Re: *UNAPPROVED* dpkg nmu
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Colin Watson wrote:
> Adam, as far as I can tell you're *always* too busy to read e-mail. I
> remind you of the BTS move to spohr, which I mentioned on owner@bugs
> multiple times several weeks in advance; but the first you claimed to
> have heard of it was when you said something along the lines of "eh,
> what, why wasn't I told about this?" the very evening I was performing
> the move.
>
> Responsiveness with respect to dpkg is essential to the project.
owner@bugs isn't being filtered; at the time, I said I was sorry about
noticing.
However, in this case, it was a just a plain email sent to doogie@debian.org.
There was no chance of a filter to process it. If they would have sent it to
the maintainer(ie, the list), I would have seen it.
> > ps: Sometimes I take so long in doing dpkg uploads, not because I'm
> > busy or lazy, but because I want a large set of packages to upgrade
> > with apt, so that I can test out my new dpkg changes.
>
> snapshot.debian.net
That tests a fresh install, with no customizations to any configs. Not quite
the same as testing a real installation.
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