Re: [RFS] crystalcursors and kde-icons-nuovext

2005-10-16 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 16-Oct-2005, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Oh my god, give the guy a break! > > We are. He's come here asking for feedback on his package; we're > informing him of acceptable style. Actually, he was asking for a sponsored upload, not feedback on his pack

Re: upgrades skipping stable releases

2005-10-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 05:00:01PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 09:48:26PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: > > You can remove the transition package now; upgrades skipping a stable > > release are not supported. > Interesting, is this policy or just common practice in pa

Re: question about closing bugs in changelog

2005-10-16 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 01:16:19PM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Bastian Venthur wrote: > > I when I upload a new version of my package to debian, will the > > *whole* changelog parsed for fixed bugs, or just the last changelog > > entry? > All changelog entries in the .changes. Use -vVERsion wit

Re: [RFS] crystalcursors and kde-icons-nuovext

2005-10-16 Thread Ben Finney
On 16-Oct-2005, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Oh my god, give the guy a break! We are. He's come here asking for feedback on his package; we're informing him of acceptable style. > If this offends you, then make it into policy! Debian is not a > police state! Policy is also advisory. No-one is for

Re: [RFS] crystalcursors and kde-icons-nuovext

2005-10-16 Thread Bastian Venthur
Ricardo Mones wrote: > >> I have lots of commented-out debhelper lines which sometimes later get >> used when upstream does add a relevant file. >> >> If you like things all prim and proper, that's fine, but please don't >> impose it on others. > > I think the one who should take a break is

Re: [RFS] crystalcursors and kde-icons-nuovext

2005-10-16 Thread Ricardo Mones
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 13:53:11 -0400 Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ricardo Mones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 14:21:06 +0200 > > Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The difference in *bytes* is exactly 338 -- this is ~5-10 times smaller > >

Re: [RFS] crystalcursors and kde-icons-nuovext

2005-10-16 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 15 October 2005 22:47, Bastian Venthur wrote: > > Hmm, this is rather cosmetical, isn't it? > > Mostly. But the template is merely there as a superset of things you could > possibly need. It doesn't do any harm to leave it in there. And I d

Re: [RFS] crystalcursors and kde-icons-nuovext

2005-10-16 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Ricardo Mones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 14:21:06 +0200 > Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The difference in *bytes* is exactly 338 -- this is ~5-10 times smaller > > than the size of *one* single cursor contained in this package. > > Your package being bi

Re: [RFS] crystalcursors and kde-icons-nuovext

2005-10-16 Thread Bastian Venthur
Christoph Haas wrote: > On Saturday 15 October 2005 22:47, Bastian Venthur wrote: >> > - a lot of commented-out debhelper calls in debian/rules >> >> Hmm, this is rather cosmetical, isn't it? > > Mostly. But the template is merely there as a superset of things you could > possibly need. It doesn'

Re: [RFS] crystalcursors and kde-icons-nuovext

2005-10-16 Thread Christoph Haas
On Saturday 15 October 2005 22:47, Bastian Venthur wrote: > Christoph Haas wrote: > > On Saturday 15 October 2005 14:59, Bastian Venthur wrote: > >> I'm searching for sponsorship of my packages: > >> > >> crystalcursors > >> + http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/crystalcursors.html > >> + http://vent

Re: [RFS] crystalcursors and kde-icons-nuovext

2005-10-16 Thread Ricardo Mones
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 14:21:06 +0200 Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The difference in *bytes* is exactly 338 -- this is ~5-10 times smaller > than the size of *one* single cursor contained in this package. Your package being big is no excuse to make it bigger without need to, better

upgrades skipping stable releases

2005-10-16 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 09:48:26PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: > You can remove the transition package now; upgrades skipping a stable > release are not supported. Interesting, is this policy or just common practice in past releases? -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny

Re: [RFS] crystalcursors and kde-icons-nuovext

2005-10-16 Thread Bastian Venthur
Ricardo Mones wrote: > On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 22:47:26 +0200 > Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > - a lot of commented-out debhelper calls in debian/rules >> >> Hmm, this is rather cosmetical, isn't it? > > Is not only cosmetics, is also disk space and bandwidth for holding > usel

Re: [RFS] crystalcursors and kde-icons-nuovext

2005-10-16 Thread Ben Finney
On 15-Oct-2005, Bastian Venthur wrote: > Christoph Haas wrote: > > - a lot of commented-out debhelper calls in debian/rules > > Hmm, this is rather cosmetical, isn't it? It's poor style, which more than cosmetics is also distraction and a waste of every reader's time. There is no downside to re

Re: [RFS] crystalcursors and kde-icons-nuovext

2005-10-16 Thread Ricardo Mones
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 22:47:26 +0200 Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - a lot of commented-out debhelper calls in debian/rules > > Hmm, this is rather cosmetical, isn't it? Is not only cosmetics, is also disk space and bandwidth for holding useless stuff. -- Ricardo Mones ~