Re: Please consider migrating kernel-package to testing ...

2006-11-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 11:28:59PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 08:16:25PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Please consider hinting kernel-package to move into testing. The current > > version in testing is still victim of 391643, which made the built kernel > > packages u

Re: a few comments on the release notes

2006-11-26 Thread Martin Schulze
Frans Pop wrote: > On Thursday 16 November 2006 01:02, peter green wrote: > > 3: the restructuring of the ssh packages probablly deserves a mention in > > the upgrading section, if i'm not mistaken then upgrading a system with > > ssh installed but sshd disabled is likely to result in sshd enabled

Re: new upstream stable release of pango (1.14.8)

2006-11-26 Thread Loïc Minier
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: > I see that this has been uploaded now to unstable. Sorry for not commenting > sooner. No problem, I didn't think it bumped shlibs and thought it would give it maximum testing delay if uploaded soonish to unstable. > If pango1.0 is *still* not threa

Re: Please consider migrating kernel-package to testing ...

2006-11-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 08:16:25PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Please consider hinting kernel-package to move into testing. The current > version in testing is still victim of 391643, which made the built kernel > packages uninstallable with : > Missing Required paramater 'Old' at > /var/lib

Re: May I upload quilt?

2006-11-26 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Martin, On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 04:03:59PM +0100, Martin Quinson wrote: > I have a version of quilt in mind. The main goal would be to solve a FTBFS > on misconfigured hosts. It mainly appears in chroots, but it could also > appear on desktops. The fact is that currently, one of the regresion t

Re: please hint lilypond 2.8.7 into testing

2006-11-26 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > I would like to officially ask for an exception to the usual testing > rules for lilypond, to allow 2.8.7 into testing, on those architectures > where guile-1.8 works. The architectures currently losing for guile-1.8 > are alpha, amd64, and ia64. > > I believe that a

Re: Packages rename and conffiles

2006-11-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 09:21:38PM +, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 09:03:06PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > So we have to take a position on this issue. I can provide the list > > of affected packages. There is at least openssh, vim and openoffice. > > The following packa

Re: Please hint libxslt

2006-11-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 12:03:47PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > Please hint libxslt, which fixes FTBFSes on other packages. There is > rubrica on its way, which is still using python2.3-libxslt1, which > was removed a while ago per python policy... (#400344) libxslt won't enter testing until rubric

Re: a few comments on the release notes

2006-11-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 16 November 2006 01:02, peter green wrote: > 3: the restructuring of the ssh packages probablly deserves a mention in > the upgrading section, if i'm not mistaken then upgrading a system with > ssh installed but sshd disabled is likely to result in sshd enabled > which could pose a secu

Re: Packages rename and conffiles

2006-11-26 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 09:03:06PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > So we have to take a position on this issue. I can provide the list > of affected packages. There is at least openssh, vim and openoffice. The following packages trigger useless confile handling, but there are others: tiger (3.2.1

please hint lilypond 2.8.7 into testing

2006-11-26 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
I would like to officially ask for an exception to the usual testing rules for lilypond, to allow 2.8.7 into testing, on those architectures where guile-1.8 works. The architectures currently losing for guile-1.8 are alpha, amd64, and ia64. I believe that alpha and ia64 are release candidates, as

Packages rename and conffiles

2006-11-26 Thread Bill Allombert
Hello Release and DPKG teams, A fair number of conffiles have changed of packages. The issue: dpkg handling of this situation has changed between Sarge and Etch, see bug#346282. However, unless we ask the user to upgrade dpkg before anything else, there is a fair chance half of the system is up

Re: Remaining sysvinit issues and updating the etch version

2006-11-26 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
I'm sorry for answering so late, but the reason is simply that I did not know what to answer. It has been a while since I worked on sysvinit the last time, and the remaining issues have been rather hard to find a solution for. This weekend I managed to sit down and have a look at the issues. > I

Re: Package name change

2006-11-26 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 01:53:22AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > If you don't rename now, it's not the end of the world, plenty of packages > get renamed upstream between releases. This is true however this is never devoid of trouble. To quote Marcelo E. Magallon: "The problem here is gratuitou

Re: Very Large Package Set Upgrade, stage 1

2006-11-26 Thread David Nusinow
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 05:35:01PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > I am afraid the x11-common issue affect us. There still appears to be no good way around the problem. I'm open to concrete suggestions, but unfortunately every single one I've heard is broken in one way or another. - David Nusinow

Re: Very Large Package Set Upgrade, stage 1

2006-11-26 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 04:49:00AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 12:32:15PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > Here the list of packages removed by aptitude that still exist in Etch: > > > amarok amarok-engines amarok-xine ardour-gtk bitscope bugsx jackd > > libcurl3-dev

Re: a few comments on the release notes

2006-11-26 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 03:13:27PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: >> aptitude in etch is _much_ better at conflict resolution than the one >> in sarge. > Can you elaborate on the "much better"? Much better how or in which > specific cases? Any case involving a non-ideal upgrade (ie. one with conflicts).

Re: a few comments on the release notes

2006-11-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 16 November 2006 01:02, peter green wrote: > 1: the doc-base thing seems to have been copied straight from the sarge > notes, iirc this was caused by the old version of doc-base in woody so > it shouldn't be an issue for sarge-etch upgrades. Can anyone > confirm/refute this. Hello Robe

Re: a few comments on the release notes

2006-11-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 16 November 2006 01:25, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 12:02:22AM -, peter green wrote: > > 2: the aptitude part also seems to have been copied straight from the > > sarge notes, is it still relavent > > aptitude in etch is _much_ better at conflict resolution

Re: Very Large Package Set Upgrade, stage 1

2006-11-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 12:32:15PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > Here the list of packages removed by aptitude that still exist in Etch: > amarok amarok-engines amarok-xine ardour-gtk bitscope bugsx jackd > libcurl3-dev netkit-inetd > and the following aspell packages: > aspell-br aspell-cy as

Re: RC status of rpath issues

2006-11-26 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Moritz, On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 12:29:08AM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > I've seen a couple of RC bugs being filed for rpath issues in various > packages. For stable-security these are only treated as DSA-worthy > if the rpath points to /tmp, but not towards a directory like /build > or a

Re: Very Large Package Set Upgrade, stage 1

2006-11-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 26 November 2006 12:32, Bill Allombert wrote: > amarok amarok-engines amarok-xine ardour-gtk bitscope bugsx jackd > libcurl3-dev netkit-inetd As mentioned in my previous mail: the replacement of netkit-inetd by openbsd-inetd is expected because of changed priorities and conflicts. Basi

Re: Permission for new upstream version of flamerobin

2006-11-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 11:53:36AM +0200, Damyan Ivanov wrote: > Dear release managers, > I'd like to upload new upstream version of flamerobin. > Etch/sid currently have 0.7.5-2, I'd like to get 0.7.6-1 there. > Sarge has no flamerobin. > Changes are small (http://flamerobin.org/releases/0.7.6.

Re: Very Large Package Set Upgrade, stage 1

2006-11-26 Thread Bill Allombert
Hello Release team, Here the list of packages removed by aptitude that still exist in Etch: amarok amarok-engines amarok-xine ardour-gtk bitscope bugsx jackd libcurl3-dev netkit-inetd and the following aspell packages: aspell-br aspell-cy aspell-da aspell-de aspell-el aspell-en aspell-es aspell

Re: Bug#399329: Request to upload new upstream for phpMyAdmin (2.9.1.1)

2006-11-26 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Thijs, On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 10:52:34PM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > I'd like to request the approval of uploading a new upstream version of > phpMyAdmin, 2.9.1.1. I'm skipping one upstream version here (Debian > currently has 2.8.0.3) since I deliberately did not upload the newer > upstre

Re: Permission to upload stella 2.2+cvs20061118-1

2006-11-26 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Mario, On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 10:46:41PM +0100, Mario Iseli wrote: > I maintain the package "stella" which is in non-free. contrib, actually... > The package is generally bugfree (beneath the wishlist bug). I had a long > ping-pong with the upstream author of stella because he gave me some >

Re: Please hint libxslt

2006-11-26 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please hint libxslt, which fixes FTBFSes on other packages. Done. Marc -- BOFH #286: Telecommunications is downgrading. pgpj38mdHtxOA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: please let glibc_2006n-1 move to testing

2006-11-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 10:13:11AM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > tzdata 2006n-1 is now in unstable for 30 days. The only detected problem > is a bad interaction with d-i (#391529), but this problem is not new and > has been workarounded in d-i. It will be fixed post-etch, because we > don't want t

Re: Package name change

2006-11-26 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2006-11-21 Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of my packages, SDLjump, has been renamed upstream to GNUjump (since it > became part of the GNU project). However, there has not been a release of the > renamed version, and it may take some time before that happens (a few months, > I thin

Please hint libxslt

2006-11-26 Thread Mike Hommey
Hi, Please hint libxslt, which fixes FTBFSes on other packages. There is rubrica on its way, which is still using python2.3-libxslt1, which was removed a while ago per python policy... (#400344) Thanks, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: Package name change

2006-11-26 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Bas, On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 02:12:06PM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote: > One of my packages, SDLjump, has been renamed upstream to GNUjump (since it > became part of the GNU project). However, there has not been a release of the > renamed version, and it may take some time before that happens (a few

Re: uploading Xfce 4.4rc2 in unstable

2006-11-26 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On dim, 2006-11-26 at 01:31 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 10:11:46PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > Xfce Desktop Environment [1] has released its 2nd release candidate few > > weeks ago (4.4rc2). It has been packaged by pkg-xfce team, and is ready > > to be uploaded. A

Re: new upstream stable release of pango (1.14.8)

2006-11-26 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Loïc, On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 11:36:39AM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > I would like to upload a new upstream stable release of pango, 1.14.8. > Pango has an important number of rdepends, but is also very stable > upstream. This release brings some bug fixes, one being relatively > important

Re: uploading Xfce 4.4rc2 in unstable

2006-11-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 10:11:46PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > Xfce Desktop Environment [1] has released its 2nd release candidate few > weeks ago (4.4rc2). It has been packaged by pkg-xfce team, and is ready > to be uploaded. As I am not yet a DD but am in NEW queue, I've asked my > AM, Dafy