Re: Bug#776413: The status of ed

2018-10-16 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, I spoke with Sean during DebConf18 about #776557 and he promised me to give me an answer on that. None received so far, though. I guess there are more urgent policy issues around there... Best regards, Martin PS: sorry for TOFU when sending mails from my cell phone during vacation. > Am 1

Bug#896749: footnote of 3.3 lists deprecated alioth mailinglist URL

2018-04-24 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
recommends no packages. Versions of packages debian-policy suggests: ii doc-base 0.10.8 -- no debconf information -- Martin Zobel-Helas Debian System Administrator Debian & GNU/Linux Developer Debian Listmaster http://about.me/zobel

Bug#776557: debian-policy: Please clarify 2.5 'unix heritage >= important'

2015-01-29 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
ind the definition of "What on earth is going on, where is foo?" not very helpful to define if a package is important or not. Cheers, Martin -- Martin Zobel-Helas Debian System Administrator Debian & GNU/Linux Developer Debian Listmaster http://about.me/zobel

Bug#776557: debian-policy: Please clarify 2.5 'unix heritage >= important'

2015-01-29 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.18.0-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) -- Martin Zobel-Helas

Bug#683643: dev-ref as .epub or .mobi

2012-08-02 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
d this with my kindle on > my daily way to the office. xmlto can do epub as output format, so this should be quite easy. -- Martin Zobel-Helas | Debian System Administrator Debian & GNU/Linux Developer | Debian Listmaster GPG key http://go.debian.net/B11B627B | G

Bug#679562: developers-reference: note that it is possible for Release Team to override urgency

2012-06-29 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
evious testing transition is taken into account. Those > delays may be doubled during a freeze, or testing > -transitions may be switched off altogether; > +transitions may be switched off altogether. The Debian Release team can > override > +the ugency; > > > -

Proposal: Amendment for section 7.7 debian policy

2009-07-09 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
machine. Also network facing services may expose the system to security issues. b) You can not relay on the assumption that init-scripts are not called within a building chroot. Improvments of the above text are welcome and reasons that proof me wrong also. -- Martin Zobel-Helas | Debian

Bug#454431: debian-policy: Policy for module sources needed

2007-12-05 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, On Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 12:06:34 +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Severity: normal > > I think we should have policy for module source packages that specifies > how such a package should look like. There are several ways to build a > kernel module from a source file and

Re: Bug#397939: Proposal: Packages must have a working clean target

2006-11-22 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, FYI, Alexander Wirt started rebuilding the archive testing for packages which have not a proper working clean target. Expect results in a few days. (Within 90min already 4 packages popped up). Greetings Martin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] /root]# man real-life No manual entry for real-life -- To

Re: Bug#397939: Proposal: Packages must have a working clean target

2006-11-10 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
On Fri Nov 10, 2006 at 10:48:15 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Certainly, though, being unable to build a package twice is a bug that > should be reported against that package. (I actually don't know if any of > my packages have this problem; some of them have so many build > dependencies that I

Bug#397939: Proposal: Packages must have a working clean target

2006-11-10 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Package: debian-policy Severity: important Hi, during the last months i had to review several packages. Quite a number of packages were not buildable two times (eg. "unrepresentable changes to source"). Most of these packages used svn-buildpackage or cvs-buildpackage. This bug is quite annoying