Bug#484129: removed bugs are marked as 'obsolete'

2008-06-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Within their efforts to eliminate RC bugs in testing, IMHO the release managers should not forget that removed packages are marked as 'obsolete', eg. in aptitude. An ordinary user who uses update-* to check for updates and who installs other packages

Bug#484009: removed bugs are marked as 'obsolete'

2008-06-04 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 07:03:52AM +, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Within their efforts to eliminate RC bugs in testing, IMHO the release managers should not forget that removed packages are marked as 'obsolete', eg. in aptitude. An ordinary user who uses update-* to check for updates and

Re: initramfs-tools Etch 0.85i update

2008-06-04 Thread dann frazier
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 04:54:01PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: hello, please review for a stable release those 2 changes, cherry picked from master http://git.debian.org/?p=kernel/initramfs-tools.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/etch the Xen boot fix is needed for partial upgrades, as

Re: bin-NMUs for the packages depending on libc-ares1

2008-06-04 Thread Philipp Kern
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 08:51:07PM +0200, Andreas Schuldei wrote: please initiate bin-NMUs for the packages depending on libc-ares1 when the new c-ares package (libc-ares2) has made it into the archive: What's the reason the new package name again doesn't match up with the library's SONAME?

Bug#484129: removed bugs are marked as 'obsolete'

2008-06-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-06-04 09:59, Pierre Habouzit wrote: We fully address [2]: a broken software, or an inadequate one is more a problem to me than not having it in Debian. Debian is about quality, not quantity. I totally agree on that. My point is that it

Re: initramfs-tools Etch 0.85i update

2008-06-04 Thread Philipp Kern
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 04:54:01PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: thanks for review, as soon as acked i'll upload to stable with no other changes. Please go ahead with the upload. Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- .''`. Philipp Kern Debian Developer : :' :

Re: Possible ImageMagick transition?

2008-06-04 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 05:25:23PM -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: 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

Re: bin-NMUs for the packages depending on libc-ares1

2008-06-04 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Philipp Kern ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [080604 11:33]: On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 08:51:07PM +0200, Andreas Schuldei wrote: please initiate bin-NMUs for the packages depending on libc-ares1 when the new c-ares package (libc-ares2) has made it into the archive: What's the reason the new package

Bug#484359: Urgencies should all be lower case

2008-06-04 Thread Neil McGovern
clone 484359 -1 reassign -1 debian-policy retitle -1 Urgencies should all be lower case reassign 484359 lintian block 484359 by -1 thanks After discussion with Joerg Jaspert, I'm of the opinion that dak is the canonical place for valid urgencies to be set. Thus, sending this back to lintian,

Bug#484129: Bug#484009: removed bugs are marked as 'obsolete'

2008-06-04 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 09:31:22AM +, Mike Bird wrote: On Wed June 4 2008 00:59:15 Pierre Habouzit wrote: a broken software, or an inadequate one is more a problem to me than not having it in Debian. Debian is about quality, not quantity. (1) Pierre thus asserts IMPERFECT PACKAGE

Bug#484009: Bug#484129: release.debian.org: packages in tasks should be fixed in priority and removed in last resort after discussion

2008-06-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-06-04 16:11, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: [1] search +testing +lenny on The searches were performed without the '+' to have 'testing or lenny' etc. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)

Bug#484009: Bug#484129: release.debian.org: packages in tasks should be fixed in priority and removed in last resort after discussion

2008-06-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-06-03 19:59, Pierre Habouzit wrote: It depends of your definition of usable. I don't think it's usable on a daily basis because: FWIW, let the users decide what they use or want to use. I took a curde estimate by counting what the readers

Processed: Urgencies should all be lower case

2008-06-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: clone 484359 -1 Bug#484359: [frontend/lintian] Urgencies are case-sensitive Bug 484359 cloned as bug 484511. reassign -1 debian-policy Bug#484511: [frontend/lintian] Urgencies are case-sensitive Bug reassigned from package `release.debian.org' to

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

2008-06-04 Thread Joey Hess
Andreas Barth wrote: What we should make sure then is that britney recognizes these cases, and shows breaking task foo for that. Is there a reasonable way to generate pseudo-packages taskel-$task that depend on all the packages that need to be present to not break anything? You could use the

Re: initramfs-tools Etch 0.85i update

2008-06-04 Thread maximilian attems
On Wed, 04 Jun 2008, Philipp Kern wrote: On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 04:54:01PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: thanks for review, as soon as acked i'll upload to stable with no other changes. Please go ahead with the upload. thanks, uploaded 0.85i. kind regards -- maks -- To

Bug#484009: Bug#484129: release.debian.org: packages in tasks should be fixed in priority and removed in last resort after discussion

2008-06-04 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 02:11:51PM +, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Arguments like On 2008-06-04 15:34, Pierre Habouzit wrote: (2) To a user who wishes to use a working feature of an imperfect package, Debian is better with the imperfect package than without: MISSING PACKAGE

Re: Possible ImageMagick transition?

2008-06-04 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 11:16:23 +0100 Neil McGovern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any idea how many packages this will affect, and how many of these will now FTBFS? ImageMagick isn't famed for it's stable ABIs... :) That is why I have asked (2+ weeks ago) the maintainers to test the building and

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2008-06-04 Thread cor-rep
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Re: why isn't cppunit moving to testing?

2008-06-04 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hello again, On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 02:57:27PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 02:44:12PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: So bjorn.haxx.se says: Checking cppunit * trying to update cppunit from 1.12.0-3 to 1.12.1-1 (candidate is 98 days old) *

Re: why isn't cppunit moving to testing?

2008-06-04 Thread Luk Claes
Steve M. Robbins wrote: Hello again, On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 02:57:27PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 02:44:12PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: So bjorn.haxx.se says: Checking cppunit * trying to update cppunit from 1.12.0-3 to 1.12.1-1 (candidate is 98

Re: why isn't cppunit moving to testing?

2008-06-04 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 07:27:22AM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: Steve M. Robbins wrote: I see that they are now all finished and installed. Yet the PTS for gxmlcpp doesn't show the +b1 packages in unstable. And the haxx.se excuses for cppunit still read as above; i.e. no mention of the +b1