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Re: Some news from the website :)



Il giorno Sat, 13 Oct 2007 21:17:15 +0200 (CEST)
Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> ha scritto:

> On Sat, 13 Oct 2007, David Paleino wrote:
> 
> > ...
> > I'll work on that too.
> 
> Fine.

The severity-coloring has been implemented, please check it :)

> OK.  I agree with you that this is a reasonable step.  On the other hand it
> has some drawbacks in the current situation:
> 
>    1. Currently there are several medical packages out there that do not
>       fit this criterion - and IMHO it makes no sense to upload a new
>       package just to change the maintainer.

Well, this is a minor issue IMHO ;)

>    2. There might be other CDDs that will be not able to change the maintainer
>       this was.  For instance think of Debian-Edu: They will not be able to
>       convince the maintainers of all packages to switch to this kind of
>       group maintainance.  They include Openoffice.Orf, Firefox, etc.

This is a major one instead. Why not adding the CDD to Uploaders field? I
believe this will be far easier to accomplish.

>    3. It might be that a maintainer of a package that we regard as medical
>       interesting has the main focus on Debian-Science and would like to
>       group maintain this package in this scope - package could be interesting
>       for different groups.

Another major issue. D'oh!

> > They will be automatically generated, as long as there are bugs filed
> > against those meta-packages. Otherwise, I'll have to change the approach.
> 
> No - I do not mean bugs against meta package but bugs against all those
> packages that are in the Dependency list of the meta packages - in contrast
> to the tagging by the list as maintainer this would IMHO be a solid
> approach to identify the packages of interest.

I'll try to parse the task files then.

Are there any meta-packages which do not have a task file?

Please, let me know any other issue.

Kindly,
David

P.S.: I'll complete the <package>.php pages tomorrow maybe. I need to hang out
with my girlfriend right now ;)

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