Re: Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-05 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 05 Jan 2013 14:03:25 +0800 Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 01/05/2013 09:50 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > > > > Please check out these links if you want to make this happen. Probably > > an initial target of supporting oldstable for the same length of time > > as stable (instead of just a year) is a

Bug#697429: ITP: gitignore-boilerplates -- shell script for easily accessing gitignore boilerplate

2013-01-05 Thread TANIGUCHI Takaki
Package: wnpp Owner: tak...@debian.org Severity: wishlist * Package name: gitignore-boilerplates Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Simon Whitaker * URL or Web page : https://github.com/simonwhitaker/gitignore-boilerplates * License : public domain Description : shell

Re: Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-05 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi Neil, On Sa 05 Jan 2013 09:58:48 CET Neil Williams wrote: On Sat, 05 Jan 2013 14:03:25 +0800 Thomas Goirand wrote: On 01/05/2013 09:50 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > > Please check out these links if you want to make this happen. Probably > an initial target of supporting oldstable for the same l

Re: Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-05 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi Thomas, On Sa 05 Jan 2013 07:03:25 CET Thomas Goirand wrote: On 01/05/2013 09:50 AM, Paul Wise wrote: Please check out these links if you want to make this happen. Probably an initial target of supporting oldstable for the same length of time as stable (instead of just a year) is a good fi

Re: Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-05 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi pabs, On Sa 05 Jan 2013 02:50:47 CET Paul Wise wrote: On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 5:09 AM, Mike Gabriel wrote: Slightly different approach: However, for serious server deployments we in Debian might want to think about supporting older releases a little longer than atm. A scheme like veryol

Re: Updates in the very-old-stable (was: Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!(

2013-01-05 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 01/06/2013 02:02 AM, Mike Gabriel wrote: > Hi Thomas, > >> I agree. It would be nice if it was at least possible to upload security >> updates >> right now to old-stable, even if that wasn't officially supported. At >> least, this >> would be a nice way to go forward (eg: based on "best effort",

Bug#697477: ITP: ostree -- Linux-based operating system develop/build/deploy tool

2013-01-05 Thread Thomas Bechtold
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Bechtold * Package name: ostree Version : 2012.13 Upstream Author : Colin Walters * URL : https://live.gnome.org/OSTree/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C Description : Linux-based operating system dev

Re: Bug#697477: ITP: ostree -- Linux-based operating system develop/build/deploy tool

2013-01-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Thomas Bechtold, le Sat 05 Jan 2013 20:27:32 +0100, a écrit : > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Thomas Bechtold > > * Package name: ostree > Version : 2012.13 > Upstream Author : Colin Walters > * URL : https://live.gnome.org/OSTree/ > * License : G

Re: Updates in the very-old-stable (was: Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!(

2013-01-05 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 06 Jan 2013 02:44:42 +0800 Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 01/06/2013 02:02 AM, Mike Gabriel wrote: > > Hi Thomas, > > > >> I agree. It would be nice if it was at least possible to upload security > >> updates > >> right now to old-stable, even if that wasn't officially supported. At > >> leas

Re: Bug#697477: ITP: ostree -- Linux-based operating system develop/build/deploy tool

2013-01-05 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Sat 05 Jan 2013 16:43:10 Samuel Thibault escribió: > Thomas Bechtold, le Sat 05 Jan 2013 20:27:32 +0100, a écrit : > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Thomas Bechtold > > > > * Package name: ostree > > > > Version : 2012.13 > > Upstream Author : Colin Walters >

Is the Package-List field necessary for uploads ?

2013-01-05 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear FTP team and everybody, we are documenting in the Policy the Package-List field of the Debian source control files. Multiline field listing all the packages that can be built from the source package. The first line of the field value is empty. Each one of the next lines describe one b

Re: Is the Package-List field necessary for uploads ?

2013-01-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Charles Plessy (06/01/2013): > I do not know if this field should be marked mandatory, recommended > or optional. Is this field strictly necessary for uploads ? I'm not sure how we could be making this field mandatory all of a sudden. (Think uploads to {o,s}-p-u, for a start.) Mraw, KiBi. sig

Re: [debian-devel:18459] Bug#697421: ITP: unidic-mecab -- free Japanese Dictionaries for mecab

2013-01-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I thought about this package at one point but I did not since its real upstream Japanese government agency had very restrictive license. http://www.tokuteicorpus.jp/ (Japanese pages) http://www.tokuteicorpus.jp/dist/ Version 1.3.12 http://www.tokuteicorpus.jp/dist/modules/system/m

Re: Updates in the very-old-stable

2013-01-05 Thread Thomas Goirand
Neil, I agree on all what you said (eg: difficulties in doing such a maintenance, the fact we don't have unlimited manpower, etc.), but I'm still convince it would be worth a try. On 01/06/2013 04:39 AM, Neil Williams wrote: > It's not about prohibiting updates, it's that most maintainers don't

Re: Updates in the very-old-stable

2013-01-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 01:54:34PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > Neil, > > I agree on all what you said (eg: difficulties in doing such a maintenance, > the fact we don't have unlimited manpower, etc.), but I'm still convince it > would be worth a try. > > On 01/06/2013 04:39 AM, Neil William