Re: Packages that need to be rebuilt agaisnt libssl0.9.8

2005-10-07 Thread Steve Langasek
concerns on how we handle this going forward. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc

Re: Packages that need to be rebuilt agaisnt libssl0.9.8

2005-10-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 05:44:25PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le vendredi 07 octobre 2005 à 14:33 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : We're already doing it for libpng, as no one else seemed interested in properly version the symbols. There haven't been any issues reported so far

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-10-08 Thread Steve Langasek
, What alternative solutions do you propose for the problems that led up to it being included? I can't actually see anything in the bug log to indicate that localhost.localdomain *does* solve any of the issues that were raised. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough

Re: SONAME in C++ libraries

2005-10-13 Thread Steve Langasek
to the appropriate section in the Debian policy or some other document? No, because it's not standard at all. There are plenty of libraries in Debian with sover 0 that *are* stable. The right answer is, if binary compatibility isn't going to be provided, don't ship a shared library. -- Steve Langasek

Re: Managing SSL certificates

2005-10-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 03:35:40PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: There aren't that many good reasons for having one cert per service anyway, Preserving isolated security contexts for each service without having to make the private key readable to all local users? -- Steve Langasek

Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

2005-10-16 Thread Steve Langasek
[Let's please keep this discussion on debian-devel, as debian-release is not a discussion list, and not exactly widely followed either] On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 10:28:33AM +0200, Roland Stigge wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: NMU policy ~~ After lots of experimentation with NMU

NMU policies for etch [Was: Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch]

2005-10-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 10:33:04AM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: It's easy to understand why people are opposed to too-frequent NMUs. They don't want to be seen as bad maintainers for having too many NMUs on their packages; they worry about new bugs being introduced

Re: a few tips on proper use of version tracking in the Debian BTS

2005-10-19 Thread Steve Langasek
, but Joey include a Version: pseudo-header[2]. What is the preferred way of closing bugs that are not bugs (e.g. mistake by the submitter)? Closing without a version header retains the traditional semantics of marking the bug closed in all versions. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek

Re: libcurl3-dev's reverse Build-Depends

2005-10-19 Thread Steve Langasek
, or a sourceful upload of php4/5 that requires a rebuild on all archs. So depending on when you think you'll upload curl again, I need to decide whether it's quicker to do a new sourceful upload of php4 and php5, or wait for this transition package. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me

Re: NMU policies for etch

2005-10-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 10:28:55AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - don't NMU for feature requests (i.e., wishlist bugs) without the maintainer's prior approval Shouldn't NMU's without the maintainers approval be restricted to RC and maybe important

Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

2005-10-21 Thread Steve Langasek
test whether putting this in common-session works right for all services? This seems like an opportune time for someone to write a config interface for /etc/pam.d/common-*, so that we have a generally useful means of enabling other PAM modules as well. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek

Re: what to do with iputils (ping, etc)

2005-10-21 Thread Steve Langasek
. Your message would seem less confrontational if you would deign to explain *why* Linux-specific kernel features are important in a ping implementation. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move

Re: what to do with iputils (ping, etc)

2005-10-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 11:44:45PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Oct 21, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your message would seem less confrontational if you would deign to explain *why* Linux-specific kernel features are important in a ping implementation. Because features like ping

Re: [Bug#334632] Your message to Pkg-openssl-devel awaits moderator approval

2005-10-22 Thread Steve Langasek
addresses whose postings should be automatically accepted. The From: address of mails sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or to bugs.debian.org is not going to match a short list. You need automatically accept by header regex, or something like it. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long

Re: a few tips on proper use of version tracking in the Debian BTS

2005-10-22 Thread Steve Langasek
], or it shouldn't have been closed. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ [1] with the exception, currently

Re: Drop KRB4 support from HEIMDAL

2005-10-23 Thread Steve Langasek
currently have in unstable, but I imagine we'd need to move to the new version. - -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Bug#315059: Drop KRB4 support from HEIMDAL

2005-10-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 12:18:27PM +1000, Brian May wrote: Steve == Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Steve On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 03:20:08PM -0400, Sam Hartman Steve wrote: Does the krb524 functionality disappear from the KDC if you turn off krb4? Steve

Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

2005-10-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 08:13:12AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 10:23:24 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Steve Langasek] This seems like an opportune time for someone to write a config interface for /etc/pam.d/common-*, so that we have a generally

Re: Status of libpng transition

2005-10-24 Thread Steve Langasek
. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: a few tips on proper use of version tracking in the Debian BTS

2005-10-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 11:50:11PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 05:14:20PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 09:41:15AM +1000, Brian May wrote: Brian == Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Along similar lines, if a have a closes: #nnn in my

Re: Status of libpng transition

2005-10-25 Thread Steve Langasek
need to be requeued now that the tetex-bin bug is fixed and uploaded on both of those archs. These have been given back for building, thanks. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world

Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

2005-10-26 Thread Steve Langasek
when using flatfile /etc/passwd. Neither of these is particularly relevant for system accounts, but if adduser gained support for something like this I don't see any reason for system accounts to *not* use it. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian

Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

2005-10-27 Thread Steve Langasek
. Well, thank God no one uses pam_pwdb anymore, at least... -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc

Re: Can we just finish the C++ transition for crying out loud?

2005-10-27 Thread Steve Langasek
would have thought to block gcc-4.0 from being uploaded anyway, so the mess would be the same, but with more busy work for the release team... -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world

Re: Help: Bug#336469: pure-ftpd uninstallable : no pure-ftpd-common

2005-10-31 Thread Steve Langasek
for binNMUs. - -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux

Re: Bug#336698: dh_strip: debug data going to the wrong place

2005-10-31 Thread Steve Langasek
. If there are detached symbol files that aren't working, that bug must lie elsewhere. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Transition time: KDE, JACK, arts, sablotron, unixodbc, net-snmp, php, ...

2005-10-31 Thread Steve Langasek
://www.erisian.com.au/market/. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Transition time: KDE, JACK, arts, sablotron, unixodbc, net-snmp, php, ...

2005-10-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 02:30:56PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Steve Langasek a écrit : source packages that need to be updated! As a result, the release team asks that the maintainers refrain from uploads of these packages for any reason without coordination with the release team, until

Re: Transition time: KDE, JACK, arts, sablotron, unixodbc, net-snmp, php, ...

2005-11-01 Thread Steve Langasek
policy is that if a package is RC-buggy, it's a candidate for removal from testing at any time. We would like to get notices to maintainers set up, but in the majority of cases the presence of an RC bug on the package is already ample notice. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long

Re: Help: Bug#336469: pure-ftpd uninstallable : no pure-ftpd-common

2005-11-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:27:06AM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] No, it's a bug in dpkg-dev, which should know how to set ${Source-Version} correctly for binNMUs. It can't really know, can it? If I have a control file with Package: foo

Re: Transition time: KDE, JACK, arts, sablotron, unixodbc, net-snmp, php, ...

2005-11-01 Thread Steve Langasek
anyway. We're only talking about keeping old binary packages around which are no longer available from the new source package, which is precisely the case that is at issue with library transitions. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: Bug#328423: must be moved from recommeds to suggests

2005-11-02 Thread Steve Langasek
. It doesn't mean that a broken Recommends: is not a bug. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Clarification of NMU policy

2005-11-02 Thread Steve Langasek
://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/10/msg00646.html ff. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-02 Thread Steve Langasek
* say is that kernels are only exempted from being considered part of the GPL definition of source code for a work *if* the GPLed work is not distributed together with the kernel. - -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-02 Thread Steve Langasek
of people who apparently have failed to read the last clause of the definition they quote at me? That hardly seems worthwhile. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Steve Langasek
standpoint because it imposes conditions on users use of the code which other Free Software licenses do not. I don't see any incentive at all for Debian, as an organization dedicated to Free Software, to try to sort out this issue. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough

Re: Transition time: KDE, JACK, arts, sablotron, unixodbc, net-snmp, php, ...

2005-11-04 Thread Steve Langasek
be happy to give you any info I can; though tbh, if I understood this part of the system very well, I probably would have written a patch myself already. ;) Cheers, - -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can

Re: per-user temp directories by default?

2005-11-04 Thread Steve Langasek
files located within the directory, which is unavoidable without moving to per-uid session directories by default (which then doesn't meet the needs of sites that share session files across security contexts). -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian

Re: Re: Transition time: KDE, JACK, arts, sablotron, unixodbc, net-snmp, php, ...

2005-11-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 01:20:06PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: We're only talking about keeping old binary packages around which are no longer available from the new source package, which is precisely the case that is at issue with library transitions. Ahhh. I

Re: Clarification of NMU policy

2005-11-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 02:40:07PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: On Wed, Nov 02, 2005, Steve Langasek wrote: For the record: there currently is not a 0-day NMU policy in effect. There was a 0-day NMU policy through the sarge release, and there are 0-day NMU policies during BSPs

Re: [Mass bug filing] Native vs. non-native packages consistency

2005-11-04 Thread Steve Langasek
debian-kernel@lists.debian.org) libast_0.6-0pre2003010606.1.tar.gz (Laurence J. Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Re: [Mass bug filing] Native vs. non-native packages consistency

2005-11-05 Thread Steve Langasek
, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Transition time: KDE, JACK, arts, sablotron, unixodbc, net-snmp, php, ...

2005-11-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 10:13:25AM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 04:20:45AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: Second, thanks to some enhancements Ryan Murray has recently made to buildd/wanna-build, it is now possible for the release team to request automated buildd

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-07 Thread Steve Langasek
be releasing binaries either. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: New version of kernel-package to create image packages using debconf

2005-11-08 Thread Steve Langasek
it depends or pre-depends on debconf. So I would say that such a pre-dependency is safe, unless anyone else sees a problem? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: RFC: drop kerberos4-support?

2005-11-11 Thread Steve Langasek
packages, either; and as the MIT Kerberos version doesn't seem to have any RC bugs at present regarding the status of its Kerberos 4 support, there doesn't seem to be any reason to cut it before upstream does. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian

Re: testing migration: wtf?

2005-11-11 Thread Steve Langasek
. Looks like confusion on the part of those scripts. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc

Re: RFC: drop kerberos4-support?

2005-11-11 Thread Steve Langasek
recompiling. If anything has to be recompiled which *doesn't* depend on libgssapi1-heimdal, then that's a bug that needs to be fixed in heimdal first... -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world

Re: Shall Debian's su conform to other implementations

2005-11-12 Thread Steve Langasek
packages made the upgrade path more difficult than it should have been... -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org

Re: Release update: kde3.3, upload targets, kernels, infrastructure

2005-01-27 Thread Steve Langasek
. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

eleventh-hour transition for mysql-using packages related to apache

2005-01-28 Thread Steve Langasek
fixed. Since there are only 17 source packages total, I expect to be done by the end of the weekend. If you object to this plan, please speak up now. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer [1] http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/licensing/foss-exception.html [2] http://bugs.debian.org

Re: eleventh-hour transition for mysql-using packages related to apache

2005-01-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 08:17:18PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: On 2005-01-28 sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 04:36:05PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 05:03:26AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: [...] Over the past six months

Re: circular dependencies and dist-upgrades sarge-woody

2005-01-29 Thread Steve Langasek
aptitude? Thanks, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: scripts to download porn in Debian?

2005-01-29 Thread Steve Langasek
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Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Steve Langasek
for responding to LWN interview questions (all times UTC-0800) I hope you'll be somewhat forgiving of the people involved for the unfortunate case of timing at work here. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 02:57:25PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 23:36:47 -0800, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, sparc is not in any danger of being dropped from SCC. :) As I said, none of the current sarge candidate architectures are. Considered that ftbfs bugs

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 05:59:21PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: Considered that ftbfs bugs for scc architectures are not going to be RC any more, Right, they'll be important instead of serious, the traditional severity for FTBFS on non-RC archs Somewhere else

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Steve Langasek
has been proposed, given that keeping release architectures in sync is the only thing we have that guarantees the sources in testing (and therefore in stable) are in a releasable state for each of those architectures. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Steve Langasek
to be a viable port, a year from now when we're trying to release etch; and nothing says that one or more of the other ports won't be in a position to meet those criteria and get added to the release list. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 04:38:35PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The inclusion of ia64 in the release count is a projection, based on where I believe things are today. Nothing the release team is doing ensures that ia64 is going to be a viable

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Steve Langasek
that alpha would fail this requirement by the time etch was released, but it seems that's not the case after all. Color me pleasantly surprised as an alpha aficionado, but all the same I don't actually run stable on my alpha right now, so it doesn't directly affect me either. -- Steve Langasek postmodern

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:32:57AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 12:23:12AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 11:21:29PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 10:47:15PM -0800, Thomas

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:39:24AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 08:45:09PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: To be eligible for inclusion in the archive at all, even in the (unstable-only) SCC archive, ftpmasters have specified the following architecture requirements

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Aurélien, On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:56:51AM +0100, Aurélien Jarno wrote: Steve Langasek a écrit : The much larger consequence of this meeting, however, has been the crafting of a prospective release plan for etch. The release team and the ftpmasters are mutually agreed

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Steve Langasek
trying to run a full testing infrastructure, or build against testing instead of unstable, is unlikely to be a good solution for those porters in practice because of some of the issues that I've pointed out. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:57:27AM +, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] This really makes unstable snapshotting, or building stable once it's released as Anthony has also suggested in this thread, look like much better options than trying to build out

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:28:15PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Op ma, 14-03-2005 te 16:09 -0800, schreef Steve Langasek: You do know that m68k is the only architecture still carrying around 2.*2* kernels in sarge? False. See sparc32. $ madison -a sparc -s testing -r 'kernel.*2\.2

Re: .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-15 Thread Steve Langasek
able to keep up. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:54:24AM +, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would add as for the core set architecture: - there must be a developer-accessible debian.org machine for the architecture. This gets a little tricky for non-RC architectures

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Steve Langasek
in the official testing, regardless of bug counts. In that case, what value is there in using it as the basis for a stable release? For that matter, why is it necessary to follow testing on an ongoing basis, instead of just building against everything in stable once it's released? -- Steve Langasek

Re: The sarge release disaster - some thoughts

2005-03-15 Thread Steve Langasek
without any warning? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

post-sarge transitions: slang

2005-03-16 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Alastair, On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 12:30:58PM +, Alastair McKinstry wrote: * Steve Langasek | If you are planning any other transitions that will affect a lot of | packages, please let us know in advance. We will need to complete the | larger transitions as fast as possible, to get

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-16 Thread Steve Langasek
up? The partial answer I was given for this was to wait and see how well ftp-master scales once connection caching is in place, before committing to giving porters free reign to plug new autobuilders into the network. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: post-sarge transitions: slang

2005-03-16 Thread Steve Langasek
and only have to carry one version of this core library for etch. IIRC, a slang transition directly or indirectly affects D-I, am I right? Yes, it does. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-16 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Roland, On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 04:04:45PM +0100, Roland Mas wrote: Steve Langasek, 2005-03-13 20:45:09 -0800 : It's also not clear how much benefit there is from doing stable releases for all of these architectures, because they aren't necessarily useful to the communities surrounding

Re: Another load of typos

2005-03-17 Thread Steve Langasek
in en_US were idiot politicians, and they *did* pronounce the initial h. For that matter, I can't recall ever hearing anyone drop an initial h just because the syllable was unstressed. On what do you base this claim of most? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-17 Thread Steve Langasek
problems which may crop up. The BTS would also need an architecture flag in order to apply RC bugs only to the testing migration of the affected architectures. I understand architecture flags shouldn't be a problem; but performance of archive tools could be. -- Steve Langasek postmodern

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-17 Thread Steve Langasek
to whether or not it's a release arch, except that all FCC architectures will be release architectures. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:37:11PM +, Brian M. Carlson wrote: On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 20:45 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: Architectures that are no longer being considered for stable releases are not going to be left out in the cold. I disagree. I feel that maintainers are going to ignore

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-18 Thread Steve Langasek
sake, but that's about it, AFAICT. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Relaxing testing requirements (was: summarising answers to Vancouver critique)

2005-03-18 Thread Steve Langasek
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Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the bui ldds!

2005-03-18 Thread Steve Langasek
much source passes through unstable each day, and how big a ccache would have to be to be useful on a buildd... -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: my thoughts on the Vancouver Prospectus

2005-03-18 Thread Steve Langasek
be collected. As a matter of fact, I just started one[3]. Feel free to incorporate the above answers into that page; as noted before, I don't think a wiki is a very effective tool for ongoing discussions. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 12:19:15PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Op ma, 14-03-2005 te 00:10 -0800, schreef Steve Langasek: Well, my objection is basically the same as Thomas's here -- all package builds are *not* equally urgent, Of course not, that is exactly my point. But from the POV

Re: The 98% and N=2 criteria (was: Vancouver meeting - clarifications)

2005-03-18 Thread Steve Langasek
by building on the big three -- i386, powerpc, amd64. If we know the software isn't going to be used, is it actually useful to build it as a QA measure? What value is there, in fact, in checking for bugs that will only be tripped while building software that isn't going to be used? -- Steve

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-19 Thread Steve Langasek
architectures to build all of the packages? I think this is a very pertinent question, and perhaps this discussion will lead us to an understanding of whether, and for which architectures, we should be asking for this. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Accepted valknut 0.3.7-1 (i386 source)

2005-03-19 Thread Steve Langasek
as such. If you're going to use the upload bug-closing convenience feature, use it right -- your changelog should have something relevant to say about the bug, which is *not*, in this case, New upstream version. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Buildd redundancy (was Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver...)

2005-03-19 Thread Steve Langasek
multiple buildd maintainers makes it hard to avoid stepping on one another's feet, so I wouldn't want to set a requirement like this without further discussion. Having multiple *local* admins, OTOH, follows from having geographic separation of the machines. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 05:43:26PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 09:47:42PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 07:59:43PM +, Alastair McKinstry wrote: AFAI can tell, anybody can host an archive of packages built from stable sources

Re: Buildd redundancy (was Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver...)

2005-03-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 04:37:05PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Hi, Steve Langasek wrote: This allows the buildd administrator to take vacations, etc. This is at odds with what I've heard from some buildd maintainers that having multiple buildd maintainers makes it hard to avoid

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-19 Thread Steve Langasek
circumstances or something of that sort. Right? Or do you realy want to remove i386 from the release if it fails 0 needs-build 10 times before etch release? Andreas never said anything about this being the criterion for RC architectures. He said it should be a *goal*. -- Steve Langasek postmodern

Re: .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-20 Thread Steve Langasek
architecture as a result of one of the above-mentioned failure scenarios that you haven't mitigated. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: dropping lpr-ppd from sarge

2005-03-20 Thread Steve Langasek
lpr-ppd, or asking for someone on this list to act to remove lpr-ppd from testing? To get this package removed from the archive, you will need to file a bug against ftp.debian.org. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer

Re: NEW handling ...

2005-03-20 Thread Steve Langasek
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Re: .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-20 Thread Steve Langasek
immediately dropping Sparc from consideration as a release arch. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 05:46:44PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: Andreas Barth wrote: * Marco d'Itri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050319 03:50]: On Mar 18, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There would definitely be duplication of arch:all between ftp.debian.org and ports.debian.org

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 06:06:56PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: On 2005-03-15 Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:56:51AM +0100, Aurélien Jarno wrote: [...] - there should be at least 2N buildd admins for this architecture. A lot of problems with buildds

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 12:35:28AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 11:43:48PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: the more or less aspect of the urgency is relevant here. We obviously have a system for classifying the severity of bugs in packages, and it's possible to relate

Re: my thoughts on the Vancouver Prospectus

2005-03-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 04:10:51AM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - While neither of the above concerns is overriding on its own (the ftpmasters have obviously allowed these ports to persist on ftp-master.debian.org, and they will be released

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-21 Thread Steve Langasek
), which is something I don't think we'd want. The whole point of SCC was to go without mirrors. *No*, the point is to not require all mirrors to carry all ports. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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