Re: mklist

[Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de>]

Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 02:34:28PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
> > > > > > mklist complains about a missing lists.cfg file, why isn't that file in
> > > > > > the CVS?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Because it's not our file, it's list admins'. You can get it from
> > > > > http://murphy.debian.org/lists.cfg if you want.
> > > > 
> > > > I notice that international/i18n.data get's updated by some frency
> > > > guy quite frequently.  Can't you (or s/o else) update this file
> > > > as well?  It's bad when typing "make" will bomb out somewhere in
> > > > the middle.
> > > 
> > > I don't understand, please rephrase/elaborate...
> > 
> > What I tried to express, was that international/l10n/data/unstable
> > doesn't belong to www.debian.org either but is extracted from somewhere
> > else, it's also in CVS so pages are buildable with a checkout.  Couldn't
> > this be done similar with lists.cfg?  You could just add another cronjob
> > on klecker that does not only wget it but also 'cvs commit' it automatically.
> 
> Ah, I didn't know that that is gotten from external sources. You're probably
> right, but you'd have to talk to the owner of that stuff, which is Martin
> Quinson, AFAICT.

Err... we're talking about lists.cfg.  I thought, the owner is listmaster.
<change hat>
You hereby have permission to add it into another cvs repo
<change hat>
So webmaster could include that file in cvs and a checked out version
of our web pages are still buildable, which they aren't at the moment.

Regards,

	Joey

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