Bug#663730: qa.debian.org: falsely merges two people

2012-03-13 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: qa.debian.org Severity: normal Hi, The Package Overview page at: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=matthew%40debian.org is showing packages for both myself and another Matthew Vernon, namely suner...@vernshome.net. We are not the same person, so our packages should not be

Re: RM: ud -- RoQA; orphaned, no upstream, uptimed is better

2006-08-02 Thread Matthew Vernon
ptimed does the same thing better. * popcon: 261 installs, 177 votes. I, for one, still use this, haven't had a problem with it for years, and would be sad to see it go. None of the bugs against it are show- stoppers, either. Matthew -- Matthew Vernon MA VetMB LGSM MRCVS Farm Animal E

Re: Candidates for removal

2005-09-29 Thread Matthew Vernon
Russ Allbery writes: > Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 1340 days: trn (0 waiting, new pkg, has RC bugs) [Matthew Vernon] > > 49 popcon installs of which 32 'old', 1 'recent', 1 'nofiles' > >Non

Re: Matthew Vernon MIA (Was: biosquid and Hmmer)

2005-07-28 Thread Matthew Vernon
I'm currently away from my Debian-maintaining machine (but can still get at email). I re-packaged a new hmmer upstream a little while back, but had difficulties with getting the upload accepted. Re-uploading the package is on the todo-list. Matthew -- Matthew Vernon MA VetMB LGSM MRCVS F

Re: Let's remove moria

2005-03-15 Thread Matthew Vernon
Martin Michlmayr writes: > * Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-14 10:39]: > > It's kinder on the ftpmasters not to do that, and they seem to have a > > big list of work to do already. In other words, leaving the package > > alone, and uploading a free version to main when it's r

Re: Let's remove moria

2005-03-14 Thread Matthew Vernon
Martin Michlmayr writes: > reassign 274472 ftp.debian.org > retitle 274472 RM: moria -- RoQA, orphaned, non-free > thanks > > * Andrew Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-02-17 16:57]: > > Still orphaned. > > > > I don't think that the QA team should be formerly adopting non-free > > packa

Re: xtrlock security patch

2005-01-17 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 17 Jan 2005, at 01:24, Justin Pryzby wrote: Hi all, I created a 1-line patch to fix Bug#278191: "xtrlock unlocks upon very long input". I hope someone can upload an update? I'm working on it. Matthew -- Matthew Vernon MA VetMB LGSM MRCVS Farm Animal Epidemiology and Informatics

Re: Ranking of the worst maintainers

2004-11-02 Thread Matthew Vernon
to visualize what we all already know, I created a simple ranking page that counts the bug reports of a certain person together and gives it appropriate weight (based on the priority of the package, the time the bug has been kept open and its severity). The results can be found here: You're go

Re: Really, really ancient standards versions

2004-02-28 Thread Matthew Vernon
Martin Michlmayr writes: > * Matthew Vernon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-02-28 11:14]: > > > floppybackup: Matthew Vernon. Standards version 2.1.2.2. > > > Last maintainer upload in the year 2000. > > > > I don't think this package has changed

Really, really ancient standards versions

2004-02-28 Thread Matthew Vernon
> floppybackup: Matthew Vernon. Standards version 2.1.2.2. > Last maintainer upload in the year 2000. I don't think this package has changed since 2000, TBPH. Matthew -- Rapun.sel - outermost outpost of the Pick Empire http://www.pick.ucam.org

Re: Packages in need of TLC...

2003-09-27 Thread Matthew Vernon
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes: > On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > > Package: word2x > > > Maintainer: Matthew Vernon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > FTBFS bug open over 2 years, no response from the maintainer. Last > >

Stop!

2003-02-16 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, Please please stop sending these semi-automated emails to debian-qa bug reports! My mailbox is groaning under the load of the BTS barfing on your emails. Matthew -- Rapun.sel - outermost outpost of the Pick Empire http://www.pick.ucam.org

Low Averge Bug Counts

2001-12-15 Thread Matthew Vernon
Grant Bowman writes: > I believe it would be a real boost to those developers who are doing > such an excellent job in keeping their packages bug-free to make some > kind of public praising from the QA group. I would be happy to work > on the wording with anyone else who would like to parti

Bug #74239 - Will it ever be fixed?!

2001-11-28 Thread Matthew Vernon
Åke Wallebom writes: > #74239: ssh: X11 forwarding hangs connection attempt > Package: ssh2; Severity: important; Reported by: Brian White <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]>; 1 year and 53 days old. > > Will it ever be fixed?! I really want to use X11 Tunnels! > > Is there another package for debia

Re: Inconsistent spelling of QT and GNOME

2001-11-05 Thread Matthew Vernon
Christian Kurz writes: > On 04/11/01, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 09:39:25PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > > > On 04/11/01, Matthew Vernon wrote: > > > > Indeed. Historically, debian-qa have been the people who deal with > > > > o

Re: Inconsistent spelling of QT and GNOME

2001-11-04 Thread Matthew Vernon
Christian Kurz writes: > On 04/11/01, Matthew Vernon wrote: > > Erm. Why? debian-qa exists to improve the quality of Debian - to deal > > with bugs that are causing maintainers problems, to NMU packages that > > developers aren't dealing with for whatever

Re: Inconsistent spelling of QT and GNOME

2001-11-04 Thread Matthew Vernon
Christian Kurz writes: > On 04/11/01, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Sun, 04 Nov 2001, Christian Kurz wrote: > So, let's drop the debian-qa list and the whole idea of Debian QA, if QA > has no authority to make decision about what should be done to improve > our quality. If this li

Re: RC bugs in packages maintained by this list

2001-10-21 Thread Matthew Vernon
Colin Watson writes: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 05:44:32AM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > > I can clean out some of the ssh2 stuff, but somebody who actually knows > > about ssh should have a look at the ones that aren't just build > > failures. > > OK, acrimony aside, I've downgraded one of ss

Patched bugs to be fixed...

2001-09-12 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi Yann, I notice a couple of simple patches in the BTS against console-tools. They seem sensible to me (110696 and 110130). Are you going to upload these, or can I do an NMU? I think these are fixes that should go into the next release... Thanks, Matthew -- "At least you know where you a

Re: diald not installing

2001-08-18 Thread Matthew Vernon
Colin Watson writes: > QA people, could somebody NMU diald? My last message in the bug log > explains how to fix it, and in the month and a half since I sent that > I've heard nothing from the maintainer. It's one of our oldest > release-critical bugs. An NMU is in incoming. Matthew -- R

Packages using old libs

2001-06-26 Thread Matthew Vernon
Anthony Towns writes: > All of them should be recompiled (or possibly moved into oldlibs > themselves). That's quite some list. I suspect many of the packages there are just not being maintained anymore... > Assuming of course, that there's anyone willing to do qa tasks of this > type thes

Re: Testing problems

2001-05-30 Thread Matthew Vernon
Anthony Towns writes: > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 01:29:49PM +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote: > > Anthony Towns writes: > > > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:18:21AM +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote: > > > >A problem I'm commonly finding with testing (the distribution,

Re: Testing problems

2001-05-30 Thread Matthew Vernon
Anthony Towns writes: > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:18:21AM +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote: > >A problem I'm commonly finding with testing (the distribution, not > > the process) is that packages get moved into testing, whilst things > > they have a versioned

Testing problems

2001-05-30 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi folks, A problem I'm commonly finding with testing (the distribution, not the process) is that packages get moved into testing, whilst things they have a versioned dependancy on are still in unstable. This strikes me as highly undesirable behaviour. Should/could something be done about this?

Re: QA CVS commit by joy: wml/. foo

2001-04-02 Thread Matthew Vernon
Josip Rodin writes: > On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 06:06:38PM +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote: > > I'm beginning to be worried about the number of posts/day going to > > debian-qa, so I don't think even more would be a good idea. > > Yeah, the amount of junk^Wmails

Re: QA CVS commit by joy: wml/. foo

2001-04-01 Thread Matthew Vernon
> I've set up logging for the QA CVS tree, it looks like this message I'm > quoting. Currently it mails [EMAIL PROTECTED], a testing alias. Should it be > changed to the -qa mailing list? I'm beginning to be worried about the number of posts/day going to debian-qa, so I don't think even more w

only release packages that have maintainers?

2001-02-20 Thread Matthew Vernon
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry writes: > Anyone have comments on the idea that the only packages we should release are > ones that have a maintainer, not Debian QA? How about asking the QA team? I think that "packages maintained by the QA team" is a poor criterion for getting software. They shouldn't delay

Bug#50474: Cannot use lockvc under X anymore

2000-12-18 Thread Matthew Vernon
Eugene A. Brin writes: > After apt-get dist-upgrade and upgrading lockvc to 3.9-1, I am not able to > run lockvc under X. > Not running in graphics-capable virtual console. > It's OK, but it worked with 3.4-2. I'm sorry, but you'll have to give us much more information if you want this bug fix

libcgicg1 bugs

2000-12-17 Thread Matthew Vernon
Matthew Vernon writes: >I'm working on these now... Well, I've got a built version with the currently-open bugs fixed; OTOH, the code is terrible; I'm not sure I've got the patience to go and try and fix up the grossnesses in it. Shall I upload the bug-fix packages?

libcgicg1 bugs

2000-12-16 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi folks, I'm working on these now... Matthew Debian QA Core Team member -- Rapun.sel - outermost outpost of the Pick Empire http://www.pick.ucam.org

Re: Orphaning of lockvc

2000-12-11 Thread Matthew Vernon
Christian Kurz writes: > [There's no need to Cc me, as I'm also on debian-qa, as you could assume [noted] > No, Wichert doesn't want to maintain it and wanted it to orphan it and I > think no one needs to take a package over under some pressure. You > should always decide for you own, if you

Re: Orphaning of lockvc

2000-12-08 Thread Matthew Vernon
> OK, I'm uploading a new version now. At least it compiles... oops. I built an upload, and uploaded it before I got this mail. tbm's package seems to be on ftp-master, so I'll wait and see what happens (if there's a conflict use his instead of mine, since I just hacked it to build a non-rc

Orphaning of lockvc

2000-12-08 Thread Matthew Vernon
> Wichert just orphaned lockvc in IRC when I talked with him about the > release-critical-bug in it. I then tried to recompile lockvc here on > woody and make an orphaning upload which failed for me. So Wichert and I > would appreciate if someone of you could take this task over. Thanks. A fi

Re: Help wanted: word2x

2000-10-16 Thread Matthew Vernon
Adrian Bunk writes: > I tried to recompile word2x on a i386 running a recent woody and the build > worked without any problems. Could you send me an exact description of > your problem? Attached is stderr from a build attempt: fakeroot debian/rules clean DEB_BUILD_ARCH=i386 DEB_BUILD_GNU_CPU

Help wanted: word2x

2000-10-16 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi all, I've been a bit quiet on the Debian front for a little while (moving house, vacation, that sort of thing), and I'm sitting down to fix some bugs in my packages (and in some other packges, you'll be pleased to hear :). Anyhow, word2x no longer builds; Also, I try downloading some source

Bug#70196: automatic build fails for potato

2000-08-28 Thread Matthew Vernon
Goswin Brederlow writes: > Package: asa > Version: N/A; > Severity: normal > Since you have no "Build-Depends" you eigther forgot that your package > build-depends on something (like debhelper?) or you don't know about > build dependencies. > dh_testdir > make: dh_testdir: Command not foun

Bug#69842: ntop: security hole: remote root in web mode

2000-08-24 Thread Matthew Vernon
Joey Hess writes: > Please see http://lwn.net/2000/0824/a/fb-ntop.php3 Is this distinct from the remote root in web mode that was fixed in ntop about a week ago? Matthew -- Rapun.sel - outermost outpost of the Pick Empire http://www.pick.ucam.org

Bug#68674: ntop throughput mode exchanges received and sent

2000-08-08 Thread Matthew Vernon
Matthew Vernon writes: > Ian Jackson writes: > > Package: ntop > > Version: 1.2a7-6 > > I think the attached patch should fix this. I've tested it and it > > seems to fix the problem. > > I've built a patched version, which works here. I&#

Bug#68674: ntop throughput mode exchanges received and sent

2000-08-07 Thread Matthew Vernon
Ian Jackson writes: > Package: ntop > Version: 1.2a7-6 > I think the attached patch should fix this. I've tested it and it > seems to fix the problem. I've built a patched version, which works here. I'll upload it tommorow (I need to take the .changes home to sign). > However, on my early

update-passwd, panorama and other QA things

1999-12-06 Thread Matthew Vernon
'Morning all, Task number 7 (update-passwd) now relates to a fixed bug - do we therefore assume that this task could now shuffle off its mortal coil? Are there any outstanding tasks that could be added? And why is panorama listed as needing adoption (I make some use of it) - there are n

Re: Multiple NMU requests

1999-10-14 Thread Matthew Vernon
Lazarus Long writes: > Setting up procps (2.0.3-5) ... > Checking available versions of w, updating links in /etc/alternatives ... > (You may modify the symlinks there yourself if desired - see `man ln'.) > Renaming w.1.gz slave link from /usr/man/man1/w.1.gz to > /usr/share/man/man1/w.1.gz.

Internal projects

1999-09-29 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, Should we join people like the XSF in having a link from teh Internal projects page of the website? Matthew -- "At least you know where you are with Microsoft." "True. I just wish I'd brought a paddle." http://www.debian.org/

forwarded message from Matthew Vernon

1999-09-29 Thread Matthew Vernon
Ops. Messed up the Cc. --- start of forwarded message --- MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 "20 Minutes to Nikko" XEmacs Lucid (patch 2) From: Matthe

gdm2?

1999-09-28 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, ISTR a couple of days ago someone saying that I should wait on a newer CVS version before attempting to package it. Any news on this front? Matthew -- "At least you know where you are with Microsoft." "True. I just wish I'd brought a paddle." http://www.debian.org/

Gdm progress

1999-09-23 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, I've been playing with gdm, with limited success: A couple of bugs in the config file have been fixed, so gdm does at least start now. Unfortunatly, it now forks off lots of new processes until you killall gdm. I'll look into it. Matthew -- "At least you know where you are with Microsoft."

Ispell - upstream address?

1999-08-18 Thread Matthew Vernon
(please Cc all replies to me) Hi, I've noticed ispell is orphaned, and intend to adopt it (I'll post the intent formally a bit later) - but I'd like to get hold of upstream if at all possible, and the web address given in the source returns me 404, which makes me wonder whether he's moved

Re: Intent to adopt: electric fence

1999-08-17 Thread Matthew Vernon
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > "Matthew" == Matthew Vernon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Matthew> I'll package this up shortly (bugs notwithstanding) > > Hmmm, there was a rumor going around at LinuxWorld that Bruce was > r

Intent to adopt: electric fence

1999-08-16 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: electric-fence Status: install ok installed Priority: standard Section: devel Installed-Size: 41 Maintainer: Debian QA Group Version: 2.1-1 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1) Description: A malloc(3) debugger Use virtual memory hardware to detect illegal memory accesses. I'll package this up short