Re: Re-evaluating architecture inclusion in unstable/experimental

2018-09-28 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 9/28/18 11:26 PM, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Fri, 2018-09-28 at 14:16 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> So, it's not always a purely technical decision whether a port >> remains a release architecture. It's also often highly political and >> somehow also influenced by commercial

Re: Re-evaluating architecture inclusion in unstable/experimental

2018-09-28 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Fri, 2018-09-28 at 14:16 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > So, it's not always a purely technical decision whether a port > remains a release architecture. It's also often highly political and > somehow also influenced by commercial entities. Please don't make implications like that

package rsyslog depends on liblognorm2 (mini.iso hardware install error)

2018-09-28 Thread melon
Hello, I have been trying to install Debian/Hurd from a USB stick with the mini.iso file from: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/latest/hurd-i386/ However, during the "Install the base system" phase, when it hits somewhere around ~70% complete, I get the following warning: "Debootstrap

Re: Re-evaluating architecture inclusion in unstable/experimental

2018-09-28 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! I just saw this mail this morning by accident while browsing the archives, I am not subscribed to debian-devel. > The ftpmaster team would like to clarify which Debian ports should and/or would like to continue to be part of Debian unstable and experimental. I'm not sure what context you

GNU tar -Holdgnu w/o fakeroot seems to be break dpkg 1.19.1

2018-09-28 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! I was checking the dpkg 1.19.1 FTBFS on the Hurd, and noticed few things: * GNU tar with -Holdgnu seems broken (?) when packing a fifo, as it stores at least the S_IROOT mode bit, which makes GNU tar encode the mode data in base-256 (dpkg suppports that just fine, but it's still