Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze
Previously Steve Dunham wrote: Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: pilot-link31806 pilot-link: Can't build from source This bug was filed against the 0.9.0 package and the 0.8.11 package is installed in slink. Thanks, I'll add it to my exclusion list tomorrow when I wake up. Wichert. -- == This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/ pgp98DtzH9CgA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ivtools 31966 Post Inst error I sent in a patch for this; it's a trivial fix. -- Shields.
Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze
After considerable delay, Slink is almost ready for release. As such, it will go into the deep freeze on Wednesday, January 20th. New uploads will be _greatly_ restricted. Also, the following packages will be removed because of release-critical bugs still open against them: Unless someone fixes them before wednesday, right? (on a related note, wednesday in what timezone?). As in when the automatic install runs on arount 3:00pm EST. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- No man dies except he who has not lived.
Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze
Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze After considerable delay, Slink is almost ready for release. As such, it will go into the deep freeze on Wednesday, January 20th. Brian, will you please consider to do a ftp.debian.org bug hunting *before* doing any deep freeze? The ftp maintainers will have to take care of that. I'm not sure if Guy shares the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail with his helpers. They're pretty good about getting things done usually. Some bugs reported two months ago have not been fixed yet. This means that either: * They are difficult to fix (unlikely). * There are not enough ftp.debian.org maintainers (I don't know). * The release manager does not care about ftp.debian.org bugs (I hope not). * Some other reason (Which one?). Could somebody explain me, why, oh why, do we have to wait more than two months for trivial ftp.debian.org bugs to be fixed? Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- Seize the moment! Live now. Make now always the most important time. -- JLP
Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze
dpkg 17624 dpkg: installs regular dir when .deb contains symlink ! 21182 dpkg: dpkg can go into an infinite loop with --force-configure-any 28519 dpkg: dpkg creates circular symlinks 28817 dpkg takes no care over libdpkg 30090 weirdass dpkg coredumps and xbase upgrade insanity 30891 dpkg: Patch for update-alternatives to fix jdk problems Is anyone actually working on these? Should they really hold up the release? To answer the first question, I don't know. To answer the second, that is the reason for the bug severities in the first place so presumably, yes. nonus.debian.org 21423 Dpkg-ftp can't handle alternative distributions This is important?? wu-ftpd-academ30931 wu-ftpd-academ: Can't build from source! I have compiled wu-ftpd-academ from source on saens at least 10 times, I did not get the problems described in the bug. Close it saying you can't reproduce it and ask someone to re-open it if they can reproduce it. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- If at first you don't succeed, so much for skydiving.
Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze
Brian White wrote: nonus.debian.org 21423 Dpkg-ftp can't handle alternative distributions This is important?? I don't know what this bug is referring to, but there is a new dpkg-ftp which can handle multiple servers. I wrote a dpkg-multiftp method for the same reasn, the new dpkg-ftp maintainer has merged both. Regards, Joey -- Those who don't understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists.
Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze
On Tue 19 Jan 1999, Branden Robinson wrote: XFree86 3.3.2.3a-8pre9v4 is available at http://master.debian.org/~branden/xfree86/ . This doesn't seem to have the patches CRITICAL to the alpha port yet! I sent you a note around 7th January about this, saying where you could find the patches I needed to -8pre9v2. I'll say it again: http://master.debian.org/~paul/alpha/xfree86/xfree86-alpha.diff Without these, the X server crashes and burns. PLEASE add these patches before uploading -9 ! Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | debian: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl | Murphy Software, Enschede, the Netherlands
Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze
On 19 Jan 1999, James Troup wrote: [...] We regularly do and have been clearing out release critical bugs against ftp.debian.org ever since the freeze. [The exceptions being certain ``release critical'' bugs filed by Santiago, [...] Please do not confuse release critical with severity: important again. It is up to the release manager to decide whether a certain bug should delay the release or not. When I file a Severity: important bug, I'm using the definition of severity in the web bug pages: bugs which makes the package unsuitable for release. It is still my opinion that the great number of package conflicts and wrong dependencies make the ftp.debian.org as a whole unsuitable for release, but I will of course respect the opinion of the ftp.debian.org maintainers on this. which I just ignored, and Richard finally demoted to normal, provoking the typical harassment from him.] When Richard demoted some bugs to normal he said: It is much easier to fix them only in unstable. At least, this is something to worry about. Does this mean that the ftp.debian.org admins do not plan to fix any other bug against ftp.debian.org (slink) before release unless it is severity: important or higher? I just hope that this is not the case. -- e546319dc228b34135e7b0ee0ed73373 (a truly random sig)
Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze
Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: pilot-link31806 pilot-link: Can't build from source This bug was filed against the 0.9.0 package and the 0.8.11 package is installed in slink. Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Brian White wrote: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze After considerable delay, Slink is almost ready for release. As such, it will go into the deep freeze on Wednesday, January 20th. Brian, will you please consider to do a ftp.debian.org bug hunting *before* doing any deep freeze? Some bugs reported two months ago have not been fixed yet. This means that either: * They are difficult to fix (unlikely). * There are not enough ftp.debian.org maintainers (I don't know). * The release manager does not care about ftp.debian.org bugs (I hope not). * Some other reason (Which one?). Could somebody explain me, why, oh why, do we have to wait more than two months for trivial ftp.debian.org bugs to be fixed? Thanks. -- 2c98611832ea3f6f5fdda95d3704fbb8 (a truly random sig)
Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze
Previously Brian White wrote: After considerable delay, Slink is almost ready for release. As such, it will go into the deep freeze on Wednesday, January 20th. New uploads will be _greatly_ restricted. Also, the following packages will be removed because of release-critical bugs still open against them: Unless someone fixes them before wednesday, right? (on a related note, wednesday in what timezone?). boot-floppies 31099 the 'load modules' screen hangs 31618 Frozen boot floppies don't work on Tosh laptop. Already fixed in CVS, a new upload is waiting for Herbert Xu to release a new kernel-image with a tecra kernel. cracklib-runtime 27511 crack_packer outputs numbers to stdout dpkg 17624 dpkg: installs regular dir when .deb contains symlink ! 21182 dpkg: dpkg can go into an infinite loop with --force-configure-any 28519 dpkg: dpkg creates circular symlinks 28817 dpkg takes no care over libdpkg 30090 weirdass dpkg coredumps and xbase upgrade insanity 30891 dpkg: Patch for update-alternatives to fix jdk problems dpkg-dev 25537 dpkg-dev: dpkg-genchanges does not allow quot;-quot; in the architecture 31508 parsechangelog broken? Yaiks, I'll try to do some work on this later today. fileutils 30184 fileutils: chown broken on symlinks This is only a problem for potato, not for slink. ftp.debian.org14898 courtney has problematic license 31282 upgrade-1386 directory in Incoming 31578 cfengine needs to be in frozen cfengine has been reuploaded for slink; this bug should probably be closed? kernel-image-2.0 31516 kernel-image-2.0.36: please add these ISDN fixes Herbert Xu already uploaded a new kernel-image package which fixes this. perl-suid 31904 Secuity hole with perl (suidperl) and nosuid mounts on Linux tcsh 28959 meta keys in tcsh don't work anymore! This is already fixed with version 6.08.01-3 xbase 30852 X packages do not upgrade automatically due to name change. xdm 29360 xdm: Stopped X without warning/asking xlib6 31610 xlib6: requires gcc but declares no dependency (dpkg --print-gnu-build-architecture?) xserver-common29166 xserver-common: should depend or at least recommend properly ver'd xlib6g Branden has a release candidate for X ready somewhere, and I urge everyone to test that! Wichert. -- == This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/ pgptSsDUXOb2d.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote: xbase 30852 X packages do not upgrade automatically due to name change. xdm 29360 xdm: Stopped X without warning/asking xlib6 31610 xlib6: requires gcc but declares no dependency (dpkg --print-gnu-build-architecture?) xserver-common29166 xserver-common: should depend or at least recommend properly ver'd xlib6g Branden has a release candidate for X ready somewhere, and I urge everyone to test that! The site is: http://master.debian.org/~branden/xfree86/ or in apt: deb http://master.debian.org/%7Ebranden xfree86/ These are considered experimental, but I'm sure he welcomes all testers. HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | The above is a completely random sequence of bits, any relation to | | an actual message is purely accidental. |
Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Brian White wrote: dpkg 17624 dpkg: installs regular dir when .deb contains symlink ! 21182 dpkg: dpkg can go into an infinite loop with --force-configure-any 28519 dpkg: dpkg creates circular symlinks 28817 dpkg takes no care over libdpkg 30090 weirdass dpkg coredumps and xbase upgrade insanity 30891 dpkg: Patch for update-alternatives to fix jdk problems Is anyone actually working on these? Should they really hold up the release? nonus.debian.org 21423 Dpkg-ftp can't handle alternative distributions This is important?? wu-ftpd-academ30931 wu-ftpd-academ: Can't build from source! I have compiled wu-ftpd-academ from source on saens at least 10 times, I did not get the problems described in the bug. Jason
Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Brandon Mitchell wrote: On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Branden has a release candidate for X ready somewhere, and I urge everyone to test that! The site is: http://master.debian.org/~branden/xfree86/ Mmm, what about the needed compatibility packages? Will you have some time for this? I think it is absolutely essential for the success of Debian 2.1 that nobody will automagically lose functionality in the upgrade process. -- 7b5944f87641b8824fca2bc90f1bdda5 (a truly random sig)
Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Santiago Vila wrote: On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Brandon Mitchell wrote: On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Branden has a release candidate for X ready somewhere, and I urge everyone to test that! The site is: http://master.debian.org/~branden/xfree86/ Mmm, what about the needed compatibility packages? Will you have some time for this? I think it is absolutely essential for the success of Debian 2.1 that nobody will automagically lose functionality in the upgrade process. Done in experimental changes file: * xbase is now a pseudo-package used to smooth upgrades from hamm or earlier systems * what was the new xbase is now xfree86-common HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | The above is a completely random sequence of bits, any relation to | | an actual message is purely accidental. |
Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze
Le Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 11:15:39AM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe écrivait: Is anyone actually working on these? Should they really hold up the release? Wichert said, he will have a look. nonus.debian.org 21423 Dpkg-ftp can't handle alternative distributions This is important?? This bug is not listed on Wichert's list, and it's not a bug in nonus.debian.org but in dpkg-ftp, the bug does no more exist in dpkg-ftp_1.6.0 (which is in unstable), but if Brian thinks it's worth to upload it to frozen, I can do it (but theres's a lot of modified code). In any way, i'll close this bug. The problem does only appear when using server that do not have a symlink from debian/dists/state/non-US to debian-non-US/dists/state/non-US so nobody can correct this bug... Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog 0C4CABF1 http://prope.insa-lyon.fr/~rhertzog/
Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Brandon Mitchell wrote: On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Santiago Vila wrote: Mmm, what about the needed compatibility packages? Will you have some time for this? I think it is absolutely essential for the success of Debian 2.1 that nobody will automagically lose functionality in the upgrade process. Done in experimental changes file: * xbase is now a pseudo-package used to smooth upgrades from hamm or earlier systems * what was the new xbase is now xfree86-common Please, remember that we need also pseudopackages xfnt100, xfnt75, etc. Otherwise dselect will not select the new ones in favour of the old ones unless the user had some package which specifically depended on some of the old one and now depends on the new one. Since we can't guarantee that this will always be the case, we need pseudopackages for all the xfnt old packages and for every other package that changed its name. Thanks. -- 81b7ddb51cac2db1f4ffacfe4156cb45 (a truly random sig)
Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze
Jason Gunthorpe wrote: wu-ftpd-academ30931 wu-ftpd-academ: Can't build from source! I have compiled wu-ftpd-academ from source on saens at least 10 times, I did not get the problems described in the bug. The problem seemed to be Alpha-related. I tried unsuccessfully to port the package (lacked the time, mostly...the coding wasn't really that hard) earlier, fyi. Despite the fact that a deb has mysteriously appeared for this package in binary-alpha, I'm still (as of right now) unable to compile the package from source on two different Alphas with the same error quoted in the bug report. I'll work on the package ASAP to try to get some patches up so we can close this bug report. C
Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze
Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: pilot-link31806 pilot-link: Can't build from source I just tried rebuilding pilot-link, after making the changes in debian/rules suggested in the BTS entry (changing all egcc to gcc), and could not reproduce the bug. I've never dealt with a bug in someone else's package before; does this mean that I should do an NMU and close the bug, or...??? (I really don't want to see pilot-link drop out, as it will take two of my packages, ones I am the upstream author of no less, with it.) --Rob -- Rob Tillotson N9MTB [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Santiago Vila wrote: On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Brandon Mitchell wrote: On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Santiago Vila wrote: Mmm, what about the needed compatibility packages? Will you have some time for this? I think it is absolutely essential for the success of Debian 2.1 that nobody will automagically lose functionality in the upgrade process. Done in experimental changes file: * xbase is now a pseudo-package used to smooth upgrades from hamm or earlier systems * what was the new xbase is now xfree86-common Please, remember that we need also pseudopackages xfnt100, xfnt75, etc. Otherwise dselect will not select the new ones in favour of the old ones unless the user had some package which specifically depended on some of the old one and now depends on the new one. Since we can't guarantee that this will always be the case, we need pseudopackages for all the xfnt old packages and for every other package that changed its name. Surely not? Surely the Replace/Provide/Conflict combination will make dselect pick the new ones? (although this doesn't work for apt-get upgrade, I don't think) Jules /+---+-\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd| | Jules aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Richmond, Surrey | | Julian Bean | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| TW9 2TF *UK* | ++---+-+ | War doesn't demonstrate who's right... just who's left. | | When privacy is outlawed... only the outlaws have privacy. | \--/
Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze
Le Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 08:04:32AM -0500, Brian White écrivait: fileutils 30184 fileutils: chown broken on symlinks This bug is for potato only. You should consider using Wichert's list of release critical bug... Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog 0C4CABF1 http://prope.insa-lyon.fr/~rhertzog/
Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Jules Bean wrote: On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Santiago Vila wrote: [ ... ] Please, remember that we need also pseudopackages xfnt100, xfnt75, etc. Otherwise dselect will not select the new ones in favour of the old ones unless the user had some package which specifically depended on some of the old one and now depends on the new one. Since we can't guarantee that this will always be the case, we need pseudopackages for all the xfnt old packages and for every other package that changed its name. Surely not? Surely the Replace/Provide/Conflict combination will make dselect pick the new ones? I'm sorry but I'm afraid this is not the case. I hate to say this, but please read the packaging manual and/or the policy manual. I think you could be a little bit confused about the meaning of some of these fields. If you want a short explanation, here is one: dselect will not take in account *any* of the fields in the packages you *don't* have installed, unless there is an unsatisfied dependency. You could make the new xbase to conflict every package that changed its name, but then dselect could simple mark them for removal. -- 20a90020402cc6119b4acfbf159fc05a (a truly random sig)
Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Santiago Vila wrote: Surely not? Surely the Replace/Provide/Conflict combination will make dselect pick the new ones? I'm sorry but I'm afraid this is not the case. I hate to say this, but please read the packaging manual and/or the policy manual. I think you could be a little bit confused about the meaning of some of these fields. If you want a short explanation, here is one: dselect will not take in account *any* of the fields in the packages you *don't* have installed, unless there is an unsatisfied dependency. Doh. Of course, you're right. I wasn't thinking clearly.. Jules /+---+-\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd| | Jules aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Richmond, Surrey | | Julian Bean | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| TW9 2TF *UK* | ++---+-+ | War doesn't demonstrate who's right... just who's left. | | When privacy is outlawed... only the outlaws have privacy. | \--/
Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 02:54:58PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: dpkg-dev 25537 dpkg-dev: dpkg-genchanges does not allow quot;-quot; in the architecture This is important for the Hurd only, and should be in Wicherts exception list. It is irrelevant for the slink release. Worst case would be that I fix it in a NMU for _unstable_ when I incorporate dpkg-architecture into dpkg-dev (assuming my policy proposal get's accepted), which does not happen in January. This should not hold up the release in any way, although it is very easy to fix. Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.orgmaster.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze
Rob Tillotson wrote: I just tried rebuilding pilot-link, after making the changes in debian/rules suggested in the BTS entry (changing all egcc to gcc), and could not reproduce the bug. The bug is really for potato and is Alpha-based (again). I'll look into this one now as well. It *should* build fine, if past pilot-link experience is worth anything. Then again, new upstream versions frequently break things. As a start, though, let's incorporate the patches submitted in #27941 (I'll do this here) and try again. Also, fyi, when egcs is built, despite the fact that it's a primary compiler on the Alphas (hence is 'gcc'), a link named 'egcc' is installed pointing to gcc. I've never dealt with a bug in someone else's package before; does this mean that I should do an NMU and close the bug, or...??? (I really don't want to see pilot-link drop out, as it will take two of my packages, ones I am the upstream author of no less, with it.) Agreed. This is a useful package (granted, I don't have a Palm-series machine, but still...) At any rate, it should be ok to ignore this bug relating to release criteria since it applies to the potato version of the package. C
Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 02:54:58PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: ftp.debian.org14898 courtney has problematic license 31282 upgrade-1386 directory in Incoming 31578 cfengine needs to be in frozen cfengine has been reuploaded for slink; this bug should probably be closed? It is closed now, I wanted to wait for dinstall to confirm prior to closing it. -- --- - - --- - - - --- Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux UnixGroup Admin - Jordan Systems Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- - - - --- --- -- The Choice of the GNU Generation
Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze
Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could somebody explain me, why, oh why, do we have to wait more than two months for trivial ftp.debian.org bugs to be fixed? Perhaps because the more you whine about it the more prone we are to ignore you? -- James
Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze
Rob Tillotson wrote: I just tried rebuilding pilot-link, after making the changes in debian/rules suggested in the BTS entry (changing all egcc to gcc), and could not reproduce the bug. Ok...I fixed this one and am uploading it shortly (NMU binary with patches going to BTS). The rules file was adding -L(path)/_libs when the Alpha wants -L(path)/.libs. I'll have to try to rebuild this on my Pentium to see if the changes stick there too or if this is a quirk between archs (doubt it...should work from what I noticed). So, with maintainer intervention/patching, this should be closed soon. C
Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 08:04:32AM -0500, Brian White wrote: Comments apply to the forthcoming -9 release. Also, the following packages will hold up the final release because of release- critical bugs against them. [...] xbase 30852 X packages do not upgrade automatically due to name change. This is handled by the new xbase pseudo-package (see elsewhere on debian-devel, mail from Ben Gertzfield). Package: xbase Architecture: all Description: XFree86 upgrade convenience package Between Debian 2.0 (hamm) and 2.1 (slink) the XFree86 packages were extensively reorganized; this package exists solely to smooth the transition for people upgrading from Debian 2.0 or earlier. Once it has been installed it may be removed at any time; it contains no programs, libraries, or documentation. . For the technically curious, this package exists solely to declare dependencies on the packages among whom the old xbase package's files were distributed. The new packages are auto-selected by apt or dselect as a result, and the X Window System is properly upgraded. Section: oldlibs Priority: extra Depends: rstart, rstartd, twm, xbase-clients, xdm, xfree86-common, xfs, xlib6g, xlib6g-dev, xmh, xproxy, xserver-common, xsm, xterm The X font packages should not be a problem with apt-get dist-upgrade. E.g., Package: xfonts-100dpi Architecture: all Description: 100 dpi fonts for X servers xfonts-100dpi provides a set of bitmapped fonts at 100 dots per inch. In most cases it is desirable to have the X font server (xfs) and/or an X server to make the fonts available to X clients. Conflicts: xfnt100 Replaces: xfnt100 Provides: xfnt100 Depends: xbase-clients Recommends: xfs | xserver xdm 29360 xdm: Stopped X without warning/asking See my message to this bug. The old xbase prerm is the problem here; this is an issue for the release notes. The other points raised in the release noted are fixed in my current test build. xlib6 31610 xlib6: requires gcc but declares no dependency (dpkg --print-gnu-build-architecture?) Apparently the dpkg command above is the wrong way to get the string I want. Marcus Brinkmann has offered to fix this one for me (applies to xlib6, xlib6-dev, and xlib6-static). xserver-common29166 xserver-common: should depend or at least recommend properly ver'd xlib6g I have moved xinit (and thus startx) from xserver-common to xbase-clients, so this no longer necessary. Nothing in xserver-common depends on the X libraries, which was the original intent of the package. XFree86 3.3.2.3a-8pre9v4 is available at http://master.debian.org/~branden/xfree86/ . -- G. Branden Robinson |Yesterday upon the stair, Debian GNU/Linux |I met a man who wasn't there. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |He wasn't there again today, cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |I think he's from the CIA. pgpjpYUfiUCKR.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze
On 19 Jan 1999, James Troup wrote: Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could somebody explain me, why, oh why, do we have to wait more than two months for trivial ftp.debian.org bugs to be fixed? Perhaps because the more you whine about it the more prone we are to ignore you? Personally, I really hope that's not the case. Bugs against ftp.debian.org are often important - these ones are holding up slink's release (granted, they're not the only things holding it up). It would be upsetting to think that our ftp.debian.org maintainer team was choosing to spite the whole distribution because some developers were whining. It is also always upsetting to see an 'ad hominem' answer to an important question - however the original question was couched. So, could I (respectfully) ask someone on the ftp.debian.org team to explain the delay? If the problem is time constraints on the individuals concerned - which is something we can all have sympathy for - then perhaps the team would like to ask for volunteers to help with the spade-work. Jules /+---+-\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd| | Jules aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Richmond, Surrey | | Julian Bean | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| TW9 2TF *UK* | ++---+-+ | War doesn't demonstrate who's right... just who's left. | | When privacy is outlawed... only the outlaws have privacy. | \--/
Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze
Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bugs against ftp.debian.org are often important - these ones are holding up slink's release (granted, they're not the only things holding it up). No, it's not these ones. Santiago is whining (again) about other bugs. The release critical bugs for ftp.debian.org are: ftp.debian.org14898 courtney has problematic license 31282 upgrade-1386 directory in Incoming 31578 cfengine needs to be in frozen 31828 cgiwrap is old and unmaintained #14898 is newly promoted, so it missed my clean out over the weekend. #31282 is... problematic, I'll let Guy explain. #31578 was never really a ftp.debian.org bug, I chased BenC up about that several days ago and I believe he's fixed it. #31828 is also problematic (see the bug log for the details). We regularly do and have been clearing out release critical bugs against ftp.debian.org ever since the freeze. [The exceptions being certain ``release critical'' bugs filed by Santiago, which I just ignored, and Richard finally demoted to normal, provoking the typical harassment from him.] It would be upsetting to think that our ftp.debian.org maintainer team was choosing to spite the whole distribution because some developers were whining. That's clearly not the case, please don't so blatantly misrepresent things. It is also always upsetting to see an 'ad hominem' answer to an important question - however the original question was couched. Santiago's behaviour is why I'm ignoring a lot of his bugs, I'd like to see you suggest a way I explain that without being ``ad hominem''. So, could I (respectfully) ask someone on the ftp.debian.org team to explain the delay? What freaking delay? Please look at the bug report logs and show me evidence that we're in any way holding up the release (i.e. there is any danger of all the other release critical bugs against non-chuckable packages being fixed before ftp.debian.org's). It'd be a cunning trick if you could. If the problem is time constraints on the individuals concerned - which is something we can all have sympathy for - then perhaps the team would like to ask for volunteers to help with the spade-work. As Brian has said to Santiago already (those he chooses to ignore it so he can whine more effectively), we do not need more help, and we certainly do not want his ``help''. Personally, I'd like to get on with the slink release and other things, so please, don't carry this thread on. -- James
Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze
Previously Marcus Brinkmann wrote: This is important for the Hurd only, and should be in Wicherts exception list. Thanks, I'll add it. Wichert. -- == This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/ pgpyiq4hYpuFr.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze
Previously Raphael Hertzog wrote: Wichert said, he will have a look. I did, and just uploaded a new NMU (Vincent, I moved your NMU to dpkg-old-NMU in Incoming so I didn't get a conflict with the installation manuals). I'll add the changelog for your viewing pleasure. Wichert. dpkg (1.4.0.33) frozen; urgency=high * Non-maintainer upload * WARNING: please don't change the severity of the mentioned bugs to * fixed, since this upload is NOT going to potato but only to slink * Fix illegal perl construct (Bug# 30985) * Initialize oialtname-useinstead and oicontest-camefrom to 0 (Bug# * 30397) * Update shlibs.default for libncurses 4 (Bug# 30332) * Suggest * debian-keyring instead of developer-keyring (Bug# 27376, 30248) * Abort dpkg-divert when attempting to divert a directory (Bug# 30126) * Make dpkg-deb.1 aware that it is in section 1, not 8 * Fix section in reference to dpkg-deb in dpkg.8 (Bug# 29740) * Fix typo in --force-help (Bug# 26193) * Correct path for debian-changelog-mode.el (Bug# 24606) * Make disk-method for dpkg use /var/run instead of /tmp to fix symlink-attacks (Bug# 21399) * Document -n and -f options for update-rc.d in manpage (Bug# 15913) * Add --abort-after option to change after how many errors we abort * and change the default to 50 (Bug# 22940) * Fix controllib.pl: don't check debian/substvars unless needed, and don't depend on language settings (Bug# 31508) * Allow a - in the architecture-field (Bug# 25537) -- Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed, 20 Jan 1999 00:23:06 +0100 dpkg (1.4.0.32) frozen; urgency=high * NMU: (Not uploaded in unstable which has dpkg-1.4.1) Apply patch from Jim Pick for update-alternatives.pl to fix 'Important' bugs #30891 in dpkg and (#27382, #27383, #27696, #27703, #27736, #27097(merged bugs)) in jdk1.1. -- Vincent Renardias [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed, 6 Jan 1999 15:27:42 +0100 -- == This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/ pgpzQxYw3oZzB.pgp Description: PGP signature
