get rid of libpcap0.7

2008-06-03 Thread Petr Salinger
Hello, it looks like it would be possible to get rid of obsolete libpcap0.7. It should be sufficient to binNMU some packages against current libpcap-dev (0.9.8-3), on i386 they are: argus fragroute ipgrab karpski lft netdiscover nstreams prismstumbler scanssh Petr -- To

Re: Possible ImageMagick transition?

2008-06-03 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Nelson A. de Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Something says to me that the answer will be Sorry, too late, but is it a possibility (time is short, I know) to have an ImageMagick transition (with soname and package names changes)? Why is it needed? New, regular upstream release, or something

Bug#484129: release.debian.org: packages in tasks should be fixed in priority and removed in last resort after discussion

2008-06-03 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 11:16:51PM +, Mike Bird wrote: On Mon June 2 2008 17:38:53 Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On 02/06/08 at 15:04 -0700, Mike Bird wrote: Don't create 20-day removal hints for packages with RC bugs except when its too late for a fix to be included in the forthcoming

Please allow gnat-4.3 into testing (RoM)

2008-06-03 Thread Ludovic Brenta
gnat-4.3 is 9 of 10 days old today and therefore will become eligible for testing tomorrow. Please unblock it so it can migrate to testing. This will allow asis and a couple other package to migate, too. I am not planning any further uploads of this package, unless of course something critical

Bug#484129: release.debian.org: packages in tasks should be fixed in priority and removed in last resort after discussion

2008-06-03 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 04:16:51PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: Debian Desktop Edition for most of the release cycle. There is no Debian Desktop Edition. Perhaps you mean the Debian Desktop subproject? This is a useful (but unintended) side-effect. The principal goal remains that Testing should

Bug#484129: release.debian.org: packages in tasks should be fixed in priority and removed in last resort after discussion

2008-06-03 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 04:27:08PM +, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Package: release.debian.org Severity: wishlist Following a quick chat with Luk, and following the discussion in #484009 about the removal of update-notifier/update-manager, I want to make the following suggestions: - the

Re: Please allow gnat-4.3 into testing (RoM)

2008-06-03 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Ludovic Brenta [Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:17:08 +0200]: gnat-4.3 is 9 of 10 days old today and therefore will become eligible for testing tomorrow. Please unblock it so it can migrate to testing. This will allow asis and a couple other package to migate, too. I am not planning any further uploads

Bug#484129: release.debian.org: packages in tasks should be fixed in priority and removed in last resort after discussion

2008-06-03 Thread Joey Hess
Pierre Habouzit wrote: No, tasks are not our concern directly, as it lists many packages that any user can live without, without being hurt or even impeded. The sole thing that matters is the priority, but packages with high priorities are hardly leaves packages as a general rule. Tasksel

Re: get rid of libpcap0.7

2008-06-03 Thread Luk Claes
Petr Salinger wrote: Hello, it looks like it would be possible to get rid of obsolete libpcap0.7. It should be sufficient to binNMU some packages against current libpcap-dev (0.9.8-3), on i386 they are: binNMUs scheduled where necessary. Can the removal of the libpcap source package be

Bug#484129: release.debian.org: packages in tasks should be fixed in priority and removed in last resort after discussion

2008-06-03 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 04:42:22PM +, Joey Hess wrote: Pierre Habouzit wrote: No, tasks are not our concern directly, as it lists many packages that any user can live without, without being hurt or even impeded. The sole thing that matters is the priority, but packages with high

Bug#484129: release.debian.org: packages in tasks should be fixed in priority and removed in last resort after discussion

2008-06-03 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 08:08:07PM +, Joey Hess wrote: Pierre Habouzit wrote: Well in your list, there are several intersting examples. lv for example, has many replacements. That may not have all the features of lv, but that are a decent replacement. Moreover lv isn't _that_ known,

Bug#484129: release.debian.org: packages in tasks should be fixed in priority and removed in last resort after discussion

2008-06-03 Thread Joey Hess
Pierre Habouzit wrote: Well in your list, there are several intersting examples. lv for example, has many replacements. That may not have all the features of lv, but that are a decent replacement. Moreover lv isn't _that_ known, and if this task doesn't install lv, noone will be hurt. OTOH

Re: Possible ImageMagick transition?

2008-06-03 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:37:53 +0200 Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nelson A. de Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Something says to me that the answer will be Sorry, too late, but is it a possibility (time is short, I know) to have an ImageMagick transition (with

Re: RFC: expat transition or update - before or after lenny?

2008-06-03 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Montag, den 02.06.2008, 09:16 -0700 schrieb Kevin B. McCarty: Adeodato Simó wrote: However, I'm not sure who mentioned this possibility, but shipping /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0 within wink sounds very ugly to me. It was me that suggested it ... If upstream won't update their binary,

Re: RFC: expat transition or update - before or after lenny?

2008-06-03 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Daniel Leidert [Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:45:17 +0200]: So an update of libexpat dropping the symlink should be possible now. I'm now curious what applcation do they mean in this comment: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/expat/+bug/218963/comments/14 -- Adeodato Simó

Processed: Re: Bug#484359: [frontend/lintian] Urgencies are case-sensitive

2008-06-03 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#484129: release.debian.org: packages in tasks should be fixed in priority and removed in last resort after discussion

2008-06-03 Thread Andreas Barth
* Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [080603 22:24]: No, as I've already demonstrated, it's much more complicated than that, and removal of lots of leaf packages that you may not consider important at all can affect tasksel and the installer in various ways. What we should make sure then is that