Re: Let's remove odontolinux

2006-10-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: Combined, I don't think fixing the RC bug(s) is worth the effort for the package in its current state. Even as Debian-Med adictive person I would say: When you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. So lets remov

Re: /usr/bin/svnserve: Need an init.d script?

2007-05-07 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I also stumbled upon this problem. Any news since three years? It is just unusual if Debian provides a package that contains server features but there is not even a hint in the docs (for instance README.Debian) how to start the server. If I personally would maintain such a package I would e

Status of serpento (Was: Status of your packages)

2007-12-11 Thread Andreas Tille
an Garabik wrote: On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 01:23:34AM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-18 15:06]: http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2006/03/msg00089.html I asked whether we might want to remove serpento. I'd vote for it but my question

Re: Oldlibs transitions, and some old packages.

2007-12-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Kumar Appaiah wrote: I am trying to help out by finding rdepends of packages in the oldlibs section, and am hoping that cleaning up the oldlibs section could be made a Lenny release goal (distant dream). You should probably define "cleaning up oldlibs" more precisely. I do

Re: How are packages associated with resigned debian developers handled?

2008-01-09 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Given Matthew's reasons for resigning, I think it would be respectful to spare him the emails Well, if there is no better communication channel than e-mail I would go for it starting: I would like to consider your wish to not to get any Debian rel

What to do if Homepage seems to have vanished

2008-02-17 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I'm maintaining the package fastdnaml and wanted to move the Homepage information I putted into the long description formerly to the Homepage tag of the control file. When doing so I verified that the home page is correct but failed. The project seems to have vanished from the web. I have t

Re: What to do if Homepage seems to have vanished

2008-02-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Jack T Mudge III wrote: AFAICT, it would seem that didiwiki is in this group as well. I found plenty of links to it's nonexistant homepage. It's a frusterating situation, since most users (myself included) expect to be able to go to the homepage and find out more about the p

Re: [RKI-Spam-Verdacht]Re: What to do if Homepage seems to have vanished

2008-02-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Alexander Schmehl wrote: Well, I would say, that if only usefull purpouse of the homepage was to download the tarball, than you can just drop the homepage header; appearently the user has no nead for the tarball ;) Well, you are right that there is no need to point to a pu

Re: Re: What to do if Homepage seems to have vanished

2008-02-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Alexander Schmehl wrote: No, I meant archive.org (not .com as I wrote previously, sorry). They archive web pages like a library (see for example http://web.archive.org/web/19970502070835/http://www.debian.org/), and maybe the have the documentation pages of your software ar

Re: What to do if Homepage seems to have vanished

2008-02-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Alexander Schmehl wrote: Well, a third and fourth alternative would be to download the documentation from archive.org, and (assuming you have the right for distribution) but them in a -doc package or put it on people.debian.o

Re: What to do if Homepage seems to have vanished

2008-02-19 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: One low-tech thing that one could do is just put, in the package long description, a note that the software is dead upstream. Personally, I think that's often information worthy of being in the long description; one purpose of the long description, after

CtSim (Was: wxwindows2.4)

2008-03-12 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Barry deFreese wrote: It's been a while. newpki-client was finally just uploaded with my wx2.6 patch (apparently after some patch fixing wrt to whitespace issues :-( ) Anyway, the last holdout is ctsim. Has anyone heard more from the ctsim maintainer? Are we going to

Re: CtSim (Was: wxwindows2.4)

2008-03-12 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Barry deFreese wrote: I tried this a while back also. Kevin is upstream bye the way. Last time I spoke with him via e-mail, he was more interested in wx2.8 or 3.0 but now that he is the proverbial "last man standing" he might be persuaded, I don't know. Well, I don't c

Bug#481477: qa.debian.org: PTS does not list grave bug of wordnet package

2008-05-16 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: qa.debian.org Severity: normal Hi, the page http://packages.qa.debian.org/w/wordnet.html lists only a wishlist bug against dict-wn (#432528) but not the grave security issue against wordnet (#481186). The page says Last modified : Fri May 16 08:41:15 UTC 2008. while the bug

Bug#483179: reopen 483179, PTS: please do *not* link to Ubuntu Launchpad bugs page

2008-06-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Ana Guerrero wrote: reopen 483179 retitle 483179 PTS: please *do not* link to Ubuntu Launchpad bugs page thanks ... 09:41 ana: and accept my decision as PTS maintainer ... About buxy's second sentence, it is not at all a way to "finish" a discussion. Accept my disagreement

Bug#489861: QA page doesn't work for metapackages

2008-07-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: science-physics on http://qa.debian.org/developer.php should do this, but it returns the page http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?task=science-physics which says "No information available for Task: science-physics". I wonder why you think this shoul

Re: Bug#489861: QA page doesn't work for metapackages

2008-07-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: Yeah, "task" here really means "task as understood by tasksel/defined by Packages file", not "something similar to a task implemented as metapackage". On the other hand: the Package science-tasks just provides a task science-physics (and others) ..

Re: Bug#489861: QA page doesn't work for metapackages

2008-07-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Chris Walker wrote: What I want is a way of keeping an eye on packages in one of these metapackages to see that they are at least vaguely up to date and not full of RC bugs. I was then going to add it to http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience in the hope that scientists will h

Bug#489861: Fwd: Bug#489861: QA page doesn't work for metapackages

2008-07-19 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Chris Walker wrote: Yes exactly what I was after - except that it doesn't track the upstream versions. Well, this is a subject for my (your ;-)) todo list. BTW, would you regard it reasonable to split the bug pages according to single tasks or not. Currently the page jus

Re: Orphaned packages that were not part of etch

2008-07-20 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 20 Jul 2008, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: openmotif: popcon 782/90/347/32/313, looong orphaned, non-free, RC bug, rdepends: arb, motv, was part of oldstable -> keep in unstable, prod arb maintainer, remove motv I'm the maintainer of arb. The former version of arb had serious trouble with

Re: Fwd: Bug#489861: QA page doesn't work for metapackages

2008-07-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Chris Walker wrote: I guess you want this http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/bugs.php for Debian Science, right? Yes exactly what I was after - except that it doesn't track the upstream versions. BTW, we also track upstream versions via http://debian-med.alioth

Re: RFS: gcal (updated package, QA Upload)

2008-08-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 16 Aug 2008, Sandro Tosi wrote: On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 11:22, Vincent Bernat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would have prefered that you converted the package to some patch management system but since this is a QA upload, I have uploaded it anyway. Yeah, it's a good idea, an

Better team maintenance of orphaned packages (Was: Bug#492503: marked as done (ITA: feh -- imlib2 based image viewer))

2008-08-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Your message dated Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:47:03 + with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#492503: fixed in feh 1.3.4.dfsg.1-2 has caused the Debian Bug report #492503, regarding ITA: feh -- imlib2 based image viewer to be m

Re: Better team maintenance of orphaned packages

2008-08-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: Why not just use collab-maint for this? Good question - I was just as unaware about this project as I was about wnpp-alert script. :-( Is it just me that I'm ignorant about important pieces of information or is it just not well enough advertised? Tech

Re: Better team maintenance of orphaned packages (Was: Bug#492503: marked as done (ITA: feh -- imlib2 based image viewer))

2008-08-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: This idea cames up on a regular basis. I think that the consensus is that it's better to simply use the Debian archive as VCS. When you change/fix something in an orphaned package, just upload ;) Well, OK, this might make some sense if you just not in

Re: Better team maintenance of orphaned packages

2008-08-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote: You probably do not follow the low volume debian-news mailing list See http://lists.debian.org/debian-news/2006/msg00016.html Well, yes, I do not follow this list. I've thought d-d-a is enough. It is a little bit hard to decide which channel

How to implement QA web pages for a certain set of packages

2008-09-24 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I would like to ask for comments on my plan to find a reasonable way to produce QA pages for a "certain set of packages". The idea behind this is that David Paleino has created nice pages for Debian Med at http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/qareport.cgi which is an adaptation o

Re: How to implement QA web pages for a certain set of packages

2008-09-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Paul Wise wrote: DDPO supports subscribing to more packages, see the info here: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php So your suggestion would be to write a CGI script that obtains the packages in question and feed this as argument to http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?pa

Re: How to implement QA web pages for a certain set of packages

2008-09-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Paul Wise wrote: Er, you didn't read down the page far enough (see the "Subscribing to Packages" heading). Whenever you want a new package to be monitored by DDPO for your team, send a mail: I do not really want to subscribe and I also think that the general mail address

Re: How to implement QA web pages for a certain set of packages

2008-09-25 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Paul Wise wrote: It isn't subscribing in the email list sense, it is just adding those packages to the DDPO page for a certain email address. Yes and this does not work as intended because we have one single email address for more than one page to display (several sections

Re: How to implement QA web pages for a certain set of packages

2008-09-25 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Paul Wise wrote: IIRC it isn't possible to use addresses that are not in Maintainers or Uploaders with DDPO. I guess DDPO isn't for you then. OK. This directs the mail to the DDPO mail bot: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This sets the user to the Debian Med packaging team: use

Re: How to implement QA web pages for a certain set of packages

2008-09-25 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Paul Wise wrote: (hope that these anchors links will be set - if not its probably easy to create a patch.) Seems they are set, no patch needed. Yes, you are right. But it seems that this method does not in all cases work reliable: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Sep 25 23

Re: Group up orphaned packages in order to find adopter faster

2008-10-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Enrico Zini have ad for a while some code which find package similarities, in fact I believe it is the one used on packages.debian.org to show "similar packages". H, what means "similar packages"? I really can not imagine some code that detec

[OT] Re: announce pure blends (Re: Group up orphaned packages in order to find adopter faster

2008-10-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Holger Levsen wrote: If this has left the state of discussion and has become a fact, can we have a mail on d-d-a about this please?! Yes, we can and we will have. I just need some time for recovering from offline backlog - I hope to get something out at the weekend. BTW,

Re: Group up orphaned packages in order to find adopter faster

2008-10-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Enrico Zini wrote: You bet. You can do it by looking for packages with similar tags, or clustering them according to similarity in the description. Or both. Ahh, detecting similarities based on tags - sure, what else should I have expected if it was code from Enrico. ;-)

Re: Group up orphaned packages in order to find adopter faster

2008-10-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Enrico Zini wrote: No, not just tags: Xapian has features to compute similarity based on whatever you index: you can put popcon into the mix, or dependencies, or keywords from /usr/share/{doc,man}, or whatever really. Shame on you that you did not reported about this in Ma

Re: Group up orphaned packages in order to find adopter faster

2008-10-29 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Paul Wise wrote: Yes, I have seen these nice tools and I'm thinking about this. But I really hope that the ideas to maintain screenshots more generally inside Debian (there were several suggestions on the lists - but no implementation as far as I know :-(). Once this is im

Re: Self-assessment of the quality of the maintenance work

2008-12-22 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Raphaël, I like your proposal in principle, but I see some problem with group maintenance. While I'm in principle a supporter of group maintenance I do not see how it should work with your proposal. Who in the group will be addressed by your proposal? You are talking about a "passive" mainta

[Help] Scanning ftp directory with uscan does not seem to work (dcmtk)

2009-01-14 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I noticed that the watch file for dcmtk version=3 ftp://dicom.offis.de/pub/dicom/offis/software/dcmtk/dcmtk([\d\.]+)/dcmtk-(.*)\.tar.gz does not work properly. $ uscan --verbose -- Scanning for watchfiles in . -- Found watchfile in ./debian -- In debian/watch, processing watchfile line:

Re: [Help] Scanning ftp directory with uscan does not seem to work (dcmtk)

2009-01-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Sandro Tosi wrote: No it does, add a --pasv option: Thanks for the hint. It does not yet work behind my proxy, but it works on alioth and thus it is fine. I added passive option anyway because it makes error messages slightly better readable on my side. Sorry for the no

Re: [RFS] QA upload of ncpfs merging all Ubuntu changes

2009-01-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, James Westby wrote: Some fixes had built up in Ubuntu's ncpfs package, and as the package is QA maintained I rolled a proposed update for Debian. Would someone kindly review and sponsor my package at http://people.ubuntu.com/~jamesw/packages/ncpfs_2.2.6-6/ncpfs_2.2.6-6.dsc

Re: [RFS] QA upload of ncpfs merging all Ubuntu changes

2009-01-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, James Westby wrote: E: ncpfs source: outdated-autotools-helper-file contrib/php/config.sub 2003-10-07 E: ncpfs source: outdated-autotools-helper-file contrib/php/config.guess 2003-10-07 These I should have fixed I realise. Yes. W: ncpfs: binary-without-manpage sbin/m

Yet another list statistics for debian-qa

2009-01-17 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, as you can read in my lightning talk at DebConf http://people.debian.org/~tille/talks/200808_lightning/ I did some investigation on who is frequently posting on our mailing lists. I now created graphs until end of last year and write a short summary for those lists I regard worth a comme

Re: [RFS] QA upload of ncpfs merging all Ubuntu changes

2009-01-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, James Westby wrote: I have just put an updated package at http://people.ubuntu.com/~jamesw/packages/ncpfs_2.2.6-6/ncpfs_2.2.6-6.dsc Thanks. Just uploading the sponsored package. The remaining lintian issues are: W: ncpfs source: ancient-libtool contrib/php/ltmain.sh 1

Re: UDD and DEHS (Was: Please provide a simple example)

2009-02-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Well, January is over. ;-) Any news regarding watch file information. erm, no, unfortunately. Want to work on it? :-) I prefer to work on things I have enough knowledge first - perhaps some people who harvested watch file information at other places

Re: UDD and DEHS (Was: Please provide a simple example)

2009-02-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Adeodato Simó wrote: http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.822 Looks good. Any hint how to reasonably obtain description of binaries long_description of binaries homepage license(perhaps) The html page has links to http://ftp-master.debi

Re: UDD and DEHS (Was: Please provide a simple example)

2009-02-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Are you interested in DEHS (whether a given package is up-to-date or not), or in the raw debian/watch content? I think two fields of information are needed: boolean is_up_to_date text upstream_version from packages table if you have

UDD schema for new queue

2009-02-13 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I would like to include information about packages residing in the new queue into Blends tasks pages. Because I decided to use UDD as main source of information for these pages I would like to inject information about new queue into UDD first. I've got a hint to http://ftp-master.debian

Re: UDD schema for new queue

2009-02-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: -- Sources CREATE TABLE new_sources ( source text, version text, maintainer text, maintainer_name text, maintainer_email text, bin text, -- by parsing http://ftp-master.debian.org/new/_.html#ds

Re: UDD schema for new queue

2009-02-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Or should we rather start to just move the information of http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.822 into UDD for the moment and "wait". Yeah, it would make sense to: - add all the info from new.822 to UDD - file a bug about exporting the other missing i

Normalising UDD to some extend?

2009-02-18 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I realised that UDD contains several entries in the packages table with only different architecture. Did I missed something or would it make sense to create a lookup table CREATE table package_architecture_lookup ( package text, architecture text, ); and remove the architectur

Re: Normalising UDD to some extend?

2009-02-19 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: and remove the architecture column from the packages table? Packages can have different on different architectures, so you would lose information by doing that. If this is the case (I just trust you) my suggestion is not really good - but I'm aston

Re: Normalising UDD to some extend?

2009-02-19 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Well, Depends: can obviously change between architectures. And there's no reason why other fields wouldn't be different as well, since control files are generated on a per-arch basis during the build process. OK, I'm definitely convinced in this aspec

Re: Normalising UDD to some extend?

2009-02-19 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Having a big single table might be a performance win compared to several shorter tables that you would often need to join. Yes - I kept this in mind but wanted t hear your opinion about this. Also, during import, for each package, you would need to

Re: QA debtags tags

2009-02-22 Thread Andreas Tille
what information Andreas Tille wanted from DEHS in UDD? Quote from http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2009/02/msg00027.html I think two fields of information are needed: boolean is_up_to_date text upstream_version If you think more information makes sense it is fine - but these two f

Help with watch file (Was: gnumed-client: New upstream version available)

2009-02-22 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, DEHS is reporting new versions of GNUmed with the current watch file which says: http://www.gnumed.de/downloads/client/([\d\.]+)/GNUmed-client\.(.*)\.tgz These "new" versions are only release candidates (0.4-rc\d) which should not be packaged (as I agreed with upstream). So I might live

Re: Help with watch file (Was: gnumed-client: New upstream version available)

2009-02-23 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Paul Wise wrote: So I wonder whether I missed some trick in my watch file or whether this should rather be regarded as an uscan bug which should go back to the directory with the next lower version number and scan the files there. Until uscan gets smarter about cases like

Re: Help with watch file (Was: gnumed-client: New upstream version available)

2009-02-23 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Paul Wise wrote: There doesn't appear to be a bug open about it and IMO such a feature would probably be useful so I'd suggest filing one. #516704 Thanks Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subjec

Re: Bug#516704: devscripts: uscan should parse not only directory with highes version number

2009-02-23 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Adam D. Barratt wrote: I believe this boils down to basically the same request as #375138, which has been marked wontfix for a couple of years. I admit this seems to be the same problem - sorry fo not verifying BTS properly. I haven't merged them yet as I'm undecided as

collab-qa: udd/sql/debvercmp.sql (Was: UDD and DEHS)

2009-02-25 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Andreas Tille wrote: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists//main/i18n/ and injects the following structure in UDD: package, language, version, distribution, release, component (='main'), description, long_description Sounds good. Maybe reorder

Re: collab-qa: udd/sql/debvercmp.sql (Was: UDD and DEHS)

2009-02-25 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Andreas Tille wrote: Regarding the version number I found http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/collab-qa/udd/sql/debvercmp.sql?view=markup which contains a function which implements `dpkg --compare-versions` in SQL which would be really handy for my task. Unfortunately this

Re: collab-qa: udd/sql/debvercmp.sql (Was: UDD and DEHS)

2009-03-02 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: The plan is to switch to Roger Leigh's work in UDD as well, but someone needs to do the work, and unfortunately, i'm very busy currently. See http://git.debian.org/?p=users/rleigh/sbuild.git;a=tree;f=db;hb=81fd39259953853632a7d0e2198cfc745d270fe3 for his

Re: Help with watch file (Was: gnumed-client: New upstream version available)

2009-03-02 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Paul Wise wrote: Until uscan gets smarter about cases like these, how about this? version=3 http://www.gnumed.de/download/ \ http://www.gnumed.de/downloads/client/[\d\.]+/GNUmed-client\.([\d\.]+)\.tgz Hmmm, this worked as long as 0.3.10 was the latest version but now h

Re: UDD and DEHS (Was: Please provide a simple example)

2009-03-02 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Looks good. Any hint how to reasonably obtain description of binaries long_description of binaries homepage license(perhaps) Regarding (short) description I have this file generated daily using UDD available for dow

Roland Rosenfeld MIA?

2009-03-14 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, at Linux-Tage Chemnitz I've got a request from a user who reported a bug including patch against xfig which did not recieved any reesponse by the maintainer. Looking at the bug page of Roland I wonder whether he is MIA and his packages should be taken over by Debian QA. Kind regards

Re: Roland Rosenfeld MIA?

2009-03-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Roland Rosenfeld wrote: You're right, I don't have too much time for Debian at the moment, but I don't think I'm MIA. Fine. But xfig is a special case. I'm waiting for the upstream maintainer who sent me a pre release of his package without public releasing it and after

Re: Roland Rosenfeld MIA?

2009-03-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Luk Claes wrote: I would rather think of forming an inter-distribution team (per package or globaly if that would make sense) to take over upstream. For bash-completion that worked out very well. That's what I mean. I have no idea whether per package or globaly is better.

UDD gatherer for DDTP translations

2009-03-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: It depends on your data source. I'm not familiar with DDTP. If (package, version) is enough as a primary key, let's just use that. I commited a ddtp importer to collab-qa/udd. It is based on DDTP translation files which are enriched by the package ve

Re: UDD gatherer for DDTP translations

2009-03-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On 17/03/09 at 08:51 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: 2. sql/ddtp.sql Create the table in UDD. Some fields contain comments. I wonder whether we should relay on the inline comments in this file or whether we should implement "COMME

Re: UDD gatherer for DDTP translations

2009-03-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Andreas Tille wrote:  To tackle this I tried to calculate MD5 sums of the package descriptions  which turned out quite error prone.  The code became hard to read hacky  and not really reliable (perhaps it is

Re: Python code to retrieve all open wnpp bugs

2009-03-23 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, David Paleino wrote: Aww... and I thought I had wrote an useful program. :( Neverminds, going back to my NEW gui (yes, NEW, the queue :) Might be the same here: I'm currently busy writing a NEW queue UDD gatherer. So at some point in time it might be better to base your

[UDD] Table packages contains field 'task'

2009-05-08 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, what is the method / policy to fill the field 'task' in the table packages of UDD? If I try for example udd=# SELECT CASE WHEN length(task) < 60 THEN task ELSE substring(task for 56) || '...' END AS tasks, count(*) from packages group by task limit 30; tasks

Udd not accessible via psql after move to other host

2009-05-15 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, the UDD wiki page [1] gives the following advise: o From merkel.debian.org: /usr/lib/postgresql/8.3/bin/psql 'service=udd' This gives a psql session - but it seems not to be the up to date UDD: ti...@merkel:~$ /usr/lib/postgresql/8.3/bin/psql -q 'service=udd' udd=> \d packages ERROR: c

Re: Udd not accessible via psql after move to other host

2009-05-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:10:22AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > ti...@merkel:~$ /usr/lib/postgresql/8.3/bin/psql -q 'service=udd' > > udd=> \d packages > > ERROR: column "reltriggers" does not exist > > LINE 1: SELECT relhasindex, relkind, relchecks, reltriggers, relhasr... > >

Re: Udd not accessible via psql after move to other host

2009-05-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:26:34AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > could you add that to the wiki? Done. > DSA and alioth admins are aware of it. Fine. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

[UDD] debversion type does not work with MAX aggregate function

2009-05-16 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, if I try for instance SELECT MAX(version) FROM packages WHERE package = 'gcc' GROUP BY version order by version desc; max 4:4.3.3-5 4:4.3.3-3 4:4.3.2-2 4:4.2.4-5 4:4.1.1-15 (5 rows) I get several maximum versions of the package gcc. Am I missing something or is

Re: [UDD] debversion type does not work with MAX aggregate function

2009-05-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 08:42:25PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > Is it possible that the GROUP BY is making the max() function > operate on the versions within each group (which will be > identical due to being grouped), therefore returning > multiple group results? Yes, I think I was somehow tricke

[UDD] Encoding problems with unicode strings

2009-05-22 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I observed encoding problems when reading descriptions from UDD if they do contain non-ASCII characters and I wonder what I might do wrong. Here is a little test program which queries for some descriptions I found to be problematic: #!

Re: [UDD] Encoding problems with unicode strings

2009-05-22 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 06:36:39PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > UDD just has the descriptions from Packages.gz, which supposedly are in > UTF-8. If your destination (a file, terminal, whatever) should be > receiving UTF-8, you can just pass them unmodified, eg.: > > for row in curs.fetchall()

Debian Science taking over cimg-dev?

2009-05-29 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I realised that cimg-dev package was not updated since nearly two days. Two bugs requesting an update to more recent upstream version (#399846, #497672) one of them is even blocking an other package were ignored. I would volunteer to upgrade to new upstream version, but I would not really li

Re: Debian Science taking over cimg-dev?

2009-05-31 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 01:12:31PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Andreas Tille (29/05/2009): > > I realised that cimg-dev package was not updated since nearly two > > days. > > OH MY! :D ;-) s/days/years/ Sorry Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Debian Science taking over cimg-dev?

2009-05-31 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 03:28:27PM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: > Committed yesterday. I cannot upload the package, but you can, if you > need it. IIRC the build hung on an i386 system when I tested 1.2.9. That > might need some investigation. I just compiled http://mentors.debian.net/debian/p

[UDD] Only 22 source packages are featuring vcs_browser field

2009-06-04 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I tried to read the vcs_browser field from udd sources table and wondered why all my packages are missing such a field. A wuicl query revealed: udd=# SELECT release, source, vcs_type, vcs_url, vcs_browser FROM sources WHERE vcs_browser is not null ORDER by SOURCE; release| s

Re: Archiving UDD data : FLOSSMole ?

2009-06-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 10:28:37PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 08/06/09 at 14:35 +0200, Olivier Berger wrote: > > Btw, I'm not sure if/how we can plan some UDD-related discussions > > @debconf... not having participated to debconf earlier... I suppose > > we'll manage to find a place with cer

Re: UDD data -> MySQL - Was: Re: Archiving UDD data : FLOSSMole ?

2009-06-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 09:49:27AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > UDD has some parts that are Postgres specific, in particular it uses > the Postgres extension mechanism to internalize Debian version > comparison so that it can be exploited in queries. In the beginning, > the internalization wa

UDD news

2009-06-20 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I would like to announce here the tables I added to UDD ddtp: Translations of Debian package descriptions provided by the ddtp project[1] new_packages / new_sources: Pakcages in NEW queue[2] screenshots: screenshots of packages[3] All this info is used by Debian

Re: UDD news

2009-06-20 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 05:50:19PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Out of curiosity, why did you need to import the screenshots data, > given that screenshots.d.n already exports a RESTful interface. What > were you missing from that interface? Well, I do not know about this interface but impor

Re: UDD news

2009-06-21 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 09:47:31PM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: > > That information is not public so it probably should not be added to UDD. > > MIA team uses also public information to evaluate a maintainer as MIA > (for example, the last date of upload), and I think Andreas is > referring to them.

Re: UDD news

2009-06-21 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 05:50:19PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Amazing, for instance the PTS could make use of the ddtp stats, as the Once you are mentioning PTS: I'd love to see watch file information in UDD - but I have no idea how to obtain this. Any volunteer? Kind regards And

Re: What is the best place for package meta-data ?

2009-08-06 Thread Andreas Tille
involving an > intermediate place where maintainers could push their meta-data, does anybody > think about an alternative? Andreas Tille suggested me the Package Entropy > Tracker, but it would limit the system to packages hosted in a Subversion > repository. This said, since many of the pac

Screenshots for packages.debian.org?

2009-08-11 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I had some discussion with Christoph Haas and he was wondering how his nice service from screenshots.debian.net might become available at packages.debian.org. I have no idea who maintains the code but perhaps somebody might enlighten me (or Christoph) who can implement a three lines patch whi

Re: Time for a new maintainer for Auctex?

2009-08-19 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Davide G. M. Salvetti wrote: > please, stand corrected, as I intend to keep auctex maintenance. Thank > you for your offer of help, you can start by studying how the software > is packaged and of course you are welcome to send in patches. Considering the facts

Re: Time for a new maintainer for Auctex?

2009-08-20 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:22:17AM +0200, Davide G. M. Salvetti wrote: > actually I am not presenting any argument. Your arguing actually was: ... you can start by studying how the software is packaged and of course you are welcome to send in patches. as a response to a patch which was provi

Popcon results broken in UDD

2009-08-25 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I just got: u...@samosa:~$ psql udd psql (8.4.0) Type "help" for help. udd=> SELECT count(*) from popcon; count --- 0 (1 row) udd=> Seems the popcon importer failed in importing any data. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de Klarmachen zum Ändern! -- To UNSU

Re: Popcon results broken in UDD

2009-08-25 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:50:26PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: > Probably related, from one of my machines: > > 2009-08-25 10:17:08 Start queue run: pid=21322 > 2009-08-25 10:20:17 1MfnTL-0004mI-2p bellini.debian.org [137.82.84.79] > Connection timed out > 2009-08-25 10:20:17 1MfnTL-0004mI-2p =

Help with watch file

2009-09-07 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I try to create a new watch file for package arb since upstream finally started to add proper versions to their releases. Unfortunately they do the versioning in the download directory not the tarball. I tried version=3 http://download.arb-home.de/release/arb_([\d\.]+)/arbsrc.tgz but this

UDD upload-history update-command broken

2009-10-13 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, the upload-history seems to gather its information from http://qa.debian.org/~filippo/ddc/ but this results in "Not found". Any clue what happened to this page and where to obtain the information? Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Gathering package upstream meta-data in the UDD. (was: Re: more formally indicating the registration URL)

2009-10-22 Thread Andreas Tille
[debian-qa in CC because here we are discussing UDD issues.] On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:30:06AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > First of all, let's summarise the situation. We want to integrate some > metadata > in our 'web sentinels', like 'http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/bio'. I would

Re: Gathering package upstream meta-data in the UDD. (was: Re: more formally indicating the registration URL)

2009-10-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:05:10PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > For the moment, one has to access an arbitrary key, but later the best would > be > to have a special key, for instance YAML-UPDATE, that would force the update. Or rather "upstream-metadata update". You certainly would not like t

Re: Gathering package upstream meta-data in the UDD. (was: Re: more formally indicating the registration URL)

2009-10-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 12:00:48AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > since BibTeX issues are perhaps a bit specialised for debian-qa, I propose to > transfer this part of the discussion on debian-scie...@l.d.o, where I reopened > an old thread. Well, the question is not really about BibTeX or not. T

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