Re: Debian development and release: always releasable (essay)

2013-05-16 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:29:11AM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: Some upstreams have a testing branch of there software and a release branch. It's sometimes useful to have people test the version in from the testing branch, and having it available in Debian makes it easier for people to test it.

Re: Wheezy point release planning

2013-05-14 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi, On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 12:01:38PM +0200, Francesca Ciceri wrote: Hi, On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 07:56:51PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: Hi, Based on some informal queries a little while ago, the weekend of 15/16 June looks like a good date for the first wheezy point release. Would

Re: Wheezy point release planning

2013-05-14 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi, On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 12:01:38PM +0200, Francesca Ciceri wrote: Hi, On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 07:56:51PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: Hi, Based on some informal queries a little while ago, the weekend of 15/16 June looks like a good date for the first wheezy point release. Would

Re: Wheezy point release planning

2013-05-14 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi, On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 12:01:38PM +0200, Francesca Ciceri wrote: Hi, On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 07:56:51PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: Hi, Based on some informal queries a little while ago, the weekend of 15/16 June looks like a good date for the first wheezy point release. Would

Re: Hurd and the archive

2013-05-08 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 01:07:42AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Neil McGovern, le Tue 07 May 2013 11:14:01 +0100, a écrit : On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 10:27:54PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: We have not worked too much on the hardware support in the past months, so it is basically network

Re: Hurd and the archive

2013-05-08 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 04:33:03PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Neil McGovern, le Wed 08 May 2013 11:35:52 +0100, a écrit : But not tested - how about USB - did that ever get sorted? We have not worked on it. How about things like wireless drivers, raid controllers, suspend/resume

Re: Hurd and the archive

2013-05-08 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 01:07:42AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Neil McGovern, le Tue 07 May 2013 11:14:01 +0100, a écrit : On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 10:27:54PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: We have not worked too much on the hardware support in the past months, so it is basically network

Re: Hurd and the archive

2013-05-08 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 04:33:03PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Neil McGovern, le Wed 08 May 2013 11:35:52 +0100, a écrit : But not tested - how about USB - did that ever get sorted? We have not worked on it. How about things like wireless drivers, raid controllers, suspend/resume

Re: Hurd and the archive

2013-05-07 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 10:27:54PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: We have not worked too much on the hardware support in the past months, so it is basically network board drivers from linux 2.6.32, and IDE disk support. I for instance installed it on my Dell D430, and network just works fine.

Re: Hurd and the archive

2013-05-07 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 10:27:54PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: We have not worked too much on the hardware support in the past months, so it is basically network board drivers from linux 2.6.32, and IDE disk support. I for instance installed it on my Dell D430, and network just works fine.

Re: Hurd and the archive

2013-05-06 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 05:07:13PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: So, release people: How likely is it that Hurd gets added to jessie? Within the next one or two months I mean, not maybe in a years time. :) I don't see it happening, to be honest. Neil -- signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Hurd and the archive

2013-05-06 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 05:15:44PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: Percentage built, percentage up to date, and (as far as I know) a working port and installer for a modern desktop machine? Um, having read back the above, it may have sounded a bit more curt than I was expecting, apologies! Those

Re: Hurd and the archive

2013-05-06 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 09:36:55AM -0400, Barry deFreese wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- OK, I have been significantly out of the loop for a while now but what do you base that on? What requirements are we still falling short on? Percentage built, percentage up to date, and (as

Re: Hurd and the archive

2013-05-06 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 05:07:13PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: So, release people: How likely is it that Hurd gets added to jessie? Within the next one or two months I mean, not maybe in a years time. :) I don't see it happening, to be honest. Neil -- signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: [Debconf-team] LCFC: Opening Registration for DC13

2013-05-02 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 06:39:53PM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: I'm hereby CC'ing pr...@debian.org. We'll have debian-devel-announce, debconf- announce, debian-news and debian-events-eu as targets for this announcement, reply-to set to debconf-discuss. So press@: what is needed from the

Re: alternative debian/rules

2013-04-24 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 04:25:42PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: * Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi, 2013-04-22, 13:22: Thorsten, you should have kept your custom debian/rules. If it prevented incompetent developers from NMUing the package, then all good for you and for Debian. Was there

Re: alternative debian/rules

2013-04-24 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 11:19:48PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 04/24/2013 10:39 PM, Neil McGovern wrote: I'm sorry, but can I just clarify: do you think that it's an advantage that your custom debian/rules prevents others from understanding your package? I don't think anyone ever

Re: alternative debian/rules

2013-04-24 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 01:25:00AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 04/25/2013 12:10 AM, Neil McGovern wrote: If you're deliberately obfuscating debian/rules when there's no or very little advantage, then you shouldn't be producing the package. I'm not the one claiming that using echo and cat

Re: Derivatives, MongoDB and freezes

2013-04-23 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:58:33PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: But for new packages, where Canonical is striking out on its own to deliver significant new functionality and the folks working on these packages are not DDs, there's a clear pragmatic

Bug#705356: unblock: netbase/5.1

2013-04-16 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi Marco, On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 04:14:13AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: Yes, but they are all trivial changes. [...] OK, I suck as a maintainer and as a human being and I neglected my packages for most of the last year. But I'd rather move on and fix what can still be fixed. [...] Why?

Re: leader2013

2013-04-16 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 07:09:50PM +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: Assuming Debian keyring refers to the package debian-keyring (which should be a reasonable safe assumption, right?) This assumption is incorrect: the Debian keyring is defined by devotee for the leader2013 vote as: cat

Bug#705356: unblock: netbase/5.1

2013-04-16 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi Marco, On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 04:14:13AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: Yes, but they are all trivial changes. [...] OK, I suck as a maintainer and as a human being and I neglected my packages for most of the last year. But I'd rather move on and fix what can still be fixed. [...] Why?

Re: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R

2013-04-15 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 04:22:14PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: So, transitions could be avoided in a social way. No need for a freeze. Let's see how well that works - look at the very first message in this thread. Neil -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#704595: New upstream version (1.20)

2013-04-03 Thread Neil McGovern
Package: enigma Severity: wishlist Hi, Looks like Enigma 1.20 has been released! Could the package be updated (probably after the freeze)? Thanks, Neil -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign

Re: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R

2013-04-01 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 02:38:51PM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote: It is not. You can't reasonably install things from experimental rather than unstable by default, nor is there a flag for this really should be in unstable if not for badly managed release I'm getting rather annoyed by this

Re: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R

2013-04-01 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 05:48:13PM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote: Neil McGovern wrote: On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 02:38:51PM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote: It is unreasonable to tell the users and upstreams that Debian is going to keep users on a known inferior version by default for a long time

Bug#698117: unblock: rebuildd/0.4.2

2013-03-19 Thread Neil McGovern
tags 698117 moreinfo user debian-rele...@packages.debian.org usertags 671635 wheezy-will-remove thanks On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 02:51:36PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: The time spent by the RM and the maintainer to prepare and accept the tpu upload is higher than adding a simple unblock

Bug#678979: request freeze exception for slony1-2

2013-03-19 Thread Neil McGovern
user debian-rele...@packages.debian.org usertags 678979 wheezy-will-remove thanks On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 12:44:15PM -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote: On Sat, 2013-03-16 at 11:38 +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Sun, 2012-10-07 at 14:30 +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: On 21/09/2012 04:58, Peter

Bug#678979: request freeze exception for slony1-2

2013-03-19 Thread Neil McGovern
user debian-rele...@packages.debian.org usertags 678979 wheezy-will-remove thanks On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 12:44:15PM -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote: On Sat, 2013-03-16 at 11:38 +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Sun, 2012-10-07 at 14:30 +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: On 21/09/2012 04:58, Peter

Bug#698117: unblock: rebuildd/0.4.2

2013-03-19 Thread Neil McGovern
tags 698117 moreinfo user debian-rele...@packages.debian.org usertags 671635 wheezy-will-remove thanks On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 02:51:36PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: The time spent by the RM and the maintainer to prepare and accept the tpu upload is higher than adding a simple unblock

Re: Bug#678979: request freeze exception for slony1-2

2013-03-19 Thread Neil McGovern
user debian-rele...@packages.debian.org usertags 678979 wheezy-will-remove thanks On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 12:44:15PM -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote: On Sat, 2013-03-16 at 11:38 +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Sun, 2012-10-07 at 14:30 +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: On 21/09/2012 04:58, Peter

Re: Debian's relationship with money and the economy

2013-03-15 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 08:13:02PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: I think I would generally be fine about an informational message in Debian Project News about an fundraising campaign for something that clearly benefits Debian. Btw, in the specific example of your book, have you considered

Re: Debian Project Leader Elections 2013: Call for nominations

2013-03-07 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 11:02:06AM +, Moray Allan wrote: I nominate myself as a prospective DPL for the 2013 election. Thanks, received and is a valid nomination. Neil (as Assistant Secretary) signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian Project Leader Elections 2013: Call for nominations

2013-03-07 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 09:44:32AM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: Debian Project Secretary - Kurt Roeckx secret...@debian.org writes: Please make sure that nominations are sent to (or cc:'d to) debian-vote, and are cryptographically signed. *clears throat* I hereby nominate myself as a

Re: Bug#688772: [CTTE #688772] Dependency of meta-gnome on network-manager

2013-02-27 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 06:50:51PM -0500, Chris Knadle wrote: Instead the next suggestion was documenting this issue in the Wheey errata [2], but I don't see network- manager or wicd mentioned there, nor mentioned in the Installation Guide [3] for Wheezy. I'm guessing that's because no one

Re: Bug#688772: [CTTE #688772] Dependency of meta-gnome on network-manager

2013-02-27 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 01:39:44PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: On 27.02.2013 00:50, Chris Knadle wrote: When this was brought up in the bug report, the response was network-manager can be installed, then disabled, but how to do that wasn't documented anywhere in the network-manager

Bug#688772: [CTTE #688772] Dependency of meta-gnome on network-manager

2013-02-27 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 06:50:51PM -0500, Chris Knadle wrote: Instead the next suggestion was documenting this issue in the Wheey errata [2], but I don't see network- manager or wicd mentioned there, nor mentioned in the Installation Guide [3] for Wheezy. I'm guessing that's because no one

Bug#688772: [CTTE #688772] Dependency of meta-gnome on network-manager

2013-02-27 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 01:39:44PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: On 27.02.2013 00:50, Chris Knadle wrote: When this was brought up in the bug report, the response was network-manager can be installed, then disabled, but how to do that wasn't documented anywhere in the network-manager

Bug#688772: [CTTE #688772] Dependency of meta-gnome on network-manager

2013-02-27 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 06:50:51PM -0500, Chris Knadle wrote: Instead the next suggestion was documenting this issue in the Wheey errata [2], but I don't see network- manager or wicd mentioned there, nor mentioned in the Installation Guide [3] for Wheezy. I'm guessing that's because no one

Bug#688772: [CTTE #688772] Dependency of meta-gnome on network-manager

2013-02-27 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 01:39:44PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: On 27.02.2013 00:50, Chris Knadle wrote: When this was brought up in the bug report, the response was network-manager can be installed, then disabled, but how to do that wasn't documented anywhere in the network-manager

Bug#609736: please readd MAKEDEV calls to init.d.functions

2013-02-18 Thread Neil McGovern
may lack the knowledge how to correctly create init scripts.) For clarity - considering this used to work without having the above, I consider this to be a release critical issue for Wheezy. Thus, it needs fixing somehow or isdnutils will be removed from the release. Neil McGovern Release

Bug#698556: Bug#609736: please readd MAKEDEV calls to init.d.functions

2013-02-18 Thread Neil McGovern
may lack the knowledge how to correctly create init scripts.) For clarity - considering this used to work without having the above, I consider this to be a release critical issue for Wheezy. Thus, it needs fixing somehow or isdnutils will be removed from the release. Neil McGovern Release

Bug#657281: src/java/org/apache/fop/pdf/ sRGB Color Space Profile.icm is non-free [was: Re: Bug#657281: Any news on this?]

2013-01-26 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:42:14AM +0100, alberto fuentes wrote: Since its being a while without response and we are getting closer to release, i was thinking about requesting a wheezy-ignore for the bug or something to the release team I'm not happy adding an ignore tag if there isn't any

Bug#698984: unblock: simpleid - fixes RC issue with OpenID 2.0 support

2013-01-26 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 10:20:56AM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: If it is essential, I can make a 0.8.1-13 upload with the extra changelog detail against 0.8.1-11 Hi, We won't accept any changes to packaging systems, and we won't review anything without a diff. PLEASE go read

Bug#699012: unblock: netgen/4.9.13.dfsg-3.2

2013-01-26 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 10:35:16AM +, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 09:54:36AM +0100, Anton Gladky wrote: +netgen (4.9.13.dfsg-3.2) testing-proposed-updates; urgency=low + + * Non-maintainer upload. Have the maintainers commented on your proposed change?

Bug#538822: Postpone fix for 540512 and 538822 till after release (dash and sh diversions)

2013-01-26 Thread Neil McGovern
Control: tag 540512 +wheezy-ignore Control: tag 538822 +wheezy-ignore This is obviously not going to get fixed this time. Adding ignore tags. On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 08:40:58PM +0100, Paul Gevers wrote: There has been a small discussion about dash RC bugs 538822 and 540512 in the bts and the

Bug#690402: RM: scim-prime/1.0.0-4

2013-01-26 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 09:56:08PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: rm Removal hint added. Neil -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#694975: release.debian.org: Wheezy-ignore tag for freecad and netgen

2013-01-26 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi, On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 02:46:29PM +0100, Anton Gladky wrote: thanks for looking into this bug. VCS of coin3d has a COPYING file, which is clearly BSD-license [1]. So this version should be packaged to fix the license issue properly. The current version of coin is GPL [2]. This doesn't

Bug#699016: Fails to download videos

2013-01-26 Thread Neil McGovern
Package: metacafe-dl Version: 2008.07.23-2 Severity: grave Hi, metacafe-dl doesn't seem to work anymore, possibly due to #688997. In any case, metacafe-dl is currently a candidate to be removed from wheezy unless something is fixed. Neil -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT

Bug#699018: Depends on about-to-go-away youtube-dl

2013-01-26 Thread Neil McGovern
Package: freevo Severity: grave Hi, Youtube-dl is about to be removed from testing. As freevo depends on it, it is also a candidate for removal. Please let debian-rele...@lists.debian.org know how you plan on handling this issue. Thanks, Neil -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT

Bug#657281: src/java/org/apache/fop/pdf/ sRGB Color Space Profile.icm is non-free [was: Re: Bug#657281: Any news on this?]

2013-01-26 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:42:14AM +0100, alberto fuentes wrote: Since its being a while without response and we are getting closer to release, i was thinking about requesting a wheezy-ignore for the bug or something to the release team I'm not happy adding an ignore tag if there isn't any

Bug#570516: Tagging wheezy-ignore

2013-01-26 Thread Neil McGovern
Control: tag 570516 +wheezy-ignore This probably isn't going to get fixed, even if it still exists. Tagging wheezy-ignore. Neil -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#698984: unblock: simpleid - fixes RC issue with OpenID 2.0 support

2013-01-26 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 01:38:27PM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: I simply haven't included any patches with any prior version of the package, so I haven't needed to rely on any 1.0 or 3.0 methods for including a patch Again, I'm going to point at the freeze policy. Specifically Rule 1. I've

Bug#681138: Not found in wheezy

2013-01-26 Thread Neil McGovern
Control: notfound #681138 4.0.4debian2 I couldn't reproduce this in 4.0.4debian2, marking as such. Neil -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#681426: closed by Daniel Baumann daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net (Bug#681426: fixed in syslinux-themes-debian 12-1)

2013-01-26 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 12:39:35PM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote: On 11/11/2012 11:26 AM, intrigeri wrote: Anything left to be done before filing an unblock request? like said, when live-build has been updated, syslinux-themes will be updated too, and then someone can ask for unblocks. The

Bug#681138: Processed: Not found in wheezy

2013-01-26 Thread Neil McGovern
Control: fixed #681138 4.0.4debian2-3.2 Apparently the below doesn't work. So I'm marking it as fixed. *sigh* On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 03:09:09PM +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Processing control commands: notfound #681138 4.0.4debian2 Bug #681138 {Done: Thomas Mueller

Bug#695716: status update

2013-01-26 Thread Neil McGovern
Control: tag -1 +wheezy-ignore On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 07:15:49PM +, Robert Lemmen wrote: b) the release team could decide to simply wheezy-ignore this bug since a fixed version is in unstable and this is only a DFSG-problem, i.e. something we *decide* we don't want in main rather than

Bug#699035: unblock: unattended-upgrades/0.79.4

2013-01-26 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi, On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 04:26:53PM +, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: The fix is to add missing dependency on xz-utils. Also a unit tests is added explicitly testing xz compressed deb. This doesn't look clean due to changes in: ---

Bug#582774: Adding wheezy-ignore tag

2013-01-26 Thread Neil McGovern
Control: tag -1 +wheezy-ignore This doesn't seem to actually affect wheezy in a user-environment. Thus adding wheezy-ignore tag. Neil -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#538822: Postpone fix for 540512 and 538822 till after release (dash and sh diversions)

2013-01-26 Thread Neil McGovern
Control: tag 540512 +wheezy-ignore Control: tag 538822 +wheezy-ignore This is obviously not going to get fixed this time. Adding ignore tags. On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 08:40:58PM +0100, Paul Gevers wrote: There has been a small discussion about dash RC bugs 538822 and 540512 in the bts and the

Bug#699016: Fails to download videos

2013-01-26 Thread Neil McGovern
Package: metacafe-dl Version: 2008.07.23-2 Severity: grave Hi, metacafe-dl doesn't seem to work anymore, possibly due to #688997. In any case, metacafe-dl is currently a candidate to be removed from wheezy unless something is fixed. Neil -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT

Bug#699018: Depends on about-to-go-away youtube-dl

2013-01-26 Thread Neil McGovern
Package: freevo Severity: grave Hi, Youtube-dl is about to be removed from testing. As freevo depends on it, it is also a candidate for removal. Please let debian-rele...@lists.debian.org know how you plan on handling this issue. Thanks, Neil -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT

Bug#657281: src/java/org/apache/fop/pdf/ sRGB Color Space Profile.icm is non-free [was: Re: Bug#657281: Any news on this?]

2013-01-26 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:42:14AM +0100, alberto fuentes wrote: Since its being a while without response and we are getting closer to release, i was thinking about requesting a wheezy-ignore for the bug or something to the release team I'm not happy adding an ignore tag if there isn't any

Bug#570516: Tagging wheezy-ignore

2013-01-26 Thread Neil McGovern
Control: tag 570516 +wheezy-ignore This probably isn't going to get fixed, even if it still exists. Tagging wheezy-ignore. Neil -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#681138: Not found in wheezy

2013-01-26 Thread Neil McGovern
Control: notfound #681138 4.0.4debian2 I couldn't reproduce this in 4.0.4debian2, marking as such. Neil -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#681426: closed by Daniel Baumann daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net (Bug#681426: fixed in syslinux-themes-debian 12-1)

2013-01-26 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 12:39:35PM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote: On 11/11/2012 11:26 AM, intrigeri wrote: Anything left to be done before filing an unblock request? like said, when live-build has been updated, syslinux-themes will be updated too, and then someone can ask for unblocks. The

Bug#681138: Processed: Not found in wheezy

2013-01-26 Thread Neil McGovern
Control: fixed #681138 4.0.4debian2-3.2 Apparently the below doesn't work. So I'm marking it as fixed. *sigh* On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 03:09:09PM +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Processing control commands: notfound #681138 4.0.4debian2 Bug #681138 {Done: Thomas Mueller

Bug#695716: status update

2013-01-26 Thread Neil McGovern
Control: tag -1 +wheezy-ignore On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 07:15:49PM +, Robert Lemmen wrote: b) the release team could decide to simply wheezy-ignore this bug since a fixed version is in unstable and this is only a DFSG-problem, i.e. something we *decide* we don't want in main rather than

Bug#582774: Adding wheezy-ignore tag

2013-01-26 Thread Neil McGovern
Control: tag -1 +wheezy-ignore This doesn't seem to actually affect wheezy in a user-environment. Thus adding wheezy-ignore tag. Neil -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#698984: unblock: simpleid - fixes RC issue with OpenID 2.0 support

2013-01-26 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 10:20:56AM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: If it is essential, I can make a 0.8.1-13 upload with the extra changelog detail against 0.8.1-11 Hi, We won't accept any changes to packaging systems, and we won't review anything without a diff. PLEASE go read

Bug#699012: unblock: netgen/4.9.13.dfsg-3.2

2013-01-26 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 10:35:16AM +, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 09:54:36AM +0100, Anton Gladky wrote: +netgen (4.9.13.dfsg-3.2) testing-proposed-updates; urgency=low + + * Non-maintainer upload. Have the maintainers commented on your proposed change?

Re: Postpone fix for 540512 and 538822 till after release (dash and sh diversions)

2013-01-26 Thread Neil McGovern
Control: tag 540512 +wheezy-ignore Control: tag 538822 +wheezy-ignore This is obviously not going to get fixed this time. Adding ignore tags. On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 08:40:58PM +0100, Paul Gevers wrote: There has been a small discussion about dash RC bugs 538822 and 540512 in the bts and the

Bug#690402: RM: scim-prime/1.0.0-4

2013-01-26 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 09:56:08PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: rm Removal hint added. Neil -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#694975: release.debian.org: Wheezy-ignore tag for freecad and netgen

2013-01-26 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi, On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 02:46:29PM +0100, Anton Gladky wrote: thanks for looking into this bug. VCS of coin3d has a COPYING file, which is clearly BSD-license [1]. So this version should be packaged to fix the license issue properly. The current version of coin is GPL [2]. This doesn't

Depends on about-to-go-away youtube-dl

2013-01-26 Thread Neil McGovern
Package: freevo Severity: grave Hi, Youtube-dl is about to be removed from testing. As freevo depends on it, it is also a candidate for removal. Please let debian-release@lists.debian.org know how you plan on handling this issue. Thanks, Neil -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT

Re: pre-approval for fixing some important bugs discovered by piuparts for wheezy

2013-01-26 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi, On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 01:25:14PM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: what's the release team opinion on fixing several important bugs for wheezy? These are problems discovered by piuparts and all have bugs filed long ago, usually with a sentence like Getting the archive piuparts-clean is a

Bug#698984: unblock: simpleid - fixes RC issue with OpenID 2.0 support

2013-01-26 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 01:38:27PM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: I simply haven't included any patches with any prior version of the package, so I haven't needed to rely on any 1.0 or 3.0 methods for including a patch Again, I'm going to point at the freeze policy. Specifically Rule 1. I've

Bug#699035: unblock: unattended-upgrades/0.79.4

2013-01-26 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi, On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 04:26:53PM +, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: The fix is to add missing dependency on xz-utils. Also a unit tests is added explicitly testing xz compressed deb. This doesn't look clean due to changes in: ---

Re: [Debconf-discuss] proposals for DebConf14 +

2013-01-17 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 09:14:19PM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: Actually, it is very likely to end up being the same people (after all, those are the people who have the connections to industry), it's just that their focus would change to cover the whole of Debian and the subsequent 1 or 2

Secure booting

2013-01-15 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi all, I've had a press contact requesting information about if/when secure boot will be available. Has anyone got any more info? Replies to me privately please. Thanks, Neil -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [cut-team] Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-14 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 06:55:04PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: Of course there was a reason for introducing testing. And I did not propose it to go away either. It should stay for packages marked as being part of unstable at freeze time. Probably a separate repo for frozen unstable is needed.

Bug#697847: [Pkg-ace-devel] Bug#697847: missing source for Win32 binaries

2013-01-11 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 09:26:37PM +0100, Thomas Girard wrote: Since my GPG key has expired, I will not be able to upload this in a timely fashion, so you can consider this email as a call for NMU. For info, you can simply change the expiration date... Neil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#697847: [Pkg-ace-devel] Bug#697847: missing source for Win32 binaries

2013-01-11 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 09:26:37PM +0100, Thomas Girard wrote: Since my GPG key has expired, I will not be able to upload this in a timely fashion, so you can consider this email as a call for NMU. For info, you can simply change the expiration date... Neil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: [Pkg-ace-devel] Bug#697847: missing source for Win32 binaries

2013-01-11 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 09:26:37PM +0100, Thomas Girard wrote: Since my GPG key has expired, I will not be able to upload this in a timely fashion, so you can consider this email as a call for NMU. For info, you can simply change the expiration date... Neil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#692734: unblock: ettercap/0.7.5-4

2013-01-09 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi, 365 files changed, 23718 insertions(+), 14033 deletions(-) This isn't something that can be reviewed, especially with the large number of unrelated changes to (for example build system switch!) the package. The options remaining are: * Backport specific fixes for the version in testing *

Bug#692734: unblock: ettercap/0.7.5-4

2013-01-09 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 02:40:25PM +, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: As I've stated previously, I don't believe that backporting fixes is really feasible. There are too many, they are mixed with non-security-related modifications, there would be enormous opportunity for error, and ongoing

Bug#692734: unblock: ettercap/0.7.5-4

2013-01-09 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi, 365 files changed, 23718 insertions(+), 14033 deletions(-) This isn't something that can be reviewed, especially with the large number of unrelated changes to (for example build system switch!) the package. The options remaining are: * Backport specific fixes for the version in testing *

Bug#692734: unblock: ettercap/0.7.5-4

2013-01-09 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 02:40:25PM +, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: As I've stated previously, I don't believe that backporting fixes is really feasible. There are too many, they are mixed with non-security-related modifications, there would be enormous opportunity for error, and ongoing

Re: Knowing the release names in advance

2013-01-02 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Jan 01, 2013 at 03:55:22AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: Wouldn't it be more simple to just choose a name and we would never ever have to talk about it again, and never ever have to process any of such unblocks? Sure thing: The next release after Jessie will be called Thomas. [0]

Bug#694378: Bug#683803: apt-cacher-ng: errors in combination with http.debian.net: [302 Moved Temporarily]

2012-12-28 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:08:49PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: Hallo, * Gabriele Stilli [Tue, Dec 25 2012, 10:10:36PM]: any chance of having this fix backported to Wheezy? It's quite annoying not being able to do proper upgrades when using http.debian.net with (what will become) stable.

Bug#694378: Bug#683803: apt-cacher-ng: errors in combination with http.debian.net: [302 Moved Temporarily]

2012-12-28 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:08:49PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: Hallo, * Gabriele Stilli [Tue, Dec 25 2012, 10:10:36PM]: any chance of having this fix backported to Wheezy? It's quite annoying not being able to do proper upgrades when using http.debian.net with (what will become) stable.

Bug#694378: Bug#683803: apt-cacher-ng: errors in combination with http.debian.net: [302 Moved Temporarily]

2012-12-26 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:08:49PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: Hallo, * Gabriele Stilli [Tue, Dec 25 2012, 10:10:36PM]: any chance of having this fix backported to Wheezy? It's quite annoying not being able to do proper upgrades when using http.debian.net with (what will become) stable.

Re: Release talk at FOSDEM?

2012-12-26 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 10:41:11AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Since we'll have released by then[1], I thought it might be nice if you guys were to hold a talk at FOSDEM about the past release process and/or the upcoming one. Anyone up for that? I won't be attending this year - anyone

Re: Bug#694378: Bug#683803: apt-cacher-ng: errors in combination with http.debian.net: [302 Moved Temporarily]

2012-12-26 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:08:49PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: Hallo, * Gabriele Stilli [Tue, Dec 25 2012, 10:10:36PM]: any chance of having this fix backported to Wheezy? It's quite annoying not being able to do proper upgrades when using http.debian.net with (what will become) stable.

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Insider manipulation of DC13 site selection, and apparent coverup

2012-12-14 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 11:26:53PM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: - rather than publicly disclosing all the details, it may be possible to identify somebody outside the DebConf team that all of us trust who can gather the facts confidentially and report relevant facts publicly For information,

Re: Bug#690557: unblock: git-buildpackage/0.6.0~git20120822

2012-12-14 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 11:14:41PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote: On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 10:39:06PM +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: In meanwhile I think the debdiff is too huge to have this for an unblock to wheezy. I suggest to close this request to reduce the current open unblock

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

2012-12-06 Thread Neil McGovern
tags 591969 + wheezy-ignore thanks On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 03:56:11PM +0100, Christian Welzel wrote: Am 05.12.2012 13:07, schrieb Neil McGovern: Can someone explain: 1) Why there were no updates to the bug between December 2010 and June 2012? The bug could not be resolved, so i didnt

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

2012-12-06 Thread Neil McGovern
tags 591969 + wheezy-ignore thanks On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 03:56:11PM +0100, Christian Welzel wrote: Am 05.12.2012 13:07, schrieb Neil McGovern: Can someone explain: 1) Why there were no updates to the bug between December 2010 and June 2012? The bug could not be resolved, so i didnt

Bug#591969: 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

Bug#591969: 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

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