Re: Potential issues for most ports (Was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-11-05 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 05 Nov 2013, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Well, I did ask for the creation of port-specific tags back at > debconf8 (if I'm not mistaken), but you told me to go for usertags > instead ;-) Sounds familiar. Usertags have the advantage of not requiring me to do any work. But presumably at the tim

Re: Potential issues for most ports (Was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-11-05 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi, On 05/11/13 18:50, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 05 Nov 2013, Don Armstrong wrote: >> This sounds like a case where we should turn these usertags into fully >> fledged tags. [Or alternatively, they should just be made usertags under >> the debian-po...@lists.debian.org user or similar.] Eith

Re: Potential issues for most ports (Was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-11-05 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 05 Nov 2013, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 05 Nov 2013, Niels Thykier wrote: > > In this regard; I am guilty of filing some those bugs without tagging > > them. Honestly, adding the tags get a bit in the way right now. If a > > package FTBFS on 4 architectures, I have to dig up 3-4 differ

Re: Potential issues for most ports (Was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-11-05 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 05 Nov 2013, Niels Thykier wrote: > In this regard; I am guilty of filing some those bugs without tagging > them. Honestly, adding the tags get a bit in the way right now. If a > package FTBFS on 4 architectures, I have to dig up 3-4 different > usertags (with different "user") and associat

Re: Potential issues for most ports (Was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-11-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Niels Thykier writes ("Re: Potential issues for most ports (Was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))"): > On 2013-11-03 16:03, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > > http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi?release=jessie_or_sid&merged=ign&fnewerval=7&kfreeb

Re: Potential issues for most ports (Was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-11-05 Thread Lennert Van Alboom
On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 08:53:05AM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: > [1] I certainly wouldn't have space for something like this: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Z800_2066_JKU.jpeg > > (and much less the money. Yeah I know that is technically not an s390, > but as I understand it, an s390 sho

Re: Potential issues for most ports (Was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-11-04 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-11-03 23:04, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 11:54:34AM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: >> [...] > >> I suppose a "sponsor-only" DD could be sufficient, provided that the >> sponsor knows the porters well enough to be willing to sign off on e.g. >> access to porter boxes. I gu

Re: Potential issues for most ports (Was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-11-04 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-11-03 16:03, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > On 03/11/13 10:54, Niels Thykier wrote: >> Come to think of it; maybe we should have a BTS page for each of the >> ports (e.g. a pseudo package in the BTS). > > We've had this on kfreebsd, due it to having been a release goal: > > http://udd.debian

Re: Potential issues for most ports (Was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-11-04 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 03/11/13 10:54, Niels Thykier wrote: > Come to think of it; maybe we should have a BTS page for each of the > ports (e.g. a pseudo package in the BTS). We've had this on kfreebsd, due it to having been a release goal: http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi?release=jessie_or_sid&merged=ign&fnewerval=7&

Re: Potential issues for most ports (Was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-11-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 11:54:34AM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: > On 2013-10-29 17:48, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Niels Thykier writes ("Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze > > info)"): > >> [...] > >> As mentioned we are debating whether the "5 DDs" requirement still makes > >> sense. Would

Re: Potential issues for most ports (Was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-11-03 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Niels Thykier dixit: >Then there are more concrete things like ruby's test suite seg. faulting >on ia64 (#593141), ld seg. faulting with --as-needed on ia64 And only statically linked klibc-compiled executables work on IA64, not dynamically linked ones. I’ve looked into it, but Itanic is so massi

Potential issues for most ports (Was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-11-03 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-10-29 17:48, Ian Jackson wrote: > Niels Thykier writes ("Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)"): >> [...] >> As mentioned we are debating whether the "5 DDs" requirement still makes >> sense. Would you say that we should abolish the requirement for DD >> porters completely?