Bug#628523: Don't be so sure about piuparts

2011-05-29 Thread Thomas Hood
Package: qa.debian.org Severity: minor The page says: "Piuparts found an (un)installation error in the Sid version of this package. You should fix it; " But piuparts gives many false positives and has no override mechanism, so in many cases there is nothing to fix. So please don't say "You shoul

Re: RFH: handle bug reports for unknown packages

2011-05-29 Thread Sandro Tosi
I can probably take over this too. Sandro On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:16, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Over the years, with the help of Colin Watson and others, I've handled > bug reports for packages that the BTS doesn't know about (either > because the package was removed, is in some unofficial re

Re: RFH: handle bug reports for removed packages

2011-05-29 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:52, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > >> I'm looking for someone to take care of bugs of packages that have >> been removed from Debian.  More information on the task is below. >> Anyone interested? > > IIRC the FTP masters to

Re: RFH: handle bug reports for removed packages

2011-05-29 Thread Sandro Tosi
Given I already did this kind of work in the past, I think I can keep doing that. cheers, Sandro On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:27, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > I'm looking for someone to take care of bugs of packages that have > been removed from Debian.  More information on the task is below. > Anyon

Re: RFH: handle bug reports for removed packages

2011-05-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > I'm looking for someone to take care of bugs of packages that have > been removed from Debian.  More information on the task is below. > Anyone interested? IIRC the FTP masters took over at least part of this. For eg: http://bugs.debian

RFH: handle bug reports for removed packages

2011-05-29 Thread Martin Michlmayr
I'm looking for someone to take care of bugs of packages that have been removed from Debian. More information on the task is below. Anyone interested? Note: I stopped taking care of such bug reports a fairly long time ago, so there's a lot of bugs that need to be processed right now. (Please CC

RFH: handle bug reports for unknown packages

2011-05-29 Thread Martin Michlmayr
Over the years, with the help of Colin Watson and others, I've handled bug reports for packages that the BTS doesn't know about (either because the package was removed, is in some unofficial repo or because the bug submitter made a typo). I'm looking for someone to take over this activity. I've i