Re: Bits from the DPL (April 2019)

2019-05-12 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
en necessarry is easy, but then dh will still take care of the rest and it will also adopt when something globally changes. I'm all in favor for requiring packages to be using dh (at least new packages). -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Deve

Bug#746514: Autoreconf during build

2014-04-30 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
uild process. Regenerating configure is often a major pita as it often requires additional steps additional to calling auto*. Where possible and if needed there is dh_autoreconf, but even that fails often enough. And forcing people to upgrade configure is a waste of time imho. -- Bernd Zeimetz

Re: Changes in the maintenance of the Developers Reference

2009-09-21 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
r list to use for that. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A

Re: Environment variables, debian/rules and dpkg-buildpackage

2009-05-04 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
iable names upstream may be using, otherwise you'd add new problems while adding new vars. > > > So I think for next dpkg upload we should make dpkg-buildpackage stop > setting any flags by default, and switch the setting to go through the Please do so! +1 from m

Bug#466550: Pristine source from upstream VCS repository

2009-03-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Russ Allbery wrote: > Bernd Zeimetz writes: > >> No, please don't just add another watch file just for the sake of it, >> using these files is more or less like living in the last >> century. People are able to get the current source from the Debian pool, >> i

Re: Bug#466550: Pristine source from upstream VCS repository

2009-03-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12 2009, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > >> Manoj Srivastava wrote: >>> a) Run a upstream version check from cron, which mails me if there are >>> new upstream versions of something I have. >> What happens if your watc

Re: Bug#466550: Pristine source from upstream VCS repository

2009-03-12 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
es in my git, usually named upstream-svn/upstream-cvs or similar. Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bug#466550: Pristine source from upstream VCS repository

2009-03-12 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
w working with the repository works, which branches are used for what, and so on. At least that would fit *todays* way of handling packages, at least for a lot of people. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD

Re: Bug#447231: debian-policy: New Python policy missing

2008-01-25 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
forcemerge 447231 462377 thanks Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:46:53 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> the new Python policy is in use since several months now and should be >> integrated. > > Are these the poli

Bug#459868: debian-policy: Definition of Maintainer: when using a mailing list

2008-01-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 11274 March 1977, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > >>> ---+++--- >>> If the Maintainer address points to a mailing list then that list must >>> be configured to accept mail from those role accounts in Debian used to >>> send automated

Bug#459868: debian-policy: Definition of Maintainer: when using a mailing list

2008-01-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
tain at least one human. > ---+++--- seconded. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#452105: debian-policy: Homepage field in debian/control undocumented

2008-01-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Heya, seconded. Please apply Russ' patch to the policy. Thanks, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: menu section for gpr (and other printing tools)

2007-12-30 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
. Any suggestion? You probably want to read /usr/share/doc/menu/menu.txt.gz I'd suggest Applications -> System. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Breaks in lenny (was Re: Task list for a policy release)

2007-12-18 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
o use alioth - that's nothing you can force people to easily. A proper collection of patches - including descriptions - is the best way at the moment. -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: priorities

2007-12-06 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
tandard on a lot of systems, including OSX, it is 'bashed' for being bad in Debian's policy. But I wanted to send a bug about that anyway... -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Bug#435476: base-files: add MIT License as a common license

2007-11-30 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
censes contains some different copyright. -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: cups as "default" printing system for lenny?

2007-11-10 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
n't see any reason why it should have a higher priority than optional. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#447231: Joining the team and RFS python-avc

2007-11-05 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
reassign 447231 debian-policy,python-defaults thanks [adding the debian-python list again, I guess you've missed it]. Matthias Klose wrote: > Bernd Zeimetz writes: >> Then let's maintain it again. We maintain a lot of packages in a team, >> so I can't see a proble

Bug#447231: debian-policy: New Python policy missing

2007-10-19 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.7.2.2 Severity: normal Hi, the new Python policy is in use since several months now and should be integrated. http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/manoj-policy/ http://wiki.debian.org/DebianPython/NewPolicy are both much more uptodate than http://www.debian.org/d

Bug#442070: contrib, non-free != sections

2007-10-06 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi, also contrib and non-free are listed in the sections, imho they should be removed there, that's what we have categories for. Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec