Bug#685248: unblock boinc/7.0.34+dfsg-2
(resending to BTS with Steffen's permission) Steffen Möller wrote 7.0.27 does the job. [... lots of interesting details snipped ...] Since the package does something good to the world at large, I do not want any such removal again, [...] On http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php you see the latest version that upstream suggests to be installed. My pledge would be to go for that version for the next release. That is 7.0.28 ( = Wheezy + 0.0.1) at the moment. The diffstat from 7.0.27 to 7.0.28 is 69 files changed, 442 insertions(+), 238 deletions(-) Excluding boinc-manager, it is 59 files changed, 217 insertions(+), 165 deletions(-) which is approaching a more reviewable size. Extracting the bugfixes still seems simpler, but if all unimportant changes are unrisky it might be possible to sell the release team on just using the updated upstream version. (Disclaimer: I haven't reviewed the diff for myself.) Steffen also wrote: please ask the release team to allow the next upstream-declared suggested version in. Presumably meaning 7.0.4x or 7.1.0. I fear that will be too large of a change. Thanks, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130121070555.GB3265@elie.Belkin
Bug#685248: unblock boinc/7.0.34+dfsg-2
Hi Steffen, Steffen Möller wrote: I have mentally given up on Wheezy and BOINC. That's unfortunate to hear. What is your advice for the release team? Is the version currently in wheezy appropriate for release, should it be removed, or are there some fixes missing that would make it appropriate? Thanks for your help, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130119213115.GB4009@elie.Belkin
Bug#685248: unblock boinc/7.0.34+dfsg-2
tags 685248 + moreinfo quit Hi, Guo Yixuan wrote: we still hope to have an update for boinc. Could you describe what such an update would look like (and attach a debdiff)? The current diff between testing and experimental is 242 files changed, 14119 insertions(+), 10822 deletions(-) which seems a little large for this stage in the release cycle. More targetted fixes for serious bugs could be appropriate if they exist. Thanks and hope that helps, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130103071158.GA32763@elie.Belkin
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Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: tags 685248 + moreinfo Bug #685248 [release.debian.org] unblock boinc/7.0.36+dfsg-1 Added tag(s) moreinfo. quit Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. -- 685248: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=685248 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/handler.s.c.13571971352031.transcr...@bugs.debian.org
Re: unblock boinc/7.0.34+dfsg-2
Control: retitle -1 unblock boinc/7.0.36+dfsg-1 On 10/11/2012 04:41 AM, Steffen Möller wrote: Hello Julien, thank you for your reply. Original-Nachricht Datum: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 22:16:56 +0200 Von: Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 21:09:28 +0800, Guo Yixuan wrote: Hi, Is there any progress for this unblock request? boinc is in NEW, and we've responded to FTP Masters' (Luca and Ansgar) request by doing some fixes, updating boinc to 7.0.34+dfsg-2 which conforms to FTP Masters' requirement. Now we (FTP Masters and BOINC team) are waiting for you comment on our unblock request. As the package isn't in testing I don't think ftpmaster need to wait on us. boinc-app-seti is (sadly) not in testing, as you said. boinc instead is in testing - just in a somewhat oldish (7.0.27, 5 month ago) version now. We would very much like to update that. 7.0.3x is tested extensively in the Ubuntu community, which is sharing the git repository with us. Quite some user-sensative bugs are fixed in that version. Yes, even if boinc-app-seti doen't have much hope to get into wheezy, we still hope to have an update for boinc. It just feels bad when the Debian folks are doing the packaging work and the Ubuntu users profit from it, not even in unstable. And we cannot get it into backports either. Cheers, Guo Yixuan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5076a156.9020...@gmail.com
Processed: Re: unblock boinc/7.0.34+dfsg-2
Processing control commands: retitle -1 unblock boinc/7.0.36+dfsg-1 Bug #685248 [release.debian.org] unblock: boinc/7.0.33-1 and boinc-app-seti/6.12~svn1385-1 Changed Bug title to 'unblock boinc/7.0.36+dfsg-1' from 'unblock: boinc/7.0.33-1 and boinc-app-seti/6.12~svn1385-1' -- 685248: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=685248 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/handler.s.b685248.134995183222578.transcr...@bugs.debian.org
Re: unblock boinc/7.0.34+dfsg-2 (was: Bug#685248: unblock: boinc/7.0.33-1 and boinc-app-seti/6.12~svn1385-1)
On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 21:09:28 +0800, Guo Yixuan wrote: Hi, Is there any progress for this unblock request? boinc is in NEW, and we've responded to FTP Masters' (Luca and Ansgar) request by doing some fixes, updating boinc to 7.0.34+dfsg-2 which conforms to FTP Masters' requirement. Now we (FTP Masters and BOINC team) are waiting for you comment on our unblock request. As the package isn't in testing I don't think ftpmaster need to wait on us. Cheers, Julien signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: unblock boinc/7.0.34+dfsg-2 (was: Bug#685248: unblock: boinc/7.0.33-1 and boinc-app-seti/6.12~svn1385-1)
Hello Julien, thank you for your reply. Original-Nachricht Datum: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 22:16:56 +0200 Von: Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 21:09:28 +0800, Guo Yixuan wrote: Hi, Is there any progress for this unblock request? boinc is in NEW, and we've responded to FTP Masters' (Luca and Ansgar) request by doing some fixes, updating boinc to 7.0.34+dfsg-2 which conforms to FTP Masters' requirement. Now we (FTP Masters and BOINC team) are waiting for you comment on our unblock request. As the package isn't in testing I don't think ftpmaster need to wait on us. boinc-app-seti is (sadly) not in testing, as you said. boinc instead is in testing - just in a somewhat oldish (7.0.27, 5 month ago) version now. We would very much like to update that. 7.0.3x is tested extensively in the Ubuntu community, which is sharing the git repository with us. Quite some user-sensative bugs are fixed in that version. It just feels bad when the Debian folks are doing the packaging work and the Ubuntu users profit from it, not even in unstable. And we cannot get it into backports either. Many greetings Steffen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121010204141.247...@gmx.net
unblock boinc/7.0.34+dfsg-2 (was: Bug#685248: unblock: boinc/7.0.33-1 and boinc-app-seti/6.12~svn1385-1)
Hi, Is there any progress for this unblock request? boinc is in NEW, and we've responded to FTP Masters' (Luca and Ansgar) request by doing some fixes, updating boinc to 7.0.34+dfsg-2 which conforms to FTP Masters' requirement. Now we (FTP Masters and BOINC team) are waiting for you comment on our unblock request. unblock boinc/7.0.34+dfsg-2 Cheers, Guo Yixuan On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 03:27:08, Steffen Möller wrote: Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock Please unblock package boinc and boinc-app-seti Right. Why do I want the two packages to be in unstable. Hm. Firstly, I think the two belong together. The BOINC Debian packages allow everyone to inspect what they run on their machines contacting external servers. And the same for those otherwise uninspectable apps from third parties. Boinc-app-seti is the boinc application with far the widest distribution across platforms. The packages are iconic for what Debian can achieve for platform compatibility. The previous (nicely working) version of SETI was removed when BOINC was removed because MySQL had been removed (the dependency to it has now been removed together with the boinc-server-maker binary package) and the fglrx was not in Wheezy (dependency removed together with the boinc-ati-opencl package). So, please allow SETI back in. It was removed albeit being innocent in the first place. We were nice to the package in the meantime, kept the orig.tar.gz. We now also gave it the opportunity to link against the shared library that the boinc-client kindly provides. With BOINC back in, and me having my key back in the keyring, we saw builds on PowerPC to fail because of altivec being detected but no underlying library to support it being available. New upload needed - this one. The PowerPC issues came together with upstream saying they had issues with the home-built SETI clients, which has now been resolved again. We then thought that together with the fix for the PowerPC we should go for the only slightly changed upstream version. Kibi was kindly allowing BOINC 7.0.27 in, which had ben stalled in unstable, also because of the PowerPC platform albeit for a very different reason, long before the freeze. With much hooray this transition was announced to our Ubuntu downstreamers who were already using 7.0.33 (from our git repository ! ) actively in their PPA and they are happy with it. They wanted to keep all those latest changes that upstream has addressed in ..28-.33 and would not want to go back to .27. Saying it would have fixed many of the issues their Ubuntu early adopters have found. boinc took a dive on popcon http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=boinc when the package was removed from testing. This was very sad to see. 7.0.27 gave it just a small kick back .. wishfully interpreting the graph .. That version gave some serious bit of compatibility for GPU computing that .24 did not yet have. 7.0.33 is especially good for many smallish bit with the user interface, so the Ubuntu folks, which is rather detectable for the regular user. 7.0.27 does not yet provide the libboinc-app which the scientific apps like SETI link against. Previous versions of the scientific apps, like the ones that one would receive through the boinc-client from the respective external project server, were all linked statically. I had considerably disliked that static linking for a long time and am very happy to know this now gone. Please let this development swap over to Wheezy. The more ambitious boinc-server-maker we finally came to accept that it is not up to the standard for being part of the stable release. We'll continue maintaining that for experimental and hope for some success stories on those for Wheezy+1. Cheers, Steffen unblock boinc/7.0.33-1 unblock boinc-app-seti/6.12~svn1385-1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50420908.2050...@gmail.com
