Why are old bug reports left open?

A bug is years old. It will probably not be fixed. It should probably not be fixed. It is probably not even a bug. The bug's submitter is not complaining. Why is the bug still open? Example: #619363. [1] 1: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=619363 If I were the maintain

Get your GPG key signed March 25 in Blacksburg, Virginia

If you still need your GPG key signed by two Debian Developers and live near enough to get to Blacksburg, Virginia, then DDs Jon Bernard and Thaddeus H. Black will sign your key there March 25. Feel free to attend. We would be pleased to have you. Date: Tues., March 25, 2014 Time: 4:30 p.m

Bug#360250: RFH: debram -- ramified catalog of available .debs

eds) would be a plus. I will spend the time needed to mentor the right volunteer. Reply to me off-list (or on the BTS, but not on debian-mentors) if interested. -- Thaddeus H. Black 508 Nellie's Cave Road Blacksburg, Virginia 24060, USA +1 540 961 0920, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL P

Re: RFC/RFS: ...

rship brigade, but realistically it probably will. Be that as it may. I suggest that that brigade are a remarkably noisy minority. Anyway, please don't package the proposed package. This is my request.) -- Thaddeus H. Black 508 Nellie's Cave Road Blacksburg, Virginia 24060, USA +1 540 9

Sponsors and the Uploaders field (was: RFS: dict-freedict ...)

uestion is not really meant to propose a new policy. It is just a question, to help me to understand the issue better.) -- Thaddeus H. Black (thb) [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2005/09/msg00187.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: packages size versus files under dpkg control

am looking in the wrong place. If W.B. or others wish to comment, I would be interested in what they had to say, because I am considering a future package which would pose exactly this kind of problem. Thanks. -- Thaddeus H. Black 508 Nellie's Cave Road Blacksburg, Virginia 24060, USA +1 5

Re: Pulling X11 dependency out of the Erlang package.

François-Denis Gonthier wrote: > I'm the erlang package maintainer. I've been suggested by someone to make an > Erlang package that is not dependant on X11. Wise suggestion. > I found that logic because an > Erlang system node doesn't usually require an UI. But, after thinking about > that,

Re: Looking for python-xlib sponsor

ter to think of "Recommends" as a technical term meaning "weakly depends on". The Debian relationship usually corresponding to the English word "recommends" is "Suggests". I think that that captures the essence of the concept, but if an in-depth disc

postinst and /dev/tty

Question: does "/dev/tty" not block? Policy sect 6.3 seems to suggest this bi-redirection for certain postinst scripts, and oddly it seems to work. Why does it not block, please? -- Thaddeus H. Black 508 Nellie's Cave Road Blacksburg, Virginia 24060, USA +1 540 961 0920, [

postinst and /dev/tty

Question: does "/dev/tty" not block? Policy sect 6.3 seems to suggest this bi-redirection for certain postinst scripts, and oddly it seems to work. Why does it not block, please? -- Thaddeus H. Black 508 Nellie's Cave Road Blacksburg, Virginia 24060, USA +1 540 961 0920, [

for a Perl script to find a module

straightforward. Even if it were not ugly, it is sly and I cannot trust it. How can I fix it? All I want the script to do is to find a module. The module is not sneaking around, hiding somewhere, after all; it stands right there at the script's shoulder, ready to serve. -- Thaddeus H.

for a Perl script to find a module

straightforward. Even if it were not ugly, it is sly and I cannot trust it. How can I fix it? All I want the script to do is to find a module. The module is not sneaking around, hiding somewhere, after all; it stands right there at the script's shoulder, ready to serve. -- Thaddeus H.