Uploading to the DELAYED queue

2006-07-31 Thread Martin Schulze
Matthew Palmer wrote: > Can non-DDs upload to the DELAYED queues and get the package through anyway? > I'd hope not, since it'd be a massive hole. So, there's a DD involved / > responsible for the delayed upload in the first place, they should make sure > they can clear it again if necessary. Si

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-31 Thread Hubert Chan
On Tue, 1 Aug 2006 07:28:20 +1000, Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 11:22:15AM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote: >> And it also wouldn't help those of us who aren't DDs (yet), as we >> would have to get someone else to delete it for us, which with >> possible delays may b

Re: NMUs and (auto-)subscription to the PTS

2006-07-31 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 10:28:44AM -0400, Matthias Julius wrote: > Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 06:35:57AM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > >> > >> ISTR a discussion about automatically subscribing NMUers to the PTS for > >> the package, and dropping the s

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-31 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 11:22:15AM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote: > On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:56:10 +0200, Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > * Steve Langasek [Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:57:38 -0700]: > >> Nor is it actually required. Any DD can delete an upload out of the > >> delayed queue on gluck

LSB 3.1 status for etch

2006-07-31 Thread Jeff Licquia
First of all, I apologize for the lateness of my report. I had intended to evaluate some of the results I had found, but did not find time to do so. I have seen two questions asked about the LSB and Debian. First: - Policy currently references LSB 1.3, while 3.1 is the current version. What a

Re: package ownership in Debian

2006-07-31 Thread Hubert Chan
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:46:48 -0500, Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I completely understand your point - but still, it still places an > unnecessary burden. Often, when I do NMUs it is because I found a bug > I can fix _and_ because I found some available time to work on it. Of > course, I

Re: package ownership in Debian

2006-07-31 Thread George Danchev
On Monday 31 July 2006 19:46, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Hubert Chan dijo [Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 12:30:06AM -0400]: > > > I meant with group of maintainers, number of uploaders > 1. Joerg > > > Jaspert said that he wouldn't like to be forced to team maintenance > > > and suggested 0day NMUs for >= normal

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 01:56:10PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Steve Langasek [Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:57:38 -0700]: > > Nor is it actually required. Any DD can delete an upload out of the delayed > > queue on gluck. > Er, the directories have the sticky bit set. Ah; this seems to be a regressi

Re: package ownership in Debian

2006-07-31 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Hubert Chan dijo [Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 12:30:06AM -0400]: > > I meant with group of maintainers, number of uploaders > 1. Joerg > > Jaspert said that he wouldn't like to be forced to team maintenance > > and suggested 0day NMUs for >= normal bugs with current rules (patch > > to the bts), so if yo

Re: Debian's birthday, 16th of august

2006-07-31 Thread Santiago Ruano Rincón
Hi, In Colombia, we'll celebrate the anniversary with the first Colombian MiniDebconf [1], @ Popayán, August 19th - 20th [1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianColombia/MiniDebconf2006 Regards, Santiago Ruano Rincón signature.asc Description: Esta parte del mensaje está firmada digitalmente

Website translation without pserver access (was: login problem)

2006-07-31 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 30 July 2006 04:26, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote: > Is there a way to non-DDs to update the webwml tree (or get tarballs > like Raphael did for debian-admin)? I have made tarballs available on: http://people.debian.org/~fjp/webwml/ See the text at the bottom of that page

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-31 Thread Hubert Chan
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:56:10 +0200, Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > * Steve Langasek [Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:57:38 -0700]: >> Nor is it actually required. Any DD can delete an upload out of the >> delayed queue on gluck. > Er, the directories have the sticky bit set. And it also wouldn't

Re: package ownership in Debian

2006-07-31 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
Manoj: > Sometimes, too many cooks do indeed spoil the broth. Plausible reasons have been advanced on both sides, but how much weight does plausibility really carry? If experience trumps theory, then my view is that Manoj is right about this. Loic: > Utopia which is working pretty nicely with Ub

Re: Branding for Debian derivatives -- "Debian Distilled"

2006-07-31 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Anthony Towns > > >> Okay, so this is just my idea. Add grains of salt to taste, etc. >> >> The idea is to take the Debian "official use" logo [0] which we've >> never really made much use of, and declare it the logo for derivatives >> instead. Add the word "di

Re: NMUs and (auto-)subscription to the PTS

2006-07-31 Thread Matthias Julius
Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 06:35:57AM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: >> >> ISTR a discussion about automatically subscribing NMUers to the PTS for >> the package, and dropping the subscription with the next upload of the >> package (be it a maintainer upload

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-31 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Steve Langasek [Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:57:38 -0700]: > Nor is it actually required. Any DD can delete an upload out of the delayed > queue on gluck. Er, the directories have the sticky bit set. Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer

Re: NMUs and (auto-)subscription to the PTS

2006-07-31 Thread Amaya
Adeodato Simó wrote: > ISTR a discussion about automatically subscribing NMUers to the PTS > for the package, and dropping the subscription with the next upload of > the package (be it a maintainer upload or not). That would be wonderful! I manually track the bugs of the packages I upload or spon

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-31 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 31 July 2006 09:57, Steve Langasek wrote: > Nor is it actually required. Any DD can delete an upload out of the > delayed queue on gluck. Looking at the permissions on files in DELAYED, an NMU can only be deleted by the person who uploaded it (and Tollef of course). Files are "rw" for

Re: Branding for Debian derivatives -- "Debian Distilled"

2006-07-31 Thread Nick Phillips
Henning Makholm wrote: > >> Okay, so this is just my idea. Add grains of salt to taste, etc. >> >> The idea is to take the Debian "official use" logo [0] which we've >> never really made much use of, and declare it the logo for derivatives >> instead. Add the word "distilled" [1] underneath, and yo

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 02:12:21AM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote: > On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 06:47:33 +0200, Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > * Hubert Chan [Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:09:26 -0400]: > >> Not having used the DELAYED queue before, is it possible for the > >> maintainer to reject an upload

Re: sponsership

2006-07-31 Thread Robert Butahe
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