Re: Proposal: a more general and flexible appoach of packages.

1998-12-15 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 05:31:16PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > > That still leaves in the dependency on the physical maintainer. It also > > makes the information in the Packages file authoritative for the > > maintainer information. This is Bad for several reasons, only one of them > > being

Re: Proposal: a more general and flexible appoach of packages.

1998-12-15 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 05:02:17PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, Hi! First of all: I think your idea is excellent! > > Could we extend this one more step and state that any package depending > > on foo has their maintainer subscribed to foo's mailing list. That was > > when foo change

RE: Proposal: a more general and flexible appoach of packages.

1998-12-14 Thread joost
Hi, On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Darren Benham wrote: > OOps... took out the wrong addresses in the CC field... > > When maintainer's change, who's going to change the subscription list? In case The Maintainer of a package changes identity, the "maintainers maintainer" would. With a single change, a

Re: Proposal: a more general and flexible appoach of packages.

1998-12-11 Thread Brian Almeida
On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 04:49:57PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > > I know Brian will be thankful for having an Imlib mailing list. > See my last mail re this issue. Erm? I must admit I don't read every message that goes thru -devel, would take up far too much time...is there an archive of -devel o

Re: Proposal: a more general and flexible appoach of packages.

1998-12-11 Thread Brian Almeida
On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 10:33:02AM -0500, Shaleh wrote: > I know Brian will be thankful for having an Imlib mailing list. Ugh. Fortunately Imlib is, for the most part, a well-behaved package. Even if the bug reports I get for it do give me chest pains sometimes...;) > Could we extend this one mor

RE: Proposal: a more general and flexible appoach of packages.

1998-12-11 Thread Darren Benham
OOps... took out the wrong addresses in the CC field... When maintainer's change, who's going to change the subscription list? The physical maintainer's via a "(un)subscribe" message? That would still leave things in the hands of a physical maintainer... Automaticly from a package upload would s

Re: Proposal: a more general and flexible appoach of packages.

1998-12-11 Thread Martin Schulze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > a) Use [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the maintainer field > > of package foo. > > That still leaves in the dependency on the physical maintainer. It also > makes the information in the Packages file authoritative for the > maintainer information. Thi

Re: Proposal: a more general and flexible appoach of packages.

1998-12-11 Thread joost
Hi, On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: > some issues of your proposel are already working. Every package can have > a mailing list referenced through [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is already > working for over a year. Yes, I know. But part of my point was that the way it works now is a bit o

RE: Proposal: a more general and flexible appoach of packages.

1998-12-11 Thread joost
Hi, On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Shaleh wrote: > Nifty idea. Kinda like it. My only beef is that the "user" must know to mail > [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than [EMAIL PROTECTED] or > [EMAIL PROTECTED] True. But I don't think that using [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] as an alias for exactly these

Re: Proposal: a more general and flexible appoach of packages.

1998-12-11 Thread Martin Schulze
Shaleh wrote: > Nifty idea. Kinda like it. My only beef is that the "user" must know to mail > [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than [EMAIL PROTECTED] or > [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is a cute mechanism that [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] both work, so for regular libraries this issue is resolved.

Re: Proposal: a more general and flexible appoach of packages.

1998-12-11 Thread Martin Schulze
Howdy Joost, some issues of your proposel are already working. Every package can have a mailing list referenced through [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is already working for over a year. Requirements: a) Use [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the maintainer field of package foo. b) Creat

RE: Proposal: a more general and flexible appoach of packages.

1998-12-11 Thread Shaleh
Nifty idea. Kinda like it. My only beef is that the "user" must know to mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not a big issue I know. But you get my meaning. I know Brian will be thankful for having an Imlib mailing list. Could we extend this one more step a

Proposal: a more general and flexible appoach of packages.

1998-12-11 Thread joost
Hi, On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be a valid address. Would > that be sufficient for you? "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ? **dazzle** With an email address like that, there must be a great idea behind it :-) Seriously, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] and