Re: Orphaned packages that were not part of etch

2008-07-22 Thread Clint Adams
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 03:37:46AM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > That is indeed a true statement, but I'm unsure what point you're trying > to make in the context of this discussion. > > Care to elaborate? Sure. The point I am trying to make is that encouraging someone to adopt a package whe

Re: Orphaned packages that were not part of etch

2008-07-22 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:44:12AM +, Clint Adams wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 01:21:19AM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > > So you think the Debian QA group, consisting of at most a dozen people > > who do QA uploads, maintaining over 500 packages, will take better care > > of it? > > T

Re: Orphaned packages that were not part of etch

2008-07-22 Thread Clint Adams
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 01:21:19AM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > So you think the Debian QA group, consisting of at most a dozen people > who do QA uploads, maintaining over 500 packages, will take better care > of it? The commitment for maintaining a package should be greater than "will do a

Re: Orphaned packages that were not part of etch

2008-07-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Geissert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Oh really? so we should just say "sorry, no more foo for you" to the > almost 22k users who have imlib on their system? We should be trying to move applications to the current version of imlib so that we can retire the no-longer-maintained older vers

Re: Orphaned packages that were not part of etch

2008-07-22 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 05:50:10PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Holger Levsen wrote: > > Yes. It's orphaned. If you really care about the package, please adopt it. > > Thanks. > > I do care about the package but as a spare user, not as a maintainer; I > won't put my name on a package I really

Re: Orphaned packages that were not part of etch

2008-07-22 Thread Raphael Geissert
Raphael Geissert wrote: > > DFSG: * Social Contract >> 4. Our priorities are our users and free software >> >> We will be guided by the needs of our users and the free software >> community. We will place their interests first in our priorities. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Orphaned packages that were not part of etch

2008-07-22 Thread Raphael Geissert
Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Tuesday 22 July 2008 21:54, Raphael Geissert wrote: >> You filed a bug against karchiver because it: > [...] >> * is orphaned (...); and because > [...] >> And because of those reasons we are preventing a package from being >> shipped in lenny? Is that right? >

Re: parsing debian-devel-changes archives

2008-07-22 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 07:36:43PM +0200, Filippo Giunchedi wrote: > Of course the idea of having more updated data is appealing, I'd myself > welcome > RSS/atom feeds per-package (almost the same as PTS' upload news) or > per-maintainer (either changed-by or upload key or whatever). Note that I

Re: The Ultimate Debian Database

2008-07-22 Thread Christian von Essen
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 03:31:58PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > Hi, > > Is the database structure available somewhere? In a nice presentation format > I mean :) Not yet, as it is not in any way final :) > > The above question is because I don't understand very well why the name of > the

Re: Orphaned packages that were not part of etch

2008-07-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 22 July 2008 21:54, Raphael Geissert wrote: > You filed a bug against karchiver because it: [...] > * is orphaned (...); and because [...] > And because of those reasons we are preventing a package from being shipped > in lenny? Is that right? Yes. It's orphaned. If you really care

Re: The Ultimate Debian Database

2008-07-22 Thread Raphael Geissert
Christian von Essen wrote: > Hi, Hi, Is the database structure available somewhere? In a nice presentation format I mean :) > > > Or, given a source package, if you want to know the maximum of the popcon > scores of the packages build from that package, you just use the following > query: > >

Re: Orphaned packages that were not part of etch

2008-07-22 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 02:54:23PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > Let me see if I got it right: > You filed a bug against karchiver because it: > * is not in etch (because it was not uploaded in time for etch), > * is orphaned (...); and because > * it has a "low" popco

Re: Orphaned packages that were not part of etch

2008-07-22 Thread Raphael Geissert
Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 04:45:42PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: >> I've compiled a list of orphaned packages that were not part of etch >> (and, unless otherwise noted, were not part of sarge). >> >> I think it would be a good idea to remove some of them (at least fr

Re: The Ultimate Debian Database

2008-07-22 Thread Filippo Giunchedi
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 05:06:26PM +0200, Christian von Essen wrote: > Hi, > > my name is Christian von Essen and I'm the GSOC student working on the > Ultimate Debian Database project this year. [...] > Feel free to edit the pages if you see fit. I'd be glad to hear about what you > are thinking

Re: Orphaned packages that were not part of etch

2008-07-22 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 04:45:42PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > I've compiled a list of orphaned packages that were not part of etch > (and, unless otherwise noted, were not part of sarge). > > I think it would be a good idea to remove some of them (at least from > testing) before lenny's rel

Re: parsing debian-devel-changes archives

2008-07-22 Thread Filippo Giunchedi
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 09:29:49AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:45:34AM +0200, Filippo Giunchedi wrote: > > I've produced a script[0] to parse d-d-changes archives to a sane format so > > to > > produce an history of uploads made to debian[1] in this form: > > Ver

The Ultimate Debian Database

2008-07-22 Thread Christian von Essen
Hi, my name is Christian von Essen and I'm the GSOC student working on the Ultimate Debian Database project this year. The idea behind this is to collect a part of the information about the Debian project and import it into a database. The goal is to answer questions like "What are the packages

Processed: severity of 491803 is wishlist

2008-07-22 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.34 > severity 491803 wishlist Bug#491803: [PTS] please point to UbuntuForDebianDevelopers where Ubuntu info are shown Severity set to `wishlist' from `normal' > End of message, stopping

Re: parsing debian-devel-changes archives

2008-07-22 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:45:34AM +0200, Filippo Giunchedi wrote: > I've produced a script[0] to parse d-d-changes archives to a sane format so to > produce an history of uploads made to debian[1] in this form: Very cool! > comments/ideas welcome as usual, I think the greatest part of your work

Processed: retitle 491803 to [PTS] please point to UbuntuForDebianDevelopers where Ubuntu info are shown ...

2008-07-22 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.34 > retitle 491803 [PTS] please point to UbuntuForDebianDevelopers where Ubuntu > info are shown Bug#491803: Good communication with upstream is good idea Changed Bug title to `[PTS] pl