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

2005-03-21 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 12:13:13PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 10:05:15AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 12:06:15PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 05:43:26PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: [1] The installer might be a point

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

2005-03-21 Thread Sven Luther
it. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels (Was: Re: NEW handling ...)

2005-03-21 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 03:11:06PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: [ Please followup to the right list depending on the contents of your reply. Be aware I'm not subscribed to -kernel, so Cc me if needed ] On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 08:14:37AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: [huge rant about NEW

Re: *** SPAM *** Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels (Was: Re: NEW handling ...)

2005-03-21 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 03:10:34PM +, Matthew Wilcox wrote: On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 03:20:29PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Anyway, regarding kernels: I can imagine sometimes, especially with the backlog we have currently, a swift processing of some kernel package might be warranted

Re: A new arch support proposal, hopefully consensual (?)

2005-03-21 Thread Sven Luther
their stuff in their corner, let's just hope that it will benefit everyone. --- Tapio Lehtonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 12:45:33PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: discussion forward in such a way that we can get a resonable discussion at the helsinski debconf'05 meeting

Re: NEW handling ...

2005-03-21 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 07:42:11PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Sven Luther wrote: And what do you say of aj denying there is a NEW problem on the debian-vote threads ? I don't know what Steve says, but I say: Cite. I don't care what you say, i am out of this anyway, there is no way i can

Re: *** SPAM *** Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels (Was: Re: NEW handling ...)

2005-03-21 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 03:45:10PM +, Matthew Wilcox wrote: On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 04:08:19PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Thanks. Maybe i should resign from my debian duties then since i am not wanted. Do you volunteer to take over my packages ? Please handle parted for which i am

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels (Was: Re: NEW handling ...)

2005-03-21 Thread Sven Luther
queue ? I had to mail twice about this, and nothing ever happened for almost a month of so, all the while you where spamming all of debian-kernel daily with said bogus reject message ? Hurt, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels

2005-03-21 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 05:40:44PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Sven Luther] the problem is not the reject, is the no news in weeks and no communication channel open. But again, i think and hope that this will become better now. I agree. Complete silence and no feedback is a real

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

2005-03-21 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 12:17:45PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: Sven Luther wrote: [snip] For sarge, kernels are built in a two-stage process. First is to create a dsfg-free .deb from the upstream source which contains a source tarball, second is to build kernel images from another (arch

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels (Was: Re: NEW handling ...)

2005-03-21 Thread Sven Luther
debian is, and which is handled by utter contempt, at least in the initial posting. Still hurt though, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels

2005-03-21 Thread Sven Luther
of the way in a couple of month or whatever. Hurt, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels

2005-03-21 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 08:28:44PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Sven Luther] No, he is not, as far as i am concerned, unless he presents his apologies first. For what? Commenting on your wast amount of email posted the last few days, and his suggestion that the amount of email

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels

2005-03-21 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 05:23:12PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, that is not acceptable, and probably not the right reason for this. Until evidence proves otherwise, it is just because they don't care to read those emails, and that that email

Re: How to define a release architecture

2005-03-21 Thread Sven Luther
them resign in masse and be prepared to replace them. There is no accountability, and altough the DPL supposedly mandated them, he has no actual power to do anything about it. Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Accepted ocaml 3.08.3-1 (powerpc all source)

2005-03-21 Thread Sven Luther
: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: ocaml - ML language implementation with a class-based object system ocaml-base - Runtime system for ocaml bytecode executables ocaml-base-nox - Runtime system for ocaml

Re: my thoughts on the Vancouver Prospectus

2005-03-20 Thread Sven Luther
, we should take issues like the above into consideration. Why didn't you take less drastic solutions in consideration ? Or if you did, why didn't you speak about them ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: my thoughts on the Vancouver Prospectus

2005-03-20 Thread Sven Luther
work ? And a non-elected, non-properly-delegated, self-apointed group of people at that. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 09:22:11PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Sven Luther wrote: I think the main reply is for developers using said archs. Developers *developing* on those architectures need to use unstable But it could be an unstable chroot, while their day-to-day work is done

Re: NEW handling ...

2005-03-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 02:40:34PM +0100, David Schmitt wrote: On Friday 18 March 2005 13:26, Sven Luther wrote: And yes, i volunteer to help out NEW handling, if that help is wanted. Vapourware. I believe that for most packages it is quite easy to see why they are not allowed

Re: NEW handling ...

2005-03-20 Thread Sven Luther
time), and i didn't get a single reply to this. And do you seriously think that the ftp-master team would have been expanded like it has, if the issue would not have aired publicly recently ? I have some doubts about it. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: NEW handling ...

2005-03-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 02:34:12PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: On 10232 March 1977, Sven Luther wrote: Would you be happy if the ftpmasters put everything on auto-veto if there was nobody available to monitor the auto-new queue for a few days? If the NEW queue handling people can't get

Re: [Proposal] $arch release assistants

2005-03-20 Thread Sven Luther
will post soon may help here, will help bring things forward. Friendly, Sven luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-20 Thread Sven Luther
the benefit of testing at a lesser cost. I would look at the code, and implement this myself, but i don't speak python, so i am utherly useless for this kind of things. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-20 Thread Sven Luther
to make a daily unstable install, and count how many days it is broken on the tier1 arches, and see how worse it can become on tier2 slower arches. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-20 Thread Sven Luther
it. If they don't need any support from anyone else, they're welcome to do whatever they like. If they want other people to help them, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect an answer to a What's the point? question. as long as the replies don't get ignored. Friendly, Sven Luther

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

2005-03-20 Thread Sven Luther
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Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-20 Thread Sven Luther
will be streamlined for etch into a single package, and maybe build issues, which could be solved by a separate build queue or priority for d-i issues. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-20 Thread Sven Luther
have less time to do their real job, which means an additional push to the ports in question into an early grave. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

A new arch support proposal, hopefully consensual (?)

2005-03-20 Thread Sven Luther
to solve it, don't we ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: orphaning packages

2005-03-20 Thread Sven Luther
, but a cooperative effort with you (with me signing and uploading the packages until you can again), would be a good thing. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: my thoughts on the Vancouver Prospectus

2005-03-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 10:26:44PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 09:07:52AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 02:57:23AM +0100, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote: * Three bodies (Security, System Administration, Release) are given independent veto

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

2005-03-20 Thread Sven Luther
fancier mirroring software. We can't. AFAIK: One or two rsync commands, and *that's*it*. Any required fanciness need to be done on the master server. Rsync can take fancier arguments though :) Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: A new arch support proposal, hopefully consensual (?)

2005-03-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 04:59:57PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: Sven Luther wrote: Problems with many arches: - same for the security team. Hmm. I only saw Joey's message on the subject, which basically seemed to say as long as it's only one source compiling on all arches, it's OK Yep

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

2005-03-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 10:53:57PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 09:56:05AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 12:00:23PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: But why would you spend over 1000 pounds on an arm Linux desktop box instead of a few hundred pounds

Re: A new arch support proposal, hopefully consensual (?)

2005-03-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 06:24:23PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: Sven Luther wrote: The idea is that we don't want to hold up release, but we still want to allow for a future release at a later point, in a stable point release. Especially now that we are told that security is not an issue

Re: my thoughts on the Vancouver Prospectus

2005-03-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 01:16:42AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Sven Luther wrote: The ftp-masters are mandated by the DPL to handle the debian infrastructure, not to decide what arches debian should support or not. This is not the case; ftpmaster's role has historically included at what

Re: NEW handling ...

2005-03-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 08:20:40PM +0100, David Schmitt wrote: On Sunday 20 March 2005 12:08, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 02:40:34PM +0100, David Schmitt wrote: On Friday 18 March 2005 13:26, Sven Luther wrote: And yes, i volunteer to help out NEW handling, if that help

Re: NEW handling ...

2005-03-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 02:35:56PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 12:11:07PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 05:05:07PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: And yes, i volunteer to help out NEW handling, if that help is wanted. Just for the record

Accepted kbd-chooser 1.11 (powerpc source)

2005-03-20 Thread Sven Luther
-By: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: kbd-chooser - Detect a keyboard and select layout (udeb) Changes: kbd-chooser (1.11) unstable; urgency=high . * Sven Luther - Modified grep in kbd-chooser.c, so we can now detect if a console=tty0 is present after a console=tty[sS

Accepted kernel-patch-powerpc-2.6.8 2.6.8-12 (powerpc source)

2005-03-20 Thread Sven Luther
Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team debian-kernel@lists.debian.org Changed-By: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: kernel-build-2.6.8-power3 - build infrastructure for kernel version 2.6.8-power3 kernel-build-2.6.8-power3-smp - build infrastructure for kernel version 2.6.8-power3-smp kernel-build

Accepted linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6 0.79 (powerpc source)

2005-03-20 Thread Sven Luther
-boot@lists.debian.org Changed-By: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: affs-modules-2.6.8-power3-di - Amiga filesystem support (udeb) affs-modules-2.6.8-power4-di - Amiga filesystem support (udeb) affs-modules-2.6.8-powerpc-di - Amiga filesystem support (udeb) cdrom-core-modules-2.6.8

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

2005-03-18 Thread Sven Luther
directly to arch-unstable, in case of stals and such. Also, building from testing makes synchronizing with tier-1 testing for an arch stable release easier. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-18 Thread Sven Luther
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Re: NEW handling ...

2005-03-18 Thread Sven Luther
/years or whatever. And yes, i volunteer to help out NEW handling, if that help is wanted. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NEW handling ...

2005-03-18 Thread Sven Luther
ftpmasters with a script to automatically check that the debian/copyright file on a package is reasonably correct. Shouldn't be too hard for a clever fellow such as yourself. Like do a diff of it with the GPL, and reject it if it is not ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: NEW handling ...

2005-03-18 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 09:06:10AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 10:15:50PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: To know in how many packages to split or not to split the packages ? That would be one of the things that maintainers have gotten wrong in the past, yes. So

Re: [Debian-ppc64-devel] Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-17 Thread Sven Luther
to the augsbourg power5 box (but without virtual machine, so we can't really do kernel or installer tests), we don't have those ppc64 machine IBM mentioned could be made available, which makes work on the kernel and installer part at least less possible. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: [Debian-ppc64-devel] Re: Bug#263743: Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-17 Thread Sven Luther
such), and that the name got changed to powerpc64. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Debian-ppc64-devel] Re: Bug#263743: Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-17 Thread Sven Luther
? Obviously I have no power to overrule you on your choice of architecture name, but I'd like to try and appeal to some common sense in you, if there is any. Hehe. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NEW handling ...

2005-03-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 02:35:27AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 03:29:28PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Ideally we would see forming a little NEW-reviewing comittee which would facilitate the job of the ftp-masters. This is also in accordance of the small-team proposal

Re: NEW handling ...

2005-03-17 Thread Sven Luther
the response one get to tidbit of information send to the ftp-masters about one selfs package sitting in NEW, you should understand the discouragement that such kind of thrown-away work is. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: NEW handling ...

2005-03-17 Thread Sven Luther
, and if they are not broken, automated NEW is applied (with a delay as always), while if they are broken, the reviewed NEW is applied. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NEW handling ...

2005-03-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 06:43:52PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Hi, Sven Luther: On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 04:36:25PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: - check that the package names are sane, don't conflict, and aren't gratuitiously many (a -doc package for 10 kbytes

Re: NEW handling ...

2005-03-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 07:57:11PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: On 10231 March 1977, Sven Luther wrote: - check that the package names are sane, don't conflict, and aren't gratuitiously many (a -doc package for 10 kbytes of documentation...) (what's the current opinion on that, anyway

Accepted ocaml 3.08.3-0.experimental.1 (powerpc all source)

2005-03-17 Thread Sven Luther
Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: ocaml - ML language implementation with a class-based object system ocaml-base - Runtime system for ocaml bytecode executables ocaml-base-nox - Runtime

NEW handling ...

2005-03-16 Thread Sven Luther
processed. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-16 Thread Sven Luther
make the source changeset over tier-1 stable bigger than necessary due to the fact that arch-specific fixes will only be fixed once tier-1 stable has been released. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

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

2005-03-16 Thread Sven Luther
release... Well, we could drop mac/m68k supported subarch then ? For that matter, it would probably make sense to drop 2.4 kernels fully in the not so far future. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: NEW handling ...

2005-03-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 04:21:56AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Sven Luther wrote: After reading the mention of it in debian-weekly-news, i read with interest : http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/random_idea_re_new_queue-2005-03-02-21-12.html And i am not sure to get the hang

Re: Vancouver hierarchy - proposed terminology

2005-03-16 Thread Sven Luther
requirement which may be orthogonal to the release team requirements, as their timeline is fully different (post-release vs pre-release). Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-15 Thread Sven Luther
that in the announcement ? And will mirrors be able to decide which arch they want to mirror ? or will the set of arches be imposed by debian ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Vancouver meeting - clarifications

2005-03-15 Thread Sven Luther
for the missing information in the first mail. Thanks for the clarifications, Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Discussion about tier-2 testing and how to achieve a release of tier-2 arches after all. (Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:23:48PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: 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

debian/kernel security issues (Was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 04:51:55PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:14:30AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 06:10:30PM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: Yes, I would like to reiterate that coordination between Martin Pitt, the Ubuntu kernel team

Re: debian/kernel security issues (Was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 04:21:21AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Sven Luther wrote: There is this vendor-specific-security-announce-with-embargo thingy. The debian kernel team mostly handles the unstable and testing kernel, is not in the loop for getting advance advice on those problems, so

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

2005-03-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:21:59AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:00:12AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: There are a few problems with trying to run testing for architectures that aren't being kept in sync. First, if they're not being kept in sync, it increases

Re: Building tier-2 against testing (was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:18:54AM +0100, David Schmitt wrote: On Tuesday 15 March 2005 10:41, Sven Luther wrote: Could you be more clear about this ? which issues are those ? Sven, Steve is referring to the first part of his mail, where he says that building from testing will lose any

Re: Security support for tier-2 (was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 12:22:34PM +0100, David Schmitt wrote: On Monday 14 March 2005 17:18, Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:12:29AM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:54:49AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: It is not unstable that I am (most) worried about

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

2005-03-15 Thread Sven Luther
, is there anything in the works for 2.6 ? Yep, runs since a couple of month last time i was informed for that, at least on the amiga arch. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-15 Thread Sven Luther
though, which may be the reason for this perceived problem. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ports.debian.org (Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:47:37AM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 05:38:30PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: I have proposed tier-1 ports for the main arches, tier-2 ports for the other ready ports but dropped from official support, and tier-3 ports for in-development ports

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

2005-03-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:41:01PM +0100, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 12:59:43PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: With the new proposal of de facto dropping m68k support, I'm this -- close to recommend to Roman, that he better should invest his time into other

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

2005-03-15 Thread Sven Luther
a redirect to the more comprehensive site. I heard about it through slashdot the first time though :). Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian/kernel security issues (Was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:51:30AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 09:50:22AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 04:51:55PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:14:30AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 06:10

Re: Bits from the CD team, 2005-03-16

2005-03-15 Thread Sven Luther
) May i ask for powerpc DVD images too ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
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Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
, and /debian-devel or something such. Is it really a physical problem fro ftp-master to held all these roles ? What is it exactly that ftp-masters want to drop all these arches for ? Mirrors could then chose to go with 1) only (most of them will), or also mirror 2) and/or 3). Friendly, Sven Luther

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
if i remember well. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
thing, but that it lacks much information about the reason which pushed the decision, and the individual technical problems to be overcome. Are the minutes of the release-team meeting publically available ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
be not an over-burden for those guys ? You are really just saying that the testing scipts don't scale well, and instead of finding a solution to this, you say let's drop a bunch of architecture, and make it another-one's problem. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
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Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
knew about this plan previously to replying that, especially those of the scud team. Pure demagogy then ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
-essential) need to be buildable from unmodified source? - the port must demonstrate that they have at least 50 users How do you demonstrate that? Via popularity-contest? But then, popularity-contest installation per default was dropped for debian-installer rc3, so ... Friendly, Sven Luther

Re: mplayer 1.0pre6a-4 for i386 and PowerPC and sparc

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
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Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 02:12:48AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BTW, how much of the human intervention needed for buildd signing plays in the delays you see, and did you discuss the possibiliity of a fully autobuilder setup, like ubuntu does

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
with). One could add per-subarch optimized builds and mirrors too though. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:26:07AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: * Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050314 11:20]: 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: - the port must demonstrate that they have

Re: mplayer 1.0pre6a-4 for i386 and PowerPC and sparc

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:26:27AM +0100, A Mennucc wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:09:27AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:40:55AM +0100, A Mennucc wrote: you may find source, i386 and powerpc and sparc binaries of mplayer 1.0pre6a-4 in your friendly repository

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:28:08AM +0100, Andreas Schuldei wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:05:16AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: And how do you reconcile the fact that most of those told us recently on debian-vote that they believed that dropping an architecture will not help with the delay

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:38:57AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: * Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050314 11:35]: Well, but wouldn't reenabling the popularity-contest by default for sarge help a lot on that ? There was a technical reason why it was removed - more or less, if you Yes

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
instead of those who maintain central infrastructure. Like the arm autobuilders for example ? Mmm, but then the arm buildd maintainer is also our main ftp-master, right ? Friendly, Sven luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
who do the work, also get to make the decisions. Not really, unless you want to fork the whole debian infrastructure that is. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 01:02:34PM +0100, David Schmitt wrote: On Monday 14 March 2005 11:00, Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 01:14:47AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: There are a few problems with trying to run testing for architectures that aren't being kept in sync. First

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
with the DPL candidates. It can be found here: Yep, probably. I believe it should have been posted to debian-vote too though. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 06:23:50AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Sven Luther wrote: Yes, it asked one question during the install, wasn't it ? One potentially confusing question to the poor user. That's almost as innacurate as your earlier statement that popularity-contest was dropped from d-i

Re: Edge and multi-arch (was Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
people, toolchain people, porters, and basically everyone else that this is the way to Well, there is no clear consensus about what debian is and should be in the future among these people to start with, so ... Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 12:36:45PM +0100, Roland Mas wrote: Sven Luther, 2005-03-14 10:50:13 +0100 : I don't see how having the in-devel arches be hosted on alioth instead on the official debian ftp server would cause a problem. The amd64 archive on Alioth has been (and still

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
, and the buildd where maintained by who ? elmo. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
and they won't be officially released. So, there are no stable release to be running and be sure you have no problems, and no testing to be sure some random developer who doesn't think past x86 break your upgrade on a random basis. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

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