Re: [etch-and-half] release notes review

2008-06-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 24 June 2008, Franklin PIAT wrote: > I guess you already had some discussions on whether it should be > emphasized that "Etch-n-Half is _not_ like any other point release > because it adds hardware support". IMHO that's a sales-pitch that can also be over-emphasized. "He world, look wha

Re: request for exception for popt

2008-06-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 23 June 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > sean finney wrote: > > popt is currently blocking the transition of a number of packages, > > which includes compiz/compiz-fusion related packages which are > > currently in a horrible state in testing and in all other respects > > ready for a transition f

Re: [etch-and-half] release notes review

2008-06-24 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
first off, congrats to the team on getting to this point, and thanks! I am looking forward to using the new Intel drivers in particular. Permit me to second a couple of Franklin's points and then go back to lurking... http://people.debian.org/~fjp/tmp/etchnhalf/ * "is essentially just th

Trouble with haskell-configfile not migrating to testing

2008-06-24 Thread John Goerzen
According to http://packages.qa.debian.org/h/haskell-configfile.html, tere are two reasons it hasn't migrated: bug #429486 and being out of date on s390. Strangely, bug #429486 has been marked closed for ages, and this package is marked not-for-us on s390. Can anyone help me figure out what's goi

Re: [etch-and-half] release notes review

2008-06-24 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 05:25:41AM -0600, dann frazier wrote: > The etchnhalf team and the Frans Pop (on behalf of the d-i team) have > drafted release notes for the etchnhalf portion of the upcoming 4.0r4 > release. We would appreciate any feedback you may have. What's the estimated release date?

Re: Bogus Dep-Wait

2008-06-24 Thread Luk Claes
Thiemo Seufer wrote: > hildon-desktop has a bogus Dep-Wait on mipsel (due to a typo), please > clear it. cleared Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bogus Dep-Wait

2008-06-24 Thread Thiemo Seufer
hildon-desktop has a bogus Dep-Wait on mipsel (due to a typo), please clear it. Thiemo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GnuTLS 2.4.0 for lenny

2008-06-24 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2008-06-24 Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Andreas Metzler [Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:25:09 +0200]: >> On 2008-06-18 Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> GnuTLS 2.4.0 has been released today and I would like to have a 2.4.x >>> release in lenny. [...] > Ok. (If some bits of oth

Re: Please unblock perl 5.10.0-11

2008-06-24 Thread Nico Golde
Hi Adeodato, * Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-24 19:52]: > * Nico Golde [Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:18:55 +0200]: > > * Niko Tyni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-23 19:24]: > > > [resending because I mistyped the To: address the first time] > > > perl 5.10.0-11 fixes the rmtree security issue (#4

Re: Please unblock qcontrol

2008-06-24 Thread Luk Claes
Frans Pop wrote: > Hi, > > Please add the following hint: > unblock qcontrol/0.4.1-1 > > Package is recently new in Debian and has a udeb, but the udeb is not yet > used in the installer. > > Package is low-risk (hardware control for 2 models arm NAS systems) and > has been fairly extensively

Please unblock qcontrol

2008-06-24 Thread Frans Pop
Hi, Please add the following hint: unblock qcontrol/0.4.1-1 Package is recently new in Debian and has a udeb, but the udeb is not yet used in the installer. Package is low-risk (hardware control for 2 models arm NAS systems) and has been fairly extensively tested by both tbm and me. TIA, FJP

Re: [etch-and-half] release notes review

2008-06-24 Thread Erik Mouw
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 05:25:46PM +0200, Erik Mouw wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 05:25:41AM -0600, dann frazier wrote: > > The etchnhalf team and the Frans Pop (on behalf of the d-i team) have > > drafted release notes for the etchnhalf portion of the upcoming 4.0r4 > > release. We would apprec

Re: [etch-and-half] release notes review

2008-06-24 Thread Erik Mouw
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 05:25:41AM -0600, dann frazier wrote: > The etchnhalf team and the Frans Pop (on behalf of the d-i team) have > drafted release notes for the etchnhalf portion of the upcoming 4.0r4 > release. We would appreciate any feedback you may have. > > http://people.debian.org/~da

Re: Upcoming libgpm transition

2008-06-24 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Guillem Jover [Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:49:48 +0300]: > > > This will only require binNMUs. So please tell us when it'd be fine to > > > upload to unstable, although it will have to leave from NEW first. > > Please upload to unstable now, the sooner the better. > Just did this weekend, seems to hav

Re: [etch-and-half] release notes review

2008-06-24 Thread Franklin PIAT
Hi, Good work ! (I'm not just talking about the release notes ;). You probably picked you word carefully, but still, let me do some bike shedding and play the role of the idiot ;) I guess you already had some discussions on whether it should be emphasized that "Etch-n-Half is _not_ like any ot

Upload debian packages for Shishi 0.0.37

2008-06-24 Thread Simon Josefsson
Shishi 0.0.37 has been released, and I'd like to see it in lenny. I know the timing is tight because libraries should be freezed by the end of June, but the changes since the last version are small (mostly generated code from gnulib and updated translations) and the debian package changes are mini

[etch-and-half] release notes review

2008-06-24 Thread dann frazier
The etchnhalf team and the Frans Pop (on behalf of the d-i team) have drafted release notes for the etchnhalf portion of the upcoming 4.0r4 release. We would appreciate any feedback you may have. http://people.debian.org/~dannf/tmp/etchnhalf/ http://people.debian.org/~fjp/tmp/etchnhalf/ -- d

Re: please bin-NMU openoffice.org-voikko against OOo 2.4.1

2008-06-24 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Rene Engelhard [Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:45:13 +0200]: > Hi, > now that openoffice.org 2.4.1-x is available on all archs (or in > incoming, for sparc), please bin-NMU openoffice.org-voikko. Reason: > "rebuild against OOo 2.4.1". Scheduled. (If you could include a list of arches where to binNMU nex

Re: request for FreeTDS library transition: libct3 -> libct4

2008-06-24 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Steve Langasek [Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:25:22 -0700]: > Hi folks, Hello, > This is a request to allow a long-overdue library transition for the new > upstream version of FreTDS. The library in question, libct3, has the > following reverse-dependencies in unstable: > Package: asterisk > Package:

Re: Please unblock perl 5.10.0-11

2008-06-24 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Nico Golde [Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:18:55 +0200]: > Hi Niko, > * Niko Tyni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-23 19:24]: > > [resending because I mistyped the To: address the first time] > > perl 5.10.0-11 fixes the rmtree security issue (#487319) with urgency=high > > and no other changes. It looks like

Re: GnuTLS 2.4.0 for lenny

2008-06-24 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Andreas Metzler [Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:25:09 +0200]: > On 2008-06-18 Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > GnuTLS 2.4.0 has been released today and I would like to have a 2.4.x > > release in lenny. The soname is unchanged to the version currently > > in sid and lenny.[1] Shlibs have been

Re: Unblocking popt?

2008-06-24 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Andreas Metzler [Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:38:30 +0200]: > Hello, > popt/1.14-3 would be ready for propagation to testing at the next > britney run[1]. However the package is blocked, since it generates a > udeb. In case you're not following -release closely: http://lists.debian.org/debian-releas

Re: Give backs needed for packages depending on new libparted

2008-06-24 Thread Philipp Kern
Frans, am Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:14:35AM +0200 hast du folgendes geschrieben: > Please give back/retry the following: > partman-base: arm, i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc > partconf: arm, i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc given back. Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- .''`. Philip

Give backs needed for packages depending on new libparted

2008-06-24 Thread Frans Pop
Hi, Otavio uploaded a bunch of dependencies virtually simultaneously with uploading parted itself, which means a lot of builds failed and are now stuck. This again results in D-I daily builds failing. Please give back/retry the following: partman-base: arm, i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sp

Re: Bug#395252: ignore bug 395252 'mplayer embeds ffmpeg' for lenny

2008-06-24 Thread Diego Biurrun
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 09:50:24AM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > > (1) Ffmpeg should finally decide about a stable API, or at least one > that is stable for more than two weeks. It is commonly believed myth that FFmpeg does not have a stable API, but a myth nonetheless. Diego -- To UNSUBS

Re: Please unblock perl 5.10.0-11

2008-06-24 Thread Nico Golde
Hi Niko, * Niko Tyni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-23 19:24]: > [resending because I mistyped the To: address the first time] > perl 5.10.0-11 fixes the rmtree security issue (#487319) with urgency=high > and no other changes. It looks like the testing transition will be > prevented by a missing al