Re: Upcoming etch point release

2017-04-24 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam D. Barratt wrote: > The next point release for the "etch" oldstable distribution, 4.0r9, is > scheduled for Saturday, 22nd May. I guess this is rather a plain "formality" than an endorsement by the project that this release is an up-to-date versi

Re: Upcoming etch point release

2010-05-14 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam D. Barratt wrote: > The next point release for the "etch" oldstable distribution, 4.0r9, is > scheduled for Saturday, 22nd May. I guess this is rather a plain "formality" than an endorsement by the project that this release is an up-to-date versi

Bug#484009: Bug#484129: release.debian.org: packages in tasks should be fixed in priority and removed in last resort after discussion

2008-06-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-06-04 18:36, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > No it's not. A user that prefers to have broken software rather than > no software (if the option "non broken" software is absent) should use > unstable. I mean it. > > You can easily use testing by de

Bug#484009: Bug#484129: release.debian.org: packages in tasks should be fixed in priority and removed in last resort after discussion

2008-06-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-06-03 19:59, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > It depends of your definition of usable. I don't think it's usable on > a daily basis because: FWIW, let the users decide what they use or want to use. I took a curde estimate by counting what the reader

Bug#484009: Bug#484129: release.debian.org: packages in tasks should be fixed in priority and removed in last resort after discussion

2008-06-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-06-04 16:11, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > [1] search +testing +lenny on The searches were performed without the '+' to have 'testing or lenny' etc. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version:

Bug#484129: removed bugs are marked as 'obsolete'

2008-06-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-06-04 09:59, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > We fully address [2]: a broken software, or an inadequate one is more > a problem to me than not having it in Debian. Debian is about quality, > not quantity. I totally agree on that. My point is that i

Bug#484129: removed bugs are marked as 'obsolete'

2008-06-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Within their efforts to eliminate RC bugs in testing, IMHO the release managers should not forget that removed packages are marked as 'obsolete', eg. in aptitude. An ordinary user who uses update-* to check for updates and who installs other packages