Re: Please use gcrypt11/gnutls11 instead of gcrypt7/gnutls10

2004-10-05 Thread Steve Langasek
With the release of d-i pre-RC2, it is now possible to rebuild exim4 against libgnutls11 without rendering the current d-i images unusable. Once exim4 has been rebuilt against libgnutls11 and has propagated to testing, it is possible to have libgnutls10 removed from debootstrap's package list.

Re: Please use gcrypt11/gnutls11 instead of gcrypt7/gnutls10

2004-10-05 Thread Christian Perrier
If the exim4 maintainers don't have for an upload to fix this library dependency right now, I'm willing to NMU. Also, the libgnutls11 maintainer has also been in an NMUing mood lately, and would probably be equally as willing if he's available. :-) Adding the fix for 273505 (Ukrainian

Re: Please use gcrypt11/gnutls11 instead of gcrypt7/gnutls10

2004-10-05 Thread Christian Perrier
Adding the fix for 273505 (Ukrainian translation, the only pending translation ATM) would be deeply appreciated by the i18n team I notified the translators for the few missing languages that they have a very short window for sending translations. Do not wait for them. I told them they have

Re: Dropping 386 support

2004-10-05 Thread Martin Schulze
peter green wrote: what about changing the 486 emulation kernel patch so that it completely disables itself on non 386 processors Did you read the patch? I thougth that was already the case from how it is invoked. this way it would only have security issues on pure 386 which wouldn't be

Re: kernel-patch-powerpc: How can editing a binary kernel be suggested?

2004-10-05 Thread Martin Schulze
Jesus Climent wrote: Package: kernel-patch-powerpc Version: N/A; reported 2004-10-04 Severity: normal How can this be suggested on an official packaged kernel? * To change the built-in command line on a PReP system, run mkvmlinuz and then open the vmlinuz file with a binary editor

Re: upgrade-i386

2004-10-05 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 01:07:25PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: So I produced a kernel intended for the upgrade-i386 directory. See http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2004/08/msg02087.html I wanted it to be tested, but nobody has paid any attention. I don't

Re: How bad is a wrong recommends? (was: Bug#273734: education-common: con't fulfill the Recommends on !i386)

2004-10-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 07:03:50PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: * Adrian Bunk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041003 17:10]: On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 12:44:21PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: You certainly have a good point here. I'm not suggesting to remove Recommends; I think the concept of

Re: How bad is a wrong recommends? (was: Bug#273734: education-common: con't fulfill the Recommends on !i386)

2004-10-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 09:24:21PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: The release policy states: Packages in main cannot require any software outside of main for execution or compilation. A recommendation is not a requirement; I don't believe that unfulfillable Recommends are not release-critical.

Re: RC policy - editorial clarifications?

2004-10-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 10:44:25PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: there are AFAICS three topics where there was/is some discussion whether they are really RC or not, and where IMHO an editorial clarification would be good (in whichever direction the clarification is). Clarified as follows: +

Re: RC policy - editorial clarifications?

2004-10-05 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Andreas Barth wrote: + is it ok if a source package in main build packages in main and contrib? I think this is not allowed (but I'm not so convinced here, perhaps this is sarge-ignore), but there was some discussion on IRC whether this is actually covered by #4 of our RC-policy or

Re: How bad is a wrong recommends? (was: Bug#273734: education-common: con't fulfill the Recommends on !i386)

2004-10-05 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 09:26:24PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 09:24:21PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: The release policy states: Packages in main cannot require any software outside of main for execution or compilation. A recommendation is not a requirement; I don't

Re: How bad is a wrong recommends? (was: Bug#273734: education-common: con't fulfill the Recommends on !i386)

2004-10-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 12:37:25AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 09:26:24PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 09:24:21PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: The release policy states: Packages in main cannot require any software outside of main for