Re: New QA members

Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Thu, July 27, 2006 15:33, Christoph Berg wrote: > > The QA team has added new members to the 'qa' unix group: > > Great, but what does that mean specifically? More work for those nine people (including more permission on the hosts that run QA stuff). Regards,

Re: Remove ipw2200 and ieee80211?

Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > ipw2200 and ieee80211 have been orphaned a few days ago. Since both are > present > in current 2.6 kernels (2.6.14 onwards) I'd recommend to remove them right > away. Please keep in mind that the corresponding drivers in the Linux kernel are quite old compared to the

Re: Security bug in xlockmore

Alexander Wirt wrote: > Hi Michael, > > this security bug in xlockmore is still present in all xlockmore versions in > the archive and is open for now 190 days. In the meantime we organized a CVE > number and a patch that fixes that problem. But still no reaction from you. I > know that aren't M

Re: http://qa.debian.org/orphaned.html not updating?

Andrew Pollock wrote: > On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 10:50:38PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > * Andrew Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-04 08:45]: > > > It seems that http://qa.debian.org/orphaned.html hasn't updated > > > since November 1. > > > > The LDAP interface to the BTS is currently do

Re: Bugs, usertags, and including more people

Margarita Manterola wrote: > On 8/9/05, Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The main idea is that I'd like to set up a nifty page that shows the > > > bugs submitted during the last week, or something like that, and > > > allows anyone to browse

Re: Bugs, usertags, and including more people

Margarita Manterola wrote: > The main idea is that I'd like to set up a nifty page that shows the > bugs submitted during the last week, or something like that, and > allows anyone to browse through them in the search of a bug that they > can fix and send a patch for. Maybe something like

Re: Idea for maintaining packages up for adoption

Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > The problem is then : we have knowledgeable people willing to help but > > > we don't have a Debian maintainer for them. Benjamin sent several patchs > > > in the BTS and they are still there... waiting to be applied. > > > > Any Debian developer could work on them. >

Re: Idea for maintaining packages up for adoption

Benjamin Bayart wrote: > I do understand the difficulty to find people to maintain those > packages. More over I understand this in my area: my main "skill" in > free software is about TeX, and we are not many to be skilled in that > area. To find people being skilled in TeX *and* in Debian and hav

Re: Idea for maintaining packages up for adoption

Raphael Hertzog wrote: > I discussed this with Benjamin Bayart who is a TeX expert and gave me > some examples concerning some small packages like "dvi2dvi". He's not > willing to go through NM to become a Debian Maintainer because that's > too much hassle just for maintaining one or two little pac

Re: cvs.debian.org qa's repository

Igor Genibel wrote: > Hi all, > > it seems that some files in qa's repository are corrupted :/ > cvs [server aborted]: EOF in value in RCS file /cvs/qa/wml/debcheck.wml,v Indeed. I've removed the following files which were broken: /cvs/qa/wml/debcheck.wml,v /cvs/qa/data/debcheck/debcheck,v /

Re: Crond died on merkel

Igor Genibel wrote: > It appears that crond process has died on merkel since the 27th of March. > That why all qa's pages are outdated. Could restart it and announce when > it is done ? Bah. Restarted. Regards, Joey -- We all know Linux is great... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds

Re: Bug#290751: qa.debian.org: please list security updates in Latest News

Raphael Hertzog wrote: > I bet that the security team has its own "katie" installation. This one > would have to be adapted in the same way than the main one ... I'm not > familiar enough with the installations of the security team to be able > to provide a patch right now (I don't even know if tho

Re: Bug#283961: chpasswd ignores system MD5 configuration

Christian Perrier wrote: > > > The chpasswd program ignores the system MD5 setting in /etc/pam.d/passwd > > > (also tried MD5_CRYPT_ENAB in /etc/login.defs) and instead hashes all > > > passwords with DES. In the case of compromise of /etc/shadow, this > > > greatly increases the ease with which a

Re: [Fwd: Re: [RFC] Software Process Improvement in Free Software, Closing the Quality Cycle, Inventing Non-Developer-Demotivating QA/QM/SPI]

Thomas Schorpp wrote: > but the point of (my) interest should be: can it fail due to lack of > QM/PMM. statistics say it can at 30% nowadays. in OSS distris you've the > alternative: if kde fails temporarily you can run gnome, eg. so the full > qm efforts of proprietary sw monopolists should not

Re: [Fwd: Re: [RFC] Software Process Improvement in Free Software, Closing the Quality Cycle, Inventing Non-Developer-Demotivating QA/QM/SPI]

Thomas Schorpp wrote: > >Free software works by people simply doing things and contributing > >them to the community. If other people are interested, it will be > >picked up. > > Sorry, requirements for QM/SPI- projects is to assure that before start > or error or failure risks would be too high

Re: [RFC] Software Process Improvement in Free Software, Closing the Quality Cycle, Inventing Non-Developer-Demotivating QA/QM/SPI

Thomas Schorpp wrote: > >How does this address Fabian's concern that there's not enough > >experience in the *Debian community. Sure, there may be many qualit > >managers with lots of experience in the companies you mentioned, but > >how does that help Debian? > > I assumed there should be many p

Re: [RFC] Software Process Improvement in Free Software, Closing the Quality Cycle, Inventing Non-Developer-Demotivating QA/QM/SPI

Thomas Schorpp wrote: > As I mentioned, this is subject for research. And I was on error with > ISO 9001, sorry, the old ISO SW-QM standard has been ISO 9000-3 (part > three) and some ANSI standards in U.S. and I've never seen a > SW-organisation certified with ISO 900x. The assessments and SPI > s

Re: [RFC] Software Process Improvement in Free Software, Closing the Quality Cycle, Inventing Non-Developer-Demotivating QA/QM/SPI

Moin! Thomas Schorpp wrote: > ive been thinking for months now about inventing and adopting > the SPI-standards cmm(x), spice, iso12207, and iso 9001, > etc, in free sw's lifecycles > and would like to ask you about comments and discussion. I would first like to see how these techniques and measu

Re: BSP end of November

Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 11:13:20AM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > > at the German LinuxWorldExpo last week we talked about organizing a BSP > > end of November (we thought of 27. - 28. November, which is the last > > weekend in November). > > Location is not yet defin

Re: Hijacking / adopting ascii?

Florian Ernst wrote: > I seek permission to adopt the package "ascii" without having recieved > positive feedback from the current maintainer as listed in the PTS > (CCed), please see . > > Rationale: > The package is more than two years behind upstream and has

Re: Dehs Summary Report about debian packages vs upstream

Mind posting useful information and not a collection of letters and numbers stolen from lynx output of a table it can't render? Currently, there is less than little value in the mail. Regards, Joey -- If nothing changes, everything will remain the same. -- Barne's Law Please always C

Re: Merkel not survive the power outage?

Andrew Pollock wrote: > Did Merkel not survive the HP power outage? It still seems to be down... Possibly. Matt already feared that when he told us about the power outage. When he's back to mail he'll probably contact a collegue. If that doesn't help, the host will be down until he's back from D

Re: Sponsored people

Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Joey asked how many sponsored people there are at the moment and since > I didn't know I asked Colin for an estimate. Colin did a great job, > and came up with a list of 191 people. While I (and he) thought this > was a high number, it's actually accurate (take or give a

Re: Hartmut Koptein MIA?

Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > Has anyone heard from Hartmut Koptein recently? Yes, spoke to him one or two months ago and definitively during the most recent Oldenburg meeting (via IRC, he wasn't able to attend last year). He's not very active in Debian, though. Regards, Joey -- Unix is

Re: Last minute package update request

Jérôme Marant wrote: > Anthony seems to select people he bother replying to. *Shrug* What would you do if you would get more mail you'd have to reply to than you can actually reply to? Regards, Joey -- No question is too silly to ask, but, of course, some are too silly to answer.

Re: Last minute package update request

Jérôme Marant wrote: > > Hi, > > Must of my package were broken since I get recently important > fixes to important bugs: > > sympa: sympa, wwsympa > python-xml-0.6: python-xml-0.6, python2.1-xml-0.6, xbel-utils-0.6 > python-xml: python-xml python2.1-xml python2.2-xml xbel

Re: [2002-04-30] Release Status Update

Grant Bowman wrote: > Debian-QA, > > Joey has a good point. Perhaps if QA had a better organizational > structure we could be more active in conducting testing of this scale. > The efforts I've seen over the past six months seem to have stalled. The QA people have tried this for several times.

Re: No response from ftpmaintainers!

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > These packages are quite important because they describe the > > proposed java policy which is some kind of guideline for how > > to package java packages. They also provide some dummy packages > > The problem is, from what I've read around, that key people d

Re: Adopting packages.

David B Harris wrote: > Hey ho :) I'm currently in the NM queue, waiting for my key to be > signed. It'll be a while, I believe, before I get it signed. It just > happens to be that I've moved to within a stone's throw of where my AM > works, though it's still across a border. :) > > Anyways, I wa

Re: ITP->RFP

Good idea! Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > I intend to rename all ITP's that haven't had any activity in the last > 100 days to RFP's. Any objections? including or excluding SPAM? :) > The bugs that will be renamed are approximately (my local bts mirror is > a few days out of date) the following: (the fi

Re: QA logbook

Torsten Landschoff wrote: > Hi Colin, > > On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 06:13:28PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > Martin (Joey) Schulze and I were talking on IRC about how to make QA > > work more public. Joey was looking for something he could report in DWN > > about QA's progress and the progress of

Bug#124094: Dupe in /usr/share/doc/wordinspect/

Package: wordinspect Version: 0.1a-7 This doesn't look sane: --- /usr/share/doc/wordinspect/TODO Sat Sep 19 05:31:09 1998 +++ /usr/share/doc/wordinspect/TODO.Debian Sun Dec 9 19:51:33 2001 @@ -32,5 +32,3 @@ Get rid of the horrible hacks my early beta of Glade makes me put in. Warni

Offer to take wordinspect back

Hi, I'm offering to take back maintainership of wordinspect (I introduced it into Debian). Regards, Joey -- The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists.

Re: WNPP bug overview

Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 18:21]: > > The debian-devel-announce list may be more suited, with a > > Mail-Followup-To set to debian-devel. > > Perhaps it should be integrated with the main wnpp report. Yet > another we

Re: WNPP bug overview

Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > Hi guys! > > I've written a script which generates overviews of the wnpp BTS entry. > An example of a report in included below. These reports should enable > us to clean out en keep healthy the wnpp bug entry. > If no one object, I am going to send weekly reports to debian

Re: RfD: Removing mailing lists

Martin Schulze wrote: > Moin! > > I investigated our lists a little bit. It is my understanding that > the Debian project should serve mailing lists on lists.debian.org that > help establishing and running the project. It is also my > understanding that the lists served o

Re: RFC: Changing the NM system

Colin Watson wrote: > Perhaps we need a more organized system of sponsorship, so that people > who are stuck waiting in the NM queue can do QA work with some degree of > ease. At the moment it seems to be largely a matter of whether you're > lucky enough to find somebody who'll quickly and consiste

Re: Removal of xirc

Adrian Bunk wrote: > Hi, > > I've sent bug #62575 on xirc. This bug says xirc has to be removed from > Debian because it is released under the GPL but linked with QT. xirc was > orphaned 516 days ago by Igor Grobman (according to > http://www.debian.org/doc/prospective-packages.html ). Am I allow

Re: Migration of debian-qa-private and debian-qa

Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 12:05:46PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > it does not make sense to have debian-qa-private as list for communication > > between qa comittee and members as an ultra-secret cabal thing. Thus > > qa-private is not private right

Migration of debian-qa-private and debian-qa

Howdy, it does not make sense to have debian-qa-private as list for communication between qa comittee and members as an ultra-secret cabal thing. Thus qa-private is not private right now and everybody can subscribe there. Additionally QA is nothing that needs to be done in private behind closed

Quality Assurance for Potato needed

Now that Bug Horizon has happened, the list of critical, grave and important bugs are shrinking, let's spend some work on other things that need to be done before potato can be released. . Are all dependencies and recommends fulfilled within every respective priority fulfilled? . What about

Re: Y2k problem in perl 5.004.04-7

Rodrigo Fernandez-Vizarra Bonet wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using Debian 2.1 with perl 5.004.04-7, I'm new to perl so I'm not > sure if I'm doing something wrong (I don't think so). I've written this > little script to get the actual date in the "day - month - year" format, > I'm sure there are others wa

Re: Long task to do.

Torsten Landschoff wrote: > On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 12:07:19PM +0200, Christian Kurz wrote: > > > Hm, if somethings just needs a recompilation, then contact the > > maintainer about this problem and offer your help to him. We don't need > > to open a task for jµst recompilation. > > In fact I wo

Re: Debian 2.1 updates on CD image?

Kim Sandström wrote: > Hello, > > I currently use Redhat. As I'd like to introduce my brother to Linux I > thought he could try Debian. It turned out to be more complicated than I > thought. > I burned the two official Debian CDs (2.1r3). As I understand they are based > on > kernel 2.0.x. - tha

Re: A security-base package for Debian

Christian Hammers wrote: > Hello Maintainers ! > > Brent Fulgham and Martin Schulze suggested to make a debian security > package that contains fakebo, snort[1], tcpdump, sniffit etc. > Conaining means either the packages as IIRC in the net-base package or > just making a virtua

Re: Intent to adopt sniffit

Edward Betts wrote: > I was very impressed when I found sniffit the other day, I had been looking > for a similar tool for a some time. I was even more impressed when, after > discovering a different copyright, it was freed. > > I would like to adopt the package. Take it. Regards, Joey

Re: dotfile*

Josip Rodin wrote: > Hi, > > I don't remember if I announced it before, but I'll do it now: > I intend to package new version of dotfile, which will BTW > fix the annoying feature of the postinsts, that won't ask > numerous times again. Thanks a thousand time for that. Regards, Joey --

Re: Release critical bugs and QA

Torsten Landschoff wrote: > > Personally I'm not a friend of the famous bug squashing parties > > on IRC since I cannot fix problems when I need to answer thousand > > questions on IRC. I would appreciate if we would work on things > > instead of discussing IRC meetings. > > The problem is not fi

Re: working on cucipop?

Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Anyone working on cucipop? There's a quick script change, > a PAM support patch, and one other thing to do. > > I'll take a look if nobody else is. If you could spend some time on it, I would like cucipop to ship with proper documentation how APOP works with it. It would

Re: NMU of sniffit

Hamish Moffatt wrote: > I'm doing an NMU of sniffit, which has several bug reports open. > I'm uploading a new upstream version, too. Would you like to take over that package as well? Regards, Joey -- The MS-DOS filesystem is nice for removable media. -- H. Peter Anvin Please always

Re: wpe/xwpe issue

Phillip R. Jaenke wrote: > Whoever's busily(?) maintaining wpe/xwpe; > > Could we please get a recompile and upload of it? This time in *color* > for wpe? The whole point of wpe is that it does color highlighting, and > it doesn't do that so hot in mono. ;) This package is orphaned. Can you send

Re: Release critical bugs and QA

Torsten Landschoff wrote: > Hi *, > > As we are moving towards release of potato and we have a bunch of release > critical bugs I think we (the qa-team) should put some work into it. I think, > the best way to coordinate this, is a weekly meating on irc.debian.org. I > propose we open a new chann

Re: [PROPOSAL] Official QA-Section on Debian-Homepage?

Josip Rodin wrote: > > > Would it be possible to create a "qa"-group at least on va and have a > > > QA-directory hooked directly into the main html tree? This way the core > > > members of qa all could update the info available there. If we all > > > contribute > > > only a tiny amount of work ea

Re: [PROPOSAL] Official QA-Section on Debian-Homepage?

I believe this is a good idea in general. QA should be more emphasized and should be more present at our web pages. However, its presence at the web is useless if it won't be worked on and won't be updated. Thus at least static information like our "rules" and members should be there. So my mai

Re: cdwrite 2.1 is not out there

Josip Rodin wrote: > On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 10:51:16PM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > > > I've been playing around with xcdroast and it has cdwrite 2.1 in it's > > > sources. Debian still has version 2.0. > > > > AFAIR xcdroast had cdwrite in its sources and extended it. So they bumped > > t

Bug#37805: mozilla: new upstream version

Josip Rodin wrote: > > M5 is out. > > Don't say! :) > > When we get it to compile properly, it'll be uploaded... Good luck! Regards, Joey -- We all know Linux is great... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds. - Linus Torvalds Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the

Re: QA responsible for help in fixing bugs?

Torsten Landschoff wrote: > On Sun, May 02, 1999 at 02:13:42AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > > Just another thought about qa: Should we make it the official address > > > to send help requests from developers? I did not see many of this on > > > -devel so

Re: QA responsible for help in fixing bugs?

Christian Kurz wrote: > Torsten Landschoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just another thought about qa: Should we make it the official address > > to send help requests from developers? I did not see many of this on > > -devel so I think it would be a good thing because > > Maybe this isn't a ba

Re: QA responsible for help in fixing bugs?

Torsten Landschoff wrote: > Hi again > > Just another thought about qa: Should we make it the official address > to send help requests from developers? I did not see many of this on > -devel so I think it would be a good thing because NO! That's what debian-mentors and debian-devel is made for.

Re: RFC: Debian Quality Assurance Group

Josip Rodin wrote: > I have adjusted Vincent Renardias' proposal which Martin Schulze > kindly dug out of the archives. Here it is, and I hope you all > will have something to say about it, especially if there are any > errors to correct. After we make a conclusion and any nee

Re: RFC: Debian Quality Assurance Group

Josip Rodin wrote: > The Quality Assurance Group (QA Group) is attempt of the Debian Project > to accelerate fixing bugs in our distribution. Primary occupation of the > group is finding and maintaining orphaned packages, and helping to find NO. Without reading any further I strongly disagree. I

Re: Unconditional prompting from dotfile packages

Josip Rodin wrote: > On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 07:15:28PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > > Drake>I'd like to see anything that prompts unconditionally > > Drake> dropped below Standard prioirity though. dotfile* come to > > Drake> mind. > > > > You're right, this is a complete pain

Re: Debian Quality Assurance Group

Josip Rodin wrote: > On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 11:33:04AM +0200, Christian Kurz wrote: > > > Is there some place (document of some kind) where the Quality Assurance > > > 'thing' is defined and described? > > > > Well, Joey posted a Draft for QA to this list, which should be now in > > the ML-archiv

Re: Bug#36132: xftp: two app-defaults

xt XFree packages? > -- > Raul > > Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 10:40:08AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > I wonder if it would be possible that all these questions may be > > > reduced to _one_ by touchin

Is John Hasler MIA?

I wonder if John Hasler is MIA? When I look at the pppconfig bug list I wonder that this package still works: * [28]#21058: pppconfig: probably add the option remotename? Package: [29]pppconfig; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 372 days old. * [7]#24167: Hamm

Re: window managers

Branden Robinson wrote: > I don't subscribe to the QA list, but someone brought this to my attention. > > > - Forwarded message from Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > > I believe that there are three things which need to be done: > > > >

Re: [joey: Maintainership, vanishing or absent maintainers (QA)]

Brederlow wrote: > Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ... > > > > They will be listed on the WNPP page as orphaned by the DQAG. > > > > Packages that don't get a maintainer for one year or two Debian releases > > will be withdrawn completely from the distribution. > > Will there be a l

Re: Another job for the QA team

Julian Gilbey wrote: > > c) There should be a wm-configure script which would be invoked > > by the hooks mechanism if it is implemented or issued by the > > admin otherwise. I've already shown an example for this script. > > Hooks mechanism? Do you mean the postinst, or something el

Re: Bug#36132: xftp: two app-defaults

Josip Rodin wrote: > Package: xftp > > After installation it displays a choice between two application > default files, but it doesn't show what the default one is. > Please, make it pick one automatically (since it holds the whole > installation because of that!) or at least provide a reasonabl

Re: Another job for the QA team

Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > In my new version of the fvwm package (2.2-x), there have been radical > > > changes. The postinst will do its best not to irrevocably retrieve > > > the information it expects to currently be present, but it warns the > > > installer that certain information may be lost

Re: Another job for the QA team

Fabien Ninoles wrote: > What about install-window-manager be change for sleeping in background > until all packages are installed (it's mean until dpkg stop) then show > a nice tty menu allowing you to choices your default WM? With a little > work, it can also let you comment or moves entries aroun

Re: Another job for the QA team

Julian Gilbey wrote: > > One more reason not to have press-enter-to-continue's in maintainer > > scripts, even if the information or question presented seems important > > (some "crucial" change to a conffile or something like that): if you > > have something to say, don't put press-enter after dis

QA Team Members

Hi folks, I've asked one of the webmasters if he would like to add a new page containing the members of the QA team. I'd like to send the following list to him if you don't object. Vincent Renardias James Troup Martin 'Joey' Schulze Christian Kurz Anthony Towns Torsten Landscho

Re: Another job for the QA team

Josip Rodin wrote: > On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 09:21:58PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > We should detect superflous {pre,post}{inst,rm} questions and ask the > > maintainers to remove them. > > > > Rationale: > > > > Debian GNU/Linux is already

Another job for the QA team

Hi, I've got another job for you - I'm not able to fix it within hours this time. We should detect superflous {pre,post}{inst,rm} questions and ask the maintainers to remove them. Rationale: Debian GNU/Linux is already known as the one and only distribution that bothers the user with as man

Job done: (was: Job for QA Team: /usr/man/man1/ctags.1.gz)

Martin Schulze wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a job for the QA team. While producing some Slink CD's I > noticed that /usr/man/man1/ctags.1.gz is not properly handled by > update-alternatives. See also Bug#35953 which I wrote this morning. Seems I've just

Job for QA Team: /usr/man/man1/ctags.1.gz

Hi, I've got a job for the QA team. While producing some Slink CD's I noticed that /usr/man/man1/ctags.1.gz is not properly handled by update-alternatives. See also Bug#35953 which I wrote this morning. Regards, Joey -- The MS-DOS filesystem is nice for removable media. -- H. Peter

Re: Closing libc4 related bugs.

Joey Hess wrote: > Martin Schulze wrote: > > Is somebody working on this? Does somebody else than you want to achive > > this? > > I'm very interested in making this happen, but I don't know how I can get > the necessary changes made to the system with the BTS

Re: Closing libc4 related bugs.

Josip Rodin wrote: > On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 11:45:26PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > It would have been nice if this could have waited until old bugs were > > archived by the BTS, in case someone wants to revive libc4 in the future. > > Not important though. > > You have exactly 28 days left t

Re: Closing libc4 related bugs.

Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > We, the Debian project, can not support use of Debian 1.3 (or earlier), > > so I am now closing these bug reports since they serve no purpose and > > can not actually be fixed. > > It would have been nice if this could have waited until old bugs were > archived by the BTS

Re: Bug in pgp 2.6.3

Christian Kurz wrote: > [Cc to the maintainer] > > Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Christian Kurz wrote: > > > there's a bug in pgp, which won't you let create a pgp-key until there's > > > a directory called .pgp. This bug is

Re: Bug in pgp 2.6.3

Christian Kurz wrote: > Hi, > > there's a bug in pgp, which won't you let create a pgp-key until there's > a directory called .pgp. This bug is still there and as the maintainer > told me it has been abandoned from upstream. I looked at the source code > and this evil. Also there's the problem tha

Re: The old lynx bug (was: Re: Bugs older than two years)

Dear Lynx developers, we have received the follwoing report through the bug tracking system of Debian at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/. The bug is against version 2.4-FM-960316-1 but still present. The entire report can be viewed at http://www.infodrom.north.de/Debian/Bugs/db/38/3846.html Caveat:

Re: Bugs older than two years

Josip Rodin wrote: > >Package: libc4 > >Maintainer: > >[REMOVE] libc4 is no longer supported > >5666 libc5-dev_5.4.13-1 fails in postinstallation (but installs) > > > >Package: libc4-dev > >Maintainer: > >[REMOVE] libc4 is no longer supported > >5688 libc4-dev ov

Re: Upstream maintainers are sleeping (Was: Reviving Debian QA

Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Monday 29 March 1999, at 1 h 17, the keyboard of Adam Di Carlo > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * check that patches that should be sent upstream are being sent > > upstream -- I think this is very important and I think we have a > > bit of a bad reputa

Re: Debian QA Policy Draft

Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 09:53:01PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Maintainers: > > > > How much work is expected from the maintainers? > > Can we refrain from formalising this too much? Personally, I quite like the > way

Re: Debian QA Policy Draft

Joey Hess wrote: > Martin Schulze wrote: > > Re-upload the known orphaned packages with the 'Maintainer' field > > set to: "Orphaned Package " > > We're currently using "Maintainer: Debian QA Group > " > > I forget wh

Re: Debian QA Policy Draft

Josip Rodin wrote: > > > BTW what can we do with maintainers who can't be reached by e-mails, > > > and their packages need attention? How can we know that they will/won't > > > > Please take a look at debian-policy where I've posted the 2nd half of > > Vincent's proposal. The QA team need to be

Re: Reviving Debian QA

Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Monday 29 March 1999, at 11 h 32, the keyboard of Martin Schulze > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Oh well, sure it is. But developers behave different. Some of them > > follow each policy change and each suggestion at once, some o

Re: Reviving Debian QA

Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > > What is debian-qa and is it eatable? > > I agree with Adam that the goals seem very broad. Reading your message, one > could think that Debian-QA is everything in Debian. Is QA really the > technical > direction of Debian or is it more a "sweeper" checking package

Re: how to participate?

Josip Rodin wrote: > Hi, > > How can one participate in this 'quality assurance'? I found some At the moment there is no written list of active members. However membership as uploader is limited to registrated developers while membership as reporter doesn't seem to be restricted. The webmasters

Re: Reviving Debian QA

John Lapeyre wrote: > *Martin Schulze wrote: > > . Check if all packages providing user programs (X11 or not) come > >with menu files > > > >- Such packages have to call update-menus in their postinst and > > prerm scripts > Lintian does t

Re: Debian QA Policy Draft

Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 09:53:01PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Re-upload the known orphaned packages with the 'Maintainer' field > > set to: "Orphaned Package " > > I've seen only 'Debian QA Group' (and vari

Debian QA Policy Draft

This is what Vincent Renardias wrote about Debian QA: -- Debian QA Policy Draft -- Vincent Renardias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Reviving Debian QA

Hi, [ Mailing to Debian Development and Debian QA, please send replies *only* to Debian QA ] as many people out here already know debian-qa has been quite quiet lately. What is debian-qa and is it eatable? QA stands for Quality Assurance and is intended to keep the quality of the distrib

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

Brian White wrote: > The following bug reports *must* be fixed before the current frozen Debian > distribution can progress further in its development cycle. Reminders have > been sent to the maintainers of these packages but some of the packages with > older bugs could probably use some assistanc

Bug#33238: Slink bugs

Moin Wichert! For your Buglist: Package: [50]netstd (main). Maintainer: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [52]33249 ftpd displays user passwords (SECURITY) + The bug report contains a possible fix. Package: [59]util-linux (main). Maintainer: Vincent Renardias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [61]32916 hwc

Bug#33238: libpam / nmu

Are you planning to make a new NMU of libpam for slink to fix the bogus dependency? Would be appreciated. Regards, Joey -- Experience is a useful thing. Unfortunately it is only acquired just after one could have used it. Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists.

Re: Orphaning package rc

n-qa, i.e. orphaning it * Adjusted Standards-Version * Extended description (closes: Bug#3607) * rc does not quit by hitting C-c anymore (closes: Bug#3206) * Added script to detect signals, written by Raul Miller (closes: Bug#24020) -- Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 31 Oct 1998 11:

Re: Mozilla status

J.H.M. Dassen Ray" wrote: > This morning, I uploaded a mozilla (latest tarball) compiled with the fixed > libc6 and libstdc++2.9. It no longer dumps core immediately after startup, > and should be somewhat usable again (it's still alpha code of course). It is > marked Maintainer: Debian QA group .

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