Re: watch file in policy

2005-02-16 Thread Bluefuture
> Then you should improve uscan and the watch format so that it can > support more kind of packages. > Actually, the watch official format is defined by devscripts maintainer (Julian Gilbey). I doesn't want to fork the official format, if we could discuss about a formal format to be introduced i

Re: watch file in policy

2005-02-16 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 09:16:28PM +0100, Bluefuture wrote: > > Hello Bluefuture, > > while I appreciate your effort with DEHS, I think you do not realise > > how many package cannot have useful watch files. > > > > I maintain 9 non Debian-native sources packages: > > 1 have no upstream website a

Re: watch file in policy

2005-02-14 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 02:21:08AM +0100, Bluefuture wrote: > Hi Manoj/Debian-policy mailing list, > I'm the developer of dehs information system [1] that i had also > integrated with some useful info in the developer qa information > system[2]. > As you can see from here[3] 6250 not native source

Re: watch file in policy

2005-02-14 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 04:19:25PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Adam Heath wrote: > > On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Bluefuture wrote: > > > 3. submit with a wishlist (tag patch) bug to BTS. > > > > These things shouldn't be filed as bugs, when there are so many. Make a

Re: watch file in policy

2005-02-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Adam Heath wrote: > On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Bluefuture wrote: > > 3. submit with a wishlist (tag patch) bug to BTS. > > These things shouldn't be filed as bugs, when there are so many. Make a It is not an one-go mass-bug filling, since he has to review every watch file anyway.

Re: watch file in policy

2005-02-14 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Bluefuture wrote: > 3. submit with a wishlist (tag patch) bug to BTS. These things shouldn't be filed as bugs, when there are so many. Make a status page, discuss on -devel, and when the number of packages gets smaller, then maybe you can file a mass-bug. -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: watch file in policy

2005-02-12 Thread Bluefuture
Il giorno sab, 12-02-2005 alle 07:48 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh > > But i doesn't want to submit 6250 bugs to BTS. > > In this case, I don't see any other way for you to meet your goal. It IS a > lot of work, true. But you don't have to do it all at once... > This is a little work for

Re: watch file in policy

2005-02-12 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Bluefuture wrote: > This issue freeze the dehs information system in a quite unusable satus. No, it doesn't. IMHO, DEHS is useful even if it has not too many packages registered. > 1. get automatic generated watch file from dehs > 2. check itand > 3. submit with a wishlist

watch file in policy

2005-02-11 Thread Bluefuture
Hi Manoj/Debian-policy mailing list, I'm the developer of dehs information system [1] that i had also integrated with some useful info in the developer qa information system[2]. As you can see from here[3] 6250 not native source packages in debian doesn't have a watch file on 8238 total non native