Re: Bug#300209: tomcat4: tomcat dies with "Parse error in default web.xml" after upgrade

2005-04-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 01:09:33AM -0400, Jeff Breidenbach wrote: > The java packing team just got blindsided by bug #300209, which > appears to have knocked tomcat4 out of Sarge. Heads up that you > may hear some begging for re-inclusion in the near future. You mean there's no chance that people

Re: Bug#300209: tomcat4: tomcat dies with "Parse error in default web.xml" after upgrade

2005-04-06 Thread Jeff Breidenbach
Hi Sarge release team, The java packing team just got blindsided by bug #300209, which appears to have knocked tomcat4 out of Sarge. Heads up that you may hear some begging for re-inclusion in the near future. Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: doesn't work anymore: fatal error

2005-04-06 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Enrico, It's true that this is a problem which unfortunately cannot be fixed via unstable without getting all of the new ocaml in. We definitely don't want to have to deal with this broken dependency in a stable release, since it means partial upgrades to etch will fail (at best, ocaml would h

Re: [non-urgent] Please allow findutils 4.1.20-6 to propagate to testing

2005-04-06 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Andreas, On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 07:56:39PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > I'd appreciate if findutils 4.1.20-6 could be allowed into sarge. The > diff to -5 is two lines, it only updates the list of paths and > filesystems locate does not index by default. > I'd like to see this in sarge as

Re: Bug#302827: tetex-bin: fails to install on several architectures

2005-04-06 Thread Steve Langasek
reassign 302827 jadetex thanks On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 09:10:28AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > since I must go on "vacaction" for several weeks, and I'm unsure whether > there is enough "(wo)manpower" on debian-tetex-maint to resolve this > bug, I recommend that you keep a close look at it. > All

Re: libpng planned changes for etch

2005-04-06 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Josselin, On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 02:13:43PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Here is a summary of the important changes I'm planning for libpng in > etch. > * Removal of the entire libpng source package: libpng2, libpng2-dev, > libpng10-0, libpng10-dev. All applications currently linking to l

Re: proposed fix to allow security support for fai-kernels in sarge (#297811)

2005-04-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 07:18:06PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Tuesday 05 April 2005 16:54, Steve Langasek wrote: > > - Nothing in the package (binary or source) uniquely identifies the > > kernel-source patchlevel used (including the added ABI name, since ABI name > > != patchlevel) > as we

Re: remove kmatplot...

2005-04-06 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Hugo, On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 03:21:26PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > I suggest removing kmatplot from testing (I think it is currently still > there). I don't feel it makes sense to have it there: upstream has > stopped developing it, I'm not using it myself, I don't know how many > p

Re: libpng planned changes for etch

2005-04-06 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 09:49 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > * Removal of the libpng3 binary package, as only 2 packages in sarge > > still depend on this one. Maybe we can keep it, though, as some > > third-party binaries could require libpng.

Re: woody->sarge upgrade removes perl (and a bunch of other stuff)

2005-04-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 07:22:41PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > Andre Lehovich wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > > > >>- It is a apt-get bug only, aptitude handles the same situation just > >> fine. But both apt-get from wood

Re: woody->sarge upgrade removes perl (and a bunch of other stuff)

2005-04-06 Thread Luk Claes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andre Lehovich wrote: > On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > >>- It is a apt-get bug only, aptitude handles the same situation just >> fine. But both apt-get from woody and sarge bail out. > > > Is apt-get a supported upgrade route from W

Re: proposed fix to allow security support for fai-kernels in sarge (#297811)

2005-04-06 Thread Holger Levsen
resent as I go the debian-security-private-address wrong, please follow reploy-to: Hi, btw, no need to cc: me, i'm subscribed to release, the bug and the package :-) On Tuesday 05 April 2005 16:54, Steve Langasek wrote: > - Nothing in the package (binary or source) uniquely identifies the > ker

Re: woody->sarge upgrade removes perl (and a bunch of other stuff)

2005-04-06 Thread Andre Lehovich
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > - It is a apt-get bug only, aptitude handles the same situation just > fine. But both apt-get from woody and sarge bail out. Is apt-get a supported upgrade route from Woody to Sarge? The release notes [1] recommend using aptitude instead. [1] http

Re: proposed fix to allow security support for fai-kernels in sarge (#297811)

2005-04-06 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, btw, no need to cc: me, i'm subscribed to release, the bug and the package :-) On Tuesday 05 April 2005 16:54, Steve Langasek wrote: > - Nothing in the package (binary or source) uniquely identifies the > kernel-source patchlevel used (including the added ABI name, since ABI name > != patchle

Re: woody->sarge upgrade removes perl (and a bunch of other stuff)

2005-04-06 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 11:26 am, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > - It is a apt-get bug only, aptitude handles the same situation just >   fine. But both apt-get from woody and sarge bail out. That's really weird, because aptitude does nearly the same thing as apt-get when calculating upgrades.

Re: libpng planned changes for etch

2005-04-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Removal of the libpng3 binary package, as only 2 packages in sarge > still depend on this one. Maybe we can keep it, though, as some > third-party binaries could require libpng.so.3. I get rather a longer list from apt-get rdepends; which two are y

Re: woody->sarge upgrade removes perl (and a bunch of other stuff)

2005-04-06 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 04:09:08PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > I just looked at upgrading a server from woody to sarge and the result > was, well, interesting. The output from "apt-get -o > Debug::pkgProblemResolver=true dist-upgrade" starts off with: > > Investigating perl > Package perl has

Re: proposed fix to allow security support for fai-kernels in sarge (#297811)

2005-04-06 Thread Martin Schulze
Holger Levsen wrote: > On Wednesday 06 April 2005 12:42, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > Hmmm... the only mail address for stable security support on > > > http://www.debian.org/intro/organization is [EMAIL PROTECTED] - > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> didnt seem appropriate to me. > > What's wrong with that

woody->sarge upgrade removes perl (and a bunch of other stuff)

2005-04-06 Thread Wichert Akkerman
I just looked at upgrading a server from woody to sarge and the result was, well, interesting. The output from "apt-get -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=true dist-upgrade" starts off with: Investigating perl Package perl has broken dep on libterm-readline-perl-perl Considering libterm-readline-perl-

remove kmatplot...

2005-04-06 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
I suggest removing kmatplot from testing (I think it is currently still there). I don't feel it makes sense to have it there: upstream has stopped developing it, I'm not using it myself, I don't know how many people are... (I believe popcon.debian.org == gluck == down, so I cannot check what th

libpng planned changes for etch

2005-04-06 Thread Josselin Mouette
Here is a summary of the important changes I'm planning for libpng in etch. * Removal of the entire libpng source package: libpng2, libpng2-dev, libpng10-0, libpng10-dev. All applications currently linking to libpng 1.0 will have to be rebuilt against libpng 1.2. As sarge's libpng packages include

Re: proposed fix to allow security support for fai-kernels in sarge (#297811)

2005-04-06 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Joey, On Wednesday 06 April 2005 12:42, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Hmmm... the only mail address for stable security support on > > http://www.debian.org/intro/organization is [EMAIL PROTECTED] - > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> didnt seem appropriate to me. > What's wrong with that address? The reason

Re: proposed fix to allow security support for fai-kernels in sarge (#297811)

2005-04-06 Thread Martin Schulze
Holger Levsen wrote: > Hmmm... the only mail address for stable security support on > http://www.debian.org/intro/organization is [EMAIL PROTECTED] - > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> didnt seem appropriate to me. What's wrong with that address? > Would that have been a better address ? Yes. Regards,

Re: proposed fix to allow security support for fai-kernels in sarge (#297811)

2005-04-06 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Joey, On Tuesday 05 April 2005 18:26, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Howto handle security fixes for fai-kernels > > --- > > > > fai-kernels uses the kernel-source-2.4.27 and kernel-source-2.6.8 > > packages. If these packages get updated with a security fix,

Re: proposed fix to allow security support for fai-kernels in sarge (#297811)

2005-04-06 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Steve, On Tuesday 05 April 2005 16:54, Steve Langasek wrote: > To reiterate our discussion on IRC, I don't think this addresses my > concerns, which are that: > > - Nothing in the package (binary or source) uniquely identifies the > kernel-source patchlevel used (including the added ABI name, s

Re: Fwd: apt-get dist-upgrade will remove metapackages

2005-04-06 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le Mercredi 6 Avril 2005 00:22, Frans Pop a ÃcritÂ: > Is the release team aware of this issue? > Will migration to testing of the new vim be blocked automatically > until this is solved? the problem is known, and already addressed (see #303266) in fact, the bug is already closed in the current svn

Re: Bug#302827: tetex-bin: fails to install on several architectures

2005-04-06 Thread Frank Küster
Dear release team, since I must go on "vacaction" for several weeks, and I'm unsure whether there is enough "(wo)manpower" on debian-tetex-maint to resolve this bug, I recommend that you keep a close look at it. All my activities so far are recorded in the bug log. I have tried to contact the bu