On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 12:34:42PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 12:18:30PM +0100, Adeodato Sim?? wrote:
> > Currently, when having discussions about improvements to Debian, it is
> > not always clear when consensus has been reached, and people willing to
> > implement it ma
> > > I had reasons why I dont fill the pipe with E-Mails that contain 20
> > > pages long efforts if the expectation is pretty hostile feedback.
> > As you can see, posting generalities didn't really fare much better.
> Right - 20 pages of anything, from someone who doesn't appear to be
> contri
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 09:12:53AM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote:
> If people want to do this, it's useful. The problem that is described
> is that people don't actually want to do this, because they don't know
> if their solution will be used.
That seems a pretty bad rationale -- implementing your s
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 07:33:41PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 09:12:53AM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote:
> > If people want to do this, it's useful. The problem that is described
> > is that people don't actually want to do this, because they don't know
> > if their solution wi
Hi,
This is my first and only mail on this subject.
> Subject: Re: Re^4: ideas regarding a conflict management strategy
Why do you start new threads all the time? It breaks mutt's threaded
view, and it makes sure that your message shows as a new thread. This
also makes it impossible to ignore
Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 12:18:30PM +0100, Adeodato Sim?? wrote:
> > * Making debian/copyright be machine parseable.
> > * Agreeing upon a meta-package name or virtual package name.
>
> These sorts of issues are already tracked with the BTS, for instance wh
"Lars Versen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Steve Langasek, exactly that is a general misunderstanding of you and
> a few other Debian Developers.
> "I have three world-class operating system releases to my credit,
> and you dont" [...]
I don't believe Steve Langasek ever wrote that. Please try to
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 12:15:33PM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote:
> > > For example, the machine-parsable copyright thing
> > > seems (to me) to be pretty much accepted as a Good Thing, but it's
> > > unclear when it would be a good idea to start suggesting or even
> > > mandating it in policy.
> > Well,
On 18/01/08 at 12:15 +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote:
> > If you've already decided you want to invent your own system,
>
> Oh no, it's not decided at all. I'm not convinced by you, but if many
> others are, this isn't going to happen I suppose. That's why we're
> discussing it. ;-)
I'm not convinced e
Hi
James recently merged a little branch from me into mainline dak code,
its changelog having:
* dak/examine_package.py (check_deb): Remove linda call. It
provides no added benefit to lintian anymore.
Iow - while you are free to use linda, NEW doesn't use it
anymore.
During the last few m
Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> Let's take bug #209008 (debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] common interface for
> parallel building in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS) as an example. There are already
> 50 mails in that bug report, split in 5 threads. If you want to know the
> status of this pseudo-DEP, you basically have to rea
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 01:16:29PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> If we called this field a summary, one interface to use it could be to
> mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] to set a new summary. This would add
> the message to the detailed bug log, [...]
That more or less means having a particular message in the
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 02:35:57PM +, MJ Ray wrote:
> "Lars Versen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Steve Langasek, exactly that is a general misunderstanding of you and
> > a few other Debian Developers.
> > "I have three world-class operating system releases to my credit,
> > and you dont" [..
#include
january 16, 2008, Michael Banck wrote:
> Personally, I think DEP should go to d-d-a *once accepted* (dunno about
> obsoleted, maybe as well), but initial drafts should go to either
> debian-devel (DEP touches development, I assume this will be the vast
> majority of DEPs, also the case f
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