Re: please rebuild octave2.9 on sparc

2007-07-04 Thread Thomas Weber
Am Samstag, den 30.06.2007, 15:49 -0700 schrieb Steve Langasek: > On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 05:51:32PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > > > Looking at > > http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?&pkg=octave2.9&ver=1%3A2.9.12-1&arch=sparc&stamp=1180158407&file=log > > > it seems that octave2.9 1:2.

Re: Release Goal Proposal: texlive-transition

2007-07-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 09:02:47AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 13:30 +0200, Florent Rougon wrote: > > [Trying to reply for Frank, since he's on vacation...] > > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This particular problem only exists because you're providi

Proposed release goal: UTF-8 for changelog and control

2007-07-04 Thread Russ Allbery
In looking at some long-standing Policy bugs, I see that Policy currently doesn't specify a character set for debian/control and only recommends UTF-8 for debian/changelog in an appendix. I think that it's time to simply require UTF-8 for changelog and control files, and I think the interoperabili

Re: Proposed release goal for lenny: Switch to dependency based boot system

2007-07-04 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Steve Langasek] > Well, that seems... suboptimal. :) And something of a barrier to adoption. Yeah, but it make it easier to detect the problematic ones. :) > What would be a better heuristic? Even running these scripts last > instead of first would seem better. Would it make sense to keep >

Re: Release Goal Proposal: texlive-transition

2007-07-04 Thread Florent Rougon
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think the problem is that the new packages aren't a superset; you > can't reliably put in the new package and expect all the previously > working bits to still keep working. Which specific problem are you referring to? -- Florent -- To UNSUB

Re: Release Goal Proposal: texlive-transition

2007-07-04 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 13:30 +0200, Florent Rougon wrote: > [Trying to reply for Frank, since he's on vacation...] > > Hi, > > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This particular problem only exists because you're providing tetex-bin and > > tetex-extra packages that don't have the sa

Re: Proposed release goal: Switch to dash as /bin/sh to speed up the boot

2007-07-04 Thread Otavio Salvador
Thorsten Glaser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There is a shared/window-manager example which is what I propose for > dash, bash and mksh to share (shared/bin-sh?). Yes, it looks very clear and easy to implement. I personally agree about he shared question. -- O T A V I OS A L V A D

Re: Proposed release goal: Switch to dash as /bin/sh to speed up the boot

2007-07-04 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Gerrit Pape dixit: >Hi, I support this. On top of it I would like to drop the debconf >question from the dash package, and install a /bin/sh symlink >unconditionally. If bash should optionally be installed as /bin/sh, a >similar config mechanism could be added to the bash package, and/or a >bett

Re: Proposed release goal: Switch to dash as /bin/sh to speed up the boot

2007-07-04 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 09:12:30AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > To switch, the dash package need to be installed, and the debconf > preseeding value to enable it need to be set: > > dash dash/sh boolean false > > Those wishing to switch back to bash can do so by running > dpkg-reconfigur

Fwd: debian-edu-artwork: modifies conffile of other package

2007-07-04 Thread Steffen Joeris
Hi mates I somehow forgot to cc debian-release@ :( I will forward the message from the bugreport here and I set the reply-to to the bugreport. Thanks in advance for your feedback. Cheers Steffen -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: debian-edu-artwork: modifies conffile of other

Re: Please bin-NMU alsa-plugins

2007-07-04 Thread Jordi Mallach
Hey vorlon, On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 02:45:13PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Due to a bug in alsa-lib 1.0.14, any package building an ALSA-module > > built agianst this version got its "plugindir" wrong, rendering the > > plugins unusable. > > > 1.0.14a was uploaded short after and should fix

Re: Release Goal Proposal: texlive-transition

2007-07-04 Thread Florent Rougon
[Trying to reply for Frank, since he's on vacation...] Hi, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This particular problem only exists because you're providing tetex-bin and > tetex-extra packages that don't have the same semantics as previous > versions. As Frank explained, it is impossibl

Proposed release goal: Switch to dash as /bin/sh to speed up the boot

2007-07-04 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Last summer, Carlos Villegas worked as part of the Google Summer of Code program to improve the debian Boot process. Part of his results were to identify what could be done to speed up the boot system. As can be seen from http://initscripts-ng.alioth.debian.org/soc2006-bootsystem/deliverable3.ht