Re: Piuparts testing status update

2006-11-14 Thread Russ Allbery
-e /usr/share/debconf/confmodule ] ; then . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule fi There's no need to be obfuscated.) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

deluser on purge (was: Piuparts testing status update)

2006-11-14 Thread Russ Allbery
s something that I'd really like to see us sort out in policy, since I think we should be able to describe consistent behavior with regard to system users and package purging to our users. Right now, every maintainer is making their own decision in this area, and I think that pro

Re: Bug#398658: lintian: Please detect unconditional use of some nonessential pkgs during purge

2006-11-14 Thread Russ Allbery
tian is going to have to acquire at least a minimalist understanding of Bourne shell syntax so that it can do lexical analysis of maintainer scripts. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: deluser on purge

2006-11-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 06:12:24PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> This is something that I'd really like to see us sort out in policy, >> since I think we should be able to describe consistent behavior with >> regard to

Re: deluser on purge

2006-11-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 06:12:24PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> In the case of adduser, there is a strong case for not doing deluser at >>> *all* on purge, because it&#

Re: Debian QA meeting - planning talks

2006-11-26 Thread Russ Allbery
roving lintian.debian.org. I'm waiting on being added to the lintian group myself so that I can work on fixing it to use the current version of lintian. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Debian QA meeting - planning talks

2006-11-26 Thread Russ Allbery
n others. (And warnings are even less important..) Yeah, agreed. And for that, one could start with the run that Bill did while waiting to get the lintian.debian.org version updated. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Most popular orphaned packages

2006-11-30 Thread Russ Allbery
security track record and is actually maintained upstream. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian QA meeting - planning talks

2006-12-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sunday 26 November 2006 21:18, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Yeah, agreed. And for that, one could start with the run that Bill did >> while waiting to get the lintian.debian.org version updated. > Have you seen the video abou

Re: Debian QA meeting - planning talks

2006-12-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Filippo Giunchedi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 04:28:43PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Uh, no. I've not heard a thing about it before now other than Jeroen's >> initial discussions on lint-maint, and I got the impression from him >&g

Re: RFC: use readable $(cmd) syntax instead of unreadable `cmd`

2007-02-09 Thread Russ Allbery
er programs are better written in something other than shell anyway, IMO, for maintainability). For another, `` is more widely recognized I think, and therefore more readable to the average developer, than $(), which looks like another of the many [EMAIL PROTECTED] line-noise shell variable exp

Re: RFC: use readable $(cmd) syntax instead of unreadable `cmd`

2007-02-10 Thread Russ Allbery
easonable Unicode support.) It's a small character, admittedly, and is as easy to miss as comma vs. period, but, well, Unix has a long tradition of using lots of characters. > Back to the point. From QA perspective does "The Debian Project" not see > any value of encouraging $() ?

Re: Question about obsolete Conflicts

2007-03-06 Thread Russ Allbery
er-impact way of getting mass cleanliness changes made than a mass bug filing. You can then do a mass bug filing after six months or a year, by which point many maintainers will have already acted on the lintian warnings. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Re: Conflicts in Debian : a bit of data

2007-03-12 Thread Russ Allbery
d what sort of delay is reasonable to > consider cleanups for transitions like the python one. Yeah, agreed. Having seen further the sort of checking that you're talking about, this really isn't a lintian thing. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.o

Re: qa.debian.org: 0 man pages in 0 packages missing

2007-04-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyway, the current problem is caused because > http://lintian.debian.org/lintian.log gives you "403: Forbidden". I'm > CCing Russ who can hopefully fix this. Thanks, this should be fixed now. --

Bug#373218: qa.debian.org: Patch

2007-06-28 Thread Russ Allbery
special characters that otherwise need escaping. Why not just fix the qa code to match what lintian does? It's pretty clearly currently different, which is probably the root of the problem. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#373218: qa.debian.org: Patch

2007-06-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Russ Allbery wrote: >> You can't drop that tr///. It's what takes care of all the special >> characters that otherwise need escaping. > Since he extracts the email part, it's less of a

Bug#373218: qa.debian.org: Patch

2007-06-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Well, he extracts everything between <>, but I believe we still lose >> if, for instance, there's a # in the e-mail address (which is an >> entirely valid RFC 2822 c

Bug#373218: qa.debian.org: Patch

2007-06-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Russ Allbery wrote: >> According to RFC 2396, the list of characters reserved, banned, or >> disrecommended for URIs are: >> >> ; / ? : @ & = + $ , < > # % " { } | \ ^ [ ] ` &g

Bug#433469: PTS: please parse 'Homepage:' pseudo-header in the Descriptions...

2007-07-17 Thread Russ Allbery
ple just started using XS-Vcs-Browser? Then maybe we can start putting this business of parsing the long description to bed. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#433469: PTS: please parse 'Homepage:' pseudo-header in the Descriptions...

2007-07-17 Thread Russ Allbery
can migrate towards a structured field. I suppose one open question is whether to use Homepage or use Url, as some packages do already have Url headers and none are currently using Homepage. RPM uses URL. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eag

Re: URL convention to point to per-package lintian checks

2007-12-02 Thread Russ Allbery
scaping algorithm to make it easier for corner cases, but I'd rather not change the algorithm in a way that would invalidate other external links unless we declare a major flag day and really completely reorganize lintian.d.o. (Which should happen one of these days, but which would require a f

Re: URL convention to point to per-package lintian checks

2007-12-03 Thread Russ Allbery
nize more than that too. For example, right now everything is written to one giant directory, which isn't a good idea. It would also be nice to have pages by package as well as by maintainer, and it would be good to include packages for which one is an uploader in one's personal report.

Re: URL convention to point to per-package lintian checks

2007-12-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 12:42:31PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I do, although I'd like to reorganize more than that too. For example, >> right now everything is written to one giant directory, which isn't a >&

Re: URL convention to point to per-package lintian checks

2007-12-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 01:17:39AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Let's do this. Let's standardize on: > Ok, cool. Many thanks! > I'll implement the convention PTS side, let me know when the new scheme > i

On the new proposed QA styles

2007-12-05 Thread Russ Allbery
ust so that I can read it without getting a headache. Could you please not change it? Or at least please don't break it this badly? The current text font size is the smallest comfortably readable font size; anything that uses a smaller font is a pretty major step backward in usability. --

Re: Hard coded package names in lintian

2007-12-15 Thread Russ Allbery
on be warranted in the current scheme of > things? Yes. If there are significant packages that become obsolete and warrant a lintian warning to aid in a transition, please file a wishlist bug against lintian and we'll include that check in the next release. debcheck is available for the

Re: Hard coded package names in lintian

2007-12-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> Yes. If there are significant packages that become obsolete and >> warrant a lintian warning to aid in a transition, please file a >> wishlist bug against lintian and we'll include that check in the

Re: Hard coded package names in lintian

2007-12-15 Thread Russ Allbery
e is no simple problem that can be fixed and you're basically warning the maintainer that the software either has to be rewritten or dropped from the archive.) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Hard coded package names in lintian

2007-12-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, libglib1.2ldbl, libgtk1.2 and maybe libgd2-xpm would qualify to be > included? libgd2-xpm isn't even in oldlibs and there's no hint in the package description that it shouldn't be used. Is it really being phased out

Re: Hard coded package names in lintian

2007-12-16 Thread Russ Allbery
t the most likely result will be that we'll just drop nearly all GTK 1.0 software from the archive entirely, not that anything that hasn't already moved to GTK 2.0 will actually do so. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSU

Bug#457169: no, they are great

2007-12-20 Thread Russ Allbery
et didn't touch the font size > at all. That way everyone can choose the base font size that suites > their situation best, once, in the browser config, and every page will > be good for them. Yes, exactly. Enthusiastically seconded. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Coordinate time for the lintian URL updates

2007-12-20 Thread Russ Allbery
e the breakage in links from the PTS and developer pages, so I want to coordinate with you a good time to do this. Could you let me know when would be a good time to do the switch, assuming that the archive run needs to start about a day and a half in advance of when the new URLs will be live? --

Re: Coordinate time for the lintian URL updates

2007-12-21 Thread Russ Allbery
gt; require an up-to-the minute synchronization ;-) Okay, lintian is finishing its daily run for today right now, and as soon as that finishes, I'll kick off the full archive run. It should be done sometime on Saturday afternoon (US Pacific time), judging from past experience.

Re: Coordinate time for the lintian URL updates

2007-12-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Okay, lintian is finishing its daily run for today right now, and as >> soon as that finishes, I'll kick off the full archive run. It should >> be done sometime on Sat

Re: lintian.d.o updated, link change

2007-12-22 Thread Russ Allbery
up with a weird e-mail address, but the vast majority shouldn't need to be escaped. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lintian.debian.org should also list co-maintained packages

2007-12-24 Thread Russ Allbery
les used internally by lintian, but it shouldn't be *too* much work. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#458329: PTS: don't show lintian link when there are no lintian warnings

2007-12-30 Thread Russ Allbery
e qa-list.txt as-is and generate a second full list with more columns, or add more columns to the existing file. Probably the former to be safe. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#458329: PTS: don't show lintian link when there are no lintian warnings

2007-12-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 10:10:35AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Note that you can tell whether a package has lintian warnings or errors >> based on the contents of <http://lintian.debian.org/reports/qa-list.txt>. >>

Bug#373218: PTS: should replace dashes with underscores in lintian anchors

2008-01-01 Thread Russ Allbery
the XHTML 1.0 spec and the HTML 4.01 spec both say that they're fine. If you want to work around this until the next lintian release, that's of course fine, but lintian will be fixed so that the current links will work. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.ey

Re: List of packages which should probably be Architecture: all

2008-01-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 08:04:44PM +, Pierre Habouzit wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 07:58:24PM +, Raphael Geissert wrote: >>> Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>libgss-dbg (U) >>>shi

New lintian pages available for testing

2008-01-02 Thread Russ Allbery
er seen overwrite the report of the previous maintainers. This particularly affects packaging teams, since our packaging teams have a regrettable tendency to use many different variations of the team name in their packages. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.e

Re: New lintian pages available for testing

2008-01-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Thijs Kinkhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thursday 3 January 2008 01:16, Russ Allbery wrote: >> http://lintian.debian.org/reports-testing/ > > This looks good in general, it's a clear improvement over what we have. Thanks! >> * The HTML pages are now t

Re: New lintian pages available for testing

2008-01-03 Thread Russ Allbery
tim hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> If you want to take a look at how good (or bad) the templates look, the >> ones that generated those pages are in: >> >> /org/lintian.debian.org/lintian-test/reporting/templates >> >>

Re: New lintian pages available for testing

2008-01-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 04:16:22PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> * There are two reports for each maintainer. The one under maintainer, > What did you decide for the lists related to the two kind of reports we > discussed in

Bug#464155: packages.qa.d.o (package-specific pages): browsers want to save, not display, update-excuses

2008-02-05 Thread Russ Allbery
rg could be fixed to serve .html.gz files with a Content-Type of text/html and a Content-Encoding of gzip, which browsers should then cope with. I've found that adding: RemoveType .gz AddEncoding gzip .gz is sometimes necessary to get Apache to recognize this correctly. -- Russ Al

Bug#465674: lintian link doesn't work for packages with '-' in the name

2008-02-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: qa.debian.org > Severity: normal > > For the lintian link '-' needs to be converted to '_' I just need to ugprade lintian on lintian.d.o, since this modification is really wrong. -- Russ Allbery (

Re: What to do if Homepage seems to have vanished

2008-02-18 Thread Russ Allbery
a user trying to pick between multiple packages that may solve their problem. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#466515: PTS: "you should include ."

2008-02-19 Thread Russ Allbery
tches. Either they should be applied or the patch tag should be removed from those bugs. and: X bug in the Bug Tracking System is tagged as having a patch. Either it should be applied or the patch tag should be removed from that bug. for X == 1. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Mass bug filing: non-UTF8 debian/{control.changelog}

2008-03-02 Thread Russ Allbery
blems, but those weren't release goals. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mass bug filing: non-UTF8 debian/{control.changelog}

2008-03-02 Thread Russ Allbery
ow why that would cause lintian to misdiagnose this tag. It may be easy to fix. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: removing etch transitional packages

2008-04-03 Thread Russ Allbery
b5 is a similar case; I think that one is safe to remove. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#485085: qa.debian.org: TODO page debian policy check list

2008-06-08 Thread Russ Allbery
e's a web variant of "upgrading-checklist.gz" > contained in the Debian policy. There is an HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the debian-policy package source. It's not currently shipped in the package, but we could add it easily enough. I'm not sure that it&

Bug#485085: qa.debian.org: TODO page debian policy check list

2008-06-09 Thread Russ Allbery
The links should really be generated automatically somehow (and the section numbers should be automatically resolved), but this is not at all easy to do at the moment. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#485085: RE : Bug#485085: qa.debian.org: TODO page debian policy check list

2008-06-09 Thread Russ Allbery
amed references. > > But I know nothing about docbook so I can not help reformating all the > policy. Indeed, this is exactly why it's hard. (Plus, it's DebianDoc-SGML, not DocBook.) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Bug#490688: gnus: Old alpha version shouldn't be included in lenny

2008-07-13 Thread Russ Allbery
ms. I don't believe it's horribly buggy or unstable, alpha label nonwithstanding. If emacs21 is going to be removed from the archive before the release, we may not need this package, provided that the xemacs packages released with lenny have a newer version. -- Russ Allbery ([EM

Re: Bug#490688: gnus: Old alpha version shouldn't be included in lenny

2008-07-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Mika Tiainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 13 Jul 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: >> This package is useful for emacs21 users, as it's considerably newer >> than what was included in emacs21. I agree that it's not useful for >> emacs22 users (and indeed isn&#

Re: Orphaned packages that were not part of etch

2008-07-22 Thread Russ Allbery
kages with no > severe bugs, with active upstreams, and with a good number of users > shouldn't be the target of a 'hard' (i.e. preventing it from being > shipped in stable) cleanup. The packages you're listing by and large don't meet that criteria. > DFSG: >&g

Bug#243729: machine parseable version of lintian output

2008-08-07 Thread Russ Allbery
lames for a given source package. To > do that I would need a machine parseable version of the lintian output. > > Is there anything like that available somewhere? I wouldn't like having > to scrape HTML ... http://lintian.debian.org/lintian.log -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Bug#243729: machine parseable version of lintian output

2008-08-07 Thread Russ Allbery
l avoid bothering you in the future with > this request :) Will do. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Better team maintenance of orphaned packages

2008-08-26 Thread Russ Allbery
ng stuff would not reside only on my local disk but in a > commonly accessible VCS and the location to this VCS is clearly > mentioned in the VCS fields of the control file. Why not just use collab-maint for this? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~e

Bug#507288: mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] should also be send to Uploaders:

2008-11-29 Thread Russ Allbery
the maintainer is a mailing list and Uploaders are the people who do the uploads, doesn't it? I generally want to get such mail only once, via the mailing list. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Bug#507288: mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] should also be send to Uploaders:

2008-11-29 Thread Russ Allbery
und it by splitting mail based on the To and Cc headers instead of the standardized List-Id header, but that's not as clean. I have no objections to this being added if there's some way to turn it off. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Bug#507288: mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] should also be send to Uploaders:

2008-11-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Hutchings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 13:50 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> currently, mails send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] are only send to the address >>> listed >>> in maintain

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

2008-12-20 Thread Russ Allbery
ut for every package they uploaded for pkg-perl. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

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

2008-12-21 Thread Russ Allbery
#x27;d be curious to see the results. Maybe, similar to low-threshold-NMU, it would work best if it started as an opt-in system? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.or

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

2008-12-22 Thread Russ Allbery
s would sit in RFA for some time, since often they're listed there because the DD is no longer personally using the package, often for reasons that mean the package is being used less in general.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNS

Re: Removing orphaned packages from testing

2009-02-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Sorry, this was actually supposed to go to debian-qa and I failed to pay attention to what my mail client was doing. Russ Allbery writes: > Raphael Geissert writes: >> Russ Allbery wrote: > >>> If I don't have time to do a proper job of maintaining the package, I &

Re: Removing orphaned packages from testing

2009-02-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Lucas Nussbaum writes: > On 17/02/09 at 20:46 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> If we're talking about a group of people taking collective >> responsibility for keeping orphaned packages kicking along, I guess I'm >> not sure how that differs from what we already have

Re: does /var/games have to be deleted on purge? (if it's empty..)

2009-04-06 Thread Russ Allbery
unowned, which implies to me that either some package created it in a maintainer script rather than just including the directory in the deb or you're running into the bug that I ran into with openafs where dpkg lost track of the owner of a directory (I can't find the bug number at the momen

Re: does /var/games have to be deleted on purge? (if it's empty..)

2009-04-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Sven Joachim writes: > On 2009-04-06 19:59 +0200, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I'm curious why it wasn't removed. /var/games is normally shipped in >> each of the packages that provides files in /var/games, so dpkg would >> normally remove it automatically once the la

Bug#523282: qa.debian.org: Email address in package overview is case-specific

2009-04-09 Thread Russ Allbery
ry purposes, but it's possible to configure mail software to not do so. I don't know what this implies about what the QA software should do, but Lintian, for instance, would not consider those two addresses as matching because of that standard. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

Re: lintian errors/warnings on ddpo-by-mail emails

2009-04-27 Thread Russ Allbery
, but there are a bunch of certainty: certain tags with a bunch of overrides, which is clearly wrong. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#545785: PTS: lintian link issues

2009-09-09 Thread Russ Allbery
s at present. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#545785: PTS: lintian link issues

2009-09-10 Thread Russ Allbery
't already was that I wasn't sure if I'd break any software that consumed that file. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bug#545785: PTS: lintian link issues

2009-09-10 Thread Russ Allbery
ow is UDD gathering this data? (I don't want to accidentally break it.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bug#545785: PTS: lintian link issues

2009-09-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Lucas Nussbaum writes: > On 10/09/09 at 14:37 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Out of curiosity, how is UDD gathering this data? (I don't want to >> accidentally break it.) > Using http://lintian.debian.org/lintian.log Oh, okay, so it reparses the lintian log. Yeah, th

Bug#549114: PTS: please link to backports buildd status

2009-09-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: qa.debian.org Severity: wishlist In the buildd links on the PTS page for a package, could you also link to the backports buildd status pages if there's a backported version of a package? These are at experimental.ftbfs.de/new, which is a hard URL to find with Google if one doesn't rememb

Bug#549115: PTS: please also display backports.org versions

2009-09-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: qa.debian.org Severity: wishlist In the versions section of the page, could you also add versions from backports.org if there are any? This information is available in the DDPO but not in the PTS right now, which means a separate click through to check the backports.org version number.

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-11-02 Thread Russ Allbery
able to not allow people to upload packages with obvious and easily-correctable errors even if they're not must directives, although I suppose we could implement that by upgrading all such errors to must in Policy. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Bug#545785: PTS: lintian link issues

2009-12-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Stefano Zacchiroli writes: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:57:27AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >>> Russ (assuming that "info" messages are the only missing ingredient to >>> implement this given request): would it be problematic to add an extra >>> column t

Re: does /var/games have to be deleted on purge? (if it's empty..)

2010-01-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Responding to a message from last April that had been sitting in my to-process queue. Holger Levsen writes: > On Montag, 6. April 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I don't see much real benefit in going out of our way to remove >> /var/games and it looks like it would be a bit an

Re: does /var/games have to be deleted on purge? (if it's empty..)

2010-01-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Manoj Srivastava writes: > On Sun, Jan 03 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: >> and what the requirements of a package are around preserving or >> removing its data other than log files and configuration files on >> purge? If so, that would be the relevant place to talk ab

Re: does /var/games have to be deleted on purge? (if it's empty..)

2010-01-04 Thread Russ Allbery
anually copying out the configuration file. If purging the package deletes databases, this removes that tactic as an option. * Whether it makes sense given Debian semantics or not, users just don't expect removing packages to, from their perspective, destroy data. Other distributi

Re: Bug#583489: qa.debian.org: Please provide 1.0 (explicit) and 1.0 (implicit) information

2010-05-28 Thread Russ Allbery
it, which hurts the project for all the things that Lintian looks at that aren't controversial. Because of that, Lintian tends to be fairly conservative on anything that people seem to be debating (although we don't always manage). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://

Re: debcheck: "Arch: all" package pulls non-linux package by Recommends

2010-05-30 Thread Russ Allbery
reebsd ones where the recommended package > doesn't exist. That's not a meaningful thing to do for an arch: all package. You should always get the same arch: all package regardless of the build architecture, or it's not really arch: all. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

Re: Some thoughts about fields in UDD

2010-07-08 Thread Russ Allbery
s-perl | perl | main | > mailto:r...@debian.org Whoops, that's a bug. Forgot to fix that before I uploaded the private package I'd been maintaining to Debian proper. Thanks! -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> --

Re: Some thoughts about fields in UDD

2010-07-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Andreas Tille writes: > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 04:32:15PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Well, I think it's just capturing everything in the Sources list. >> Having that consistency where everything is captured does seem like a >> nice feature to me. > Lucas answer

Re: [poll] Ubuntu column on DDPO visible by default?

2010-08-03 Thread Russ Allbery
e curret DDPO table goes *well* off the right edge of the screen for me on a 1680x1050 display, which is not exactly a netbook. Nine columns (everything from binary packages on) are entirely off the side of the screen. And that's not with what I consider a very large font. --

Re: Possible lintian issues with ftp-master

2010-08-16 Thread Russ Allbery
erned with, so they're unrelated to the acceptance of your package. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Possible lintian issues with ftp-master

2010-08-22 Thread Russ Allbery
! Thank you. That may well be what's going on. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: [poll] Ubuntu column on DDPO visible by default?

2010-08-26 Thread Russ Allbery
hem. I point users at the PTS all the time. They contain really valuable information for anyone running Debian that isn't available anywhere else. The PTS is usually a better overall view of a package for someone who knows something about Debian and is looking for specific details than package

Re: Lintian as a static analysis framework

2011-07-08 Thread Russ Allbery
aging area, or some combination of the two. I don't really want us to go hog-wild with lots of additional Lintian add-on packages, since that could make things a bit confusing. We may even want to build everything from the Lintian source package, and just break things out into separ

Re: Load on udd.d.o

2011-10-25 Thread Russ Allbery
t gone. We're currently instead in a similar bubble around cloud computing, and I'm sure we could get quite a few donations from cloud companies for similar reasons, but unfortunately those donations are much harder for Debian to use since they don't have the same sort of on

Re: DEP-2: Debian Package Maintenance Hub

2012-01-28 Thread Russ Allbery
ke NMU detection would break and the actual identity of the maintainer isn't preserved in the package metadata, both of which I think are important. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@list

Bug#665247: PTS: suggests packaging new upstream that was already packaged

2012-03-22 Thread Russ Allbery
available: 4.1.0, you should consider packaging it. but per the top of news: [2012-03-17] Accepted 4.1.0-1 in unstable (low) (Russ Allbery) (which was five days ago). -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (

Re: (semi) automatic check for broken links in package descriptions

2012-04-26 Thread Russ Allbery
hable over a longer period, like a week. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87vckmfp4g@windlord.stanford.edu

Re: Quilt bug or needs repackaging?

2012-04-27 Thread Russ Allbery
sn't actually use quilt, though; it uses its own internal, mostly-compatible logic, which is simpler than everything that quilt can do. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Quilt bug or needs repackaging?

2012-04-27 Thread Russ Allbery
m tarball, since dpkg-source doesn't agree with that. If you make the debian directory at the same level as SAINT_v2.3.3 and __MACOSX, everything, including quilt, will work (although of course you'll have to change the packaging to actually work in the SAINT_v2.3.3 directory).

Re: Checks for urls in packages - extend lintian

2012-05-18 Thread Russ Allbery
rinciple (even apart from the issue of requiring network access). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

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