Re: Mechanism for removing developers

1999-01-29 Thread Darren Benham
On 29-Jan-99 Hartmut Koptein wrote: > This is now off-topic, but important (for me): > >> What about me? I'll use myself as example. When I get bug reports, I look >> at >> them... fix them if I can, file them in the "to be done" if I can't. The >> person >> who files that report won't hear fr

Re: Mechanism for removing developers

1999-01-29 Thread Hartmut Koptein
This is now off-topic, but important (for me): > What about me? I'll use myself as example. When I get bug reports, I look at > them... fix them if I can, file them in the "to be done" if I can't. The > person > who files that report won't hear from me, personally, unless I need for Why will

Bug#29874: Optional and conflicting packages.

1999-01-29 Thread Richard Braakman
Santiago Vila wrote: > With your interpretation, you can install all the default > (required+important+standard) packages, plus any other *single* optional > package at your choice, but if you choose two optional packages at random > then you can found a conflict between them. I think this is the

Re: Optional and conflicting packages.

1999-01-29 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Richard Braakman wrote: > Santiago Vila wrote: > > Which do you think it is the purpose of downgrading a package to extra > > when it does conflict with a package of "higher priority" if it is not to > > make required+important+standard+optional a self-consistent set of > > pa

Re: Mechanism for removing developers

1999-01-29 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Darren Benham wrote: > If "One mail is enough -- the bug report!" then One response should be enough, > also from the bug tracking system. If you need the bug fixed, raise the > severity (it'll be fixed by the next release, pulled or get a response from > the > maintainer as

Re: Bug#29874: optional packages that should be extra

1999-01-29 Thread Santiago Vila
On 27 Jan 1999, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I must confess that even I thought the the policy statement > meant that one should be able to install all optional packages > simultaneously. I think this is exactly the idea Ian Jackson had in mind when he wrote those definitions, and I think w

Re: Mechanism for removing developers

1999-01-29 Thread John Goerzen
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 10:22:12PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > Hmmm. Both cron and nvi have some very old bugs. I haven't sent anything > to the submitters in quite a while w.r.t. those bugs. I agree that they > are bugs, but I also think that they are fairly obscure (no one else > has complai

Re: Mechanism for removing developers

1999-01-29 Thread Steve Greenland
On 28-Jan-99, 09:13 (CST), John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 02:17:42PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > I really don't like your idea. There are many packages with many bugs : > > http://master.debian.org/~vincent/report-bybugnum.txt > > And also many packages