List of buggy packages

1999-03-30 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, i've updated my script that generated the list of buggy packages, it does now generate HTML tables listing 'source package' sorted by different criteria : - score = number of bugs + number of lintian errors + age of the oldest bug / 30 - number of bugs - age of the oldest bug You can find

Re: Bugs older than two years

1999-03-30 Thread Christian Kurz
Anthony Towns wrote: >Package: fdutils >Maintainer: Anthony Fok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >7893 fdformat causes my floppy parameters to be lost >[REMOVED?] fdformat is rumoured to have been removed from fdutils? >8352 fdutils: Major problems with fdutils Yes, it's removed and here'

Bug#35288: ispell: use termios instead of termio

1999-03-30 Thread Nikita Schmidt
Package: ispell Version: 3.1.20-0.6 Ispell uses either the termio or the sgtty interface to operate terminal modes. The GNU libc encourages use of termios in favour of termio. Because of backwards compatibility, there are problems associated with the obsolete termio interface. For example, on L

Bug#35287: ibritish: American spellings allowed, British ones rejected

1999-03-30 Thread Nikita Schmidt
Package: ibritish Version: 3.1.20-0.6 The ibritish dictionary systematically accepts American spellings, but may reject British ones. For example, when checking the following file: color colour theatre theater catalog catalogue kerb curb organisation organization licence license defence defense,

Re: Intent to adopt: ispell

1999-03-30 Thread Mika Fischer
Hi! On Tue, 30 Mar at 21:07 +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > You can mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or straight to James Troup > at [EMAIL PROTECTED], and check what is happening. And please, be polite. Thanks. I've sent out a mail. > > I also find the rivival of QA a nice thing and like to participate al

Re: Upstream maintainers are sleeping (Was: Reviving Debian QA

1999-03-30 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 09:40:26AM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Tuesday 30 March 1999, at 0 h 24, the keyboard of Martin Schulze > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Quite easy. Many upstream maintainers aren't aware that some Debian > > people picked up their package and worked on them.

Re: Intent to adopt: ispell

1999-03-30 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 07:41:06PM +, Mika Fischer wrote: > I've been accepted as maintainer on 14.03.99 > Is it normal, that including the key takes so long? > Is there anything I can do to speed it up? > I'd really like to upload something in the end :-) You can mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or

The old lynx bug (was: Re: Bugs older than two years)

1999-03-30 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 12:14:42AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: >Package: lynx >Maintainer: Christian Hudon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >3846 lynx misdisplays multiple in >[HELP] Is this really a bug? RFC 1866 (HTML 2.0) says: The content of a element is a sequence of elements and/o

Intent to adopt: ispell

1999-03-30 Thread Mika Fischer
Hi! On Wed, 31 Mar at 00:14 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Package: ispell > Maintainer: Debian QA Group > 5379 munchlist ignores -w > 8585 ispell: ispell does not understand amslatex constructs I'd like to adopt ispell if noone has already. Or are there any problems with that. Most of the bugs

Re: Bugs older than two years

1999-03-30 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 12:14:42AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > * Michael Dorman's packages that were affected, namely mailtools, > xpm4.7 and mhonarc no longer have *any* open bugs! I'd like a porter to recompile xpm source (which produces xpm4g, xpm4g-dev and xpm4.7), so that we can v

Re: Bugs older than two years

1999-03-30 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Anthony Towns wrote: > Package: modutils > Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 8550 kerneld start too late This bug is obsoleted by 2.2 kernels. I'll close it when 2.2 becomes the default kernel. Wichert. -- =

Bugs older than two years

1999-03-30 Thread Anthony Towns
Hello again world, I posted this list around the start of this month, so I guess it's about time for an update. For those who didn't see it last time, it's a list of non-wishlist, unfixed bugs that are 24 months old or more. Obviously, these aren't as high a priority as the release-critical bug

Working at tkman

1999-03-30 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi Folks, I took a look at Anthonys oldbugs.txt (http://master.debian.org/~ajt/oldbugs.txt) and decided to have a go at tkman. Expect a new upload sometime this week. It might happen that I don't have the time this week and I am on vacation next week but thereafter I will have something ready I

Re: Debian QA Policy Draft

1999-03-30 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 07:20:09PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > It would be a proper action to write to -devel that package x, y and z > > > need a new maintainer and people who are interested should speak up. > > > > Yes, but by someone in position and who has every right to do so. > > I wo

Re: Upstream maintainers are sleeping (Was: Reviving Debian QA

1999-03-30 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tuesday 30 March 1999, at 0 h 24, the keyboard of Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quite easy. Many upstream maintainers aren't aware that some Debian > people picked up their package and worked on them. As a rule, I *always* ask for permission of upstream authors. Even when the