SRM team meeting 2006-03-14

2006-03-30 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi, following the notes from the stable release team meeting on March 14th, taken by Thijs and delayed and checked by me. Thanks, Thijs for writing down all of this. Of course, there has been some progress in the last 16 days, so please take this mail as status from March 14th, and not as from

octave2.1 and hdf5 transition

2006-03-30 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
Some days ago, I mistakenly uploaded version 2.1.73-1 to unstable, delaying the transition of libhdf5 1.67.5 into testing. In a cumulation of errors, we noticed yesterday that this version was built against libhdf5 1.6.4. The fixed version 2.1.73-2 is now in incoming. I deeply apologize for

Re: flashplugin-nonfree broken in sarge

2006-03-30 Thread Sam Morris
Version 7.0.25-5 of flashplugin-nonfree is broken. It cannot be fixed with minimal changes. Version 7.0.63.1 is reported to work on sarge, but is very different and very young. Whoops, I hit send too soon. I also meant to ask if anything can be done about the insecure version of Flash still

Re: flashplugin-nonfree broken in sarge

2006-03-30 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 09:51:34PM +0200, Bart Martens wrote: Hello debian-release@lists.debian.org, http://www.us.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-pkgs.en.html#s-upload-stable It's best practice to speak with the stable release manager before uploading to

Re: bug in tar 1.14-2.1

2006-03-30 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 05:27 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Again? I wrote a bug about this years ago with a fix. I think is was just adding --rsh=/usr/bin/rsh to the configure call. Your patch in response to 185594 added an RSH environment variable definition to the configure invocation.

Re: Antique RC bugs (many about licensing)

2006-03-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Nathanael Nerode wrote: Package: emacs21 (optional; Rob Browning) [emacs21/21.4a-3 ; =] [add/edit comment] 207932 [ ] [NONFREE-DOC:UNMODIFIABLE] emacs21: Includes non-free documents These are not FDL documents, they're just plain unmodifiable documents, and it's quite clear

Re: bin-NMU of nagios 1.x packages in unstable?

2006-03-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 01:09:20AM -0500, sean finney wrote: followed by a bug#465656 fixed, we made the binNMUed two hours later. And I'm not interested in having to close such bugs. :) right, that's kind of superfluous and overkill. however, i still think it would be nice if at