handling of guest accounts on debian.org machines

Hi, The Debian distribution tries to run on many different architectures, many more than the average packager usually has in their basement. In order for people to be able to work on bugs in their packages that only manifest themselves on certain architectures, the Debian project runs porterboxes

DSA meeting (Munich 3/9/10)

Hello all, This past weekend, several DSA (Stephen Gran, Peter Palfrader and Martin Zobel-Helas) met in Munich to talk about some of the issues facing DSA. We discussed the following issues: - userdir-ldap (the Debian account management system): Most of the changes needed here are programmatic

Re: DEP-5: Ack section

On ti, 2010-08-31 at 11:10 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > + Larz Wirzenius > > Don't forgot yourself! :) Done. If anyone remembers anyone else who should be added, please tell me, and I'll add them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: DEP-5: Files field and filename patterns

On la, 2010-08-28 at 19:51 +1200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > To make this go forward, I suggest that we adopt Charles's suggestion of > very simple globbing, since that's going to be compatible with more > powerful syntaxes if we want to adopt those later. Further, I suggest we > not treat the slash c

DEP5: Editorial changes

I propose the attached patch to make some editorial changes to DEP5. A summary of the changes is below. I believe these should be uncontroversial and that they do not change the meaning of the spec, but do make it easier to read and edit. If nobody objects, I'll apply and push this in a day or two