Re: Frozen unstable (was: please test the numpy package)

2009-02-05 Thread Michael Hanke
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 07:50:36AM +0100, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 07:24:47AM +0100, Michael Hanke wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 05:17:11PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > > Ondrej Certik writes: > > > > > I am unhappy that unstable gets frozen for such a long time, but I

Re: Frozen unstable

2009-02-05 Thread Ben Finney
Steve Langasek writes: > It's not necessary to freeze unstable when preparing to release > testing; this is a significant reason why testing exists as a > separate suite. That's exactly what I thought; I'm glad to see a member of the release team reassert it. > So in fact, unstable is *not* fro

Re: Frozen unstable (was: please test the numpy package)

2009-02-05 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 07:24:47AM +0100, Michael Hanke wrote: > On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 05:17:11PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > Ondrej Certik writes: > > > I am unhappy that unstable gets frozen for such a long time, but I > > > understand that with the current setup (e.g. unstable, testing, ..)

Re: Frozen unstable (was: please test the numpy package)

2009-02-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Ben Finney (06/02/2009): > I'm unhappy about it too, but I don't understand it. Where can I find > an explanation for the necessity of freezing ‘unstable’ when preparing > to release ‘testing’? For more than verbose explanations, see -devel@ a few weeks ago, starting at <200812160703.00258.russ..

Re: Frozen unstable (was: please test the numpy package)

2009-02-05 Thread Michael Hanke
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 05:17:11PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Ondrej Certik writes: > > > I am unhappy that unstable gets frozen for such a long time, but I > > understand that with the current setup (e.g. unstable, testing, ..), > > there is probably no other way. > > I'm unhappy about it too,

Frozen unstable (was: please test the numpy package)

2009-02-05 Thread Ben Finney
Ondrej Certik writes: > I am unhappy that unstable gets frozen for such a long time, but I > understand that with the current setup (e.g. unstable, testing, ..), > there is probably no other way. I'm unhappy about it too, but I don't understand it. Where can I find an explanation for the necessi

Re: please test the numpy package

2009-02-05 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Ondrej Certik (05/02/2009): >> Ok. But we are wasting people's time. I just got another email from a >> Ubuntu user that he will rather consider compiling it for Ubuntu's PPA >> himself, because he cannot use debian experimental. Of course.

Re: please test the numpy package

2009-02-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Ondrej Certik (05/02/2009): > Ok. But we are wasting people's time. I just got another email from a > Ubuntu user that he will rather consider compiling it for Ubuntu's PPA > himself, because he cannot use debian experimental. Of course. > > So he needs to invest his time in the package, I need t

Re: please test the numpy package

2009-02-05 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 17:21, Ondrej Certik wrote: >> 3) upload to experimental >> 3a) keep the sphinx docs (sphinx is in experimental) > > I'd recommends this. Ok. But we are wasting people's time. I just got another email from a Ubuntu user

Re: Request for review - Charm 1.9.1

2009-02-05 Thread Mauro Lizaur
On Thu, 05 Feb 2009, Christopher Lunsford wrote: > Dear Debian-Python, > > I am looking for some peer reviews on my package "charm", and possibly a > mentor. > > Package name: charm > Version : 1.9.1-1 > Upstream Author : Lydia Leong > URL : http://ljcharm.sourc

Re: Request for review - Charm 1.9.1

2009-02-05 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Christopher Lunsford, 2009-02-05] > - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/charm/charm_1.9.1-1.dsc * PAPT is in Maintainer field, join PAPT and inject the package into our repo * python-feedparser is missing in Recommends (Depends?) * add "${misc:Depends}" to Depends * no need to bui

Re: please test the numpy package

2009-02-05 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 17:21, Ondrej Certik wrote: > 3) upload to experimental > 3a) keep the sphinx docs (sphinx is in experimental) I'd recommends this. Cheers, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org

Re: please test the numpy package

2009-02-05 Thread Ondrej Certik
>> > hence no reason to allow for a transition to testing. Moreover, I >> > promise that pymvpa will not attempt such thing ;-) >> >> What about Sphinx 0.4.3? Does it mean we will not try to unblock it? > > Sphinx 0.4.3 is the classic example: It causes more trouble than it > fixed. For example try

Request for review - Charm 1.9.1

2009-02-05 Thread Christopher Lunsford
Dear Debian-Python, I am looking for some peer reviews on my package "charm", and possibly a mentor. Package name: charm Version : 1.9.1-1 Upstream Author : Lydia Leong URL : http://ljcharm.sourceforge.net/ License : GPLv2 Section : web It bui

Re: Bug#504080: [RFR] Courier-Pythonfilter

2009-02-05 Thread Frederik Dannemare
On Wednesday 28 January 2009 23:16, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: > [please CC me or debian-pyt...@l.d.o as I didn't subscribe this bug] > > * 1.6 is mentioned in bug #504080, is .dsc available somewhere? > * it's "Architecture: all" package, not "any", or did I miss > something? * please merge patches 01