Re: nm.debian.org statistics buggy ?

2002-08-16 Thread Craig Small
On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 02:59:17PM +0200, Helios de Creisquer wrote: > Without any crystal ball, I am able to say that an applicant waiting > since 3 months at this stage will have a total time of waiting superior > to 3 months for this stage when his complete application will be done. > > A

Re: nm.debian.org statistics buggy ?

2002-08-16 Thread Craig Small
On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 01:28:07PM +0100, Will Newton wrote: > On Friday 16 Aug 2002 1:14 pm, Craig Small wrote: > > > The statistics are for the people who passed each checkpoint in the last > > three months. > > Rather at a tangent, but it appears from reading the archives of > debian-newmain

Re: architecture in script

2002-08-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 04:28:53PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > Hi, how can I easily determine the host architecture string in a > maintainer script? 'dpkg --print-installation-architecture' should do it. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

architecture in script

2002-08-16 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Hi, how can I easily determine the host architecture string in a maintainer script? dpkg-architecture is in the dpkg-dev package, which I obviously cannot depend on. I could massage the output of uname or arch, but that seems too ugly (and I don't even know what all the possible outputs are). -

Re: Orig tarball naming

2002-08-16 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 19:16:57 +0100, Paul Cupis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Friday 16 August 2002 18:10, Marc Haber wrote: >> I am wondering how cvs-buildpackage fits into this. From what I >> understand, cvs-inject checks in the unpacked upstream tarball into >> the CVS, puts an upstream_version

Re: architecture in script

2002-08-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 04:28:53PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > Hi, how can I easily determine the host architecture string in a > maintainer script? 'dpkg --print-installation-architecture' should do it. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

architecture in script

2002-08-16 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Hi, how can I easily determine the host architecture string in a maintainer script? dpkg-architecture is in the dpkg-dev package, which I obviously cannot depend on. I could massage the output of uname or arch, but that seems too ugly (and I don't even know what all the possible outputs are).

Re: Orig tarball naming

2002-08-16 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 19:16:57 +0100, Paul Cupis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Friday 16 August 2002 18:10, Marc Haber wrote: >> I am wondering how cvs-buildpackage fits into this. From what I >> understand, cvs-inject checks in the unpacked upstream tarball into >> the CVS, puts an upstream_versio

Re: Orig tarball naming

2002-08-16 Thread Paul Cupis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 16 August 2002 18:10, Marc Haber wrote: > On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 13:51:43 +0100, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >It's better to use > >the pristine source tarball provided by upstream where possible and not > >needlessly repack it

Re: Orig tarball naming

2002-08-16 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am wondering how cvs-buildpackage fits into this. From what I > understand, cvs-inject checks in the unpacked upstream tarball into > the CVS, puts an upstream_version tag on it. cvs-buildpackage then > creates the orig.tar.gz from the CVS sources. Isn't

Re: Orig tarball naming

2002-08-16 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 13:51:43 +0100, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It's better to use >the pristine source tarball provided by upstream where possible and not >needlessly repack it, since this has nice properties like allowing >people to compare md5sums easily. I am wondering how cvs-bui

Re: Orig tarball naming

2002-08-16 Thread Paul Cupis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 16 August 2002 18:10, Marc Haber wrote: > On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 13:51:43 +0100, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >It's better to use > >the pristine source tarball provided by upstream where possible and not > >needlessly repack i

Re: Orig tarball naming

2002-08-16 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am wondering how cvs-buildpackage fits into this. From what I > understand, cvs-inject checks in the unpacked upstream tarball into > the CVS, puts an upstream_version tag on it. cvs-buildpackage then > creates the orig.tar.gz from the CVS sources. Isn't

Re: Orig tarball naming

2002-08-16 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 13:51:43 +0100, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It's better to use >the pristine source tarball provided by upstream where possible and not >needlessly repack it, since this has nice properties like allowing >people to compare md5sums easily. I am wondering how cvs-bu

Re: Orig tarball naming

2002-08-16 Thread Will Newton
On Friday 16 Aug 2002 1:51 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > dpkg-source sorts this out, so don't worry about it. It's better to use > the pristine source tarball provided by upstream where possible and not > needlessly repack it, since this has nice properties like allowing > people to compare md5sums ea

Re: nm.debian.org statistics buggy ?

2002-08-16 Thread Helios de Creisquer
On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 10:14:24PM +1000, Craig Small wrote: > On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 04:45:14AM +0200, Helios de Creisquer wrote: > > I was wondering about the 'statistics' on nm.debian.org: Seems there > > are far away from reality, at least for the "Maximal" days of the > > "Awaiting DAM App

Re: Orig tarball naming

2002-08-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 01:32:06PM +0100, Will Newton wrote: > I have just prepared a new release of a package I am maintaining when I > noticed I had forgotten to rename the upstream directroy in the tarball. > Upstream calls the source directory "clisp". In the last release, > clisp_2.28.orig.

Re: nm.debian.org statistics buggy ?

2002-08-16 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 01:28:07PM +0100, Will Newton wrote: > Rather at a tangent, but it appears from reading the archives of > debian-newmaint that no NM has been accepted as a developer since week ending > 12 May. Is this correct? It doesn't appear so - there appears to have been at least o

Re: nm.debian.org statistics buggy ?

2002-08-16 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Will Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-08-16 13:28]: > Rather at a tangent, but it appears from reading the archives of > debian-newmaint that no NM has been accepted as a developer since > week ending 12 May. Is this correct? No, just wait for the next report (on Sunday). -- Martin Michlmayr [E

Orig tarball naming

2002-08-16 Thread Will Newton
I have just prepared a new release of a package I am maintaining when I noticed I had forgotten to rename the upstream directroy in the tarball. Upstream calls the source directory "clisp". In the last release, clisp_2.28.orig.tar.gz, the source directory was called "clisp-2.28". I missed this

Re: nm.debian.org statistics buggy ?

2002-08-16 Thread Will Newton
On Friday 16 Aug 2002 1:14 pm, Craig Small wrote: > The statistics are for the people who passed each checkpoint in the last > three months. Rather at a tangent, but it appears from reading the archives of debian-newmaint that no NM has been accepted as a developer since week ending 12 May. Is

Re: nm.debian.org statistics buggy ?

2002-08-16 Thread Craig Small
On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 04:45:14AM +0200, Helios de Creisquer wrote: > I was wondering about the 'statistics' on nm.debian.org: Seems there are > far away from reality, at least for the "Maximal" days of the "Awaiting > DAM Approval" stage: No, you just don't understand them. > Or the statistics

Re: Orig tarball naming

2002-08-16 Thread Will Newton
On Friday 16 Aug 2002 1:51 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > dpkg-source sorts this out, so don't worry about it. It's better to use > the pristine source tarball provided by upstream where possible and not > needlessly repack it, since this has nice properties like allowing > people to compare md5sums e

Re: nm.debian.org statistics buggy ?

2002-08-16 Thread Helios de Creisquer
On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 10:14:24PM +1000, Craig Small wrote: > On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 04:45:14AM +0200, Helios de Creisquer wrote: > > I was wondering about the 'statistics' on nm.debian.org: Seems there > > are far away from reality, at least for the "Maximal" days of the > > "Awaiting DAM Ap

Re: Orig tarball naming

2002-08-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 01:32:06PM +0100, Will Newton wrote: > I have just prepared a new release of a package I am maintaining when I > noticed I had forgotten to rename the upstream directroy in the tarball. > Upstream calls the source directory "clisp". In the last release, > clisp_2.28.orig

Re: nm.debian.org statistics buggy ?

2002-08-16 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 01:28:07PM +0100, Will Newton wrote: > Rather at a tangent, but it appears from reading the archives of > debian-newmaint that no NM has been accepted as a developer since week ending > 12 May. Is this correct? It doesn't appear so - there appears to have been at least

Re: nm.debian.org statistics buggy ?

2002-08-16 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Will Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-08-16 13:28]: > Rather at a tangent, but it appears from reading the archives of > debian-newmaint that no NM has been accepted as a developer since > week ending 12 May. Is this correct? No, just wait for the next report (on Sunday). -- Martin Michlmayr [

Orig tarball naming

2002-08-16 Thread Will Newton
I have just prepared a new release of a package I am maintaining when I noticed I had forgotten to rename the upstream directroy in the tarball. Upstream calls the source directory "clisp". In the last release, clisp_2.28.orig.tar.gz, the source directory was called "clisp-2.28". I missed thi

Re: nm.debian.org statistics buggy ?

2002-08-16 Thread Will Newton
On Friday 16 Aug 2002 1:14 pm, Craig Small wrote: > The statistics are for the people who passed each checkpoint in the last > three months. Rather at a tangent, but it appears from reading the archives of debian-newmaint that no NM has been accepted as a developer since week ending 12 May. Is

Re: nm.debian.org statistics buggy ?

2002-08-16 Thread Craig Small
On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 04:45:14AM +0200, Helios de Creisquer wrote: > I was wondering about the 'statistics' on nm.debian.org: Seems there are > far away from reality, at least for the "Maximal" days of the "Awaiting > DAM Approval" stage: No, you just don't understand them. > Or the statistic