Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
Hi,
it seems that apt is handling the codename 'rc-buggy' for experimental
not correctly.
zobel@kvasir:~% sudo apt-get update
[...]
Fetched 26.4 MB in 9s (2,923 kB/s)
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:02:11 +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
> Package: ftp.debian.org
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi,
>
> it seems that apt is handling the codename 'rc-buggy' for experimental
> not correctly.
>
> zobel@kvasir:~% sudo apt-get update
> [...]
> Fetched 26.4 MB in 9s (2,923 kB/s)
On 03/28/2013 11:21 AM, Julien Cristau wrote:
rc-buggy is not a codename, it's a bad joke. Don't use it?
I actually never noticed the pun but very much like the idea as it would
be equivalent to the pun used for unstable (=sid), the pun fits perfect.
Why not make "rc-buggy" the official cod
On 28/03/13 11:06, Julien Cristau wrote:
> Control: severity -1 important
>
> I am raising this bug to critical, as it meets the definition "makes
> unrelated software on the system (or the whole system) break"
> No, it does not. hw will shut itself off before getting damaged.
Would you provide a
Hi,
On Thu Mar 28, 2013 at 11:21:29 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:02:11 +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
> > Putting debian-devel@l.d.o on CC for this bug report, as this change
> > might have larger impact on installations, so discussing this first
> > might be a good
On 03/28/2013 11:47 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote:
Would you provide a guarantee to all users of wheezy that you will pay
for their laptop repair if this issue causes damage?
> Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
> permitted by applicable law.
This problem happens regu
* John Paul Adrian Glaubitz [2013-03-28 12:08]:
> On 03/28/2013 11:47 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> >Would you provide a guarantee to all users of wheezy that you will pay
> >for their laptop repair if this issue causes damage?
>
> > Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:56:52AM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu Mar 28, 2013 at 11:21:29 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:02:11 +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
> > > Putting debian-devel@l.d.o on CC for this bug report, as this change
> > > might h
On 28-03-13 11:47, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> On 28/03/13 11:06, Julien Cristau wrote:
>> Control: severity -1 important
>>
>> I am raising this bug to critical, as it meets the definition "makes
>> unrelated software on the system (or the whole system) break"
>> No, it does not. hw will shut itself o
On 28/03/13 12:24, Martin Wuertele wrote:
> * John Paul Adrian Glaubitz [2013-03-28 12:08]:
>
>> On 03/28/2013 11:47 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>>> Would you provide a guarantee to all users of wheezy that you will pay
>>> for their laptop repair if this issue causes damage?
>> Debian GNU/Linux come
On 03/28/2013 12:33 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote:
Think about it another way - if you put Debian on a friend's laptop and
they suffer with this issue, would you be quoting that clause in the
license for them?
I would. Software is made by humans, it's never perfect after all and
you should always ex
Just as unstable has "sid", experimental is "rc-buggy", the rc car from toy
story.
Hilarious joke :)
T
On Mar 28, 2013 6:36 AM, "John Paul Adrian Glaubitz" <
glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> On 03/28/2013 11:21 AM, Julien Cristau wrote:
>
>> rc-buggy is not a codename, it's a bad joke. D
That explains why "rc-buggy" started showing up against experimental
packages on packages.debian.org. I assumed it was a PDO bug. I guess
everyone has stopped laughing now. Can we get rid of it? (It's also
very misleading).
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On 03/28/2013 07:32 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
(on a more personal note, why oh why would you ever want the system to
suspend when you close the lid? That's what a suspend button is for. If my
laptop is compiling something, I do *not* want it to suspend when I close the
lid, thankyouverymuch. Oh
On 28/03/13 12:32, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On 28-03-13 11:47, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>> On 28/03/13 11:06, Julien Cristau wrote:
>>> Control: severity -1 important
>>>
>>> I am raising this bug to critical, as it meets the definition "makes
>>> unrelated software on the system (or the whole system)
Wookey writes ("Re: adduser Pre-Depends for qemu-system-common"):
> I don't know if there is a better way in this particular case but I do
> know that adding users in preinsts does cause problems. Preinsts that
> do anything important (which is not dealing with upgrades from
> previous packages) ca
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:56:52 +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu Mar 28, 2013 at 11:21:29 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:02:11 +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
> > > Putting debian-devel@l.d.o on CC for this bug report, as this change
> > > might ha
Hi,
On Thu Mar 28, 2013 at 14:32:12 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:56:52 +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Thu Mar 28, 2013 at 11:21:29 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:02:11 +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
> > > > Pu
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:32:57PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> on a more personal note, why oh why would you ever want the system to suspend
> when you close the lid? That's what a suspend button is for.
My suspend button requires a function modifier and is ignored if the screen
saver is activ
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 02:41:36PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
> > What makes you think it's used?
> My grep on access logs on ftp.d.o mirrors.
But as you see, it's not actually useable and shows that warning.
It was a joke that was never announced, to keep the RT from picking the
last name
On 28-03-13 14:04, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> On 28/03/13 12:32, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
>> On 28-03-13 11:47, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>>> On 28/03/13 11:06, Julien Cristau wrote:
Control: severity -1 important
I am raising this bug to critical, as it meets the definition "makes
unrelat
On 03/28/2013 06:47 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> On 28/03/13 11:06, Julien Cristau wrote:
>> Control: severity -1 important
>>
>> I am raising this bug to critical, as it meets the definition "makes
>> unrelated software on the system (or the whole system) break"
>> No, it does not. hw will shut its
Lars Wirzenius:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:36:44AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 12:54:41PM +, adrelanos wrote:
>>> Package: general
>>> Severity: wishlist
>>
>>> I'd like to have a /etc/environment.d folder. Contributing that code
>>> shouldn't be hard for me. But I
adrelanos writes:
> Thanks, I can think of other solutions, it's just that I find this .d
> structure really clean, beautiful and simple to use.
I personally would rather prefer a library interface so that it is
possible to change the storage backend in the future.
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Am Dienstag, den 26.03.2013, 00:10 +0800 schrieb Thomas Goirand:
> On 03/25/2013 07:59 PM, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 01:29:13PM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> >> Am Samstag, den 23.03.2013, 13:13 +0100 schrieb Michael Stapelberg:
> >>> Could you instead package jdownloader
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Mike Neish
* Package name: quadrule
Version : 0~20121001
Upstream Author : John Burkardt
* URL :
http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/c_src/quadrule/quadrule.html
* License : LGPL3
Programming Lang: C
Description
On 28-03-13 17:25, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> JDownloader comes with an updater that will update itself.
Debian has an updater that will update *the whole system*. It's called
"dpkg". Please don't use that as an argument in favour of providing a
downloader.
I agree with what's been said before: we s
Am Donnerstag, den 28.03.2013, 17:37 +0100 schrieb Wouter Verhelst:
> On 28-03-13 17:25, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> > JDownloader comes with an updater that will update itself.
>
> Debian has an updater that will update *the whole system*. It's called
> "dpkg". Please don't use that as an argument in
On 03/29/2013 12:25 AM, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> JDownloader comes with an updater that will update itself.
Gosh! One more reason why not to package it then. You would otherwise
provide a backdoor to a 3rd party in any Debian system that has this
installed.
In Debian, we have a unified tool called
On 03/29/2013 12:49 AM, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> There is another, not yet mentioned possible issue. JDownloader supports
> a wide variety of One-Click-Hosters via plug-ins. These plug-ins needs
> to be update every time a One-Click-Hoster changes its interface.
IMO, this is a good fit for what we u
On 28/03/13 16:14, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 03/28/2013 06:47 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>> On 28/03/13 11:06, Julien Cristau wrote:
>>> Control: severity -1 important
>>>
>>> I am raising this bug to critical, as it meets the definition "makes
>>> unrelated software on the system (or the whole syst
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Daniel Kahn Gillmor
* Package name: trac-migrate
Version : 0.12+svn12737
Upstream Author : Jun Omae
* URL : http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/TracMigratePlugin
* License : BSD
Programming Lang: Python
Description : migr
Am 28.03.2013 18:48, schrieb Daniel Pocock:
> I clearly understand your previous feedback and agree, that is why I
> thought it might be helpful discussing this issue on debian-devel, to
> get a feel for how the community feels about this type of issue and it's
> severity for us and for users
dis
Your message dated Thu, 28 Mar 2013 19:02:03 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#704054: /etc/environment.d
has caused the Debian Bug report #704054,
regarding /etc/environment.d
to be marked as done.
This means that you claim that the problem
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 06:48:09PM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> If a package fails to do what it is supposed to do, isn't that a valid
> argument that it is RC?
No.
Or virtually every bug would be RC.
> gnome-power-manager is meant to suspend a user's laptop when they shut
> the lid and put it
On Thu, 28 Mar 2013 18:48:09 +0100
Daniel Pocock wrote:
> > This isn't the first time that you are discussing the severity of
> > bugs, and raising them to RC level instead of what they deserve,
> > which was the original severity. You did that to some of my
> > packages (for example, see #695221
Benjamin Drung:
> Am Dienstag, den 26.03.2013, 00:10 +0800 schrieb Thomas Goirand:
> > On 03/25/2013 07:59 PM, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> > > On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 01:29:13PM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> > >> Am Samstag, den 23.03.2013, 13:13 +0100 schrieb Michael Stapelberg:
> > >>> Could you i
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 06:48:09PM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> If a package fails to do what it is supposed to do, isn't that a valid
> argument that it is RC?
>
> gnome-power-manager is meant to suspend a user's laptop when they shut
> the lid and put it in a carry bag. That's what the manual
On 03/29/2013 01:48 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> Thomas, you have put a lot of great work into the XCP packages and I'm
> glad I've tried them. I've also provided diagnostic information,
> patches and workarounds for those issues that I felt to be RC, so that
> the users can have the best possible e
On 28/03/13 19:12, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> Perfection is unattainable. Every Debian stable release is buggy as
> hell, and that's unavoidable, if we want to make any releases at all.
I don't think anybody raised the issue of perfection
This issue I've observed is a relative one - it was workin
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On 28/03/13 18:59, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 28.03.2013 18:48, schrieb Daniel Pocock:
>
>> I clearly understand your previous feedback and agree, that is
>> why I thought it might be helpful discussing this issue on
>> debian-devel, to get a feel
On 03/29/2013 03:32 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>
>
> On 28/03/13 18:59, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > Am 28.03.2013 18:48, schrieb Daniel Pocock:
>
> >> I clearly understand your previous feedback and agree, that is
> >> why I thought it might be helpful discussing this issue on
> >> debian-devel, to get
Hi,
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:07:43PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 03/28/2013 11:47 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> >Would you provide a guarantee to all users of wheezy that you will pay
> >for their laptop repair if this issue causes damage?
>
> > Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLU
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