ubit (was: Xorg 6.9)

2005-12-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Kevin B McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On the same note, here is a list of source packages containing one or >> more binary packages that Depend: xlibs-dev. I've already removed >> packages from the list that give it as an alternative (e.g. Depen

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In other words, a distributed VCS allows all parties to manage their own > repositories equally, and the project can nominate one of them the > "official" central repository, without impacting everyone's ability to > communicate changes between other reposi

Bug#344094: [Fwd: missing file packages.qa.debian.org]

2005-12-19 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Package: qa.debian.org Severity: minor I received this email message today. Is there a problem with the script that generates the links on qa.debian.org? -Roberto Original Message Subject: missing file packages.qa.debian.org Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 20:52:08 +0100 From: Marti

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-19 Thread Ben Finney
On 19-Dec-2005, Stefan Potyra wrote: > Am Montag 19 Dezember 2005 16:25 schrieb Asheesh Laroia: > > Thanks. I agree with the Ubuntu side of this discussion that > > dealing with non-distributed svn would be a pain > > I'd object to this, since one of the goals would be to make it easy > to review

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-19 Thread Mike Hommey
> Am Sonntag, den 18.12.2005, 17:19 +0100 schrieb Raphael Hertzog: > > This infrastructure is seriously needed in Debian because: > > - team maintenance with SVN is more and more popular, and a good web > > interface above a SVN repo of Debian packages would help all those > > teams > > I'd b

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-19 Thread Reinhard Tartler
On Mo, 2005-12-19 at 11:17 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > I don't want to change how Ubuntu works. I just want to find a decent > way for Debian to let external contributors integrate their work within > Debian and in particular for Ubuntu developers. Because it's in the > interest of Ubuntu deve

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yeah, this makes sense too. I'd like to have wrappers for doing things > locally : > - download source package from the good repository (without having to > type a huge URL) > - run most checks on it (pbuilder, piuparts, lintian, ...) > - display analy

Re: Xorg 6.9

2005-12-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Kevin B McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On the same note, here is a list of source packages containing one or > more binary packages that Depend: xlibs-dev. I've already removed > packages from the list that give it as an alternative (e.g. Depends: > libx11-dev | xlibs-dev). > Debian QA Gr

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-19 Thread Reinhard Tartler
On So, 2005-12-18 at 17:19 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > following the last discussion at the Debian-QA meeting on Darmstadt, it > appears that the proposal called "Collaborative maintenance" is of generic > interest : > - for Debian sponsors and Debian mentors > - for QA which may use the infras

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-19 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Stefan Potyra wrote: > I'd object to this, since one of the goals would be to make it easy to review > packages. So basically you'd need exactly one central place, where the > current version of a sourcepackage can be found, and can be reviewed. However > I'm not quite sure

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-19 Thread Stefan Potyra
Hi, first of all big thanks to Raphael for your great proposal! I'd also be more than happy to join the project. Am Montag 19 Dezember 2005 16:25 schrieb Asheesh Laroia: > Thanks. I agree with the Ubuntu side of this discussion that dealing with > non-distributed svn would be a pain; I don't ha

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-19 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Stephan Hermann wrote: What you are suggesting is already there. It's called "hct" and it's keybuks child. So, seeing this in an environment of Ubuntu: I think (or I hope) hct will be included in launchpad, and then we will include some parts of REVU3 (I hope :)) into laun

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-19 Thread Reinhard Tartler
On Mo, 2005-12-19 at 15:38 +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote: > On Monday 19 December 2005 11:17, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Actually, the Ubuntu people doing REVU didn't event think of using a VCS > > because they are handling uploads of source packages in their system. > > Adding a VCS layer has some

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-19 Thread Stephan Hermann
hi, On Monday 19 December 2005 11:17, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Actually, the Ubuntu people doing REVU didn't event think of using a VCS > because they are handling uploads of source packages in their system. > Adding a VCS layer has some advantages however : traceability of > contributions from an

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le lundi 19 décembre 2005 à 11:04 +0100, Christoph Haas a écrit : > > This infrastructure is seriously needed in Debian because: > > - team maintenance with SVN is more and more popular, and a good web > > interface above a SVN repo of Debian packages would help all those > > teams > > If ther

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-19 Thread Christoph Haas
Morning, On Sunday 18 December 2005 17:19, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > following the last discussion at the Debian-QA meeting on Darmstadt, it > appears that the proposal called "Collaborative maintenance" is of > generic interest : > - for Debian sponsors and Debian mentors > - for QA which may use

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le lundi 19 décembre 2005 à 09:44 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > First, technical issues: > > * Chances are very low that you will get Ubuntu people to use svn > instead of bzr. bzr is the "official" VCS in Ubuntu, it is written in > Python, the "official" language in Ubuntu. Making Ubuntu peop

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-19 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 18/12/05 at 17:19 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > [ Sorry for the crosspost, but the subject is of interest to many people ] > > Hello everybody, > > following the last discussion at the Debian-QA meeting on Darmstadt, it > appears that the proposal called "Collaborative maintenance" is of gen

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-19 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello Raphaël, hello everybody else, Am Montag, den 19.12.2005, 09:06 +0100 schrieb Raphael Hertzog: > Who are the members of the Launchpad team ? you should be able to reach them via launchpad at lists canonical com. > I agree that integration with Launchpad would be interesting, but as > long

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello Daniel, Le lundi 19 décembre 2005 à 08:24 +0100, Daniel Holbach a écrit : > > - team maintenance with SVN is more and more popular, and a good web > > interface above a SVN repo of Debian packages would help all those > > teams > > I'd be in favour or a bzr solution, not because of rand