERS SUCK - COMPLETE MORONS

2001-01-10 Thread Adam Heath
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 09:01:40AM -0500, Daniel Martin wrote: > > > Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Well, if someone would like to configure the MTA that runs > > > bugs.debian.org to > > > send CC's of all bug mail to another a

Re: PERL MAINTAINERS SUCK - COMPLETE MORONS

2001-01-10 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 09:01:40AM -0500, Daniel Martin wrote: > Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Well, if someone would like to configure the MTA that runs bugs.debian.org > > to > > send CC's of all bug mail to another address, ... > > You mean something other than signing up

Re: PERL MAINTAINERS SUCK - COMPLETE MORONS

2001-01-10 Thread Ola Lundqvist
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 04:06:35PM -0800, Ralph Jennings wrote: The problem is not that easy to solve I think. Basicly the problem is that you upgrade a tool that the install program depends on. If you install the perl-5.6 package before anything alse things will probably work just fine. The prob

Re: PERL MAINTAINERS SUCK - COMPLETE MORONS

2001-01-10 Thread Daniel Martin
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, if someone would like to configure the MTA that runs bugs.debian.org to > send CC's of all bug mail to another address, ... You mean something other than signing up for debian-bugs-dist and parsing the resulting traffic? I realize that debian-bu

Re: PERL MAINTAINERS SUCK - COMPLETE MORONS

2001-01-09 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 09:52:41AM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: > > BTW. Why didn't you post a bug report about this? > > I did, I only bcc'd it to [EMAIL PROTECTED], so that replies wouldn't spam > the bts. I filed the critical Bug Report #80197 20 days ago... even the old perl packages where bro

Re: PERL MAINTAINERS SUCK - COMPLETE MORONS

2001-01-09 Thread Ralph Jennings
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 04:54:11PM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: [snip] > > ANY package that is needed by the packaging system(and this does not only > > include dpkg support scripts, but debconf, and some maintainer scripts, > > including adduser) NEEDS TO NOT BREAK PERIOD. [snip] > BTW: upgrading p

Re: PERL MAINTAINERS SUCK - COMPLETE MORONS

2001-01-09 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 11:54:23AM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: > On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > It's long past time that the BTS had a real database backend. Since the > > code is being actively worked on, I assume there are reasons why this isn't > > feasible yet. Do you know wha

Re: PERL MAINTAINERS SUCK - COMPLETE MORONS

2001-01-09 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > It's long past time that the BTS had a real database backend. Since the code > is being actively worked on, I assume there are reasons why this isn't > feasible > yet. Do you know what they are? Is there any way I can help? I have code that imports

Re: PERL MAINTAINERS SUCK - COMPLETE MORONS

2001-01-09 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 11:42:06AM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: > On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > I thought the reason for switching from the generated HTML to CGIs was so > > that the pages could be dynamically generated, and we wouldn't have this > > problem. > > you're correct, th

Re: PERL MAINTAINERS SUCK - COMPLETE MORONS

2001-01-09 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > I thought the reason for switching from the generated HTML to CGIs was so that > the pages could be dynamically generated, and we wouldn't have this problem. you're correct, that is the reason. But the indices take too long to fully dynamically generat

Re: PERL MAINTAINERS SUCK - COMPLETE MORONS

2001-01-09 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 10:16:09AM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: > On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Ron Rademaker wrote: > > > > > I checked BTS and the bug wasn't in BTS. > > Because the indices only run every 12 hours. Check 81679. I thought the reason for switching from the generated HTML to CGIs was so tha

Re: PERL MAINTAINERS SUCK - COMPLETE MORONS

2001-01-09 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Ron Rademaker wrote: > > I checked BTS and the bug wasn't in BTS. Because the indices only run every 12 hours. Check 81679. BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK Version: 3.12 GCS d- s: a-- c+++ UL P+ L !E W+ M o+ K- W--- !O M- !V PS-- PE++ Y+ PGP++ t* 5++ X+ tv b+ D++ G e

Re: PERL MAINTAINERS SUCK - COMPLETE MORONS

2001-01-09 Thread Ron Rademaker
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Jordi Mallach wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 04:50:05PM +0100, Ron Rademaker wrote: > > Hmm, isn't sid called UNSTABLE, that means that if you want use it, there > > is a risk that things aren't exactly perfect (don't take perfect to > > seriously). > > That doesn't solve t

Re: PERL MAINTAINERS SUCK - COMPLETE MORONS

2001-01-09 Thread Jordi Mallach
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 04:50:05PM +0100, Ron Rademaker wrote: > Hmm, isn't sid called UNSTABLE, that means that if you want use it, there > is a risk that things aren't exactly perfect (don't take perfect to > seriously). That doesn't solve that perl's official maintainer broke the packages quit

Re: PERL MAINTAINERS SUCK - COMPLETE MORONS

2001-01-09 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Adam! You wrote: > ANY package that is needed by the packaging system(and this does not only > include dpkg support scripts, but debconf, and some maintainer scripts, > including adduser) NEEDS TO NOT BREAK PERIOD. Please calm down. If your specific thing doesn't work, OK, that's worth a bug

Re: PERL MAINTAINERS SUCK - COMPLETE MORONS

2001-01-09 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Ron Rademaker wrote: > Hmm, isn't sid called UNSTABLE, that means that if you want use it, there > is a risk that things aren't exactly perfect (don't take perfect to > seriously). > Not that long ago I upgraded one of my machines from woody to sid, now > it's running perl 5.6

Re: PERL MAINTAINERS SUCK - COMPLETE MORONS

2001-01-09 Thread Ron Rademaker
Hmm, isn't sid called UNSTABLE, that means that if you want use it, there is a risk that things aren't exactly perfect (don't take perfect to seriously). Not that long ago I upgraded one of my machines from woody to sid, now it's running perl 5.6 and I didn't have any trouble upgrading at all! BT