Bug#940144: developers-reference: document self-service givebacks in wanna-build section

2020-01-20 Thread Drew Parsons
Has the self-service wannabuild giveback script been disabled? It's now rejecting connections, e.g. https://buildd.debian.org/auth/giveback.cgi?pkg=ga&suite=sid&arch=armel generates Forbidden You don't have permission to access this resource.Reason: Cannot perform Post-Handshake Authenti

Bug#992414: debian-policy: upgrading-checklist is not upgraded

2021-08-18 Thread Drew Parsons
Package: debian-policy Version: 4.6.0.0 Severity: normal The upgrading-checklist at /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.txt.gz was not upgraded correctly for 4.6.0.0. It references Version 4.5.2 instead.

the math section should really be science

2001-03-11 Thread Drew Parsons
I'm packaging viewmol, a program for visualising molecules, used in computational chemistry. The question arises, what subsection should it be put into? A comparable program, rasmol, is already in debian, in the math subsection. But computational chemistry is not, strictly speaking, mathematics (i

Re: the math section should really be science

2001-03-13 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 07:03:51PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > > > > I'm packaging viewmol, a program for visualising molecules, used in > > > computational chemistry. > > > > > > The question arises, what subsection should it be put into? > > > A comparable program, rasmol, is already in debian,

Re: the math section should really be science

2001-03-13 Thread Drew Parsons
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 08:32:23PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 10:54:45PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > > Seems to me there's still a gaping hole in policy though. Is > > packages.debian.org really supposed to be the definitive arbiter of policy > >

Bug#122817: example of profile.d's usefulness

2003-01-19 Thread Drew Parsons
n.d instead to achieve the desired result for all X clients. Just a little more food for though :) Drew Parsons -- PGP public key available at http://people.debian.org/~dparsons/drewskey.txt Fingerprint: A110 EAE1 D7D2 8076 5FE0 EC0A B6CE 7041 6412 4E4A pgpbAMQu60v5p.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#365510: 11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11

2006-04-30 Thread Drew Parsons
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.7.0.0 Severity: normal Latest policy still says in 11.8.7 "Packages must not provide or install files into the directories /usr/bin/X11/, /usr/include/X11/ or /usr/lib/X11/." But the new X11R7 dev packages now generally put their headers into /usr/include/X11/.

Bug#365510: 11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11

2006-04-30 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 15:12 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Yes, policy definitely needs to be amended to reflect these changes in > X11R7. I don't have time to propose a formal policy amendment right now; > Drew, perhaps you would be willing to synthesize the above information into > one? Yeah,