Bug#523249: qa.debian.org: Popcon sorts alphabetically.

2009-04-08 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: qa.debian.org Severity: minor Dear PTS people, When using the “ordering=3” option, the Popcon scores are sorted alphabetically after clicking on “Popcon” Compare for instance: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=debian-med-packag...@lists.alioth.debian.org http://qa.debian.org/deve

Bug#523092: mole/seedsymbols: python errors, missing packages

2009-04-08 Thread Julien Cristau
Package: qa.debian.org Severity: normal 2 issues: 1) http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols?pkgname=libx11-6 results in: 500 Some python exception occured Some exception occured that was not handled. Contact jer...@debian.org Traceback (most recent call last): File "/org/qa.debian.org/cg

Re: does /var/games have to be deleted on purge? (if it's empty..)

2009-04-08 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 14:04 +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > + Russ Allbery (Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:33:41 -0700): > > > I don't see much real benefit in going out of our way to remove /var/games > > and it looks like it would be a bit annoying (at the least, require adding > > purge code to all games th

Re: does /var/games have to be deleted on purge? (if it's empty..)

2009-04-08 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 14:17 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Mittwoch, 8. April 2009, Paul Wise wrote: > > How about this: > > > > Game a gets installed and ships /var/games > > Game b gets installed and ships /var/games > > Game a gets purged and removes /var/games > > User starts game b

Re: does /var/games have to be deleted on purge? (if it's empty..)

2009-04-08 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 02:04:13PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > + Russ Allbery (Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:33:41 -0700): > > > I don't see much real benefit in going out of our way to remove /var/games > > and it looks like it would be a bit annoying (at the least, require adding > > purge code to all g

Re: does /var/games have to be deleted on purge? (if it's empty..)

2009-04-08 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:51:25PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi Bill, > > On Mittwoch, 8. April 2009, Bill Allombert wrote: > > Unless policy is changed to make clear that /var/games can be removed > > at any time, and thus that package cannot just ship /var/games in the > > deb and expect it

Re: does /var/games have to be deleted on purge? (if it's empty..)

2009-04-08 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Mittwoch, 8. April 2009, Adeodato Simó wrote: > Additionally, what happens if package A and B both ship an empty > /var/games (they both write their score files directly there, rather > than a subdirectory), get both installed, then B gets purged and its > postinst removes /var/games, and t

Re: does /var/games have to be deleted on purge? (if it's empty..)

2009-04-08 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 14:17 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Mittwoch, 8. April 2009, Paul Wise wrote: > > How about this: > > > > Game a gets installed and ships /var/games > > Game b gets installed and ships /var/games > > Game a gets purged and removes /var/games > > User starts game b

Re: does /var/games have to be deleted on purge? (if it's empty..)

2009-04-08 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Mittwoch, 8. April 2009, Paul Wise wrote: > How about this: > > Game a gets installed and ships /var/games > Game b gets installed and ships /var/games > Game a gets purged and removes /var/games > User starts game b and gets a high score > Game b tries to save the high score but fails beca

Re: does /var/games have to be deleted on purge? (if it's empty..)

2009-04-08 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Russ Allbery (Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:33:41 -0700): > I don't see much real benefit in going out of our way to remove /var/games > and it looks like it would be a bit annoying (at the least, require adding > purge code to all games that put files in /var/games that would usually > never be triggered

Re: does /var/games have to be deleted on purge? (if it's empty..)

2009-04-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Mittwoch, 8. April 2009, Bill Allombert wrote: >> Unless policy is changed to make clear that /var/games can be removed >> at any time, and thus that package cannot just ship /var/games in the >> deb and expect it to be available when runn

Re: does /var/games have to be deleted on purge? (if it's empty..)

2009-04-08 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Bill, On Mittwoch, 8. April 2009, Bill Allombert wrote: > Unless policy is changed to make clear that /var/games can be removed > at any time, and thus that package cannot just ship /var/games in the > deb and expect it to be available when running the postinst, or at any > latter time, I have

Re: does /var/games have to be deleted on purge? (if it's empty..)

2009-04-08 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 02:30:23AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Dienstag, 7. April 2009, Paul Wise wrote: > > A single rmdir in every game using /var/games isn't that hard, > > especially since they have to remove the files from there. > > I agree and plan to file RC bugs on this. >

Re: does /var/games have to be deleted on purge? (if it's empty..)

2009-04-08 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 02:30 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > Or is RC too much? Or fine now? Anything > normal would be too much IMO. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org