Re: splitting debian-devel-changes

1998-01-17 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Jan 16, Guy Maor wrote: > Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Chris, who's spammed people with m68k uploads and is currently being > > spammed by sparc and alpha uploads. > > Surely you can program your mailer to throw away the mails about archs > that you're not interested in? I

Re: PW#5-12: New upload procedure

1998-01-17 Thread Guy Maor
Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The idea behind this is the following: Currently, the developer announces > the upload after having the file uploaded to Incoming. Since dinstall only > runs once a day there is a slight chance that a severe bug is detected and > fixed before dinstal

Re: /bin/sh as an alternative

1998-01-17 Thread Guy Maor
Adrian Bridgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Packages that contain scripts that use #!/bin/bash should depend on > bash in case bash becomes a non-essential package bash will never become nonessential. Guy

Re: PW#5-2: Maintainer's reaction on non-maintainer uploads

1998-01-17 Thread Guy Maor
Gregor Hoffleit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Regarding the notification about fixed bugs in nmu's: Is it really > intentional that this way (what Christian and Guy propose) the fixed > bugs won't be recorded anywhere in the package (since I can't list > them in the changelog), but would onl

Re: /bin/sh as an alternative

1998-01-17 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Fri, Jan 16, 1998 at 08:04:36PM +, Mark Baker wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 1998 at 06:59:58PM +, James Troup wrote: > > > > A quick check shows that ksh also does brace expansion, but (pd)ksh > > > doesn't. > > > > 19:58:[EMAIL PROTECTED]| ~/temp $ksh > > $echo {foo,blah} > > foo blah > >

Re: /bin/sh as an alternative

1998-01-17 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Fri, Jan 16, 1998 at 10:29:20PM +0100, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jan 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > > > I can't check with the original post, but personally I think that if a > > script *does* use bash features then in addition to beginning "#!/bin/bash" > > it should Depend: on bash.

Re: PW#5-2: Maintainer's reaction on non-maintainer uploads

1998-01-17 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gregor Hoffleit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Guy wrote: > > * If the nmu fixes many bugs, close the bugs, but reopen a new > > one with the diffs > > This is a diff [ ... ] Please watch your citations, Kai wrote that, not Guy. A

Handling of /etc/printcap

1998-01-17 Thread David Frey
Hello fellow developpers, I today just found out, that my magicfilter violates the newest policy by rewritting /etc/printcap, which is lpr|lprng's confile. What would be the correct solution for this problem? Shall I require that the lpr|lprng maintainer writes a modify-printcap command, so that I

Re: PW#5-12: New upload procedure

1998-01-17 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 17.01.98 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 15 Jan, Guy Maor wrote: > > Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >>Fixes: 98765 98766 9 > > > > So dinstall will be scanning for this field, and not looking in the > > changelog? In other words, this will

Re: PW#5-7: Linking shared libraries with -lc

1998-01-17 Thread Guy Maor
Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I thought they would only be dynamically linked with libc if the linking > program or another library had linked against libc. Granted, this should > be true in almost all cases, but I just wanted to get clarification. Depends on what you mean by "be dyn

Re: splitting debian-devel-changes

1998-01-17 Thread Guy Maor
Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Chris, who's spammed people with m68k uploads and is currently being > spammed by sparc and alpha uploads. Surely you can program your mailer to throw away the mails about archs that you're not interested in? Guy

Re: PW#5-2: Maintainer's reaction on non-maintainer uploads

1998-01-17 Thread James Troup
Gregor Hoffleit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Guy wrote: > > * If the nmu fixes many bugs, close the bugs, but reopen a new one > > with the diffs > > This is a diff [ ... ] Please watch your citations, Kai wrote that, not Guy. And FWIW I agree with Guy, I do not like the idea of bugs being c

Re: PW#5-2: Maintainer's reaction on non-maintainer uploads

1998-01-17 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
Guy wrote: > * If the nmu fixes many bugs, close the bugs, but reopen a new one > with the diffs This is a diff between the last maintainer release and this nmu ? What about nmu releases of new upstream versions ? I guess a diff between the last maintained release and the nmu would make not mu

Re: PW#5-12: New upload procedure

1998-01-17 Thread Christian Schwarz
On 15 Jan 1998, Guy Maor wrote: > Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >3.) [check for new packages every ten minutes] > >Check if package upload was complete and the files are correct > >(i.e. check PGP signature, MD5 sums, correct .changes file, etc.

Re: PW#5-12: New upload procedure

1998-01-17 Thread fpolacco
On 15 Jan, Guy Maor wrote: > Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>Fixes: 98765 98766 9 > > So dinstall will be scanning for this field, and not looking in the > changelog? In other words, this will only work for people that have > an updated dpkg-genchanges? I'd rather