Re: Backports, Stable releases, Testing, Oh my!

2014-02-26 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Peter Samuelson [2014-02-26 18:36:10 CET]: > [micah] > > it feels like a bit too aggressive pressure for my tastes. I've seen > > a lot of developers of packages who have found out their package will > > be removed from testing, but don't have the time to resolve the > > situation before it gets

Re: Bugs against packages from BPO

2011-06-07 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
Hey, * Mehdi Dogguy [2011-06-07 17:02:50 CEST]: > For now users of packages from BPO have to send a mail to > debian-backports mailing-list, according to [1]. I don't know how you > handle those bugs, but they seem very easy to miss (even if d-b@l.d.o > isn't a high traffic list). This is co

Re: Bugs against packages from BPO

2011-06-07 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
Hey again, * Mehdi Dogguy [2011-06-07 17:41:57 CEST]: > Yes. But, one can still check and remove those tags when appropriate. > My approach was just to avoid as much as possible to send false bugreports > to the usual maintainer. The reporter can remove those tags if he's sure > that it also a

Re: UDD access from Alioth(s children) (Was: Alioth status update, take 3)

2011-06-14 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
Hi! * Stephen Gran [2011-06-11 16:06:58 CEST]: > This one time, at band camp, Andreas Tille said: > > I would like to repeat my question about UDD access from alioth (or one > > / both of its successors): Is there anybody working to reenable the UDD > > access? > > This is now reenabled

alternative dependency ordering - with respect of packages in main

2011-09-20 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
Hi! Policy is clear on packages in main aren't allowed to depend on packages outside of main. Now in a fair amount of cases this has been worked around by having the package outside of main as alternative dependency and a package in main offer basic functionality for the package to still

Re: alternative dependency ordering - with respect of packages in main

2011-09-22 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Bruce Sass [2011-09-21 23:18:54 CEST]: > On September 20, 2011 02:24:33 PM Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 01:12:37PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > > tl;dr - what do you think, is a "Depends: foo-contrib | foo" acceptable > > >

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