Bug#695158: wheezy-ignore tag for RC bug #591969 in typo3-src

2012-12-05 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 08:01:58PM +0100, Tobias Hansen wrote: the discussion in RC bug #591969 ended with a call for a wheezy-ignore tag. The bug was also tagged squeeze-ignore. What does the release team say? In general, I'm fairly loathed to add a *second* release ignore tag. Can someone

Re: Google Gift

2012-11-29 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 03:38:30PM -0500, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 05:30:49PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: Josh Berkus wrote: On 11/12/12 12:15 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: Hilmar Lapp wrote: Awesome! -hilmar Right. So instead of 37,510.86 we don't

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-28 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 11:28:57PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: It is truth that there's a general movement inside RedHat to fuck-up everything. You are right, I should have mention that more clearly : it's not only about Lennart and systemd guys, and I should take the blame for not

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-28 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 12:15:55AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: I actually don't really take it very seriously, it just helps to waiting while things are building ... :) I actually agree it's pointless (because it's very unlikely that there will be any outcome), but I also find it fun. I'm

Re: release goal for jessie! (Re: Source-only uploads (was: procenv_0.9-1_source.changes REJECTED)

2012-11-27 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 01:32:16PM -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: On Nov 23, 2012, at 03:06 PM, YunQiang Su wrote: you always need to build for one arch and test, then why not upload it? I think there are a lot of good reasons to do source-only uploads, even when you should be building locally

Re: The other diversity statement

2012-11-26 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:58:04AM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: I really should not be writing this. I should be sleeping. I have to get up for work in less than six hours. But I *really* would love to know a DD vote outcome on something like the below text, though written with less sarcasm,

Re: Bits from the release team - Freeze update

2012-11-19 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 12:37:42PM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: The version in testing has a known security vulnerability, which was fixed by upstream in their newer upstream release. I sent a more stripped debdiff to make the review easier. Removing Windows/MacOS changes and auto-generated

Re: Position statements short of a GR - DPL statements

2012-11-19 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 08:19:27AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: In particular, the constitution does not empower anybody to be the spokeperson or representative of the Project, therefore it looks logical that only a GR defines the opinion of the project. Well, this could be interesting, as

Bug#692625: Wheezy-ignore for good-not-evil bugs

2012-11-16 Thread Neil McGovern
tags 692614 + wheezy-ignore tags 692619 + wheezy-ignore tags 692624 + wheezy-ignore tags 692625 + wheezy-ignore tags 692627 + wheezy-ignore tags 692628 + wheezy-ignore tags 692629 + wheezy-ignore tags 692630 + wheezy-ignore tags 692631 + wheezy-ignore tags 692613 + wheezy-ignore tags 692615 +

Wheezy-ignore for good-not-evil bugs

2012-11-16 Thread Neil McGovern
tags 692614 + wheezy-ignore tags 692619 + wheezy-ignore tags 692624 + wheezy-ignore tags 692625 + wheezy-ignore tags 692627 + wheezy-ignore tags 692628 + wheezy-ignore tags 692629 + wheezy-ignore tags 692630 + wheezy-ignore tags 692631 + wheezy-ignore tags 692613 + wheezy-ignore tags 692615 +

Re: Wheezy-ignore for good-not-evil bugs

2012-11-16 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 04:58:45PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: * Neil McGovern ne...@debian.org, 2012-11-16, 15:46: These bugs aren't gonna get fixed in time - tagging ignore appropriately. Excellent. Now Mr Crockford can say that his license is good enough for Debian. No he can't. Neil

Bug#692613: Wheezy-ignore for good-not-evil bugs

2012-11-16 Thread Neil McGovern
tags 692614 + wheezy-ignore tags 692619 + wheezy-ignore tags 692624 + wheezy-ignore tags 692625 + wheezy-ignore tags 692627 + wheezy-ignore tags 692628 + wheezy-ignore tags 692629 + wheezy-ignore tags 692630 + wheezy-ignore tags 692631 + wheezy-ignore tags 692613 + wheezy-ignore tags 692615 +

[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#692619: Wheezy-ignore for good-not-evil bugs

2012-11-16 Thread Neil McGovern
tags 692614 + wheezy-ignore tags 692619 + wheezy-ignore tags 692624 + wheezy-ignore tags 692625 + wheezy-ignore tags 692627 + wheezy-ignore tags 692628 + wheezy-ignore tags 692629 + wheezy-ignore tags 692630 + wheezy-ignore tags 692631 + wheezy-ignore tags 692613 + wheezy-ignore tags 692615 +

Bug#692613: Wheezy-ignore for good-not-evil bugs

2012-11-16 Thread Neil McGovern
tags 692614 + wheezy-ignore tags 692619 + wheezy-ignore tags 692624 + wheezy-ignore tags 692625 + wheezy-ignore tags 692627 + wheezy-ignore tags 692628 + wheezy-ignore tags 692629 + wheezy-ignore tags 692630 + wheezy-ignore tags 692631 + wheezy-ignore tags 692613 + wheezy-ignore tags 692615 +

Wheezy-ignore for good-not-evil bugs

2012-11-16 Thread Neil McGovern
tags 692614 + wheezy-ignore tags 692619 + wheezy-ignore tags 692624 + wheezy-ignore tags 692625 + wheezy-ignore tags 692627 + wheezy-ignore tags 692628 + wheezy-ignore tags 692629 + wheezy-ignore tags 692630 + wheezy-ignore tags 692631 + wheezy-ignore tags 692613 + wheezy-ignore tags 692615 +

Re: DPN 22/2012 frozen. Please review and translate.

2012-11-12 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 12:31:00PM -0500, Filipus Klutiero wrote: According to thea href=http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi;Bugs Search interface of the Ultimate Debian Database/a, the upcoming release, DebianqWheezy/q, is currently affected by 425 Release-Critical bugs. Ouch. We were at 418 last

Re: DPN 22/2012 frozen. Please review and translate.

2012-11-12 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 12:31:00PM -0500, Filipus Klutiero wrote: According to thea href=http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi;Bugs Search interface of the Ultimate Debian Database/a, the upcoming release, DebianqWheezy/q, is currently affected by 425 Release-Critical bugs. Ouch. We were at 418 last

Re: Bug#688772: gnome Depends network-manager-gnome

2012-11-12 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 06:41:08PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: While n-m remains a Depends of gnome or gnome-core, any bug report from a user that installing n-m broke their system's networking is to be treated by the gnome and network-manager maintainers as a valid,

Re: Bits from the release team - Freeze update

2012-11-09 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 06:54:23AM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Benjamin Drung (bdr...@debian.org): Am Donnerstag, den 08.11.2012, 20:35 + schrieb Jon Dowland: On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 08:29:02PM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: Hm, I filed two unblock requests after that

Re: Bits from the release team - Freeze update

2012-11-08 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 08:09:51PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Neil McGovern wrote: Unblocks and Freeze Policy -- ... We're also reducing the acceptance criteria [RM:POLICY] - we're now only going to accept: ... Which policy

Re: Bits from the release team - Freeze update

2012-11-08 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 05:18:55PM +, Jon Dowland wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 10:40:18PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: Which policy applies to #685913 (and all the other open unblocks)? The policy announced at the beginning of the freeze or the current policy? …or the time the unblock was

Re: Bug#692327: libotr: Please provide libotr2

2012-11-06 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 02:59:11PM +0100, Thibaut VARENE wrote: And I see nothing wrong with breaking packages in unstable, but maybe there too I'm mistaken. Yes, as you breaking a package in unstable may: a) Break other packages b) Remove the ability to update via unstable if a RC bug does

Re: mjg59's blog on planet.d.o

2012-10-30 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 12:05:11PM +0100, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: [Paul Wise, 2012-10-30] Content unrelated to Debian is specifically acceptable on Planet Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/PlanetDebian#What_Can_I_Post_On_Planet and this part is written in stone and we cannot change it? Not

Re: Squeeze point release (6.0.6)

2012-09-18 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 03:59:09PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 03:58:13PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: ok, given the replies, let's settle on this: On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 09:43:03PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: * Sep 29/30: ok from RT side We still need a press

Re: Squeeze point release (6.0.6)

2012-09-18 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 03:59:09PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 03:58:13PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: ok, given the replies, let's settle on this: On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 09:43:03PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: * Sep 29/30: ok from RT side We still need a press

Re: Squeeze point release (6.0.6)

2012-09-18 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 03:59:09PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 03:58:13PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: ok, given the replies, let's settle on this: On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 09:43:03PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: * Sep 29/30: ok from RT side We still need a press

Re: Squeeze point release (6.0.6)

2012-09-18 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 03:59:09PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 03:58:13PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: ok, given the replies, let's settle on this: On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 09:43:03PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: * Sep 29/30: ok from RT side We still need a press

Re: greater popularity of Debian on AMD64?

2012-09-05 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 12:36:36PM -0400, W. Anderson wrote: It is somewhat surprising and a little disappointing that Debian, or any other GNU/Linux distribution would be making statements that, in effect, give great public support to AMD in regard Linux, when the company has for many years

Bug#682908: Is this a done deal?

2012-08-15 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:27:07AM -0400, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: Emacs 24 has been in pre-release mode So... not actually released then. Anyways, this doesn't answer my question, which I've asked thrice. Here it goes again: is this a done deal, and we're getting an ancient (yes,

Bug#682908: Is this a done deal?

2012-08-15 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:27:07AM -0400, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: Emacs 24 has been in pre-release mode So... not actually released then. Anyways, this doesn't answer my question, which I've asked thrice. Here it goes again: is this a done deal, and we're getting an ancient (yes,

Bug#683299: unblock: open-vm-tools/2:8.8.0+2012.05.21-724730-3

2012-07-30 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:07:14PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: On 07/30/2012 10:02 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: Or if you prefer, I can remove the package from wheezy, that works just as well as far as I'm concerned, but I thought I'd give it a chance. feel free to do so if you think that

Bug#683299: unblock: open-vm-tools/2:8.8.0+2012.05.21-724730-3

2012-07-30 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:07:14PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: On 07/30/2012 10:02 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: Or if you prefer, I can remove the package from wheezy, that works just as well as far as I'm concerned, but I thought I'd give it a chance. feel free to do so if you think that

Re: Next upload 2012-06-26 (dpkg 1.16.5)

2012-07-29 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 07:52:18PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: On Sat, 2012-07-28 at 11:59:07 +0200, Neil McGovern wrote: Right, the delta diff was small enough that I actually put in the time to look at the full diff. This took a number of hours, but anyway: Well then, thanks for taking

Re: Next upload 2012-06-26 (dpkg 1.16.5)

2012-07-29 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 07:52:18PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: On Sat, 2012-07-28 at 11:59:07 +0200, Neil McGovern wrote: Right, the delta diff was small enough that I actually put in the time to look at the full diff. This took a number of hours, but anyway: Well then, thanks for taking

Re: Next upload 2012-06-26 (dpkg 1.16.5)

2012-07-28 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 11:59:07AM +0200, Neil McGovern wrote: On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 07:18:29PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 17:51:56 +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: Nope, 1.16.5. I'd like to see that to get a view as to why 1.16.5 was broken. Once we've managed to have

Re: Next upload 2012-06-26 (dpkg 1.16.5)

2012-07-28 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 07:18:29PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 17:51:56 +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: Nope, 1.16.5. I'd like to see that to get a view as to why 1.16.5 was broken. Once we've managed to have a look at that, it may give a clue as to if it's worth reviewing

Re: Next upload 2012-06-26 (dpkg 1.16.5)

2012-07-28 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 11:59:07AM +0200, Neil McGovern wrote: On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 07:18:29PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 17:51:56 +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: Nope, 1.16.5. I'd like to see that to get a view as to why 1.16.5 was broken. Once we've managed to have

Bug#681687: missing mime entry

2012-07-26 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 01:51:32PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: If it's the solution that the TC decide on to resolve the issue, it sounds like something we could work with, at least imho, from what I've seen so far. I've CCed -release for any further comments, as I don't know how many

Bug#681687: missing mime entry

2012-07-26 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 01:51:32PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: If it's the solution that the TC decide on to resolve the issue, it sounds like something we could work with, at least imho, from what I've seen so far. I've CCed -release for any further comments, as I don't know how many

Bug#681687: missing mime entry

2012-07-26 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 01:51:32PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: If it's the solution that the TC decide on to resolve the issue, it sounds like something we could work with, at least imho, from what I've seen so far. I've CCed -release for any further comments, as I don't know how many

Re: Bug#681687: missing mime entry

2012-07-26 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 01:26:36PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: So I think there are 3 options for wheezy: 1) Have update-mime read the .desktop file, but don't update any packages to replace mime files with .desktop files. 2) Change all mime files to .desktop files (where possible), and

Re: Bug#681687: missing mime entry

2012-07-26 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 01:51:32PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: If it's the solution that the TC decide on to resolve the issue, it sounds like something we could work with, at least imho, from what I've seen so far. I've CCed -release for any further comments, as I don't know how many

Re: Next upload 2012-06-26 (dpkg 1.16.5)

2012-07-23 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi, On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 09:56:24PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 09:42:18 +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: Advancing that as much as you can would certainly be useful to catch any errors, and to ensure translators get a chance to contribute. So, the upload happened few

Re: Next upload 2012-06-26 (dpkg 1.16.5)

2012-07-23 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 06:38:21PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 15:14:15 +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: That is of course, your perogative. However, if you could kindly prepare a patchset between 1.16.5 and whatever you want to migrate, with all the translation

Re: Next upload 2012-06-26 (dpkg 1.16.5)

2012-07-23 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi, On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 09:56:24PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 09:42:18 +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: Advancing that as much as you can would certainly be useful to catch any errors, and to ensure translators get a chance to contribute. So, the upload happened few

Re: Next upload 2012-06-26 (dpkg 1.16.5)

2012-07-23 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 06:38:21PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 15:14:15 +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: That is of course, your perogative. However, if you could kindly prepare a patchset between 1.16.5 and whatever you want to migrate, with all the translation

Re: mumble migration block

2012-07-20 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 12:48:34PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: Can you please make sure that mumble 1.2.3-349-g315b5f5-2 does not migrate to wheezy ? In particular, please do not accept an unblock request for it or for any later version. I've commented out the automatic unblock it was

Re: mumble and celt, #682010, TC

2012-07-19 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi, On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:24:12AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: The problem with mumble and the celt codec has been referred to the TC - see the bug mentioned above. I would be interested to hear from the security and release teams. I consider there to be two issues which would concern me

Re: mumble and celt, #682010, TC

2012-07-19 Thread Neil McGovern
[resent... signed this time. Again] On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 05:45:27PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: * That the package is likely to be able to communicate with non-debian derived distributions. The information we seem to be getting is that it is indeed likely that the mumble we have will be

Re: mumble and celt, #682010, TC

2012-07-19 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 05:45:27PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: * That the package is likely to be able to communicate with non-debian derived distributions. The information we seem to be getting is that it is indeed likely that the mumble we have will be able to do so, because mumble

DebConf makes in-roads in Central America

2012-07-18 Thread Neil McGovern
The Debian Projecthttp://www.debian.org/ DebConf makes in-roads in Central America pr...@lists.debian.org July 16th, 2012 http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120716

Bug#658139: missing mime entry

2012-07-18 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi, On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:45:42PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: If a missing mime file would mean an RC bug, this would instantly make 514 packages RC buggy. Interestingly, the particular section in the Debian policy is a should directive, not a must, so I don't understand the reasons for

Bug#658139: missing mime entry

2012-07-18 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi, On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:45:42PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: If a missing mime file would mean an RC bug, this would instantly make 514 packages RC buggy. Interestingly, the particular section in the Debian policy is a should directive, not a must, so I don't understand the reasons for

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-15 Thread Neil McGovern
. Thanks, Neil On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 04:34:35PM -0600, Neil McGovern wrote: Hence, I consider this bug serious and thus RC, and am reassigning to evince. Feel free to pop it over to tech-ctte if you don't agree. Thanks, Neil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ

Bug#658139: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-15 Thread Neil McGovern
. Thanks, Neil On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 04:34:35PM -0600, Neil McGovern wrote: Hence, I consider this bug serious and thus RC, and am reassigning to evince. Feel free to pop it over to tech-ctte if you don't agree. Thanks, Neil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-15 Thread Neil McGovern
. Thanks, Neil On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 04:34:35PM -0600, Neil McGovern wrote: Hence, I consider this bug serious and thus RC, and am reassigning to evince. Feel free to pop it over to tech-ctte if you don't agree. Thanks, Neil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-14 Thread Neil McGovern
severity 658139 serious reassign 658139 evince tags 658139 + patch retitle 658139 missing mime entry On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 12:09:27AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: It does seem quite annoying. Have you considered asking the release team whether they would be inclined to agree that this bug

Re: [Debconf-discuss] [Debconf-announce] Post office

2012-07-14 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 09:44:17PM -0600, Felix Delattre wrote: You might be able to get post cards as well in the mall Metrocentro or the Hotel Intercontinental next to it. You can get these from Metrocentro in a shop near the upstairs of the supermarket, but they do cost USD$2 each. Neil

Re: python-weblib = python-pyweblib

2012-07-14 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 10:49:51PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: the python-weblib package in Debian has recently been taken over by me. The package has a long-standing mis-name bug, since it should be called python-pyweblib to be in alignment with the python policy. Would it be possible to do

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-14 Thread Neil McGovern
severity 658139 serious reassign 658139 evince tags 658139 + patch retitle 658139 missing mime entry On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 12:09:27AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: It does seem quite annoying. Have you considered asking the release team whether they would be inclined to agree that this bug

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 06:13:43PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: can we somehome make $subject a target for the *next* release? Hi, Please consider making this a release goal when we call for them after the release. Thanks, Neil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Coffee mug

2012-07-13 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 10:37:42PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: Is anyone able and willing to get a DebConf coffee mug and coffee for me? I will pay for them, unless you're feeling very generous! I can take delivery in Cambridge or at the Linux Foundation events in San Diego at the end of

Bug#651795: linux-3.1 is not supported by upstream

2012-07-11 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 04:26:17PM +0200, Patrick Winnertz wrote: this is not that bad than it sounds as lustre is a very very specific kind of software, which is rarely/not at all used by normal users. Hi, I don't think this is RC from a FTBFS point of view, but I'm not entirely sure about

Bug#680951: unblock: ace-of-penguins/1.3-9

2012-07-11 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 12:19:04PM +0300, Jari Aalto wrote: 2012-07-10 20:00 Neil McGovern ne...@debian.org: | Hi, | | On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:58:53PM +0300, Jari Aalto wrote: | | The Fix | |Add required font package to debian/control | | | | +Recommends: xfonts

[Pkg-lustre-maintainers] Bug#651795: linux-3.1 is not supported by upstream

2012-07-11 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 04:26:17PM +0200, Patrick Winnertz wrote: this is not that bad than it sounds as lustre is a very very specific kind of software, which is rarely/not at all used by normal users. Hi, I don't think this is RC from a FTBFS point of view, but I'm not entirely sure about

Bug#651795: linux-3.1 is not supported by upstream

2012-07-11 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 04:26:17PM +0200, Patrick Winnertz wrote: this is not that bad than it sounds as lustre is a very very specific kind of software, which is rarely/not at all used by normal users. Hi, I don't think this is RC from a FTBFS point of view, but I'm not entirely sure about

Bug#680951: unblock: ace-of-penguins/1.3-9

2012-07-11 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 12:19:04PM +0300, Jari Aalto wrote: 2012-07-10 20:00 Neil McGovern ne...@debian.org: | Hi, | | On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:58:53PM +0300, Jari Aalto wrote: | | The Fix | |Add required font package to debian/control | | | | +Recommends: xfonts

Bug#680951: unblock: ace-of-penguins/1.3-9

2012-07-10 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi, On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:58:53PM +0300, Jari Aalto wrote: | The Fix |Add required font package to debian/control::Depends | +Recommends: xfonts-100dpi + . + NOTE: If you experience problems with the F1 help key, please + make sure you have package xfonts-100dpi

Bug#680951: unblock: ace-of-penguins/1.3-9

2012-07-10 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi, On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:58:53PM +0300, Jari Aalto wrote: | The Fix |Add required font package to debian/control::Depends | +Recommends: xfonts-100dpi + . + NOTE: If you experience problems with the F1 help key, please + make sure you have package xfonts-100dpi

Re: CD sizes again (and BoF reminder!)

2012-07-09 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 04:22:58PM -0600, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Ansgar has been experimenting with .deb sizes to make the packages needed for a minimal desktop installation fit in the first CD. It looks like that's doable by switching to xz compression for the involved binaries. Would

Re: CD sizes again (and BoF reminder!)

2012-07-09 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 04:22:58PM -0600, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Ansgar has been experimenting with .deb sizes to make the packages needed for a minimal desktop installation fit in the first CD. It looks like that's doable by switching to xz compression for the involved binaries. Would

Re: Bug#679236: O: ckport -- portability analysis and security checking tool

2012-07-06 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 02:49:54PM +0200, Philipp Schafft wrote: PS: Release wasn't helpful in this case as well. They tell me they have no opinion and are not interested in getting this fixed for stable (was asking *before* freeze). I'm not mad on anyone of them personally, just I don't think

Re: Freeze exception request for zendframework 1.11.12-1

2012-07-06 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 02:21:29PM +0200, Frank Habermann wrote: 4303 files changed, 43422 insertions(+), 12755 deletions(-) Can you please provide a clean patch that we can review, preferably one that doesn't touch every single file. Additionally, do you know what

Re: Futur status of RoarAudio packages

2012-07-06 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 02:18:58PM +0200, Philipp Schafft wrote: I will file RM requests (also for unstable as I don't see how the situation could be resolved this way) as soon (still wating for the-me to be back from holidays). If there's no r-depends, and the package is removed from

Re: Freeze exception request for zendframework 1.11.12-1

2012-07-05 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 09:11:35PM +0200, Frank Habermann wrote: Dear release managers, I ask for a freeze exception request for zendframework version 1.11.12-1. This version fixes security bug #679215 and is the last minor bugfix version of zendframework 1.11. Hi, 4303 files

Bug#672210: songwrite: fixing RC bug would require new source package

2012-07-04 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 08:34:24AM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote: songwrite is currently orphaned and has an RC bug #672210. The problem is that the version of songwrite is much too old, in fact upstream has since october 2007 (!) moved from songwrite to songwrite2. IMHO, fixing #672210 would

Re: libggi removal

2012-07-04 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 11:09:04PM +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: I suggest we remove libggi from Wheezy. It's totally obsolete these days, dead upstream and RC-buggy since 1.5 years (608981). Removing it would involve the following packages: GGI-related and to be removed along, no

Re: songwrite: fixing RC bug would require new source package

2012-07-04 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 08:34:24AM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote: songwrite is currently orphaned and has an RC bug #672210. The problem is that the version of songwrite is much too old, in fact upstream has since october 2007 (!) moved from songwrite to songwrite2. IMHO, fixing #672210 would

Re: Bug#618314 closed by Debian FTP Masters ftpmas...@ftp-master.debian.org (Bug#659309: Removed package(s) from unstable)

2012-07-02 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi Toni, On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 12:43:50PM +0200, Toni Mueller wrote: [snip lots] This will at least prevent practical scim usage in Wheezy for any new installs. I therefore request that you re-think that course of action, and allow swift re-introduction of possibly stripped-down packages

Bug#650601: Re: Bug#650601: transition: libpng 1.5

2012-06-29 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 02:45:14PM +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote: 2012/6/27 Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org: On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 08:45:03 +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote: Hi, I am still correcting FTBFS. However, almost packages can shift to libpng 1.5. May I upload libpng

Bug#650601: Re: Bug#650601: transition: libpng 1.5

2012-06-29 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 02:45:14PM +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote: 2012/6/27 Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org: On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 08:45:03 +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote: Hi, I am still correcting FTBFS. However, almost packages can shift to libpng 1.5. May I upload libpng

Re: Bug#679235: RFA: animals -- Traditional AI animal guessing engine using a binary tree DB

2012-06-28 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 05:33:41PM +, The Fungi wrote: On 2012-06-27 11:11:12 -0600 (-0600), Holger Levsen wrote: what??? -v please. [...] Presumably a reference to http://bugs.debian.org/674634 . Given the timing, probably also due to my reply to the short thread starting at:

Re: Bits from the Release Team: Final countdown!

2012-06-27 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 12:02:28AM +0200, Vincent Danjean wrote: ocl-icd is small and the core code should not change a lot until OpenCL 1.3 or more appears. The core code of the version already in testing is very similar to the one waiting in NEW. In that case, hopefully it will be

Re: Futur status of RoarAudio packages

2012-06-27 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi, On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 09:06:12PM +0200, Philipp Schafft wrote: I have no preference either way, as long as the package complies with release policy, then it may be included in the release. Your answer isn't very helpfull to me as it is. So I have some questions: I think

Re: Pending freeze and packages pending upload

2012-06-27 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 01:21:30PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: Uploaded. There may be a point release with translation updates and potentially minor bugfixes at some point in the next month or so. Great, thanks. gutenprint 5.2.8 This is a point release with a large number of new printer

Re: On the (ab)use of the Urgency field

2012-06-26 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 12:08:53PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: As mentioned in the last mail we sent to d-d-a (and several at various points before that) if you have serious concerns that important updates to your package won't be included in the release, the correct approach is to talk to

Re: Bits from the Release Team: Final countdown!

2012-06-26 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 06:04:20PM +0200, Agustin Martin wrote: Will stuff already in the NEW queue not being really new packages (I mean things like source or binary package renames) be given some special consideration regarding the freeze? Hi, Anything in the NEW queue will not count

Re: Bits from the Release Team: Final countdown!

2012-06-25 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi, On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 11:05:26PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:16:07AM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: Hi, We know no-one likes reading long mails on d-d-a, so we'll keep this short: we'll be stopping automatic migrations of packages from unstable

Re: Next upload 2012-06-26 (dpkg 1.16.5)

2012-06-20 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 07:32:20AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: I'm planning to upload dpkg 1.16.5 to unstable on the 26th, to be able to finish cleaning up some pending changes I've locally and to give some time for the initial wave of translation updates once I've sent the call. Given that

Re: On the (ab)use of the Urgency field

2012-06-20 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 02:35:41AM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: It looks like my recent libassa upload fell afoul of this, but it does in fact fix a release critical bug in libassa 3.5.1-1. The -dev package is missing a dependency that makes building against the library impossible. The changelog

Re: warzone2100 wheezy

2012-06-20 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:09:02AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: Dear release team, warzone2100 3.1 beta 11 was released today and I would like it and future 3.1 versions to enter wheezy. 3.1 is the culmination of a year's work and brings some important improvements (like deterministic network

Re: Next upload 2012-06-26 (dpkg 1.16.5)

2012-06-20 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 07:32:20AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: I'm planning to upload dpkg 1.16.5 to unstable on the 26th, to be able to finish cleaning up some pending changes I've locally and to give some time for the initial wave of translation updates once I've sent the call. Given that

Re: Samba 3.6.6 due out July 2nd...

2012-06-20 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 08:00:50AM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: Still, Karolin Seeger, the Samba release manager, announce recently in the samba-technical mailign list tjhat the 3.6.6 release is due out for July 2nd. Hi, This would be too late for the freeze, which will be happening in

Re: sylpheed in wheezy

2012-06-20 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 08:58:43AM +0200, Ricardo Mones wrote: Dear Release Team, Sylpheed upstream has published a release plan for next Sylpheed stable version, 3.2 [0] and the release it's planned for next 29 June. If possible, I would like to have this version instead of current

Re: claws-mail and claws-mail-extra-plugins in wheezy

2012-06-20 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 09:04:29AM +0200, Ricardo Mones wrote: Claws Mail upstream has also set a release date for the next version [0], which will be on 27 June. Hi, That would be cutting it very fine. If you are happy to maintain the snapshot for the length of a stable release, I would

Re: GDM 3.4 in wheezy

2012-06-20 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 05:18:07PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: as already explained by Jordi, there’s one big remaining bit for GNOME in wheezy: GDM. Currently it is stuck at version 3.0 (mostly because I didn’t have enough time to work on it), and version 3.4 should be hopefully ready for

Bug#677961: fails to update calibration data on device

2012-06-18 Thread Neil McGovern
Package: colorhug-client Version: 0.1.9-2 Severity: grave Hi! Colourhug 0.1.9 has an issue with colorhug-ccmx where it fails to update the stored calibration data on the device. This leads to 'aperture closed' messages when attempting to calibrate. This has been fixed upstream at 0.1.10, see

Bug#677961: fails to update calibration data on device

2012-06-18 Thread Neil McGovern
Package: colorhug-client Version: 0.1.9-2 Severity: grave Hi! Colourhug 0.1.9 has an issue with colorhug-ccmx where it fails to update the stored calibration data on the device. This leads to 'aperture closed' messages when attempting to calibrate. This has been fixed upstream at 0.1.10, see

Re: Futur status of RoarAudio packages

2012-06-15 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi, On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:41:42PM +0200, Philipp Schafft wrote: I want to ask if the release team decided anything in this direction. Does the release team want a useful version of the package in wheezy? I'm not interested in any discussion but a plain offical statement from the

Re: General Resolution: Diversity statement results

2012-06-07 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 12:11:10PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: Michael Gilbert writes (Re: General Resolution: Diversity statement results): ... Why is it that devotee has moved to a private development model? This seems to be contrary to Debian's goal of maximal openness, and the

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