Contribute to debusine's design

Hello, some of you might have already heard of "debusine". It aims to be a software factory tailored for the needs of Debian. At some point, it might become a replacement for wanna-build and the buildd, it might also be useful to run archive wide QA tasks (hence the two lists debian-qa@lists.debia

Re: Bug#960154: Feed UDD with just-in-time packaging hints from Lintian

Hi, On Wed, 14 Apr 2021, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > I think that in Debian, we would aim for a better separation between: > > A/ QA tools development, focused on getting the good tools to analyze > packages (output: tools, as Debian packages) > > B/ infrastructure that mass-process the archive usin

Bug#1001190: tracker.debian.org: news: emails: show Message-ID header, link to lists.d.o/msgid-search

Hi, On Mon, 06 Dec 2021, Paul Wise wrote: > In the news emails, please show the Message-ID header and make the > value inside the angled brackets <> a link to the Debian lists > msgid-search. For example [1] should link to [2]. > >    1. > https://tracker.debian.org/news/1284147/accepted-purple-

Bug#1001190: tracker.debian.org: news: emails: show Message-ID header, link to lists.d.o/msgid-search

Hi, On Tue, 07 Dec 2021, Paul Wise wrote: > Not necessarily, there are several options for this that would make it > a very generic feature, some ideas: > > When the List-Archive header exists and contains a URL, the link could > be to that URL. This works for Debian lists and mailman lists and >

Bug#1002458: "version in VCS newer than in repository" might be a bit overzealous

Hi, On Wed, 22 Dec 2021, Marc Haber wrote: > when I upload a package (for example, foo 1.0-1), I immediately create a > new changelog stanza for a new version foo 1.0.2~1 so that noone > accidentally makes a commit that might end up in the changelog for the > already-uploaded version 1.0-1. > > T

Bug#1002461: actions needed should show affected version

Hi, On Wed, 22 Dec 2021, Marc Haber wrote: > in sudo's tracker page, I see that lintian reports 29 errors and 5 > warnings. The link leads me to https://lintian.debian.org/sources/sudo > which tells me that the linan reports are from vresion 1.9.6-1~exp2 and > the lintian run was a month ago. > >

Bug#1002462: "build log checks report 1 warning" dated a year and 9 uploads ago

Hi, On Wed, 22 Dec 2021, Marc Haber wrote: > for sudo, on https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/sudo, I see an "action > needed" Build log checks report 1 warning". This warning is shown as > having been created on 2020-12-21, while the link points to build logs > from last week. Is this intended? Yes,

Bug#1002458: "version in VCS newer than in repository" might be a bit overzealous

On Mon, 27 Dec 2021, Christoph Berg wrote: > Re: Raphael Hertzog > > Christoph, would it be possible to export a supplementary flag showing > > when the changes in NEW or COMMITS contain only changes to > > debian/changelog? > > The proper first step is to change

Bug#1004256: messages to dispatch+aide_cont...@tracker.debian.org get multiplied

Hi, On Sun, 23 Jan 2022, Marc Haber wrote: > I regularly use pack...@packages.debian.org as Maintainer address for my > packages. Having an implicit mailing list for package maintenance issues > is extremele helpful and I appreciate that features. > > Since a few weeks, messages to those addresse

Re: Revival of lintian.d.o (sort of)

Hello Lucas, On Sun, 03 Jul 2022, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Seeing that lintian got adopted, I got motivated into looking if I could > help on the lintian.d.o side, that is, provide up-to-date archive-wide > up to date to developers. Thanks for working on this! > Since the architecture of lintian.

Re: Debian Package Tracker not updating?

Hello, On Wed, 14 Dec 2022, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 11:31:29AM -0500, Scott Talbert wrote: > > Yes, that's exactly the problem. > > https://bugs.debian.org/1026049 is about the same issue. the cron job that updates everything has been stuck since December 10th. I killed it

Bug#1021728: tracker.debian.org: Please include the new "non-free-firmware" section

Hello Gunnar, On Thu, 13 Oct 2022, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Last week I uploaded raspi-firmware to non-free-firmware (and was > promptly processed through NEW, whee!). > > Two days ago, it successfully migrated to Texting. > > I am now building the Raspberry Pi images for Bookworm , and > raspi-firm

Appstream hints no longer available

Hello Matthias, I recently opened my ow...@tracker.debian.org mailbox and I found hundreds of errors: Task UpdateAppStreamStatsTask failed with the following traceback. HTTPError 404 Client Error: Not Found for url: https://appstream.debian.org/hints/sid/non-free-firmware/Hints-amd64.json.g

Re: Appstream hints no longer available

Hi, On Sun, 08 Jan 2023, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > Happy new year! Best wishes to you too! > > It looks like that the files required for the tracker.debian.org > > integration have disappeared since mid-December. Can you add them back? > > Shall I disable/remove the integration for now? > > Eww!

Re: Lowering the barrier to entry/adoption and (mass) svn-to-git migration

Hello, On Fri, 27 Jan 2023, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > I agree, I think anything that reduces the complexity of the ecosystem > is great and the lowers the barrier for entry. As pretty anything uses > Git now, I think migrating more things from SVN to Git would be great. I will not forbid anyone to

Bug#1030748: tracker.debian.org doesn't display the correct linux kernel rc upstream version

Hello, On Tue, 07 Feb 2023, xevilstar wrote: > I have noticed that on https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/linux the new > upstream version takes ages to update. How long is "ages" for you? > for example now it displays "A > new upstream version is available: 6.2~rc6" while on > https://git.kernel.or

Bug#1030734: link to upstream bug tracker and repository

Hello, On Mon, 06 Feb 2023, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > A large number of Debian packages now has upstream metadata, including links > to > upstream repositories (Repository-Browse) and bugtrackers (Bug-Database / > Bug-Submit). Would it be possible to link to those from tracker? It's of course pos

Bug#1031393: tracker.debian.org: .dsc links to debian/pool/updates broken

Control: forcemerge 850409 -1 Hello, On Thu, 16 Feb 2023, Holger Levsen wrote: > the links to the .dsc files for (at least) stable-sec and stable-p-u > on https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/spip are 404 > yeah those paths are broken > debian/pool/updates isn't a thing > either debian/pool/{main,

Bug#1030734: link to upstream bug tracker and repository

Hi, On Sat, 25 Feb 2023, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > > FWIW, I don't plan to work on this (at least not in the short term) but > > I'll happily review MR and answer questions. > > I might spend some time on this, but would appreciate any further hints > on where to add this if the information is ava

Bug#1031780: tracker.debian.org: add information about patches

Hi, On Wed, 22 Feb 2023, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > UDD now includes data about patches (see > https://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2023/01/msg2.html ). This data is > already exposed on https://udd.debian.org/patches.cgi and > https://udd.debian.org/dmd/ (see the Patches column in > https://udd.de

Bug#1031780: tracker.debian.org: add information about patches

Hello Paul, On Mon, 27 Feb 2023, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, 2023-02-26 at 17:02 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > I added the required support in tracker.debian.org > > Personally I think we should replace the Ubuntu panel with a patches > panel, as I have done for the o

Bug#1031780: tracker.debian.org: add information about patches

Hi Guillem & Holger, On Sun, 26 Feb 2023, Guillem Jover wrote: > The links for diaspora do not seem to be working though, as at least > the «+» in the version string is not getting encoded, and UDD gives: Duh, I forgot to urlencode the parameters, fixed. (That thought actually popped up in my min

Bug#1028615: tracker.debian.org: tracker.d.o should display results of reproducible rebuilds, not just reproducible CI results

Hello Holger, On Fri, 14 Apr 2023, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 06:49:48PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > > since some years, tracker.d.o is thankfully showing results from > > https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian - which was and is awesome! > > However, these are just con

Bug#1038121: tracker.debian.org: debian/patches check vs. single-debian-patch in debian/source/local-options

Hello, On Thu, 15 Jun 2023, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Unsure if this is the right pseudopackage; if not, please reassign. > > The “new” Debian tracker shows: > > debian/patches: 1 patch to forward upstream > > The package however uses the single-debian-patch mechanism > to let a diff be autogen

Bug#1041523: tracker.debian.org: displays autopkgtest for other src:package on same page

Hello, On Thu, 20 Jul 2023, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > The tracker at shows autopkgtest > results for both this src:package and for another src:package. I see no autopkgtest results at all. They are only shown when something fails... and in that case, it

Bug#1040757: dose: (W)CudfAdd: package ncurses-base:amd64 (= 6.4-4) is not associate with an integer in the given universe

Hello Ralf, Le samedi 15 juillet 2023, Ralf Treinen a écrit : > In fact it is not related to dose-distcheck being outdated on quantz, I > get the same error with dose-distcheck on sid. > > Since I do not have time to dig further into this atm (leaving for vacation) > I have now desactivated the u

Review of debusine's lintian related API

Hello Axel, Bastien, Lucas, and other members of the lintian and QA teams, it's been a long time that I have been interested in building some infrastructure to manage scheduling and distribution of Debian-related build, QA and data collection tasks to a network of worker machines. I called this pr

Appstream data not in UTF-8?

Hello Matthias, tracker.debian.org has been failing to import the appstream metadata for a while (since November 26th) with this exception: Task UpdateAppStreamStatsTask failed with the following traceback. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/srv/tracker.debian.org/distro-tracker/distro

Re: Appstream data not in UTF-8?

On Thu, 07 Dec 2023, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > tracker.debian.org has been failing to import the appstream metadata for a > while (since November 26th) with this exception: Quick correction. The first time it failed that way was on November 19th at 08:13 UTC. Cheers, -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ R

Bug#1060192: tracker.debian.org: SSL connection extremely slow and sometimes timing out

On Sun, 07 Jan 2024, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > Package: tracker.debian.org > Severity: important > > Yesterday and today connections to packages.debian.org is *extremely* packages.debian.org is entirely unrelated to tracker.debian.org. It's managed by the web team AFAIK. That said if the issue w

Issue with appstream hints: severity missing for a tag?

Hello Matthias, I recently opened my ow...@tracker.debian.org mailbox and I found hundreds of errors: Task UpdateAppStreamStatsTask failed with the following traceback. KeyError 'asv-cid-contains-hyphen' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/srv/tracker.debian.org/distro-tracker/dis

Re: Issue with appstream hints: severity missing for a tag?

Hello Matthias, the issue disappeared since January 27th. Thank you for your help! Cheers, On Sat, 27 Jan 2024, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > Hi Raphael! > > The issue should be gone for a few days already, do you still see it > or is it resolved? > > Best, > Matthias

Bug#1067490: tracker.debian.org: Display release-team blocks more prominently

Hi, top-posting and leaving quite some context because the main point of my message is to actually share your bug report to the release team. If I remember correctly, tracker.debian.org is not doing any fancy treatment. We are just turning some YAML into HTML: https://release.debian.org/britney/ex

Bug#1075784: tracker.debian.org: Tracker is not sending email notifications for subscriptions

On Fri, 05 Jul 2024, J Mo wrote: > It just occurred to me that the package names themselves might a part of the > problem, rather than just the checkboxes. Yes, exactly, that's what I meant. I have opened https://salsa.debian.org/qa/distro-tracker/-/issues/72 to track this issue. I prefer gitlab

Re: DPT and UDD regarding d/watch file failure

On Tue, 23 Jul 2024, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 11:35:13PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > I don't know where tracker.debian.org gets its data about upstream > > status (and errors). I thought it was using UDD, but apparently it > > isn't. > > It is: > https://salsa.debian.or

Change in JSON output of screenshots.debian.net

Hello Christoph & Paul, I have been getting failures from tracker.debian.org since July 22 about UpdatePackageScreenshotsTask now failing with this error: TypeError list indices must be integers or slices, not str I believe that https://screenshots.debian.net/json/packages used to be a dictionar

Bug#1077833: UDD: screenshots importer broken -- currently disabled

(Adding Christoph Haas in copy, he recently fixed another regression that affected tracker.debian.org's import) On Fri, 02 Aug 2024, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Package: qa.debian.org > User: qa.debian@packages.debian.org > Usertags: udd > > the screenshots importer is broken since 2024-07-22. >

Re: apache-ssl and mysql on pandora

ity of this project. If you're sure to be able to let it run with Postgre in a week then it's ok ... ;-) Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/

Re: Debian Bug Revision System

would be a lot nicer (and it could be themed then). ;-) Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/ Le bouche à oreille du Net : http://www.beetell.com Naviguez sans se fatiguer à chercher : http://www.deenoo.com Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com

Re: Debian Bug Revision System

ouldn't flame him ;-)). Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/ Le bouche à oreille du Net : http://www.beetell.com Naviguez sans se fatiguer à chercher : http://www.deenoo.com Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com

Re: Need for a test suite

Le Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 08:06:14PM +0100, Christian Kurz écrivait: > On 01-02-01 Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > > up the release process? The answer is at least partially evident: we > > need people actually doing QA. It looks like Raphael, whom, AFAIK, was > > playing QA c

Re: Packages not making it into testing

ired delay, the package would have made it into testing ... without m68k. But since it's available before the required delay, m68k is forced to get in at the same time and m68k depends needs to be fulfilled at the same time. Am I right ? Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.lin

Re: more about /usr/share transition

ave been severity "serious" and not "critical". We really have enough other RC bugs to fix to not need those. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/ Le bouche à oreille du Net : http://www.beetell.com Naviguez sans se fatiguer à chercher : http://

Re: more about /usr/share transition

PS: It's great to want to be to the best dist out there. But we must still be a bit pragmatic before doing things. -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/ Le bouche à oreille du Net : http://www.beetell.com Naviguez sans se fatiguer à chercher : http://www.deenoo.com Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com

Re: [MAILER-DAEMON@murphy.debian.org: failure notice]

7;re interested in what happens (bug reports, fixes, upload) or you're not and you don't subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] What does I miss ? Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/ Le bouche à oreille du Net : http://www.beetell.com Naviguez sans s

Re: Let's close down the QA committee

rules are not always followed (particularly about the amount of time to wait)). So, I agree, let's close the QA committe. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/ Le bouche à oreille du Net : http://www.beetell.com Naviguer sans se fatiguer à chercher : http://www.dee

Re: Let's close down the QA committee

7;t mean closing debian-qa ... -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/ Le bouche à oreille du Net : http://www.beetell.com Naviguer sans se fatiguer à chercher : http://www.deenoo.com Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com

Re: kernel-sources

at every patch maintainer has to modify his patches to > be compatible with the GNU/herbert kernel, right? Why not ? It's your job. > please talk to him, because he doesn't listen to me. In such a situation, nobody is listening to anyone. :( Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://

Re: Let's close down the QA committee

x27;t get answers from the maintainer. Cheers, [1] I'm sure he's protected against flames from unhappy maintainers. Like myself, I learned to resist to that. :-) -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/ Le bouche à oreille du Net : http://www.beetell.

Re: notes on packages mentioned

" which is supplied by > frotz/xzip/jzip etc., and the 'alternatives' system should be used to > select a default zcode interpreter. File bugs against ftp.debian.org and ask their removals (explain why they should be removed like you did here). Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertz

Re: Let's close down the QA committee

about their decision, it wouldn't have caused much trouble. :-D Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/ Le bouche à oreille du Net : http://www.beetell.com Naviguer sans se fatiguer à chercher : http://www.deenoo.com Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com

Re: Request: upload of gcompris_0.6.3-1

son/ > Could someone please build it for some arch and upload it ? I'm downloading it, and i'll build & upload just after. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/ Le bouche à oreille du Net : http://www.beetell.com Naviguer sans se fatiguer à che

Bug#118383: intent to NMU

ed by the QA team actually... you don't even need to use NMU like version numbering. And you can close bugs (instead of just marking them as fixed). Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/ Le bouche à oreille du Net : http://www.beetell.com Naviguer sans se fa

Re: NMUs and such on packages maintained by QA

packages maintained by Debian QA. > Shouldn't these simply be closed? Yes they should. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/ Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com

Re: incorrect QA maintainer addresses

er. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/ Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com

How to make things change - need some help

from them) and more help in QA (in particular fixing RCB). Now, your feedback is welcome. I also accept volunteers who'd like to write (parts of) the missing piece of documentation. Cheers, [1] Anthony Towns still has to make some modifications to the BTS. -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/ Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com

Re: How to make things change - need some help

TS. It could also be done with a similar service hosted outside of the BTS but i don't think that it would be very wise to do so... so you'll have to wait until it gets integrated in the BTS. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/ Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com

Re: MIA maintainer and NMU of package

on't know if it would > make things better, anyway... I cced him, we'll see what he has to say. Alex, are you still active ? Would you mind if someone else took over the maintenance of gnu-smalltalk ? Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/ Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com

Re: How to make things change - need some help

it much more until it's done. Anyway, "package subscription" and "bug subscription" is not the same thing. > Have you coordinated with them? I hope there's no duplication > of effort. I have coordinated with Anthony Towns who co-{maintains,administers} the BTS.

Re: Implementing my proposal for the organisation of QA

impossible without manual interaction) A warning system would be cool. If your package doesn't go in after the usual delay, inform the maintainer why it didn't go in. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/ Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com

Re: How to make things change - need some help

Le Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 05:17:07PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr écrivait: > * Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20020106 22:07]: > > Several points in my answer. First the « Package Tracking System » > > (yes, that's its new name that Roland Mas suggested me) is not only &

Re: Implementing my proposal for the organisation of QA

possibly MIA. The even better thing is when we don't need to centralize the detection of MIA people because the community around the package takes care of it. That's my goal. :) Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/ Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com

Re: Implementing my proposal for the organisation of QA

bian developers reference... i'll do the work of merging, proofreading and rewording what's necessary. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/ Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com

Re: QA logbook

30 last mails sent to that address (or something like that) We could use the qa.debian.org virtual package as a "credit page". :) Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/ Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com

Re: Implementing my proposal for the organisation of QA

roof-reading, btw I'm willing to help, unfortunately I have not much free time actually (and in the upcoming weeks). I'll be able to proofread however (ie proofread to make some remarks about the content, not only for spelling mistakes). Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://stra

gqmpeg maintainer field is broken

0-2.1 Thanks ! -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/ Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com

Re: MIA maintainer and NMU of package

p://db.debian.org What a strange suggestion ... he'd better orphan the packages he doesn't use/maintain anymore. The vacancy field should be used just for short period during which you won't be able to do your Debian work. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.o

Re: strange preinst tests about --assert-working-epoch

r and 5 years later, nobody is using a dpkg << 1.2.0. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/ Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com

Re: How to report a maintainer missing in action?

phaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/ Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com

Re: How to report a maintainer missing in action?

7;s just that nobody has had the time to document it in Debian's Developer Reference or on http://qa.debian.org. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/ Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com

Re: How to report a maintainer missing in action?

ish. :-) Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/ Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com

Re: How to report a maintainer missing in action?

on when 'they were last seen'. You need to be identified to have a access to that information. Click on "login (securely)" and then use "full search". Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/ Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com

Re: Orphaned packages in testing which were never in stable

it. I suggested him to subscribe to the package via the PTS so that he stay informed about what's happening with it and if there are bugs coming up he can provide patches and ask for an upload on debian-qa. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/ For

Re: Orphaning

put a wrong maintainer. It's no more debian-qa@lists.debian.org but [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/ Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

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

Le dimanche 16 janvier 2005 à 14:24 +0100, Marc Haber a écrit : > Package: qa.debian.org > Severity: wishlist > > Hi, > > http://packages.qa.debian.org/e/exim.html does not seem to list the > security upload of 3.35-1woody4 in the Latest News section. I'd like > to see that information there as w

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

Le dimanche 16 janvier 2005 à 23:56 +0100, Adeodato Simó a écrit : > * Raphael Hertzog [Sun, 16 Jan 2005 20:45:43 +0100]: > > > It will be difficult... the Latest News section receives mail from > > katie. But if the security uploads don't go through katie, then I

Re: Adding RM support to PTS

Le mercredi 26 janvier 2005 à 18:51 +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar a écrit : > Hi Raphael, > > I'd like to have support for removal requests in the PTS. I think I can > technically add that myself, but won't do it without your permission, of > course. Hi Jeroen, I'

Re: Adding RM support to PTS

Le mercredi 26 janvier 2005 à 23:57 +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar a écrit : > Yes, I understand, I didn't intend to go hacking on the sources directly > :). Do you have a conventient way to test changes, or do you just copy > all of it, or, last possibility, do you do your PTS hacking the old > fash

Bug#268418: PTS: Please make latest news pages have static URLs

Le mardi 26 avril 2005 à 21:36 +0200, Filippo Giunchedi a écrit : > Thijs Kinkhorst wrote on 26-04-2005 11:55: > > > I'm willing to fix this sometime if someone can point me to the sources > > of the PTS. > > check http://cvs.debian.org/pts/?cvsroot=qa > > having MMDDhhmm as the filename for

Re: Failure trying to install Sarge and Ubuntu on a new Compaq Presario

Le jeudi 23 juin 2005 à 23:20 -0700, Xeno Campanoli a écrit : > > I just tried 2.6 on ubuntu, and it doesn't take that. I'm gonna burn > > another sarge disk right now and try it. > > bf26 does not work as a boot command line command on either ubuntu or > sarge. Did you mean something else? Y

How to improve Debian : offering help for buggy pakages

Hi, i've just written a little perl script which generates a list of packages ordered by the number of bugs ! This list could be used by new developers (like me) to find out a package they could help by correcting bugs/by adopting it/etc. You can find this list here (it's automatically updated e

List of buggy packages

Hi, i've updated my script that generated the list of buggy packages, it does now generate HTML tables listing 'source package' sorted by different criteria : - score = number of bugs + number of lintian errors + age of the oldest bug / 30 - number of bugs - age of the oldest bug You can find

Re: RFC: Debian Quality Assurance Group

Le Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 08:05:41PM +0200, Josip Rodin écrivait: > You are completely missing the point. It is not written anywhere that > QA Group members MUST do anything after the specified periods, but that > they MAY do something after the specified period of time. Today, they > actually can't

Re: RFC: Debian Quality Assurance Group

Le Sat, Apr 24, 1999 at 12:04:50AM +0200, Josip Rodin écrivait: > Is this written clear enough now? We obviously need a native English > speaker to read the text and find any wrong/awkward/unusual expressions/words. It's fine for me but ... > I'm not really sure... people can get in situations wh

Re: RFC: Debian Quality Assurance Group

Le Sat, Apr 24, 1999 at 02:46:16PM +0200, Josip Rodin écrivait: > > > even get to read the message (when you don't read debian-devel for 10 > > > days you surely won't notice one message among others). We must ^ I think that's not true. Is t

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

Le Mon, May 10, 1999 at 09:03:37PM +0200, Hartmut Koptein écrivait: > The QA-team must then also have the power to do massive NMU's. Did you read the last text describing QA-members powers ? Isn't it enough ? I don't know. The only problem I may see, is the time we must wait before we are allowed

Re: Processed: Fixed in NMU libapache-asp-perl 0.11-2

Le Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 08:22:11PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt écrivait: > Since this package is owned by debian-qa why not close the bug, rather > than just setting it to be fixed? It has been closed (i've done it) but the severity fixed comes from the automatic job that dinstall does. It has detected

Re: Processed: Fixed in NMU libapache-asp-perl 0.11-2

Le Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 10:28:48PM +0200, Torsten Landschoff écrivait: > Who is maintaining dinstall? It's just crazy that it does not notice this > package being maintained by the QA team - I think it should close bugs of > packages maintained by debian-qa. It's one of the ftpmasters, Guy Maor.

Bug#40829: No more libmd5-perl ! [was:Re: Bug#40829: remove package from potato...]

Le Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 07:12:52PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrivait: > The libmd5-perl package should be removed from potato. It has been > totally superseded by libdigest-md5-perl, which represents a > significant upgrade upstream. The people who have packages which depend on libmd5-perl must b

Bug#40829: remove package from potato...

Le Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 07:12:52PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrivait: > The libmd5-perl package should be removed from potato. It has been > totally superseded by libdigest-md5-perl, which represents a > significant upgrade upstream. libapache-asp-perl has been corrected. You (the ftpmaster) will

Re: interested in orphaned package

Le Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 04:58:10PM -0700, michael écrivait: > Hello, > I saw that electric-fence is on the list of orphaned packages, and I would > be interested in volunteering to be it's maintainer. Instead of sending your request to wnpp, you could have looked in the Packages.gz file and you wo

[New maintainer] Working for Debian and becoming a registered Debian developer

[ Large crosspost to start the discussion, please reply to debian-devel only. Simply respect the reply-to. ] Hello everybody, you may or not be aware that getting a Debian developer is quite long. I want to propose a solution to facilitate the integration of new Debian developers. It's quite s

Re: Patch for bash

link should already exist, but a little check should not hurt). Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -=- http://ntux.u-strasbg.fr/~raphael/ CDs Debian : http://ntux.u-strasbg.fr/~raphael/debian/#cd

Quality Assurance in Debian

red for resurrecting debian-qa. Please read the text attached (or the html version you can find here : http://tux.u-strasbg.fr/~raphael/qa/doc/qa.html/). Any comments are welcome. [ Please read below only once you read the text mentionned in the paragraph above ] I believe that the proposed orga

Re: Quality Assurance in Debian

Le Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 04:30:45PM +, David Coe écrivait: > Let's do it. How can I help? I agree we shouldn't have to vote on this; Actually what I need is a much better main page for the QA web site : http://tux.u-strasbg.fr/~raphael/qa/ I need a text explaining how people

New Debian Quality Assurance !

u have any question, feel free to ask. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -=- http://tux.u-strasbg.fr/~raphael/ CDs Debian : http://tux.u-strasbg.fr/~raphael/debian/#cd

Re: brief thoughts on org/qa.debian.org

lear how to subscribe to the qa-bot equivalent of > debian-bugs-dist. There is no such thing. What should be sent there ? The new tasks ? > * Suggested motto: "all free, all good" :) It's not really QA related. > Nice work. Thanks. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -=- http://tux.u-strasbg.fr/~raphael/ CDs Debian : http://tux.u-strasbg.fr/~raphael/debian/#cd

Re: brief thoughts on org/qa.debian.org

ax error.. Can you call QA committee something other than > "the technical committee"? I don't know why I called it the technical committee, I'm a bit tired. Sorry for the confusion ... of course I meant the QA committee. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -=- http://tux.u-

Re: brief thoughts on org/qa.debian.org

Le Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 06:30:13AM -0400, Johnie Ingram écrivait: > Raphael> Is a package name enough for the Prospectives Packages ? > > Yes, the rest can be determined with scripts. Huh ? I thought about "prospectives packages", ie software that is not yet packaged fo

Re: brief thoughts on org/qa.debian.org

e maintainer is not debian-qa are still maintained but they'd like to give it away ... when I really don't care about a package, I don't want to get bug reports, so I upload them with debian-qa as maintainer ... Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -=- http://tux.u-strasbg.fr/~raphael/ CDs Debian : http://tux.u-strasbg.fr/~raphael/debian/#cd

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