Re: Improving our response to "duplicate" packages in Debian

2012-06-30 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 30 Jun 2012, Michael Hanke wrote: > I think this is approaching the problem from the wrong end. Instead of > preserving the status quo and asking oracles to predict the future we > should have better means of removing software that has proven to be > inferior of an equivalent alternative i

Proposition

2012-06-30 Thread Li Hao
Greetings from Hong Kong, I have a discreet proposal for you in the tune of One Hundred & Five Million EUR. Kindly reply for specifics. Warmest, Mr. Li Hao -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.deb

locking system users on package removal

2012-06-30 Thread Simon McVittie
On 30/06/12 13:24, Stephan Springl wrote (on Bug #679642): > quake-server does neither install nor purge properly on systems > without shadow password because usermod gives an error for its > e option in this case. I took this use of usermod from the discussion on debian-devel regarding Policy bug

Re: locking system users on package removal

2012-06-30 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 02:12:45PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 30/06/12 13:24, Stephan Springl wrote (on Bug #679642): > > quake-server does neither install nor purge properly on systems > > without shadow password because usermod gives an error for its > > e option in this case. > > I took

Re: Bug#678815: ITP: wmfs -- Window Manager From Scratch

2012-06-30 Thread Mickaël Raybaud-Roig
Hi, I've re-uploaded the package: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/w/wmfs/wmfs_2~beta201206-3.dsc Now it should works. Regards, Mickaël Raybaud-Roig -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@li

Re: locking system users on package removal

2012-06-30 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 14:36:47 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: >On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 02:12:45PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: >> [in the preinst] >> > -usermod -U -e '' quake-server >> > +if [ -f /etc/shadow ]; then >> > + usermod -U -e '' quake-server >> > +else >> > + usermod -U

RE: Improving our response to "duplicate" packages in Debian

2012-06-30 Thread Prince Annan Koomson
I think finding a way to involve new users is a nice idea, also reviewing members list finding the total number of members and members which are idle can assign packages to maintain depending on their skill set and other factors should also be considered. This will help offload some of workload

Re: Improving our response to "duplicate" packages in Debian

2012-06-30 Thread Craig Small
On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 08:41:07AM +0200, Michael Hanke wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 09:24:25AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > We really need to find better ways to involve new users in core teams, > > and that means removing from our collective consciousness the idea that > > you come in D

OpenCL in Debian

2012-06-30 Thread Vincent Danjean
Hi, During the Debian sprint at Grenoble, we talk about the OpenCL situation in Debian and I decided to wrote a summary. The sprint organizer, Jerome Kieffer, tells me I will include it in the report of the sprint. However, I would like to also put it here so that more people can react about i

Re: OpenCL in Debian

2012-06-30 Thread Vincent Danjean
Le 01/07/2012 00:44, Vincent Danjean a écrit : > Note that, due to the fact that some software have been written > very recently (I'm thinking to ocl-icd where I'm also upstream) > and to the fact that some bug in package dependencies have been > discovered and fixed after I wrote this document (

Re:: 5... 4... 3... 2... 1...

2012-06-30 Thread Serge Fasiy
01.07.2012 2:20 пользователь "Adam D. Barratt" написал: > Hi, > > As previously announced[1], testing is now frozen. > > To keep this mail short, and make our lives easier :-), further details > about the freeze process and the type of changes which will be eligible > for unblocking can be found