The problem with killfiles, and other musings [Was: Re: removal of svenl from the project]

2006-03-19 Thread Steve Langasek
As much as I'd love to see this thread die, I think the superficially reasonable (but actually quite ridiculous) suggestion of using killfiles should be addressed. On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 01:41:42PM +0100, Jonas Meurer wrote: > On 17/03/2006 Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > pe, 2006-03-17 kello 14:46 +11

Re: For those who care about stable updates

2006-03-19 Thread Martin Schulze
[Sorry for the late response, I don't read -devel daily anymore.] martin f krafft wrote: > As someone who has served (and continues to serve) on several core > teams within Debian, would you be able to give us some insights into > how the situation may be improved? In theory the team needs to reo

Re: dicussion about patches ...

2006-03-19 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 3/19/06, Martin Wuertele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-19 08:06]: > > > The question is if the problems with the patches and the reason for not > > applying it will be commented, thus giving the author a chance to modify it, > > or change his approach to

Re: dicussion about patches ... ignoring patches make motivation to provide them fall

2006-03-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 08:29:18AM +0100, Martin Wuertele wrote: > * Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-19 08:06]: > > > The question is if the problems with the patches and the reason for not > > applying it will be commented, thus giving the author a chance to modify it, > > or change his

Bug#357738: ITP: dcfldd -- enhanced version of dd for forensics and security

2006-03-19 Thread Kenny Duffus
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kenny Duffus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: dcfldd Version : 1.3.4 Upstream Author : Nick Harbour * URL : http://dcfldd.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : enhanced version of dd for forensics and se

Re: The problem with killfiles, and other musings [Was: Re: removal of svenl from the project]

2006-03-19 Thread Sven Luther
Well, I was going to make a large answer where i was going to denouse the inexactitudes and false claims of this clearly inflamatory mail, but i will refrain from doing so. I wonder if Steve, and others of the 'esteemed' DDs, is following his own advice, and rereading the mails he writes, and if

Re: dicussion about patches ... ignoring patches make motivation to provide them fall

2006-03-19 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Sven Luther] > I am not saying that there needs to be an immediate response, or all > patches need to be applied, but i believe that it is elementary > politeness from a package maintainer, to at least aknowledge a patch > or bug report when it is submitted. I believe you are wrong. If you are

Re: dicussion about patches ... ignoring patches make motivation to provide them fall

2006-03-19 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 3/19/06, Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [Sven Luther] > > I am not saying that there needs to be an immediate response, or all > > patches need to be applied, but i believe that it is elementary > > politeness from a package maintainer, to at least aknowledge a patch > > or b

Re: dicussion about patches ... ignoring patches make motivation to provide them fall

2006-03-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 12:44:05PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Sven Luther] > > I am not saying that there needs to be an immediate response, or all > > patches need to be applied, but i believe that it is elementary > > politeness from a package maintainer, to at least aknowledge a pat

Re: The problem with killfiles, and other musings [Was: Re: removal of svenl from the project]

2006-03-19 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-19 12:28]: > Anyway, Steve, please try to live up to your own standard, and cut > the ad-hominem attacks out in the future. Describing the situation as it is perceived by many people doesn't really count as ad-hominem attacks. Maybe for once you should l

Re: The problem with killfiles, and other musings [Was: Re: removal of svenl from the project]

2006-03-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 12:34:09PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-19 12:28]: > > Anyway, Steve, please try to live up to your own standard, and cut > > the ad-hominem attacks out in the future. > > Describing the situation as it is perceived by many peo

Bug#357766: ITP: libsubtitles-perl -- perl module for fixing timing for subtitles in various text formats

2006-03-19 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bas Zoetekouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libsubtitles-perl Version : 0.08 Upstream Author : Dmitry Karasik, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~karasik/Subtitles-0.08/ * License : same terms as per

Re: dicussion about patches ... ignoring patches make motivation to provide them fall

2006-03-19 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Olaf van der Spek] > So what do you think about long-term ignored bug reports? Do you > think that should not be considered any issue/problem? It is definitely something we should try to address. When I run into those myself for issues that are important to me, I try to contact the maintainer,

Bug#357791: ITP: irc2html.scm -- Convert IRC chat logs into valid HTML with valid CSS

2006-03-19 Thread MJ Ray (Debian)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "MJ Ray (Debian)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: irc2html.scm Version : 1.2 Upstream Author : MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://mjr.towers.org.uk/software.html#other * License : GPL Description : Conver

Re: dicussion about patches ... ignoring patches make motivation to provide them fall

2006-03-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 12:44:05PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: >> I believe you are wrong. If you are right, then I am a very impolite >> maintainer, as I have too many packages with too many bugs to look >> after, so I do not manage to look at, nor

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