Re: (seemingly) declinging bug report numbers

2012-10-19 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org): > distribution that make it more popular. But, unlike commercial > distributions, we don't *have* to be popular to succeed. We have a much > broader range of successful outcomes than a business that has to make > money. I will take this last sentence fro

Re: Popularity of bzr-builddeb and dh-make

2012-10-19 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 22:29:53 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 09:54:27PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > AIUI, most users of pristine-tar in git don't have the second of these > > > branches, which means the pristine-tar binary delta is done against the > > > upstream br

Re: (seemingly) declinging bug report numbers

2012-10-19 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le vendredi 19 octobre 2012 09:40:12, Christian PERRIER a écrit : Greetings Christian, First, let me take advantage of this mail to thank you for your tireless work on localization. > > Nowadays, would someone bet a coin that the same is happening? I would > not. In my daily job, I see student

Re: (seemingly) declinging bug report numbers

2012-10-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 03:04:45AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 17:43 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Ah, well, I think you misunderstood me here. What I meant is that ubuntu > > is gaining ground on things like Windows and MacOS. I didn't mean to > > refer to no

Re: Candidates for removal from testing

2012-10-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 10:32:39AM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > We are considering removing the following packages from testing as > they have unfixed RC bugs filed against them. The packages can be > found in the attached dd-list. The bugs that put them on this list > can be found in the removal

Re: (seemingly) declinging bug report numbers

2012-10-19 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 12:40 AM, Christian PERRIER wrote: > > For sure, this kind of "decline" is not that visible. We still have > new contributors, we still manage to do releases, we still have an > ever growing number of packages. But, we have less bug reports. We have > partly abandoned packa

Re: Candidates for removal from testing

2012-10-19 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-10-19 17:43, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 10:32:39AM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: >> We are considering removing the following packages from testing as >> they have unfixed RC bugs filed against them. The packages can be >> found in the attached dd-list. The bugs that pu

Re: Popularity of bzr-builddeb and dh-make

2012-10-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Langasek writes: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 01:02:59PM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: >> Actually most users of pristine-tar in git don't have the *first* of >> these branches. They usually have an upstream branch which is >> synthesized solely from importing tarballs using git import-orig.

Re: non-developer packages depending on gettext?

2012-10-19 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Neil Williams writes: […] > Check if the package contains a shell script which supports > translated output strings — such packages should Depend: gettext-base > rather than drop the dependency entirely. > I've had a quick look at gnas and it does seem that this is a case > where get

Re: (seemingly) declinging bug report numbers

2012-10-19 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Kelly Clowers] > But I basically never report bugs. I have used Sid for years, and in > fact I often don't notice bugs in my personal workflow (maybe if I > can think of myself as a user? I notice end-user-impacting bugs in > other areas). If someone comes over and sees me working the might > say

Re: EFI support is not ready

2012-10-19 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello: grub support for EFI is clearly a WIP: you may specify the grub version and test with a recent one, On 19/10/12 19:42, HacKurx wrote: Hi, I tested with 2 pc efi and the first gives me a kernel panic during the launch of the second installation when it crashes to the installation of gru

Bug#690973: ITP: pgmodeler -- PostgreSQL Database Modeler

2012-10-19 Thread Markus Frosch
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Markus Frosch * Package name: pgmodeler Version : 0.3.4 Upstream Author : Raphael Araújo e Silva * URL : http://pgmodeler.com.br * License : GPLv3 Programming Lang: C++ Description : PostgreSQL Database Modeler

Re: (seemingly) declinging bug report numbers

2012-10-19 Thread Игорь Пашев
I will fill your bugreports for $1.99 per bug :-) 2012/10/19 Peter Samuelson : > > [Kelly Clowers] >> But I basically never report bugs. I have used Sid for years, and in >> fact I often don't notice bugs in my personal workflow (maybe if I >> can think of myself as a user? I notice end-user-impac

Re: Popularity of bzr-builddeb and dh-make

2012-10-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 09:13:04AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Steve Langasek writes: > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 01:02:59PM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > >> Actually most users of pristine-tar in git don't have the *first* of > >> these branches. They usually have an upstream branch which is

Re: (seemingly) declinging bug report numbers

2012-10-19 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Thomas Preud'homme (robo...@debian.org): > > This is sometimes hidden by the incredible work and investment of > > several people in the project (yes, that's probably mean whoever is > > reading this). > > I don't think it's mean to recognize the amazing work some people do. At > least