The web page on becoming a debian maintainer states that my identity has to
be verified by mail, and that i will get a phone call after hours.
What time zone is the after hours call made ?
Is it really necessary for someone to have to pay for an expensive long
distance phone call to verify my ide
Glenn -- I am not a maintainer, but the way I read it... the afterhours
phone call is made from whoever is close to you. There are several
developers in australia, so likely one of them would call you up to talk for
a bit.
The reason why doing it over the phone is a good idea is that people have a
On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 01:24:34PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
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> On 08-Oct-99 David Coe wrote:
> > Ben Darnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> In the previous package, a tcl script
> >> was left in the pilot-link package, which made it depend on tcl/tk and
> >> th
Something that's been going through my mind recently is the
following:
Say I had package foo, and all was going well. Then, upstream,
they change the package name to 'bar,' and I decide to go along with
it.
How could I go about making it automated for an upgrade to happen?
Could I drop a Depends:
On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 06:44:49PM -0700, Seth R Arnold wrote:
> The reason why doing it over the phone is a good idea is that
> people have a harder time lying over the phone -- in person is
> the most difficult time to lie. The whole point of it isn't to
> ensure competancy, well, maybe it is, bu
Doesn't it have something to do with verifying GPG/PGP fingerprints and
key signing?
On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 11:27:42PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> The web page on becoming a debian maintainer states that my identity has to
> be verified by mail, and that i will get a phone call after hours.
>
> The web page on becoming a debian maintainer states that my identity has to
> be verified by mail, and that i will get a phone call after hours.
> [...]
If you intend to be a developer, *please* subscribe to debian-announce
and debian-devel-announce. These are low-volume *important* lists.
It w
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote:
> Doesn't it have something to do with verifying GPG/PGP fingerprints and
> key signing?
Not at all. It is as mentioned, to verify your intentions, and to get a
view on your personality - "Yes, I understand" vs. "Yeah, Ok, whatever."
The GnuPG
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote:
> Glenn -- I am not a maintainer, but the way I read it... the afterhours
> phone call is made from whoever is close to you. There are several
> developers in australia, so likely one of them would call you up to talk for
> a bit.
Not True. It has been su
> > Doesn't it have something to do with verifying GPG/PGP fingerprints and
> > key signing?
>
> Not at all. It is as mentioned, to verify your intentions, and to get a
> view on your personality - "Yes, I understand" vs. "Yeah, Ok, whatever."
>
> The GnuPG signing is up to you, when you organ
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