From jmw at debian.org  Mon Apr  1 01:07:32 2013
From: jmw at debian.org (Jonathan Wiltshire)
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 01:07:32 +0100
Subject: [Debian-uk] dak-roulette activated
Message-ID: <20130401000732.GB11622@ernie.home.powdarrmonkey.net>

The residents of #debian-uk are pleased to announce that, in conjunction with
our friendly FTP masters, dak-roulette has just been activated in cron on
ftp-master.debian.org targetting unstable and no particular maintainer.

I enclose the documentation for your reference.

__________________________________________________________________________
dak-roulette(1)                                                dak-roulette(1)

NAME
       dak-roulette - play roulette with the Debian archive

SYNOPSIS
       dak-roulette [options]

DESCRIPTION
       dak-roulette  plays roulette with the Debian archive, removing packages
       at random under the correct conditions.

       Following invocation, the 'gun' is loaded  with  a  single  bullet  and
       aimed  at  a  randomly-chosen  package. The gun is fired. If the bullet
       finds its mark, the package is removed and the maintainer notified.

       Various switches can influence the behaviour of dak-roulette.

OPTIONS
       -f, --fill-gun
              Fill the gun, leading to certain removal and the ensuing  enter?
              tainment.

       -q, --quiet
              Do  not notify the maintainer of the removed package. By default
              a standard mail is sent.

       -s suite, --suite=suite
              Act on the specified suite, by default unstable.

       --allow-important
              Allow dak-roulette to remove packages  with  priority  important
              and  lower from the archive. By default, only standard, optional
              and extra packages are targets.

       --allow-required
              Allow dak-roulette to remove packages with priority required and
              lower from the archive (implies --allow-important).

       --pick-on=email
              Limit  the  list  of targets to those maintained by a particular
              maintainer, identified by email.

       -n, --miss
              Deliberately miss the target, but print what would have happened
              (dry run).

FILES
        /etc/dak/roulette-notify.txt
              Default message body to send to maintainers of removed packages.

NOTES
       dak-roulette is best run from cron for maximum entertainment.

AUTHORS
       dak-roulette  was born out of a sense of mischief shared by the inhabi?
       tants of #debian-uk and #debian-ftp.

       This manual page was written by Jonathan Wiltshire <jmw at debian.org> and
       distributed under the GNU General Public License, version 2.

       The  author takes no responsibility for any consequences resulting from
       use of this program.

                                  2013-04-01                   dak-roulette(1)


-- 
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Debian Developer                         http://people.debian.org/~jmw

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From vorlon at debian.org  Mon Apr  1 09:05:06 2013
From: vorlon at debian.org (Steve Langasek)
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 01:05:06 -0700
Subject: [Debian-uk] dak-roulette activated
In-Reply-To: <20130401000732.GB11622@ernie.home.powdarrmonkey.net>
References: <20130401000732.GB11622@ernie.home.powdarrmonkey.net>
Message-ID: <20130401080506.GA10964@virgil.dodds.net>

On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 01:07:32AM +0100, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:
> The residents of #debian-uk are pleased to announce that, in conjunction with
> our friendly FTP masters, dak-roulette has just been activated in cron on
> ftp-master.debian.org targetting unstable and no particular maintainer.

> I enclose the documentation for your reference.

This seems to be a misnomer.  The documentation makes it clear that it's
based on Russian roulette, not on roulette the casino game; "dak-roulette"
is as a result misleading, we should find a better name for this.

How about dak-svidanya?

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                    http://www.debian.org/
slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org
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From codehelp at debian.org  Mon Apr  1 11:10:39 2013
From: codehelp at debian.org (Neil Williams)
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 11:10:39 +0100
Subject: [Debian-uk] dak-roulette activated
In-Reply-To: <1364804964.3203.0.camel@agatha.computer-surgery.co.uk>
References: <20130401000732.GB11622@ernie.home.powdarrmonkey.net>
	<20130401080506.GA10964@virgil.dodds.net>
	<1364804964.3203.0.camel@agatha.computer-surgery.co.uk>
Message-ID: <20130401111039.2143a72e2e2a60141bfdbd48@debian.org>

On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 21:29:24 +1300
Roger Gammans <rgammans at gammascience.co.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, 2013-04-01 at 01:05 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 01:07:32AM +0100, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:
> > > The residents of #debian-uk are pleased to announce that, in conjunction with
> > > our friendly FTP masters, dak-roulette has just been activated in cron on
> > > ftp-master.debian.org targetting unstable and no particular maintainer.
> > 
> > > I enclose the documentation for your reference.
> > 
> > This seems to be a misnomer.  The documentation makes it clear that it's
> > based on Russian roulette, not on roulette the casino game;
> 
> That's a minor issue, are we sure the case when it shoots itself has
> been fully tested? 

That's easy, this isn't a package, so cannot be removed by dak.

-- 


Neil Williams
=============
http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/

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From rgammans at gammascience.co.uk  Mon Apr  1 09:29:24 2013
From: rgammans at gammascience.co.uk (Roger Gammans)
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2013 21:29:24 +1300
Subject: [Debian-uk] dak-roulette activated
In-Reply-To: <20130401080506.GA10964@virgil.dodds.net>
References: <20130401000732.GB11622@ernie.home.powdarrmonkey.net>
	<20130401080506.GA10964@virgil.dodds.net>
Message-ID: <1364804964.3203.0.camel@agatha.computer-surgery.co.uk>

On Mon, 2013-04-01 at 01:05 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 01:07:32AM +0100, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:
> > The residents of #debian-uk are pleased to announce that, in conjunction with
> > our friendly FTP masters, dak-roulette has just been activated in cron on
> > ftp-master.debian.org targetting unstable and no particular maintainer.
> 
> > I enclose the documentation for your reference.
> 
> This seems to be a misnomer.  The documentation makes it clear that it's
> based on Russian roulette, not on roulette the casino game;

That's a minor issue, are we sure the case when it shoots itself has
been fully tested? 

-- 
Roger Gammans <rgammans at gammascience.co.uk>


From pm at debian.org  Mon Apr  1 11:13:41 2013
From: pm at debian.org (Paul Martin)
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 11:13:41 +0100
Subject: [Debian-uk] dak-roulette activated
In-Reply-To: <20130401080506.GA10964@virgil.dodds.net>
References: <20130401000732.GB11622@ernie.home.powdarrmonkey.net>
	<20130401080506.GA10964@virgil.dodds.net>
Message-ID: <20130401101340.GA17370@thinkpad.nowster.org.uk>

On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 01:05:06AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 01:07:32AM +0100, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:
> > The residents of #debian-uk are pleased to announce that, in conjunction with
> > our friendly FTP masters, dak-roulette has just been activated in cron on
> > ftp-master.debian.org targetting unstable and no particular maintainer.
> 
> > I enclose the documentation for your reference.
> 
> This seems to be a misnomer.  The documentation makes it clear that it's
> based on Russian roulette, not on roulette the casino game; "dak-roulette"
> is as a result misleading, we should find a better name for this.
> 
> How about dak-svidanya?

More to the point, this far into freeze such packages should only ever
be uploaded to the existential repository.

-- 
Paul Martin <pm at debian.org>
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