On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:30:38PM +0100, you wrote:
automated way to check for new releases so thes know that the package is
up to date. apart from that it makes a good indication of an inactive
maintainer.
It shows no such thing. It indicates that the maintainer doesn't want to
package the ne
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 09:32:25AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> That, of course, presupposes you can get watch files working. I've never
> managed to get one working, despite exery regexp contortion I could think
> of. I couldn't even make the examples DTRT last time I tried.
>
> If you could
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 04:47:42PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote:
> I seriously doubt that. I see zero value in having a watch file--I
> already know about new releases, and I'll probably get a bug report
> anyway.
i disagree, if *you* already know about new upstream releases, then
there is zero valu
* Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-15 01:02]:
> I just looked at
> http://qa.debian.org/debcheck.php?list=INDEX&package=&arch=&dist=sid
> and went ICK.
>
> There are 36 packages with a broken Depends on *every* architecture.
I don't see a problem with filing bugs - but only if you do
I just looked at
http://qa.debian.org/debcheck.php?list=INDEX&package=&arch=&dist=sid
and went ICK.
There are 36 packages with a broken Depends on *every* architecture.
I figure for each one, that's definitely an RC bug against the package.
And most of them don't have the appropriate bugs.
But 3
Matthew Palmer wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 01:13:14AM +0100, Filippo Giunchedi wrote:
> If you could whip up a watch file for either phpwiki, irm, fbpanel which
> works, I'd be most appreciative. PHPWiki would be a good example, because I
> know there's a new version upstream.
hmm, the one
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Matthew Palmer wrote:
| On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 01:13:14AM +0100, Filippo Giunchedi wrote:
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|>having a package upstream up-to-date is important and this is why we have
|>debian/watch files used by uupdate. Fortunately the PTS checks and
reports if a
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> If you could whip up a watch file for either phpwiki, irm, fbpanel which
> works, I'd be most appreciative. PHPWiki would be a good example, because I
> know there's a new version upstream.
Same for me that I had several problems in setting up a watc
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