Re: node

2012-06-06 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 08:43:09AM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: I wanted to ensure that the TC knows that nodejs' maintainers could do this since they can not be forced to work on any Debian related task and if nobody else would step in to upload about twenty packages before the freeze, nodejs

Re: Re: Architecture qualification

2012-06-04 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 12:22:14AM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 16:18 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: From the one of the porters side, this would be a _very_ good solution indeed! If GNU/Hurd enters som kind of testing status, the number of users and contributors will

Re: Re: Architecture qualification

2012-06-04 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 12:22:14AM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 16:18 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: From the one of the porters side, this would be a _very_ good solution indeed! If GNU/Hurd enters som kind of testing status, the number of users and contributors will

Re: hurd-i386 qualification for Wheezy

2012-05-30 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 06:08:16PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On 19.05.2012 19:04, Adam D. Barratt wrote: I'm not sure we've ever released with an architecture which was in either broken or fucked, but hopefully someone will correct me if I'm mistaken on that. Anyone? :-) Opinions as

Re: hurd-i386 qualification for Wheezy

2012-05-30 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 06:08:16PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On 19.05.2012 19:04, Adam D. Barratt wrote: I'm not sure we've ever released with an architecture which was in either broken or fucked, but hopefully someone will correct me if I'm mistaken on that. Anyone? :-) Opinions as

Re: switching from exim to postfix

2012-05-08 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 03:13:48AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: Is this the right time to do it? No, we're about to freeze. I would try and dig out the discussion from last time, when we were about to freeze, but I'm not sure it's worth it. If you want to do this, then please look at it during

Re: Squeeze point release (6.0.5)

2012-04-27 Thread Neil McGovern
press says OK :) Neil On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 08:11:27PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: Hi, press@ / -live *gentle poke* fwiw, the BSP weekend (12/13th) is looking a likely candidate currently. On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 21:06 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: 6.0.5 is somewhat overdue now and

Re: Squeeze point release (6.0.5)

2012-04-27 Thread Neil McGovern
press says OK :) Neil On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 08:11:27PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: Hi, press@ / -live *gentle poke* fwiw, the BSP weekend (12/13th) is looking a likely candidate currently. On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 21:06 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: 6.0.5 is somewhat overdue now and

Re: Report from DSA Team Sprint in Oslo

2012-04-05 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 03:21:11PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 10:40 AM, dE . wrote: Maybe someone from the UK can provide a Raspberry PI. That probably wouldn't be useful. According to folks on IRC, the armhf buildds are i.MX53 QuickStart boards, they're quite a bit

Re: Report from DSA Team Sprint in Oslo

2012-04-05 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 09:19:50PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Neil McGovern ne...@debian.org writes: For reference, I'm in contact with the Raspberry Pi folk, who are keen to do things with Debian. If anyone wants hardware, drop me a mail! Are you in a position to press for hardware

Re: Gergely and Wouter: on the need of becoming a DPL

2012-03-14 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 02:50:59AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Is there any other policies that you disagree with, No. and would you be looking to change any of these as DPL? Not without first trying to achieve consensus. I'm slightly confused by my being copied in to your reply

Re: Finding sponsors for Debian

2012-03-13 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:13:38AM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: But I've learned that we need to communicate this a whole lot better. Ideas how ... would be best directed to debian-project :) Neil -- A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why is top posting bad? gpg key -

Re: Gergely and Wouter: on the need of becoming a DPL

2012-03-13 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 05:00:12PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Also, I think the CoC is wrong in making policy about who to send replies to. Some people actually prefer getting replies, while others don't. Since there's a header that nicely allows you to specify just that, I think a more

Re: Finding sponsors for Debian

2012-03-13 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:13:38AM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: But I've learned that we need to communicate this a whole lot better. Ideas how ... would be best directed to debian-project :) Neil -- A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why is top posting bad? gpg key -

Re: Planning for final lenny point release (5.0.10)

2012-02-21 Thread Neil McGovern
I'm not free on the 25th, 3rd (daytime) and 10th/11th will be sporadic. Others in press may be available :) Neil (Press hat) On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 09:11:46PM +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 21:36 +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: 25-26/2 - Steve's not available for CDs

Re: Planning for final lenny point release (5.0.10)

2012-02-21 Thread Neil McGovern
I'm not free on the 25th, 3rd (daytime) and 10th/11th will be sporadic. Others in press may be available :) Neil (Press hat) On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 09:11:46PM +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 21:36 +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: 25-26/2 - Steve's not available for CDs

Re: Release goal proposal: remove yada

2011-08-04 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 01:14:29PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: To get a fuller picture, what are the changes being made to each of the files in question and when/where are they being made? You mentioned earlier that cleaning the package would lead to changes being made - it sounds like the

Re: Upload of dtc-xen 0.5.13-1+squeeze1 in squeeze-proposed-updates

2011-08-04 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 12:22:58AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: Hi Adam, Are you a new member of the release team? If so, then I'm happy there are much needed new members! :) For reference, Adam as been one of the Release *Managers* for over a year now. Neil -- A. Because it breaks the

Bug#635874: Mailing list request template

2011-07-30 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi! Name: debian-sprints Rationale: The debian sprint work is being delegated out from the DPL role. Thus a mailing list is needed for coordination. Short description: Discussion and coordination for Sprints Long description: Discussion and coordination for Debian Sprints. Sprints allow sets

Bug#635874: lists.debian.org: Please create new list debian-sprints

2011-07-29 Thread Neil McGovern
Package: lists.debian.org Severity: normal Hi, As the debian sprint work is being delegated out from the DPL role, can you please create a debian-sprints mailing list. Thanks, Neil -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.1 APT prefers squeeze-updates APT policy: (500,

Bug#635875: lists.debian.org: Please create new mailing list debian-experimental-changes

2011-07-29 Thread Neil McGovern
Package: lists.debian.org Severity: normal Hi, As we (the release team) are trying to improve the visibility of experimental, could you please create a debian-experimental-changes mailing list? Thanks, Neil -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.1 APT prefers squeeze-updates APT

di/cd/release meetup at DebConf

2011-07-28 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi, I'd like to have a sit down with relevant people to work out how we can improve d-i and debian-cd handling for the next release. Please indicate your availability at: http://www.doodle.com/x2kit5h9zurfk6ss Thanks, Neil -- vorlon We need a fresher website - WordPress is the perfect

Re: di/cd/release meetup at DebConf

2011-07-28 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:16:59AM +0200, Neil McGovern wrote: I'd like to have a sit down with relevant people to work out how we can improve d-i and debian-cd handling for the next release. Please indicate your availability at: http://www.doodle.com/x2kit5h9zurfk6ss To confirm

Re: di/cd/release meetup at DebConf

2011-07-28 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 01:08:51PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: * Neil McGovern (ne...@debian.org) [110728 12:32]: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:16:59AM +0200, Neil McGovern wrote: I'd like to have a sit down with relevant people to work out how we can improve d-i and debian-cd handling

di/cd/release meetup at DebConf

2011-07-28 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi, I'd like to have a sit down with relevant people to work out how we can improve d-i and debian-cd handling for the next release. Please indicate your availability at: http://www.doodle.com/x2kit5h9zurfk6ss Thanks, Neil -- vorlon We need a fresher website - WordPress is the perfect

Re: di/cd/release meetup at DebConf

2011-07-28 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:16:59AM +0200, Neil McGovern wrote: I'd like to have a sit down with relevant people to work out how we can improve d-i and debian-cd handling for the next release. Please indicate your availability at: http://www.doodle.com/x2kit5h9zurfk6ss To confirm

Re: di/cd/release meetup at DebConf

2011-07-28 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 01:08:51PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: * Neil McGovern (ne...@debian.org) [110728 12:32]: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:16:59AM +0200, Neil McGovern wrote: I'd like to have a sit down with relevant people to work out how we can improve d-i and debian-cd handling

di/cd/release meetup at DebConf

2011-07-28 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi, I'd like to have a sit down with relevant people to work out how we can improve d-i and debian-cd handling for the next release. Please indicate your availability at: http://www.doodle.com/x2kit5h9zurfk6ss Thanks, Neil -- vorlon We need a fresher website - WordPress is the perfect

Re: di/cd/release meetup at DebConf

2011-07-28 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:16:59AM +0200, Neil McGovern wrote: I'd like to have a sit down with relevant people to work out how we can improve d-i and debian-cd handling for the next release. Please indicate your availability at: http://www.doodle.com/x2kit5h9zurfk6ss To confirm

Re: [Debconf-discuss] SVG presentations: jessyink

2011-07-26 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 04:53:32PM +0800, Kan-Ru Chen wrote: Tom Marble tmar...@info9.net writes: To create a FaiF SVG presentation (like Maulkin's) please see: https://code.google.com/p/jessyink/ I found two alternatives: - http://sozi.baierouge.fr/wiki/en:welcome -

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:54:16AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Moritz Mühlenhoff j...@inutil.org writes: There're other blockers beside systemd to KFreeBSD being a full Debian port, e.g. the lack of KMS in Xorg. Even the guy who gave a talk von FreeBSD at last year's DebConf didn't use

Ask the Leader - QA session for the DPL at Debconf

2011-07-17 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi all, One of the events at DebConf that I'm running is a 'Ask the Leader' session. This is a town hall meeting event, where you have the opportunity to ask the DPL anything you want! To make sure we have enough questions on a broad range of topics, I'd like to get some prepared questions

[Debconf-discuss] Ask the Leader - QA session for the DPL at Debconf

2011-07-17 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi all, One of the events at DebConf that I'm running is a 'Ask the Leader' session. This is a town hall meeting event, where you have the opportunity to ask the DPL anything you want! To make sure we have enough questions on a broad range of topics, I'd like to get some prepared questions

Re: test

2011-07-10 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 01:23:51PM +, Camaleón wrote: May I also ask if the idea of a 2-year fixed cycle freeze is still in place (is valid) or has been reviewed and then discarded? The current plan is that we will try the fixed release date for the coming release, and see how it goes.

Re: test

2011-07-07 Thread Neil McGovern
acknowledge it may be useful to provide a confirmation. Thus, you can take this as confirmation that there is no current plan to support 5.0 to 7.0 upgrades, unless we release by February 2012. As we are due to freeze in June 2012, I don't believe that this will occur. Thanks, Neil McGovern Debian

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-22 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:51:02AM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: Sprint -- We feel it would be useful for the Release Team as a whole to get together to think about what the plans are for the next release. As such, we're planning a sprint to meet in person. Details will follow once diaries

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-22 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:51:02AM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: Sprint -- We feel it would be useful for the Release Team as a whole to get together to think about what the plans are for the next release. As such, we're planning a sprint to meet in person. Details will follow once diaries

Bug#625449: Permanent BSP patch

2011-05-04 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 06:57:13AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Tue, May 03, 2011 at 09:22:46PM +0100, Neil McGovern a écrit : Yes. If a maintainer is taking more that for a *RC* bug fix, then they *should* keep the buglog updated with status. Talking about the GCC 4.6 “*RC bugs*”, I

Bug#625449: Permanent BSP patch

2011-05-04 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 08:58:57AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On 03/05/11 at 15:38 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: I agree that the resulting wording of patch is suboptimal, and that recommending 0-day NMUs is not the way to go. We are rarely in need for action in less than a couple of days

Bug#625449: Permanent BSP patch

2011-05-04 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 12:31:20PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Didier Raboud o...@debian.org (04/05/2011): The proposed wording doesn't imply this IMHO; I read it as if you can't find an action from the maintainer on the buglog in the last 7 days, you can 0-day NMU. What we want is

Bug#625449: Permanent BSP patch

2011-05-04 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 03:14:05PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: I think that if you want to change the NMU procedures described in dev-ref, you should at least discuss the proposals in a similar forum than the one where the current recommendations were discussed, i.e debian-devel@ or

Bug#625449: Permanent BSP patch

2011-05-04 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 08:58:57AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On 03/05/11 at 15:38 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: I agree that the resulting wording of patch is suboptimal, and that recommending 0-day NMUs is not the way to go. We are rarely in need for action in less than a couple of days

Bug#625449: Permanent BSP patch

2011-05-04 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 03:14:05PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: I think that if you want to change the NMU procedures described in dev-ref, you should at least discuss the proposals in a similar forum than the one where the current recommendations were discussed, i.e debian-devel@ or

Bug#625449: Permanent BSP patch

2011-05-03 Thread Neil McGovern
Package: developers-reference Tags: patch Hi, As announced in the recent mail[0], please find attached a patch to dev-ref changing the NMU policy. Thanks, Neil [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/03/msg00016.html -- weasel dpkg: shut up dpkg No, I won't, and you can't make

Bug#625449: Permanent BSP patch

2011-05-03 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 03:11:07PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: * Neil McGovern ne...@debian.org, 2011-05-03, 13:25: +Upload fixing only release-critical bugs older than 7 days, without maintainer activity for 7 days: 0 days +/para +/listitem +listitem +para Oh dear, please don't. I

Bug#625449: Permanent BSP patch

2011-05-03 Thread Neil McGovern
Package: developers-reference Tags: patch Hi, As announced in the recent mail[0], please find attached a patch to dev-ref changing the NMU policy. Thanks, Neil [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/03/msg00016.html -- weasel dpkg: shut up dpkg No, I won't, and you can't make

Bug#625449: Permanent BSP patch

2011-05-03 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 03:11:07PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: * Neil McGovern ne...@debian.org, 2011-05-03, 13:25: +Upload fixing only release-critical bugs older than 7 days, without maintainer activity for 7 days: 0 days +/para +/listitem +listitem +para Oh dear, please don't. I

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-30 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 08:50:39PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: 2/ The discussion is also about better supporting testing using t-p-u more extensively to bring important fixes (or important new upstream versions) that are blocked in unstable. It would be unreasonable to ask Debian developers

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-30 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 12:27:10AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Why would it be the release team's responsibility to cherry-pick from anywhere? It is the maintainer's responsibility to prepare packages that are suitable for the next stable release. I don't see why this would change. Hi

Re: sh4 architecture into Wheezy

2011-04-26 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:58:24PM +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote: We don't have faster hardware. We think of a too slow thing in a question A test of gcc of sh4 takes time. When there is not a test, a package is done in about two days. How does sh4 become targeted for the release

Re: sh4 architecture into Wheezy

2011-04-26 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:58:24PM +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote: We don't have faster hardware. We think of a too slow thing in a question A test of gcc of sh4 takes time. When there is not a test, a package is done in about two days. How does sh4 become targeted for the release

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-09 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:51:02AM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: Retrospective - The first thing we would like to do is to consider how the previous release went. We'd like to know what went well, what went badly, and what to improve for the next release. Once again, we will use

Re: time based freezes

2011-04-05 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 12:12:09PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: On Monday, April 04, 2011 12:05:09 PM Neil McGovern wrote: On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 08:38:18AM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: One thing that the release team already is improving is communication, [snip] The other thing

Re: time based freezes

2011-04-04 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 08:38:18AM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: One thing that the release team already is improving is communication, [snip] The other thing that has potential to be improved is the freezing. [snip] I also note a lack of replies to feedb...@release.debian.org - these mails are

Re: sh4 architecture into Wheezy

2011-04-03 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 08:02:18AM +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote: The package which time needs most is GCC. GCC takes about 6 days. Ouch! That doesn't sound supportable to be honest. Do you have faster hardware? Neil -- Tolimar So we can expect stockholm to be elected in 2009? Ganneff isnt

Bug#604680: Reproducible with all vte terminals?

2011-03-10 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:27:44AM +, brian m. carlson wrote: I see the problem described in 604680 (or what I think is the same problem) in all terminals using libvte9, and consequently, I filed bug 616392 there. Could you try with evilvte or some other vte-based terminal and see if it's

Bug#76685: Confirmation of problem in xorg 7.1.0

2011-03-06 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 11:35:15PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Hi, Neil McGovern ne...@debian.org (14/12/2006): This bug still exists in the latest version of Xorg. Setting depth to 8 alleviates this, but nothing higher will work. just checking… what's the status with squeeze

Bug#76685: Confirmation of problem in xorg 7.1.0

2011-03-06 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 11:35:15PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Hi, Neil McGovern ne...@debian.org (14/12/2006): This bug still exists in the latest version of Xorg. Setting depth to 8 alleviates this, but nothing higher will work. just checking… what's the status with squeeze

Bug#608744: unblock: mercurial-server/1.1-1

2011-01-24 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 02:58:41PM +0200, Teodor MICU wrote: 2011/1/3 Mehdi Dogguy me...@dogguy.org: On 01/03/2011 11:31 AM, Teodor wrote: Please unblock package mercurial-server. The two RC bugs for this package were fixed so it should get back for inclussion in Debian 6.0 (squeeze).

Bug#608744: unblock: mercurial-server/1.1-1

2011-01-24 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 02:58:41PM +0200, Teodor MICU wrote: 2011/1/3 Mehdi Dogguy me...@dogguy.org: On 01/03/2011 11:31 AM, Teodor wrote: Please unblock package mercurial-server. The two RC bugs for this package were fixed so it should get back for inclussion in Debian 6.0 (squeeze).

Re: please migrate mhonarc package to testing

2011-01-24 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 10:45:58AM -0800, Jeff Breidenbach wrote: On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Jeff Breidenbach j...@jab.org wrote: diffstat: 61 files changed, 1502 insertions(+), 657 deletions(-) Is all of that necessary to fix the security issues? No. However, I do not have the

Bug#598135: Severity

2010-12-01 Thread Neil McGovern
Hia, I'm currently wondering why #598135 is RC. Would someone care to explain what I'm missing? :) Thanks, Neil -- [local irc server has just been brought up] godog suddenly there's quite some silence in the hacklab -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Bug#598135: Severity

2010-12-01 Thread Neil McGovern
Hia, I'm currently wondering why #598135 is RC. Would someone care to explain what I'm missing? :) Thanks, Neil -- [local irc server has just been brought up] godog suddenly there's quite some silence in the hacklab -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Severity

2010-12-01 Thread Neil McGovern
Hia, I'm currently wondering why #598135 is RC. Would someone care to explain what I'm missing? :) Thanks, Neil -- [local irc server has just been brought up] godog suddenly there's quite some silence in the hacklab -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Bug#605238: future unblock: wmanager/0.2.1-9

2010-11-28 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi Peter, thanks for getting in touch On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 02:13:56PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock Thanks for your efforts towards great Debian releases! I've made some changes

Bug#605238: future unblock: wmanager/0.2.1-9

2010-11-28 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi Peter, thanks for getting in touch On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 02:13:56PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock Thanks for your efforts towards great Debian releases! I've made some changes

Bug#604680: gnome-terminal: Corruption from text

2010-11-24 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 05:00:00PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mardi 23 novembre 2010 à 13:15 +, Neil McGovern a écrit : It seems that since the last testing update there's occasionally some nasty corruption appearing with text in gnome-terminal. I haven't noticed this on other

Bug#566650: Bug #566650: Please unblock dtc 0.32.2-1

2010-11-08 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 10:47:54PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: As it stands, it's unreasonable to even try working on the 0.30.x branch for Squeeze, given the short amount of time remaining. I feel very sad about it, but as there's no way to convince the RT that the 0.32.x branch is in a very

Bug#566650: Bug #566650: Please unblock dtc 0.32.2-1

2010-11-08 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 10:47:54PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: As it stands, it's unreasonable to even try working on the 0.30.x branch for Squeeze, given the short amount of time remaining. I feel very sad about it, but as there's no way to convince the RT that the 0.32.x branch is in a very

Re: Bug #566650: Please unblock dtc 0.32.2-1

2010-11-08 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 10:47:54PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: As it stands, it's unreasonable to even try working on the 0.30.x branch for Squeeze, given the short amount of time remaining. I feel very sad about it, but as there's no way to convince the RT that the 0.32.x branch is in a very

Re: Please unblock virtualbox-ose

2010-10-26 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 11:35:03AM +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: Neil, On Mon Oct 25, 2010 at 09:49:00 +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: 3) Remove the package from squeeze did you had a look at it's r-depends? Removing is not an option. I should have probably made it more clear, those

Re: Please unblock virtualbox-ose

2010-10-25 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi Michael, thanks for getting in touch. On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 01:40:50PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: The only part of your email that I do not agree with is the part about removing. Yes, it's not easily possible, but I don't understand why this is even considered. Just on this point,

Re: Please unblock virtualbox-ose

2010-10-25 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi Bernd, On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 09:30:50AM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: Give it more time for testing in unstable then. That's one of the things that's being considered, if you'd carefully read the thread. Virtualbox is important enough to have the latest version of it in the next release.

Bug#566650: Bug #566650: Please unblock dtc 0.32.2-1

2010-10-20 Thread Neil McGovern
in Cambridge with 9 other DDs, I feel alone here in Shanghai (lucky, Li Daobing lives here now)! :) Neil McGovern wrote: Hi Thomas, Firstly, please accept my apologies for the lack of reply to your mail. As you can probably appreciate, there's a lot of work that the release team have to do

Bug#566650: Bug #566650: Please unblock dtc 0.32.2-1

2010-10-20 Thread Neil McGovern
in Cambridge with 9 other DDs, I feel alone here in Shanghai (lucky, Li Daobing lives here now)! :) Neil McGovern wrote: Hi Thomas, Firstly, please accept my apologies for the lack of reply to your mail. As you can probably appreciate, there's a lot of work that the release team have to do

Re: Bug #566650: Please unblock dtc 0.32.2-1

2010-10-20 Thread Neil McGovern
in Cambridge with 9 other DDs, I feel alone here in Shanghai (lucky, Li Daobing lives here now)! :) Neil McGovern wrote: Hi Thomas, Firstly, please accept my apologies for the lack of reply to your mail. As you can probably appreciate, there's a lot of work that the release team have to do

Re: Bug #566650: Please unblock dtc 0.32.2-1

2010-10-15 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 09:25:52PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: Thomas Goirand wrote: Can we move forward and discuss what should be done now, rather than discussing the past? Thomas It's been more than 10 days, and I still have no answer to what I will be allowed to change/fix. Each

Re: Freeze exception for roxterm 1.18.5-3

2010-10-12 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 03:30:03PM +0100, Tony Houghton wrote: Hi, Please could a freeze exception be made for roxterm 1.18.5-3 which fixes bug 598971. Although there are no reported symptoms in Debian the faulty code contributed to quite a serious problem in Ubuntu ie a terminal emulator

Second Call for Votes - GR: Debian project members

2010-10-10 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi, This is a second call for votes for GR: Debian project members The timeline is: Voting period starts 00:00:01 UTC on Tuesday, 5th Oct 2010 Votes must be received by 23:59:59 UTC on Monday, 18th Oct 2010 The following ballot is for voting on a General Resolution on Project's

Re: Three common voting errors - how to avoid them

2010-10-06 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 03:25:58PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Neil McGovern n...@halon.org.uk writes: Yes, it would. And so would expecting people to read the mail. Given that there were a number (28?) sent before voting peoriod started, I'm not convinced that people will actually do

Three common voting errors - how to avoid them

2010-10-05 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 08:47:49PM +0100, Debian Project Secretary - Neil McGovern wrote: In the brackets next to your preferred choice, place a 1. Place a 2 in the brackets next to your next choice. You may rank options equally (as long as all choices X you make are 1 or 2). Please make

Re: Three common voting errors - how to avoid them

2010-10-05 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 07:20:14PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: On 10/05/2010 02:34 PM, Neil McGovern wrote: Then mail the ballot to: gr_nonpackag...@vote.debian.org. This means it shouldn't be sent to secret...@debian.org. I'm re-attaching the ballot below, with a Reply-To set

Three common voting errors - how to avoid them

2010-10-05 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 08:47:49PM +0100, Debian Project Secretary - Neil McGovern wrote: In the brackets next to your preferred choice, place a 1. Place a 2 in the brackets next to your next choice. You may rank options equally (as long as all choices X you make are 1 or 2). Please make

Release Team meeting minutes (and release update)

2010-10-05 Thread Neil McGovern
Hello, As previously announced[RT:PM], the Debian Release Team held a meeting on 2 and 3 Oct, 2010 in Paris, France. The meeting was kindly sponsored by IRILL[RT:PMS]. The attendees were Adam D. Barratt (adsb), Luk Claes (luk), Julien Cristau (jcristau), Mehdi Dogguy (mehdi), Philipp Kern (pkern)

Release Team meeting minutes (and release update)

2010-10-05 Thread Neil McGovern
Hello, As previously announced[RT:PM], the Debian Release Team held a meeting on 2 and 3 Oct, 2010 in Paris, France. The meeting was kindly sponsored by IRILL[RT:PMS]. The attendees were Adam D. Barratt (adsb), Luk Claes (luk), Julien Cristau (jcristau), Mehdi Dogguy (mehdi), Philipp Kern (pkern)

Call for Votes - GR: Debian project members

2010-10-04 Thread Debian Project Secretary - Neil McGovern
Voting period starts 00:00:01 UTC on Tuesday, 5th Oct 2010 Votes must be received by 23:59:59 UTC on Monday, 18th Oct 2010 The following ballot is for voting on a General Resolution on Project's membership procedures. The vote is being conducted in accordance with the policy

Re: unblock request for sisu 2.6.3-6 (documentation reliability fixes for Squeeze)

2010-09-25 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 06:42:18PM -0400, Ralph Amissah wrote: unblock request for sisu 2.6.3-6 (documentation reliability fixes for Squeeze) Unblocked. Neil -- A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why is top posting bad? gpg key - http://www.halon.org.uk/pubkey.txt ;

Re: Dropping the .0 on release numbers?

2010-09-15 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 04:22:43PM +0100, Matthew Johnson wrote: On Tue Sep 14 12:25, Gunnar Wolf wrote: We have carried a major.minor scheme as a release numbering scheme since the Early Days, but it has lost relevance basically since Sarge (3.1 - But by the time it was finally released,

Bug#509287: squeeze-ignore for Bug #509287?

2010-09-14 Thread Neil McGovern
This mail should be sent to the debian-release mailing list, copying in. On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:32:57AM +0200, Erik Schanze wrote: please let me kindly ask for setting squeeze-ignore tag for serious Bug #509287. Afio has a problematic license, but in my opinion it should not block the

Bug#591862: maxima 'serious' bug fix missed freeze

2010-09-14 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 12:54:57PM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: Hi! On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 12:36:41PM -0400, Camm Maguire wrote: Greetings! I uploaded a fix for 591862 together with a minor upstream point release that just missed the freeze. Would it be possible to permit the fixed

Bug#509287: squeeze-ignore for Bug #509287?

2010-09-14 Thread Neil McGovern
This mail should be sent to the debian-release mailing list, copying in. On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:32:57AM +0200, Erik Schanze wrote: please let me kindly ask for setting squeeze-ignore tag for serious Bug #509287. Afio has a problematic license, but in my opinion it should not block the

Bug#591862: maxima 'serious' bug fix missed freeze

2010-09-14 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 12:54:57PM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: Hi! On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 12:36:41PM -0400, Camm Maguire wrote: Greetings! I uploaded a fix for 591862 together with a minor upstream point release that just missed the freeze. Would it be possible to permit the fixed

Re: squeeze-ignore for Bug #509287?

2010-09-14 Thread Neil McGovern
This mail should be sent to the debian-release mailing list, copying in. On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:32:57AM +0200, Erik Schanze wrote: please let me kindly ask for setting squeeze-ignore tag for serious Bug #509287. Afio has a problematic license, but in my opinion it should not block the

Re: maxima 'serious' bug fix missed freeze

2010-09-14 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 12:54:57PM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: Hi! On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 12:36:41PM -0400, Camm Maguire wrote: Greetings! I uploaded a fix for 591862 together with a minor upstream point release that just missed the freeze. Would it be possible to permit the fixed

Re: Python 3 support in Squeeze

2010-09-09 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 11:25:30AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: Sometimes 2to3 will find a place in your source code that needs to be changed, but 2to3 cannot fix automatically. In this case, 2to3 will print a warning beneath the diff for a file. You should address the warning in order to have

Re: Python 3 support in Squeeze

2010-09-09 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 05:53:59PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 03:54:56PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 11:25:30AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: Sometimes 2to3 will find a place in your source code that needs to be changed, but 2to3 cannot

Re: Python 3 support in Squeeze

2010-09-09 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 06:43:42PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: The upstream policy for the python branches is to fix documentation and bugs, not to introduce new features or change semantics of existing features. lib2to3 does evolve in in the py3k branch only. Plus, the 2.6 now only sees

Re: Python 3 support in Squeeze

2010-09-08 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 10:54:45PM +0200, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: [Adam D. Barratt, 2010-09-06] So upstream have verified the result of 2to3 on their software? yes On a related note, will the build system allow for the result of 2to3 to be easily overridden? For example, if whilst

Bug#562945: runinit-run, releaseability thereof

2010-08-31 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 03:07:59PM +, Gerrit Pape wrote: On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 05:07:22PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:54:12PM -0400, Don Armstrong wrote: Release team: if you think this bug makes runit-run unreleaseable, please indicate as such; otherwise

Bug#562945: runinit-run, releaseability thereof

2010-08-31 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 03:07:59PM +, Gerrit Pape wrote: On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 05:07:22PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:54:12PM -0400, Don Armstrong wrote: Release team: if you think this bug makes runit-run unreleaseable, please indicate as such; otherwise

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