Bug#545688: debian-policy: Include webapps policy in external sub-policy documents

2009-09-15 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 11:34:46PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Would you like to take a crack at pulling out the normative parts of that manual, perhaps with a wee bit of rationale, and see where we stand? That would be great, thanks! Neil -- enrico What is a sane place to

Re: An possible update for proftpd in lenny

2009-09-09 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 11:53:41AM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: As reflected in http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3284 upstream has recently fixed a long standing issue in proftpd which negatively impacts its performances. I would be inclined to propose a PU but I'd like having

Bug#545688: debian-policy: Include webapps policy in external sub-policy documents

2009-09-08 Thread Neil McGovern
Package: debian-policy Severity: wishlist Hi policy folks, We've now got to the stage where we seem to have a good webapps policy in place, and would like to have it included in policy main as a 'sub-policy' document. For reference, it's at http://webapps-common.alioth.debian.org/draft/html/

Bug#545688: debian-policy: Include webapps policy in external sub-policy documents

2009-09-08 Thread Neil McGovern
Package: debian-policy Severity: wishlist Hi policy folks, We've now got to the stage where we seem to have a good webapps policy in place, and would like to have it included in policy main as a 'sub-policy' document. For reference, it's at http://webapps-common.alioth.debian.org/draft/html/

Bug#545471: [pkgreport.cgi] Support gpg/pgp signature checking

2009-09-07 Thread Neil McGovern
Package: bugs.debian.org Severity: wishlist It may be a neat feature to check application/pgp-signature attachments to see if they verify (possibly for keys in the keyring) and indicate this somehow, perhaps by a coloured hinting of pre class=headers. Thanks! Neil -- Sp3ct0L|ZcC dou you speak

Re: GRUB 2 (Re: Bits from the release team: Release goals, schedule, state of the union)

2009-09-04 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:32:20AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: GRUB 2 should be the default bootloader on x86. Hi, Could you fill in a goal page similar to ones in http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals? Thanks, Neil -- A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why is top

Re: udev and /usr

2009-09-01 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 04:47:54PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mardi 01 septembre 2009 à 15:36 +0100, Chris Jackson a écrit : Well, /etc needs to be on /, since otherwise you can't get to fstab to mount it, and generally things like /etc/hostname will be different, so, while I

Bug#491615: audacious: Not only on amd64...

2009-08-25 Thread Neil McGovern
Package: audacious Version: 1.5.1-4 Followup-For: Bug #491615 Seems that this is still present in i386: nmcgov...@nmcgovern:~$ gdb audacious GNU gdb 6.8-debian Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html This is

Bug#491615: Wrong email

2009-08-25 Thread Neil McGovern
And that previous message was me, but it seems I didn't set the eamil correctly... Neil -- tore Jump in and have a quim! signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Summary of the debian-devel BoF at Debconf9

2009-08-19 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 07:28:09PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org writes: Perhaps there is a way to […] discourage all meta-discussion or mentioning of fallacy, ad-hominem or strawman on the other lists. Perhaps you have a better way of succinct terms to

Re: Bits from the release team and request for discussion

2009-08-12 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 07:56:33PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: The whole vote is to come up with a recommendation for the decision makers And should the decision makers not follow that recommendation, the flamewars will truely begin. The format and phrasing of this is: The Debian

Re: Bits from the release team and request for discussion

2009-08-11 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:14:10AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Forking devotee at this point seems to serve little purpose, given that upstream is not hostile. Given that the secretary team haven't heared of these patches (AFAIK), the mention of 'forking' is a bit of a

Webapps policy: final RFC

2009-08-10 Thread Neil McGovern
-DRAFT.sgml?view=log Comments appreciated, I'd like to get these all in and integrated by end of August, to push to the policy team for inclusion. Thanks, Neil McGovern -- automake: the emo of Debian software. You just don't understand me. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Non-unified patches and dpkg source format ‘3.0 (quilt)’.

2009-08-07 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 10:45:14AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Giving a standard interface to reviewers is a laudable goal, but I do not see reviewers except in elaborate scenarios about security. Therefore I will not trade a real benefit for a hypothetical one, even if both are neglectible.

Bug#539294: acpi: gets confused between mAh and mWh

2009-07-30 Thread Neil McGovern
Package: acpi Version: 1.1-2 Severity: minor Hi, It seems that acpi is getting a bit confused as to the difference between mAh and mWh: maul...@cheshire:~$ cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info present: yes design capacity: 74880 mWh last full capacity: 71270 mWh

Re: Please unblock monotone

2009-07-30 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 09:48:54PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote: The botan library snafu has been resolved. It looks like the package needs to wait for the latest botan and sqlite, and something weird happened on the hppa buildd which I *hope* is not the beginning of another horrible round of

Re: Please allow 0.2.5-2+dfsg-1+lenny2

2009-07-30 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 11:05:05AM -0300, UlisesVitulli wrote: I've found a problem which breaks functionality on one of my packages and I've prepared a patch to solve it. It's really very simply as you may find attached. Hi, That's fine. Please upload to SPU. Thanks, Neil -- A. Because

Re: When will the release team start publishing release goals?

2009-07-30 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 04:25:36PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: When do the release team plan to start publishing approved release goals? Any hope of having this done now during debconf? Hi Peter, Apologies for the delay in replying. There should be a notification to

Re: [stable] gnome-vfs update for point release (non-working trash)?

2009-07-30 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 03:45:01PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: Is this patch a valid candidate for inclusion in the next point release? Hi Julian, I'm afraid we can't accept this: * There's a change to the uploaders (which is a bit useless for a stable point release) * We don't really

Re: Please give back nlkt 0.3.2.1-3 on sparc

2009-07-30 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:40:35PM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: Please do so nlkt 0.3.2.1-3 fixing FTBFS bug can migrate to testing. E-mail to sparc buildd was sent at Jul 18 and received no answer. Hi Eugene, It seems that this comes back from w-b: nlkt: has uninstallable

Re: Debian redesign

2009-07-29 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:46:04PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: Discussing about this on irc, some people seemed to agree with my view that the female images are too sexual, and that the image of the notebook on the pillow is disturbing. I disagree. The images for the males are just as

Re: Switching /bin/sh to dash without dash essential

2009-07-28 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 11:34:01AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de (24/07/2009): Give me the freedom to choose. It looks like we just reached the “Linux is about choice” Goswin point. Goswin's law: As the length of a debian discussion increases, the

Your nut SPU upload

2009-07-28 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi Arnaud, I've just rejected your upload to SPU for nut. We generally cannot accept 58,000 line changes in SPU. Especially without requesting it on debian-release@lists.debian.org Additionally, you have added a file, called :. This seems to be a copy of debian/changelog. It also seems to

Re: upgrading dbus or running the init script kills X

2009-07-24 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi all, Just to re-iterate from a release team PoV, this could really do with fixing. (for d-d readers, this is a awesome bug, where dbus upgrades kill X) This is holding up xcb-util, which is holding up python-visual, which is preventing the removal (finally!) of GTK 1 Thanks, Neil -- pixie

Re: upgrading dbus or running the init script kills X

2009-07-24 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 01:50:02PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: Just to re-iterate from a release team PoV, this could really do with fixing. (for d-d readers, this is a awesome bug, where dbus upgrades kill X) This is holding up xcb-util, which is holding up python-visual, which

Bug#527872: upgrading dbus or running the init script kills X

2009-07-24 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi all, Just to re-iterate from a release team PoV, this could really do with fixing. (for d-d readers, this is a awesome bug, where dbus upgrades kill X) This is holding up xcb-util, which is holding up python-visual, which is preventing the removal (finally!) of GTK 1 Thanks, Neil -- pixie

Bug#527872: upgrading dbus or running the init script kills X

2009-07-24 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 01:50:02PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: Just to re-iterate from a release team PoV, this could really do with fixing. (for d-d readers, this is a awesome bug, where dbus upgrades kill X) This is holding up xcb-util, which is holding up python-visual, which

Bug#527872: upgrading dbus or running the init script kills X

2009-07-24 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi all, Just to re-iterate from a release team PoV, this could really do with fixing. (for d-d readers, this is a awesome bug, where dbus upgrades kill X) This is holding up xcb-util, which is holding up python-visual, which is preventing the removal (finally!) of GTK 1 Thanks, Neil -- pixie

Bug#527872: upgrading dbus or running the init script kills X

2009-07-24 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 01:50:02PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: Just to re-iterate from a release team PoV, this could really do with fixing. (for d-d readers, this is a awesome bug, where dbus upgrades kill X) This is holding up xcb-util, which is holding up python-visual, which

Re: [Debconf-team] orga meeting notes

2009-07-20 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 11:42:53PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 09:32:04AM -0300, Margarita Manterola said: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Holger Levsenhol...@layer-acht.org wrote: 5. eva blanco will do nametags, she can contact Marga (in spanish) to get the

FINAL Call for Nominations - 2009 SPI Board Election

2009-07-13 Thread Neil McGovern
://www.spi-inc.org/corporate/resolutions/2004-08-10-dbg.2 -- Neil McGovern Board Member, Software in the Public Interest, Inc. signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Spi-general mailing list Spi-general@lists.spi-inc.org http://lists.spi-inc.org

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-24 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 09:24:14AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 08:13:22AM -0700, Don Armstrong a écrit : But all of that said, it still needs trusted people to review the packages, which is where we've traditionally started to have scaling problems. This is

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-23 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 02:47:11PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Has Debian even ever received a cease and desist letter from a IP lawyer? Under which circumstances? I am bit tired of lawyers being mentioned each time the NEW problems are discussed, while it seems, based on history, that

Re: Please unblock dmraid/1.0.0.rc15-8

2009-06-23 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 05:31:45PM +0200, Giuseppe Iuculano wrote: Could you unblock dmraid/1.0.0.rc15-8 please? 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 ; the.earth.li A40F862E

Re: Openssl

2009-06-23 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:43:36AM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: Can openssl 0.9.8k-3 be pushed to testing? It fixed a number of security issues. 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: Please unblock dmraid/1.0.0.rc15-8

2009-06-23 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 05:31:45PM +0200, Giuseppe Iuculano wrote: Could you unblock dmraid/1.0.0.rc15-8 please? 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 ; the.earth.li A40F862E

Re: Openssl

2009-06-23 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:43:36AM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: Can openssl 0.9.8k-3 be pushed to testing? It fixed a number of security issues. 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: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-08 Thread Neil McGovern
Firstly, thanks for your mail, apologies that I haven't replied sooner, we've had EU and local elections, so I've been busy runnign around with leaflets, knocking on doors, kissing babies etc. like any politician. No expenses though... On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 12:36:01PM -0600, Grant Grundler

HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-02 Thread Neil McGovern
. This means that ftpmasters will be asked to remove HPPA from testing and unstable from the 30th June. It is suggested that HPPA porters may wish to consider using debian-ports.org if they wish to continue with the port. Regards, Neil McGovern [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/04/msg00299

Re: HPPA and Squeeze

2009-06-02 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 03:07:35PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: This means that ftpmasters will be asked to remove HPPA from testing and unstable from the 30th June. It is suggested that HPPA porters may wish to consider using debian-ports.org if they wish to continue with the port. Erk

Re: lua-lpeg/lua-wsapi transition, help needed

2009-05-30 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 05:24:32PM +0200, Enrico Tassi wrote: I've some packages that seem to be blocked by lua-lpeg/lua-wsapi (ABI bump), but after spending some time surfing release.d.o I didn't manage to uderstand why they are not moving to testing. Basically, package A breaks package B,

Re: goes osm2pgsql mututal dependency needs hinting

2009-05-30 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 10:37:11PM +1200, Hamish wrote: Hi, the goes osm2pgsql packages are now both ready to go into testing but they mutually exclude each other from doing so. requesting paired-hinting. Added: # GIS itesm 20090530 easy osm2pgsql/0.52.20080408-3 geos/3.1.0-1 Thanks,

Re: Removal of remaining packages using GTK 1.2

2009-05-28 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 10:12:04PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: icewm linpopup wmclockmon cheops codebreaker gaby dbmix gcrontab gbuffy gcvs gcx geg gman gps gqcam gtkpool libjsw i2e mah-jong mbrowse predict xemacs21 swami xoscope xscorch All removed ledcontrol

Re: Removal of remaining packages using GTK 1.2

2009-05-28 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 10:12:04PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: icewm linpopup wmclockmon cheops codebreaker gaby dbmix gcrontab gbuffy gcvs gcx geg gman gps gqcam gtkpool libjsw i2e mah-jong mbrowse predict xemacs21 swami xoscope xscorch All removed ledcontrol

Re: Testing removals for GTK 1.2 removal

2009-04-21 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 11:10:54PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: Hi, the following source packages have at least one binary package, which is now uninstallable, because one or more of it's depencies have been removed (GTK 1.2, Imlib1). Please remove them from testing: Hi Moritz, From a

Re: debian/copyright verbosity

2009-04-16 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 12:53:58PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: That would be premature. As I understand it, we're waiting on (and I'm actively soliciting) input for other purposes of the information in the ‘debian/copyright’ file; not least from the legal counsel at SPI. I could be wrong, but

Re: Please remove powershell and soundtracker from testing

2009-03-23 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:15:59AM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: gnome-libs has been removed from unstable. Please remove the two remaining packages using it from testing: powershell and soundtracker RC bugs are in place so that they can't migrate back before they've been fixed. removal

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-22 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 02:47:04AM +, Noah Slater wrote: This has clear advantages for being able to post-process, check, search, and navigate copyright information using whatever tools the community decides would be profitable. I'm not quite clear as to why this is an advantage yet

Amendment: Enhance requirements for General resolutions

2009-03-22 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi, Thanks for bringing this GR. I'd like to propose an amendment: AMENDMENT START General Resolutions are an important framework within the Debian Project. Yet, in a project the size of Debian, the current requirements to

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-22 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 01:45:18PM +, Noah Slater wrote: On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:42:29AM +, Neil McGovern wrote: I'm not quite clear as to why this is an advantage yet Currently, this seems to have been designed to provide interfaces for future tools to use, while not regarding

Re: [dissenting]: Proposal: Enhance requirements for General resolutions

2009-03-22 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:53:02PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: The first GR was passed in June 2003 and there were 804 developers. The last GR was passed in November 2008 and there were 1018 developers. Actually, to be fair, the first vote was 1999, with 357 developers. Neil -- vorlon We

Re: [dissenting]: Proposal: Enhance requirements for General resolutions

2009-03-22 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:59:34AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: That's a fair question, but AUIU, it is not up to the proposer, having already proposed, to decide when the vote gets called. It's up to the proposer or any of the seconders to do so. Neil -- pixie hermanr_: I never studied german

Amendment: Enhance requirements for General resolutions

2009-03-22 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi, Thanks for bringing this GR. I'd like to propose an amendment: AMENDMENT START General Resolutions are an important framework within the Debian Project. Yet, in a project the size of Debian, the current requirements to

Re: [dissenting]: Proposal: Enhance requirements for General resolutions

2009-03-22 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:53:02PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: The first GR was passed in June 2003 and there were 804 developers. The last GR was passed in November 2008 and there were 1018 developers. Actually, to be fair, the first vote was 1999, with 357 developers. Neil -- vorlon We

Re: [dissenting]: Proposal: Enhance requirements for General resolutions

2009-03-22 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:59:34AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: That's a fair question, but AUIU, it is not up to the proposer, having already proposed, to decide when the vote gets called. It's up to the proposer or any of the seconders to do so. Neil -- pixie hermanr_: I never studied german

Re: Please unblock shorewall-{common,perl,shell}

2009-03-22 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 10:49:50PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: It appears that shorewall-{common,perl,shell} are in need of hinting in order to propogate. I'd appreciate if someone could hint them. easy hint added. Neil -- [..] Debian (in the form of a large, busy, and frequently

Re: ImageMagick upload to stable, replacing non-free fonts (#510751)

2009-03-22 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 04:45:14PM -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: Hi! ImageMagick in Lenny has non-free fonts with it (see bug #510751). The proposed update is to upload the current version in testing Please upload. Neil -- jmtd irssiproxy appears to be crack cut with washing up

Re: Question for DPL Candidates: Debian $$$

2009-03-21 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:50:52AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Other potential usages of Debian moneys are bounties, to which I'm not opposed in principle. However, they should obey to very specific rules. The first one is that no one already contributing to Debian should be authorized to

Re: libcairo has two different versions in Lenny?

2009-03-20 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:57:25AM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: 920 cdrom://Lenny_DVD_1 lenny/main Packages 900 ftp://ftp2.de.debian.org lenny/main Packages 980 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Packages [...] Can someone explain, WHY the SECURITY mirror

Bug#505088: alsa-lib qa-doublebuild release goal in lenny

2009-02-12 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 09:14:36AM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: So, please advise. From a RT point of view, this isn't going to have a fix in for lenny. 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: alsa-lib qa-doublebuild release goal in lenny

2009-02-12 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 09:14:36AM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: So, please advise. From a RT point of view, this isn't going to have a fix in for lenny. 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: alsa-lib qa-doublebuild release goal in lenny

2009-02-12 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 09:14:36AM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: So, please advise. From a RT point of view, this isn't going to have a fix in for lenny. 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: Release updates for the website

2009-02-11 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 08:06:55PM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:37:34AM +, Neil McGovern wrote: On the day, we'llneed the stable-release-tag-magic-thing updating to lenny too, so I'mlooking for a volunteer :) I should be able to help. What needs to be done

Release updates for the website

2009-02-10 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi all, As you may have noticed, it's the intention to release this weekend, on Valentines Day. This means that there needs to be updates to the website. I'm trying to get the various teams to produce some text for me, and I should be able to produce a nice webwml patch for you all shortly. On

Meeting tonight, 19:15UTC (Release timeline)

2009-02-10 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi all, This is a quick mail to invite those interested to a meeting tonight to discuss the timetable for the release. Please note that this is a practial meeting, and due to the tight timescales we're working towards, topic discipline is appreciated. Apologies for the short notice. Neil --

Website for lenny

2009-02-08 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi Debian CD! To try and get the website ready in time for release, it would be great if the CD section of the website could be updated[0]. I can create the patches to the webwml if you need me to, but it would be really good if you could go over http://www.debian.org/CD/ and tell me what's out

Website updates for Lenny

2009-02-08 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi Debian boot! To try and get the website ready in time for release, it would be great if the boot section of the website could be updated. I can create the patches to the webwml if you need me to, but it would be really good if you could go over

Re: please unblock gst-plugins-good0.10

2009-01-30 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:20:04PM -0200, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 03:55:08PM +, Neil McGovern wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:07:43PM -0200, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote: Version 0.10.8-4.1 fixes a security bug! Unblocked

Re: Remove sshguard from testing?

2009-01-29 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 04:51:38PM +, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: sshguard is useful to me, and I'd like to see it stay in, but in its current state of neglect it's probably not practical. My offer to co-maintain still stands, but I doubt a new upstream will make it into lenny at this late

Re: [Fwd: Please unblock dtc 0.29.16-1]

2009-01-28 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 06:28:34AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: Please, consider, this is urgent, as there's a security fix in this package. Is there any way to skip the 9 days delay? Upload with urgency high? Neil -- A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why is top

Re: Pre-approval for wide-dhcpv6 t-p-u upload

2009-01-28 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 03:37:24PM +0100, Jérémie Corbier wrote: and I would like to be allowed to upload it to t-p-u since wide-dhcpv6-client in its current state in testing is completely unusable. Please upload. Neil -- * stockholm bangs head against budget h01ger outsch stockholm

Re: Please update guile-1.6's unblock

2009-01-28 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 03:21:32PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Hello, from Luk's hints file: | # 20081218 | […] | unblock guile-1.6/1.6.8-6.1 please make it: guile-1.6/1.6.8-6.3 Unblocked. Neil -- [local irc server has just been brought up] godog suddenly there's quite some

Re: please unblock gst-plugins-good0.10

2009-01-28 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:07:43PM -0200, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote: Version 0.10.8-4.1 fixes a security bug! 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 ; the.earth.li B345BDD3

Bug#512371: Please allow biofox 1.1.5-1 in Lenny.

2009-01-27 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 07:09:31PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: http://people.debian.org/~naoliv/misc/debian-med/biofox_diff.txt * New upstream release, compatible with Firefox 3 (Closes: #512371). * Updated debian/watch. Both ok. * Use Debhelper 7 (idebian/co{ntrol,mpat}. Not

Bug#512371: Please allow biofox 1.1.5-1 in Lenny.

2009-01-27 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 07:53:53PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Hi Neil, thanks for your review. Le Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:45:30AM +, Neil McGovern a écrit : * Use Debhelper 7 (idebian/co{ntrol,mpat}. Not ok. What's wrong, Debhelper or the typo? Most freeze exemptions I

Bug#512371: Please allow biofox 1.1.5-1 in Lenny.

2009-01-27 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 08:56:29PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:36:54AM +, Neil McGovern a écrit : On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 07:53:53PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: The debhelper change, at this very very late stage in the release. Your previous request

Bug#512371: Please allow biofox 1.1.5-1 in Lenny.

2009-01-27 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 07:09:31PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: http://people.debian.org/~naoliv/misc/debian-med/biofox_diff.txt * New upstream release, compatible with Firefox 3 (Closes: #512371). * Updated debian/watch. Both ok. * Use Debhelper 7 (idebian/co{ntrol,mpat}. Not

Bug#512371: Please allow biofox 1.1.5-1 in Lenny.

2009-01-27 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 07:53:53PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Hi Neil, thanks for your review. Le Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:45:30AM +, Neil McGovern a écrit : * Use Debhelper 7 (idebian/co{ntrol,mpat}. Not ok. What's wrong, Debhelper or the typo? Most freeze exemptions I

Bug#512371: Please allow biofox 1.1.5-1 in Lenny.

2009-01-27 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 08:56:29PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:36:54AM +, Neil McGovern a écrit : On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 07:53:53PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: The debhelper change, at this very very late stage in the release. Your previous request

Bug#512371: [Debian-med-packaging] Bug#512371: Please allow biofox 1.1.5-1 in Lenny.

2009-01-27 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 07:22:28PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: Well, there was no response to my diff from RM so I guess it is accepted the way I tried to address their concerns. I just uploaded Thanks, ACCEPTed. Neil -- A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why is top

Re: Please allow biofox 1.1.5-1 in Lenny.

2009-01-27 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 07:09:31PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: http://people.debian.org/~naoliv/misc/debian-med/biofox_diff.txt * New upstream release, compatible with Firefox 3 (Closes: #512371). * Updated debian/watch. Both ok. * Use Debhelper 7 (idebian/co{ntrol,mpat}. Not

Re: Please allow biofox 1.1.5-1 in Lenny.

2009-01-27 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 07:53:53PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Hi Neil, thanks for your review. Le Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:45:30AM +, Neil McGovern a écrit : * Use Debhelper 7 (idebian/co{ntrol,mpat}. Not ok. What's wrong, Debhelper or the typo? Most freeze exemptions I

Re: Please allow biofox 1.1.5-1 in Lenny.

2009-01-27 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 08:56:29PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:36:54AM +, Neil McGovern a écrit : On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 07:53:53PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: The debhelper change, at this very very late stage in the release. Your previous request

Re: please unblock tau/2.16.4-1.2

2009-01-25 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:11:50PM +1100, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 08:41:45PM +1100, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 08:34:22AM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: Aníbal Monsalve Salazar ani...@debian.org writes: please unblock

Re: Please unblock opensaml2 2.0-2

2009-01-23 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 08:54:48PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Hello folks, Could you unblock opensaml2 2.0-2 for lenny? The changelog is: * Include fix for https://bugs.internet2.edu/jira/browse/CPPOST-7 (Metadata with EncryptionMethod elements fails to load) * Include fix for

Re: please unblock twill-0.9-1

2009-01-23 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 01:39:06AM +0100, Arnaud Fontaine wrote: diff --exclude='*other_packages*' --exclude='*tests*' -urN twill-0.9~b1/debian/changelog twill-0.9/debian/changelog Unblocked. Neil -- pixie hermanr_: I never studied german pixie I can just read some of it because it makes

Re: Please unfreeze netatalk

2009-01-23 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 07:27:06AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Would a one-line change of build-dependencies to fix Bug#512604 be accepted? Yes, to T-P-U though. However, isn't this affected by #459459? Would any of the other parts, if isolated from that largest change of being

Re: Please unblock dkimproxy 1.0.1-8.1

2009-01-23 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:36:55PM -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: It's a simple enough script renaming agreed by upstream to fix an RC bug. 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: [release-notes] Deprecated packages, squeeze version number

2009-01-23 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:11:00AM +0100, W. Martin Borgert wrote: Btw., will squeeze be 6.0? Unknown yet, and probably won't be for some time. Neil -- Yoe is _that_ gunnar? weasel yes Yoe what happened to his tires? towersbe He's shrunk. I think his wife washed him at too high a

Re: Please unblock request-tracker3.6/3.6.7-5

2009-01-23 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 01:41:14PM +, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: I've just uploaded this, which contains an important documentation fix relating to choice of databases which has just come to our attention. Unblocked. Neil -- A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why

Bug#512624: Lowering severity

2009-01-22 Thread Neil McGovern
severity 512624 important thanks This doesn't make the package unusable, or mostly so. Neil -- i get an error... i forget what it is ... but definitely an error, well, maybe a warning... or an informational message... but definitely an output Verbatim quote from #debian, irc.freenode.net,

Bug#512624: Lowering severity

2009-01-22 Thread Neil McGovern
severity 512624 important thanks This doesn't make the package unusable, or mostly so. Neil -- i get an error... i forget what it is ... but definitely an error, well, maybe a warning... or an informational message... but definitely an output Verbatim quote from #debian, irc.freenode.net,

Re: freeze exception for xserver-xorg-video-intel

2009-01-22 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:25:28PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: Hi, xserver-xorg-video-intel/2:2.3.2-2+lenny6 fixes a regression introduced in -2+lenny5. The patch is trivial. Please unblock it. Unblocked. Neil -- linuxpoet rails is a perversion mc someone who use pgsql as calculator

Re: please unblock pybridge packages

2009-01-22 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:27:54AM +, David Watson wrote: Could you please unblock pybridge-0.3.0-4, this upload fixes the serious bug #512576. Unblocked. Neil -- A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why is top posting bad? gpg key -

Re: Unblock request:

2009-01-22 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 07:10:42PM -0500, Barry deFreese wrote: Please unblock slmon. The changes are minor but mainly to remove the build-deps on old gnome-libs. Here is the changelog: Unblocked. Neil -- weasel dpkg: shut up dpkg No, I won't, and you can't make me. :P weasel hah. _I_

Re: Unblock request: synce-trayicon 0.11-1.1

2009-01-22 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 07:15:16PM -0500, Barry deFreese wrote: Please unblock synce-trayicon. It is a minor change to remove an unnecessary build-dep on a gnome-lib. Here is the changelog: Unblocked. Neil -- 02:14:04 stockholm crap. my squirrelmail does not work 02:14:07 stockholm

Re: Unblock request: glotski 0.2-7

2009-01-22 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 07:24:51PM -0500, Barry deFreese wrote: Hi, Please unblock glotski. It's a small change to remove an unneeded build-dep on a gnome-libs binary. Here is the changelog entry: Unblocked. Neil -- h01ger ETOOMUCHSPANISHTOOFAST -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Unblock request: gwc

2009-01-22 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 07:33:03PM -0500, Barry deFreese wrote: Please consider unblocking gwc . The number of changes are significant but small (Mainly to kill more gnome-lib build-depends). If you would like to see a diff, please let me know. Here are the last two changelog

Re: Unblock request: mrwtoppm 0.1.1-2.2

2009-01-22 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 07:42:52PM -0500, Barry deFreese wrote: Please consider unblocking mrwtoppm 0.1.1-2.2. Another unnecessary gnome-libs build-dep. I did bump compat on this one though. Here is the changelog entry: Sorry, I'm not happy with a change to debian/compat at this late

Re: Unblock request: ogle-gui 0.9.2-4.2

2009-01-22 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 07:46:40PM -0500, Barry deFreese wrote: Please unblock ogle-gui 0.9.2-4.2. Another unnecessary build-dep on a gnome-lib (and some minor lintian fixes). Here is the changelog: Any idea what: --- ogle-gui-0.9.2/debian/ogle-gui.desktop +++

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