Re: [arch-dev-public] Xorg-server 1.14 hitting testing
Am 16.03.2013 11:09, schrieb Pierre Schmitz: Am 16.03.2013 10:05, schrieb Andreas Radke: I'd like to move Xorg 1.14 pretty soon, best would be together with the kernels. It's up to you whether you want to announce to hold the update for catalyst users or remove it from the repos. I just noticed that Virtualbox does not work with the latest xorg-server due to ABI mismatch. Is this known? It's possible that rebuildig the driver might fix this. Why was this moved to extra regardless of the known issues it causes? -- Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com
Re: [arch-dev-public] BIND10? No, thanks.
[2013-03-09 13:27:42 +1100] Gaetan Bisson: - We ditch dnsutils and bind out of our repos, unless somebody finds them fun and wants to maintain them in [extra] or [community]. I would like to post the following announcement. Comments are welcome. Deprecation of bind and dnsutils The direction BIND has taken with its recent BIND10 release [makes it impossible](https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-March/024588.html) for us to keep relying on it. Consequently, official packages using [dnsutils](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/dnsutils/) were migrated to [ldns](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/ldns/), a much nicer library which provides a `drill` command that replaces `dig`, `nslookup`, and `host`. We strongly suggest you migrate your own software to [ldns](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/ldns/) too, and replace [bind](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/bind/); with ldns-based alternatives: - the [unbound](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/unbound/) resolving server (see [wiki](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unbound)); - the [nsd](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/nsd/) authoritative server (see [wiki](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nsd)). The deprecated packages [dnsutils](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/dnsutils/) and [bind](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/bind/) will soon be dropped to the AUR. -- Gaetan
Re: [arch-dev-public] BIND10? No, thanks.
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 10:50 PM, Gaetan Bisson bis...@archlinux.org wrote: [2013-03-09 13:27:42 +1100] Gaetan Bisson: - We ditch dnsutils and bind out of our repos, unless somebody finds them fun and wants to maintain them in [extra] or [community]. I would like to post the following announcement. Comments are welcome. Deprecation of bind and dnsutils The direction BIND has taken with its recent BIND10 release [makes it impossible](https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-March/024588.html) for us to keep relying on it. Consequently, official packages using [dnsutils](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/dnsutils/) were migrated to [ldns](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/ldns/), a much nicer library which provides a `drill` command that replaces `dig`, `nslookup`, and `host`. We strongly suggest you migrate your own software to [ldns](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/ldns/) too, and replace [bind](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/bind/); with ldns-based alternatives: - the [unbound](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/unbound/) resolving server (see [wiki](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unbound)); - the [nsd](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/nsd/) authoritative server (see [wiki](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nsd)). The deprecated packages [dnsutils](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/dnsutils/) and [bind](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/bind/) will soon be dropped to the AUR. This will have add 4 soon-to-be-dead links to packages in a news item, which doesn't seem like a great idea. It also links exclusively to one architecture. I would not include a single link to anything under /packages/, whether these are new or old- you never know what the landscape will look like in 6 months. Instead, just use the standard `pkgname` or whatever syntax and people will be smart enough to search for it. Outside of that, the rest of the text looks good to me. -Dan
Re: [arch-dev-public] BIND10? No, thanks.
[2013-03-19 22:57:31 -0500] Dan McGee: This will have add 4 soon-to-be-dead links to packages in a news item, which doesn't seem like a great idea. It also links exclusively to one architecture. I would not include a single link to anything under /packages/, whether these are new or old- you never know what the landscape will look like in 6 months. Instead, just use the standard `pkgname` or whatever syntax and people will be smart enough to search for it. Right. Here's the updated version. Deprecation of bind and dnsutils The direction BIND has taken with its recent BIND10 release [makes it impossible](https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-March/024588.html) for us to keep relying on it. Consequently, official packages using `dnsutils` were migrated to `ldns`, a much nicer library which provides a `drill` command that replaces `dig`, `nslookup`, and `host`. We strongly suggest you migrate your own software to `ldns` too, and replace `bind` with ldns-based alternatives: - the `unbound` resolving server (see [wiki](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unbound)); - the `nsd` authoritative server (see [wiki](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nsd)). The deprecated packages (`dnsutils` and `bind`) will soon be dropped to the AUR. -- Gaetan
