[PROPOSAL v2] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-27 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, According to the huge thread starting at https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/10/msg00469.html, it seems that: - there's consensus that a lightweight process for orphaning unmaintained packages is a good idea (if you are not convinced yet, I urge you to read Russ' post at https://lis

Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Scott Kitterman (27/10/2012): > If the maintainer never responds, then (it turns out) there was no > need for the delay. So there are cases where delay is pointless, > the problem is that you can't tell in advance if you're in one of > those cases or not. Thankfully, nothing stops anyone from NM

Mandatory -dbg packages

2012-10-27 Thread Vincent Bernat
Hi! Libraries with `-dbg` package are a pain to deal with when debugging some problem. The solution to ask each user to rebuild the library without stripping debug symbols[1] seem suboptimal. Asking each maintainer to ship a `-dbg` package may be a solution[2] but couldn't we generate those packag

Re: suggestion

2012-10-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ricardo Obando, le Fri 26 Oct 2012 21:29:37 -0300, a écrit : > When will there be in debian installer for Debian and wubi as Ubuntu? When somebody implements it. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas..

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages

2012-10-27 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 12:25:31PM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > Libraries with `-dbg` package are a pain to deal with when debugging > some problem. You probably mean "without". -- WBR, wRAR signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages

2012-10-27 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 27 octobre 2012 12:42 CEST, Andrey Rahmatullin  : >> Libraries with `-dbg` package are a pain to deal with when debugging >> some problem. > You probably mean "without". Yes. -- printk(KERN_WARNING "Multi-volume CD somehow got mounted.\n"); 2.2.16 /usr/src/linux/fs/isofs/inode.c pg

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages

2012-10-27 Thread Игорь Пашев
Do not kick me, but in Solaris, there are : 1) special ELF section .SUNW_ldynsym extending .dynsym [1] 2) .SUNW_ctf with CTF data [2] 3) Function args are saved in stack for amd64 But from my point all it exists because Solaris lacks robust package manager :-) [1] https://blogs.oracle.com/ali/en

Re: [PROPOSAL v2] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-27 Thread Bart Martens
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 11:36:15AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > - there's some disagreement [...] More disagreement than I expected. > here is a new version of the last step of > the proposed procedure: > For completeness, here is the full proposal. I've also addressed a few > cosmetic comment

Re: (seemingly) declinging bug report numbers

2012-10-27 Thread Felipe Sateler
On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 08:27:59 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 11:25:47PM +, Felipe Sateler wrote: >> Another way to look at it is the number of maintainers, as recorded in >> the Packages and Sources files. I've done a bit of scripting and came >> with these numbers:

Bug#691624: ITP: dput-ng -- next generation Debian package upload tool

2012-10-27 Thread Arno Töll
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Arno Töll" Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Arno Töll thanks * Package name: dput-ng Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Arno Töll , Paul Tagliamonte * URL : http://people.debian.org/~paultag/dput-ng * License :

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages

2012-10-27 Thread Michael Biebl
On 27.10.2012 12:25, Vincent Bernat wrote: > Hi! > > Libraries with `-dbg` package are a pain to deal with when debugging > some problem. The solution to ask each user to rebuild the library > without stripping debug symbols[1] seem suboptimal. Asking each > maintainer to ship a `-dbg` package may

Re: [PROPOSAL v2] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-27 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Bart Martens wrote: > So maybe we could simply allow > anyone, including non-DDs, to submit O-bugs for packages which seem abandoned > by the maintainer, and to submit ITA-bugs for packages he/she wishes to > salvage. Sounds revolutionary, but in reality this is m

Re: [PROPOSAL v2] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-27 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 01:19:25 Bart Martens wrote: > So maybe we could simply allow anyone, including non-DDs, to > submit O-bugs for packages which seem abandoned by the maintainer, and to > submit ITA-bugs for packages he/she wishes to salvage. Yes please. This is common sense and most obvious thi

Bug#691645: ITP: python-django-schedule -- calendaring app for Django

2012-10-27 Thread Per Andersson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Per Andersson * Package name: python-django-schedule Version : 0.5b~ds1 Upstream Author : Zylinsky, Górny, Hauber * URL : http://github.com/boskee/django-schedule * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description

Re: [PROPOSAL v2] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 02:19:25PM +, Bart Martens a écrit : > > Thanks for your effort, Lucas. I don't object against this new text. Many thanks and thumbs up to Lucas as well. > maybe we could simply allow anyone, including non-DDs, to submit O-bugs for > packages which seem abandoned by

Re: GR: Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-27 Thread Paul Wise
I don't think we need GRs to decide development procedures like this. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/

Re: suggestion

2012-10-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > When somebody implements it. Someone already did: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/tools/win32-loader/unstable/win32-loader.txt -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: [PROPOSAL v2] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-27 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Charles Plessy wrote: >> maybe we could simply allow anyone, including non-DDs, to submit O-bugs for >> packages which seem abandoned by the maintainer, and to submit ITA-bugs for >> packages he/she wishes to salvage. > > I think that this misses one of the reasons