Re: 3ddesktop / release quality

2004-06-27 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 12:14:27AM +0200, Pierre HABOUZIT wrote: > > Are you interested in maintaining the package? > I really am ! > but I don't want to steal anybody's work !!! Feel free to adopt it if wish. Marcelo

Re: 3ddesktop / release quality

2004-06-27 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 10:42:59AM +0200, Pierre HABOUZIT wrote: > So I apologies from all my heart for the last sentences of my mail > that were - I agree - very clumsy None taken. > so if i can ask you to take a look at it ? It looks ok to me. -- Marcelo

Re: 3ddesktop / release quality

2004-06-27 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 01:23:28PM +0200, Pierre HABOUZIT wrote: > I've worked on your package, here is the result : > http://amaretto.inria.fr:8080/~mc/debian-qa/3ddesktop/ Anyone from the QA Team, be my guest and upload that to the archive (and please, forget the DELAYED non-sense). > *

Re: 3ddesktop / release quality

2004-06-27 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 02:51:34AM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > I really don't want to seem rude, but wtf are you doing? Yeah, tbm > and I have (somewhat) agreed in a discussion on this list to tackle > this task and I really apreciate your help, it's welcome. But before > we do anything

Re: Processed: Patch

2003-10-13 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 02:33:27PM -0500, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > tags 197593 + patch > Bug#197593: gtkglareamm: FTBFS: Missing Build-Depends on libglu-dev > There were no tags set. > Tags added: patch Marc, could you make an NMU

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 11, 2003

2003-07-11 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 04:28:33PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > >gphone (#161708), orphaned 293 days ago > > > Description: X/GTK-based internet telephone. > > > I'd thought there'd be more people interested in this kind of thing... > > There's newer, vastly more widely impleme

Re: Bug#148955: Bug#188916: Appying the patch upstream? compiling with -fPIC?

2003-07-08 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 01:09:39AM +0200, Christian BAYLE wrote: > another solution would be to compile the lib3ds static lib with -fPIC Yep, I'd agree with that. More precisely, I'd agree with a -pic package. You can NMU such a thing with my blessings. Marcelo

Please NMU [Was Bug#197232: panorama: FTBFS with g++-3.3: Link errors]

2003-07-06 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi Daniel, >> Daniel Schepler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And here's the patch... can someone from -qa please NMU panorama with this patch. I'm short on HD space and I can't upgrade my chroot right now. Marcelo

Re: ITP->RFP

2002-02-12 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> "Francesco P. Lovergine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just do not do mass modifications without reading contents. Some ITP > are dated but recently 'adopted' by others. I recently > closed/renamed some ITPs which are really dated (some years or so) Well, to boot I wouldn't mind a few fal

Re: ITP->RFP

2002-02-11 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
[ I'm still catching up with email, apologies if this has been discussed already ] >> Bas Zoetekouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I intend to rename all ITP's that haven't had any activity in the last > 100 days to RFP's. Any objections? Cool. Can we have something similar for ITA's? Just p

Re: WNPP bug overview

2001-11-25 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi Bas, >> Bas Zoetekouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > WNPP bug overview for Nov 19, 2001 > === > > There are 809 WNPP bugs in the BTS, of which > - 52 are RFA's (packages in need of adoption) [2 contrib, 3 non-free] "offered up for adoption"? > - 88 ar

Re: QA pop quiz

2001-11-25 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't know of a source for the composite Provides/Conflicts/Replaces > trick, but it's easy enough to build it up from the definitions of each > of those fields. Policy 7.5.2 says that Conflicts/Replaces allows one > package to say that another s

QA pop quiz

2001-11-14 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi fellas, This one is open book, use whatever resources you want to find an answer, but provide sources for any quotation (Collin, you still owe me that PCR source). A package has or is the source of interoperability problems. What should the bug severity be set to? Consider other Linux d

Re: Package puzzle can be removed

2001-11-05 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 12:59:39PM +0100, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > > Does anyone know if this is being taking care of? (I don't watch the > > -dpkg or -whatever-the-relevant-one-is-called list at all) Will i

Re: Package puzzle can be removed

2001-11-05 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> "Tille, Andreas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think tree-puzzle should have an Replaces:/Conflicts: puzzle. > This is, what I as the "want-to-be" maintainer could do to fix that. > Any further suggestion to fix this problem? And provides, too, I'd guess. I know this has been discussed

Re: Package puzzle can be removed

2001-11-05 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> "Tille, Andreas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I suggest to remove package puzzle (and close #100256). I quote from > the Readme.debian of tree-puzzle: > > tree-puzzle replaces the previous package puzzle, since the program was > renamed by upstream because of a name conflict with anot

Re: Bug#109238: [help needed] LD_LIBRARY_PATH and dh_shlibdeps

2001-09-08 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And man dh_shlibdeps does not help with the behavior change of > fakeroot which caused the bug. Yes, I know what you are talking about (I still think that what got done with fakeroot is broken), but IME dh_shlibdeps does handle the situation us

Re: [help needed] LD_LIBRARY_PATH and dh_shlibdeps

2001-09-08 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can someone please help the maintainer of gimp1.2 with #109238. He > has a question about LD_LIBRARY_PATH and dh_shlibdeps. $ man dh_shlibdeps -- Marcelo | "You can't second-guess ineffability, I always say." [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: Flaws in DockApps

2001-08-06 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> Edward Betts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Write patches for each DockApp and file them to the BTS, ask DockApp > maintainers to apply the patches and forward them upstream. More > work for Debian, but more consistent results. This is the best way to proceed, IMO. > Rewrite all the Dock

Bug#102025: downgrading this bug

2001-07-12 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> Jordi Mallach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > asclock-gtk is abandonware already. The upstream website is gone, the > author is completely MIA, etc. In short, there is no upstream URL. So > even if we need one in the copyright file, it's not posible to provide > one, so this bug shouldn't be

Re: Bug#103465: O: x3270 -- X11 program for telnet sessions to IBM mainframes

2001-07-04 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: x3270 >> Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes in a second email: > Package: x3270-htmldoc Martin, can you please modify your script to submit *one* bug per source package (or merge them)? The WNPP bug report list is bloated

Bug#91828: Another piece of info...

2001-04-29 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi, I'm sorry about the spamming... /usr/share/kernel-package/rules reads: -for module in $(MODULE_LOC)/* ; do \ if test -d $$module; then \ (cd $$module; \ if ./debian/rules KVERS="$(version)" KSRC="$(SRCTOP)" \ KMAINT=

Bug#91828: Hmmm... this broke, it seems...

2001-04-29 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
* Use MODULE_LOC, although I can imagine no way on earth that it can be better than using ../ . Of course, the bug reporter didn't bother to explain his particular configuration, or show any type of log, or any type of useful information, so this may not actually Closes: #91828. T

Permission to request removal of abacus from the distribution

2001-03-17 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi, I would like to request abacus to be removed from the distribution. The package is orphaned (#89715) and hasn't been maintained upstream for over three years now. It has a "doesn't build from source" bug filed against it and it's functionality is much better server by gnumeric. Objecti

How to submit a massive list of overrides?

2001-02-25 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi, There's some ammount of orphaned packages which should have their maintainer fields set to debian-qa@lists.debian.org, but have something else instead. This means, among other things, bug reports filed against these packages are being ignored. Since the list of packages in this state is

Re: Work-needing packages report for Feb 23, 2001

2001-02-23 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> Brian Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Upload new packages of everything just to change the maintainer to > QA ? > > seems like a waste of resources, especially with the buildd's on > some arch's behind a lot, adding even a little more load doesnt make > sense. Since I take this inf

Re: Work-needing packages report for Feb 23, 2001

2001-02-23 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > [NEW] 3dchess (#87154), orphaned today > Current maintainer: [something not Debian QA] Can someone here please take care of this? Allow some reasonable timeframe (I'd say no more than 28 days and preferably less), but otherwise all these packages should h

Re: RFC: Set the severity of withdrawn packages to minor

2001-02-04 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to suggest that we change the severity of WNPP bugs for withdrawn > packages (packages removed from Debian that are waiting in > project/orphaned for a new maintainer) from "wishlist" to "minor". > Currently withdrawn packages are a bit hi

Re: mailing list

2001-02-02 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> "Jari O. Kaasinen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I hope that you put me to your mailing list On the Debian Quality Assurance Team mailing list? Sure! You are welcome to subscribe yourself. Directions are available on http://lists.debian.org/ -- Marcelo

Need for a test suite

2001-02-01 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi, I was just watching a discussion on #debian-devel and the subject of QA has come up yet again. The questions that pop up are basically the same as always, namely, how can we have some sort of QA procedure that *actually* helps in speeding up the release process? The answer is at least p

Re: recovery cd

2001-01-20 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> tech09 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > how I could get a hold of a couple of the recovery cd's that you > make. I know they are hard to come by. I want to pass them out to > the members. If you can pass any information on how I can get a hold > of a couple I would be very greatfull. Coul

Bug#74617: segmentation fault

2000-10-16 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> Gerfried Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > realplayer segaults for me when I start it. Strangely it doesn't do it > when I start it with strace (like, ``strace realplayer''). I don't know > what information you need to track that bug down, if I can help you in > any way it would be great

Re: Bug#74617: segmentation fault

2000-10-16 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> Christian Kurz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, I would suggest that you contact the company that produces > RealPlayer, RealNetworks and report this bug to them. Realplayer is a > closed source software, so we can't do anything to fix this bug. > Thanks for informinung us, but we won't

Re: Bug#74628: mhonarc: problems with help/pager

2000-10-16 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Taken. >> Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: mhonarc > Version: 2.4.6-2 > Severity: wishlist > imy last nitpick - it shouldn't run a pager at all... it violates the > pricipal of least surprize > (I expect to have usage statments just spit out - thats what everythin

Re: Pre-ITA: ntop

2000-08-31 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> "Oliver M . Bolzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > # BTW, is there any docu on how to properly operete the new WNPP ? See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ Marcelo

Re: QA

2000-08-22 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I currently work with the Quality Assurance dapartment at Canon. > We are a technical call center. Can I become a member? It's not entirely clear what you mean by "become a member". If you mean a member of the Debian QA group, yeah, welcome, you can start rig

Re: Do I ask for wnpp@debian.org to point here?

2000-08-15 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's what Bcc is for. Duh. Marcelo

Do I ask for wnpp@debian.org to point here?

2000-08-15 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi, as far as I can see, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not getting redirected either here or to -devel. Ideally it should point to -devel, in order for people to see the ITPs, ITOs et al. Does anyone (Joy?) know of a reason why that should not be that way? Would debian-qa be a better alternative?

Re: Bug#68961: libhtml-embperl-perl: Provide documentation also in HTML format

2000-08-11 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > but HTML is Debian's prefered documentation format. I'll be dammed. It is and has been for almost two years now. /me enters policy-is-wrong-I'm-not mode ;-) Marcelo

Re: O: penguineyes(-gnome) -- a GTK+/GNOME version of Xeyes

2000-08-01 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
First, my apologies to all the people reading -qa for the confusion caused. I didn't realize -qa would get sooo spammed. What happened? (Or, what the heck is going on?!?!) Yesterday Joy mentioned on IIRC that the BTS needed to be fed with the current information from the WNPP system in order

Re: The fate of libc5

2000-07-17 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > We should however make an attempt at release time (woody+) and > > > check if one can still install the old libc5 packages from > > > potato, so people who need them can get them from > > > archive.debian.org. > > > > If "we" say that we

Re: apache-ssl and mysql on pandora

2000-07-17 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I am sure sourceforge could be patched to use postgres, although it would > > delay packaging in maybe a week (yes, it seems i have taken on the task). > > Great to see someone taking the responsibility of this project. If > you're sure to b

Re: ToDo list for organization and project pages

2000-07-10 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> Nils Lohner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - figure out who owns and updates > http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/ix/pseudopackages.html so that we can > add more pseudo packages to submit bugs against The pseudopackages file lives on master, owned by gecko and writeable by the debbugs group (aka

Bug#38799: there's a missing dependency

1999-06-02 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 05:57:47PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > No, there are no missing dependencies, mozilla code is buggy. I know. I haven't submitted other bugs, have I? ;-) But I still think there's a missing dependency. I installed mozilla, it went ok. I started mozilla, it asked somethi

Bug#38799: there's a missing dependency

1999-06-02 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Package: mozilla Version: 19990529.M6-1 Severity: normal Until I upgraded to current potato, mozilla coredumped on startup. Previously I was running potato from two days ago. Marcelo -- System Information Debian Release: potato Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux pollux 2.2.7-ac1 #2 Fri A