Re: DEP1: Non Maintainer Uploads (final call for review)

2008-08-21 Thread Nick Phillips
On 21/08/2008, at 8:56 PM, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: My concept of the package changelog is to give a chronological account of the changes that happened to the package. Right... What is the problem with documenting which versions were actually present in the archive? That it conflicts wi

Re: DEP1: Non Maintainer Uploads (final call for review)

2008-08-21 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Wed, August 20, 2008 14:14, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Say stable and testing have 1.0-1. Sid has 1.0-2. > stable-security has 1.0-1+etch1 The maintainer wants to upload something to > t-p-u. If we had a codename that sorted before etch we would be screwed. I don't think we're "screwed", rather t

Re: DEP1: Non Maintainer Uploads (final call for review)

2008-08-21 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:56:14AM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst a écrit : > > My concept of the package changelog is to give a chronological account of > the changes that happened to the package. Hi Thijs, isn't it anyway impossible to represent linearly the life tree of a package? Imagine that the ve

Re: DEP1: Non Maintainer Uploads (final call for review)

2008-08-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 06:20:47PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 18:33:01 -0300, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > The change is needed, since the BTS needs to know if the bugs are closed > > in that version or not. > > Could you propose an alternative wording for the following p

Re: DEP1: Non Maintainer Uploads (final call for review)

2008-08-21 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Thu, August 21, 2008 10:33, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 01:33:16PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: >> But perhaps we need another mechanism to signal this. Consecutive >> uploads to the same distribution should not cause previously present >> version entries to disappear from t

Re: DEP1: Non Maintainer Uploads (final call for review)

2008-08-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 01:33:16PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > That has the drawback of not notifying the maintainer explicitly directly > after (or even before) the upload. > But perhaps we need another mechanism to signal this. Consecutive uploads to > the same distribution should not caus

Re: DEP1: Non Maintainer Uploads (final call for review)

2008-08-21 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 20/08/08 at 17:15 +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > After a long delay, here is a final call for reviews and comments for > > DEP1. > > Hi! A meta-issue: It would be nice if your DEP1 was freely licensed. I > didn't see a license sta