Re: [arch-general] Tobias Powalowski and his nonsensical maintenance decisions

2017-04-28 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 6:43 PM, Eric Blau wrote: > On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 2:19 PM, Carsten Mattner > wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 5:11 PM, Eric Blau wrote: >>> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Carsten Mattner via arch-general >>> wrote: >>> >>> There's a fix that's been submitted to the

Re: [arch-general] Tobias Powalowski and his nonsensical maintenance decisions

2017-04-28 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 6:34 PM, Eric Blau wrote: > On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 2:20 PM, Carsten Mattner > wrote: >> Eric, does it also fail in XFCE or GNOME3? Like I wrote, I've found >> Plasma's compositor to be buggier. > > I use i3 with compton as a compositor. Maybe I would have better luck > ru

Re: [arch-general] Tobias Powalowski and his nonsensical maintenance decisions

2017-04-28 Thread Eric Blau
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 2:19 PM, Carsten Mattner wrote: > On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 5:11 PM, Eric Blau wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Carsten Mattner via arch-general >> wrote: >> >> There's a fix that's been submitted to the tip, but no effort has >> been made to patch the bug in the

Re: [arch-general] Tobias Powalowski and his nonsensical maintenance decisions

2017-04-28 Thread Eric Blau
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 2:20 PM, Carsten Mattner wrote: > Eric, does it also fail in XFCE or GNOME3? Like I wrote, I've found > Plasma's compositor to be buggier. I use i3 with compton as a compositor. Maybe I would have better luck running 4.10.x without compton. I haven't tried that yet. I rev

Re: [arch-general] Tobias Powalowski and his nonsensical maintenance decisions

2017-04-28 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
Eric, does it also fail in XFCE or GNOME3? Like I wrote, I've found Plasma's compositor to be buggier.

Re: [arch-general] Tobias Powalowski and his nonsensical maintenance decisions

2017-04-28 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 5:11 PM, Eric Blau wrote: > On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Carsten Mattner via arch-general > wrote: > > > > The constant churn of refactorings and whatnot makes it impossible > > for all the hardware that say i915 supports to actually work > > reliably across kernel re

Re: [arch-general] Tobias Powalowski and his nonsensical maintenance decisions

2017-04-28 Thread Eric Blau
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Carsten Mattner via arch-general wrote: > > The constant churn of refactorings and whatnot makes it impossible for > all the hardware that say i915 supports to actually work reliably > across kernel releases. What used to work flawlessly in 4.1 can be > broken in

Re: [arch-general] Tobias Powalowski and his nonsensical maintenance decisions

2017-04-28 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 12:40 PM, fnodeuser wrote: > Tobias Powalowski, > > you continue to place pkgs in the testing repo that do not require > any further testing. > > for what reasons, exactly, do the linux 4.10.13 and hwids 20170328 > pkgs need to be in testing for 4+ days? > > also, you did n

Re: [arch-general] Tobias Powalowski and his nonsensical maintenance decisions

2017-04-28 Thread Martin Kühne via arch-general
Today is the 28th, and the date reported by pacman is the 27th. Suggestion to OP: # ntpdate your.favorite.mirror.ntp.org Because to me it just looks like he might be a few multiples of 86400 seconds off. On a similar note, I wonder why you didn't complain that the new ELF binary was apparently b

Re: [arch-general] Tobias Powalowski and his nonsensical maintenance decisions

2017-04-28 Thread Genes Lists via arch-general
   1) Tobias: Thank you for doing a terrific and diligent job packaging and testing kernels and, which come into testing in short order.    2) Florian: Thank you for your comments - agree completely.    3) Adding to what Florian said - Testing also allows Arch users to signoff after performing

Re: [arch-general] Tobias Powalowski and his nonsensical maintenance decisions

2017-04-28 Thread Florian Pritz via arch-general
On 28.04.2017 14:40, fnodeuser wrote: > you continue to place pkgs in the testing repo that do not require any > further testing. Thank you for showing that you do not understand our repository policy. All [core] packages go to [testing] first to ensure that we do not completely break anyone's s

[arch-general] Tobias Powalowski and his nonsensical maintenance decisions

2017-04-28 Thread fnodeuser
Tobias Powalowski, you continue to place pkgs in the testing repo that do not require any further testing. for what reasons, exactly, do the linux 4.10.13 and hwids 20170328 pkgs need to be in testing for 4+ days? also, you did not replace git:// with git+https:// in the hwids PKGBUILD file.

Re: [arch-general] Arch Wiki Professional_audio

2017-04-28 Thread Ray Rashif via arch-general
On 27 April 2017 at 23:16, David Runge wrote: > Sounds great. Before the beginning of July I don't have much time > though, as I'm in the same boat you were in (thesis and all that > madness). > > On the plus side: I have been using Arch for about 10 years now and it > would be nice to get a littl