Re: Request to Hijack libdbd-sybase-perl

2009-07-07 Thread Jonathan Yu
Steve: I must apologize profusely for my behaviour vis a vis all of this. It was upsetting to me that my first e-mail didn't elicit any sort of response or acknowledgement, even though I had seen you participating on other mailing lists. I felt like the request was ignored entirely, and failed to

Re: Request to Hijack libdbd-sybase-perl

2009-07-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 02:53:52PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > IOW, you can't actually point to an issue *that affects you* with the > current version of the package, or you wouldn't have had to quote the > upstream changelog at me. Do you even use the software? What testing have > you done to

Re: Request to Hijack libdbd-sybase-perl

2009-07-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 04:07:22PM -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote: > I admit I look like an asshole here. And I suppose I am not being too > nice about this. I apologize to Steve if this looks like a personal > attack, I admit that in some ways it was. because I was upset when I > wrote this mail. I am

Re: Request to Hijack libdbd-sybase-perl

2009-07-07 Thread Jonathan Yu
Okay, I admit I look like an asshole here. And I suppose I am not being too nice about this. I apologize to Steve if this looks like a personal attack, I admit that in some ways it was. because I was upset when I wrote this mail. The first thought that went through my mind when reading through the

Request to Hijack libdbd-sybase-perl

2009-07-07 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hi: libdbd-sybase-perl is a Debian package maintained by Steve Langasek . It is also quite outdated, and there are bugs filed against it dating from 6+ years ago. I have e-mailed the maintainer of the package directly, then subsequently filed a follow-up request to the initial bug report by Flori

Bug#536053: DDPO: Please add an option to show binNMUs signed with one's key

2009-07-07 Thread Simon Richter
Package: qa.debian.org Severity: wishlist Hi, I do occasional uploads of hand-built binaries, and it would be nice if these could show up on my DDPO page. Simon -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable-i386 APT policy: (500, 'unstable-i386'), (500, 'transit